Life in America is about to get a lot harder on all fronts. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. I take solace in my gardens, pollinators, birds and animals. 💙
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America’s vicious cycle: Corporations crush workers to protect their bottom lines, then use their profits to lobby for policies that allow them to keep crushing workers. Labor Day is the perfect time to remind ourselves it doesn’t have to be this way. https://youtu.be/JSralhrpK44?feature=shared
Who commands your city tonight...your governor or the White House? 👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com
if you're not following @kenwhite.bsky.social what are you even doing
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
The right decision. More of this please.
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
The secret to a happy ending is knowing when to roll the credits!
I applaud Nadlers for doing the right thing. This is real leadership and an action that reveals a man cares more about the country than his ego. If only this would inspire other Dem leaders to do the same... www.axios.com/2025/09/02/n...
Reminder, Epstein survivors will be speaking this week.
see, that’s how you do it
The military has no place in domestic law enforcement. Full stop. But also this - obviously pretextual.
More than 6000 Mainers cheer gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson as he declares, “Now is the time to take on Big Pharma and rein in corporate greed… We have to break the status quo. It’s not working for us!” Jackson is #FightingOligarchy with Bernie Sanders in Portland, Maine.
What’s double fucked here is the BLM had ICE come and take these firefighters away! Apparently we can’t trust any of the feds who are supposed to protect us to do the right thing!!! 🤬🤬🤬
I first fought alongside Jerry Nadler when we took on a corrupt bankruptcy system that was rigged against working families. When New Yorkers needed a champion, Nadler always had their backs. He’s a man of principle, and I’m deeply grateful for his years of public service.
You know this Rudy shit is more distraction right? Release the files.
Happy Labor Day MAGA. Don’t let Trump BS you, he is the most anti-Labor Union POTUS in U.S.A. history. This is his constituency and you’ll never catch up. Wake the f*ck up.
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Boom 💥
fucking wild that the fundamental moral test of our time is something as simple as "can you denounce fascism" and so many people are failing it
joycevance.substack.com/p/forgetting...
as I was saying
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
#EatTheRich #FuckTheOligarchy #NoKingsInAmerica
Taking away or raising the cost of healthcare is not politically popular, and even some of the people doing it are realizing that
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Bless the governors who are coordinating this! 🙏💕🦋
Everyone who invests in crypto looks like this
Our former friends are laughing at us in private; our empowered enemies are laughing at us in public. Who but Trump could have brought such jolly unity to the world? by Marc Thiessen
President Brezhnev is alive and well. by Katherine Leavitt
Can Vance kill Trump with the same black magic he used on Pope Francis? We asked three MAHA moms at a Bob Evans in the north Cincinnati suburbs.
But the New York Times has not?
That’s what you get for taking advice from Worm Brain!!
He gonna be buried on one of his golf courses soon!!
Wow.
Like AOC, Zohran Mamdani has betrayed his progressive principles to suck up to the shitlib wine moms who define themselves by their hatred of Donald Trump, who I do not support. by Glenn Greenwald
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has pledged to fight Donald Trump tooth and nail over the federalization of the New York City. But Leightyn Winkel-Carruthers, a Bushwick microdistiller who usually supports Democrats, says that such a confrontational approach leaves him deeply uneasy.
Of the many reasons this is a bad answer — the kind of answer I would delight to get in cross-examination because it makes the speaker look shifty and untrustworthy - is that “maintain or rebuild institutions” is not particularly less abstract than “democracy under threat.” It’s just less direct.
In the sitcom The Ghost and Mrs. Muir do you think Mrs. Muir/Hope Lang ever worried that this creepy old guy was walking through walls and being invisible around her kids? Or was she like “oh he’s a sea captain they are totally fine around kids”? I wonder things sometimes.
If there's any such coherent thing as "Blueskyism," it's total loathing for Trump. That's the only near-universal political opinion on here. And no matter how you slice it, Mr. Polls, hating Trump, who is underwater by double digits, is vastly more popular than anything else the Democratic Party.
In two weeks!
This is to announce that I am announcing an announcement.
"'You need to say, ‘This is what we think we know, but this may change tomorrow,’ and just be really clear about risk communication,' Daskalakis said. 'You need to approach everything with less confidence and hubris.'" That wasn't enough.
Anyone else notice how this says “The President” and not “President Trump?”
They like Trump and are trying to help him
"I have experienced medical death, and am now deceased. My body has died."
Belgium will join the group of countries that will recognize the state of Palestine at this month’s U.N. General Assembly and will impose sanctions on Israel over the war in Gaza, Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot announced overnight.
Your Labor Day reminder that if the minimum wage increased at the rate of inflation & productivity since 1960 it'd be $28 today—not $7.25. Meaning—billionaires & corps have stolen at least $21/hour from working Americans for 60 years. We don't suffer a lack of resources—but from an excess of greed.
This is the true accurate math. Happy Labor Day
Find someone who looks at you the way this lady looks at the doctor who uses an AI stethoscope to incorrectly determine her heart is breaking.
Maybe “Trump Chemo”
No idea what this Oval Office announcement is. Could be resigning Could be apologizing because Stephen Miller molted all over the Residence and someone caught staff dumping the exuviae out of the window Could be clarifying that tariff revenue is really eleventy three trillion
Trump’s address tomorrow will NOT be AI generated because he had a stroke/health scare but the fact the thought occurred to me means at the least someone in his circle has floated the idea.
You and RFK jr. ROFL. 😂
I would add "What if the President needs an LVAD or other major medical intervention to deal with heart failure?" Are we OK with that? Where do we draw the line, as life/death decisions get more confusing? Should be discussed.
Or the fact he is a felon and an adjudicated rapist.
The media had no problem speculating on Hillary’s health in 2016 and Biden’s health in 2024. For some reason, the current guy gets way less scrutiny over his health and mental fitness. Why is that?
"To me, there are six clear reasons we should be talking about this more than we are and why the press corps should be digging more deeply and more seriously around this topic." — @vermontgmg.bsky.social Garrett Graff on the health of the current president. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
We’re all gonna die, ask Joni Ernst.
Has JD Vance been heard from since his big interview?
Oh great just what we did’nt ask for …. www.vice.com/en/article/u...
Just another excuse not to pay the subcontractor. The rose garden looks terrible. 😞
Community Rallies Behind Struggling Corporation https://theonion.com/community-rallies-behind-struggling-corporation-1819566416/
"Every one of these people is taking with them skills and knowledge that will be difficult to replace. But there may be no single individual whose departure better captures what is being lost and destroyed than Demetre Daskalakis."
I hope he’s GIVING it to RFK!!
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Nate Silver criticizing Bluesky as inherently flawed because a large group of people who reject our current sucktopia must interact with the sucktopians or else they are not getting the full sucktopian experience.
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This guy is a bastard.
Except JDV will be much, much worse.
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Nah, no self respecting Hawaiian would make much less eat that abomination. 😂
Uh subscribe to The Onion, by the way. For like one more week you also get a tote bag. membership.theonion.com
We all should.
I just subscribed purely out of spite for Nate Silver.
No one under 70 has even seen such a thing!😂
Anyway, my friends at Bluesky proper should start marketing this place with these kinds of quotes. It makes this website seem like the fucking Thunderdome when in reality it's a place where I post pictures of Viscous Brown Food-Like Substance On A Plate solely to unnerve people.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
the thing I think people don’t want to deal with is that it’s not Bluesky v Twitter, it’s Bluesky v Substack
Agree but there is a but. The spell is with FOTUS, and JD is greatly disliked, even by MAGAs, BUT this NEEDS to end soon, BEFORE absolute power is transferred.
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
Agreed. In a kleptocracy, corrupt politicians or unelected CEOs like Musk/Thiel/etc. enrich themselves secretly outside the rule of law, through kickbacks, bribes, and special favors from lobbyists and corporations, or they simply direct state funds/contracts to themselves and their associates.
I am far more worried about a JDV presidency with crackpot billionaire Thiel as the Shadow President than Trump.
Right? Beware of the Technocrats waiting in the wings: thiswillhold.substack.com/p/trump-the-...
MAGA www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/t...
Obviously, Trump is living in a Walmart, hiding in restroom stalls to avoid being caught, eating various foodstuffs, doing calisthenics at night, faithfully keeping a log of every product he uses in order to pay it back later.
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I think it's time to discuss the 25th Amendment.
DON'T BE SUSPICIOUS.
This is the provision Ensign cited as the basis for the government's authority to summarily remove unaccompanied migrant children. I’d love to hear from immigration lawyers, but having briefly looked at it… it’s so frivolous it’d be laughable if it weren’t so cruel. (Am I wrong??)
Tony Blair and Jared Kushner are apparently partnering in Trump's rebuilding Gaza in his own image plan, to the dismay of many. www.rawstory.com/trump-267394...