Imagine the roar of laughter in the conference room with these guys when Modi recounted Donald trying to convince him to nominate him for a Nobel Prize Nobody in the world takes Donald seriously. He is only mocked or managed
The Founders are appalled.
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Imagine the roar of laughter in the conference room with these guys when Modi recounted Donald trying to convince him to nominate him for a Nobel Prize Nobody in the world takes Donald seriously. He is only mocked or managed
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The MAGA regime has coincidentally discovered a huge quantity of money to hand to Musk and Thiel companies, along with unprecedented tax cuts for these and other fascist oligarchs that have seized control of the government. Americans are resources to be extracted from for the benefit of billionaires
Epistemic fracture 🏥
I’ll forever be waiting for the house to fall on Noem, who held up emergency response funds for that Texas flood
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
#GoldenAgeOfFraud #Crypto
Gonna keep reposting this @timdickinson.bsky.social / me item: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Trump and his Department of Veterans Affairs celebrate Labor Day after stripping VA employees of their ability to unionize — another step toward privatizing care for those who have served rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Surprised Colbert or Oliver haven’t done this yet. Brilliant mockery. Trump’s administration is by far the most corrupt we have ever had. Everyone hates corruption, except the people getting rich off it. Anti-corruption is an effective unifying pillar of political movements
Musk has shadowbanned the 10 Downing Street account on X, and is stepping up his destabilisation antics as he pushes forward his efforts to control the entirety of Britain's electric power. We have to push back against this foreign chaos-merchant dividing this country with his hate.
the Republican Party has spearheaded the overthrow of our Constitutional form of gov, the dismantling of its checks and balances, and they are now busy further entrenching via gerrymandering and targeted voter suppression no history book will note our 250th anniversary without that giant asterisk
“Stop trusting experts” means ignore hard-earned credentials, peer review, replication... This charlatan is part of a horrific cabal committed to total epistemological destruction. He’d replace rational trust in transparent, self-correcting epistemic systems with the gut feelings of angry little men
We are weeks away from his promotion of phrenology and leeches 🤦‍♂️
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
They want all of the cred with none and I mean none of the work
Yet another way Republicans are turning the US into Russia. Ru gov consistently removes flowers, candles, and other tributes left on the bridge where opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in Moscow to suppress any unofficial shrine or memorial that might become a focal point for dissent.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies. New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before. 5/
“Department of Homeland Security polices say immigration enforcement must not be conducted at locations where emergency responses are happening.” They violated their own policies. Gotta start suing these DHS goons. WA has standing to sue since he was protecting us www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Normally they've booked 40% of their fall soybean sales to China at this point. This year, they are at 0% booked, and no, that's not a typo. www.farmprogress.com/soybean/us-s...
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
"Congratulations to President Donald Trump and his whip-smart administration on turning America’s brave National Guard troops into the most expensive gardening crew in human history." https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/28/trump-national-guard-picking-up-trash-dc/85853498007/
🧵 More evidence of the need for extreme caution in the application of AI. Something DOGE has no concept of.
Sorry, updated Reuters link: www.mediareform.org.uk/wp-content/u...
A media literacy reading list: 1. SPJ Code of Ethics (pillars of responsible journalism) www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp 2/3. The Elements of Journalism by Kovach/Rosenstiel (core principles) + Blur (how to judge info) 4. Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking 5. Reuters Handbook www.reuters.com/about/editor...
Made our firefighters line up like fvcking criminals and harassed them for their papers as the fire spread Yeah there are a million ways to do immigration reform or policy implementation besides pulling just the absolute worst people in America together to form a Republican Gestapo
It’s hard to not numb yourself to the news. When every day is norm breaking, none of them are. but this — I’ve never seen anything quite like it. When you think of how devastating fires have been for the US in 2025 alone… I’m at a loss.
Yet @propublica.org & @wired.com are killing it. Old school journalistic standards still set some above the rest, especially as media continues to be dominated by rightwing interests & algorithms flood the zone with distortions. Everyone should read “The Elements of Journalism” by Kovach/Rosenstiel
Those fvcking mRNA vaccines coming in to save the day felt like Neil Armstrong walking on the moon levels of scientific badassery. Forever in awe of and grateful for all the scientists who helped make it happen. Antivaxxers are a deeply weird sort of darkside Inquisition, driven on by chaos agents
Great piece. It says he prefers neoclassic architectural styles. It’s not even that. He couldn’t let the simple White House Georgian structure be. Had to slap fake gold curlicues everywhere and haul in all manner of clutter. Not the first barely-literate dictator to play at what he thinks wealth is.
You really cannot toss a pebble in this administration without hitting some deeply unethical Fox-affiliated woo-adhering cretin www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
Joe Biden’s no longer president so the media has moved on from caring about such things Much like inflation and budget deficits
I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
“.. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year due to tariffs and deporting agricultural workers.” @waiterich.bsky.social @fortune.com #CPI fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
Sending soldiers into cities under the guise of fighting crime is an unprecedented abuse of power. And it’s illegal. Learn more: bit.ly/4m6TG77
Listen to Joe Rogan lol
Correct. I challenge all the knuckleheads like Joe Rogan who deliberately misread the Russian interference case in 2016 to stop being idiots. There is no way to justify Trump’s behavior towards Russia. It reads precisely and objectively like the behavior of an asset.
