Reposted by OSCrustaceanFree Speech Coalition @fsc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Wisconsin is about to ban VPN use for "material harmful to minors," part of a larger bill age-verification bill. The final vote is tomorrow. If you're based in WI, or have fans or friends who are, have them contact their legislator NOW. www.defendonlineprivacy.com/wi/action.php 10347411
Reposted by OSCrustaceanAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18/10/2025No member of Congress should vote for any appropriations if the whole exercise is a non-binding farce. 161203313
Reposted by OSCrustaceanAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2025Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people. 13146371284
Reposted by OSCrustaceanGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/09/2025There goes his shot at a job on MSNBC. 1663217463
Reposted by OSCrustaceanDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2025"Now an extraordinarily successful scientific research system — one that took decades to build, has saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors — is being dismantled before our eyes." 13828362
Reposted by OSCrustaceanAndy Bell @bell.bz · 29/08/2025ohpublichealthpolicyjournal.comMIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the LawBy Nicolas Hulscher, MPH 591305476
Reposted by OSCrustaceanJoe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Grok, I left my dick in my pants and went peepee, but the peepee didn't reach the toilet. What happened to the peepee? And why are my pants wet? 558233
Reposted by OSCrustaceanAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing. 43719651937492
Reposted by OSCrustaceanBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/05/2025The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime. 477105782199
Reposted by OSCrustaceanAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/05/2025The Texas state board of Pharmacy can see the controlled substance prescription records of 37 other states. All that's needed for Ken Paxton to access those records is an administrative subpoena. 23513230
Reposted by OSCrustaceanNathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 21/05/2025All three have been Democrats, meaning a 219–215 GOP majority at the beginning of the year (because Gaetz) is now 220–212. 0174
Reposted by OSCrustaceanEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...404media.coElon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On XElon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X. 19421451022
Reposted by OSCrustaceanSteve Liesman @steveliesman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...nytimes.comE.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program 20261182439
Reposted by OSCrustaceanWalter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025They’re scared to have their bluff called on the sorts of positions that gratify their base but would be unlikely to stand up in court. 1244172
Reposted by OSCrustaceanThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/04/2025A well-oiled machine 🫠 626159885550
Reposted by OSCrustaceanTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Some of what is happening is that the massive strategic shift of NDP voters toward Liberals to block Tories... may have helped Conservatives in some places. This was a seat where the NDP was running for reelection. But the NDP fell to third, and Conservatives easily picked it up: 2126644
Reposted by OSCrustaceanMike Masnick @masnick.com · 29/04/2025Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys. 5933511345
Reposted by OSCrustaceanTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/04/2025If the CBC shows me one more riding with *literally 11 votes counted* and spends 45-seconds discussing the early returns as showing a possible flip, my head is going to explode. 2340231
Reposted by OSCrustaceanAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… 9824407313758
Reposted by OSCrustaceanWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14/04/2025They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident 7437381145
Reposted by OSCrustaceanAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/04/2025Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US. They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US. www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...stereogum.comBells Larsen Forced To Cancel US Tour Due To Anti-Trans Visa DenialMontreal-based indie-folk singer-songwriter Bells Larsen has a new album called Blurring Time set to come out in two weeks, and he was planning to head out on a quick run of US shows in June. That tou... 9137661889
Reposted by OSCrustaceanAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/02/2025THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comUS threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markersExclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications 24052942626
Reposted by OSCrustaceanQasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11/04/2025Imagine making this your first bill. My God. The more Democrats play Republican Lite, the more Democratic voters will just not vote. We need a true opposition party with the spine to run on principles, not a corporate funded party who remixes MAGA stupidity to make it sound patriotic. 2116234
Reposted by OSCrustaceanEric Berger @sciguyspace.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This really is an extinction level event for NASA's science programs. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...arstechnica.comTrump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA“This would decimate American leadership in space.”… 31415222
Reposted by OSCrustaceanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/04/2025You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks. 419125484076
Reposted by OSCrustaceanKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 10/04/2025"We had two tragic deaths in the House Democratic Caucus; had those deaths not occurred last month, Republicans could not have even passed the bill today," Hakeem Jeffries says. What he doesn't mention is both deaths were of politicians in their 70s. One had cancer but ran for re-election anyway. 661714294
Reposted by OSCrustaceanAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/04/2025If the US government requires passports for you to practice your rights such as voting then passports should be provided for free to all and within a reasonable timeframe by said government. 25491112363
Reposted by OSCrustaceanMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Freedom of speech is when the government arrests people for protesting the President's car company. 441224216
Reposted by OSCrustaceanBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The entire reason you curb the exercise of arbitrary power is it prevents one asshole's mood swings from wrecking an entire country! You don't praise it when it momentarily swings in your favor 675658852
Reposted by OSCrustaceanJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10/04/2025This chart was made in America by skilled artisans. It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation. 402075681
OSCrustacean @oscrustacean.bsky.social · 10/04/2025This could have been stopped 216-216 if two Democrats did not die of old age 010
Reposted by OSCrustaceanJeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx 289233144875
Reposted by OSCrustaceanBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Worth noting that this passed by one vote and two Democratic congresspeople have died in office in the last six weeks. 22388982423
Reposted by OSCrustaceanKaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 10/04/2025It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it” 5732741408
Reposted by OSCrustaceanMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/04/2025This is good news if you think our banking system is too secure. 141219180
OSCrustacean @oscrustacean.bsky.social · 10/04/2025They go to another school, you wouldn't know them 000
Reposted by OSCrustaceanKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 10/04/2025our long national nightmare is over 1362927279
Reposted by OSCrustaceanJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10/04/2025www.motherjones.com/politics/202... They are stacking these shit birds deep.motherjones.comGabbard’s pick to run a counterterrorism center aided the start of a right-wing paramilitary groupJoe Kent, a promoter of conspiracy theories, has long associated with extremists. 39164712464
Reposted by OSCrustaceanSophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Victim complex 84195505867
Reposted by OSCrustaceanChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike! 843279398038
Reposted by OSCrustaceanChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job. 30378694916013
Reposted by OSCrustaceanYouGov America @today.yougov.com · 09/04/2025Economist/YouGov Poll Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age 18-29: +5 | -29 30-44: -6 | -14 45-64: +12 | +1 65+: -4 | -8 d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec... 96652182
Reposted by OSCrustaceanNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The Supreme Court saying deportation targets must have due process (as long as they have a lawyer ready to go with a habeas suit who quickly notices an unannounced disappearing by unmarked agents) is Jim Crow stuff. You technically have rights, says the Court, you just won’t get to exercise them. 15761551916