"President starts low-level conflict by trying to get Nobel Peace Prize" is the funniest story going, can't get enough
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"President starts low-level conflict by trying to get Nobel Peace Prize" is the funniest story going, can't get enough
Well, damn.
bluesky hasn’t become massive but it’s not because we’re an echo chamber, it’s because we’re annoying in a ton of other ways and i think that’s beautiful
When I got my first job at 15, I saved all my tips up to buy season passes to the nearby opera house...not shockingly, loved fantasia as a kid.
In 2004 I did a school trip for sociolinguistics of the basque language. The itinerary clearly stated we'd go into France a few times. This woman on the trip refused to go to France with our group. Because freedom.
the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands
Omg this is great.
The post is outrageous because there is no source and people are eating it up without any corroboration.
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
A third previously AIPAC-backed Democratic member of Congress has renounced ties with the organization and sworn off future affiliation or fundraising with it. Rep. Deborah Ross of NC confirmed that she won't accept AIPAC donations in the 2026 midterms, making her the 2nd one from North Carolina.
“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
Japan Post has ceased all mail delivery to the US for packages valued over $100. To get around this, a Japanese denim company tells me they'll ship components to US customers one-by-one — fabric, buttons, rivets, a sewing needle, and thread. You then assemble the jeans at home like IKEA furniture.
Cedar, I'm sorry your family sucked and couldn't be supportive. Hope they get their shit together and see you. You are a funny fucking dude.
J.B. Pritzker smashing through the fascism wall like he's the Kool Aid Man
"To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country – I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story." Governor JB Pritzker
🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
If you really believe this you are accepting republican talking points and propaganda. Why do we think these words are tied to D politics? Mostly because the right wing says so... They are the politicians that use these words to create fear. Not using the words only plays into their hands.
Texas Republicans rammed their gerrymander through. Now some are realizing they may have handed themselves a few seats in the House, but put others at risk. Rigging maps doesn’t always go as planned. Now it’s on us to fight alongside Texas Dems and take those seats back.
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
I just read @elienyc.bsky.social refer to Daedalus and Icarus as "the world's first libertarians" and had to stop myself from braying with delight on this Amtrak train. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
Who knew?
I don't know what's more ironic: 1-The fact that trump is searching for classified info in someone else's bathroom ; or 2-The fact that Bolton had a chance to bury trump but decided to keep it all for his book comes back to bite him in the read end.
The UN-backed IPC has found that Gaza now faces famine after 22 months of Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory.
🚨 PLEASE SHARE THIS STORY 🚨 Police and ICE in DC ran down a delivery worker on his moped. Sobbing, he asked to call his family. Multiple vehicles arrived with 20 armed agents. Can somebody PLEASE explain how paying 20 agents to arrest a delivery worker is supposed to help the economy???
Damnit. Just realized I missed a chance to say his cracker ass barreled into that kitchen, which would be 100% accurate. Smdh. Disappointed in myself.
Could care less about the cracker barrel discourse, but seems an apt time to rehash the story of when my grandfather barged into the kitchen of one "to make his own damn gravy" after waiting 45 mins for them to bring him the gravy his chicken fried steak was missing. Alas, he did not get the gravy.
I … did I just witness the birth of Haguesplaining
Could care less about the cracker barrel discourse, but seems an apt time to rehash the story of when my grandfather barged into the kitchen of one "to make his own damn gravy" after waiting 45 mins for them to bring him the gravy his chicken fried steak was missing. Alas, he did not get the gravy.
I'm not gonna read that person's shameless op-ed about how they want govt services for me but not for thee. I will say tho that a lot of people voted for trump thinking they'd get herrenvolk socialism and instead seem to be getting feudalism and my only hope is that drives them from politics forever
Rep. Nicole Collier is a Goddamn warrior. This is a woman who is demonstrating grit, resolve, tenacity and the refusal to bow…rather than just yapping about it.
My brother's first serious bf in highschool was a furry. And while my brother ultimately didn't identify was a furry, he had such a wonderful and kind community that let him figure himself out sans judgment. Always been grateful he had that community to support him.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
Worth listening to Angela Rye’s important interview witb Rep. Collier last night. @nativelandpod.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/hFrDwkB...
Seems strange that they've got a whole elected official detained and the press is just like "hey look they've got an elected official detained" instead of, i dunno, making some people answer some pointed questions
WILD situation in Texas right now: The House Speaker has required Dems, who just returned from their out-of-state quorum break, to have police escorts once they leave the chamber. One Dem is refusing to leave the House floor with escort, and GOP leaders have blocked press access to the chamber.
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Yes please!
During a tense committee meeting two weeks ago, over 400 trans Texans begged lawmakers not to advance the bathroom bill. Texas Senators did anyway. I spoke with the trans people who routinely pour their hearts out at the capitol, and why they do it: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
I'm sorry, wut?
