Add another vote for Expedition 33. All time fave for me, and I’m old.
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Add another vote for Expedition 33. All time fave for me, and I’m old.
Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Elizabeth Warren: "Donald Trump supports Andrew Cuomo to be mayor of New York. Period. And he is willing to bring down the force of the US government not on behalf of the people of the US, but to be able to manipulate the mayoral race to help Andrew Cuomo."
Incredibly important thread. Constitutional Courts are basically wizards that caste legal spells. Everyone else will tolerate them so long as these spells follow precedents and public reasoning. When they conjure spells without such reasoning, eventually people will simply stop listening to them
Leaning towards writing tomorrow's column on Trump's unlawful boat attack and Googled "boat attack illegal" and the top hits were from non-US news orgs like BBC and the Independent. The American media has gone completely brain dead, no longer chasing even the most obvious stories and angles
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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In every way, this is insane. wapo.st/4p68Vzy
Anyone in Florida with the means to do so should gtfo
I do think this is pretty key to the psychology of right-wing transphobia. they're all status-obsessed and self-centered, so they are genuinely baffled by the idea that someone could want something so strongly they'd accept persecution for it
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off. the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
1) *fewer* heads 2) I have an idea which head we could start with
👋 #blockparty
So now red states are sending their National Guard troops to blue states to impose their will?
BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social
Well, which is it? Did we stay home? Or did we vote for Nazis? Which Nazis did we vote for? I voted blue down the line, and when my Dem reps are not doing their jobs to my satisfaction as my representatives, I’m going to hold them accountable or hire someone else who will do the job.
Fuck common ground, jfc these people are so inane.
I don’t care that this has been shared 100x in the last 24 hours.
I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price
Judge Charles Breyer rules that the Trump administration brazenly violated the Posse Comitatus Act when it deployed soldiers to enforce domestic laws in LA. Breyer says Trump may not create "a national police force with the president as its chief." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Idk man all we did took their labor and kept the profit for ourselves, criminalized alternatives, crafted a paycheck-to-paycheck prison of platform economies while unionbusting laying everyone off and making everything unaffordable, and now everybody is all fucking MOPEY all the time, I don't get it
To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
I am either: 1. Taking crazy pills. 2. Suddenly out of touch as the world starts passing me by, 3. Watching a mass gaslighting of the entire planet that this is a technology we love and welcome into our lives since Tech hath benevolently bestowed it upon us on every single, stupid fucking platform
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
78 YEAR-OLD REP. NADLER TO RETIRE: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Echan users are convinced they’re the normal ones.
This video was designed in a lab by my enemies to defeat me
They probably took him out for some Burger King after
Wheeze the juice
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income. It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions. If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.
me the second the clock hits midnight and turns to sept 1st
Honey I Shrunk Lenny Kravitz
normal
see, what had happened was…
big if true
there was fluid leaking down his head
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
In America we've set up a cool system where, when you get *super* rich, you actually pay *lower* taxes.
thanks to crypto and online gambling, I’m going to be super rich soon
thanks to bluesky my pearls remain unclutched
NY Times vs Democracy Docket. Why does the Times use the word "explicit" when Trump has ZERO authority?👀 Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Explicit
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Los Angeles: share this. Fuck ICE.
We won’t notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Here is an easy solution to the Pulse memorial crosswalk conflict: The state of Florida has jurisdiction because the crosswalk is on State Road 527. If the Democratic mayor and city council of Orlando authorize and paint a city crosswalk 50 feet away, the state should have no enforcement authority.
No, this isn't "doing something." Doing something would be saying "I and the rest of the Democrats will grind the Senate to a halt until RFK Jr. is fired," or "no Democrats will vote for a funding bill until RFK Jr. is fired." There's nothing actionable in what Schumer said. There's no threat...
The administration that cares so deeply about fighting antisemitism.
Was he with Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy by any chance?
This honey-voiced woman who spends her life making babies smile has more courage than most of our elected leaders combined.
He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless person’s last picture of their family into a garbage can.
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
dunno if i ever shared it here but, if i did, clearly it went under-appreciated. peep my Vin Diagram hashtag data viz
Saying they’re unconstitutional but leaving them in place anyway pretty much sums up everything from the last 8 months
The scientific method of pointing at kids in airports and saying “that kids humors are unbalanced” and giving them a raw milk shooter
Must be near the end of the month. ASK ME HOW I KNOW @actblueorg.bsky.social I’ll never forgive myself for donating and I’ll never do it again
The sad part is you could hire an actual concept artist and (I hate to say it) pay them less than that. So we’re putting artists out of work — but on the upside, clients are getting fleeced by digital flimflam men.
If giving vague instructions to a robot is art, why was giving vague instructions to humans not considered art before? Why was that called being a department manager and not an artist?
and most fox watchers watch it for hours on end, day after day, week after week, month and year after year. they are completely soaked in it and there is no deprogramming possible. so thats why people like me think its insane when democrats think 40 seconds of zingers from mayor pete does shit
Privacy Under Fire as MAGA Demands Wiki Editor Names #TabloidDroid generated by #InstrumIntel www.commondreams.org/news/house-g...
They aren't even willing to say that if they take back the chamber they might look into whether impeaching him. In fact, Jasmine Crockett's suggestion she might be interested in this to a reporter played a role in her not getting put on the oversight committee.
As a former Kinkoid, the copy shop sketch from chappelle show was 💯 on the mark youtu.be/z15LgmgjmQ4?...
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
the harsh realization that every single administration hire is one of the shittiest unqualified mediocre people in the world
What should be basics ↘️
Everyone at the CDC is getting fired or resigning. RFK Jr. wants to ban all vaccines. His idiocy will get millions of people killed.
thinking of an extremely good post about them from a while back, which is too long to post in under 300 characters
he’s gonna kill so many people
Sorry for being a purity test demanding online leftist who will only be happy with an unelectable radical candidate like [checks clipboard] the folksy governor of Minnesota, a guy you used to like before you got horny for a crypto-shilling halfsnake.
If you’re still in the tank for a guy who is literally launching a crypto currency you’re a fucking rube. Please develop politics that don’t die when you take them offline like a jellyfish being removed from the sea.
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
Yup. No good will come of this.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Rich people got told they weren't special on Twitter and actually read what the plebs thought about them + Right Wing Freaks knew their ideas are unpopular but knew how to capitalize on the sensitivity of the rich fucks hurt feelings.
this sort of tut-scolding is the cornerstone of the extraction class' efforts to create very narrow confines of acceptable discourse that suits their interests, most loudly displayed in our failing journalism and education systems
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
fully made this face
You mean the masked kidnappers who chased inside two random brown people they saw working outside the building as they drove by? Those “federal agents”?
Democratic leaders need to resign. Lord, this is depressing. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The CDC will announce tomorrow that it’s dropping the second “c” from its name.
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
Conservatives are freaks.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
I said this 7 months ago and was called an alarmist. History says elections won’t save us. They will end us. Blue states must declare war. “I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism. The success rate after fascists were elected was 0%.” ▶ Once they win elections, it’s already too …
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