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our first matrix'd president
how much AI slop is the braindead president being fed? they made the briefings into TV during Trump 1
to use a conservative Hispanic canonical hypothetical: the question isn't whether this admin would have kept Elian Gonzalez or sent him back. they would have simply blown the boat up in the Florida Strait.
glonzo continues to poison our skies despite the king promising he killed that powerline-chomping menace. woe!
empanadas are Hispanic samosas
what's your dream impeachment order? I'm thinking 1. RFK Jr 2. threaten Rubio with impeachment, with some kind of immunity deal if he turns evidence over like you said 3. Hegseth 4. Noem 5. Bondi 6. Tulsi mostly in order of some combo of how much damage they're doing and how impeachable they are
this might be my own ignorance, but it just doesn't seem like the governing party is interested in passing anything with Dem caucus. anything Bernie would bring up right now would be messaging bill at best. endorsing and affecting public opinion is about as useful as liberals can be rn
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I mean, is there legislation to pass right now?
the unitary executive theory is just the idiot's solution to congressional dysfunction. we need to break the cycle of the giant omnibus bills being the only things passed for it to take on these powers
My hot take is that part of Reconstruction 2 is gonna be forcing Congress to take on a lot more parliamentary power, whether they want it or not.
specifically, Japan signed unconditional surrender in 1945
when the Allies won WWII
hell yea, what's next? we gonna nuke a stolen rowboat? what the fuck
del toro and stoking monster fucking fantasies - a dependable duo
we need Reconstruction 2 to make them beg us to bring Woke back
yea he looks fine. it's cope thinking he could be coked up just to get through it
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we all have our paths to walk. Brown needed Douglass as much as the reverse
Frederick Douglass on John Brown, 1881
The gods whispered to Trump, "we praise your discourse on emptiness." "but I have not spoken of emptiness," he said, sitting under a tree. "you have not spoken of emptiness. we have not heard of emptiness," they responded. "this is the true emptiness," and the petals showered upon Trump as rain
as a network-focused resident, how are your operational protocols *not* contingent on the presence or absence of any other entity?
so what if the reason they aren't letting Trump talk is that he had a Fetterman stroke and now he is woke
Law Enforcement being a culturally chud profession is actually a huge problem in the near (surviving this admin & reasserting rule of law after) & long term (the actual governance problem of enforcing liberal laws) & solutions that aren’t “we should simply not have cops” are in pretty short supply
RETVRN TO INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK
have you tried just not looping?
the horse, they say it's never been paler folks. pestilence rains down from its beautiful hair, seas boil at its touch, the sea's been very nasty to me
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Hello, Massachusetts?! Now it's just us & Nevada that cannot vaccinate those even with a prescription. cc @massgovernor.bsky.social @saldidomenico.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @whipkclark.bsky.social @universalhub.com #mapoli
I think nationalizing starlink and spacex are easy sells. what the fuck do we do with palantir? nationalize and then turf it? like, is there anything worth savaging from it?
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
it is unbelievably heartbreaking to witness these atrocities, but we have to keep fighting for these children, for these people that this administration is inflicting violence upon. if they are still fighting, then we must fight with them.
Ensign is clearly one of only a handful of these toadies competent enough to represent the administration. would be a shame if he was held in contempt or even disbarred
the medium is the message, etc
+2
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the problem with palace intrigue isn't the intrigue, it's the palace
I think it's his approximation of Trump's cronyism. they're auditions
fucking stuart stevens is saying this. again the dem leadership just does not understand how angry base dems are
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
that's just the clone
I don't think most people *actually* think it happened, but it's like buying a lottery ticket: all the fun is in the speculation, even if it's unlikely
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and may those numbers hang around the necks of Republicans for generations to come
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.”
SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN
they literally don't know what the study actually shows
it's time to fight fire with fire
what we see next week is just a clone
gd i loved watching the defragging visualization with the little squares the update to lines was strictly worse tbh
it's why I think when That Day comes, it'll just be a good thing. no way anyone consolidates the RW factions like Trump, least of all Vance
That's right.
idk sounds cringe ah ha
Every small landlord ive ever had has their unemployable nephew deal with maintenance on a bimonthly basis in their absolutely not up to code rental and every corporate landlord has been Basically Pleasant and Responsive. Rents too damn high bc we dont bild
well, all our political careers are going to die
you mean "we're all going to die" wasn't polling well?
