Birth rates are lowering *literally everywhere.* The only countries which keep growing in power will be the ones which continue to grow, and without immigration that will not be “the West.”
Here to cause some good trouble. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
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Birth rates are lowering *literally everywhere.* The only countries which keep growing in power will be the ones which continue to grow, and without immigration that will not be “the West.”
Also, “I hate you, please come to my birthday party” is such weird, anti-social behavior in 2025. I bet you he punched girls that he liked on the playground when he was young.
For someone who dislikes “leftism” & “bluesky” so much, Nate Silver sure is obsessed with us. Or maybe it’s not that Nate Silver hates us, but that he understands that the only way for someone completely devoid of merit to stay relevant is to SAY that he hates us (over and over again, ad nauseam)
I’m literally just trying to read a goddamn paragraph
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
That disastrous reshaping of the world's ocean currents that would leave the EU in an ice age & shift the world's fertile regions thus causing persistent global famine? According to science, it's no longer "low probability." Sleep tight.
Blue states banding together to make up for a Federal vacuum in health policy feels like the first step into… something.
We're going to have a big beautiful dark age, perhaps darker than ever before. And I think you'll be very happy
House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?
“Behold. The festering carcass of American rot…”
The root of our problems in America come from spending decades responding to the dumbest shit possible with “let’s hear him out” instead of saying “shut the fuck up.”
When tech enshittifies, you can at least sign out & escape it. When the natural environment enshittifies, there is no escape.
It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.
Memphis residents had no input into the opening of Musk’s supercomputer facility, with some local officials learning about its arrival from the news. As a private business, xAI had no obligation to seek public feedback, the Chamber of Commerce said.
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
lol imagine being so incompetent you get caught spying on freaking denmark
"Danish intelligence services have uncovered a network of “at least three” people working on “influence operations” in Greenland to drive a wedge between Denmark and the territory, in a bid to pave the way for it to get closer to the United States." www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Woodbury County, the Iowa county in which district that flipped tonight is entirely located, split roughly evenly in the 2008 & 2012 presidential races. Then, huge swing: Trump won it by 17% in 2016 & 23% in 2024. The district, about half of county, swung 21% to Dems today compared to last year.
@diprimaradio.bsky.social Here’s the link to the whole playlist. Dominique is on KBLA Monday-Friday 6am-9am west coast time Live. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
You need to be following (and listening to) @diprimaradio.bsky.social! #ListenToBlackWomen #DemSec
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
A lot more scrutiny is required regarding the activities of Bill Pulte.
There’s a war on black women because we keep trying to do crazy stuff like stay employed.
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
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
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Lisa Cook should sue Bill Pulte for defamation
Everything is priced in, tariffs, Powell being fired, 1800% tariff on social media posts. Priced in, line go up. The only thing that makes line go down is if you’re targeted for destruction by Trump for petty reasons. Then you have to give up 10% of your stock to stay in business.
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
More Dems should have the courage to make this point. Trump officials conducting his unconstitutional orders should remember - every autocracy eventually falls. MAGA will be no different. Trump cannot shield them forever. Their participation in this blatant illegality is being thoroughly documented.
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."
Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff
id be slightly less angry at dem leadership saying theyre only interested in throwing political punches on “kitchen table issues” if they were currently out there landing punches on “kitchen table issues”
Checking in on the FREE SPEECH™️ guys to get their thoughts on Trump’s executive order threatening jail time for burning the flag. 🤦🏽♀️
DRUMMOND: “.. Ultimately, this era in history is a WIRED story: The United States’ authoritarian turn, aided and abetted by the tech industry’s complicity. And that’s how we’re covering it.” @status.news @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social @wired.com www.status.news/p/wired-kati...
This is a very good read. “In just seven months since his inauguration, the favorability of the U.S. (not just of its president) has collapsed to the point where this nation is now less popular than China in the eyes of the rest of the world.”
losing respect for people who see environmental issues (pollution, global warming, biodiversity declines, etc.) as *not also* human rights issues.
So many galaxies, so many stars - yet only one Carl Sagan. Let us do better, humanity: we need more voices of reason, more proponents of awe, more prophets of wonder, and more reasons to feel gratitude for the magnificence of our existence.
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
Sometimes I think back to Michelle Obama's 2024 convention speech, wherein she said (paraphrasing), "you *know* they hate women, you *know* they want to take away our rights, please, I beg you, take us & our lives seriously." It was such a raw, naked plea & America rejected it so decisively.
