Kirk moment, Kimmel moment, waiting for the next K to drop, bringing us for real to KKK.
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Kirk moment, Kimmel moment, waiting for the next K to drop, bringing us for real to KKK.
wow
Now THIS is art.
Unlike what some of his obituaries claim, Charlie Kirk was "not a champion of free speech," says @jeffsharlet.bsky.social, who details Kirk's support for McCarthyist censorship.
Making racial profiling great again!
What a jerk
Rereading this is quite the heartache. It is all coming true.
No, and no.
Honestly more representative of DC’s actual vibe than the government propaganda
What a good looking doggo!
Especially in the Oval Office, without a tie.
They’re Rich, They Travel and They Love to Complain www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/s... And these are the people either buying or running our government. Out of touch selfish ridiculous plutocrats.
This is exactly Zohran Mamdani’s message, yet key Democrats refuse to hear it either in rural America or in the nation’s largest city.
It’s not a feminine one either
Everyone but Zelenskyy was not too cheerful
Do these people really and truly believe that other countries pay these tariffs? Are they really that dim?
Does anyone but journalists actually read Trump’s drivel on his vanity social media platform? It’s so boring and juvenile. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
District Attorney of Philadelphia:
Israel’s only path to restoring its international standing will require a new government, a withdrawal from Gaza, acceptance of a two state solution, prosecution of Netanyahu and the architects of the Gaza genocide, and a lot of time. If it is possible.
Most reporting is just not up to the task of registering both that 1) the White House is *attacking* universities *as institutions* 2) the White House is working *with* universities’ boards to achieve *common goals* for remaking and weakening those institutions
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
Because they are NOT FIGHTING (old lady screams into void).
Former Green Beret officer who was engaged in humanitarian work in Gaza: “I witnessed the Israel Defense Forces fire a main-gun tank round from a Merkava tank into a crowd of people.”
Not me. I’d be raising hell if one of the most decent, smartest, genuinely nicest people I’ve ever taught or known was so much as questioned.
Students of Columbia in 1776 tore down a statue of King George that was on campus when the declaration of independence was announced there(It was named Kings College) and melted it down to make musket balls. Today that same university sadly decided to hand its balls over to a would be modern king.
Things I will tell my grandchildren not to do based on the current state of American society: 1) become a teacher like me and four generations of your elders 2) go to Columbia University becoming the fourth generation of our family to do so.
My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Aargh. Vengeance and deflection.
The thing about the Times is when you look like mamdani you are not owed any privacy even as a teenager while filling a confidential form for college but if you look like Jordan Lasker your identity must be protected even as a grown man while sharing stolen data for the purpose of neonazi propaganda
Are they teenage groupies at a concert or grown ass legislators?
And where is the Democratic Party condemning this ?!?!?!
These are the faces of the banality of evil.
As a New Yorker who has voted for both senators I am disgusted by their cowardice fighting Trump and their willingness to throw Mamdani to the fascist wolves. Must be all that PAC $ that has captured their metaphorical balls.
Part 2/2 of the video:
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
I came out middle class. Maybe because I mostly avoid meat?
Why are Democrats so bad at messaging? So feckless? Because they are careerists, just like the Republicans. Anyone who is actually idealistic is excommunicated from leadership by the establishment. See AOC, David Hogg, Rashida Tlaib, and soon Mamdani. Time for Jeffries and Schumer and the rest to go
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
“We’re the good guys,” I tell myself as a 6-year-old leukemia patient pees his pants in fear. I adjust my black mask and sunglasses in the mirror, making sure to hide my identity. “I am not evil,” I whisper.
As someone who grew up in the exact same micro-demographic as Zohran Mamdani -- the secular, somewhat privileged Indian intelligentsia of NYC -- it's wild to see people typecast him as some sort of Islamist identitarian. It's alien both to his campaign pitch and upbringing.
Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature
this is a remarkable interview Mamdani being on message, of course, but also Erin Burnett's combination of detailed preparedness, good faith journalistic antagonism, and real interest in having him expand on his ideas
I hope he stays kind. I hope he stays brave. I hope he has a ton of bodyguards.
david hogg off the top rope on the other site
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
OK, here is your one-minute primer on the whole concept of "trickle down economics," from the obituary of Fred Smith, the founder of Fedex. I mean, if you still can't see it, I have no hope for you.
2025 is like Herbert Hoover and George W Bush had a baby.
Good point below:
Alleging Israel has committed ‘war crimes’ suggests a recognizable event: that there is a war happening, and there are some crimes in it. Gaza is different. For our latest cover story, Suzy Hansen examines how the war in Gaza has upended decades of humanitarian law: nymag.com/intelligence...
