I laughed way too hard at this
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I laughed way too hard at this
He admits he’s in a Brewster’s Millions type situation where he has to be impeached to win fifty billion dollars but gives up because he’s out of ideas.
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
At the bare minimum we’ve all forced the White House into doing a potentially really embarrassing proof of life thing by making jokes online and I think that’s pretty neat
I really appreciated this sober treatment of the question, which focuses on the (to me) main thing—the stunning abundance of lies and lack of information we've always had about Trump's health, and the role legacy media have played in keeping the truth unknown.
Look, Trump is dead. You know it, he knows it, we can all act like he’s dead and start asking when President Vance poisoned him.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) revealed that at least 10 victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will appear at an "explosive" bipartisan press conference on Sept. 3 'Will be explosive': Lawmaker teases big bipartisan presser featuring 10 Epstein victims. www.rawstory.com/epstein-vict...
Just read this and tell me this wasn't metal as fuck.
Introverts don’t recharge with sleep, we recharge by being left completely alone for 3–5 business days
2PM tomorrow: "my fellow Americans.....Donald Trump actually disappeared during the filming of Home Alone 2...." "Then who are you?" "I am Kevin McAllister"
Even Frog & Toad are getting their hopes up.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Perhaps unrelated, but Caitlyn Jenner also disappeared from public view for a brief interval prior to making an announcement.
Reluctantly crouched on the dragon throne Officials & eunuchs bowing & prone Yellow robe shimmers, Wanli stands up Memos unending, they never shut up The endless plots, their cliques & ranks His patience used up on an empty tank Trembling, timid, they're on their own He's had enough, he's going home
1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see
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.
Finding all my Nate Silver posts since we know he's got a burner on here somewhere
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
free Dem slogan idea: "50 for 50 hospital plan" - plan to construct 50 new, state of the art hospitals, one in all 50 states, to help make up for the hospitals Trump is closing that can't be reopened
The Democratic Party has badly lost its way.
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.
Obviously the message substance is the important thing here but man I hope going from small town guy to instantly nationally relevant doesn't break this guy's brain
That movie terrified me for years
This is how you handle someone who tries to sell AI slop at a con: remove them, and then clown on them relentlessly
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
The infallible free market has allocated all its eggs into one basket, historically the safest and most profitable way to store eggs
And that is why I muted or blocked everyone at @semafor.com
bluesky is dying and there's only one way to save it: by putting on a community theater production of My Neighbor Totoro.
the thing that's hilarious about people complaining on X that Bluesky is an elitist platform that normal people hate is that, very plainly, they're mad that the userbase of Bluesky rejected them
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.
1455 #RepublicanSexualPredators Joseph Brent Walker, Mormon Bishop, conservative “family values” columnist, LDS Public Affairs, charged with distributing material harmful to minor, enticing a minor Utah Case No: 251701696 www.deseret.com/utah/2025/08...
Logged on on a holiday and caught blueskyism. pray for me
Where’s JD? Where did he hide the supplies he used on Dear leader?
“Oh, you have a relative who went here? Great, your admissions standards should be higher.”
Apparently this was bait and I should block most of the people who replied
Fuck off with this bullshit
What are you talking about?
Hey, @stevehofstetter.bsky.social is here. Go follow him
It’s thanks to Bluesky that I unsubscribed from all SubStacks. Just no reason to help them out
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
Certain media types hate this place because, while they of course also get treated like shit on twitter, only like 1% of people on twitter even know who the fuck they are. But on here every single user knows them and despises them
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
Parents need to put their kids on the bus: “Principal Kayla Vaughn…says the buses are "moderately full on average." "We currently operate 14 buses to serve our campus, which includes nearly 1,400 students between our two schools," Vaughn wrote.”
“10News reached out to North Middle School Principal Kayla Vaughn to learn more. In an email, she says the buses are "moderately full on average." "We currently operate 14 buses to serve our campus, which includes nearly 1,400 students between our two schools," Vaughn wrote.”
Trump didn’t say anything. Someone operating his Truth Social account posted something. Trump is incapacitated
I don’t care if he’s alive or not. We need to treat him like he’s dead and move onto the scandal that JD clearly poisoned him.
