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thank you for coming to my big announcement that was planned for weeks and not thrown together at the last second to get ahead of speculation that my health is in decline. alabama (taking a huge huff of a mysterious gas like dennis hopper in blue velvet) is in charge of space
you beat me to it
three words: amphibious landing craft you will be hooting them on the shores
Individually we can only do so much but together we can do more.
Just read that number one more time.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
"Jimmy, We Hardly Knew Ye" (with apologies to David Powers and Kenneth O'Donnell)
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Part of what’s driving Trump’s attack on the federal government is that his administration is full of neo-nazis who think federal employees are basically all unqualified black women in make-work jobs (eg HUD, Education) or ((communists)) (eg DOJ, State). They actively want to harm such employees
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: you said this three days ago. And now today you want to find bipartisan solutions with them? Why should any person take you fucking seriously? bsky.app/profile/hake...
glimpse of heaven
Pritzker is doing two things here that are smart. One, he's describing this forcefully and unapologetically and in his own terms, not adopting the Admin/media frame. Two, he's making clear that he will blame the Admin for any violence or disorder sparked by their invasion of his state.
no, but bronzer is mandatory now
Sophie Nash, contemporary UK artist who studied Zoology and is known for specialising in wildlife, based in Cornwall, UK #WomensArt #Tuesday
Jr. is just like his old man - if he can profit off his father's death he'll do it without batting an eye
Breaking: Maine Family Planning has appealed the Aug. 25, 2025 court ruling against its request to temporarily reinstate its Medicaid funding. Read our updated story here for more on why MFP says about 1,000 patients could lose access to primary care services if the courts don't intervene.
Kansas Sen. Ethan Corson makes case for election of centrist governor in '26. kansasreflector.com/2025/09/02/k... @kansascarpenter.bsky.social
White sharks are causing quite a buzz on Canada's East Coast lately! Sharks are subject to a lot of media attention and fear-mongering, but they’re important agents of balance in the ocean ecosystems. 🦈
Hakeem Jeffries is putting forward one of the weakest, most feeble approaches imaginable for a Democratic leader at this moment - matched only by the equally weak & feeble responses from Chuck Schumer As a NYer, my deepest apologies for foisting these two useless space-wasters on the rest of you
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He lives! in a manner of speaking, of course (looks like shit, as per usual)
c-span now saying 3pm
booting the new ai brainchip implant taking longer than expected
2 great minds etc. etc. bsky.app/profile/gray...
Hakeem Jeffries was also going to speak at 2pm but rescheduled to 2:30 so as not to be bigfooted Now we may never get a chance to hear him (not the greatest loss, I'll admit)
Trump's 2pm announcement which was pushed to 2:30 has now been pushed to 2:45 Will it happen? Is he not responding yet to the amphetamine injection? Is he actually dead? Stay tuned!
NYC real estate law would like a word
My dudes if you can not start from the understanding that trans girls are girls and trans women are women and trans men are men you're not fighting the fight you're pretending to fight.
This is true of far too many gun owners, btw
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.” ― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
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Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
So apropos of nothing, Jon Tester is on MSNBC right now and if I hadn't seen his name on the chyron I wouldn't have recognised him
This sure takes its time with the fact that he was specifically encouraging people to assault anyone they believe to be trans using the women's room
Open the Gates rally at Columbia University. The campus has been closed to the community for over a year.
Kinda important👇👇👊👊 Really sad that it took this long for the victims to have THEIR day isn't it?
The anti-Zohran SuperPACs are back. So the SuperPAC killer is back too. As MAGA billionaires pledge "hundreds of millions" to sabotage the Mamdani mandate, DREAM enters its next form: Don’t Re-elect Eric or Andrew for Mayor. actblue.com/donate/dreamfornyc?refcode=b
get a bunch of pork and make dumplings
Great insights into how reporters use "centrist" consultants to divide Dems. Just gotta put the note in that Democrats shouldn't blow the "crime" dog whistle, no matter what any consultant said. But they must talk about safety, something the Trump regime and GOP policies all threaten.
Abortion Access Front is back & fired up to take on the henchmen of misogyny. Did you miss us?! Because we’ve got some deliciously good trouble cooking. Who’s ready for Do Re #MeToo on 11/12? PLUS new #FBK & our 10th ANNIVERSARY GALA is in the works. Stick around because we're just warming up!
U.S. Army veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II has been charged with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers” for participating in a mild anti ICE protest where he wasn't even arrested. The current acting U.S. attorney, Pete Serrano, has described the J6 rioters as “political prisoners.”
I was the only reporter in the courtroom in Beaumont, Texas recently as lawyers for Exxon, California AG Bonta, the Sierra Club and other nonprofits sparred over dueling lawsuits, free speech and plastics recycling. Read free here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/c...
