Reposted by Lithium & Alchoholthe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 11hMaxine Waters please finish the job 2555758
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10hLook at his face when he thinks he's just got him lol 2856579
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10hrenaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid 1253436453
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9hJust a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15). 1112302593
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholOpinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 8h"what do you expect to happen? have every rapist fired from their job and ruin their life?" uh yeah that'd be a good start 191585330
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9hEthan Harper graduated from Harvard Law School and Andrew Ceonzo graduated George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School. Both were in their school's chapters of the Federalist Society. Their involvement (if any) in Sen. Schmitt's line of attack is unclear. I've reached out to both. 361239111
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9hScoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee. 2593757807
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9hGobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports. 234108551838
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Introducing Gurpo 411838334
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholChelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEW - Conservative orgs are filing records requests by the dozens at public universities, demanding documents from climate researchers. @lesleyclark.bsky.social @corbinhiar.bsky.social & I have uncovered more than 100 requests, a campaign targets/allies say is an effort to derail climate litigationpolitico.comInside the anti-climate campaign against researchersA POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide. 19662
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholChelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 10hThis story is the third in our reporting series on efforts by the fossil fuel industry + its political allies to undermine the science that could bolster climate lawsuits. ICYMI here are our previous two installments: • www.politico.com/news/2026/06... • www.politico.com/news/2026/07... 0128
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholJosh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 8hThere is criminal exposure everywhere you look in this administration, from the obvious of ICE murdering civilians in the streets, to more discrete stuff like insider trading or agencies funneling tax money into pro-Trump ads. This is what wanton corruption looks like, and the hammer must fall. 311148
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholDamonTheDemon @damonthedemon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is some bare bullshit, while they lock up Grannies, supply arms and do spy flights and half the cabinet are members of LFI. Do fuck off Ed. Full. Of. Shit. 0144
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholThe New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 17hA 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister was among more than 80 people arrested outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool while demonstrating in support of Palestine Action. The arrests came as Ed Miliband told critics of the government’s policy on Palestine: “We hear you. You were right" 10024701066
Reposted by Lithium & Alchohol"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 9hI think that is true, but I do not think it is necessarily an immutable law of the American Voter. It is a product of leadership and culture made up of individual decisions. It's a feedback loop, in part, of political leaders telling voters that it is right and good and just to be that way. 1231129
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMichael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 10hI will say this until I am dead; the average American voter is a consumer first, a citizen second and a global citizen a distant third. 528645
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm… 1260183515931
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point 121983121
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's good that we invented things like "government" and "the economy" but we can't meaningfully participate in them if the people in charge are constantly rubbing in our faces that these things are fake, and in fact you are a naive doofus if you think otherwise. That's a society on life support 42226219
Reposted by Lithium & Alchoholmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11hThey live in a false, constructed reality. Cult shit. Just saying things that are literally the opposite of being true. 1662672
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10hI'm thinking about this partly because of the Cornell news but also partly because of The Love Hypothesis, which is being pitched as a cute romance but is personally horrifying to read / watch as a woman in STEM. (I know the author is also a woman in STEM and honestly I don't get that at all.) 1133123
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11hThinking a lot lately about the men I know who are willfully ignorant about power dynamics and how I don’t *know* they’ve done anything specifically worse than be willfully ignorant about power dynamics but also if I had to guess which of my acquaintances had, I’d guess them first. 10861101
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholCJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 10hEveryone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions. 6471106
Reposted by Lithium & Alchoholvictoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10hHow the fuck are any of us functional. We’re 1% of the population, give or take, and we have Great Depression employment numbers 21753145
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10hFunniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him. 712428322
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10hif you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co 652819539
Reposted by Lithium & Alchoholrobert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 9hI react very poorly when any proposed policy or plan is met with "but what if someone like Trump gets hold of it?? then it would be not good, but very bad" because there really is no law or institution that can work when a population is willing to elect the stupidest, worst asshole alive 1458261
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMichael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 9hIsraeli Settlers Violently Block Displaced Palestinian Family’s Return Home truthout.org/articles/israeli-settl…truthout.orgIsraeli Settlers Violently Block Displaced Palestinian Family’s Return HomeThe family had been forced out after their home was besieged for weeks by state-backed settlers. 023
