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Extraordinarily Confused Congressional Rep. Thinks Social Media Companies Are Secretly Communicating With Gov’t Censors… Via Jira by Mike MasnickMike Masnick (techdirt.com)
I wrote last week about the bizarrely bad House Oversight hearing that was supposed to expose how Twitter, the deep state, and the, um “Biden Crime Family” conspired to suppress the NY Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Of course, wishful thinking does not make facts, and we already know that story is totally false. […]

Is she trying to provide us a preview of what it will look like once Florida completes its brain drain? This is it. I found it. The absolutely stupidest thing anybody in this entire country has said this year.

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Major Blow to LGBTQ Rights: Lesbian Mother Just Lost Her Parenting Rights to Child’s Sperm Donor by Kimberly Terasaki (themarysue.com)
The overturning of Roe V. Wade and the rise in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and laws have made the current state of queer rights unstable. Unfortunately, news coming out of a family law case in Oklahoma has only made it worse.

We told you this would happen.

They’re going after Obergefell, gay marriage, and gay parents in Oklahoma.

You didn’t think this would stop at trans people, did you?

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Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement by Mike MasnickMike Masnick (techdirt.com)
What’s the opposite of shadowbanning? Maxboosting? I dunno, but whatever it is, that’s what Twitter’s frustrated and exhausted engineers gave Elon Musk after he whined (for not the first time) that people might like someone more than they like Elon. By now you know the basics: last week it was reported that Elon was getting […]
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Youngkin opposes effort to shield menstrual data from law enforcement (The Washington Post)
The administration of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) opposed a bill to shield menstrual data from subpoena amid post-Roe fears of abortion prosecutions.

Um, why does law enforcement need access to this kind of data?

Also, if you keep ending up on the side of making people’s lives more difficult, you might want to sit and think about why that is. Because there is no universe where “actually the state having access to menstrual data has some real society-improving advantages” is a thing.