Maybe Susan Collins has finally worn out her welcome...
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Maybe Susan Collins has finally worn out her welcome...
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
So they're not going to an orgy?
Los Angeles, CA Music Festival 9/1/25
This isn’t an ordinary time—we’re fighting for the soul of our country. Fortunately, labor is leading the way. Proud to stand with @aflcio.org, AFGE & @socialsecurityworks.org for dignity, fairness & respect for all, incl. @socialsecurity.govmirrors.com civil servants who are patriots, not waste.
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This is why we write letters about science in small local newspapers. Oskar Schindler is a great example of individual non-compliance. Texas residents are ignoring SB8 & are helping people who need abortion access. Small acts of resistance serve a purpose. 🧪 www.thenation.com/article/acti...
This tells me that you are not looking at my reposts. I'm laughing because I imagine everybody has turned my reposts off if it is possible.
I'm a normal person.
Malcolm, it's not because of anybody in Congress that the polls are what they are. People are reacting to the craziness that's happening. But Jeffries and Schumer have nothing to do with it and in fact we'd probably be doing better without them.
My mom's name was Sparkle and this offends me. She's from Western Pennsylvania by the way.
AI grifter scammed their way into Dragon Con. The staff had them escorted out, lmao you love to see it
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
That's sad.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
Good morning with good news: Japan, world's 4th largest economy, cut its fossil fuel generated electricity from 73.1% in June 2018 to 54.8% in June 2025. That's 18.3 points drop or 2.6 points/year! It could be near zero FF by 2045. Gas fell from 38.1% to 27.4% Coal fell from 30% to 20% #energysky
Do you think maybe this is overstated because immigrants aren't going to respond to surveys from the government right now?
"The tale of the Kern resolution and what came afterward is a reminder that no political alliances are set in stone, and that the Democrats and progressives possess a pro-worker legacy that is readily available for revitalization." This Labor Day, check out the true story of our namesake:
I’m sorry, WHAT?
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
@wonkette.bsky.social I just read something about what Will Swaim is doing these days and I was shocked. Do you have any idea what happened?
They're going to start using the word hysterical again.
this is the guy that the modern right wing considers one of their finest intellectuals
KOH: “Trump Stripped 1 million workers’ bargaining rights while plastering his face on the Labor Dept… Closed miner health clinics… Cut $2.4 Billion from youth & senior job programs… This is the real story of Trump & Labor.” #LaborDay
I watched some of the Hot In Cleveland marathon yesterday!
there’s a special place in hell for drew ensign
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
"Sending away the 'others' to make way for white people to flourish is at the literal center of Gast’s painted vision of the West. That vision is reproduced in Homeland Security’s own videos." ICYMI:
Keep apologizing. You're not done yet.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
A few people had questions of some of the states on my map such as NY/CA/IL moving up in risk for trans youth. If a state has moved up in risk, it's because of clinic closures at major clinics. I cannot in good faith keep a state low risk if state laws are not being enforced to keep clinics open.
Once more for those in back: They were never going to be able to implement a mass deportation program without prioritizing people like this. Criminals and gang members are too hard to find and apprehend. Regular folks who show up to work, church, and their scheduled immigration appointments are not.
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
Fire in Sylmar.
Official Statement For Immediate Release On the evening of August 30, 2025, in New Hampshire, Mayor Giuliani was flagged down by a woman with beautiful blonde hair and sumptuous red lipstick who had mistakenly missed a left turn at Albuquerque. Upon learning the woman was in fact a cartoon rabbit,
Why Venezuela? Once again, @shteyngart.bsky.social nailed it in "Super Sad True Love Story." The book is no longer a dystopian future. It's the dystopian now.
They should bring Pierce Brosnan back for the next movie.
Today I learned that Drew Ensign doesn’t follow me on Bluesky
There's always Colombia.
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Not with him there it isn't.
A man was found dead “lying in a pool of blood” at Burning Man festival on Saturday night, which is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said Sunday. More: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
And I read somewhere else that I can't find right now that this Cartel Of The Suns isn't really a thing. The US brings in a navy fleet to Venezuela's coast — but does the Suns cartel exist? | Euronews share.google/FWahx80FJdmp...
Something I reposted recently alleged that there wasn't much drug activity in Venezuela at all. This: orinocotribune.com/a-funny-thin...
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
"Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company led by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is creating a way for investors to bet that President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs will be struck down in court."
I remember where I was when I read that passage in the 70s, I was in our high school music room during lunch.
The world is moving on without us. We can't be trusted to elect a decent president.
If it turns out Rudy was getting head from a sex worker in a moving car and crashed ... ... I don't have an ending for this. Do you?
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As a doctor, I am disturbed by what RFK Jr. is doing to America’s public health system. It is time for medical associations, Republican doctors, and all who believe in science to step up and speak out about the lack of science behind these moves.
Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Now!!! #TrumpPedoFiles
Remember this is all happening because DeSantis had to come up with a justification for getting rid of the rainbow crosswalk in Orlando. And now everybody's being punished. It's the stupidest.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
There are so many people who would like to challenge that.
Key West rooster guards a rainbow crosswalk in defiance of Florida's idiot governor.
WTF are all you commie libs talking about? He looks great!!
When China is smiling at Latin America and Africa and pointing out its own history with western imperialism, and signing free trade agreements, Trump is a dangerous diplomatic embarrassment. The bigotry in he US makes China look more reliable as a trading partner.
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AI researchers are already leaving Meta’s new superintelligence lab, just two months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg first announced the initiative.
Republicans keep getting booed at their own town halls
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."
Sorry, but the scariest places in America aren’t Black neighborhoods, it’s towns like Vidor, where historically, Blacks (and Asians, Jews & Italians) could be lynched w/o consequences. There’s literally no equivalent the other way. Thank God these young men weren’t harmed. youtu.be/Px_P0bRkbfU?...
He thinks the league decides and not sportswriters. He seems unable to direct his objections correctly. Of course he could be just lying about all of it.
I realize news outlets are sensitive about defamation lawsuits but this is a pretty clear case. He’s flatly lying about recent history if he says he’s not an anti-vaccine activist. There’s video!
The cost for a day at Disneyland is ridiculous.
part of the growing chasm between the supreme court and the lower and intermediate courts is that the supreme court has not punished the government for its overwhelming disrespect of the bench
Lawyers for the children say they're still on planes in El Paso. SOOKNANAN: "I have the government attempting to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend. That's surprising." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
My mom's name was Sparkle. There are very few of them out there.
Cancelled after the election without comment eh?
Many of the cities with crime issues in red states actually have Democratic mayors Don’t be shocked if the Republican governors of those states cheer as Trump sends the National Guard to those towns, and blame the Democrats for all the problems in these localities
He’s taken eight vacations in seven months, so he could certainly fill in for Trump.
RFK Jr: “If you’ve ever compared an unvaccinated kid to a vaccinated kid… you see the bright eyes, the engagement, the social interactions, the curiosity. And you compare them to the child who even had one or two vaccines, and they’re completely different.“ This man is an existential threat.
yeeeeah a guy who dated a 19 year old while in his 30s has ZERO business saying trans people shouldn't transistion until they're 25. i mean NO ONE has any business saying that. but ESPECIALLY that guy.
An excellent investigation into one of the most frustrating features of modern culture, namely: all the movies are mid.
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
Revisiting these NY Times predictions 9 months later is chilling. Sure wish the paper of record was speaking out as strongly now.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
I Think Most Of Us Feel The Same Way…. Sorry if it feels like I've been venting a lot lately. It's just hard to watch everyday Americans face cruel, harsh punishment for small mistakes – or no mistakes at all – while this administration violates laws and our constitution with zero consequences.
I blocked this guy preemptively.
My latest: ‘No, We’re Not Paid DNC or AIPAC Propagandists’ A full rebuttal to Taylor Lorenz’s WIRED article—and a deep dive into the costs of doing life-threatening democracy defense work without institutional support. Read + share: onoffense.substack.com/p/taylor-lor...
Women w/ unintended pregnancies are 2-4 times more likely to experience physical violence than those w/ wanted pregnancies. People who reported domestic violence were also more likely to say their pregnancy was unintended w/ many saying it resulted from DV incl. marital rape.
I feel I need to clarify something. Some of us didn’t have the privilege of learning that baby oil is made from real babies until middle-age. So you all need to stop looking at me like I’m some sort of paranoid psychopath.
They normalized calling for the death of innocent Black men. They normalized the fact that they can’t stop sexually abusing children. They normalized a traitorous violent assault on the capitol of the United States. And these motherfuckers want to pretend *word choice* is the issue? Please.
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
This. If you have any education or intellectual curiousity, you can easily see we’re being led into fascism by narcissistic sociopaths. If you can’t see it, it’s because you’ve made a conscious decision not to.
I'm sure the "respect the troops" folks will be up in arms when they learn about this right? I mean what could be more disrespectful to the troops than not providing the healthcare they were promised? Oh, I'm hearing that kneeling during the anthem is worse? Ok wow.
If you're bringing a lucite podium to a gas station you're not getting my vote.
Dean Cain got exactly what he wished for: he collected ICE’s sign-on bonus, was ‘injured,’ and is now out on disability.
Donald Trump has reportedly gone out of his way to avoid paying national guard troops sent in to Washington, D.C., resulting in outrage from veterans.
It really wasn't about being fat, it was about co-opting the Everything Trump Touches Dies meme, but I'll delete.
Welcome to the FO phase: Szczerek, CEO of paving company Drogbruk, was caught snatching the prized memento from young fan Brock’s hands. Szczerek’s countrymen swiftly blasted him on a Polish job search site as a “sack of garbage,” “common thief,” “primitive scammer,” and “shameful jerk.”