Iraq War vet. Former intelligence community Russia then counterterrorism analyst. Now: middling flak. MI —> MT —> WA. Warren-Occupy core. Social justice warrior. Opinions, quirks mine. Words: LA Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek. Face: MSNBC, Al Jazeera
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That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Amen to that.
And he didn’t have to use all caps or copy the style of the other guy. He just went in with the morality of what he will do.
This is the correct framing.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
This is gonna get people killed.
bluesky hasn’t become massive but it’s not because we’re an echo chamber, it’s because we’re annoying in a ton of other ways and i think that’s beautiful
Because it’s true. Wealth belongs to those who already control it, they just hand down the interest to a chosen few. Champagne curses and caviar fears is the new reality. There are ways to fix it and return the balance, but we either just vote against it or allow two senators to use archaic rules.
“I had high hopes for the ICEBlock app, so it’s a shame that the developer is both overly confident and doesn’t know what he’s doing” - @micahflee.com The @iceblock.app has 1+ million users. They’re the people on Bluesky, joining @50501movement.bsky.social and attending @teslatakedown.com rallies.
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Who knew!?!?!?!?
The connection is that the Deltas are Black women and the judge is a Black woman
There truly is a Third Way.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
Why speculate about Giuliani when the eventual truth is bound to be funnier than anything we *can* imagine?
Always a mafia shakedown. Always compensating for not having what the Black President got. What a small, awful man.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Let’s go @governorferguson.bsky.social!!!!
Yes ma’am.
Strikes deep inside Russia will happen, forces and assets are already prepared, President Zelensky said.
Nice!
Yes! We will get a better test next week. But for being 18(!!!!) and starting in the Big House for the first time. Just brilliant.
Great defense and a dynamic running game with perfect blocking. Michigan is back!
I’m so excited for this year. Whatever happens.
That’s amazing!
Fuck yes! Go Blue!
MEAL Team 6!
Though, and one analyst said this last year and I love it, as a kid raised on college football of the 80s and 90s, it’s good to see great FSU and Miami teams again.
Saw this live. Glorious. I was laughing at him before he did that, and it just got better.
Texas can recover and will drop some spots but be playoff okay, assuming Manning (alas, no relation) doesn’t repeat that 🦃 today. But Alabama, man. This is just embarrassing. You don’t recover from this, the program is failing.
Right? Seattle to Tuscaloosa?
Tough gig to turn down.
Though as a longtime Michigan and Big 10 fan, it’s good to see the long overdue overvaluing of the SEC come to an end.
I never understood why DeBoer, who I have heard is a very good coach and mentor, left UW. He had a great program there and could have turned it into his dynasty. Instead he followed the legendary Saban, who still has influence, and will take the hit for the downfall of Alabama.
It’s what they do.
At least we know he is really alive. This is very Trumpian. He is burning the country down and setting us up for failure and he frets about a floor crack and a bum contracting service.
How many op-eds were there about how Hegeseth needed to resign or be fired after Signalgate? And is he still in that job? Trump picked the most morally corrupt people with plenty of material to blackmail them if they step out of line, so they would *refuse* to resign. Op-Eds from Dems won’t cut it
U.S. officials parroting Kremlin talking points. Knowing Moscow wants to go back to slowly annexing Ukraine again, Europe sees it will likely be next and is taking steps to protect itself — and its Western ally in Ukraine. This is the fight right now. And “U.S. officials” are beholden to Moscow.
The Linda Lindas are badass AF.
YES!
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
BernieSanders The question isn't whether the United States, the wealthiest country in the world, can AFFORD to provide health care for every man, woman, and child. The question is whether we have the moral courage to make a basic human right a priority at the top of ouragenda
Really worked on Hegseth after Signalgate! Keep it up, Dem leaders! More stern notes and essays! Why use your power as a sitting senator to grind the system to a halt?
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
College football is back!!!!!!
Prolonged “naptime”’for an aging and ailing man?
bbl? facelift?
Loving that it isn’t. My how things can snowball.
not going to lie i really thought this was just a goofy blue sky thing lol
Without their king … they will destroy each other. No one can fill that void, even if they believe they can.
And our collection “awww man” when it didn’t fall him.
Apparently all of us, right now.
Trump needs to post an unhinged, hateful all caps screed as proof of life
A MAZE ING !!!!!
I remember the news coverage. As a kid, it was like “oh yah, don’t be that guy.” Because executing a president on live tv for the nation is just … wow. A repressed getting justice.
That works too!
I’d prefer he end like Nicolae Ceaușescu, but whatever works I guess.
I’m sorry but people trying to collectively believe a death into being like Tinkerbelle is what “Death Note” should’ve been.
Kinda like Detroit last year.
Play your best games in late August then September and suddenly you’re back in the mix. Should be a wild next few weeks.
14! And it’s only the 7th!
🏅 🏅, 🐔 🍽️ !
can’t believe we’re gonna have a First Couch
Nice!
used to be when White House press pool we haven’t seen and weren’t told where POTUS is, he’d be on a secret flight to some far off war zone to visit the troops… but that can’t be it now since the troops are deployed right out on the White House sidewalk
I miss Old Missoula.
I still have it, too. Later I was gushing that I caught her stick and the band was walking out. One of them smiled at me seeing that I was geeking out over catching a piece of the band’s history and smiled at me. Great show. Pic is me catching them in Olympia a couple years ago. 50 and up front.
This was when men were mocking the all female band for “intruding” into the punk scene (🙄), and I was jazzed to see how fucking fierce they were. The band did not disappoint and this is like top three ever concerts for me. At the end, Ms. Tobi Vail tossed her drumsticks off and I caught one.
Back when Bikini Kill was just getting started in the early 90s they played, for some odd reason, this now closed pizza spot called Slabs just off Missoula’s downtown. There were like a dozen people there, mostly us punk rock weirdos who heard great things about the Olympia scene (my favorite).
In case @marthapearce55.bsky.social wonder why her follower count went sky high … she got the spirit for the Bluesky! We love you Martha! Keep at it.
Martha rules!
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
😂😂😂
This is what I’m thinking.
another possibility is that Trump had some kind of procedure that’s difficult to hide.
Amazing color!
I miss the old brand #CDC
It’s just the worst.
Good lord.
Indeed!
Wonder if we are gonna get huge monuments like they have in Ashgabat probably in gold leaf though
If only he could do something … use that bipartisan coin he earned the last years to …. Do nothing.
Washed down with fermented whale blood.
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
This q-post is not an endorsement of Abbey or Da Gov I will most likely vote for someone else in the primary Don’t know yet. It’s too early to say I’m putting this here to bookmark it and watch some people have a meltdown Focus, people YES on CA Prop 50! We need to win midterms before …
Amen to this.
It’s usually doesn’t take long.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
Exactly this. And what they are doing is just a mild SNL-like knock off of Trump’s style. It’s not difficult. It’s good a governor is doing it, but the schtick won’t last forever. Especially when he does stuff like this on the sidelines.
that he is one of the few Democrats actually doing something in response to Trump does not change the fact that Newsom fucking sucks and I don’t want him to run either the state or the country
Love me some @general-ben.bsky.social
Easier word (but far more difficult): Acceptance.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
In healthy democracies, discourse is shaped by Verification, Deliberation, and Accountability (VDA). These guardrails help societies sort truth from falsehood and keep power in check.
The problem with figures like RFK Jr. isn’t just that they spread bad information. It’s that they sustain disordered counterpublics, spaces where falsehoods are reinforced through imitation of legitimate democratic processes.
To my Trans friends and to the Trans community, see you and love you.