You do love to see it.
my moment has arrived
This is why I don’t spend much time on Meta’s Threads. So beyond repulsive.
Do I have it correct that the White House still has not made a statement about 180 rounds being fired into the CDC and the death of a 33-year old officer who is expecting his third child? But we deployed the Natl. Guard because a 19-year old got his butt kicked by preteens. Do I have that right?
getting your post read out loud by a lawyer, directly to the person you made fun of, and entered into public record is the poster's dream
OUTSTANDING
guys it’s really not funny that the fbi agent took a footlong to the chest. stop laughing. it’s NOT FUNNY that an fbi agent in head to toe tactical gear tried to chase the guy who hucked a sandwich straight at his bulletproof vest but couldn’t outrun him
Ghislaine Maxwell, serving 20 yrs for sex trafficking minors, has been given permission to leave minimum security campus for work assignments, per @muellershewrote.com www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
“What happened to the libertarians, what happened to the NRA?” They were talking about Black people, from the Civil Rights Act on, “federal government” was synonymous with the well-being of Black people. There. It’s solved.
God I fucking love tumblr.
Not the way to characterize “cooking the books.”
Martha is a G.O.A.T.
Reporter: Here’s that article, chief! Editor: Great! We’re gonna slap a clickbait headline on this baby that is *insane.* People are gonna want to *kill* you! Reporter: (sigh) Well, I guess it’s worth it if they read it. Editor: Haha, don’t worry, they won’t. Here, let me throw that away for you.
Tonia Haddix, who kept animals in cages under PETA-protested conditions, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for lying about Tonka the Chimp’s death. She rose to national fame and shame in the 2024 HBO doc ‘Chimp Crazy.’
Some of you are not as eternally online as some of us and it shows...
I wouldn’t post it if it was junk. This is good reporting led by two Black journalists. What I like here is by hearing from solid sources it sets out a clear path to addressing the concerns and garnering the level of Black support Mamdani needs.
There’s another one of these disappointing books!
Pavillin de Thé, 2012 by Lisbon based artist Joana Vasconcelos #womensart
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
Noticing a pattern here.
What happened here is almost unimaginably grotesque. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...
She also drank cream the way most people enjoy an occasional cocktail. She was an odd bird.
Yes, Americans are just better at mass producing and commercializing the woo.
Also do NOT eat said onion the next day. And we have an overtaxed but ok public system. Quality may also be location based.
I live in Portugal and the number one cure for any ailment is to place half an onion at your head or feet overnight, location depends on ailment.
And when they are knock-offs we teasingly call them Lafufus.
Pro-raw milk and anti-vaccination is the policy position of the US Department of Health and Human Services. WTF. WTAF. I can't. I'm sorry, I just can't.
When vibes overtake basic facts. Smdh.
Ban congressional stock trading. Ban congressional stock trading. Ban congressional stock trading.
it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer
i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
He was apparently "inspecting future construction." So, what, he was just staring at empty space???
Of all the possible unity horses- I didn't expect them to go so hard on this one.
I am bothered too that Acosta is doing this simply because it's a gimmick. If he cared about the issue, how many Parkland survivors could he have talked to? He chose this instead. Puppetry is right.
JFC. This is dark.
the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public
definitive proof that all those miserable spam texts you hate and can’t get rid of aren’t even raising money for the candidates they say they are shut the entire machine down immediately
Example: one aspect of community that has been lost is discussion groups. Y'all want people to read so bad, but then get mad when they miss the point of the text and bastardize it (which obviously they'll do! Literacy! Rates! Are! Abysmal!). Critical thinking is cultivated, it's not intrinsic.
About 147K federal employees work in the state that Earle-Sears is running to govern. She does not want to answer if mass purges of this workforce is a good or bad thing, presenting it as a distraction from the real issues: a project that involved in 800 jobs.
As @hegemommy.bsky.social said, Kim Davis needs a hobby.
Motherfucking wind farms…
Hell yeah I love this "calling-the-footnotes" genre of reporting
Ah yes, famous newsman Stephen Colbert.
My favorite "zombie factoid" example is that hippos supposedly kill 500 people per year. This is all over the internet, in credible publications like NPR and NatGeo, but patient zero is this 2016 BBC listicle, which provides no source at all. Before that, estimates... www.bbc.com/news/world-3...
NEW: Now That They’re Free: Venezuelan Men Sent to CECOT on What They Endured and Reuniting With Their Families, by @propublica.org and partners
One of the things I am most proud of about Europe is how well the police are trained to de-escalate potentially violent situations and use deadly force only when there are no possible alternatives. Sure, there is legitimate criticism regarding protests etc. But the alternative is jarring.
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
Abolish ICE Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
