I'm a cat like that. She/her NW Mississippi, Memphis-made, "knows just enough to be absolutely insufferable", if you see Roger Wicker, tell him I said he's no Thad Cochran.
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The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
They are throwing something out of the Lincoln bedroom like it's a goddamn frat house. I'm so tired of it.
All the things that make progressiveism unappealing like a marked lack of Nazis, sure. The only problem with this place is we don't have enough shitposting on main and I would say be the shitposter I want to see but I am not funny like that.
"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.
I bet the White House right now looks like that scene in The Dark Crystal where all the skesies are waiting for the emperor to die.
If only there had been some group of people who could have warned Americans that this was going to happen if they elected Trump. Oh well I guess NPR will never know if this could have been averted.
Well now you know how the NY Times would airbrush Dr Mengele
The Covid vaccine that saved millions of lives is worse than the Iraq War in terms of destroying public trust because the right successfully engendered deep paranoia about it in order to keep the pandemic going and hurt Biden. They killed Americans to hurt him. This is our fault?
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
But of course, I have a more cynical take: "It would also lessen polarization and alienation, which is what MAGA influencers depend on to build their audiences. "Right-wing pundits encourage self-harm in their audiences, and they laugh all the way to the bank." www.salon.com/2025/08/28/t...
A university's most precious long-term asset (faculty) is the same population of workers that most universities do everything they can to render precarious, anxious, and isolated. I'm a consultant now, give me a million dollars
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
Hoping Jake Tapper and Alex Johnson enjoy a long, savory, uncomfortable bratwurst this Labor Day.
And still the conservatives cry more. More abuse, more degredation, more dehumanization, more cruelty. And more is never enough. We cannot feed their savagery any longer.
We are in an unprecedented time--when most people's needs are simply not being addressed by politicians, because addressing those needs will upset the uber-wealthy who hold the purse strings of political donations.
I mean when they're right they're right.
@jamellebouie.net asked if he was actually a foreign agent here to weaken and topple the US government, what would he be doing differently, and the answer again and again is nothing.
This isn't possible for the Democrats to do, not because it's not legal but because theyre too afraid of being called partisan. But it's the only thing that I want them to do.
It makes me so angry man like this is the real world why are they still talking like people aren't actively being disappeared??
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
SAD! KNOW NOTHING NEWSOM NOT ONLY IMITATES TRUMPS "TWEETS" BUT ALSO HIS FASCIST POLICIES! PATHETIC! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Lol yes I can. That's how voting works. We elect the state reps that run the party. Lolol. You're just refusing to get involved and youve let me get outvoted by old people.
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Yes they are. They vote in the primaries. That's how they participate in the party. Voters are responsible for elevating these Democrats. Again and again and again. I didn't elect any of them; I am unconsentingly represented by Republicans at every level of government.
A lot of us are.
Democratic leadership maybe.
Other Dems: Why can't y'all talk like this? Kat Abughazelah strikes me, a liberal Mississippian with a VPN, as the kind of person who would not actively feed me and my loved ones to the GOP. Someone who wouldn't write us off as lost. I'd like to vote for someone like that.
I can't believe any Democrat would THINK of allying with Elon Musk. I won't take money from the guy who does a Hitler salute. It's really that simple.
This fight requires a certain class of people to recognize they can use their privilege now and commit to elevating everyone and investing in the marginalized, or sit back and bicker among themselves and go about their days until the fascists come for them.
If we only had the determination, discipline and understanding of the sacrifice needed, like the civil rights movement did. JMO
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
I voted for Harris. I'm a proud Democrat. I'm also a leftist. And I live in Mississippi, that's why I haven't responded yet. Y'all have fed us to this machine here for decades and we keep voting anyway, so maybe watch who you're talking to.
When Harris and Biden emphasized their positive economic record, everyone screamed at them about how they didn't benefit. It was a scandal. Trump is allowed to simply lie without any consequences at all.
These are not Joanna eggs!
They're literally taking our votes away and the best Democrats can do is say well take their votes away.
Trump is gonna regret coining the term "groceries."
But I don't want to be busier
Someone called Hellsing a deep cut 😭
Babylon the great.
anyway I stand by this bsky.app/profile/audr...
The only reason for Emil Bove to be still showing up for Trump administration photo opps (in this photo from Trump’s D.C. takeover, peeking out at top right) is that Emil Bove understands himself to be part of the Trump administration on an ongoing basis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Blow up the government and then get out of town. Treasonous snakes.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
If Ashli Babbitt had lived she should have been charged with attempted murder before she even made it out of the hospital. Her family is sick. Trump is a sick man. This is a humiliation ritual for the Air Force.
Ashley Babbitt was shot and killed while trying to climb through a window to attack American elected representatives. They were not having an impromptu town hall. She was not climbing through that window to go talk to them. She's a traitor and it's shameful that her traitor family is demanding this.
Has anyone drawn up articles of impeachment against Robert Kennedy Jr.? Just drawing them up and trying to force a vote would change the discussion surrounding him. Every Democrat in Congress should express support for impeaching and removing him. So should every 2026 Democratic candidate.
I've had a Google Alert set on Missouri AG Andrew Bailey for a couple years. His aggressive (and at times extralegal) attacks on abortion, local Democrats, trans people often get slapped down in court. But winning wasn't the point. The point was building a rep. Now he's headed to help run the FBI.
"Pregnant people" may not be much in use, but should be! It's defensible! Trans men and nonbinary people exist, they are not women, and they need medical care that respects their identities. (Pregnant people also points to the radical idea that even women who have had sex are still human beings.)
Again a story so outrageous it should have been a 6 month scandal demanding apologies and reparations for Trump DID NOT MENTION HIS NAME.
