Have you tried blocking as a regular practice? It's how this site is designed more than mod banning. Blocking takes out the air. I know it's harder to escape for higher profile accounts but I've seen some big accounts saying that it works.
Have you tried blocking as a regular practice? It's how this site is designed more than mod banning. Blocking takes out the air. I know it's harder to escape for higher profile accounts but I've seen some big accounts saying that it works.
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
With the one-month limit (sans congressional approval) on Trump’s takeover approaching, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has ordered that the city work with federal law enforcement indefinitely. Trump is reportedly delighted. trib.al/lJQptiJ
It was $8 trillion literally yesterday.
What 80/20 issues are Dems on the "wrong" side of? Even Trans women in women's sports is at best 2/3 against and that's with Dems generally not fighting for Trans women. On most issues, Republicans are in the minority.
these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.
Man, media literacy really is in the dumpster these days
This is F’ing maddening. There were some legit studies showing a correlation between acetaminophen being elevated in umbilical samples and higher autism risk, but when researchers looked at large samples and corrected for sibling outcomes, it vanishes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Well I was close
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
The mayor of Baltimore drastically slashed crime despite close proximity to Virginia with its lax gun laws and it was a blip in the news cycle and then a return to the only way to stop crime is law and order. We are a cruel, punitive country with a national press that loves facism.
If you are a federal employee who can confirm a rumor that some folks are sprinkling bread crumbs on the roof of the Labor Dept building where this banner was hung, I'd love to hear from you. Anonymity granted. Jen.Bendery@huffpost.com On Signal: jbendery.41
The irony/idiocy of this banner screaming "American Workers First" is that Trump has forced more than 199,000 federal workers out of their jobs since Jan. Nearly 1 in 10 federal workers gone. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Christ.
Its impossible to know what is happening exactly with Missing Trump but a reasonable interpretation of the available info is he had a stroke or mini stroke and is slurring his speech and doesn't want to be seen in public in that condition.
Sure, why not. Hell, why not fifty-eleven trillion?
Wow NY Congressman Jerry Nadler, 78 years old, announced retirement and named a thing: “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that”
Big opening for, say, Brad Lander www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
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👇🏽
Hot dog suit gif
A reasonable person might assume "right to work" is positive -- like "right to health care" or "right to privacy." It's not as if we're fully in the Bizarro World, where everything that sounds good is actually bad.
[Guy who constantly posts on the fascism app]: The problem is the anti-fascism app
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
The thing I don’t get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isn’t screaming for answers?
schools closed because people didn't want their kids to die, not because of some sort of government overreach. Schatz really thinks he's the guy we need at the moment. he is not.
“.. Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation’s capital ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
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...
The Epstein conspiracy theories would've been crazy.
There are tons of potential crosswalk candidates on Orange Ave alone, many of which are faded and in disrepair. Maybe a little bit of guerrilla beautification could get the state to properly repaint hundreds of crosswalks. Win-win.
can’t believe i’m saying this: today i leave for my first tour of the entire united states to go play massive rooms with a rock band dreamt of this moment since i was a lil’ kid i’m so excited to chronicle this journey here for all of you 🥹
Right. Same thing as 2020 [see below].Through 2 debates and a session on Economics in Chicago during the 2024 campaign I never heard a reporter bring up the cost of the 2020 tariffs & the bailout to farmers WE paid for to cover Trump’s tariff folly. I’m sick of it. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
It's just unthinkable to allow this person to be the next governor of Virginia. bluevirginia.us/2025/08/wins...
one of the most important technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with AI. Trump and his petrostate paymasters want to stop it but at best they'll succeed at costing Americans billions by leaving us slower to adopt it.
What is even the point if making up a fake story for a bluesky post, like what do you get out of it? Other than, I guess, idiotic giddy replies from the most annoying accounts on here
I would advise clearly stating “anti-union state” rather than using right-wing messaging. If you are an average voter who doesn’t know that “right to work” is inherently anti-union, this message might strike you as odd.
Finding out.
Source?
I know why it was there, but DeSantis has people watching that spot closely. Sometimes malicious compliance works better than direct conflict. DeSantis would love to arrest people trying to repaint at this spot, but he'd really be thwarted by Pulse memorials at crosswalks all over Florida.
Actual lol at the latest installment in this series
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
Incredible to have an ‘opposition’ party that can’t even scrape together a decent media blitz against a steroid addled, measles-loving eugenicist who’s on video praising the benefits of DOING HEROIN. Just the most useless people ever, who are effectively helping folks that are trying to kill us.
I just now searched NY Times for info on Trump's illness or bruised hand or health concerns - nothing came up. They spent weeks covering Biden's age after the debate. Their bias is quite stunning.
The administration that cares so deeply about fighting antisemitism.
I'm surprised people haven't started rainbow-painting other crosswalks across the state. They can surveil this one, but they can't watch them all. And what better consequence for painting over one than to spawn dozens.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
Taylor Townsend, the underdog who never backs down, took center stage and shined under the lights at Arthur Ashe Stadium, defeating the No. 5 seed! When others tried to dim her light, she showed the world her power. Ben Crump Law is proud to sponsor this fearless force in tennis!
Democrats need to be talking about the Republican AI Death Panels non-stop
This is a long way of saying Republicans are cutting Medicare.
