I don't know if it's the intended topic of Trump's presser tomorrow, but I expect he'll include 20 minutes on Belichick
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I don't know if it's the intended topic of Trump's presser tomorrow, but I expect he'll include 20 minutes on Belichick
“I am formally banning the new construction of all houses.”
We all want it to be something funny but it’s going to be that he’s invading another city.
Congrats you just fell down the slippery slope.
Has anybody tried contacting the DCPD and asking for a wellness check on Trump?????
Being a good reporter isn’t easy, but it’s not exactly hard.
“Criminals still exist in society as Governor refuses dictator’s demand to unlawfully imprison civilians and quarter troops in our communities in violation of the Constitution.”
I expect this is just going to be about his unlawful voter ID executive order, but at least the school day will be almost over if it turns out to be something different.
Congrats on your regime propaganda, ABC News.
theyre saying its the most beautiful blood anyone has coughed up
Trump: I want to get to heaven Me: But don't you want to reunite with your father
churn baby churn
Just gotta get in a few more leg days…..
"I vaccinated my dog and now he's obsessed with editing the Wikipedia page for the Battle of the Milvian Bridge"
ESPN has decided that the biggest Week 1 matchup in college football history is suddenly not a big deal because the SEC school lost, and the *real* value was an SEC school beating an ACC team. (ESPN was trying to disband that conference at the end of last season.) www.espn.com/college-foot...
If anything the big difference now is “basketball fans hate basketball.” Every player is garbage because they have a single fault. Every team is a failure unless they win the ring and even then they only have a 3-year window, not good enough, etc etc.
"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.
My take is he was going to lose before the circular firing squad started, the party massively improved its nominee, and lost on margins because a governing majority of Americans are fundamentally unserious. But Biden was gonna lose Minnesota so it doesn’t matter.
Schatz fled this place bc no one appreciated the galaxy brain genius of their March surrender and a few months later he's in the "COVID precautions were bad actually" camp. It's really something.
political selection effects
The right is pushing this narrative because it’s the only place they can blame liberals — their actual goal — and gain purchase among elites. The *actual* mistakes during the pandemic all originate on the right: lax lockdowns, weak mitigations and low vaccine uptake
Because it was important. I guess you’d have had to be there.
Not electing the emails lady to end up with a guy whose bathroom is full of intel was also a funny prank from the median voter
Pinned
😭😭😭😭😭
Someone tell Mark Cuban that in 2003 the Miami Heat retired Michael Jordan’s number 23 jersey…. He never played for them.
I realize the details don’t mattter and it’s all vibes but almost exactly 10 years ago (2/3/16) the Wizards hosted the Warriors in a titanic struggle between John Wall and Steph Curry and after the game Wall even commented about the home crowd cheering for Curry and wearing his jersey.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
Note for effective action: Take the piss and make Them defensive…
But this actually speaks to the Epstein thing, the scandals they pursued against Biden and Clinton, and the recent fleeting attention “Trump is dead” rumors: All of those things are stories they cared about because the right told them to care, even Epstein. bsky.app/profile/crai...
Yeah we’re just at a natural progression in their decades long response to false accusations of liberal bias, where they’re now biased against liberals reflexively. Their conservative bias is considered the null hypothesis and not a form of bias.
Well now you know how the NY Times would airbrush Dr Mengele
It’s pretty incredible how blatantly obvious it is that mainstream media is stacked in favor of Trump and the Nazis. Just a communications arm of the RNC.
Even if you assume all of Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 work emails were crimes (incorrect but let’s give them a bone)…. Authorizing a donor to hack Social Security and download +300 million personal files is literally TEN THOUSAND times worse. It should be the only story on the news for a decade!
It’s funny, Alex Thompson just won a prestigious award from the WHCA this spring for his courageous and intrepid reporting on Joe Biden being old and he hasn’t done anything noteworthy on the guy who is actually president. www.axios.com/press-past-r...
Jake Tapper does not care about Joe Biden’s age, he just personally dislikes him as has for decades. Politico does not care about Biden’s health, they just wanted Donald Trump to win.
As it was/is with emails, it will be with Trump’s advanced age, noticeable cognitive decline, and physical infirmity. The press just does not care about this stuff *except* as a tool to use against Democrats to prove they aren’t liberally biased. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
He’s clearly being shielded from significant public exposure while he recuperates from something, degenerates from something, or both.
Gosh this is a bad photo
Donald Trump has now been president twice and has misused government communications on purpose both times (including email) to intentionally and illegally circumvent record keeping laws and it got maybe 1/1000th as much coverage as Clinton’s email, which was not even against the rules at the time.
A mere one year ago, this was The Central Issue Of Our Political Age. It's not even news in today's papers.
This isn’t what you asked for, but in podcast form it’s easy to digest. @knowingbetter.nebula.tv might honestly have the best book recommendations as well if he sees this. youtu.be/t38cUFNeoPU?...
