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So, to be clear, things Laura Loomer has the power to do: *conduct a purge of the National Security Council and get senior advisors fired *change State Dep policy/revoke visas for an entire ethnicity *find out about classified intelligence meetings and deny them to US Senators *block Cabinet hires
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i agree that it is genuinely hilarious to see incredibly weird little guys like Nate Silver claim they're more in touch with what Normal Americans think than your average Bluesky user is nothing is more abnormal in 2025 America than being a centrist with a well-paying media job
every time I see one of these I have to resist the urge to tell these guys that they optimized themselves to fuck men lmao
they’re so close
it's a shame that Biden's enabling of Israel's genocide made any possible salience of this go up in smoke
sure does feel like every time I see this man in front of a microphone lately my response is “thank fuck someone besides us is finally saying it”
reading The Thin Man and I just love how many times Nora makes jokes about Nick being Greek
The main problem with Bluesky isn't really the politics it's that a lot of people are really aggro for basically no reason, plus the problem that it's too political, too milennial, and too "nerd-culture"y
Near that same moment, the documentary quotes an anonymous Confederate soldier, surrendering to the US, "You may forgive us, sir, but we will not be forgiven. There is a rancor in our hearts, which you little dream of. We *HATE YOU*, sir." They sure meant it
This and everything Newsom’s office puts out is so desperately, staggeringly stupid and unfunny it makes me long for two death announcements.
ME: god, he’s looking so old. he looks fucking sick. his brain is mush. his skin looks like wet tissue. it’s gotta happen soon (100 years later) GIGANEWSCASTER: Hyperpresident Trump wins Tour de New France, shares embrace with wife Melania IV and infant son
I can't even summon the energy to be mad at these guys anymore, they're just the wrong people for this moment. Any Dem who wants to be a leader has to be for systematically breaking the right wing's power in this country. Tell me you'll nationalize car dealerships so I know you get it
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
It’s cool that this is just most media now.
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
Setting aside how ghoulish it is to post a video of this, it raises a moral and I suspect legal question. This is not a war zone, these are not enemy combatants. They are criminal suspects. We have Coast Guard cutters to interdict them. At what point is this not just summary execution?
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
it’s so cool that we had 2 incredibly unwell, close to death presidents in a row
Great Khan Pritzker Gets It
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Serious question: how does this happen? Pete Buttigieg did this repeatedly in 2020.
funny how this logic is not applied to anything else the Administration deems an existential threat, like the millions of immigrants who have never committed a crime
Trump II never even tried to build the mass consent necessary for authoritarian consolidation, they just assumed it was there because they won the popular vote
That is a crazy thing to post good lord
"Why Aren't Democrats Capitalizing on the Scandal of the Summer?" Trump, Israel, pedophilia, corruption. If you were to lab-engineer a scandal to hurt the president and the GOP, this is exactly what you would concoct.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
or CNN, or MSNBC, or whatever the hell cable news network just laying into politicians that actually have real ideologies
one of the things I curse Joe Biden for is empowering the most wretched, smug class of dem operatives I’ve ever seen. in a working political sphere their careers would have been erased from memory in a damnatio memoriae situation but no they’re on Fox attacking real politicians
I think a lot about The Coward Merrick Garland wringing his hands for 18 months about whether to get Trump, while a jury of normal ass people convicted him of 34 felonies
US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancel—in official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%
again we’re seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them
Interesting article on how the competing visions of post industrial America held by Trump and Biden are impacting JD Vance's hometown of Middletown, Ohio @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3I4x1Kv
Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies. I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
His trans daughter is on another magazine cover today
the fuel rods in the Chernobyl reactor:
DREAM is back and we need your help
I haven’t seen it and I may be visiting New York in October so
"He's not allowed to tweet as a condition of his bail." Congrats to Graham Linehan for that Hall of Fame-level bad-poster achievement.
Please do not go to a voluntary interview with Secret Service, plz never meet with any fed without a very good lawyer present, and plz definitely don't call the president a terrorist Nazi to SS when you voluntarily talk to them without even a bad lawyer present plz don't gamble on a grand jury
I don't think that BlueSky is pro-DNC but there is a strong contingent of self described ShitLibs who will insist that you're a Trump voter if you suggest the Democratic Party hasn't done enough to win over working class voters
HAHAHAHAHA
I’m weeping openly
jesus man, tell me you have no idea who Claremont is or JD Vance's record as a postliberal
Any excuses for Your Party’s reluctance to make a comment on trans rights applied equally, if not more, to @zackpolanski.bsky.social, who has won leadership of party where this debate is also ongoing, but he stepped up on day one and said, without equivocation, “Trans rights are human rights.”
took a look at the list that guy made to do the bluesky purges and like a third of that list is FT Alphaville which is hilarious. My brother in Christ it is a news outlet you should want them to post everywhere
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
the announcement at 2pm today...
