starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
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starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
I don’t understand why we’re expected to agonize over the growth metrics of our favorite microblogging platform. I like Bluesky more than I ever liked Twitter. I can’t pretend to care what folks on X say about the whole thing.
Ok this is almost as stupid as all the jokes we were making lol
Announcement at 2pm.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
Yeah, I dunno, guys. Something seems off.
Plush leather couches especially.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
Take that all you haters. Trump seems to have successfully survived his surgery for adding little eye mouths like the Corinthian.
When the boss is definitely doing great and just taking a casual photo with a buddy and nothing weird is happening in the room at all, even a little.
the horse, they say it's never been paler folks. pestilence rains down from its beautiful hair, seas boil at its touch, the sea's been very nasty to me
Reagan had polyps removed & the entire nation got detailed explainers & knew when he went under/came to In 2025, media owners/execs think covering Trump’s health crisis would be bad for them politically & are shielding him **Every US reporter** is sticking with their owners over doing journalism
All of social media right now:
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
I think a lot of people figured the press might want to cover a president's obvious secret illness given their famous repeated failure to do so as recently as the prior president. Nah! Simply not interested
Difference between a husky and border collie... 👀😅🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Looks like they have a guy ready to do the Keith David "welcome to Hell!!" bit on him at any time now.
If you can’t get to the Museum, watch John Sayles’ “Matewan” instead, a remarkable film with incredible mountain scenery, and a message that’s even more relevant now. Fraternity. Sorority. Eternity. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5RSa...
Who's killing the journalists in Gaza?
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
I really think that if he were in any shape at all to be able to stand in one of his golf clubs for a press conference yelling that rumors about his health are fake news, he would have done it by now.
White House staffers lining up to use the autopen to sign their pardons.
This is the kind of thing you post at 6:54 if you might be dead.
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Few albums have created as clear a dividing line between “before this” and “after this.” Happy 60th.
this is why I pay for photoshop
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
These were the pics going around this morning.
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Israel is now denying US senators (aka their patrons) from even seeing what they have done to Gaza. But the genocide is made up.
No worries, I was just wondering if I'd missed a newer announcement. (This has been a bee in my bonnet for awhile.)
Where'd you hear that? Swamp Thing #88, the only controversial one, is still unpublished, and the just announced TPB of that era of Veitch still doesn't include it.
Your dad was Mario Cuomo.
I can
When Inland Empire came out, I recall they had a "see it 9 times the tenth is free" deal going.
I don't think Trump is dead quite yet but I'd be willing to bet that his hand fell off at Buffalo Wild Wings and it's not in the lost and found
You there boy! What news?
A trump-like mass was spotted oozing out this morning.
Ah well nevertheless
Sure everything sucks and is shit and bad and stupid and pointless and terrible but can you even *imagine* how happy you'll feel the day it happens to him. How crisp the sensation of joy will be, illuminating every detail in the glow of childlike glee.
Americans are just on the verge of accepting it’s probably not true and going to bed when suddenly all the Brits wake up and start hooting and hollering
Kremlinology and no mistake.
Sorry about the sound quality there. Lynch hissing. It's all over the house now.
Ok, they shot Beria, where we at. (Also, as he approaches surly teen, Sully is getting into cinema.)
this is the happiest I’ve ever seen you guys, you’re glowing
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Going out like Stan Chera.
The Ha Ha Just Kidding Unless....? energy tonight is just burying the fucking needle
NextDoor but for TrumpWatch.
melania constantly refreshing the tl
James Garfield. Badass civil war hero intellectual who could've been one of the most interesting presidents in US history and dude's mostly known for how his idiot doctors killed him fml.
This whole website right now:
Every sign has a reason
Reel him in, David!
this is the best online party i've been to in a while, i'm not even tired
hot ghoul summer
I liked it better than the Dodge ones. Still eventually disappears up its own ass in the way of most Stephensons.
nobody has seen the president in three days [burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy
Mr President you need to stop eating the begging strips for this to work
donald trump has been taken to walter reed due to having that one amazonian fish that swims up your urethra. doctors are attempting to lure the fish out with beggin strips (beef brisket flavor)
black tie reads as formal today, but they are actually party suits, things you wear when you want to celebrate something.
Googling sad versions of YMCA just in case
I will recklessly speculate the Scorsese length cabinet celebration of life was consistent with a bunch of people knowing the object of their obsequiousness is about to have a big scary surgery.
I'm not staying up all night, but I did just throw on The Death of Stalin, so let's see how things shake out.
Sir, because of your decrepit physical state, every social media platform is speculating you're dead.
Terror hive, to your stations.
It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.
It does start slow in the manner of prestige tv, but if it holds your interest at all through episode 4, then it starts to fly.
Give Andor a shot. You don't need to know anything about Star Wars to get it, except that there's an Empire and resistance to it. It also happens before the original film so if it takes you, you can go right from Andor to Rogue One to the original Star Wars.
can’t believe we’re gonna have a First Couch
Just imagine Keith David is Stan Chera here.
"hes probably not dead" yeah no shit! shut the fuck up! im gonna spray you with a fucking water bottle!
Sure would be nice to use this twice within ten days.
when you die on the white house toilet you die in real life
I just checked Threads and even they’re getting in on the action. There are some ideas so beautiful that they manage to reach every corner of our balkanized internet.
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
I'd have to give him credit if he shows up Monday with Chet Desmond.
They got him in the Edward G. Robinson room from Soylent Green.
Pretty much all of Bluesky tonight. Let's do this thing.
Health officials under JB Pritzker, who is showing how to take on Trump, are moving forward. They're exploring buying vaccines in bulk themselves. Mass. Gov Maura Healey is in talks with multiple other states about coordinating purchasing of pediatric vaccines. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
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.
we should make up more random proverbs though, "a wet sheep is twice the price," that kind of thing.
Who do you think that is there?
I hope that when RFK Jr dies someday, someone has been hired and trained to capture whatever crawls out of the body, so that it doesn't find a new host
standing on our balcony yelling down to each boy and asking him “what news”
The tweet got blown up with the rest but as I once said over there: anybody who's played a Civ game knows how this ends. China has built a massive high-speed rail and renewable energy network and a growing secondary market in Africa. Meanwhile, we nuked our own foreign aid org and CDC from orbit.
Being shitty about/to unhoused people is such a hardline dealbreaker. It means you’re nakedly motivated by your disgust for a group of people in your community and not at all curious about the material conditions that got them there.
It is so insane how these do-nothing losers can't lift a finger to stop Trump but EVERY TIME someone challenges their nursing home insider club, they suddenly activate like sleeper cells ready to go to war.
Happy Judgement Day to all who observe
Q-Tip saw me dancing on my seat in the crowd (Smoking Grooves festival, 1996) and came out and waved a huge flag next to me.
