soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I think it will be great if they do it AND GET SOMETHING but last time they completely caved and got nothing.
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I think it will be great if they do it AND GET SOMETHING but last time they completely caved and got nothing.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Warner on Laura Loomer: "Is she actually the acting Secretary of Defense, or Secretary of War as of this morning, or is she the real Director of National Intelligence?"
Cheryl Rofer (@cherylrofer.bsky.social) reposted
John Roberts votes for Trump again.
Boston Tom Levenson (@tomlevenson.bsky.social) reposted
In the NYT story on JP Morgan Chase's decade+ long enabling of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, this tidbit caught my eye: Ken Starr remains one of the most odious people of the last 4 decades of American politics.
Boston Tom Levenson (@tomlevenson.bsky.social) reposted
Who could have suspected that Zuckerberg would have enabled child sexual abuse?
Auntee Phở 🫘 (@auntee-pho.bsky.social) reply parent
Minimal Expectations
Auntee Phở 🫘 (@auntee-pho.bsky.social) reply parent
The Eye of the Safety Pin
Auntee Phở 🫘 (@auntee-pho.bsky.social) reply parent
Harry Potter and the Chamber Pot
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Because they're either sitting Republicans, or they're major GOP Donors.
Auntee Phở 🫘 (@auntee-pho.bsky.social) reply parent
I have been thinking about this for months. I thought health insurance companies paid attention to outcomes. It's always been cheaper to prevent diseases than to treat them for a lifetime. I guess they think all the crap being taken away or forced upon us will kill everyone sooner so no big deal.
Boston Tom Levenson (@tomlevenson.bsky.social) reposted
Florida: where both your homes and your kids are uninsurable!
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
President “Grab ‘em by the pussy” and Vice President “I don’t give a shit.”
Boston Tom Levenson (@tomlevenson.bsky.social) reposted
Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccination (older, depending on how you think about variolation). What's different now is that the case for vaccination is watertight, as it was not in 1721 or in the first decades after 1796.
Betty Cracker of Florida (@bettycrackerfl.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Those graves for one family in one tiny rural cemetery represent a drop in an ocean of heartache. Vaccines freed us from that terror. Kooks like Ladapo and RFK Jr. want to throw that away. We can’t let them.
Betty Cracker of Florida (@bettycrackerfl.bsky.social) reposted
I’m a 7th generation Floridian, so unlike the anti-science kooks currently running the state’s public health agency (into the ground), I can visit ancestors’ graves locally. Way too many babies and toddlers buried before vaccines.
Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted
It's sad, but also amusing, that JD Vance thinks MAGA will embrace him and his brown-skinned Indian American family after Trump dies. I mean...he really believes it. Nope.
Sam (@very-simple.com) reposted
Even at its lowest point, which looks like the era of jingoistic nationalism post-9/11, the pro-immigration position was STILL more popular than the anti-immigration one. There has not been a point in the last 25 years where anti-immigrant sentiment was actually the popular choice.
D. Earl Stephens (@dearlstephens.bsky.social) reposted
📌Actual headline leading the NYT right now: PRESIDENT SAYS HE IS NOT DECLARING WAR ON CHICAGO What the fuck are we supposed to do with this?
Randal Cooper (@fancycwabs.bsky.social) reposted
Mike Johnson playing kiss and tell with the pedophile crew.
LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) reposted
I found the exact moment the bells began to ring from all the churches and you can tell they’re not the standard recorded chimes.
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Sister Golden Bear (@sistergoldenbear.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
From what I've been told be exangelicals, they're constantly told that The Word(tm) is the only thing that's true and reality is a pack of lies Satan uses to deceive the faithful. So if it's all lies anyway, reality can be whatever they want it to be at a given moment. 1/
Sister Golden Bear (@sistergoldenbear.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It's a similar dynamic as with toxic narcissists who don't have any actual sense of truth vs lies. Reality is whatever they best serves their desires at the moment—which literally can be 180-degrees from a minute ago. It's not even gaslighting, they genuinely believe it's "true." 2/
Auntee Phở 🫘 (@auntee-pho.bsky.social) reply parent
Because they are lyin' for Jesus, which makes it ok.
Lucy Pick (@lucykpick.bsky.social) reposted
Why do evangelicals seem to feel so comfortable telling lies? This is so obviously untrue. If Trump had ever been a FBI informant, he’d never have promised to release the files.
Silverman on Security (@silvermansecurity.bsky.social) reposted
You run a housing finance agency, not the CIA. You don’t have sources and methods.
Sister Golden Bear (@sistergoldenbear.bsky.social) reposted
We also need versions for LA, DC and all the other major cities.
Auntee Phở 🫘 (@auntee-pho.bsky.social) reply parent
He just wants to go there to make sure none of the media lets the massive amount of booing be shown.
Luther M. Siler (@infinitefreetime.com) reposted
Why is he even bothering? You know that motherfucker can't name a single tennis player.
MotherSkadi 🏴☠️ (@motherskadi.bsky.social) reposted
Someone tell him to come and try prosecuting me.