The right wing is going to convince themselves in a week that hormonal contraception is what's making women liberal and that banning it will lead to a permanent Republican majority
You guys see where this is going? Right?
One reason to not grant Putin the privilege of meeting the 🇺🇸 president on equal standing is that he’s a war criminal illegally occupying 1/5 of 🇺🇦. But we were stupid enough to do that, so now he’s emboldened to increase nightly bombings & to try & kill a key leader of our closest allies.
Tough call though
I honestly think I’d move to Russia before moving to Saudi Arabia.
The typical client who is rich enough to buy one of these and yet desperate enough to live in Saudi Arabia is what… a Russian crime boss who is sanctioned from living anywhere nice?
God if we only elected Harris
WHITE HOUSE AIDE: we need a distraction from the president being dead OTHER WHITE HOUSE AIDE: let’s kill Rudy
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
Miami just won the game on a sack that was called as targeting last night against Michigan. Gotta get judgment calls out of the game as much as possible.
They like Trump and want to help him
They’re not all knowing. They wanted the government funded (they’re the government) and then when it looked like it might shutdown they pivoted. The Democrats position would have been simple: Illegitimate government, donor president, no.
The most important thing to remember about public opinion polling is that Republicans only lie and Democrats only tell the truth.
Imagine being bad at making sourdough and deciding to post your Ls by saying it's woke.
Hold on, I’ve got something for this! youtube.com/shorts/v5lvr...
……. Amazing set up would watch again.
“We gather now to remember the life of a man who was larger than life, a historic and controversial figure who will yet be remembered as one of the most consequential presidents in American history….”
If Donald Trump dies before either Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, and in particular if he dies in office, these people need to go on TV and apologize and then tender resignations and give all of their wealth to a local orphanage and then walk into the ocean. Instead, they’ll kiss his corpse’s ass.
They’ll do exactly what they did after learning the lessons we all learned in 2016…. Not one fucking thing.
Oh, the irony if #DonaldTrump dies before Joe Biden. What will corporate media do with itself?
Wait do you wanna like come hang? We can get a 12-pack of soda and some pizzas.
I was really about to write “GoldenEye ages even better because of the game.” (1987)
“Knives were outstanding” is one of the best one-liner payoffs ever. youtu.be/KhKQA3-Rais?...
rode*
The Daniel Craig Era was pretty simple: What if these movies were good? (Or just tried to be?) Casino is an A+, Quantum is like a weird B, Skyfall jumps back in with an A, and then you get a B- or C with the last ones which just don’t make sense but hey Pierce Brosnan road a tsunami once.
Le Chiffre was phenomenal though. Also, Skyfall was such a great rebound and so intensely acted who could worry about the details?
I didn’t realize Notre Dame’s quarterback CJ Carr is the grandson of Michigan hall of fame coach Lloyd Carr. Him getting poached from his home state powerhouse by Ohio State alum Marcus Freeman adds extra spice.
Good use of scare quotes tbh
There is no explicit prohibition against the President cancelling elections, so it's hard to see why liberals think they are entitled to elections in 2026 and 2028. by Jonathan Turley
I actually wondered this
The media has a clear conservative bias, part 6,739,046,299,267
9. Harris didn’t lose because of things she said. She lost because of things Trump said she said.
this administration is genuinely a natural experiment in if anything matters
I lead you on cats 3-2 but you are trouncing me 1-0 in Justin Wolferses.
Incredible punchline. I was not prepared.
maga showing their lack of imagination by denying the rumours instead of waiting 3 days to dispel them and then declaring he rose from the dead
Get the fuck out of my head devil!
h/t @lastreep.bsky.social whose post I randomly stumbled upon.
Matty last week: People in DC don’t even notice the federal takeover. It’s not a big deal. Matty today: the takeover is noticeable and good, actually.
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“.. with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
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My son just stopped eating to tell us he’s worried that our car has glass windows and we should put plastic on the glass so when it breaks it’s not as sharp. I then explained to him that that is actually how the windows already work and he’s very smart for reinventing laminated glass. He is 4.
as a DC resident I cannot overemphasize how much less safe I feel
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
It’s funny that the thing that FINALLY got the press to talk about Donald Trump’s failing health was not: 1) His obviously failing health, or 2) bullying from Bluesky, but rather 3) right-wing media responding hyper defensively to the jokes. The press didn’t care until the right cared.
Donald Trump as Entropy
Me when my wife sees the browser history
Remember when they attacked Biden because "the American people deserve to know the truth about the President’s health?” Now after being missing for 5 days we get a picture of Trump taken with a telephoto lens from hundreds of feet away.
“bluesky has no pull” we had the world thinking the president was dead, we’re becoming more powerful than they could ever imagine