Not related to THAT Hoover. Or the other one. No, not the company either. Still thinkin’ about the tardigrades abandoned on the moon.
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The AI hype bubble driving the stock market is also the Trump bubble. Facing reality on one—“cost a lot to run, low revenue, isn’t superintelligence” or “tariffs, corruption, and chaos are real”—will make reality hit on the other. So they’ll try to keep inflating it, and then we’re in for a crash.
Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.
It's really funny to have a president whose late in life desires seem to be 1) finding a way to get to heaven and 2) getting to use a nuclear bomb
Oh no I know that shout…
Can’t wait for the follow-up story: Eric accidentally threw out the drive containing the wallet, and now has to dig through the dump in a desperate attempt to…
I fear he’d add an “and I’m taking you all with me” to that speech
They’ll go full gaslight: oh yeah, he’s been dead a month. It’s been President Vance all this time. We told you. Not our fault the lying media didn’t….
The cool thing about a White House announcement these days is that it’s either they took the woke out of Cheetos or we just invaded Venezuela. No in between. I’d love to hear something about Trump more directly but I’m convinced the news we’re all waiting for will just happen without warning.
Alexander Haig will appear from the great beyond and declare “I’m in charge here”
I just don’t see Belichick putting up with inconsistent college kids for more than a season- unless he snags that 5 star recruit Bom Trady
Sacks full of failed cognitive tests
The irony would be pretty amazing if he dies of Covid
as an old this Trump shit is 1000% familiar from back when a Russian leader would be obviously dying and they'd prop them up in a Kremlin window and roll them past photographers in a limo with tinted windows to "prove" they were fine the dude is cooked lol
Man you spend the better part of a century making sure this isn't a problem and one admin undoes all that work.
Mavis Beacon saved my life
So, is jailing for contempt an option for these obstructive lawyers?
Ah fuck my lawyer got drunk & kidnapped a woman & then her husband went to save her but he hit my lawyer’s car from behind when my lawyer slammed on the brakes to pull in to a gas station to buy boner pills 🇺🇸🗽
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
It's not really a coincidence that Trump is panicking and signing an executive order to try and do stuff with voting right after the GOP got creamed in another special election and another one of their incumbents decided to not run again.
Maybe it is we who are using spoons wrong
H as in honor, e as the last letter of breathe and y as in beyond: “ “
Brave!
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Well sounds like a ton of cast is quitting so he doesn’t really have a choice
Looks great!
Damn girl, are you an angel? Because you keep attacking me with a flaming sword and howling in a language no mortal can comprehend. Also the feathers.
the crazy-making thing about homelessness is this, we know exactly what to do, but this conflicts with the Omelas-engine that underpins our society: everyone must be forced to work by the visible threat of the homelessness of others
This is why white collar crime needs to actually be enforced: it has been given a societal pass for far too long, leading ultimately to our hopelessly corrupt president. If you can afford multiple vacation homes, you can afford the taxes and full interest on them.
I hope he sees all the gleeful speculation and it makes him (even more) miserable
That’s… that’s John Goodman. Surely.
Knowing they have an “out” at any time really makes it a different experience from the rest of us. The struggle isn’t actually real.
Love these brave alpha dudes, unable to even face their own constituents Cowards, one and all
I do think it’s funny that immediately after being threatened with cancellation, he’s been on a three-ish week vacation with no new shows Gotta use those days or lose em, I guess
Gonna sound obvious but in retrospect the right's half-century-long campaign to convince the public that the government doesn't actually do a ton of useful stuff was among the most successful PR campaigns ever
The lead up to the declaration of martial law in Pakistan included the use of the military, called to stop a pogrom, for performing civic functions in Lahore like cleaning, planting trees and repairing roads. People began to see martial law positively. By 1958 Pakistan’s fledgling democracy died.
What if the media went with the least generous explanations for Trump's actions as a change of pace?
Did…Skynet kill him?!
