I'm honestly not even sure what he said. I'm pretty sure I know what he meant, but that's not the same thing.
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I'm honestly not even sure what he said. I'm pretty sure I know what he meant, but that's not the same thing.
I'd agree with that except I'm not sure there have been any normal years.
What the fuck?
Pfft. Neither have I. Maybe the Mets could pay me 10% of what they pay Soto
California and Florida are on opposite ends of the school-closure spectrum and the differences in test scores are a wash. Some individual schools and districts definitely stayed closed too long but it just isn’t the case that this is some huge, obvious, foreseeable blunder.
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!! I have used that service many, many times! Trump ruins everything
she said that “black” with a hard r
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
This is extremely funny
A few years ago, there was a mass shooting in a mall in Boise, Idaho, and the person who was most responsible for saving people was trans. Weird we don't hear much about it anymore.
Mussolini? He wasn't exactly popular when he led a basically failed march on Rome. The King just sorta gave him power anyway. Which reminds me a little bit of the way our elites keep just letting Trump get away with shit.
RFK: "so many people who were run over by cars were wearing shoes, so we're gonna look into whether or not shoes cause pedestrians to be run over" That's basically the logic RFK Jr is using here. Just appalling.
Today's essential read: This is fascism. Fight back.
They can issue JOINT health guidance, they can buy up supplies of needed vaccines, etc... [just on the health front]. Hire all of the excellent people who are resigning.
I said this 7 months ago and was called an alarmist. History says elections won’t save us. They will end us. Blue states must declare war. “I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism. The success rate after fascists were elected was 0%.” ▶ Once they win elections, it’s already too …
A gamer of taste and class. I would kill for an old border printing of Dark Rit with this art.
Now this is a one drop. Cards don't get better than this.
The laws we have are woefully inadequate
I'm seeking ~100 #MTG players who would take a short survey for me to use in a Family Feud style game. I'll use the likes, so ❤️ this post if you're interested! I want to host a game/stream with questions like: "Of 100 people surveyed, what's the best draft set?" Reposts appreciated!
the mainstream media told voters in 2024 that the top National Guard-related issue in the election was whether Tim Walz retiring after serving for 21 years was scandalous. Accomplices in our oppression
Trump doing this "bad Jew"="Palestinian" bit over and over again is a form of priming. It establishes a frame that draws on both antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism at the same time.. His audience can then start blending those antisemitic and anti-Arab narratives into a conspiracy smoothie
This story is not getting nearly enough attention. A sting on a pedo ring pulled in an Israeli government official and the Trump Administration stepped in to set him free.
I don’t think the president who publicly sorts Good Jews from Bad Jews is actually fighting against antisemitism, and it’s insane that anyone takes his “fighting antisemitism” pretext for repression at face value. Looking at you, New York Times, and you, Columbia University.
Common fascist L. You love to see it
But reptiles and lizards are totally things, monkeys too. It's just that birds are reptiles, snakes are lizards, and apes are monkeys!
Can confirm. No such thing as a bush.
If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.
I was going to ask, does Trump really want to make the same mistakes as several Roman Emperors and piss off his troops? But then I remember that Trump probably knows nothing more about Roman history than a vague idea of the plot of Gladiator.
I genuinely don't know what he was trying to convey by bringing up Türkiye. Is he worried the Ottomans will invade the US and impose Sharia? Or is he just sharing two different thoughts?
Boy do I love me some Homarids
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
Thank you! I got into magic to play a game about two sorcerers having a duel. For me, magic is about casting spells and wizardry! MtG now is about playing your favorite movie and video game characters against each other. Just a completely different experience. One that isn't for me.
The “blue state red state” simplification of politics in this country is one of the most dangerous things we could have done in regards to human rights and democracy as a concept in this country. Red states are red because they are autocracies already good people live in those captured areas.
Well earned!
I'm just gonna keep posting until morale improves (my morale, I mean)
Nah. Roberts will write the decision, and Kav will write a concurrence that says "look, Trump obviously won't crash the economy, we all love and trust him. Everything's going to be fine. Quit worrying and have a beer".
No new pictures, where are you mentally?
Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs. But employers are stealing $50 billion in wages from workers each year.
...after they gave immunity to the guy with a history of executing a violent coup? Anyone who thinks SCOTUS is in control after that is not participating in reality.
How could they possibly think that? You're suggesting that SCOTUS are the dumbest people alive.
Kavanaugh thinks you're saying that the opinion and plan are very smart. Or he would if he could read.
Probably a failure of imagination on my part, but I think they don't give immunity to someone they think they need to control. Surely Roberts can't be that stupid? Right? Like, that's like buying your teenager a car and then thinking they won't want to drive.
He's already killed more than 800,000 Americans, so maybe he can chill out? No? Ok.
It's certainly possible. I certainly reflexively want to agree with you to avoid agreeing with Taney!
I think he wanted to mean it, but that's not the same thing. Enslaving your own child requires seeing them as less than human. I do think TJ would hate this EO from Trump though, to bring this back around
Man, it's just so sad that our democracy was stillborn. I just can't understand how anyone could write "all men are created equal" and die for that ideal, and then allow slavery. The fuck did you just write, Tom?!? See, It's definitely my autism: I can't help but believe people mean what they say.
Ok, but what does that have to do with this, which is a beautiful and necessary response to a truly repellent attempt to curb free speech?
This is probably my autism talking, but I truly can't get my head around being upset about burning the American flag. Criticizing the sovereign is like the most American thing you can do.
Uh, that was a nice economy we had that one time.
I mean yeah. Obviously I'm describing a horrific scenario. But it is going to happen. If the only reason to think something won't happen is because it's too horrible to imagine, then this SCOTUS is champing at the bit to do it.
