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Have a good Labor Day - all who keep faith in the workers of America! #laborDay #celebration #laborunion #bluesky
An @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org gal. An NFLPA guy. We love a union love story. Congrats Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce!
"Trump and Republicans are going to cheat to stay in power. How do we fight back?" This should be the question Democratic leaders are asking privately, and publicly, they need to sound the alarm and provide solutions. Or they can keep attacking Mamdani
That button is called a Bloomberg terminal.
This from the good news section of a Black newspaper (1914) really puts things in perspective
The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.
Fellow journalists, can we agree to drop the ridiculous cliche of "trove of evidence" from our stories? I've seen it at least four times this week and it was unnecessary in all of those passages. Just knock off the cheap melodrama, OK?
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.
Bat Boy is all grown up and named Stephen Miller.
Did you say jury nullification? A primer: youtu.be/voZIwLeDNOQ?...
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FUN DRINKING GAME: grow up, have kids, get a shitty job, hate your life Have a drink. You earned it.
Share to humiliate Trump
yes @normornstein.bsky.social nonstop question - where are the guardrails⁉️ contrarian.substack.com/p/our-guardr...
Exclusive? Not hardly.
The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.
This is what happens when you order delivery in DC right now.
The announcement from the University of Michigan that they will no longer provide their transgender patients with all of the healthcare options available is shameful, dangerous, and potentially illegal. www.freep.com/story/news/h...
Took me 2 weeks to figure out that my "dead" wireless keyboard needed a battery.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Journalistic “objectivity” is a spear not a shield.
For the love of all that is holy, will you people please just STFU about Third Way?
This is still one of the all-time great tweets on this topic 😃
Chicago can never suffer enough to pay for unleashing Milton Friedman to destroy society and democracy as we knew it.
If Never Trump Republicans knew what was politically effective, we wouldn't be here.
Why are we wasting time on this? Just ignore Third Way. Until now, I haven't heard from them in years and haven't missed their crap one little bit.
Idiotic.
The entire conservative lack of empathy shows through in their philosophy of, "It only matters if it happens to me." You'd think they could extrapolate from their specific pain to the pain of others, but you be just so goddammed wrong.
Honest to God, you would think with all the MS degrees and years of covering Trump and Republican lies that journalism orgs. would be able to muster the brainpower to make, "What's really happening here?" part of their everyday approach to reporting. But I guess that's too much to ask.
Scientists are like THIS close to discovering a concrete link between longevity and the diets of people who aren’t forced to work 50+ hours a week in shit-eating conditions for their entire adult lives
this is pure evil. you really want to compromise with pure evil?
Dude. I feel your pain.
Agreed, but I worked with some Acorn folks, and it was a ridiculous mess.
How many times do I have to see that same fucking video posted here? Post after post after post, the same thing. I get it! You don't need to repost stuff that's already widely posted. Is there some kind of filter or setting to apply?
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
The thing about safety is once you start talking about giving it to some people by removing it from others, you're not talking about safety anymore.
notwithstanding the ghoulishness of this angle, i’m not sure why these people think it might make israel look better to be deliberately starving people who suffer from health problems
THE CRUELTY… ICE snatched a high school student while he was walking his dog. Agents tied his dog to a tree and, and for extra fuckery, unclipped the collar—letting him run loose on a busy street. According to family, agents joked during his arrest, laughing about the $2,500 they just secured.
Running their BS remarks is standard procedure for a lot of the D.C. stenographers in the White House press corps, so no wonder it's a surprise when a reporter doesn't roll over. Good for you. If only broadcast outlets wouldn't air those lies just to have a sound bite (looking at you, NPR).
Fuck Obama.
How is this shameless blow-job appearing in what was once The Washington Post? Good God. wapo.st/3HwiZB6
NEW: Governor Newsom will be holding a press conference and rally at 11:30 AM PT tomorrow in Los Angeles regarding redistricting. The announcement is chef's kiss.
trying to remember exactly when a visit to my doctor went from "You're still young, we can fix this," to the equivalent of "Do you really want to replace a head gasket on an '85 buick LeSabre"
We’re in the phase where Americans, press included, should be considering all news originating with the government as propaganda first. Its institutional tendency is to evade good-faith dialogue with the public.
Wow. "You know you really suck when ..." Curtis Sleazewad. What a buffoon. At least he's not a rich buffoon like Trump.
Is this what they meant by great again? “U.S. Hits Highest Layoffs Since COVID.” www.newsweek.com/us-hits-high...
The National Guard will be greeted as liberators by the people of Washington DC.
TACO
He also just voted against Sen Sanders resolution to block arm sales to Israel. Spineless Schiff.
Oliver is right. Everything happening now was just sotto voce back to Nixon's "Southern Strategy." The GOP had a few kooks on the fringe testing the limits, so that they could denounce the guy while making sure he had a platform and never expelling him. Every "Never Trumper" pulled this crap.
This is stupid and wrong. Hippy-punching has failed too many times already. Why not just run Hillary again? And the majority of the country approves of progressive proposals.
"... the common clay of the New West."
I've said it before. Innumeracy will be the death of us all.
