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More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
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Where is all this tariff revenue going? Where is the corresponding announcement for lower taxes? Is anyone asking? $360 billion is equal to 17% of all income taxes paid by Americans in 2022. Shouldn't our tax burden be lowered by 17%? Are they just stealing it?
Dozens of highly trained government lawyers have worked tirelessly to ruin this one random man's life for no reason other than Stephen Miller's whim. Kafka has come to America. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Capital deciding to back fascism out of fear of communism was stupid in Weimar Germany, where the KPD polled around 15%, and it’s even stupider now.
This is why no one gives a fuck what you think
are things really so boring up there that this is how you spend your Saturday?
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
god dammit
Smarmy "I'm sure this will be popular" posts about how great Twitter is will forever be a certain brand of centrist lib's favorite way to vice signal on Bluesky
BREAKING: Dozens of Trans Advocates and Allies Stage “Bathroom Sit-in,” with banners that say “FLUSH BATHROOM BIGOTRY,” protesting bigoted anti-trans bathroom bill SB 8 #banbathroombigotry
Can't keep up with up Trump's anti-trans policies and how they affect state law? Yeah me neither. Lawyers for Good Government launched a new project to analyze every state law impacting trans people to help attorneys find "untapped legal leverage" to fight back. www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-bo...
Hopefully I did this right.
James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...
you literally sound insane
You’re telling me this guy is not a more desirable guy to promote than Gavin Newsom
Which one would you say is better if you had to choose?
I suppose the New York Times will run daily stories on this until he resigns, unless Secretary of Defense is a less newsworthy job than a college administrator?
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat
Just like there's no single "European perspective" that OP seems to be claiming
yeah, I think it has to be
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what Americans seem to want is to be able to buy whatever product they want without government interference but also an ironclad guarantee that all store-sold products are safe, and we just need to recognize that these are contradictory ideas and we're gonna have to make people mad about the former
This is true, but part of it is the rootless, reactionary pathology of conservatives. They can't have common ground with others, can't admit common dangers like COVID & climate change. To be a conservative is to automatically reject what liberals believe, even if that means rejecting reality itself.
I have lost all patience with the apparently unshakeable conviction that striking a reasonable, moderate pose means assuming the sincerity of transparently pretextual horseshit. Donald Trump does not care about reducing crime in DC. He is testing and normalizing paramilitary deployments in cities.
I really don’t have words to describe how incandescently angry I am at Trump’s hosting of Putin. It spits in the face of every American who ever fought against tyranny, it’s an obscene affront to our allies, and the only reason it’s not treason is that we’re not actively at war with Russia.
fascists should be discriminated against. hope that helps
As a DC resident I do feel that the city has been overrun by "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals" and I would like them to leave the White House and stop destroying the federal government.
eat fresh, motherfuckers
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Moronic Qs so far from press corps at this Trump/DC avail. One about what cleaning up DC means to Trump personally, one about whether other cities can expect this, then third and fourth Qs switch topics to tariffs and Russia. Nothing useful or specific. This used to be a prestigious beat!
Little Rock, the capital city of Tom Cotton's home state of Arkansas, has one of the highest violent crime rates of any city in the United States. D.C. doesn't even crack the top-10.
You can’t game an algorithm when the people in charge of the algorithm are putting their thumb on the scale to keep your content from being seen, dumbass
Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator: I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing. I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)
Do you still believe in Santa Claus, Jim?
still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs
New Orleans is on the list
The 18,500 children killed in Gaza. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
Really does perpetually stun me how many people in the US fundamentally don’t believe in pluralism. Like I don’t like purity balls or Hillsdale college, but yeah I think that shit has a right to exist in a free society. But they want to burn down everything over drag shows and Oberlin existing.
hegseth makes my blood boil. he's a boorish bigot and an all-around idiot.
israel has killed and continues to kill thousands of palestinians and we’re supposed to be hung up on an american politician’s interpretation of a phrase related to the region. the former should shut down the latter but because people’s brains are so thoroughly cooked, we’re told they’re equivalent.
Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.
Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.
preach
this is what you look like as a Harry Potter fan in 2025
i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.
