sword witch
Schumer has a candidate challenging Susan Collins who now polls 16 points ahead of her, but AIPAC doesn't like him. So he's trying to recruit a former governor who is even older than Schumer is. Schumer isn't a leader for the Democratic party, he's a putz who gets everything instinctively wrong.
“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)
You gotta like the trajectory of a country for which two consecutive presidents necessitate occasional public "He ISN'T dead, but he IS senile!" performances.
"I sometimes don’t like riding my bike because the cars make it hard to ride places by myself. But with Summer Streets, I got a chance to do just that in the street. It’s nice, with all the biking," writes nine-year-old Julian M. from Morningside Heights.
once again tapping the sign
Thinking bluesky in 2025 is built on ‘tent shrinking’ and not on, oh I don’t know- running for cover during an unprecedented mask-off authoritarian takeover of a developed democracy is hilarious levels of bad faith interpretation.
Every weekend should be a long weekend where we have reason to hope someone terrible who’s ruining everything might die.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf8r... He makes a Victorian bread that is flavored with ginger, the recipe called for *2 ounces*, about 50g or half a cup, of powdered ginger in it. A shocking amount of ginger.
I think Illinois can and should sue Texas in the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction and seek a preliminary injunction against the use of any un-federalized Texas National Guard troops in Illinois.
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
I think society really fell when people started to pretend posting was work instead of what lazy people did
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
Again, the key divide within the Democratic party does not map onto a left/right axis: It is between those who want to fight back forcefully, like Pritzker, and those who can’t/won’t shake the impulse to accommodate, appease, and uphold “normalcy.”
I wonder what the reaction would be if Illinois said they'd shoot any national guardsmen that would try to come in. Probably would be a bigger deal than if Texas said it and the reaction wouldn't be to just say "okay, you win"
we are in a lawless, fascist uprising with multiple constitutional crises taking place simultaneously and this motherfucker is STILL talking about finding common ground and cooperating
I preferred it when he was shitting his pants and dying a miserable, painful death which would then be followed by an unforgiving, agonizing eternity in the deepest bowels of Hell
Nice to see Pritzker act like the problem with an armed invasion of Chicago violating people’s rights based on lies is that it’s armed invasion of Chicago violently violating people’s rights based on lies, rather than saying the problem with an armed invasion is a gallon of milk costs 25 cents more.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
for fuck's sake he is invading our cities. why the fuck do you keep talking about finding common ground?! he wants to kill us!
WHY ARE WE INVADING OUR OWN CITIES
If you’re a Texan you need to protest _in Texas_. Your governor is using your people to commit a hostile act against the people of Illinois. Are you OK with that? Are you?
be loud for america is probably one of the most cogent things a dem politician has said in recent years
Hot (civil war) Take: Pritzker should call up the IL national guard to protect Illinois residents and repel an unlawful military incursion into his state, all while explicitly countermanding any federal orders directed "through" the governor's office.
Pritzker is doing two things here that are smart. One, he's describing this forcefully and unapologetically and in his own terms, not adopting the Admin/media frame. Two, he's making clear that he will blame the Admin for any violence or disorder sparked by their invasion of his state.
If the Texas National Guard is deployed to Chicago against the wishes of the Illinois state government, that's at least a low-grade civil war, right?
the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off. the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
It does bear repeating that if Obama had, say, sent the Illinois National Guard to Texas, Republicans would have had a massive meltdown.
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
If Joe Biden had a now near constant hand bruise--likely from some sort of regular IV--gave the press a flimsy excuse of it being "aspirin therapy" and from "shaking too many hands," and regular tried to hide it with makeup, I'm not sure the news media would be covering anything else.
It’s the stuff of nightmares. In humans it’s a 100% fatality rate once symptoms begin. Videos of people with it are worse than any horror movie I’ve ever seen.
Again, like… These fucking people need to be forced to watch an animal dying of rabies. They need to understand what an absolutely demonic virus this is, it is indescribably horrible, I’m a fucking horror writer and I have a hard time even thinking about it for too long
It’s like playing the lottery. I know I’m not going to win. But I can dream about it a bit in the meantime. At least eventually this will come to fruition.