This guy's problem was that he worked in journalism (kinda) without understanding what journalism is. Any decent reporter would've told him that burying the truth isn't part of the job.
Gee, local governments need more money to provide basic, essential services that constituents want. Where, oh where, could we possibly find that cash???
The formerly indicted mayor running his renegade re-election campaign out of what might as well be a condemned building is a striking metaphor for the Adams era. Great reporting, @katiehonan.bsky.social!
Every time the Trump administration does something horrible, there's someone in Dem leadership saying, "This is just a distraction!" The Dems are waiting for the *perfect* open layup, not giving two bits if they'll be down 100-0 when it finally arrives.
That diesel Mercedes is good for the long haul, and beautifully serene.
Definitely clears up all the Epstein stuff
Voters: Go left! Democrats: [embrace Republican issues] Voters: No, your other left!
Who the fuck is going to use those? Is he opening a swim club?
Detroit needs a lot of things other than this wasteful shit aimed at impressing tourists.
Look at gerrymandered states where Congressional districts are predominantly Republican but Senators and statewide office holders are Democrats. That illustrates the problem with politicians choosing their own voters.
We've also lost a big democratizing force that resulted when so many different Americans from different walks of life served and worked together. A significant factor in connecting fellow Americans to each other.
I don't play Yahtzee! with people who want to kill my friends. I'm picky that way.
OTOH, a butt load of Democrats gerrymandered into having their votes be worthless can finally feel that elections ARE legitimate. As a voter in a formerly gerrymandered state, Republicans overrode the majority of voter's wishes for decades. Time for Team D to stop bringing knives to a gunfight.
If you put in your newscast that President Trump says he will “probably“not run again, and then you don’t follow it by saying he is constitutionally barred from doing so, you are failing.
youtu.be/1UmKaeRdSog?...
Ross Douthat once again vindicated.
Giving up is not the way to go. Just pick one battle.
Plus we've got reporter and editors too fucking stupid to see that this is all performance for the cameras and media. This kind of newsroom idiocy drives me crazy with my industry. So. Fucking. Dumb.
Somebody tell these idiot MAGA molls and the idiot reporter that there's a BIG fucking difference between as being as busy as you WANT to be, and being as busy as you HAVE to be.
Yes, Mailman is missing out on much of her kids’ early years, but she doesn’t second guess or feel guilty about her choices. She feels lucky. I'd be lucky if my work-at-home day didn't mean eight diaper changes, either. But isn't a big part of "having it all" taking care of your own damn kids?
“People say to me, ‘When you’re home, I hope you can really connect with your kids’ and I’m like, ‘You’re crazy. When I’m home, I’m constantly attached to my phone,’” Mailman said. Yup, sooooo having it all.
What fucking bullshit. The first woman profiled isn't having it all the writer admits -- she's missing lots of her little kids time. And she has a nanny and a husband who owns his own business. How do these people "have it all?" Money. They already have all of that, too. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
Great, an MBA. Not an economist, not a data scientist. Poor bastard.
Well, now the real fucking over starts. The post-truth mob rule means there won't be any pesky facts to disturb the don's lies. The economy? It's what he says it is. The weather? What he says it is. The law? What he says it is.
If men not getting laid is a political problem then men being so horrible we don’t want to have sex with them is also a political problem, pls fix that one
“Mike Rogers cares more about catering to Donald Trump than helping Michigan’s industries, small businesses, and families. That’s why he’s doubling down on his support for tariffs that are wreaking havoc in Michigan.” michigandems.com/new-mike-rog...
I was BEYOND excited that Simon & Schuster chose me to do the copyediting on Kamala Harris's new book. I'm legally bound not to show you too much before its September release, but they allowed me to share a small sneak behind the curtain at the process of editing such a monumental work.
This is fucking brilliant.
No fan of Bezos and not to disagree, but some of those folks are old enough to retire soon. A buyout just moves up their exit date. A first round of buyouts is an early retirement wave for some, after that it gets down to "quit and get money or get canned and no money."
My great-grandfather sailed to Canada, then simply walked over the border to Vermont and, presto, he was American.
OTOH, when I worked in a bookstore customers would come in for a specific book, saying only, "The cover is red, I think." When we finally ID'd the book, it was never red.
My father's people were from Gdansk/Danzig, same thing. "Are we German or Polish?" "Depends on when great-grandpa got on the boat."
Swedish niece exchange student and roomies screwed by their phone provider and couldn't call home. Panicked Swedish people called my wife and I (they sounded panicked; don't speak Swedish). Me, middle-aged senior manager, calls provider, escalates, settles it. I am a god in certain Swedish homes.
Remember Trump’s big promise to lower your grocery bill on day one? According to June figures from the Labor Department: All ground beef up 11% Chuck roast up 7.2% Round roast up 12.8% Sirloin steak up 12.7% Beef for stew up 10.7% SO. MUCH. WINNING. 🙄 www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
Sure. In this timeline? Why the fuck not? Welcome, alien overlords.
Hard to wade through the lousy writing here, but it seems that Disney and Nat Geo are hiding it from Trump.