"We sign this declaration in our own personal capacities, on our personal time, and without the use of government equipment, as protected by our First Amendment rights..." www.savehhs.org
genuinely, first time i have ever seen a politician tell old white people to eat shit
Search your heart… you know what to do
Have you heard about this revolutionary thing called… sex?
Participation trophies for dumping a load after bumping fuzzies.
One of the funniest things about White “Supremacy” is that they’ll write entire articles about you simply *fucking*
It's always Black women saving the democratic party. What would they even do if they didn't have Black women who were actually committed to being public servants carrying their entire load & being treated like shit!
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news
Watching my friend, TX Rep. Nicole Collier, take a courageous stand at the Capitol. She refuses to bow to rules designed to silence voices & mask a racist assault on voting rights. Her resolve is a reminder that representation is never granted. It is won, defended, & made sacred through struggle.
“I don’t have a plan," state Rep. Nicole Collier told reporters in the gallery Monday afternoon. "I just feel in my heart that this is wrong.” bit.ly/4mo4GxP
the TX Dems leaving Collier out to dry is a level of surrender we simply did not believe possible. it's one thing to surrender, the shame of which should haunt you the rest of your life, but to then abandon one of your own to the cops is something we are legitimately struggling to find words for.
A Black women, elected by her constituents is literally being held hostage for refusing to be policed by an opponents. Let that sink in. @angelarye.bsky.social interview with Rep Collier: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFrD...
If everyone were as defiant as Nicole Collier this stupid, fascist, illegal administration would be OVER.
Still not on the NYT webpage - Rep Nicole Collier.
This is full-on authoritarianism. Free Nicole Collier. #txlege
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
COMING UP! We'll hear from Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier after this commercial break!
Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.
one guy even tried to give us a sandwich
here's clips of Elise Stefanik getting brutally booed at an event today in her district
😂
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anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.
Translation: Short of blustering on television with fellow crackpots, we don’t have shit and we won’t do shit either.
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
A new shameful low. Even for Trump and MAGA. Everything about this story reveals the sickness that has taken over America. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Why aren't there more support for Republicans among academics and scientists? We may never know.
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
what
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/08/14/g... @governor.ca.gov punching bullies in the mouth.
This is raw, ugly, lawless, violent racism and everyone with any power or voice should say so while they still can.
Godspeed Sandwich man 🫡
You want to know just how bad Trump’s economy is 😮 Read this!
If subway doesn’t come out with the “WMD Footlong” what are we even doing here?
Subway better capitalize on this and come out with the WMD footlong instead of the BLT footlong lol
This is so goddamn funny. Not just because you can clearly see how safe the city is (and what a waste of resources it is to have the guard stationed there) but because CNN pivots to the utter scandal of… a guy throwing a sandwich at federal agents… Queue the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song.
Much like in the US, in the UK it's fashionable (especially in the conservative media) to dump on cities, specifically London. Crime-ridden, declining, etc. etc. All the same shit they say about NYC or DC. Here's Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, saying "fuck off, cities rule."
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history" It is propaganda, pure and simple.
Russia hacked the US Federal Court filing system, the NYT reports. Putin is attacking on multiple fronts.
This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
EJ Antoni wants to suspend the monthly jobs report because Trump's regime wants to suppress anything that exposes their failings. Our government used to criticize authoritarian nations for suppressing information, but now the Tangerine Tyrant's minions are acting the same way. Shameful.
There is no crime problem… “Crime” is a response to a problem The problem is poverty… The problem is inequity
Latest inflation data just arrived came in right at the consensus forecast. Headline inflation of 0.2% in the month, running at 2.7% over the year. Core rose 0.3% in July, and 3.1% over the year. For two years inflation was declining toward the Fed's target. That seems to be over.
The Musk-Altman beef continues apace... @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/m... Musk threatened to sue apple for alleged antitrust violations after OpenAI's ChatGPT was on an Apple "must-haves" list but Grok (fka "mecha hitler") was not included...
Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.
The philosophical justification for what’s happening in DC is basically this Reddit post
![r/Lollapalooza 3 yr. ago DaL 028 Join [deleted] I'm excited for Limp Bizkit, but I'm a little worried about Antifa... Question I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:of56nmyuqzvjta7qlf7gwht6/bafkreigd4ytwxolisa7hyct6pyoprf6vqdzvyevq44rtyv4zjeurlw3uii@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Perhaps they smell Tesla blood in the water? Also, how do they feel this will play out with the current admin? 👀 curious your thoughts on that…
Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."
He’s going to take over DC because it’s 43% Black and he hates us. That America continues to let him use us as cannon fodder will never not feel like complete betrayal.
The U.S. Government is a mob business now. Bribes, shakedowns and tributes are standard operating procedure.
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”