‘Blast radius’ Best quote.
‘Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home’ -James Garfield
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‘Blast radius’ Best quote.
Could it get any whiter?
Who is that woman with the ridiculous smile on her face?
A calm good morning from this aquatic plant producing oxygen: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
2025 in America’s ‘heartland’ Wisconsin Not that it would make any difference but SCOTUS should be required to view this before their next attempt to strip the VRA because, we’re a ‘post-racist’ country and it’s not needed anymore.
Seriously, why would this be bad? The ‘West’ had its run of colonialism, genocide, world wars, climate destruction, mass extinctions, etc. It did some good too, but fighting the demographic change is a losing battle. Western women are making different choices, and we’re allowed.
Well done @NYT. Keep it up!
This’ll set Trump’s hair on fire.
Loathsome and nauseating, the lot of them.
Fester is such a great word.
More of this please @nytimes.com
Something something ignore the Epstein survivors’ presser something
The house goat’s reaction to missing her human is priceless... ♥️ #bluesky #nature #animals
I’ve missed statesmanship. So refreshing to see a grown up running for Mayor of NYC.
Looks like I’m not the only one worried.
The dog realises when the point has been won and celebrates... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky
Hear, hear!.
Thank you Judge Sooknanan. This is welcome news.
How Peter Thiel sees himself.
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👇🏽
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Domestic violence adjacent?
www.nhsp.dos.nh.gov/news-and-med... and this
Utter madness.
Fatality.
Creating enemies that will hate us with the heat of a 1,000 suns.
FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
‘Simplifies complex issues, creating a cult of personality & fostering a sense of belonging among followers, which can result in widespread cruelty and violence.’
Everywhere!
Good luck with that.
Unions aren’t perfect, but neither is democracy - I still back them both. They’re better than the alternatives.
The answer to ‘why is Trump enabling Netanyahu’?
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Building community.
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
Our money.
JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.” { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
🚨Priest uses his body to attempt to stop ICE vehicles in Broadview, Illinois outside of a detention facility that has refused entry to members of Congress.
So maddening. So, simply, heartless and cruel.
I wonder what the Log Cabin Republicans think about this.
I wonder what the Log Cabin Republicans think about this.
That fighting spirit with a nice dose of humor. Luv it.
Brasa. Brasa. Brasa for me! - Where do you go for Hmong?
‘Hasn’t golfed in a while’
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. https://cnn.it/4lS986O
hoo boy
The MAGA movement is focused on touting only the exceptional parts of our past “because having to look too closely at the disturbing parts of American history would mean having to look closely at the disturbing parts of themselves,” Clint Smith argues:
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Pro-active.
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Me, waiting for all the Epstein files MAGA promised on day 1.
📌 Scientists are not in the business of advancing missions antithetical to public health. ✊🏼
Just another reason to keep giving Netflix my money.
PBS News Hour is, hands down, one of the most worthwhile news programs. Support public media: www.pbs.org/passport/
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Would love to see some writing about if/how RFK, Jr. is profiting from all this.
Theil is buying our government.
Curious, how many years post divorce before you are no longer subject to the descriptive ‘Kellyanne’s former husband’? What’s the rule? :) Sorry, I just think it’s silly and ridiculous. SMH
This whole thread. A must read to understand the storm we’re in what to expect. Of course it’s bad news, but it’s always helpful to know what we’re dealing with. We will all need to gird ourselves.
This whole thread. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Again with the framing. Congress is not being prevented from acting. Congress is choosing to support this administration. This is a choice, and they’re choosing Trump.
But he’s not ‘preventing’ Congress. Congress has supported him. There is no ‘must’ do. The Republicans in Congress are not just allowing this, they’re supporting it.
Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force The journalist @radleybalko.bsky.social explains the mechanisms Trump is using to create a personal army. open.spotify.com/episode/3OTs... youtu.be/UcTZ_en5FTM?...
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
Too late. They already have.
look out USA
Thank you for speaking out.
I smell desperation.
LOL. But also, I always think it’s worth noting: We’ve got a list of 230,000 people thinking about running for office. It is telling there is no comparable pipeline of dream-smaller do-less candidates.
This argument is an Absolute Cinema... 👀😅🤣 #cat #catday #bluesky #animals
Ah, discovery. How sweet is that word.
Mike Huckabee is Trump’s Ambassador to Israel and is a Christian Zionist who believes, on religious grounds, (scary) that Palestinians have no right to live in Israel. He’s come right out and said it. I think these things are so shocking that it’s hard for people to believe them.
Jared also, less bluntly, said the same about developing Gaza because of its beautiful beachfront.
"There has just never been a president in recent American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump," says Chris Hayes.
Compromise suggestion: The President can redesign the Cracker Barrel logo, and the Fed can set interest rates.
‘People lie, documents don’t’ Norm Eisen Release the files.
Oui, oui, oui, oui, oui!
USA is 4.2% of the world’s population, but had 15% of the world’s Covid deaths. Riddle me that Trump.
Cool, release the Epstein files.
Trump's cabinet live broadcast has dragged on for over three hours now. 22 people are attending. That’s 66 hours of collective time from the most senior officials in the US federal government. No work has been done - just delusional Trump rants and sycophantry. The administration ending "waste".
Sigh. You’ll never go broke betting on the MSM normalizing and legitimizing Trump, no matter how far-fetched or ridiculous.
"The world can tell the difference now between a war being waged for the survival of the Jewish state and a war being waged for the political survival of its prime minister."
Every damn day.
Break the glass.
We need a leader to rally behind & that person has yet come to the fore. It certainly isn’t Schumer or Jeffries. The save the republic movement is massive but is & will be disjointed & unfocused until that person comes forward, & we need this to happen, like, yesterday. We need an opposition party.
Didn’t he say he wanted to take Gaza over and develop it?
“As we see the actions of Trump and his apparatchiks, does anyone think they’re going to this trouble to accumulate power so they can willingly hand it over in 2028? If the public tries to vote against them, will they go gently into the political night?”
We’re lucky he has absolutely no charisma. Unlucky in that he’s infinitely more disciplined and intelligent. These followers remind me of lampreys on a big fish. Opportunistic and parasitic.
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
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