I would like to remind people Trump literally posted Obama’s personal address and a lunatic follower of his showed up there the next day armed to the teeth. You might not have heard about it because places like the NYT never reported it (they reported the gunman but not the Trump part at all!)
Mississippi is a one party consent state so if you call Tate Reeves office to tell him to bring the MS National Guard back here and you get that woman who's been hanging up on people, make sure you're recording so we can all enjoy it.
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
I love living in an international pariah state
We simply do not have a society when this happens. We have a war where the aggressors act with total impunity and the victims are our neighbors.
Impossible to put into writing what should happen to the agents whose job is taking fathers from daughters, but you can certainly think it.
So who are you talking to?
Most of my family is poor and work. I fare better a tad bit but still at the bottom of the threshold that is considered middle class. All of us, the entire family, voted for Harris.
Can I talk to the journalists who scream about "working class" for a minute.
"Meet some dipshits who believe garbage" is my least favorite newspaper article.
And the Pod Save America guys know *exactly* what they are doing with this lowest common denominator hateful traffic churn garbage. It's the Ben Shapiro and Sneako model of ragebait. They're not even innovators in the field. Lame and awful.
I think there's a core problem with the idea that anyone - **especially straight men** - feels entitled to "debate" the existence and rights of trans people.
Kids get shot up at school: "I'd prefer a dangerous freedom to safe tyranny" Someone does a wheelie on a bike in Washington D.C: "Harold, call the National Guard"
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
This is not a war zone. American cities, for all the histrionics of frightened, angry conservatives, are not war zones. This is fucking absurd.
Republicans would prefer we blame each other rather than the people truly at fault for rising costs—the GOP and billionaires.
One night, shortly after my future husband moved in with me, I forgot about my clothes and left them in the washer. Without being asked or even me mentioning it he moved my clothes from the washer to the dryer and hung up my bra to air dry. I was so stunned I cried. I never felt more loved.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some FEMA employees who signed public letter of dissent are put on administrative leave.
"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 @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
When order is restored to this country they should sit in front of Congress and answer questions about how they systemically violated the rights of Americans guaranteed by the Constitution for partisan power. They should be asked if they can identity photos of Amber Thurman and Nevaeh Crain.
Never forget - John Roberts and his MAGA #SCOTUS gave DOGE access to social security database via a shadow docket order on a Friday after (perhaps hoping lot of folks wouldn’t notice). SCOTUS enabling of DOGE access to social security data needs to be an unseverable part this story.
Sure hope the media will remember who allowed DOGE to access social security data. This all goes back to John Roberts and his MAGA #SCOTUS - and the media not mentioning that part is not telling us the whole story. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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This is the American president talking about an American city. In my lifetime I never thought I would see this. In his first term it was a scandal when he called another country a shithole. He's not going to get one question about it.
If it's not, I think we have to figure out and immediately fix whatever that problem is so it stops being in the way. Because good grief.
I keep thinking for this money how many shelters and addiction programs and subsidized housing units and after school programs could we have funded?
deploying highly trained soldiers at the cost of millions of dollars per day to do light janitorial duty really will make the capital cleaner and is the kind of thing they would impeach a democratic politician for doing. trump always gets to play on easy mode with the unlimited money cheat
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
Trump was literally convicted of defrauding lenders on a massive scale and it’s been completely forgotten, as our political media thrills to Trump weaponizing uncharged penny-ante, likely-accidental mortgage application misrepresentations against his enemies.
A big lie convinces conservatives to attack a country that didn't attack them, believing they'll be welcomed as liberators. Removing opposition with no regard to competencies. Installing oligarchy to run basic services. Calling mission accomplished prematurely. We've been here before.
Refusing to allow Republicans to break the law is not a fairness issue. I'm so tired.
If I was seeking a candidate for 2028 and a leftist said, "I am absolutely not going to vote for X, I don't trust that guy" and I find their reasoning persuasive, I would simply decide he's going to be a viable candidate that will pull our coalition together, and keep looking.
Trump called game over on their LARP. It was only a LARP. They never believed any of it, they cried and screamed and spent years in a paroxysm of rage about phantom children and then as soon as Donald Trump said the game is over they just walked away. Obscene.
Dems are apparently "looking for a platform" when the answer is right there: Stop running away from thing that actually help people. Food, housing, healthcare, no genocides, everyone's rights and bodily autonomy protected, a livable world, and all of those things viciously, deftly defended, always.
This is because conservatives are basically children who can't hear the word sex without thinking it's dirty, and they refuse to grow up no matter how much their actual children need from them.
everyone should block @thomaspayne.bsky.social
Folks, if you are in this situation where you posted something that was wrong, presumably inadvertently, there is really only one option: point out the error, take responsibility, delete the post.
John Brown was out there on Jedi mode
i love capitalism! so many choices. you got walgreens who won’t fill your hrt on religious grounds and cvs who won’t cure your hiv because they think gay people should die. i can’t choose!
YouTube is trying to beg for forgiveness instead of ask for permission. It’s all because Google is trying to force people to adopt AI. “Don’t be evil” —> “Be evil”
Please read this whole thread from a good friend of mine.
HEY WHAT IF SOMEONE AT GILEAD LEAKED THE PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE LENACAPAVIR JAB AND ENDED HIV FOREVER
The feeling I had looking at these images was a lot like what it felt like when we saw the pictures from Abu Ghraib.
it's crazy that being like "how do i explain gay couples to my kids?" isn't an unthinkably embarrassing to say in 2025. it's actually incredibly easy to explain, that should be like indignantly saying "how am I supposed to explain to my kids where the sun goes at night? did a bird steal it?!"
The state that brought you Dobbs had the highest infant mortality rate in the country. How much longer are we going to have to put up with the bad faith arguments of the right? Is this what a pro-life state looks like?
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