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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.
Every day. Especially today. Union merch: www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...
Annual reminder, if you are an elected official making a Labor Day post without mentioning unions or the labor movement you’re missing the point.
This Labor Day, I’m reminded that we are a living throughline, connected in solidarity with brave workers/union members we’ve never met who gave everything for dignity and justice, and with those still to come in this movement. We have work to do. Solidarity forever, y’all!
and… Charles is out. Hoping for some sports karma…
Buddy Carter might be the dumbest member of congress.
WCU loses to Gardner Webb by allowing 28 points in the 4th quarter after being up 35-7. Now Lewis DNFs… I love sports. Hooray sports. 😒
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
Yes, and… the Milton Friedman shock doctrine of crisis capitalism requires… unsurprisingly a crisis.
Unsure this proof of life photo the WH released is answering the questions raised…
Here’s your reminder that Vivek Ramaswamy moved his own business out of Ohio to Texas #gobucks #hornsdown
Lot of people not familiar with RFK’s fucked up brain so let me translate: he thinks he can walk around and see how many kids are autistic, and he thinks vaccines caused it. Pretty much that simple
This is disgusting.
I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.
Matt Yglesias is such a bad faith voice in most of his commentary.
Movements grow on joy. If your first reaction is to scold people having fun, you’re not organizing. You’re just being miserable out loud.
The people who run those accounts should be named.
This @thehousered.bsky.social post reminds me of this story about Mothership Strategies making $282 million off scam PACs. Only 1.6% went to actual campaigns. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...
My favorite text: NETWORK MSG: You replied with the word "stop" which blocks all texts sent from this number. Text back "unstop" or "start" to receive messages again.
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They trying to police people on their own property now. The no step on snake people are a bunch of dipshit posers.
Incredibly revealing moment here from Pirro. For a brief beat she is flummoxed and doesn't have any answer to the question... then, zero interest in preventing crime, only in performatively signaling how tough she is (for an audience of one)
i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
John Oliver’s deep dive on Chuck Schumer’s imaginary friends is fucking wild. Dude is not fit for office.
What Jeanine sees rn:
welcome to DC - going to learn if me shit talking the national guard or DEA on my bike ride home from the bar is a crime or not
Jeanine Pirro is already 4 red wines deep at this point of the morning.
It’s Game Day, dumbass. #GoPackGo
Exactly and Trump was a Democrat.
Walked down to the Wardman Park buildings they’re in progress on where the hotel used to be. Good luck to people wanting to live there—noise is echo’ing and getting caught in the buildings. Heard what sounded like a ton of protestors; curious we walked down to see 10 folks protesting at the Omni.
Elena got her cartilage pierced back in March and it has bled more than Trump’s supposed gun shot wound and take longer to heal.
People seemed shocked my mother called me to check to see if I’d watched the wrestling PPV with Jelly Roll tagging with Randy Orton.
hate that the fat tacky fuck in the white house received zero questions about this shit
News from my hometown. Great job everyone! God this timeline is fucking dumb.
I didn’t know you retired lol
It’s the Diet Sun Drop for me.
Mothership Strategies made $282 million off scam PACs. Only 1.6% went to actual campaigns. They’re not building power. They’re running a grift. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...
Being chunky enough to dissuade middle seat fliers on SWA flights from wanting to ride beside me is a new talent/perk.
My flights have been delayed more, cancelled more, and super annoying since Trump took office. It’s not one airline—it’s all of them.
This hashtag is fucking stupid.
*emotional damage*
💡 Need some “inveterate dabbler” merch.
“Speaking out for kids in this situation is more important than my career.” More people need to internalize this.
Thing that bothers me. When airlines say you’ve departed on their app or online when you’ve never left the gate. Don’t lie y’all—we’re all still sitting on the tarmac.
Not an expert. But being likable is a key part of elections. If you’re say a retiree who spends all their time on social media being an unlikable curmudgeon arguing with potential voters in comment sections—odds aren’t in your favor.
I don’t know who needs to know this—but KD at Georgia Southern, killing rush tok and it ain’t even August til tomorrow.
let me sum this piece up for you: “hey, it’s me zaid jilani! you might remember me from my credulous profile of josh hawley, published the literal day before january 6. well now i have another credulous take, the time on another far-right maniac. i am definitely not an idiot.”
Hahaha right before this drunk lady was kicked off the yacht—I was like, she has no shame function in her brain.
85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani. 79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani. 67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. 65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?
Apparently folks are just learning that a lot of the safe seat Democrats in NC are kind of the worst. Some of them would be fine with basically anything as long as they got to keep their seat and access to lobbyist-paid dinners.
TikTok has me listening to Brooke and Jubal in the morning like I’m a longtime listener or some shit.
It’s super disappointing how quickly and easily these folks were manipulated by the restaurant groups.
The DC city council is more willing to protect restauranteurs than working people.
My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."
Happy Cooper for Senate Day to all those who celebrate!
Senators are Van Hollen, Welch, Schatz, Murray, Kaine, Durbin, Merkley, Sanders, Warren, Smith, Baldwin, Markey, Warnock, Heinrich, Duckworth, Klobuchar, Hirono, Alsobrooks, Lujan, Ossoff, and Murphy. Both GA Senators and Baldwin from WI but no one else from a Trump 2024 state. No NY, NJ, or CA.
