Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
There is not one direct attack on an individual. Pretty obvious this was not written by Trump
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There is not one direct attack on an individual. Pretty obvious this was not written by Trump
minty tear gas (@nihilamacabre.bsky.social) reposted
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social)
Trump talking about wanting to make it into heaven making a little more sense rn
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
No, dipshit human, it was 14 yrs ago. 2025-2010 is 14. This is why I took your job.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Better move him back to leadoff next season too. Thinking acuna-profar 1-2 maybe. Then Riley back at 3
Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted
Iโm not sure you can actually call another country weak if yours got taken over by a genocidal game show host. Threats to humanity are threats to humanity no matter their effectiveness.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubioโs 2016 presidential campaign๐๐ฝ
Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Viktor Winetrout (@viktorwinetrout.bsky.social) reposted
[Giuliani's final breath] Tell my family I loved...9/11
Bill Madden (@maddenifico.bsky.social) reposted
As a metaphor, this is about as accurate as it gets. ๐๐คฃ๐๐คฃ๐๐คฃ๐
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, believe there was an accident. Donโt believe, AT ALL, that it went down anything like this.
Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social) reposted
Make no mistake, everything thatโs happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Theyโll get it too
Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) reposted
While you are looking at Trump, the oligarchs are seeding themselves deeper into the fabric of society, your government, and your resources. Your media is captured, your institutions are captured, your politicians are captured, and your algorithms are captured. A full system reboot is needed. #3E
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
The way they just barrel through with what they are doing. Susan Collins same when they were chanting โShame.โ They really are shameless
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
He forgot his clown makeup ๐คก
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Haha and the way he chose Monday to set that question up
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Iโll stay at your place on the couch, then weโll deal with that whole first date thing tomorrow.
Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social) reposted
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
It's actually driven, overwhelmingly, by conservatives that vote against providing families with what they need to raise their kids. P.S. it's creepy thinking about this pumpkin headed asshole sitting around worrying about birth rates.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted
my objection to AI and LLMs, such as it is, has far less to do with the actual technology and far more to do with the utterly ratshit ethics of the majority of AI corporate executives
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Now they will be able to afford to build a megachurch on top of their megachurch.
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Lots of right-wing political pastors and charlatans about to get rich from FEMA money.
Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isnโt normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
See what I mean? 'Crown jewel of this administration.' Nice to hear from you again though @schumer.senate.gov. Hope you had a good vacation. You didn't miss much.
Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online) reposted
The Trump health stuff is starting to feel like wishcasting on all sides
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social)
@joshsteinnc.bsky.social
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Kennedy is not a Trump mistake. He is doing exactly what Trump hired him to do.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted
relatedly: if youโre worried about this, i strongly encourage you to seek out and attend a rally wherever you live on labor day. it will give you a much better perspective on how many of us there are vs. how many of them in a way that isnโt just abstract math.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagine their fights on actual issues if this guy can't get it together for something simple like this. And yes, he should feel embarrassed.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
This can't be real. He has moved this goal post so many times and here we are.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social)
America Only
Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) reposted
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Liz (or Lizzie) Kim ๊นํ์ฑ ๐ซ (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted
Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? โCan you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Letโs not fight against the Confederacy. Letโs just try to get along, and maybe one day theyโll give us our freedom?โ
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, fuck Bill Cassidy. He knew exactly what he was doing in being the deciding vote to make this happen.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
There was no sense from DC Democrats in the 2024 election that America was in mortal danger. More importantly there was no such sense from major mediaโincluding Kleinโwhich did its job so poorly that Americans went to the polls in 2024 more poorly informed than any US electorate in the last century.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I will tell you where he was: the same place the Democratic Party was. It was so fat and happy about having won the 2020 presidential election that it was heedless of all warnings from indie media that we were in the midst of an *ongoing insurrection* that in *no way* had capitulated to rule of law.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It was clear more than 4 years ago that Trump had lost interest in our Democratic process as designed and would seek to steal every election he could. It was clear more than 4 years ago that he was an insurrectionist willing to use violence to stay in power and looking to accumulate a paramilitary.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It was clear two years ago that Project 2025 and Trump planned to drain all monies from everything but Criminal Justice, Immigration, National Security and the Military, and that those formerly separate pots would in fact be one pot aimed at controlling the American population via government force.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Much of the blame lies at the feet of the media. Not indie mediaโwhich has been getting Trump right for about 10 years nowโbut exactly the sort of mealy-mouthed lukewarm respectability-politics jerkoffs like Klein who've been years behind all of their peers but know how to play major media's games.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
I was plainly obvious during the campaign he was saying whatever he needed to in order to keep himself out of jail and to get into office to get revenge on the country that held him accountable. And I'm just a social media user, but was painfully obvious to me.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
You can't speak coherently about what has to happen in America now if you even allow for the possibility that Trump did not run the most deceitful campaign about what he planned to do as president that contemporary American politics has ever seen. Any attempt to legitimize his actions is grotesque.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Anyone writing an essay today whose conceit is that if you squint you can see how Trump is doing no more than what he was elected to do is a jerkoff. I would've used a kinder term months agoโnow I don't care. You have to be a jerkoff to be a political analyst who cannot describe what just happened.
Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) reposted
CDC employees walked out in show of support for their pushed out leaders, chanting "USA not RFK." Livestream here: www.instagram.com/firedbutfigh...
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
'We will not force it unless they say no. Then we will force it.' Rapists run our country.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, why didnโt you say that? Itโs perfectly fine now.
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.
The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat. https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have โstayed and foughtโ, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social)
I remember
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats canโt stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. Itโs Politics 101.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
All of the elements except the guns of course. That would be silly.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Neither are we
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
There are also situations where you only have a handful of credits left to complete because you busted your ass and loaded up credits in previous semesters. This leads to needing one last semester without enough credits to qualify as 'full time.'
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted
i guess i just wish that the hhs secretary had a medical background is all
Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted
After the Supreme Court justices the biggest suckers are Big Money guys who think they'll do ok under this rotten regime. Countdown to the first CEO who has his company nationalized because a hot mic caught him making fun of our big beautiful president
Chise (@sailorrooscout.bsky.social) reposted
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask โdo you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.โ Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I mean I still talk about the g0v "Gov Zero" campaign in Taiwan where the opposition party set up a counter website to every official website that anyone could check out by swapping the "gov.tw" with "g0v.tw" Dems completely fail at showing a positive alternative to what we have now.
Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) reposted
It's hard to keep straight exactly what the worst thing going on, but the US health system being led by an idiot conspiracy theorist really is high up there.
victoria scott (@victoriascott.bsky.social) reposted
absolutely insane to see a man with a completely cooked brain take a country with such an intense founding mythology about the rejection of kings, and turn it into his personal vanity project in the span of like six months. kind of embarrassing for us collectively as a society
๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted
Sirhan Sirhan didnโt pull a prescription pad, he pulled a trigger.
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
its only because rich people want to make money off it instead of losing an insignificant amount of their fortune, theres no other reason weโre being forced to participate in this farce
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Look everywhere but the guns. I hate these people.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, you mean Krasnov? Yeah, we agree.
Hunter Walker (@hunterw.bsky.social) reposted
Valid question
Aaron Fritschner (@fritschner.bsky.social) reposted
It wonโt fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The monstrousness of not caring about gun violence until the alleged shooter is from a group you want disgraced is the sort of thing that causes me to wonder if the US deserves to be saved from the ruin it's come to. And *of course* corporate media is fine with it all, because it means more revenue.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
And Summer just ended. Schools might need to rethink their field trips there as well
Casey Explosion (@caseyexplosion.bsky.social) reposted
I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Half of congress left town to protect a pedophile
Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted
It's *almost* always a young, white male who's been radicalized by white nationalists and the racist gun-lovers the right loves to promote. It's *almost* never the people they want you to be afraid of who are doing this shit.
Paul Cohen (@paulecohen.bsky.social) reposted
media should not interview minors who have just survived a mass shooting
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
Fascism ended in annihilation and surrender in WW2, but please go on.
Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) reposted
If something happened to be daughter and in response I was told that she is now "with the person who loved her the most," you could not hold me legally liable for what I would do next.
Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted
A โtariff rebate checkโ is like setting your kitchen on fire and then mailing yourself a bucket of water. There's an easier way to avoid the burn.
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Don't get it twisted. Trump is having the National Guard pick up trash to debase them. He hates the military. He is incapable of understanding anyone who would make sacrifices for the greater good. He thinks they are suckers and losers, and he's treating them as such.
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted
lol imagine being so incompetent you get caught spying on freaking denmark
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah yes, guilty unless you say 'I didn't do it.' Basic US law stuff.
David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf.bsky.social) reposted
A core paradox of this administration is that while they seek control of everything their record proves they are actually not capable of running anything.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
They deserve to get screwed. With what they have saddled us with.
Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because itโs beeping. Itโs quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the most expensive path to landscape DC that you could have possibly taken.
Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted
as someone who used to go to union station every fucking day the way the right is pushing this storyline like its some mad max hellscape is more offensive than usual. i honest to goodness hate these people.
Shenanigans (@shenanigans.bsky.social) reposted
Going to therapy to help me deal with people who won't go to therapy
Laura Bassett (@lebassett.bsky.social) reposted
Pretending not to hear the whole room chanting โshameโ at her is the most Susan Collins things ever
Kate Mackenzie (@katemac.bsky.social) reposted
Glad to see this point about the role of racism in targeting of Lisa Cook from @nathantankus.bsky.social I do feel itโs been downplayed for exactly the reasons he alludes to
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Iโm sure they are very happy having to be away from their families for this
Auburn Blake ๐ซ๐ (@blakeau19.bsky.social) reply parent
Like a Signalgate type infraction?
Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social) reposted
Pretty sure this is going to win in the Best Deepthroat category at next yearโs AVN Awards