I'll be OK, I think.
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I'll be OK, I think.
I'm in the hospital and have been for the last... almost five hours now. Fun times.
Prior to 1871 there was no "Germany", there was a loose confederation of 25 different States. Prior to 1861 there was no country called "Italy". Norway didn't become an independent country until 1905. Finland didn't become a country until 1917. The United States is older than all of them.
i don't think it's great that there is no one in the GOP asking about congressional war powers
Our more recent ancestors would be astonished that The Republican Party is now opposed to the Gettysburg Address.
This is one of the most unamerican things I’ve heard of
They don't want to just murder people; they want you to cheer them on while they do it.
Does Mother Jones think this image is somehow NOT offensive? #jewsky
This isn't a new strategy, though. Trump said the Access Hollywood tape was doctored, too. It's about giving believers an excuse to keep believing and muddying the truth for everyone else. My story on this from 2020: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
/2 In my view, a judge who thinks a bar complaint is the appropriate response to a lawyer criticizing a decision as “fascist” is unsuited to be a judge and dubiously suited to be respected as a fellow American.
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
It totally makes sense once you accept that European Jews aren't European, and European Roma aren't European, and the Sami aren't European, and the Picts and Celts aren't European and the Tatars aren't European and the Cossacks aren't European and
Also, even the idea of a single national identity for most European countries is relatively new, despite the claim of these "ancient nations." As of 1794, only 11% of people in France spoke French as a first language, and nearly half didn't speak French or spoke it poorly.
i think, for most of the framers, the president sending one state's militia into another state over the objection of the state's governor would be indicative of the collapse of the union itself
Fuck these people. They are not America. Their claim to our flag is a lie. This country has been built by people of every ethnicity and nationality who strive each day to fulfill the promise written in our Constitution - to continue the unending struggle to form a more perfect Union. 🇺🇸
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
One of my favorite philosophical passages in history is when Albert Memmi talks about bunch about left antisemitism and spends about a paragraph on right antisemitism because, he notes, any Jew who thinks the right will be anything other than violently antisemitic is an idiot.
The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.
I kept waiting for at least a reluctant, cursory throw-in line like, “and of course the descendants of slaves are Americans too,” but nope.
it was surreal both for a dem leader like pritzker to use more direct and forceful language, and also for, as an example, how ABC news immediately then "explained further" by starting every sentence re: way the deployments are illegal and unconstitutional with "democrats say"
i agree that it is genuinely hilarious to see incredibly weird little guys like Nate Silver claim they're more in touch with what Normal Americans think than your average Bluesky user is nothing is more abnormal in 2025 America than being a centrist with a well-paying media job
don’t love shooting a missile at a boat that appears to be just chugging along harming nobody (and, if it contained drugs, could’ve easily been interdicted). really don’t love posting satellite snuff footage of it on social media.
I don't make the rules, I just follow them youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...
This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.
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.
He doesn't stay bribed, folks.
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
I am calm. I am breathing deeply through my nose. I am counting to ten. I… WHAT, ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR DOG WILL INFODUMP TO YOU ABOUT THE FUCKING BALL?!?
The thing of it with these "I work all week" chumps is that even in a world where she is a stay at home mom and he's the only source of income, that still doesn't mean you get to check out on the weekend and leave it all to her. And chances are damn good you're not the only source of income.
If you need any reminder that people who use slurs to describe our political opponents are not actually on our side, look here. In particular, using that slur for an autistic man. These posters et al. don't look at minorities or the disabled as equally human. They're not our friends, nor allies.
The Coast Guard are better than the SEALS because they do both have to do a bunch of insane physical training but you can trust the Coast Guard with a boatload of cocaine and you very much cannot say that about the SEALS
Microsoft has now put a permanent notifier on the VS Code status bar to nag anyone who disabled Copilot. I have Copilot disabled. The extensions are not installed. If this garbage was valuable, you wouldn't have to shove it down our throats.
Not just folks in Israel/Palestine got flipped by that day, though. It does seem to me like it was a moral inflection point for quite a few Americans, from folks who started cheering for the slaughter at Supernova and/or calling it fake, to folks who started cheering the ensuing slaughtee in Gaza.
also imo is if “no amount of money seems to raise people’s child-having preferences” is true, you can’t really consider child subsidies coercive
Very Online Leftists: "Zionism is an evil genocidal ideology that must be exterminated! No history of marginalization or persecution justifies atrocities or ethnic nationalism!" Also Very Online Leftists: "MAGNETO WAS RIGHT!"
*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
... doing that would explain or excuse an American getting hooked on the sort of news sources these phrasing choices come from, and we don't have to take it lying down Except according to some guys, but a pox on them, yes
I don't care that much about a failed political candidate whom I'd never heard of before - the problem is that this is symptomatic of something happening with centristish normies, and the crimes of Israel *are not sufficient to explain or justify this process*. There is *nothing* Israel could be...
... being binding on the rest of the world so Israel ought not to have been founded. Friends of Ms. Keith - please check her media diet for her own good, yes
Considering 10/7, I think it can be *exactly* like that.
Hooo buddy. Fwiw, this is why we have @nexusproject.bsky.social . To disaggregate criticism of Israel that, while sharp or uncomfortable, is not antisemitic, from "criticism" like ... well, like this.
See also her use of "talmudic."
Why the Hell is a moderate liberal former Congressional candidate with thousands of followers - including 10 mutuals of mine - spewing this garbage And to be clear this isn't a dig on those mutuals. An examination of Keith's history makes it clear that these posts - DNA, ‘Talmudic’ as ...