The most weaksauce leader in our lifetime. Absolutely no juice, no courage, no guts, nothing but Washington nonsense.
funny how this logic is not applied to anything else the Administration deems an existential threat, like the millions of immigrants who have never committed a crime
Cutting down on the amount of marijuana I smoke I’ve really proved to myself I don’t even need to be high to do stupid shit
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
again we’re seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them
well, at least we know it's the real Trump
“Space Command is moving to Alabama” is actually right in the sweet spot of “Not meaningful enough to warrant a public appearance” that I’m actually now convinced something’s up
He’s moving space force to distract us from the fact that he’s dead
it would be funny if he was actually fine all weekend and then had a stroke at 1:30 today
for those not following, the "I'm definitely alive" press conference has been delayed three times and there has yet to be a single live shot of the room
Give not this rotten orange to your friend
You shouldn't be allowed to charge for parking at any large event that doesn't have public transportation access
Not a lot of people know this, but it’s actually Peak Performance for a President when the country is constantly spectating if you’re dead and/or a pedophile.
If he's not out by 2:15 nobody has to pay taxes today
Trump is now more than 35 minutes late
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
[pressing the button that ejects a new trump from a cylinder of glowing green goo] "mr president please count to ten" "the truck and the honks i just love when they go down the road so fast i don't believe it" [whispering to the other scientist] "he's perfect"
listening to Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumors' front to back for the first time in forever and realizing it's like a season of the X Files- evenly split between Lore and Monster of the Week songs
US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancel—in official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%
Yes Bluesky is famously welcoming to DNC influencers
Personal news: I’m now a Senior Reporter at The Verge! Excited to keep writing about tech, video games, and everything else that I’m fortunate to work on with all of my fantastic colleagues.
president trump stuns in new photo
Bill de Blasio: Why I am endorsing Zohran Mamdani www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/02/b...
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH, KENTUCKY has issued a COLLAPSED LEATHER '87 until 2:50 AM... #WXsky
I know this is killjoy behavior but every post I see speculating on the imminent death of a certain public figure feels exactly the same as all the times we breathlessly waited for Robert Mueller or the 25th amendment or whatever to save us last time it is not happening
the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
Trump asking his staff to bring him his phone, he wants to post something
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
And now it's September??
bill clinton being the same age as Donald Trump really made me enter the void earlier
1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see
lol
Vaxxed?
It does not seem good that a sizable portion of the political and media elite would rather cook their brains on a white nationalist website than have to engage with criticism from the left.
Four Seasons Total Landscaping and Emergency Services
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON has issued an AUTUMN mPING REPORT WITH A CREAMY CENTER until 5:20 AM... #WXsky
free Dem slogan idea: "50 for 50 hospital plan" - plan to construct 50 new, state of the art hospitals, one in all 50 states, to help make up for the hospitals Trump is closing that can't be reopened
RFK Jr walking into Walter Reed: “I hear the President is overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation.” JOE ROGAN: “he needs ivermectin!”
you stop it right now; he is none of these things
I can
Its impossible to know what is happening exactly with Missing Trump but a reasonable interpretation of the available info is he had a stroke or mini stroke and is slurring his speech and doesn't want to be seen in public in that condition.
You have to zoom in a bit or it doesn’t show the road closures. Which is why some people aren’t seeing it probably
Nothing is stopping you from putting a stuffed olive toothpick skewer through your sandwich half. It's not just for cartoons, it can be real, it can happen to you.
Hi, what the fuck is going on at Walter Reed?
Anyway, my friends at Bluesky proper should start marketing this place with these kinds of quotes. It makes this website seem like the fucking Thunderdome when in reality it's a place where I post pictures of Viscous Brown Food-Like Substance On A Plate solely to unnerve people.
"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.
Somehow our diseased information environment has produced the net outcome that *the pandemic is considered a political problem for Dems*, not the party that lied about it & got people killed at every juncture. The party that tried, but not perfectly, to save lives, is being forced to apologize.
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
how do i explain to my kids two women being married?? how explain sun go away at night but come back next day? how explain magic rectangle show people talk??? HOW
hello my name is Doctor Statistics, I have a mathematical proposal for winning elections and it involves subtracting part of my coalition
happy labor day
I have to fill out attach a separate form to my passport application to try to get it updated to my legal name and gender. And this form is only for the hold from a court decision in the last few months. Why are Democrats letting Republicans steer the conversation away from my right to travel?
i changed my mind we must never retvrn to tradition
My kid lost half a year when she was learning to read and write but she's doing amazing now and my godson was a freshman who lost half a year of HS and now he's loving life in college. Kids are risilient. Their whiny parents aren't.
'Sorry sir you were meant to be assigned a spot in AI Alley which is in one of the dumpsters behind the convention center.'