Israel can take out an Iranian commander 1000km away with a drone missile through a single bedroom wall, without any other damage. But to target a Hamas leader a few kilometres away, they need to raze whole neighborhoods to the ground. Is it obvious yet?
After Musk’s dismantling of USAID, deaths can be counted by the hundreds of thousands. “If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
What an evil SOB
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t... Absolutely terrifying.
I’m being trivial I know, but it’s so refreshing to see Katie without news anchor hair and makeup. Chef’s kiss.
"The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a postcolonial African dictatorship."
Of 14,777 unique articles on the NYT's homepage over the 310 days from 1/1/24 to Election Day, 293 articles–almost one a day–focused on Biden’s age compared with just 27 articles focused on Project 2025, a ratio of 10.9 to one mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-yor...
I want to emphasize that this is 18,000 avoidable deaths per year *of Medicare enrollees.* They aren't in CBO's "uninsured" count — they're older people and folks with disabilities on Medicare who won't get extra financial help because of a proposed moratorium on a regulation.
In other words, ignorant fools.
You go girl!!
This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.
Barnard alum class of ‘71 here. Same old same old, but at least we were given pass/fail grades and allowed to remain in the dorms during our protests, unlike today when kids have 48 hours to vacate and no opportunity to salvage the semester.
Deeply saddened that the ENTIRE TEAM at NCI PDQ Cancer Information has been eliminated. Our evidence-based summaries were updated throughout the year with the latest research and supported informed decision making between clinicians & patients with cancer across the US. 🇺🇸
I don't think it's fully appreciated just how much Trumpism is a celebration of ignorance. Trump not only never learns but proactively avoids it. It's a braindead movement from the top down.
In the U.S. in 1825, *452* out of 1000 children born died before their 5th birthday. By 1925, that number was 135 out of a 1000 children. Today, in 2025, that number is *7* And it is entirely due to advances in medicine, public health, and technology. 9/
I know this isn’t the point but I can’t get over how bad his posture is.
There goes a lot of Shakespeare!
Is it my imagination or is Secretary Rubio pastier and puffier? Is that what moral vacuity does to one?
This man is the best of us, imprisoned by the worst of us.
This was my classmate. He was a student in my ethics class, and we used to sit next to each other. Most dedicated person in the class to legitimate justice for all people. He legitimately cared. I am so horribly heartbroken
NEW: Days after a court filing indicating the SEC's $150 million lawsuit against Elon Musk was moving forward over allegedly misleading investors ahead of Twitter purchase, the lead SEC litigator on the case, Robin Andrews, says on LinkedIn that he's out at the SEC after two decades.
We go live to the Heard and Mcdonald Islands for reaction from local residents about Trump's tariffs.
Orban gets rushed out of Budapest in a motorcade as his attempt to outlaw protests is totally ignored. Putin's puppet is likely finished. Just a matter of time now.
This.
I’m a 75 year old white woman, a tenth generation Quaker, and I and my daughter and 6 year old grandson are going to put our bodies on the line at the April 5th HandsOff! Mass mobilization. Let them come after me. My ancestors have my back.
I’m a 75 year old white woman, a tenth generation Quaker, and I and my daughter and 6 year old grandson are going to put our bodies on the line at the April 5th HandsOff! Mass mobilization. Let them come after me.
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
This!!
Different spanks for different ranks
Excellent
Every reference to Elon includes”the richest man in the world” as his primary identifier. I’m sure he loves that. Let’s drop that in favor of “man most capable of using money to buy whatever and whomever he wants regardless of legality or morality.”
Maybe they already did.
Perfect little toe beans
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Remember, his big donors are probably in good part the same as Columbia’s. They, and the NY Post are who he is courting.
So tired of hearing about 2026, a lifetime away. What are you doing for me, for the republic TODAY?
Resign. You are not up to the moment.
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
🔥 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
YES. And learn to recognize when a recipe is a recipe for failure.
AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.
Yup
Authoritarians govern through fear, not legislation. The simple fear of what they would do in certain situations can push even the opposition to capitulate. That’s success for them. We lose when we fold due to a hypothetical. We win when we challenge the REALITY that is hurting working people.
The proper message from voters: “I will note vote for any Democrat, or contribute to any Democrat’s campaign so long as Schumer is Minority Leader. Schumer must resign.”
@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social This is the moment. And you are both failing in your duty to meet it. A no vote on cloture is the Dems last chance for leverage and you are ceding it. Is it because this is what your big donors want? As one of your constituents I feel abandoned.
Totally regret my 2024 vote for Kirsten Gillibrand. What a weak leader, and head of the DSCC. Time for a new party. Between her, Schumer and Hochul the NY Dems are pathetic.
Just called her office again.