We’ve spent more time talking about nonexistent crime in 🇺🇸 cities in the last month, even as we’ve totally erased actual political violence from the National Conversation™️. Hard to overstate how disheartening & deeply unserious this has been.
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We’ve spent more time talking about nonexistent crime in 🇺🇸 cities in the last month, even as we’ve totally erased actual political violence from the National Conversation™️. Hard to overstate how disheartening & deeply unserious this has been.
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and sharing the pictures! it's easier to let go of things when you know they're going to make some little kiddo (or grownup) happy.
I am with Tom Cox's dad. Ever since I found out Titchmarsh - garden presenter and Chief Fawner Over the Royal Family - was a Farage supporter and pro-Brexit anti-immgrationist.
YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.
what a lovely little tradition your community is building.
i'm never buying any book from any of these fuckers
Just imagine what is being saved for the book this week.
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i'll have to skip #TVMysteries as i have a thing on wednesday and need to be up early 😭 but thanks for the reminder! have fun!
RIGHT? it wasn't even a close primary ffs!
thank you! i suppose i could have just looked it up but nah 😹
Great day for this story to drop
Remember when she invited someone to speak at the state Capitol who was infiltrating neo-Nazis and militias and then got that person exposed because there were no privacy measures in place and those very Nazis walked right into the meeting. What I’m saying is she’s always been beyond wack as fuck
Also, the 2024 election was tainted by the fact that the Supreme Court ignored the PLAIN TEXT of the Constitution and allowed Trump to run. Trump was patently ineligible! Insurrectionists cannot hold office. That the Court is corrupt doesn't change that. We can read the Constitution! 1/
have any other high-profile ny members of congress endorsed mamdani? i know nadler was one of, if not the, first, and aoc has, and i know jeffries and the fuckin senators have not.
Also: New York politicians. Today is Labor Day. The final stage of the mayoral campaign starts tomorrow. Mamdani is going to win. Take note of how he treats his friends.
Mamdani on Nadler: Just read that last sentence. Perfect.
Trump: I want to get to heaven Me: But don't you want to reunite with your father
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
And this is how you do that.
Seriously, if you're in NYC and still believe even a little in electoral politics, please follow the @nywfp.bsky.social NOW. They do great work supporting progressive politicians and causes. Great group to get info from and volunteer for!
if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
like, that's the demand, right? it's not just, "we're not going to enact defund the police." It's, "we need everyone on the left to not say the thing they want ever."
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Your periodic reminder that nobody would ever have heard of Johnson if it hadn’t been for @semaforben.bsky.social’s avid promotion of him. Soon after that, Ben was hired by the New York Times to explain the news media to us.
imagine being chuck schumer's constituent and nobody answers the phone in his office like ever and then you find out he's busy talking with his imaginary friends instead of to you OH WAIT I DO NOT HAVE TO IMAGINE THAT youtu.be/dijMKwZMU2Q?...
you *deserved* a day off, whether you needed it or not.
Bedknobs & Broomsticks is wonderful. Have fun.
This is how you handle someone who tries to sell AI slop at a con: remove them, and then clown on them relentlessly
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Someone donated this gorgeous work of art for our upcoming Craft Fair for Gaza taking place on Sunday 9/7 from noon to 6 pm. You can pick this up then. Thanks to the amazing people donating items for the fundraiser!
This is the guy who is doing the right thing. If your goal is to encourage other politicians who have been in federal office for decades and decades to follow his lead, excoriating *him* (instead of *them*) just seems like a bit of an odd choice.
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
We need a Hakeem Jeffries of the right.
When you see the wealthy Twitch streamer attacking the Democratic Party 24/7, remember: he's the nephew of the guy who took millions from Republican Buddy Roemer to create a Youtube channel he later used as a platform to found Justice Democrats, the group who vowed to overthrow the Democratic Party.
beautiful!
Wow. WOW. Lot of opportunities and challenges here for NYC progressives. Replace Nadler. Primary Goldman and Jeffries. Kick out Malliotakis. Gonna be a big season!
"We need to reform zoning codes in order to increase housing supply" and "we don't want to step into the business of local government" and "dense cities are dangerous hellholes that we must pacify militarily" are three propositions that don't hang together at all
thanks jerry hey can you stop by chuck's office when you have a minute
YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?
omg!
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
real game
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Mark is right, although I confess I am a hypocrite here, for I wholly support the "remigration" of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. They have failed to assimilate to our cultural norms and instead have tried to impose their foreign backwards ways upon us, and so must be removed to protect our heritage.
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
seems bad
👀 Uhh, this strikes me as an awfully large crowd for a Democratic Senate candidate in Maine over a year prior to an election for which they have not even won the primary yet.
this feels like a math problem: if rudy was traveling southbound on the highway and flagged down by a domestic violence victim, why was he traveling northbound when he was rear-ended by a teenager? www.nhsp.dos.nh.gov/news-and-med...
very strong argument against darwins whole deal is that cats have remained completely unevolved for as long as we first saw em, total dead end, big implication they are perfect, yet they still make their silly little meowmow sounds
Just heard the news about Graham Greene, and I don't know what I can add to the tributes beyond this: The man was a legend for a reason. He inhabited his early roles with charisma and clarity, then let his own charm seep through his performances once he knew audiences trusted him.