Theres really no point to scrolling your phone waiting to hear about the day it happens, if you are a Real American and live in a decent sized city you'll know from horns honking, fireworks, people spontaneously hollering, passing out drinks, etc
kind of fun to imagine the rest of the world flying their flags at 1.5 mast in reverse mourning though
i think it would be very fun if the president died while we're at the state fair this weekend. the state fair is about the only place i ever see MAGA people and i would get to see them crying while carrying oversized stuffed animals and eating curly fries, crying on the ferris wheel, etc
There are a bunch of planned protests over Labor Day weekend, so… who knows
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
He's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw [redacted] pass-out at [redacted] last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
This is a headline in *Fortune* fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
Rubio. Nobody ever saves his number, and several people have probably blocked him
All I ask for is an end that is deeply humiliating, entirely self-inflicted and completely in public so the MAGA conspiracy theories will be at a minimum.
lol, I missed it in that tiny lower case, thanks!
A… union, of like-minded States, with common goals… and shared responsibilities… oh Ooohhh
I hope he gets planted on the fairway next to his ex when his time comes
This is how all these findings sound to me: We hold that you’ve illegally robbed the bank, however you may continue tunneling into another bank while we allow the appellate court a chance to weigh in
I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
Here’s hoping for the best Labor Day weekend ever 🤞
i sincerely don’t think vance believes in anything; you could put him into any political system in history and he would gravitate to whichever group he thinks he could squeeze the most power out of
My understanding is his power mysteriously only works in airport concourses
Whoever has been writing headlines at @the-independent.com recently is doing a great job
Realized I haven’t seen any @nancycomics.bsky.social in my feed for a while, looks like it hasn’t posted in three weeks. Hopefully the guy running the account is ok! Seem to recall past health issues.
If major media haven't reached the obvious conclusion that Trump is building a dictatorship, they're lousy journalists. If they've reached that conclusion but are purposely keeping it from the public, they're lousy Americans.
It’s fun* living in an era of open corruption *no, no it isn’t
This can’t be right? I was assured @tommysiegel.bsky.social’s art was accurate?!
Funny how it doesn’t say where they source the honey- no chance it’s low grade imported junk, right?
we live in a digital age but democratic communications is barely at the speed of the pony express
It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”
I think this is doable because there is no way Trump isn’t creeped out by that freak too.
Christ on a bike
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
“We’re outta moose tracks”
🎶if you like piña coladas And getting caught in the rain🎶
I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.
How long before the first pics of them flying Trump flags? It’s coming.
There must be another Susan Collins?
i have to say i'm enjoying the "you can't fire me, bitch" responses to trump's attempts
I feel like a a powerful shadow government could be put together: a shadow-CDC putting out press releases countering the deranged messaging from the Administration, a shadow-IRS putting out what your taxes would’ve been, etc etc
"Fear is a powerful, short-term motivator. We need to flip it so it can break through to be a positive and valuable resource. Let our fear of losing our children be more powerful than our fear of our next-door neighbor."
For those “he’s still in the awful but lawful” stage people, the “we’re going to send the regular army into Chicago because I’m the president and I can do whatever I want” should be enough to make at least one general say “the fuck you can.”
Average life expectancy in the US is going to take a shocking downturn in the next couple of years
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
We’re spending over $1 MILLION a day to deploy the National Guard in D.C. Trump says this is for Fighting homelessness & crime. But guess what... just a QUARTER of that million would house D.C.'s ENTIRE unhoused population. Think about it.
Trump deployed military to DC because Big Balls got kicked by a 15 year old girl But he will do nothing in response to kids being shot and killed at a religious school
They don't feel shame, but they care deeply about status. Wanting to be liked--or at least envied--is their Achilles heel. We can use that against them:it's cheap, non-violent & effective. Social shunning of elites supporting Pinochet helped bring down the Chilean dictator: it can work here too.
This will surely do wonders for reenlistment rates
Tom Clancy’s Blood Meridian
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
tired of watching children die while waiting for old men to die
Chief of staff to Gov JB Pritzker -->
Now when I drive by a litter crew cleaning up along the highway I’ll wonder if they’re doing court mandated community service or their national guard rotation
When it comes to crime, I think a gunmen murdering two children in a Minneapolis church is more concerning than a nanny taking kids to a playground in Los Angeles or a homeless person laying on a bench in DC. Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.
So that tacky gold crap is just oozing all over the whole house now, like autocrat kudzu.
I’m physically inactive every night when I go to bed ✔️
The easiest moral ethical bar to clear should be "children should not get killed" And yet we cannot fucking clear it.