3rd grade - screwing around - missed the bus - "then you get to walk home" from the working parents. 3 miles. Rural Idaho. Never missed the bus again.
We’re not here for a long time, we’re here for a good time. Democracy is not something we have, it’s something we do. Slava Ukraini! I will not give into the lies. I will not give into the fear.
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3rd grade - screwing around - missed the bus - "then you get to walk home" from the working parents. 3 miles. Rural Idaho. Never missed the bus again.
I’m thrilled that @climate.us exists, and also devastated that it is needed. Thank you for rescuing our data. Science and facts will survive this administration because of projects like this.
Bad news is Kennedy has announced blueskyism is connected to autism. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Support for Trump amongst his youngest voters is already collapsing. And, trust me, we’re gonna keep dragging it down. 🫡
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Now, imagine being the first person to eat an oyster.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
He did not write this. As stupid as it is, it is coherent including sentence structure, punctuation, and lack of caps.
Seems RFK should be packing his office
If we have to become an authoritarian state, can we at least get eco-cities, bullet trains, and renewable energy?
LV Local here: Not just Trump - yes, huge due to lack of intn'l travelers, but also the huge cost and fees increase by the COs. Park? $50. Resort fee? $50. Dinner for 3 w/little booze? $400. Several events (F1, football, etc.) upcoming Non-Strip - down town and neighborhoods are doing way better.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
Political sadist
Moore had a good response that the $1mm/day spent on the NG could have gone to permanent solutions, not temporary.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
Fertility rates in Trump counties are higher (same effect of "cows cannot vote). Fertility rates in Blue cities is not. Now, do infant and maternal mortality.
And, yet "“I can’t think of one guy who isn’t a Trumper in our co-op. We’re blue-collar guys (and some gals too) who get up before dawn, work with our hands, and we trusted him to look out for us. The truth is, we love President Trump,” Yerman said."
It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Interesting is that they sent it back to the lower Court to decide if it applies to all or just the plaintiffs. The Red states and big companies may have screwed themselves.
I compare Trump to Attila - he assembled the Hunnic empire over 20 years and died with no succession plan so the empire was split between his 3 sons. They all collapsed in less than 10 years. There is no successor to Trump. GOP will tear themselves apart vying doesn't grasp there is no successor.
It appears he tracks COVID from what I am reading
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t 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.
More retirement news: Conservative Wisconsin justice Rebecca Bradley will NOT seek reelection next spring. Liberals (as you all know now) have a 4-3 majority on this high-stakes supreme court. This is their shot to go up 5-2, in April.
And so very articulate in that anti-transness.
I routinely hear them qualifying comments as "I am a "small c" conservative". What does that even mean any more?
Where is the outrage from the GOP? thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
The IRS wants Americans to weigh in on Direct File, the agency's free tax filing program. We already know Direct File has been widely popular and successful. The program could save Americans billions annually between filing fees and time costs. www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs...
They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
At what point do "small c" conservatives admit they enabled Trump? Were they Goldwater conservatives? Reagan conservatives? Gingrich conservatives? Bush conservatives? They have never been about what they claim. They are always anti "the others".
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
Actually, no. This is the original list - from 2017 when he was 45, not 47. "Inspired" sure - but not original. www.ebony.com/bernice-king...
Alas, we will not because we are ... stupid and lazy.
Why is President Obama amplifying an Ezra Klein essay in which Klein eliminates from history the fact that hundreds and hundreds of journalists asked Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign if his agenda was Project 2025 and *he lied to every single one of them, and every single American voter*?
So will the US Air Force be honoring ALL domestic terrorists or just her? My thoughts: 📍SICKENING 📍DISGRACEFUL 📍UN-AMERICAN #Pinks #NeverForgetJan6th www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Between last fall and today, there have been over 3 million out-patient visits, over 300,000 hospitalizations and over 30,000 deaths from COVID. This data comes from a presentation at the the June ACIP meeting extrapolated forward. Now there will likely be more as RFK Jr. consolidates his power. 4/
Just when you thought it could not get worse ... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
Jesus Christ. If your credit isn’t frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
Whew! Sen. Susan Collins should be “very concerned” She showed up as the main guest at a ribbon-cutting in Searsport, Maine. It backfired. The crowd was not happy to have her: “Shame. Shame. Shame.”
I can hardly wait for his selection of what supplements will reverse it.
This is painful to watch. Felon Trump has the National Guard picking up trash in D.C. Because there isn’t enough crime to keep them busy?
starting a new org to recruit centrist candidates called run from something
Six months ago. I meant it. Do it now if you haven’t.