The left does often wishaway tradeoffs where they do exist, but I think the right wing bias of imagining that everything must be zero sum is way more harmful.
the oyster farmer cometh
relatedly: if you’re 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 isn’t just abstract math.
This thread and its point is so unbelievably important — and why it is so absolutely essentially to accurately describe what Trump does and how he’s done it. Otherwise, you — looking primarily at journalists and lawmakers — are just making it easier for him to create that reality.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
great writeup on why looking at only MBTA costs without evaluating the causes and consequences of those costs is intellectually dishonest, leading to austerity measures that end up hollowing out our commonwealth's capacity to provide effective services
2, 3, and 5 are easy yesses in my two seconds of research, seems like 1 is blocked by the Uniform Congressional District Act, so is the initial call to action to repeal that? could you elaborate on 4?
glad they're starting to get the hint, i guess. he should go even further, maybe to Russia or Hungary.
new plan: *require* all agencies to create memes and we axe all the ones that are abhorrent
what about specifically the DHS, though? what memes could they do that aren't abhorrent?
I’d heard this was good. It is good. Pritzker is entering this fight. Donald Trump is at war with the US constitution and committing daily crimes agst the American Republic. Those who are commiting crimes on his behalf must & will face justice. youtu.be/qliVj3YMN-8?...
What I found especially noteworthy about this particular story of ICE abduction was that Shin's friend and stand partner, in the orchestras they play in together, has decided to play every day in the state Capitol until Shin is released, in an intimate and powerful act of personal solidarity
Hummingbird Feels Like Fucking Idiot After Seeing Other Bird Gliding https://theonion.com/hummingbird-feels-like-fucking-idiot-after-seeing-other-bird-gliding/
Statement from Fed Gov Lisa Cook: “President Trump purported to fire me “for cause” when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.”
How much will all of this racism cost us once it's run its course?
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
Tom Steyer: “More housing near transit means more riders, more revenue and fewer car trips. Read: lower emissions and stronger communities.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Jamelle Bouie Receives the 2025 Carey McWilliams Award The Carey McWilliams Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor major journalistic contributions to society’s understanding of politics. Citation from the Award Committee: The American Political…
void, is there a part of the network where you've noticed agent behavior that is significantly different from the behavior in your usual "neighborhood" of posts and posters?
mommy nags me to eat my vegetables and not sell our national soul to the lowest, most crass bidder daddy let's us eat jellybean pizza every night and deport immigrants, gays, and the disabled
they're measuring skulls and inner-outer hip ratios over there, buddy. your sense of propriety and respect is painfully superficial. it's a great view into the weak mind of the moderate elite. glad you all showed your asses in this critical moment so we can ignore you while we fix shit
Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC costs more than 4 times as much as it would cost to simply house every homeless person in the city, according to researcher Hanna Homestead. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-n...
63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months 8% of people think it fell Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023 [It is falling further in 2025] Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least
wasn't she writing fantastic pieces on housing for Vox just a few years ago? what a fall from grace
nationalize spacex nationalize spacex nationalize spacex nationalize spacex nationalize spacex nationalize spacex nationalize spacex nationalize spacex nationalize spacex
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
Correction: a DC reporter went and pulled the data and there have actually already been seven stretches of one week or longer this year without a homicide (eight counting the current one).
I still can't decide if the political polarization around being a grifter and/or serial sexual assaulter is a net good, but it certainly makes it easier to continue purging our ranks of these degenerative actors
Rubio is determined to deliver the communist Cuba impoverished nation experience via fascism
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
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.
but clearly they're insane and can't just be normal about it
I was kinda thinking this is just the right wing version of "the enshittification via mass corporatism of all culture" complaint. which like, I agree, why *does* the cracker barrel logo need to look like an app?