Yet another example of conspiratorial blood and soil nationalism crossing with DNA essentialism, but make it leftist. Man, these people are coming out of the woodwork hard.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Why is this so difficult for everyone else to say?
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.
So cool this is just how things are now
When I talk about Biblical womanhood, this is what I mean
Huh, you guys have the same joke we do.
And yet Christmas, a Christian religious holiday, is a government holiday. And yet we have blue laws. As usual, state secularism really means state preference for the religion of the people writing the laws.
So sure, in theory, LEGALLY the federal government isn’t Christian. But… look at whose holidays are federal holidays. Look at state level laws about liquor, about the unconscious mores of US society. Just because they don’t outlaw other religions doesn’t mean it’s not a culturally Christian nation.
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
Being pro-drowning of children seems like a real are-we-the-baddies moment www.npr.org/sections/sho...
it's nuts to me that people who get "don't misgender Caitlin Jenner" and "don't gay-bash Peter Thiel" think it's some huge imposition for them not to do this kind of thing about Netanyahu.
cw antisemitism While I wish Netanyahu all ignominy in life and in death... this is a very telling outburst from someone allegedly proud of her family's history as guardians of Jewish graves in Palestine x.com/susanabulhaw...
Just imagine what is being saved for the book this week.
BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Yes, and the people who have been swarming my replies for days insisting, "No one on the left is antisemitic! You're just conflating trying to call criticism of Israel antisemitic!" both have no examples of me doing that, and also no answer to the spread of Leo Frank trutherism on the left.
cw antisemitism I want you to understand that *any associate* of this person cannot be trusted to stand near a Jew x.com/nada_che7/st...
Nothing makes you feel more alive after an adverse encounter than drawing biblical women destroying their enemies (and adding a cheeky caption) This is based off of “Jael and Sisera” by Artemisia Gentileschi
I do not like the narrative that Zionism only exists because of some arch-conspiracy by Western powers, first of all because that is literally just not true.
Voting public did - that's why he lost in 2020! But it didn't stick, because the electorate doesn't have a meaningful long-term memory beyond the previous election.
Luddism about pharmaceutical research and development is not a good look on anyone, including progressives.
This story is going viral again on FB, with all the content-farmers reposting this story as if it were true. If you accidentally post something fake, just take the L and delete it.
Typical Nazi, all it takes is to remind them that they're losers that everyone wants dead and they scurry away
The cost-per-pack figure is on the secondary market, right?
I watch free TV twitch streams on my television and the ads are exclusively for free-mium phone games that run on hooking people to them with promises of winning actual cash
Well If you admire Mein Kampf, wanton indifference to antisemitism *is* disappointing
"At The Atlantic, he will cover ... a particular focus on attacks against enlightenment values... Tom comes to us with great expertise in scientific controversy and rooting out scientific dishonesty." Umm, what? I think they meant spreading, not "rooting out." www.theatlantic.com/press-releas...
we literally just saw the last administration and all its accomplishments ground to dust by persistent health rumors are you sure you want to “well actually” in Trump’s defense here
People handwringing about the Trump rumors are very annoying! Yeah it would be fucking terrible if increasing numbers of people started “baselessly” worrying about Trump’s ill health and thinking his brain was wrecked and his thoughts were bad!!!
A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
Birth rates are lowering *literally everywhere.* The only countries which keep growing in power will be the ones which continue to grow, and without immigration that will not be “the West.”
My guess is 19th century, actually. A lot of systemizations date to that period.
A few Holocaust museums have holograms of survivors made by recording hundreds of hours of interviews with them. Visitors can ask the hologram questions and I believe an AI program will match the question with a segment of the pre-recorded interviews. This is not like that.
Yes, but IIRC with Italians as a fairly close third after Jews and other Canaanite populations. Makes sense considering our history with Rome.
I think "goblin" is originally about as well-differentiated as שֵׁד
IIRC, there's genetic evidence of a significant degree of Italian ancestry in both ethnic Ashkenazi and Sephardi populations, so that makes sense to me.
I don't think this is a human account. It would be sad/funny if it was
“Netanyahu quotes Amalek, not the Talmud, sorry” is a Not Even Wrong line I'm going to remember for a while
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Boy! It'd be nice to not have to talk about him if people with three-quarters of a million subscribers didn't make videos about the guy that also briefly touch upon misrepresenting experiences I had personally! That'd sure be fuckin' nice! But, guess it's easier to tell US to shut up than them, huh?
if you shoot someone for ding dong ditching you ought to go to prison for murder.
give the people what they want
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
journalists can't be bothered. jake tapper is busy investigating hunter biden.
Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"
Took me a moment, then I chuckled.
Oops, that's 11. Drop stressful, it's implied by a bunch of the others, lol.
Hmmm. In no particular order: Curious Stressful Reactive Lonely Insane Loving Bookish Morbid Funny Frum Doubtful
Poster's madness can come for anyone, alas.
These people are unrepentant racists but also too cowardly to use the slur they so desperately want to.
does anything about that flag on his hat make you doubt the accuracy of 'enhancing' it
Like sorry but if your solution to any problem on here is that everyone needs to be nicer to New York Times people and not that we need more music recommendations and sports clips and general talking about random shit you are just living in a fantasy world, I disregard you.
Charlie 🏆 Aug 2018 COTM 