Xitter refugee. Elan >> Elon Art, science, Nature - the good stuff! Politics too but trying to cut back on reacting to Reactionaries. Keeping the Xitty profile pic for now, so that people recognize me I ignore DMs and I only give to vetted charities
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"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
people want to portray conservatism as inherently anti-intellectual, anti-art, but historically that's obviously not categorically true. contemporary american conservatism really sort of is uniquely dumb and tacky.
Murder
NEW: An NBC News joint interview with six women who say they were sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein or convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... They want Trump to release the Epstein documents and not pardon Maxwell.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Against The Day - defector.com/against-the-...
Just going to consult this reference book, “The Consequences of Pursuing Godlike Power,” by The Entire Canon of World Literature
My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.
Repost with a tweet you still think about
no one reads politico except the 50k or so people in the country with the most influence on politics
guy thinking his dog has cognitive issues but it's just being a dog
as usual the Graham Linehan story about "being arrested for tweeting" is actually about being arrested for making graphic threats of violence (I do think the tweets would fall just within the boundaries of protected speech in the US, but not in much of the rest of the world, least of all the UK)
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
“The question now is whether users are comfortable supporting a tech company that openly collaborates with the U.S. military, regardless of how securely their data is handled.”
The Battles of Chicago, Baltimore begin in the white nationalist war on America.
Long overdue
I’d really love to know the decision tree from OSD to SOUTHCOM to the Ships in the area to the dude that actually pulled the trigger
Definitely a lost battle under this admin, but if we do eventually return to normalcy, would really appreciate a hard requirement that every announced use of force by the state be accompanied by stating the authority under which it occured
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
Democrats should 100% reject funding to keep the government open until the big bill is reversed !!!
It was fixed. open.substack.com/pub/whistleb...
How do we even know that is an alleged drug smuggling boat? And where the F is Congress - especially the ranking Democrats in the foreign relations committees both in the House and the Senate? Are they going to do their basic jobs of raising alarm and express concern like Susan Collins or nah?
No reason offered. Called them, they asked to email. Emailed, they asked to call. Will continue tomorrow again. This is despicable. I have 27 events/meetings arranged at and around UNGA80.
Complacency Is The Fertile Soil that Allows the Seeds of Atrocity to Flourish open.substack.com/pub/walterrh...
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
You can now download the book on the publisher's website: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publ... (open access of course)
A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
DHS gases crowd of peaceful protesters to detain guillotine sculpture and various signs 09-01-25 Portland
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
This guy gets it. This is the way.
Almost as if Trump is doing exactly what he said he would back in October when he quoted Hitler and threatened to unleash the National Guard against the enemy from within. Look at Biden! He's old!
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the National Guard of one state can’t invade another state. They are separate sovereigns
Is this the war of Southern Aggression?
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
He's got this shit down. Still not voting for him
The long term data on hepatitis B vaccination shows it reduces the incidence of liver cancer by 84% and death from liver disease by 70%. This comes from a large cluster RCT in which entire towns were randomly selected to give the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns.
Wholesome post of the day! (Not ever gonna call them "skeets")
What were they arguing about
Today is a great day to Smash the Patriarchy! 😉
The statistics capture the average income going up. The Median American is not experiencing what the wealthy are. Most of us are not doing as well as we used to.
“Nearly 70% of people said they believe the American dream—that if you work hard, you will get ahead—no longer holds true or never did, the highest level in nearly 15 years of surveys.”
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
From the Bad Place: (evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) has an account here but doesn't post)
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
NEW: Belgium has decided to recognize Palestine as well take multiple measures against Israel, including -The ban of all settler goods from being imported -Sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir -Restrictions on imports from Israeli businesses -No consular services to Israelis in the oPt
Love this! Way to show up and show out at Dragon Con, ATL! Make joy!
“Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health.” Courage is contagious! 3 CDC Directors resigned. 9 former CDC leaders write an op-ed. Who will catch courage next? What act of courage are you planning for this week? Gift link to op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o... @nytimes.com
#CDCSavesLives - specifically, the CDC staff who work tirelessly every day. 💚💚💚 Thanks to the anon CDC-er who created this graphic. 😉 (Wording from today's NYTimes oped: "We Ran the CDC: Kennedy is Endangering every American's Health)
RFK Jr is unqualified, willfully misinformed, & a danger to the health of America. The firing of the newly confirmed CDC director + three resignations from CDC leadership proves America’s Health is at serious risk. Enough is enough. RFK Jr must resign. Read our full statement: firedbutfighting.org
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
#ReleaseTheFiles ⬇️👇⏬
I learned how to use a very sophisticated/fancy astrophotography specific image processing software tonight (PixInsight) and while this is nowhere near enough data on the trifid nebula from a couple weeks ago (less than 2 hours) I'm pretty happy with the result
this isn’t even close to the leaderboard for most-illegal things Paxton has done, either. it can’t even *see* the leaderboard from where it is
"People vs M. Croque"
Good bread - like you routinely get in Europe for like 1-2 Euros - is not nearly as cheap here.