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholCenter for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 11h👏 Finally! After mounting scrutiny of his fossil fuel stocks, Justice Alito recused from Suncor v. Boulder. Dozens of climate suits hinge on this case, some against oil companies in his portfolio. Accountability demands justice without conflicts—or perceived conflicts—of interest. bit.ly/4yWvcnMbit.lyAlito’s Recusal From Climate Case: Too Little, Too Late? - Inside Climate NewsJustice Samuel Alito decided Monday to sit out one of the most consequential climate change cases to reach the Supreme Court, but legal experts expected continuing ramifications due to his ownership o... 1117
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMelissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 11hDiscoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start: 1614668
Reposted by Lithium & Alchoholunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11hWe spoke with that observer, who said ICE agents held her for hours. By the time they released her, her car had been towed. She also said she saw Chicago cops glad-handing with ICE. Hard to confirm, as the surveillance video file we obtained via FOIA request is missing nearly two hours of footage. 110827
Reposted by Lithium & Alchoholunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11hNew: We obtained witness videos and surveillance footage showing ICE parking their cars, arresting an observer, and transferring detainees in parking lots across 4 of Chicago's police districts. Local officials have tried banning ICE from city property. But incidents in the lots keep stacking up:unraveledpress.comIn plain sight: a year of ICE using Chicago police parking lots for its operationsVideos and witness testimony show immigration agents continue using Chicago police station parking lots despite a ban on their access to city property. Records obtained from the Civilian Office of Pol... 8577308
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholSarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 11hIt was just a little misunderstanding that led Schmitt to baselessly accuse Smith of perjuring himself 927443
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholKatie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 12hi'm being slandered and attacked and libeled 6062428
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11hWe have the chance to cut bills, end the sewage scandal and stop the rampant profiteering. But instead it's more half-measures, and kicking the issue into the long grass. 19419136
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11hDOJ has charged Wilber Garcés with felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, based on the allegation he struck an ICE officer with his sideview mirror when driving off after the initial traffic stop. He was then chased for 8 minutes, rammed, and then shot. 40753336
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 11hThe new legal motion is part of a civil lawsuit the state originally filed in June arguing that ChatGPT represented “a threat to the public safety of Floridians,” specifically by preying on vulnerable populations like children and delusional adults: arstechnica.visitlink.me/MJZWDIarstechnica.visitlink.meFlorida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI developmentState says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created." 34213
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholBillie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 14hTerry Schilling, a main architect of Republicans’ transphobic campaign messaging, has talked about the "magic" in spreading hate-driven propaganda. "How do win, how do we replicate this on other issues?” he asked on a right-wing podcast. What might those issues be? 310348
Reposted by Lithium & Alchoholgita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 11hEver notice how much harder women and non-white people have it when it comes to harassment? And how few editors and colleagues are willing to put their body in front of the blow? Ever notice how women and non-white gamers are treated as a niche and white men as the core audience? 530932
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholAlana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 11hSudden memory of being mugged for my Sidekick in the downtown Rochester, NY library, the cop taking an hour to show up, scolding me for not fighting back, indignant when I said it wasn't worth being shot over, and his slow realization that the book theft detection machines were not metal detectors. 093
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholAditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 10hYou don't really need to know what a bond is. An easier way to think about it is just: "the cost of mortgages, corporate debt, and government debt all went up, and stock prices are being pulled down". That's what the interest rates mean. The broader economic implications follow from that. 0103
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMark Misoshnik @misoshnik.bsky.social · 11hI’m frustrated and upset and disgusted. Misogyny is so ingrained in our culture that there has never been a real reckoning with mass complicity in sexual violence, especially against women. 2101
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMark Misoshnik @misoshnik.bsky.social · 11hEveryone is on board for “kill your local rapist” until it’s their disgusting homie who couldn’t keep his hands to himself. And perpetrators don’t get so much as a slap on the wrist, with plenty getting positions of power as cops and politicians and lawyers. 2121
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholMark Misoshnik @misoshnik.bsky.social · 11hI’m not really sure what my point in writing this is. Every time a high profile case like this emerges, survivors everywhere have to relive the worst moments of our lives. I have so much empathy for everyone dealing with this avalanche of emotions. Sexual violence is simply not taken seriously. 1161
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.engadget.comDots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - EngadgetSure, seems safe. 591066345
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11hSo wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots. 2525110
Reposted by Lithium & AlchoholDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 11hThe details are out, and they are jaw dropping. We may need to coin a new term for whatever the opposite of "sportswashing" is. The inherent problem for certain regimes in raising their profile is that a great many people will then see them for exactly who they are. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukManchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breachesThe Premier League confirms that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18. 2145
Reposted by Lithium & Alchoholflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10hI again note that Sir Keir and Morgan went from embattled Big Beasts Of Politics to clueless and embarrassing no-hopers in the length of time it took maybe 500 MPs and political commentators to read Peter Mandelson’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein. Now all Peter’s friends are on best behaviour 🤔 3567
Reposted by Lithium & Alchoholflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11hI suppose there is 3) they have humiliated themselves so badly that they have been shamed into eager cooperation, but I have never seen so much as a hint that any of these people are capable of feeling shame or guilt. 4676