Obviously things change if he dies. Vance will be the nominee then.
Trump is going to run. SCOTUS already ruled that states can't take an obviously unconstitutional candidate off the ballot. Do you seriously think the media won't treat Trump like a legitimate candidate once the Republicans nominate him? It's going to be literally historic clusterfuck
Why would their ability to defeat Vance matter? Vance will only be on the ticket as a VP candidate.
The fascism is here. "What would you do if fascism came to America?" You're doing it.
So he's scared of Pritzker and not Newsom. That feels like important information.
Yes
This is the minimum, by the way. This is the bare minimum we should accept from any politician who claims to care about Democracy and serving the people of America.
Assuming Pritzker is still alive/free in 18 months.
Does Pritzker want my vote in the Primary? Cause this is how you get me to vote for him in the primary.
I think there will be a civil war, one way or another, this century, as a result of climate migration. Maybe sooner than anyone expects!
obviously people deserve blame for being antisemitic but it is a world-historical catastrophe that almost every institution nominally dedicated to fighting antisemitism has decided to burn their credibility for the short term interests of the Netanuahu government
Part of the lesson of the rise of the Nazis is that there are several points where voting really hard WOULD have worked. The other part of the lesson is that it was the Liberals who failed to vote hard enough. They stayed home, rather than support socialists. I hope they support Mamdani this time!
The next Democratic nominee MUST be willing to be sworn in as President even if Trump "wins" more votes in the EC, since Trump votes are inherently unconstitutional. And they must be willing to give orders to the military to that effect. I fear anyone who is willing will get the Mamdani treatment.
I'm really worried there are no candidates who can win the primary and who are willing to hold the line that Trump cannot receive electoral college votes, no matter what SCOTUS or a Republican Congress might say to the contrary.
the people of America cried out "IKEA is too cheap Mr. President! It is too easy for me to find affordable and utilitarian home furniture!" and the President lept into action
I wonder how many of us will die of diseases that could have been cured or treated if Donald Trump didn't gut health research? Me? You? Your children? apnews.com/article/supr...
There was no conclusion, no ask, no expression of regret, no apology to her son, or to the tens of thousands of over people she voted over and over again to hurt. Baffling.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't even see her say that the Republicans were wrong, or that she had changed her mind, or any suggestion that she would vote differently in the future if Medicaid is defunded. It was just "I vote Republican. Republicans just cut Medicaid. My son needs Medicaid to live."
i'm really sad about james dobson dying peacefully at the age of 89. he should've died screaming in terror.
An internal Israeli intelligence database reveals 83% of those killed by the IDF in Gaza were civilians, contradicting public claims to the contrary. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
One of the easiest ways to show that an idea is wrong is to show Scarborough agreeing with it.
Hakeem Jeffries is going on TV refusing to support Mamdani. And yes, he was saying vote blue no matter who during the 2024 election.
You're damn right it does.
This is actually basically how all leftists to centrists to right wing crank transitions work. It always starts with being yelled at by your allies and then losing your mind about it.
It's infuriating. I really believe in "vote blue no matter who", and these fuckers are just out here weakening the Democrats at a time when it's never been more important to be strong. Anger is not a sufficient description of my response to that cowardice by these guys.
okay we're doing this again I guess! I am cis and I wish ill on JK Rowling stop suspending trans and nonbinary people for saying it @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team cis people we are all Spartacus, please quote with your own ill wishes
It's just a list of the conflicts that Trump was involved in, and because he lacks object permanence, I think he assumes that if he isn't dealing with them right now, he assumes they are ended. And obviously that's to his credit.
Israel Gaza Israel Iran Israel Syria? Israel Lebanon? Russia Ukraine DRC Rwanda?
Uh, a lot of those countries are outdated. Kinda shocking how much the world has changed since the 90s.
Didn't.... didn't that set come out like a year ago? Oh God
That's a good rule in the general for the internet
Gross
Kim Davis going from "my religious beliefs demand that I don't facilitate a same-sex marriages" to "my religious beliefs demand that there are NO same-sex marriages anywhere" *should* make Democrats realize there is no "sincere" compromise with bigots on trans issues.
2nd Amendment history: Until 1959, every law review article on the amendment concluded it didn't guarantee an individual right to a gun. Law review pieces saying the opposite started to appear in the late 1970s, funded mainly by the NRA. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Yes please
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
/7 In short, I strongly support gestures of contempt and disrespect for the people carrying out the regime's lawless and contemptible orders, notwithstanding the expectations imposed by our squalid and obsequious cop-fluffing culture. They suck and they should know we know they suck.
We’re in the phase where Americans, press included, should be considering all news originating with the government as propaganda first. Its institutional tendency is to evade good-faith dialogue with the public.
you stand strong for trans people and against every bit of terf bullshit out there so you can say Absolutely not. We don't compromise. That's a fucking 18 year old in there and she's not going to show you her fucking tits at a Buffalo Wild Wings to use the bathroom.
Apollo 13. It's the platonic ideal of what a good movie should be.
"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."
Man Mamdani is a damn knife fighter despite that dimpled smile. I also like that they included the COVID fabrications in that montage, that gets overlooked!
I genuinely don't know whether the Founders would have objected more to the "Catholic" part or the "Theocracy" part, but uh, yeah, it's difficult to be more wrong about what they wanted.
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
Imagine a media where the victims of policy were given the same airtime as the makers of policy.
This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
I'm glad he's saying that. As recently as 6 months ago, he was hosting fascists on his podcast to let them try and sell conservatism, so this is a welcome improvement.
Oh good. Let's just casually threaten war with Mexico on a Monday evening.