Remember this when RFK Jr. and Trump talk about autism: Molly Losh, a professor at Northwestern University, had a grant to study social language abilities among #ActuallyAutistic Englisn and Cantonese Speakers. But Trump's war on Northwestern killed it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying the environmental causes of autism. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promised to find a cause for the condition, her entire division was cut.
That elides quite a bit of history. Trust did take a hit during Vietnam and Watergate, but it fluctuated after that for a few decades and then spiked after 9/11. It was Iraq, Katrina, and 2008 that caused it to fall off the cliff.
The Dems are saved! 🙃🤦🏻♂️ Somebody help this man. A party’s need for new leadership has never been more obvious.
"I had never seen anyone virtue-signal so gracefully, so effortlessly. I was like, 'I have to work with this guy.'" 😂😂😂😂 Meet Cory Booker's (fake) political consultant, played by Zeteo's very own @heycapello. "No one does it like Cory." zeteo.com/subscribe
Will JD keep all the gold in the oval?
Great DC weather but not golfing
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
was just watching Mulan with my 3-year-old nephew and then checked the bad place without thinking and—
I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
So all this Trump speculation is just cause no one has seen him for a couple days and not any concrete evidence? I missed the conversation so just making sure.
The weather has been great in DC the last couple of days...
It would be such a special labor day miracle
Just realized that if Trump dies over Labor Day weekend, we'll have a federal holiday to celebrate it every year.
He hasn't been seen by the public (including the press pool) in like 48 hours and has nothing on the public schedule all weekend.
I'm sure she's chomping at the bit for a guy with 3 little kids who is trying to ditch his wife.
What is making people think Trump died? I see nothing other than allusions like this.
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
Whatever you think about Robert E. Lee's portraits important to remember he never achieved a rank higher than Colonel. But don't tell Trumpers that because they get super triggered. Sad.
Easy reverse for this corrupt Supreme Court. It's what Trump wants, and Dems will never abuse the same power to help Dems.
LOL I've been waiting all day for a different federal verdict but instead we got the federal circuit striking down all the tariffs. Is that the John Roberts Bat-Signal I see?
To be clear: this is yet another reason why many of these laws are so problematic. If people want to run fediverse instances of any size, the fact that costly age verification requirements could put them in legal jeopardy, is very bad. Regulators make laws as if every website is Facebook.
Stripping federal workers of their right to negotiate for fair treatment and join a union does nothing to make our Commonwealth or our country safer. Virginians deserve a Governor who will stand up for them — and up to this chaos.
Once again, President Trump has launched an attack on Virginia's federal workforce.
Jain: We have a U.S. Attorney’s Office that is also facing a vacancy crisis. And that is at least partially because the predecessor to the current U.S. Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, was Ed Martin. He fired more than 20 prosecutors whose only “crime” was prosecuting violent January 6 insurrectionists.
Between Joni Ernst retiring from the Senate in Iowa and Rebecca Bradley retiring from the Supreme Court in Wisconsin, today should tell you everything you need to know about how the GOP is viewing their prospects in 2026.
Why hasn't a single House Democrat called for the impeachment of RFK Jr? What exactly are they waiting for at this point - dead bodies?
Lego is no longer sending individual pieces to the U.S. due to Trump ending the de minimis exemption. This man ruins everything. www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
this is one of the president's' closest advisors. the mainstream media refuses to reckon with this so substitutes in a fictional sanewashed trump and fictional west wing in which loomer doesn't participate in their stories. telling the truth would not help trump so they don't do it
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is not seeking reelection in 2026: www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p... Iowa swung hard to the right starting in 2016, but the 3 special elections that have happened in Iowa so far in 2025 have swung toward Dems by 22, 24, & 26 percentage points. Two seats have flipped blue.
Welp, the lying about economic numbers — which everyone predicted would happen — has commenced. And the press is dutifully gobbling it up.
Then leave
Mark repeatedly says dumb shit (coddling crypto scammers is the future of the Democratic party! Nikki Haley would be a good President!), then when people respond poorly, he blames the website then a lazy media turns it into a three week news cycle lambasting Bluesky for a problem Mark created
This story is batshit and makes it pretty clear without outright saying it that Tesla deliberately lied to hide data showing its autopilot drove a car into a couple of people www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The insurrectionists succeeded. It just took awhile.
Not for the past, but for the future: Merrick Garland completely failed us. He failed us because he didn't drive change in DOJ culture to prosecute insurrectionists, coup plotters, and white collar criminals. And everyone who said "Just Wait! Garland's doing it!" should be disregarded forever.
incredible. 10/10 no notes. Emil Bove continued to work at DOJ - for the administration- after he was confirmed as a judge. Almost as if he doesn’t think his role, defending stuff Trump did, changed once he became a judge! (sure he wasn’t sworn in but AYFKM???) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
oh come on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined
*Colonel* Robert E. Lee. He was only a general in an illegal army
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...
only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading
Naturally, naturally
Also note he put his pronouns in his signature. *chef’s kiss*
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)
“Mr. President, JD Vance says he’s ready to take over for you as soon as you die. Any comment?”
Extremely proud to have a mayor who will take a second to defend innocent trans people even in this awful moment. A powerful contrast with the many moderate Democrats who abandoned trans people simply because they lost an election. Don't let the gun nuts scapegoat any minority; it's the guns.