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
Yeah, that’s dumb and the comments from people trying to analyze the “enhanced” image are even dumber
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.
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
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.”
i just don't think it's at all mysterious why the website that's massively dominated by the exact kind of people that Trump 2.0 is actively persecuting might have more depressing vibes in 2025 than it did in 2024
Exactly, the entire argument for this narrative is that kids rarely die of COVID. That’s true, but it wasn’t the justification for the policy. Teachers *do* die of COVID and kids *do* spread COVID. Some studies find school closures were the most effective intervention for preventing cases!
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
The correct answer to a citizen of Klansville, Alabama saying they feel like the country is leaving them behind is “good.”
So there’s a thing I’ve noticed repeatedly from people who are still on X, The Everything App - they’re constantly making weird accusations about Bluesky that don’t make any sense if you’re on here, and I think it’s a sign they’re deeply insecure about posting to X, The Everything App.
He demands that Pfizer and other companies show their vaccine data (which he calls drugs) to the CDC to show them how good they are. What does this tell us? That the outrage against RFK Jr. is having an effect and we need to push even harder to force this wedge.
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
This precisely
What fresh bullshit is this? No, I don’t want to pay to read it
Question: What "liberal-coded institutions" were kept open during COVID while churches—for sake of argument, pretend they're all conservative—were closed? Universities closed, Hollywood shut down production, unions met on Zoom, progressives avoided indoor gatherings. So... which institutions?
NEW: This morning, DOJ's Drew Ensign confirmed that the last of 76 children the Trump administration tried to put on planes & send to Guatemala in the middle of the holiday weekend are back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the result of a well-timed lawsuit & fast-moving judge.
really cannot overstate how much this man looks like shit manifesting…
I have a blocklist for anyone following more than 10,000 people
The flaw in everyone who makes a Bluesky bad post is that they come to the conclusion that making the site better involves importing people with centrist politics to talk politics when the actual truthful answer is that we need less politics and more goofs but that’s difficult when the world sucks
Choose your fighter:
I remember when @schatz.bsky.social was active on Bluesky before getting mad that people were asking him to do his job
Conservatives making things up then getting mad about it
Look if Republicans say that liberals made them do something, we have no choice but to believe them, because, since when do Republicans ever lie about anything?
Happy to see people who are normally not political sharing this on social media
This explanation is more believable
Meaning people are calling themselves independents instead of Republicans so Republicans appear increasingly extreme? I’d buy that.
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
The biggest news story in the news right now is that the president of the United States hasn't made a public appearance or spoken to the protective pool in four days and the White House is actively lying about his activities, yet no news organization is covering it.
"Author Fran Lebowitz said in 2018: “You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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There’s a setting you can turn on that requires alt text when you post. I wish Bluesky would turn it on by default.
Big popular accounts add alt text to you screenshots challenge (impossible).
NEW: In the dead of night, the Trump admin ripped vulnerable kids from their beds, attempting to return them to danger in Guatemala. We’re heartened the Court prevented this injustice. We’ll keep fighting to protect our plaintiffs & all class members until the effort is enjoined permanently.
i suspect some kids like the phone bans because they actually get a respite from their obsessive parents for a few hours
Trump isn't dying and no one is going to Weekend at Bernie's him and the speculation was kind of annoying... until it breached containment and far right fucknozzles startes to feel compelled to discuss it, and now I hope it keeps going and they get ulcers and shit blood.
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
Remember the Goolsbee Rule, also called the “pathological irony of crisis”: If you lose credibility, your statements begin to mean the opposite of what you say.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
If Biden did this, we would have wall to wall coverage about Biden hiding in a basement
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Really strongly recommend everyone get off Substack. Not just for the Nazi stuff, but because they're going to lock you into the platform and then slowly bleed you dry
My general feeling that Joe Biden should attend all these funerals in his aviators with a fresh ice cream cone remains pretty strong.
[Giuliani's final breath] Tell my family I loved...9/11
Taylor Lorenz can help him warm up
Mostly to make sure they are in his will