Big opening for, say, Brad Lander www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
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Big opening for, say, Brad Lander www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
more anti-Trump/Labor Day rallies in San Diego County:
Yea, see this is way better than the ones his official account was putting out this weekend bsky.app/profile/magg...
to flood them with college educated libs and overwhelm their small populations to get us some senators
"build new state of the art hospitals" is a lot easier and more exciting to visualize as something that benefits everyone than "re-open the small, run-down rural hospital that closed in a specific location" bsky.app/profile/jimj...
A similar idea that I think Freddie DeBoer (lol) originally came up with was opening a series of non-military West Point-style free federal universities in small red states. American College of Medicine in West Viriginia, American College of Engineering in Wyoming etc bsky.app/profile/skat...
yup bsky.app/profile/unav...
only time ive ever eaten there was when we were supposed to go to miguels but there was a 90 minute wait both there and at brigantine
Wait I just tried it and oh no bsky.app/profile/ross...
I think you can either partner with an existing non-profit or have the feds directly administer them but ya no shady private equity or for-profit hospital companies in this plan bsky.app/profile/trum...
right?
I'm really confused by this because 1) it was already extensively reported that he dictates them rather than type him himself so there should be a staffer or staffers who knows the style well 2) even the laziest Trump admin MFer now knows some AI thing that can competently copy the trump style
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
"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
I'm pretty confident in their ability to do an orderly handoff to Vance if he dies and not all confident in their ability to manage a situation where Trump is incapacitated or in a coma or whatever bsky.app/profile/erne...
That's a decent theory too. bsky.app/profile/treb...
it still feels like 1985 inside the one on harbor drive. i kept looking around for where the smoking section was
It's also possible Trump is totally fine and just disappeared for inscrtuable Trump type reasons but I think that grows less likely with every passing day
its bizarre, especially considering the spots immediately across the street are equally overpriced but have amazing views
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
The only people on the route who looked pissed at the protest instead of supportive were the people on the patio of the claim jumper, which tracks somehow
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
Pretty reasonable after he saw how the media treated Biden after he was raspy and stuttery.
Its impossible to know what is happening exactly with Missing Trump but a reasonable interpretation of the available info is he had a stroke or mini stroke and is slurring his speech and doesn't want to be seen in public in that condition.
One of the absolute worst ways to go
Hell ya
Part of the reason im convinced so many US news publications are primarily ideological, rather than "motivated by ratings/clicks" is so few have pushed back in any way whatsoever against X and Meta throttling outgoing links.
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 refuse to vaccinate your dog for rabies, you should lose the right to have a pet.
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.)
The people who control our information environment want to help Trump so have waged a years long propaganda campaign to turn his most deadly disaster into something else.
Beautiful day in Trenton today. #Freedom #Hope @50501movement.bsky.social @nj50501.bsky.social @njindivisible.bsky.social
@50501movement.bsky.social Santa Clarita, CA turned out on this hot Labor Day morning…
very well organized march. they did a great job
If you can be told what you can see or read Then it follows that you can be told what to say or think Twitter is a machine that tells you what you can see and what you can say.
(and for 99% of users, what you see as well. yes yes i am sure you personally are one of the special elites who only uses lists or avoids the for you feed or whatever, thats fine. very few other users do that)
it's so frustrating because the contention is always "libs wanted a hugbox without criticism on it" which totally elides the actual objection people have to vichy twitter, which is its a machine where an evil billionaire controls which of your posts other people get to see bsky.app/profile/wack...
Nice 👌
for the record i did not create this meme. the kool aid guy is mtsw fan art (that i've reposted many times)
yup. super positive atmosphere
The scary headlines about "Chorus, a sEcReT dArK mOnEy gRoUp" have been absolutely wild to watch. Because I'm in Chorus, & it's been a godsend. Without it, I wouldn't be able to cover the US's massive modern-day farm slavery problem- at all. youtu.be/f5UwwtrGdak
never get sick of seeing the self-own of someone posting something negative about bluesky while simultaneously censoring its name because they site you're posting on instead algorithmically buries any post or account that mentions one of its competitors
i wish i could've paused longer at the stage but by that point my kids were starting to lose it (they recovered a few blocks later when we got some water and snacks from volunteers)
"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.
it was huge, great protest bsky.app/profile/scot...
The Washington Post is currently burying coverage of a top-20 mass protest in American history under eight opinion pieces and 10 stories, including "We ranked 5,700 holidays. Which one’s most popular on your birthday?" and "This California city plans to spend nearly $400,000 to get rid of its geese"
they like Trump and want to help him and telling the many, many people who understand the world through the filter of the NY Times or Washington Post that the real world is full of anti-Trump protesters would not help Trump or help him win.
they are threatened by anyone who lives in reality instead of the algorithmicly-curated simulacrum they've constructed for themselves.
always here, part of the SD Maritime Musuem
incidence of actual crime has gone down but people hearing about or seeing crime has only gone up, first with television and then with social media, amplified in recent years as the algorithms have been taken over by reactionary oligarchs
Normal guy: what a huge protest, amazing Me: thats the ship they used to film Master and Commander (behind the bigger ship with the white sails) bsky.app/profile/iwil...
