cannot WAIT for Roberts, Alito, and Thomas to tell me that the tariffs must stand because King Edward once expelled the English Jews
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cannot WAIT for Roberts, Alito, and Thomas to tell me that the tariffs must stand because King Edward once expelled the English Jews
tamalou, c'est moi
but that was like--2 weeks ago
OF COURSE Big Green Egg is ATL based. OF COURSE
I thought the "performative male" hype was supposed to be making fun of dudes that are superficially allies, but do not actually mean it?
I am a notorious Bruce Springsteen hater but I checked out all this "Electric Nebraska" hype and--why the hell was THIS not the song that got released? youtu.be/9YNufvgPP20?...
Wyden: "This committee's unwillingness to swear this witness is basically a message that it is acceptable to lie to the Senate Finance Committee about hugely important questions like vaccines."
hey Texas friends is this for real
me reading these headlines
I am just so tired of the obsession with bipartisanship. Just once I want “we do not negotiate with terrorists”
This is also why the guy that yells BUILD THE WALL beats a party that can offer you a tax credit that you need to file to claim and might be worth a few bucks a week at best.
Once again I am begging the Democratic Party to realize that “we will talk a big game about diversity/civil rights but definitely sell them out just to seem like less odious versions of the Republicans” is not the inspiring message they think it is
Having been subjected to Earl-Sears & Spanberger ads for a bit, I gotta say I am disappointed at Spanberger’s ads. The attack ads are all like EARL-SEARS IS FOR TRUMP WHICH IS EVIL. But the positive ads are “Spanberger is bipartisan!” But, like, the other party is Trump?
literally the *only* table in my book for civic technologists is an outline of the 3 branches & 4 levels of US governments & what they do - even people who geek out on government don't know a lot of this!
Career public service employees & highly-educated public servants assumed people knew the difference between federal, state & local government, or even between executive & legislative. They had little idea people didn’t know what was controlled by nonprofits or businesses, not by government at all.
I am way more pessimistic.
God I wish I thought as much of the American populace as you do
The new PACER hack means new standing orders in 94 district require paper filings but don’t require clerks to file electronically when the documents are eventually unsealed. So they’re lost forever to the public. This is bad for democracy. Congress & the Courts should fix this.
Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left
Don’t worry CBS Sunday Morning will still be cozy, just way more racist
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
www.inc.com/jeff-bercovi...
so this Nats game is the Nasim Nuñez Game yeah
Holy smokes, just saw that @pcgamer.com covered the Palestine games charity bundle too!!! Thank you so much for the coverage!! ❤️ www.pcgamer.com/games/you-ca...
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
We eradicated malaria and Florida found new ways to make fever swamps
RICK ASTLEY THE AVIGNON MORRISSEY
rick astley and blossoms have the chance to do the funniest thing
Publix operates in a geographic region where he is not wholly persona non grata lmao
Let's roll some tape of the last "just following orders" gang
Chance for a proper Smiths schism? @caseym.org
the cartoon is plainly out of line because the white English guy cannot be under the ground he is very obviously driving a white van somewhere
glorious kegger decor
America is so great that our vampires aren't tyrants like Putin and Xi and Kim but billionaires like Peter Thiel!
well this should silence the accusations that he's in Trump's pocket www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...
How about free health care for all, free child care, higher wages, and more housing?
One of my favorite stories about Sparta, mostly because I find it funny that most people cut out what happens after the "If".
In Our Time is one of the best things in the Anglosphere
Fucking disaster that you have to listen to it with commercials now because the paperpusher bastards shut down BBC Sounds.
This is the end-state of the kind if suburban white guy “why aren’t I special” that led to this Green Day song youtu.be/cDBlqu6KF4k?...
Ruin a movie by making it about Gary “How Green Was My Gary”
there should be more social networks not fewer tbh
Told my teen I hear the first word of the chorus in Maps like HWAET and the pitying LOOK they GAVE me out of the corner of their young eyes. Sigh.
The “broken” immigration system stays broken because it suits powerful people that way. It creates a class of precarious workers that can be instantly and arbitrarily liquidated with little fear.
Not inconceivable someone could say that drug gangs on the open sea, like pirates, are hostes humani generis…
Oh just wait till you deal with a domestic violence case where the abuser uses his victim’s lack of status to prevent the victim from seeking help!
It is routine. Employers routinely use immigration status against workers as a form of abuse. This is of course illegal, but it is difficult to convince a precarious worker to assert his rights by litigation.
“Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this Continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
My concerns are a lot more pedestrian. The agricultural sector depends on migrant workers. This makes it harder to know what the going wage is. So now you’ve got landlords in position to cheat migrant workers and also threaten to have them arrested for immigration violations if they disagree.