Why do you think the insurance companies are so interested in replacing doctors with AI for diagnostics? bsky.app/profile/sanh...
🧵 How many times have you heard "Blacks are 13% of the population and commit 50% of violent crime"? Well, racists have been using the UCR wrong for their tired narrative. Let's set the record straight. Pull up a seat, folks.🪑 #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
He solved the mystery of judge Crater's disappearance
Who's the leaker?!
via forth.news/whpool - tomorrows POTUS schedule, including a surprise announcement from beyond the grave:
very well done - graciousness is another reason Zohran Mamdani will be a great mayor!
hear me out: what if jd vance is one of those flesh-sucking-from-within chewy type insects that is pupating inside donald trump and just needs a *very short next period of time*™️ (or perhaps "about two weeks from now™️") to get used to its new skin what then america
ditto with The Handbasket. without “blueskyism” i would not have a successful independent journalism outlet. turns out you don’t need to battle nazis to reach people.
The Average CEO Now Makes 632 Times More Than a Typical Worker | CEO pay has risen nearly 35% since 2019 in absolute terms, while their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate. At Starbucks, the gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay hit 6,666 to 1 last year.
stay the course!
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
The Witches Broom Nebula is the remnant from a supernova from 10-20K years ago. Nearby stars energize the dust/gas cloud that formed from the explosion and make it glow. It’s a big object - as long as 6 moons side by side. Telescope needed to view. Click ALT for more info #astronomy
Or Kathy Hochul and Andrew Cuomo & Eric Adams are never pressed about this by reporters on the campaign trail
I get to be an expert in something. (Also, for those of us—often women—who were raised to downplay accomplishments because “nobody likes arrogance,” own your expertise!)
In some states, as a trans man who passes for male, I'm legally banned from using a men's restroom but practically banned from using a women's. My choice is between breaking the law and being arrested for breaking it. Few Democrats are talking about how much trans people have lost, and how quickly.
Trans people have been expelled from the military and punished and humiliated throughout. We're fighting in court to retain a right to accurate US Passports. Books mentioning us are banned in classrooms in much of the country. In FL, trans teachers are required by law to misgender themselves.
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Solidarity across all marginalized groups & their allies is hard but essential for defeating the fascists in power. This is exactly why you don’t start picking groups to sacrifice because 52% of Americans said yes in a poll to something they haven’t given any thought about.
Hubble image of Arp 282, also known as NGC 169 and NGC 169A. Interactions between the two galaxies create delicate streams that visibly link the pair. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL/DECam, CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, SDSS, J. Schmidt Source
A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
"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
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
HEY NYC! The great @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dancing on the @jcod3.bsky.social float at the West Indian Day Parade! #CuomoCouldNever
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People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
The Archbishop is right & DNA evidence proves his point: the Palestinian Christians have the closest DNA match to Bronze Age skeletons from the region of any major contemporary group (only the tiny Samarian community has a closer alignment.) share.google/lEOJEExpZpVX...
From the U.S., Kier Starmer really does come across as a perfect example of you cannot successfully try to ape reactionary conservative politics in the long term. Labour got a single win and Starmer proceeded to drive the party into its worst polling in generations by courting the right.
without pundits we are nothing! I mean gosh
I was on a grand jury in NYC back in the aughts and we refused to indict on several occasions - at one point we were told by a court officer that we had developed a *reputation* with the DAs office
Bad Indians Book Club is #1 in New Releases: Turtle Island Biographies on Amazon.com. It's in a lot of categories, none of which I have any control over. It's also #6 in New Releases: General Books and Reading, and #5 in New Releases: Indigenous Peoples Studies.
This is the police report, via Marisa Kabas: bsky.app/profile/mari...
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doggy databank - she knows it's bigger than just her
guys & dolls
who isn't
easy when you're young
as long as they write what they know
the feeling when you know for sure that an article isn't aimed at you
key to understanding this is who lit the smoke
don't be so hard on yourself
Me when my wife sees the browser history
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MORE: Judge Sooknanan orders further status report from DOJ, setting 8:30 p.m. deadline to address whether all of the unaccompanied children have been returned to the custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement.
I think whatever ability anyone connected with Trump ever had to tell the truth has collectively atrophied They literally don't know anymore how to not lie
I knew it wouldn't take 24 hours: bsky.app/profile/gray...
Judge Sooknanan is taking no shit and I'm here for it I'm just waiting for her to tell Ensign to bring his toothbrush next time she schedules a hearing
betting that within 24 hours we will learn that a minimum of three assertions in this statement are demonstrably false that's for starters
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Thank you, Anna - your work is excellent and much appreciated!
Sounds like you should talk to this guy.