It's so good. On a big screen the moment when Dorothy steps out of her house into Oz -- and glorious color -- takes my breath away.
Of note, as always, that many federal employees are Black and an attack on them is explicitly an attack on Black workers, in particular, Black white-collar workers.
The 2024 election was a national referendum on living in factual reality and trying to address challenges responsibly. A plurality said no, even if some didn't consciously grasp that. Another example: Trump & Vance lying so much it hindered FEMA response to NC floods. Then the state voted for them.
Your pal @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social at the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. Genuinely hard to take a bad picture of this dude. That's the @nywfp.bsky.social float behind him - follow them and let's make this man mayor and get him the progressive caucus he needs to get things done, NYC!
for people living many other places… this is probably a program where you live too
for Oakland residents: what’s being done in your county
Agree and we also need to be clear on WHO THEY ARE. The people saying throw trans folks overboard are not offering us a path to unity, they are very literally and concretely trying to divide us
that seems fair to me i'm in
We’ll never recreate that brief golden age when we had a few million users, most of them good posters, and an ethos of blocking rather than engaging but it’s still so much better than all of the alternatives imo.
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 thing you can do, faced with a disconnect like this, is construct an elaborate, probably-special-pleading explanation of why people think X is a huge problem despite the fact that it is objectively not a huge problem Another option is to conclude that people are lying
re-upping this: PLEASE SHARE!!! (the kitten is home safe but Fiasco is still out there)
Oh, no. I keep checking in hoping for good news (and I'm thrilled you found Franca). Keeping you and Fiasco in my thoughts.
srsly people just CUT IT OUT let's see what happens
SERIOUSLY LIKE WHAT THE FUCK, MAN
So sorry to have just heard of the passing of the great Canadian actor Graham Greene.
awww, no! love him.
remember when biden wouldn't talk to the press corps as often as they wanted and they all went fuckin bananas
[Giuliani's final breath] Tell my family I loved...9/11
hmmm... bulky bottom, flappy top... bag full of trash... a few things come to mind that fit those descriptions
this feels like some sort of tallahatchie bridge trick question
i can imagine the media suppressing that tbh
I’m praying for the FDNY firefighters, NYPD officers, and New Yorkers injured in this fire. Our law enforcement and first responders put their own safety at risk to keep New Yorkers safe, and I’m grateful for their selfless work every day.
No Trump troops in Chicago! No ICE! Rally at Chicago's Haymarket Memorial #WorkersOverBillionaires #NoTroopsInChicago
Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!
are the rats wearing spats?
k fair enough do people know they can stop posting about him, kip?
This is exactly right! The Right’s core claim is that they represent an authentic, “real" America that is constantly being victimized, made to suffer under the yoke of leftist/liberal overreach, and therefore rightfully aggrieved. And too many Democrats/liberals look at that and go: “I agree.”
Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."
The Tea Party was covered in the press like it was a spontaneous eruption of populist anger, but those protests drew far fewer people than the recent protests against Trump's administration. The "Tea Party" was just a well-funded organized, right wing movement promoted by friendly media outlets.
The George Floyd protests radicalized a lot of white people AGAINST structural racism. In response, the right tapped into frustration over Covid restrictions (imposed by Red AND Blue states almost equally) and white resentments to organize an old fashioned, racialized backlash against the gubmint.
This is "the one big trick" that the right has mastered. They present their movement as just "the authentic voice of the volk outraged by Democratic overreach," when really what they're doing is just old fashioned political mobilization. Organize a passle of pissed off people & call it a movement.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Here's a better response to RFK's destruction of our public health system than what Senator Schatz is offering here, from JB Pritzker (with some additional ideas thrown in from me and public health experts): newrepublic.com/article/1998...
teenage cat sleeps all the day, does zero chores
sssshhh could you keep it down please
If the majority of a nation wants their representatives to stop arming a genocide but those representatives refuse, it means they are not afraid to lose votes. By voting for the "lesser evil" for decades you didn't honor the right to vote so many fought for, you devalued the only currency you had.
The debate is really over two visions of law enforcement: one is based on "race-neutral," technocratic policing that relies on "hot spots" and surveillance data. The other is brute force, street-smarts, never filling out paperwork. The problem is neither one works. www.vice.com/en/article/u...
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
if you hang out on bluesky enough you can completely forget nate silver exists
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
For being completely unimportant these goofballs really can’t shut the fuck up about us
A pre-dog-walk 🧵 on the pandemic. To me, the lesson of the pandemic is a very familiar one, although as far as I can tell, no one is talking about it or learning it (which is also familiar). It's about the contrast between America's two political parties.
... it's their targets who must apologize. They're never held responsible for the lies. Never held responsible for getting so many people killed. Never held responsible for anything. It's just the people who care, who try, that we hold responsible, that we shit on & demonize. Never the gibbons.