Silverman on Security (@silvermansecurity.bsky.social) reposted
🤦🏻♂️
Jerry Newmark (@jerryn13.bsky.social) reposted
I'm a bit surprised that he didn't bring up the various state-level compulsory sterilization programs.
Silverman on Security (@silvermansecurity.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Buy the ticket, ride the ride.
Silverman on Security (@silvermansecurity.bsky.social) reposted
If I may, I'm going to give you the same recommendation I'd give my former general officer (GO) bosses when I was their Senior Advisor, several of whom have accounts here. Right now, the most important thing you can do is seal off Naval Station Great Lakes (NSGL). 1/
emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted
Dems have 6 weeks to find ways to get GOPers in Congress to defect, which is the QUICKEST way to slow fascism. There are several issues on which there are numbers to defect. But Will instead demands Dems adopt the far less effective approach that would help his fee fees.
Fifth House Sun (@fifthhousesun.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Think Newsom called it the Pedo Patio
Jessica Kant (@jessdkant.bsky.social) reposted
I encourage people to read the systemic review RFK jr is expected to cite to claim “Tylenol causes autism” as is a wonderful example of the danger of people who don’t understand the limitations of systematic reviews, and why a single review should not override the totality of scientific evidence.
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"Blueskyism" seems to be "not giving your social and intellectual betters the respect they deserve."
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
He knows what's actually in the files, probably. He's the Speaker. He has access to damn near everything.
More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted
The FBI uses a lot of shitty people as cooperators and informants but Trump is a great example of someone they wouldn’t use — a pathologically narcissistic braggart who could never keep a secret or maintain focus. It would be like asking the Trix rabbit to wear a wire.
Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) reposted
how long before he is using the national guard to fill the seats www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Sister Golden Bear (@sistergoldenbear.bsky.social) reposted
Trump take strawberry
Auntee Phở 🫘 (@auntee-pho.bsky.social) reply parent
I am a fan of acupuncture. Massage is good too.
Luther M. Siler (@infinitefreetime.com) reposted
Remember last weekend when we thought he was dead? That was nice.
Cheryl Rofer (@cherylrofer.bsky.social) reposted
Any random six Bluesky posters could have predicted this - and did!
Allegedly Joel (@allegedlyjoel.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Unfortunately the QAnon crowd will eat this up
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
And for them it has the bonus of not making any damn sense at all.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted
idk, man, of all the trump excuses you could conjure up out of thin air, i do not think "trump was actually an FBI informant" is really the best one you want to run with, because it opens up all kinds of questions you really don't want to try to make up answers to.
Stealthgirl 🫘 (@stealthgirl21.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This is why Terry Moran is nolonger at ABC
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Davis X. Machina (@ogdavisxmachina.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
So, they're going with basically the Whitey Bulger defense.
John Harrold (@abumirchi.com) reposted
I think he should still give it a shot.
Cheryl Rofer (@cherylrofer.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Not for Trump's and Hegseth's manly feelings! No price is too much to pay!
Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a confusing and stupid rebrand that the next admin will inevitably unwind. Just net loss all the way down. Just pointless wastage
Auntee Phở 🫘 (@auntee-pho.bsky.social) reply parent
Duck Duck Grey Duck
BluesterB (@bluesterb.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted
Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
"NUMBERS ALWAYS TEND TO BENEFIT THE LEFT"
Cheryl Rofer (@cherylrofer.bsky.social) reposted
Nothing stays secret forever. I'll write a post later.
NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted
Whether it's Barack Obama having SEAL Team Six kill Osama bin Laden or Donald Trump having SEAL Team Six kill a bunch of random Koreans on a fishing boat, both presidents oversaw deadly SEAL Team Six missions.
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
THAT-- THAT MIGHT BE ENOUGH TO GET US THROUGH THE NIGHT.
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
A whole lot of bad shit is coming our way. But you can either stand up and fight now, while it's small and unsteady, or you can cower in the dark until they kill whatever shell you've become after the essential you died. STAND THE FUCK UP. YOU'LL STILL BE SCARED BUT WE'LL BE SCARED TOGETHER. And
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted
Trump and his people--they are EXACTLY who I've been saying they were for years. Hell, they're WORSE in many respects. So I'm not surprised here. I AM surprised and disappointed by the people who aren't them, who know better, but are either ducking their heads down instead of standing up, or worse
Cheryl Rofer (@cherylrofer.bsky.social) reposted
Just a reminder that the use of illegal drugs is a choice. [While the Florida surgeon general rants that nobody can tell us what to put in our bodies, the President declares that his suspicion of possession of illegal drugs for sale is cause for killing.]
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH (@geauxgabrielle.bsky.social) reposted
I think we need to take a page from anti-smoking PSAs & tell Americans the consequences of these diseases. No more “get your shingles vaccine!” It’s “Shingles is so painful you can’t perform daily living & over half the people who get it develop depression & contemplate suicide”
Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted
Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.