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
If you were actually mistreated by federal agents multiple legal hurdles stand between you and compensation, but if you were fake mistreated you can just, like, ask the Trump admin for money. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
No kidding it’d be great if he drank a glass of water to rapturous applause again
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Okay but if I were don jr. I’d be stoking these rumors so I could buy “Trump is still President” at very low rates and make a bunch of money
I like how this could plausibly be anything from "I am resigning after a stroke" to "the us is invading Venezuela" to "I am using a new kind of pen"
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And yet a trace of the true self resides in the false self
probably the biggest applause moments (at least where it felt like from where i was sitting in the front section) were this abortion line, his gaza line, and then when troy talked about rights for the wabanaki. the mood was economic populism, but also one infused with justice for all
I want it to happen just as much as anyone else. Not in a looking for secret clues dem-anon way but in a much cooler guy way to be clear.
PATRIOTS
lmao turning off replies huh
thinking about the diary of Merer and getting emotional that the ledger of some middle ranking bureaucrat has become one of the most important documents we have to understand ancient Egypt
he was also banned from Stanford for a while for allegedly sexually harassing and abusing a student who he was "mentoring" when he was in his 30s though the case was later dropped just hanging out near the teens all day
joe lonsdale runs a libertarian think tank that has its central office in the student neighborhood next to the university of texas just a bunch of middle aged libertarians who could afford to be somewhere else, hanging out in the part of town with the drunk co-eds
also I’m sorry but this site absolutely has a problem with getting dogpiled by humorless scolds ALL the time on ANY sentiment you express! Twitter being morally bankrupt doesn’t make that go away and it’s something you have to face!
wow… throwing a queer Latinx organizer under the bus? sounds about white…
also to be clear the sentiment I espoused was “pray I don’t have to go in for jury duty” not like “jury duty is a bad system” or anything it was just inconvenient for me and work only covers 10 days of jury duty!
sorry I think it’s weird for people to take a moralizing tone in response to a common gripe that also involves scolding someone for the mere idea of complaining! especially because you’re leaving out easily the weirdest of these replies lmao
Blueskyism is the things I don't like, whereas leftism is the things I do like
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.
I finished reading a small history for the trials of the soviets after 1905 and something that gets drilled into you in how the Bolsheviks (and their Menshevik, SR allies) understood the power and importance of delegitimizing every single facet of the tsarist government. It creates *future* power
The Heavyside Layer folks, that’s what it’s all about they’re talking about it more and more, don’t go they say Mr Trump, but that’s where all the Jellicals go, we’re gonna do it the Heavyside Layer, no one’s ever done it. Grisabella very nasty and mean she lies she said but she didn’t
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
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
Like sorry but if your solution to any problem on here is that everyone needs to be nicer to New York Times people and not that we need more music recommendations and sports clips and general talking about random shit you are just living in a fantasy world, I disregard you.
This doesn't sound like Trump, it sounds like something from a right winger/conservative: simultaneously condescending, sarcastic ("what few people understand", "Just some simple facts for people to ponder") while obviously driven by the need to prove that the writer is smart (all the explaining).
Good lord I hate hearing about the city of New York
Man looks like he’s DYING
*Jesus* he looks bad
Labor is entitled to all it creates
RETVRN from naturally leavened bread made according to four hundred year old recipes to chemically leavened factory slop so soft you can sculpt it into little figurines (?)
Here’s some (US ethics-bound) pro tips for speaking to journalists at outlets that are known for following rules. 1. You can say “off the record:” they can’t publish based on your account but it tells them something someone else might be willing to risk telling them citably. MUST BE BEFORE INFO.
“Ana Mardoll reply guy” took me OUT
This is a real danger but to jamelle's point in this thread, folks often don't appreciate the scale of American elections: how many polling places, election workers, and decentralized redundancies, and how little of it is under any federal control. It far outstrips federal manpower in its vastness.
We gotta find a reasonable pretext to put this guy under the jail.
Substack wants — even more than its general friendliness to Nazi accounts — to lock you into its ecosystem. The longer you linger, the harder they are going to make it for you to leave and take your mailing lists/payment relationships with you. They’re actively fucking with your money
this was the democratic party strategy w/ trump a decade ago. they just thought most americans would never vote for trump. they thought it was good when he won the republican candidacy and viewed their win as inevitable.
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
One thing that the backlash to COVID has taught me is that nobody understands how risk works. The bars opened before the schools because going to a bar is an opt-in activity and going to school is required, not to mention schools being a place where germs are passed around all the time.
One of the asylum hotels is, in fact, at the end of my street and it's fine? It's on my way to the pub and like it's a hotel where people who deserve better are being housed? The only issue is how they deserve better.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