85% of Gaza is on the brink of death due to starvation. Israel could let aid in at any moment. And some people (like these men tried to do with me on Friday) are still trying to justify this atrocity. There is no justification. This could stop at any moment. End the blockade now.
Did they change the intro song?!? Where’s my F1 theme song?!? WHAT WAS THAT??? #F1
Love when a trust fund kid abandons his fantasy of running the country to settle for failing locally.
Thank you, Tyler Childers.
My favorite is the hornet walking across the camera lens trying to sting it.
Nothing I can say could come close to summarizing these words, these photos. Just read it. “Tell me how to save my daughter Rahaf from death [...] She’s suffering from malnutrition. There’s no treatment, no milk at the hospital. They’ve taken away her right to live. I see death in her eyes."
Journalists sometimes have to deal with unethical/disgusting people to land a story. It's usually after other methods/sources have been tried and exhausted To do what NYT did for that non-story is insane. You'd think it'd be a career-ending crash at most outlets... www.theverge.com/cyber-securi...
People saying the WNBA isn’t profitable to condemn workers have never spoken an ill word of Lyft or the various Musk companies that rely on subsidy to exist. Musk is literally taking your taxes—the WNBA players aren’t even asking you for money.
These insecure men trolling “pay us what you owe us” posts are not mad about WNBA pay—they’re mad no woman wants to watch them do anything.
The DNC rolling out an audit of how other groups helped or didn’t help them instead of learning from and talking about the mistakes they made is the most DNC response to something.
It’s weird as fuck how folks would rather side with billionaires than workers asking for a fair shake in salary.
The folks quickest to question a worker’s worth are never the ones with the courage to do what those workers are doing. Solidarity.
More DCC thoughts: Kelli and Judy are such fucking union busters. These women are brave as hell and Jerry fucking Jones is pulling in $1 billion in revenue. Pay these women more money. Ugh—these folks need a union.
Hoping there’s been a connection made between someone with @actorsequity.bsky.social and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
Mark Harris hired a man who was later criminally charged with voter fraud. Harris’ son, a federal prosecutor,even warned his father. The election was so corrupt it wasn’t certified. Now he’s looking to undermine the nation’s largest union. People who cheat democracy always fear those who defend it.
How many times can an old dude run for office and lose before they’re considered a perennial candidate? Asking for the voters of a certain district back home where the candidate spends all day yapping on social media.
The hard part is idk if: 1. This is directed to the puppeteer or maybe Elmo’s social team. 2. Ronnie thinks Elmo holds some position and should resign from said position.
Can have all the likes and shares in the world, but those are all vanity metrics if your followers aren't escalated into taking actions that don't exist on a social platform.
If you’re some weirdo who hates unions, protesting a union headquarters doesn’t seem like a good use of your time, but I’m not on the business of giving filthy scabs advice.
Hit dog will holler.
Trump’s unhinged rants about the Epstein list is what I would presume a guilty person would be doing. He’s trying to get everyone to move on, meanwhile he’s on that list like it’s a fucking loyalty program.
@nathanevansfox.bsky.social 🎵When the Lord comes back, ain't gonna be no cops 🎵You can cook your own, you can smoke your crops 🎵All the boys gonna wear the pretty things 🌈 🎵When the Lord comes back, ain't gotta prove a thing
BREAKING: The New York Times reports that FEMA failed to answer two-thirds of the calls to its disaster assistance line in the days following devastating floods in Texas, after firing hundreds of call center contractors on July 5.
Y'all, the excitement I got when I learned that the new Fantastic Four is set on Earth-828 as a person from WNC.
Wild how comfortable Linda McMahon, a defendant in a lawsuit accusing her and her husband of turning a blind eye to the sexual abuse of minors in their business, is spewing transphobic attacks while survivors of her own empire's abuse are still waiting for justice.
This feels like confirmation Max is headed to Merc.
I’ve been on TikTok too long—just stumbled upon a creator who let their viral video famous bearded dragon die from neglect and the controversy of when they tried to raise money for its burial.
Don’t tell the corporate consultant author this. But Europeans have been “micro-retiring” for generations. This is such a hilarious take.
This is probably super cool if you slept through U.S. history class.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Republican Congressman Bresnahan recently sold his stock in Centene, a Medicaid health care provider. The stock has now fallen 43% since his sale. His sale seemingly coincides with his vote to advance Trump's budget bill that will kick 17 million Americans off their health care.
The worst parts of fascism are loud. The beginning is boring, and that’s why a lot of y’all slept through those lessons or missed them entirely.
If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome. And yet:
Just an administration stacked with billionaire nepobabies—people who’ve never worked a real day in their lives—gleefully moving a bill that raids working people’s pockets, guts vital programs, and shifts the burden onto those least able to bear it. This ain’t a mistake. It’s class warfare.
Solidarity y’all!
Tom Homan is a piece of shit.
yes, those medicaid recipients should just inherit their father's business and then sell it for a fortune, like sen. mullin did
Chris Murphy: "The only people that matter to Republicans right now are corporate CEOs and billionaires. Everybody else doesn't matter. If you don't belong to Mar-a-Lago, you aren't a human being according to this version of the Republican Party. And that is deeply sad."