In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social
That’s all we had time for at school. But we sure as hell took our time with the Era Of Good Feelings
If they enforced laws against employers and landlords the way they enforce them against workers we would have new laws tomorrow
Also if you have to commute an hour to work each way to work an 8 hour job it’s really more like working 10 hours but getting paid for 8
One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
Funnier than any joke we could write
If scientists are loving Bluesky, but Glenn Greenwald and Matt Yglesias hate it, I know I’m in the right spot.
It's not that you can't make fun of Trump, and so forth. It's that the broad public is sick to death of people who sound like that. Taunting and sparring are both ways to fight but only one draws blood.
RFK Jr. is a heroin user who eats roadkill and has boasted about sleeping with hundreds of women.
Spotted - something good happening
Not even watching but federal judges dream of the kind of job security big league umps get
Also, this is the reasoning of a child: "You say crime is down but actually, crime is still happening." Why is everyone with any power in America allergic to simply saying that Trump's actions are bad, full stop? Everything has to be a bizarre dance around obvious realities
Stop fucking reposting fascist snuff films goddamn it.
I have had to watch video of people getting killed over and over and over as part of my profession. It destroys your soul. So knock it the fuck off.
Man I WISH he dressed up as a regular voter for fun
Stopping the fascists isn’t bipartisan, so nah
Everything okay, Arlington? This is on Columbia Pike at S. Glebe, btw. Also plausible that the Wendy's has become self aware and is in its own personal crisis.
They are absolutely terrified that the ghost of Ronald Reagan will kick their asses again.
FUCK, man.
Arlington voted no is a new-to-me piece of the lore
When I swore in as a US Citizen, I was glad that there were people there to help me register to vote right away. That is how I was able to cast my ballot for @beyer.house.gov. I hope Congress gives the admin hell for this and gets voter registration back at citizenship ceremonies
WTF? This is part of the ceremony of citizenship. These people aren’t against illegal immigration, they’re against legal immigration as well, and always have been.
Atrophy?
“Mind your own business, scratch your own *galís*” (my mom)
No. Not possible
This cannot be real
I have remembered
I will add that whatever happens in elections next year, no one honestly believes that a Speaker Jeffries would be able to stand up to the fascists.
My most bitter criticism of the 111th Congress was: “they did a health care bill and named a bunch of post offices”
America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive
DEBATE MODERATOR: Our next segment is called Remember Some Guys. Former Governor Cuomo, please begin. CUOMO: Alex Rodriguez? (crowd grumbling and booing; hot mic picks up someone saying "not a Guy") MAMDANI: Lucas Duda (crowd going nuts)
The Trump admin is now moving to effectively double the number of immigration judges by citing flimsy legal authority to deputize hundreds of totally inexperienced military lawyers to take these jobs. Notably, immigration law is infamously complex, often described as second only to tax law.
You couldn't have this press conference tomorrow, when we need Nick Castellanos to hit a ton of home runs?
It was Donald Trump’s dying wish. He looked at Tommy Tuberville with tears in his eyes and begged him to let our space command workers salute to a confederate flag.
Fellow ‘Bluesky Elders’ will remember that the site was set up to pivot away from quote-tweets and dunks, but unfortunately I’ve found the perfect image to quote-tweet dunk someone with.
Sports talk radio mentality, as demonstrated by guys like Stephen A Smith, Pat McAfee, and Skip Bayless is really terrible and y’all need to tune out & stop watching them
The Piaggio Ape (ah-peh, Italian for “bee”) is a Vespa (“wasp”) with a truck bed. They’re generally subject to some limits as to where they can be operated (not on motorways/only on roads w low speed limits). Here in the USA that job goes to Gators (but a Gator isn’t street legal)
If religion was the opiate of the masses, Sorkin was fentanyl for Clintonites
It's certainly better that the NYT is running a story like this than a lot of the things they run, but I would really, really, really like to know why they continue to use the word "falsehoods" instead of "lies." It's a word no one ever, ever uses in real life. bsky.app/profile/rmac...
In the 90s the only people talking about the Posse Comitatus act were right wing white supremacist prepper militiamen
Can’t have too much democracy, might lead to good things
The isetta was not all that popular in Europe either, lol. But you will be amused to know that a new Isetta exists under the European “light quadricycle” rules www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a437...
There was a brief shining moment during that hyphen when we tried something slightly different
Another “who journalists talk to” point I think matters here, esp w respect to crime: Major papers rarely interview those actually affected by crime and enforcement. They’ll interview cops, who obv favor toughness. They’ll interview DA, who mostly are self-servingly/selection-bias the same.
Unless it’s just of and fully depreciated. I’ve kind of wanted an 80s rolls
The weirdest thing to me is people that buy new rolls Royce cars with the intention to drive them themselves.
I hope I never live a life that leaves so many people breathlessly awaiting news of my death