Lola Ogunyemi (@omololaogunyemi.bsky.social) reposted
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Boston Tom Levenson (@tomlevenson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Lessons will be learned as tiny coffin sales skyrocket.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
can't do that, but they can chip away at rights for various groups and they'll ALWAYS start with transgendered people because they're the out-group du jure that even some allies are squishy about supporting. We MUST stand for them on this and everything else for a LOT of reasons. We MUST because
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted
This is how it begins. And we all must fight it. The 2nd Amendment is for all Americans, and if anybody needs their inherent right to self-defense, it's transgendered people. But just so we're clear, this isn't about just taking away their guns, it's about being able to force them into "treatment".
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The counter-espionage loss alone will leave this country at great risk for a decade, but that's probably intentional by Patel, Biondi, and Trump.
Brandon Friedman (@brandonfriedman.bsky.social) reposted
It's also eroding institutional knowledge and diminishing perishable skills. A 2 – 4 year break from doing normal FBI anti-crime and counter-terrorism work would likely permanently destroy the existing organization. You'd have to rebuild from scratch.
KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 (@mary1kathy.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Trump critics have noted that if the Kremlin had a paid agent in the Oval Office, he or she couldn’t do as much damage to America as Donald Trump has done in 8 months. The same can be said of China.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans control the House by a 7-seat margin, but that's with four vacant seats. Does Trump really want to "take out" Massie? And the three other GOP representatives who joined him? Seems like he's playing with fire. So, yeah: What exactly is in those files?
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
We have NO idea what's in them. We only know that Trump knows what he did with Epstein, and he seems terrified of the rest of us knowing.
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"Deep Baltimore"? That sounds like it was dropped by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language. Or at all.
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Anti-vax means a person is more easily persuadable by other bullshit. That's why they push it so much is to identify communities that they can then target with other propaganda.
Sam (@very-simple.com) reposted reply parent
From what I can tell, the main appeal of Cuomo was that he was a 'tough guy' who stood up to trump during COVID. Nobody wants a Cuomo in trump's pocket! (to be clear, I think this was mostly theater and Cuomo was actually terrible during COVID)
BenCisco (@bencisco.bsky.social) reposted
💯FACTS
dredecopp.bsky.social (@dredecopp.bsky.social) reposted
It's only a "hostile act" if Trump is GUILTY.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted
i do think people — national security reporters in particular — should think a little bit about what it means that pritzker apparently already knows what the plan for the texas national guard in chicago is, regardless of whether it actually happens or not.
Jerry Newmark (@jerryn13.bsky.social) reposted
Meredith Shiner (@meredithshiner.com) reposted
truly I need you guys to know that "North Chicago" is an extremely deceptive town name and that Great Lakes Naval Station is way way closer to WISCONSIN than Chicago. You can take a commuter train. But it's not even peak rush hour rn and it's a 90+ minute drive from Great Lakes to Michigan Avenue.
Betty Cracker of Florida (@bettycrackerfl.bsky.social) reposted
Quote about vaccine mandates (measles, chickenpox, polio, etc.) from FL's surgeon general: “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” Ladapo said. This fucker is even nuttier than RFK Jr.
Boston Tom Levenson (@tomlevenson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
As intended. There must be some truly depraved shit in those files--and that's just the money laundering. The rest of it? Unspeakable.
Silverman on Security (@silvermansecurity.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This is an attempt by Trump & his natsec team to create a military conflict to justify their domestic anti-immigrant activities. Expect more strikes if they don’t get the response from Maduro they want & need, which is for him to try a military response. 4 & end/
Silverman on Security (@silvermansecurity.bsky.social) reposted
All of this is true, but this is the commission of a war crime as a means to a different end. The effect they’re trying to achieve is a military response by Maduro to justify Trump’s/Miller’s claim the US is being invaded & provide legal cover for using the Alien Enemies Act. 1/
Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted
note that he doesn’t even bother to make a guesstimate about how old you are or when you’re retiring, just poof, voila, put away $1K a month and you’re a multimillionaire
soonergrunt (@soonergrunt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
And Texas Guardsmen should have it explained to them in no uncertain terms that they have no legal rights in Illinois off a federal installation, beyond whatever Illinois law grants private citizens, because they're essentially tourists.
Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) reposted
Just ordered my copy as Black AF History. Really excited to read it. If you all have no idea who Michael Harriot is, you should follow him. He's one of the funniest people out there. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
Piratedan7 (@piratedan7.bsky.social) reposted
so now, the rest of us are just supposed to believe Mr. Rubio when they state that they blew up a ship that they claim was running drugs. Considering this group can't even arrest actual criminals, I'm not going to believe these fuckers with this rejected episode of Miami Vice as being legal either
Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
and I am just getting started here
Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Rule #2: Not one fucking public dime for religious schools, private schools, or homeschooling. That's like, your choice, bro. Pay for it.
Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Rule #1: Every single state must fund their education through general revenue, not property taxes, and we are going to end this bullshit where some public schools are great but others suck.
Auntee Phở 🫘 (@auntee-pho.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't understand it either.
Cat (sigh) (@twohuskies.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I don't understand why (yes, I know it's a nazi talking point) normal people are even talking about "raising the birth rate." The goal is improve society, take care of the children (and adults) we have. Gun control, health care, public eduction & transpo, regulation of corps, protection of nature?