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The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
A thing a sitting American governor felt compelled to tell his state in regards to what his federal government appears to be planning.
In less than one hour Donald J Trump El President of the good ol' US of States will announce that he has an exploded ruined anus and nasty nasty balls.
AWESOME
But cleaning sucks sooooooooo much 😭😭😭
Isn’t BDSM supposed to be pleasurable?
"Dobkin is the grandchild of Holocaust survivors and descendant of people who didn't survive. So he wanted to respond in Yiddish, speaking out about what he saw as a genocide, in this language that was almost destroyed by one. So he wrote a song."
You know what’s not good soup? Healthy soups that come in a box. Taste like disappointment.
I got my daughter this gorgeous wood, modern style dollhouse from some Scandinavian company (?) when she was little. Granted, she never played with it, so take that recommendation with a grain of salt
Lolol
Sadly no
NASA scheduled a major workshop for early career researchers during the most important week of the Jewish calendar, during two of the most important days of that week and expects me to accept that this was “difficult scheduling conflicts” That’s what casual antisemitism sounds like
DAMN. I feel hope again.
Omg I feel actual hope
Has anybody tried giving him his childhood sled yet?
Nope
Hooooo boy
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
Oh fuck off with this. David Brooks does not need more air
What JD Vance imagines will happen versus what will happen.
Oh hell yeah!
charmless sociopaths in pursuit of mass engagement at impossible scale with zero ethical guardrails and no functional government oversight, what could go wrong
Literally cannot wait.
Americans haven’t given up on gun control—a majority of Americans have consistently supported banning assault weapons like the ones that are used in mass shootings. The problem is that the US Senate is an anti-democratic institution which only serves to block the will of the people.
If Democratic Party can’t lead the resistance against authoritarianism, the Democratic Party will cease to exist.
Poke
Are you fucking kidding with this BS?!?! Stop trying to find “bipartisan” solutions to anything - you should not be trying to collaborate with fascists
“Why does every day feel like the apocalypse and a Tuesday simultaneously?” YESSSSSSSS. For YEARS NOW.
Calling it a temper tantrum is ignoring the very real and frightening reality that the U.S. President is working really hard to be a fascist dictator, and this example 100. Man up Senator and stop playing games.
Mopsus at your service!
Well, maybe they should grow the fuck and realize democracy is more important than how they feeeel
WTF is even happening here? This is DEEPLY embarrassing America
Taylor Swift in five years, looking around the room for something to write about, tapping her pen on a notepad that says like "bad dinner party" and "husband forgot to take trash out."
This is great news. Hopefully they expand it enough that it’s available to everyone who needs it. We have been waitlisted 3 yrs in a row. Got a spot this year though! (3 weeks before the end of school 😒)
I think it should be illegal for a business to offer less than a living wage. If you can’t afford to pay your workers enough to live, you’re not a sustainable business and you don’t deserve to exist.
📢 The 2025 Living Wages for NL, NS & PEI is out. Proud to have contributed. 📊 Key findings: NS $27.60, NL $25.31, PEI $22.77. Highest: Halifax $29.40; Labrador-Northern Peninsula $28.30. Many still earn below a living wage. 🙌 #LivingWage #AtlanticCanada #CCPA #NS #NL #PEI
Oh that poor baby. 💔
Don’t ever let them tell you we can’t afford to take care of people
First clue of the Andrew Cuomo scavenger hunt is “get in your car and drive twenty miles north of the city to find the bridge named for my father, Governor Mario Cuomo”. There is no second clue.
STOP GLORIFYING THIS ASSHOLE
What in the absolute blithering garbage is this?
Grrrrr
WTF man
Downvote
Oh DAMN!
We have a MUCH larger coast, and extremely deep ice free ports, so no thanks
I’m sorry, but did you bother to ask Canada or Mexico whether we want that? Because frankly I suspect the answer would be an OH HELL NO from most of us
Some good news (given the circumstances)
JFC these people
RUDE
Oh man. That must have made a truly terrible sound
GORGEOUS! And when did you move to the tropics?
Many people are asking
I’m so sad about it being late August that I feel like my heart is literally breaking. Peru-menopausal summer of my discontent. Hormones are stupid, and NS summers are TOO SHORT
Add it to r/thriftgrift
Democrats should be doing press conferences every day with people hurt by Trump and his policies. Scientists, struggling people, the disabled, etc. Also with WWII veterans and Holocaust survivors who remember fascism. They should be telling people’s stories to humanize the damage.
I had my first baby in 2011 in Berkeley, CA. I went to prenatal yoga for months and stayed close with many of the women after we had our kids. MAHA-type discourse was ripe with that group. 9 years before COVID.
What…the…
Holy shit(e)
Are the rabid Newsom 2028 people bots or are folks really desperate to pick a savior and beat the rest of us into submission? Most of you haven’t even tried DOING ANYTHING COLLECTIVELY. Just falling over yourselves to push the loudest white man to center stage and THAT’S PART OF HOW WE GOT HERE
i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck
Why do all these assholes always look like Lex Luthor?
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
Fucking finally.
What does that even mean?
Good news!
UGH. Bad.
stock market rallies as fed chair confirms we’ll all be eating cardboard by this time next year
woke up to more of this in a friend's mentions look- you'll never 'restore democracy' by supporting politicians who eagerly abandon whatever marginalized population the GOP pretends is "bad" if you're alive right now and don't see how ALL our rights are inextricably linked....ughhh.
theonion.com/atrocities-k...
Where is this and can I try each one?
Hell yeah!
The last university class I sat in on (after a decade of being out of undergrad) the clacking of everyone typing almost drove me out of the room
How bad is it? Well, look what we’ve been reduced to. Right thinking people now have to stick up for John fucking Bolton. If you’d have told me that in the mid-aughts it would have killed me like a Victorian child.
Adonis is rightly suspicious of robots
There are currently 259 Democrats in Congress, total. About 10 or so seem to understand what is happening and are at least doing something. The rest are furrowing their brows, writing strongly worded letters, and seeking donations.
100%
Democrats are behaving like a lazy hiring director, insisting the first interviewee for the job is perfect, no need to interview further. We’re *years* away! There’s no need to cling to Gavin Newsom like this when Kat is right 👇🏼
This week I was supposed to be prepping my graduate course in neuroscience. But @dalhousie.bsky.social board and president locked out faculty. This impacts the training of our graduate students. I want to be back at my bench doing research 🔬 and teaching and #keepdalstrong! @dalfaculty.bsky.social
“I can see how this looks strange,” Uh yeah. Somehow I doubt it’s a part of Chinese culture to hide the money inside a bag of sour cream n’onion chips.
Yup. She’s here too.
At least they’re heading south I guess.
Political commentator Sue O’Connell looks at President Donald Trump’s efforts to control how the past is remembered at museums in the context of how authoritarian leaders throughout history have approached public discourse. on.nbcboston.com/mFQr84U
Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."
Hells yeah!
Me and my lunch beer are officially ON VACATION
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Badge of honour for this admin
One can hope (us, not him)
Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news
Ten bucks the number of stars is wrong (can’t be bothered to count, but if you want to, go for it)
The only thing this year we have seen the Democrats put any actual effort into resisting is the campaign of Zohran Mamdani.
New from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and me: Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight. The slept in jail; are banned from Capitol grounds for a year. thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/19/h...
This is how fast the airline capitulated when the workers defied the government order and stood even stronger and more united in defiance, nationally. Now imagine if Americans did this in key industries, including all the shipping ports. Get the Teamsters onboard, and do a general strike.
furious not that yglesias is so stupid but that he's paid so much money to be stupid. I could be stupid for money. I could be so stupid