Can you imagine what we could do in this country if we actually started caring about each other?
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Can you imagine what we could do in this country if we actually started caring about each other?
Alt text is a nice thing to do for those who are visually impaired and also those (me) who can’t recognize faces enough to get the joke
AS SOON AS I LEFT THE ROOM OC
Whatever i'm going to go microwave my lunch. someone tell me if he shows up
if the president is more than 15 minutes late, everyone can leave and government is canceled for the day
On the one hand, we can't be this lucky. On the other hand, what on earth are they doing to fuck it up that badly if it's just a tech problem?
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
Come on man I want to go get my lunch
Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
trump is urgently redirecting all scientific funding to a manhattan project scale endeavor focused on making a microscopic camel 🪡
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
Adventures of Baron Munchausen?
Made it all the way to tumblr lmao!
Alright everyone, let’s put away the party poppers.
Nice run-through, friends. We’re gonna nail it when it really happens. Back to the top
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.”
look, think of it this way: he’s probably not dead, but he is in bad enough shape that we will almost certainly get to run this back a number of times over the next 3.5 years and maybe one of them it’ll actually happen
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
It’s got big “getting up early to watch the local news and see if we’re getting a snow day” energy
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
and people on this app say they don't understand sports while they all try to will a thing into existence like Jets fans every offseason
I meant to go to bed early but I’m kind of having too much fun!
For no particular reason, tonight’s soundtrack: youtu.be/kSQ8tZ35t4U?...
Can I tell you about somebody else who did nothing for three days
I hate to be the pessimist on here but don't assume they're showing Swan Lake just because you hear oboes
It’s my birthday this weekend. Come on. Pull through.
Baseball! I'm going out to a minor league game for my 21st, so I can do beer and baseball :)
Right. This isn't one of those types of casually evil things like doing something antisocial and making off like bandits from it. It's one of those casually evil things like shooting yourself in the knees at 2am in order to wake your neighbors
and low and behold my fears about SNAP benefits were proven correct
Last fall, right after the election, I got asked to write a policy memo recommending improvements to a welfare program - like. Lol. LMAO. you think welfare is going to improve in our lifetimes?
I love it but my university focuses on policy specifically which feels a little like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. You want me to talk about like... SNAP reform while I'm hoping we have state capacity in a year?
Having people who I will feel guilty for disappointing. My polisci degree might mean nothing but my advisor will be sad if I don't do the readings so.
What i sincerely love about bluesky is that posts bemoaning the bad times and posts about sports are indistinguishable
Gonna be honest I don’t think I realized how good a season the big butt baseball man was having. Like I knew there was a big butt man who was playing baseball well but I did not realize the full extent
Cal Raleigh having one of the best baseball seasons ever while people say “oh, the butt guy?” is going to teach men about the dangers of objectification
We need a third medieval Christmas movie to complete my process of Becoming Weirder (I’m thinking of The Green Knight for the other one)
The right to burn the American flag is absolutely core to who we ought to be as a country. A commitment to free expression so deep that even destroying the symbol of that commitent is permitted
In Trump America, Kennedy assassinates YOU.
If you are a hostile intelligence agency, you can get more out of a well-aimed rock at the right place and time today than entire Cold War expenditure of the KGB combined.
What's really remarkable about this is how much Mamdani really embodies a pure, unabashed, visceral love of New York City and its history and culture, and how much Adams and Cuomo absolutely despise him for it.
From the student side we also hate Canvas
It's my experience (from 25 yrs of teaching) that "learning management" tools like Canvas do nothing to facilitate student learning & make my job MORE, not less, time consuming. That additional time I put in contributes zero to improving the student experience. But Canvas gets our money regardless.
And you get a run, and you get a run, and you get a run...EVERYBODY SCORES! #Mariners 11 A's 1 Umm, still b3 #TridentsUp
Victor with a 2 rbi single as the #Mariners are now piling the runs on! Ms 7 A's 1 Umm, did I mention it's B3? #TridentsUp
48 for Big Dumper
CAL FUCKIN' RALEIGH
Lol and may I add lmao
Big Dumper sets the record for most home runs by a catcher in a season during this series? There were always signs it would happen now.
Cal Raleigh has hit more home runs in 2025 than any catcher in baseball's history.
Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
I know it’s cartoonish to say based on my (everything) but Christopher Ravenscroft in Henry V (1989) is haunting to me. He does so much with his face in the background with a roll that in the play is tiny
yes, the actual communication problem democrats have is that they are afraid of conflict and voters, correctly, think they are weenies because of it
Defeating fascism in Europe in 1945 was a historical mistake. It’s time to compensate the victims. by JD Vance
If music be the food of love, play on
I think my halfway to plausible worst case scenario is “some combo of targeted voter intimidation + SCOTUS ruling states don’t have standing to keep Trump off the ballot again = nobody feels they have the legitimacy to challenge him”
The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. They’re trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months I’ve thought “wow, I’ve never seen a campaign do that.” Much more of that needed everywhere.
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
You should be able to make a social media advance directive where if you start to post Like That someone you've designated can pull the plug
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
It is, in fact, the main thing I respect about Kate Brown.
ATM max daily withdrawal limit ass bribe
$160 USD one of the funnier conceivable bribe amounts
That third paragraph alone is a journey.
Me [to stranger wearing a Mets cap]: Let’s go Mets. Stranger: … Me [louder]: LETS GO METS! Stranger: No reaction. Me [loudly, in disgust]: They must have been out of Yankee hats.
“If”?
I ask what the point of U of O is if not the humanities. It’s not like we don’t have a good STEM school! We do! It’s OSU! Are they supposed to fill the entire campus with nothing but business majors?
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
I have carefully curated my to-read list to make me weirder, actually
It’s a very good article and this bit made me chuckle out loud
Tomatoes, but actually my first priority is a series of street interviews asking women to describe what they’re wearing to me because “what on earth was a stole actually” is a personal vendetta of mine
Didn’t Commodus do more senate-stuffing than Mr Horse Consul? Or am I poorly remembering imperial history again
the other problem with having god as your client is that you can't appeal a bad ruling because the Final Judgment might not happen for centuries for all we know
the problem with having god as your client is that he initially makes a pretty good witness during direct but he dies on cross
Woo! Congrats!
Rather more that my fun facts about the battle of agincourt are not appreciated
I would in fact argue my over familiarity with Shakespeare makes me less able to carry out a conversation
I hope everyone had a good weekend but especially the judge who signed my name change order the day after I filed it. You’re a real one.
imagine how fucked it feels to have only half memories of Obama and have your first real political experience being 2016. Every day I wake up, and the News
I wanna go back where I came from: 2010.
OK. This is real. @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social reskeeted @prisonculture.bsky.social If you need me, I'm going to be out looking for the horsemen. Maybe I can get a good photo before the end.
Oh man, I can't believe I forgot to show you guys one of my favorite blurbs I've written in my near-decade of working for Rotoworld.
It's easy to chalk up criminality as an inherent quality to someone's personality because that makes it not our problem and justifies throwing people in cages. But throwing people in cages doesn't solve the problem. It just masks the symptoms.
Some of you are mad at me for my statement that "every society has only the criminals it creates." Yes, that includes Trump. Our white supremacy created him. Yes, that includes rapists. Our rape culture created them. Yes, that includes murderers. Our culture of guns and individualism created them.
This is what the second amendment meant by the right to bear arms:
I think we need to re-release a whole bunch of memoirs from people that wintered over at the old Antarctic whaling stations and the British Admiralty report abouts turning them into coaling stations before the oil transition fully happened. TL;DR version: [britishly] NOPENOPENOPE
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
I make a really good gochujang peanut butter cookie and I’m so happy to see people expanding the world of spicy cookie: a field I’ve long believed is underexplored
Baking a very elaborate cake for a cake picnic and playing D&D (time to see how badly we screwed up by killing a goddess’s favorite)
I wish he 1930s aesthetic this administration has adopted as its own gave more New Deal vibes and fewer vibes from other 1930s era regimes.
If your solution to people shitting the streets is cops and not toilets you're just a fascist.
This guy's a vet and a lawyer who threw a sandwich and offered to turn himself in, so they sent a paramilitary platoon with a camera crew. They have FBI and U.S. Marshal badges; apparently those agencies do no real work beyond camera stunts, harassing minorities, and filling concentration camps.
What would you say is the most dangerous sandwich
"There are [now] no democratic means to remove ICE, CBP, or [their accomplices] from government. But... this country has never been more ready to join together across race, class, gender, & political loyalties to abolish ICE...if not from government, than from society" Introducing: THE BIG FREEZE
Year of the FIVE emperors? In this economy?