"I’ve heard from a number of liberals who bristled at the invective 'BlueAnon,' arguing that it was unfair because they weren’t blindly trusting some anonymous source that posted vague, conspiratorial and coded messages that imply the source has important secret knowledge that suggests everything its followers want will soon come true.

Anyway, today we’re going to talk about Alt National Park Service, the anonymous source that posts vague, conspiratorial and coded messages that imply the source has important secret knowledge that suggests everything its followers want will soon come true."

https://skepchick.org/2025/06/the-alt-national-park-resistance-account-is-so-obviously-fake/

#USPol

In Kari Lake's opening testimony for tomorrow's HFAC hearing she'll claim VOA, RFE/RL & other US-funded int'l broadcasters must be destroyed because of alleged security lapses + wasteful spending. Under that metric, we'd also have to get rid of State Dept., the military & many other USG agencies!

@carnage4life Is this about LLMs or Trump?

🧵THREAD: Why Are AI-Generated Black Women Selling War?

There’s a new kind of military propaganda happening—and it has a face.
Not a general. Not a flag.
A Black woman.
Digitally generated. Dressed in fatigues. Smiling, jubilant as she praises a U.S. airstrike against Iran.

Let’s talk about why that’s not progress. 👇🏾

NBC News - Asked how long the ceasefire would be, Trump said: “I think the ceasefire is unlimited. It’s going to go forever.”He added that the war is completely over, saying he does not believe Israel and Iran “will ever be shooting at each other again.” https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/live-blog/live-updates-iran-top-diplomat-meets-putin-us-braces-retaliation-rcna214428/rcrd83424?canonicalCard=true

@fedward @genehack Ah, I see, they trigger the violation by asking for the ID. If they don't ask, there's no violation (if the person is 21).

@fedward @genehack It's illegal to sell alcohol to someone with an expired ID? That's insane, and must be violated constantly.

Thread on the Supreme Court's latest ruling blessing the Trump administration's depraved behavior toward immigrants.
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lscgpkfpks2e

@adriano @peter Now they're desperately hoping for something they can describe as an attack from a sleeper cell that crossed the border during Biden. They've mostly shut down counterterrorism to help.

@samerfarha I guess I'm going to need to wake up earlier this week if I want to get in any walking. This was already a low month.

After almost 20 years, this blog post of mine is unfortunately relevant again (though its format isn't great for the mobile age).
https://dcdl.org/2006/01/14/the-next-nuagmire #Iran

Obviously what we all need from the Senate minority leader at a time like this is a statement that's as ambiguous and confusing as possible, so that everyone can have their own interpretation.

@fedward @ebooksyearn But now I see that Google also finds that from the pillow image. I think I only used the clearer but redrawn image for my earlier Google search.

@fedward @ebooksyearn I found that through TinEye with the pillow photo. I hadn't used that site in years but decided to see if it could find anything Google didn't. I'll have to remember that.

@fedward @ebooksyearn Found this from the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. The note at the bottom left corner says it's from a magazine ad from the 1960s.
https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/collection/one-thin-dime-tape-it-here-200576131

@fedward @ebooksyearn Here's an ad from 1985 selling a T-shirt with that text, though unfortunately it doesn't have an image.
https://archive.org/details/mrr_023/page/n54/mode/1up?q=%22I+learned+to+play+the+guitar+in+3+minutes%22

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@ChrisJagged @lauren Considering how reluctant any undocumented victims would be to talk to the authorities in the current climate, surely the crimes like this that are actually charged are only a small fraction of the total number happening.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/ice-impersonators-on-the-rise-arrests-made-as-authorities-issue-national-warning

@jalefkowit I see the Wikipedia article has a "see also" to Toynbee tiles. I remember when there were still a couple of those visible in DC.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles

@emptywheel.bsky.social Surely Stephen Miller views soccer as a dangerous foreign intrusion, sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids.