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The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
More true than ever before
I’m not sharing this to scare people—though it’s fucking terrifying. I’m sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We won’t be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific background…
🚨BREAKING: James Talarico delivered a speech today that’s drawing widespread attention, with many saying it’s one every American should hear.
Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
This is my 95-year-old neighbor. He's been living alone since his wife passed away from cancer, and not long ago, he also lost his loyal companion dog. Now, every day, our chicken Hei Hei escapes the yard just to visit him. She sits with him, accepts treats, and lets him pet her like an old
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan in D.C. convened an emergency hearing on Sunday and ordered the operation to stop.The court made it clear— >> No child can be removed without proper legal process. >>The government must return the children to shelters, and deportations are suspended until further hearings.
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.
In 1987 the FCC overturned the fairness doctrine. In 1988 Rush Limbaugh started teaching conservatives how to hate other Americans they didn't agree with.
My preferred outcome is that the entire Belichick situation becomes funnier and funnier and so far so good
Marc Thiessen is the guy who’s so unaware that he writes about being willing to overlook the political commentary of artists, so long as he gets to hear them play their biggest hits and pretend the songs aren’t actually political statements I guess.
Trump did this
Marc Thiessen’s the guy who leaves concerts before the encore so he can get to his car before everyone else.
Marc Thiessen’s the guy who would go to a Rage Against the Machine concert and whine about them being too political.
Marc Thiessen goes to concerts wearing the tshirt of the band that’s playing.
Our former friends are laughing at us in private; our empowered enemies are laughing at us in public. Who but Trump could have brought such jolly unity to the world? by Marc Thiessen
Can Vance kill Trump with the same black magic he used on Pope Francis? We asked three MAHA moms at a Bob Evans in the north Cincinnati suburbs.
Should the president send the National Guard to Philadelphia?
nate silver calling this place insignificant is the final proof it has the juice and will win the presidency
if dem leadership doesn’t flood his campaign against Susan Collins with money like they did with Sara Gideon i’ll never forgive them. FINALLY we have someone who will connect with district 2 mainers in a way a neolib from freeport never could
Together with the labor movement of Maine, together with Bernie Sanders — We will defeat the oligarchy, and we will defeat Susan Collins.
Real talk, though, this is what can happen when Europeans surrender their actual identities to partake in the social and political advantages of "whiteness." Their "heritage" becomes corporate logos.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
“RIP Bozo” on a post-it note is perfect, no notes
see, that’s how you do it
I bet the White House staff is busy setting up a bunch of cardboard cutouts in the Oval Office like in Home Alone
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
Someone please kill me right now.
This film fucking rocks.
Here's the @filmforumnyc.bsky.social ad for their March 1985 New York theatrical run of FABULOUS STAINS. This was the film's first run in a top 10 media market.
Brilliant
The lack of ego Rep. Nadler is showing is a perfect example of putting service before self. This deserves so many props and respect. Thank you, @nadler.house.gov.
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Something like a fifth of the Continent of Africa speaks French, for entirely benign reasons, I'm sure. Texts on SE Asia are much more available in French than other European languages, again for completely benign reasons.
When the canary in the coal mine kicks, you don’t shrug, keep working, and put in an order on Amazon Prime for more vulnerable birds. You get the fuck out of the mine, and work on fixing whatever the issue so that it’s safe for canaries.
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
I am 53 years old and I am starting my 26th year as a professor at Princeton, which means I’ve now spent almost half my life here.
happy labor day
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Going to sit down for a nice chat about all the exciting, totally precedented and absolutely normal stuff happening over at the CDC. Being joined by hip hop artist Prop and @gorskon.bsky.social. What other show does that?
I won the Powerball. I was one of 2,405,311 people who won $4. Here's what it taught me about B2B sales.
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
if bluesky were really dying, it would invite us to its bedside to give us a letter, sealed with wax, for us to open one day,
Logged on on a holiday and caught blueskyism. pray for me
🤞Peter Thiel 🤞
hey anyone know where the button is for me to post the smell of this bread??
"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.
So are we in a Weekend at Bernie's situation right now?
A comfortable life used to be the American Dream. Not being a financial mogul. Not fighting for the top spot on the food chain. Working to get your share of the pie with the whip cream on top. Grabbing enough food to fill your plate, but leaving plenty on the table for others. Let’s do that again.
the baby has stolen something but doesn’t have the language skills to tell me where she put it. this is bullshit. she’s laughing at me
dear universe, if you are going to kill off multiple Big Bads at once, and by all means go for it, remember basic mixtape structure. don't go too hard all at once. let each track breathe and then keep the energy growing. you get one shot. do it right, and she'll definitely fuck you after prom.
i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.
It is wild that the Washington Post -- which claims "Democracy Dies in Darkness" -- has remained completely silent for more than a day about Trump's latest attack on free and fair elections. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
homeschoolers smugmuggin their own outcomes, wild stuff
No joke. Homeschooling should be illegal.
Rudy Giuliani just set a world record in the field of Statement That Invites More Questions Than It Answers.
Periodic reminder I was tortured in childhood over autism and that’s what RFK Jr is trying to usher back in
Has anyone asked RFK Jr for his recommendations on Trump's situation?
Michelle Obama: “Eat more veggies and exercise!” RFK Jr: **bans vaccines** Tom Bartlett: “These are the same thing.”
Silencing the Witnesses to the #GazaGenocide theorkneynews.scot/2025/08/30/s...
Try to imagine life in 2641. This is why archives, museums and libraries are AMAZING. End.
😢 THERE IS ONLY SOURDOUGH 😭
I have bad news about who compiles such statistics.
who is advising this woman yikes starmagazine.com/scooter-brau...
Love to rebound from an internet fiasco by dating the person the Internet’s most notorious stan base hates most in the world.
every day I understand a little more why Arya Stark kept that list
lol, this appellate judge just smacking Alan Dershowitz around like a little cat toy. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
For years and years I believed Ted Cruz was evil but brilliant, because I read a quote once from one of his liberal Harvard law professors, who said Cruz was the smartest student he’d ever had. Then one day I looked it up and realized it was Alan Dershowitz.
A top NYPD official in charge of transportation is under investigation for an alleged hit and run of a parked car — and then trying to cover it up, THE CITY has learned. buff.ly/5WLtPDK
You know who benefits most from antivaccine conspiracy theories as national health policy? Our enemies.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
my bluesky
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
Man loves ice cream
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
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These are public employees who decided to leave rather than accept jobs where they actually did nothing. Remember that the next time they tell you that government employees are lazy and inefficient.
Disabled people: RFK Jr. is a dangerous eugenicist who wants people to die. Nondisabled people: DP: Here are examples of his eugenicist policy. NP:... DP: He actually wrote all this out in a book years ago. NP: Hey why can't I get a Covid shot??
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
The U.S. is one of the world's biggest human rights violators under Trump. Well done, maga.
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