Those that can't teach, teach PE
“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”
For all the "I'm going to eave the USA" folks - It's everywhere www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is
We're at the stage of nightmarish fascism where John Roberts and his right wing colleagues allowed Ed "Big Balls" Coristine -- a kid with ties to criminal hackers -- live access to all Americans' social security data. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
This is your Democratic campaign message for 2026
There is so much terrible about all of this, but what strikes me most is how often the teen suggested involving his family so he didn’t go through with the suicide and it appears that each time, ChatGPT discouraged him.
Americans broadly hate all of this, and we all gotta remember that when it feels like things are spinning out of control
I had rotties - We could have knitted new rotties from all the hair they shed
Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.
Seems important www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Regarding the liberal fantasy of saving X by posting on it more — @pbump.com has it exactly right www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...
WaTo - you know, The Washington Toast
Paging Dr. Ernst. Dr. Joni Ernst, please pick up the white paging telephone.
Seems like you got the prescription for a case of Oreos
We can all say "we knew him then" - What I love is his refusal to jump at the bait and sensationalism, rather responding with thoughtful commentary and occasional sarcasm. On many occasions he has actually changed my view.
stop calling everything a distraction youtube.com/shorts/yyFjN...
Humorous - in a good way www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m reminding you what the Electoral College would’ve looked like if we had 100% turnout across every demographic. Now you know why Republicans want to make participation as difficult as possible.
NEW — A DC National Guard member spotted carrying an M17 pistol, as The Handbasket first reported they would. (Photo shared with me by @publius24.bsky.social)
Voters see the Democratic party as weak. Here's why Democrats should give in to Trump even more than they already do.
⚡️Ukraine, Canada sign joint defense production agreement. The deal will make it easier to establish Ukrainian defense companies in Canada and provide Kyiv "with modern weapons and military equipment in the long term," Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
Rhetorically, why do Never Trumpers have the ability to look back decades to see that "conservatism" was a false ideology? When they say they are not GOP but still conservatives, what do they think gave rise to Trump? Goldwater? Reagan? J Hoover? "Never Trump" ignores where he came from.
I loved the movie OPPENHEIMER about the race to build that world-changing negotiation.
Think of it as "pre-crime" since they are criminalizing anything they think will remove them from power. You know, like felony assault with a breadly weapon.
It occurred to me that, assuming SCOTUS involvement, that the Ds will have the lay up since they will openly gerrymander on political lines, something SCOTUS has approved - where Rs are only on racial lines - masked as political.
It occurred to me that, assuming SCOTUS involvement, that the Ds will have the lay up since they will openly gerrymander on political lines, something SCOTUS has approved - where Rs are only on racial lines - masked as political.
This whole thread is excellent and should be used to tell people like Tom Nichols and every other white man on here pissing their pants about words that are too “woke” to shut up.
Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.
Keeping your powder dry until the flood waters consume it seems like a bad idea.
No one keeps the powder dry like Hakeem Jeffries.
The chief Froot Loop weighs in with more bad data apnews.com/article/fact...
They should sell product placement in the NATO phonetic alphabet. X could be Xbox. C is Cheerios now. What does it matter.
💥 The NFL is stoked to be woke. “All 32 teams will feature an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: ‘End Racism,’ ‘Stop Hate,’ ‘Choose Love’ or ‘Inspire Change.’ africa.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Important. Clear, concise, imperative. Please watch.
I have a med that is 50% less from CA. We accelerated the refills to hit the window. They informed me they will have to add $100 more for future refills (still less than US and not covered in Medicare).
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tex...
The simplest answer is, Tan is not the board. The board makes the decision, and they're presumed to be independent of Tan.
They are threatening you with guns.
16 of 19 are red -2 of the other 3 purple - Inferring the worst, this as was way they can suppress the liberals through intimidation to prevent those states from rising up. In NV, D has a slight registration edge on R but I outpaces both. T won by ~3%. This is to assure that in the future.
National Guard has been mobilized in 19 states - for now, August through November
No, I’m sorry. What’s happening on Twitter isn’t the usual “it’s the internet, so you’re going to get a few racists” thing. It is a massive engine for creating new racists, a giant recruitment machine for neo-Nazis. You are not engaging WITH THE REALITY OF WHAT THE SITE IS NOW.
I can’t believe doing nothing but in the most annoying way possible isn’t working www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
We will get to know what happened. This could not have happened without Board approval - a CEO has no power to do this individually - and the inevitable subsequent lawsuits. Assuming we have a functioning court system, of course.
If only John Bolton had had the Epstein Files, his house never would have been raided.