I lived in NYC before and after 9/11 Even though it was arguably justified, the only thing that was more disturbing than seeing 19yo guys with assault rifles in the subway - was getting used to seeing them in the subway.
One of the way they are making us less safe in DC is initiating police chases and causing crashes: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
food is maybe the most harmless thing we can possibly fight over
Its been mad fusion for 500 years.
Eugene Hütz absolutely 100% believes in his schtick so hard he makes you believe too and I think that’s beautiful
well, we killed tourism and also there are two dozen competing casinos in your pocket now
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
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Non-disabled people specifically were not listening to autistic people who RFK Jr has gone after the hardest, in my opinion, because they're fine with quietly villainizing autism too.
MSNBC has made Trump the center of the universe, giving him endless oxygen while Democratic wins barely get a mention. That doesn’t build confidence, it feeds despair.
On August 30, 2024, MSNBC hosted a panel of “undecided voters”, focused on focused on Kamala Harris & mixed-race Americans in NC. 1 of the “undecided voters”, was the Republican House candidate who ran against Rep. Alma Adams during the same election cycle. www.mediaite.com/news/i-didnt...
Someone please kill me right now.
Ah, yes. I remember when Michelle Obama ravaged the NIH and CDC, killed off vital vaccine research and denied inoculations to millions for reasons of pure BS. I remember this because I have Pundit Memory™️, an exciting new product that makes you able to both-sides and whatabout anything!
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
ALL we have to do is not be condescending jerks to the former MAGAs who wake the fuq up. That, and make sure they can't steal the elections
I agree with much of this thread, but I think it needs to be said: if unity is the way to get around fascists, we need to fucking unify, and that means at this stage, swiftly discouraging the wedge issue dividers in our own party.
Stephen is very willing to answer questions about being a poll worker and if you can do it, it is very rewarding! (And if you can't do it, thank your poll workers when you vote! They work hard to make sure you can!)
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
This by WSJ is one of the best articles of journalism about the Russian-Ukraine war. A thoroughly sourced account of why Ukraine won the battle of Kyiv in the winter of 2022.
LOL at this. Mallort is for people who think Absinthe is for wussies
Republicans control the Senate But with Roy Cooper in North Carolina, the emergence of @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social in Iowa and Sherrod Brown maybe returning in Ohio, the map looks a lot better If Democrats beat Susan Collins and @ossoff.bsky.social holds his seat, the balance of power will change
This is Kaniela Ing, a public speaker that brings opposing sides together. He has a great message & I think most of us can agree on his stance but who’s going to tell the billionaires & corporate leaders that they are ruining our planet & human lives? It’s a great message. Hope they’re listening.
The time to start asking questions was before the election, but the media valued its access more than it did democracy. The only President who has never shown us a single medical or tax record. And the media simply didn't care. They chose ratings over the safety of their families.
Holy smokes This is the crowd at the Bernie Sanders/Graham Platner Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, ME tonight Platner is the oyster farmer challenging Susan Collins; Senate seat👇 Overwhelming turnout! I feel like maybe Susan's number is finally up ..
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
This is a privacy disaster unraveling here in the USA.
As a good person, I need to still have to be honest and explain myself. In the time of fascism, we, unfortunately, have to be the ones to do more work, and they do less, that is how they get to win, thinking we won't and we let them get away with BS.
It was even in the NY Times, and trust me - the Europeans know exactly what the deal is
As a former Chicagoan and former Union Rep, I love this message!
Elon has evidence of being horrible to at least three former partners or people that have had his children lmao
COVID significantly increases risk of death from metastatic cancer, new study shows healthimaging.com/topics/clini... Ladies, we need to take care of ourselves. Keep up-to-date with your vaccinations! Oh, guys, you can get breast cancer, too.
Cool, we get to see if he had a stroke
Its also not even the best avocado (try Reed sometime) But its pretty much available all the time from either CA or MX
Laguna Beach CA protest, Sept. 1st, 2025. Cohosted by @indivisible47.bsky.social & #50501LagunaBeach
that would be nice, but it will probably happen after they murder a bunch of people