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
Have you made a statement yet about the Trump Admin interrupting active wildfire fighting to line up our guys and demand “papers”, then hauling some away thus endangering the remaining crew, the land being actively destroyed by the uncontained Bear Gulch fire, and the people of your district?
That is the correct framing, not this so called “soft secession” nonsense, as if the fascistic abomination that is occupied DC is actually America and we are receding from it. Quite the contrary. Blue America remembers the Constitution and will keep the Republic
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
End Meta. Redundant at best, malignant at worst.
Truly that particular fvcking company is worse than useless.
Show me any place in the Constitution that talks about the Air Force. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress the power to tax and spend for the “general Welfare of the United States”. So the fact that most modern gov programs aren’t explicitly mentioned in the Constitution is irrelevant
We are the Union. We believe in the Constitution of the United States. We don’t secede. We preserve.
Why does Congress even exist? Republican Congressmen have made what was supposed to be our foremost institution of governance into a totally useless vestige of a Constitutional era. They are now just a stool upon which the fascist clown occupying the Oval Office can rest his swollen cankles.
A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids. They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.
Politically-targeted economic attacks. People stay away from local businesses when there are camouflaged emissaries of that fascist tyrant setting up occupation sites and looking to spark some unrest for the eager Fox News cameras
For public safety, can states pass laws making it illegal for anyone other than actual police to wear badges and insignias that say “police”? Randos should not be allowed to just sneak in and pretend to be local.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
According to the Watch Duty app, Bear Gulch Fire is currently burning over 9,000 acres and only 13% contained. The Trump administration is an absolute menace. A metastasizing threat to American lives.
“Meanwhile, a coalition of mostly-blue states led by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is planning to coordinate on the purchase and distribution of pediatric vaccines, should the federal government restrict access to them” 👏 👏 👏
I like this thinking but most states are strapped for cash already, so it’s not clear how this would be funded. I guess manufacturers could provide bulk purchasing deals. Out of state people could pay a fee to offset their portion. 🤔
Coming around to the idea that idols to slavery and insurrection such as these Confederate monuments and portraits should be destroyed, not stored. Take a photo first and put that in a museum.
The American secret police looking like fucking bank robbers certainly is a choice
For all of Hegseth’s chest-thumping about being “laser-focused on warfighting,” his Pentagon finds time for other priorities — such as restoring Confederate names, reinstalling Confederate monuments, and rehanging a portrait of a Confederate general at West Point. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Tesla lied www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Via @alecstapp.bsky.social $TAN #ICYMI www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/c...
Thanks, Republicans. A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Wow.
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.
Wow wow wow
Technofascist billionaires hate the oddest things. I hate commuting. Elon hates USAID. Thiel hates the FDA. 🤷‍♂️
Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC. Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship. gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
Hahaha, the MAGA crowd over on X is annngry about this article. They can't believe anybody is still talking about Russiagate—that's how confident they are that they've convinced everyone it was a hoax, all the evidence notwithstanding. Good work, @saletan.bsky.social.
$1.2B to tiny company: Cronies gettin rich
So much freedom
Give us a break. The only action you guys have taken is to weaken gun laws, allowing scores of criminals to get guns; shut down funding for anti-violence programs in our cities; close the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. You've taken action - and it's gotten people killed.
Moving fast and asking about legality later is dumb and inefficient. But it creates for this unscrupulous administration and its well-connected buddies the perfect bubble of performative chaos within which to enrich themselves.
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
He’s a Christian nationalist
“.. democracy often erodes slowly at first .. But with each concession, autocrats become bolder.. and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmatic—waiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a deal—only embolden ..” @dziblatt.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
He is looking genuinely different lately. His puffy eyes are giving late-stage Yeltsin, who incidentally also had cardiovascular issues.
“cease being US allies” This is being done. Intelligence sharing pulled back, trade relationships shifting, defense equipment supplier contingencies being updated. Some changes may bring greater resilience (hopefully). Some may prove a real and pointless loss for all of us and that is a true shame
In July 2025, wholesale prices for domestic fresh and dry vegetables skyrocketed 38.9% compared to a year ago. We haven’t seen a summer swing this big in almost a CENTURY. I don't know about you, but I'm feeling the squeeze at the grocery store.
Decades of US diplomatic efforts being unwound. @reuters.com 🇮🇳 www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Senior CDC leader resigning his post today: "Having worked in local and national public health for years, I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people"
đź‘Ź #FireRFKJr
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
Tacky. Sen Murphy is widely recognized as Congress’s leading advocate for gun safety, consistently championing and authoring major legislation to protect Americans from gun violence. His courage and tireless consistency will continue long after you’ve moved on to your next keyboard warrior pose.
Very well said @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
The story of the human race is a story of refusing to accept violence as ordinary and normal. But Donald Trump celebrates and uses violence - and the threat of violence - everyday. Our nation under him is bathed in violence. We are heading backwards.
"By contrast, in 2025 thus far, Bluesky has driven "a hundred times as many page views" to Southern Fried Science as Twitter." arstechnica.com/science/2025...
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
Timeline cleanse
The hits just keep on coming. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.