Severance!
huh. that must be why Bret Stephens, a Republican, is using his New York Times column to try to prevent that mayoralty from happening: because it would be so good for Republicans
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This is baseball. The child made a great defensive grab. That shouldn’t be a home run. You have to be able to beat the children imo you’re a pro have some self respect
Real art
Shoot, I stopped watching. Did Cruz win this thing?
loving your baseball vertical
thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
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Gillibrand and Jeffries and Schumer are not as concerned about what Grok said as they are by what Mamdani did not say.
Late to the game, but throwing in a vote for The Petrified Forest
you were responding to someone having a human, heartbroken reaction to a tragedy on a microblogging social media site. You were not responding to a news article. Not knowing the difference makes you part of the problem.
you're a huge part of the problem kevin
Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Reading through some of the top comments on the NYTs latest story about Zohran Mamdani
fuck every single person who voted for this monstrosity if any of you still have any sort of conscience left it should eat at you for the rest of your lives kicking millions of people off of health insurance to fund the american gestapo
the New York Times leadership literally thinks they're the most important thing in the world. they hated Biden because he preferred talking to a security guard than to them. they hate Mamdani because he's not performing the obligatory genuflections + he beat their preferred groper.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Gargamel's Confusing Dinner Invitation to the Smurfs
A new study estimates that USAID saved 92 million lives from 2001 to 2021, and that its demolition could kill 14 million people in only five years through 2030. That would make the end of USAID by far the most impactful action Trump has taken this year. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.
For 6 months, Dem leaders have downplayed or refused to frontally address many of Trump's worst abuses by saying those are "distractions" from the Dems focusing on economic issues. But as Trump's tax bill is being voted on, Jeffries is attacking a Dem ...over a phrase that Dem doesn't even use.
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
Anyway just watched Jaws for the first time, I guess to make it work as a summer thriller you have to suspend disbelief and accept the implausible scenario that the authorities would be so unwilling to close the beaches that they prefer pretending there isn't really a shark out there killing people
Pack the Court. If we are serious about the defense of these rights, we pack the Court. Simple as that. They pack it back, we pack it again. We do it until we reach consensus on long-term reforms to the judiciary. I don't know what it's going to take for people to get it.
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
Reading alone won't save democracy but you can't have a democracy if people don't read
When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout
We better shut down the draft until we figure out what's going on.
A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.
Donald Trump is an extremely stupid man with very few real policy preferences who has simply done what mainstream conservatives have wanted 80-90% of the time since he has entered politics. They have wanted to bomb Iran. He bombed Iran. Pretty straightforward.
I am not open to the idea that the US should attack Iran.
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
shame on you, toaster oven
right-wingers will often say that America deserves credit for ending slavery rather than blame for having slavery. but then we made a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery and they still got mad, which should tell you what their real objection is.
the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states
The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.
This is excellent. You don't have to know or care who Kevin Roose is, either. Just really puts a finger on a certain type of empty, amoral savvy. defector.com/toward-a-the...
The anti-abortion movement and what it has wrought is more horrifying than any horror movie. It is a rejection of the dignity of life and a mockery of human wellbeing
Let me repeat myself: We don't have kings in America, and I don't intend to bend the knee to one.
At least you seem somewhat aware that you're an absolute piece of shit
ny times reporters love adding a "bluesky is going to hate this article!" addendum on here because they both resent criticism and resent having to post their work on the only platform that doesn't throttle outbound traffic lol
Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired
An important thing to know about Donald Trump is that very few people actually like him! The structure of his support at this point is a relatively small number of psychotic groypers and a much larger swathe of the public who have been convinced by right-wing propaganda that Democrats are worse.
My favorite two signs from today's No Kings protest in Charlottesville. Big crowd, fantastic turnout. Lots of positive energy. The mood defiant & determined.
If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.
good thinking. it must be the 15k who are wrong.
“When I joined the Marine Corps I took an oath to the Constitution, not to a person, not to a party.” — Janessa Goldbeck “The last thing the U.S. military wants is the image of a young man or woman with a rifle imposing the will of executive power.” — MG (Ret.) Paul Eaton
not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser
You’re not up for this moment, Chris!