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
put your kid on the fucking bus this shit is so stupid
one of the things i noticed at the protest today: a *lot* of "Yes on 50" signs, chants etc. Whoever says there's no energy behind it just because the opponents have sent mailers out already isn't paying attention.
it was awesome, despite an unusually hot day. incredible vibes bsky.app/profile/bark...
I didn't get a sense of the scale until we looped through Horton Plaza and came out the other end and I saw there were still 4 blocks worth of protesters looping in on the other side bsky.app/profile/wren...
Absolutely huge turnout again. Hard to get a sense from the middle of the march but it's at least 12 blocks long
hell ya bsky.app/profile/bark...
Schatz cooking his brain on Vichy Twitter. many such cases.
"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
bump
its interesting to compare this to the scant evidence that "BIDEN HAS PARKINSON'S" had behind it
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Trump only abides by contracts with the rich. Wall Street will celebrate this action. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? Striking healthcare workers OR greedy CEOs? $25/hr for hospitality OR $100B for ICE? Working class OR billionaires? Join us Labor Day, Sept 1 @ 10 AM @ Waterfront Park to demand a world that puts people over extreme profits RSVP: bit.ly/sdlaborday2025 #WhichSideAreYouOn
second-ever Substacker here: when we talked in the summer of 2017 they promised they'd never do this
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Look I have no idea when it's gonna happen. But I do know if it happens tomorrow and you're not at one of the big Labor Day protests when it does, you're gonna regret it for the rest of your life.
Still think about "her placenta falls to the floor" being a lyric in a hit song
Allison, 20, has been detained for six months at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. She had nearly given up her legal fight due to health issues and unsanitary conditions at the facility.
NATIONWIDE PROTESTS tomorrow, September 1st. Find a protest near you by clicking this link findaprotest.info
they’re transparently gleeful about the performative occupation of American cities
And even under W, when The Greatest Generation FDR liberals had begun dying off, the memory was still strong enough that his attempt to privatize Social Security was a huge public relations disaster that helped end his effective Presidency early
...to the extent that the GOP Presidents after FDR mostly didn't challenge the New Deal consensus rhetorically - even Reagan ran as a disaffected New Dealer who sold his flavor of conservativism, absurdly, as the true inheritor of FDR's legacy. Only Goldwater openly challenged it (and got stomped)
the thing that was terrifying to them about FDR wasn't so much the policies themselves (which were, of course, far short of socialism or communism) but that they were incredibly popular and lead to electoral dominance until FDR's death (and even somewhat after)
man’s never met a press camera he didn’t want to be in front of and has been calling into every right wing radio station and cable show to rant for decades, if he’s doing neither, something weird is up
To be fair, Tebow was also an old school type guy (quarterback who couldn't throw good) bsky.app/profile/anna...
Flights to international destinations and in premium classes are still selling out, while domestic and main-cabin sales softened across airlines...United Airlines said premium cabin revenue in the most recent quarter increased 5.6% “while the economy cabin was negative.” www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
Linsanity was kind of the culturally inverted version of Tim Tebow-in-the-NFL where part of the reason it was compelling to watch and talk about was precisely because he wasn't actually very good but was getting decent results anyway.
yes exactly tho I kinda hate that we've settled on the "high trust vs low trust" terminology since the supposedly "low trust" group is hilariously trusting! they are defined by being gullible, credulous rubes who trust claims by others instead of critically interrogating them
I went to listen to Pete’s federal forum yesterday at the Nebraska State Fair. He touted $50 billion for rural hospitals, but failed to mention rural hospitals are projected to lose about $150 billion. He’s giving us $30 but taking away $100. Total B.S.
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i thought it was weird that they had this slide in the training but it makes sense now
american spirits, things of that nature
ive watched it like 3 times it rules
not the first person to make this observation but its rules that the "i wont let my body temple be defiled by putting seed oils or processed food in it" people and the "let me go behind the gym to inject these steroids i bought from a guy i met here" people have merged into the same group.
that's right
i mean not hard to imagine Noem doing literally any appalling thing you can think of once you hear the dog story! bsky.app/profile/gh-k...
Yes bsky.app/profile/nich...
that was schilling
i once got one that was like "is it discrimination to criticize your italian co-worker for always microwaving smelly italian food in the breakroom?"
i want know more about the deal Rob Manfred made with Trump
Hell ya
Yes! bsky.app/profile/dash...
Fair!
It was eye opening when I understood a lot of fans see the coaches as the protagonists of college sports and basically understand the competition as being about who can most effectively discipline (mostly black) young men
San Diego Transit Month starts tomorrow. Find a fun event to join! I'll be at transit trivia. sdtransitmonth.org
I get what you're saying but a huge market for these type of birthday reminders are like, real estate agents and other sales guys who send out birthday cards to their clients and for that use case "remove dead people from the database" seems useful and sensible
I'm going to this Labor Day rally in downtown San Diego, are any of you planning to go?