can't wait to see all the gifts they will be bearing just all trying to one-up each other with how much gold they can present
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can't wait to see all the gifts they will be bearing just all trying to one-up each other with how much gold they can present
This feels disturbingly accurate. It's NOT a constitutional crisis in the sense that everyone with power has simply agreed, tacitly if not explicitly, that the constitution doesn't matter.
Feels a bit like a doctor saying "I don't know what a heart attack would look like"
At a certain point, I think this sort of thing isn't even about the money itself so much as it's ideological. Like I genuinely think there's a point where "less to go around" becomes even more important to these people than "more for me", whether they're conscious of it or not.
[samuel l jackson voice] i have had it with this mother-fucking worm in this mother-fucker's head
A wiccan who lives in a culvert, aka a Drainage Witch
*ahem* The WaPo editorial board can get fucked. I'll put my entire foot up every one of their bitch asses while masking.
WHAT I THOUGHT 2025 WOULD HAVE: people driving flying cars & wearing jet packs to work WHAT 2025 HAS ACTUALLY INCLUDED: some people are trying to bring back measles, billionaires are trying to romance AI bots & everyone is very angry all of the time everywhere
What a California court ruling means for Trump’s plans to send troops to Baltimore
I spent 45 minutes with silksong and these are my first impressions: is this real? Events appear to transpire beyond some sort of barrier or screen I cannot influence aside from pressing buttons on my "side" of the dividing medium, but if these bugs are really doing all that it should be on the news
My hot take is that this is actually a "broken clock right twice a day" moment, in the sense that terms like "Department of Defence" have always been propaganda. Military spending is war spending, and it should be called that when politicians are trying to justify increasing it.
Today's Tubi Trash: GANG WARS (1976, aka Devil's Express). A cop (Warhawk Tanzania) investigates a series of NYC subway murders. A demon is searching for a stolen amulet. A Blaxploitation/Kung-Fu gang war has broken out. An epic WTF genre car crash. Plus Brother Theodore! tubitv.com/movies/10003...
This is exactly why I was so infuriated by the rhetorical weaponization of "comorbidities" to hand-wave COVID deaths. Managing "comorbidities" is a huge focus of modern medicine! Because it allows people to live decades longer than they would have in the past!! This is an incredible achievement!!!
Cleaning someone’s dryer vent without them ever knowing is probably one of the most heroic & beautiful things a person can do
Already seeing this reflected in TikTok videos across the city from the last ~24hrs; people are spotting unmarked cars meeting up in parking lots, some social media videos of traffic stops with federal agents (can't tell if ICE, but looks like it). Be aware of your surroundings.
I agree, though to be clear, people standing in front of a hardware store in an American city looking for work aren't any threat to anyone either. In that case and in this case, the point isn't to keep anyone safe or enforce any laws, it's to inflict violence and cruelty as a show of force.
One of the most conservative courts in the country blocked Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to remove hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants from the U.S., ruling he incorrectly claimed the Venezuelans were carrying out an “invasion” against the U.S.
Now, what was that old saying about scratching a Liberal ... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
We're NOT negotiating with these people, though. They don't believe in negotiating. There is no agreement we could possibly make with them that would come with any assurances they won't rip it up on a whim. We could give them everything they demand today and they'd just demand more tomorrow.
My opinions constantly change but this may well be my favorite comic book cover of all time.
Exactly. NOTHING that's been alleged about that boat - not even the stuff they made up! - comes anywhere close to a justification, legal or otherwise.
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
He's already been impeached twice, but ... third time's the charm, I guess?
The same way ICE detains people "for being in the country illegally" without even knowing their names, let alone their immigration status, I guess
Easily the game I'm most looking forward to at the moment. That collected version of the most recent Hitman trilogy is probably my personal favorite game(s) of the last decade.
"I'm something of an expert on the trans issue, because I've spent 10,000 hours talking shit about transgenders from my burner accounts."
Malcolm Gladwell is the Stephen Pinker of Deepak Chopras
Malcolm Gladwell is the human personification of a participation trophy
my life is just bad news
There are "Tren de Aragua narcoterrorists" everywhere, for those with eyes to see
I just want to be rich enough that I can command "Seize him!" and somebody actually gets seized. I'd release them right away ofc but I bet that power feels great
What if polling about immigration wasn't actually helpful?
Letter: If LDS Church leaders are worried we will lose members by condemning Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, I say, who cares? We must call out Israel, Netanyahu and America for these murders.
Scott no no NOOOO I love you. But fuck that! So very much.
Pedestrian walking in road because cyclist riding on sidewalk because car parked in bike lane
The destruction of every aspect of infrastructure that can be used to sustain a society has been going on from the start. Food production, water, shelter, education, religious buildings, government, healthcare, and aid delivery have almost completely been wiped off the map.
Every genocidal, exterminationist ideology says this. Himmler said it would be wrong to allow any Jewish children to escape to become avengers against the German people. The more succinct version is "nits make lice", which is what Americans settlers said when they massacred Native American babies.
Maybe this is naive of me, but personally I am so, so much less worried about the brains of people younger than me than I am about the brains of people older than me.
And for anyone who needs context: in the Marvel comics, any time THIS guy shows up, you know some shit is about to go down
One of the smarter things X-Men '97 did was give just a *glimpse* of the Watcher in THAT episode (no spoilers, but if you know you know). It was an impressively subtle and restrained way of sending shivers down the spines of viewers who knew what was coming w/o ruining anything for those who didn't
‘Queen of Canada’ arrested during live stream by #RCMP > www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #Canada #cdnnews #cdnpoli
they're calling it "one of the most 'of course' moments in american history"
Maybe I'm being overly picky or pedantic here, but ... is "polarizing" not a very weird way to describe an attempted coup? Not that it isn't technically true, but is, say, the Beer Hall Putsch ever described as having been "polarizing"? (Genuinely asking, I don't know)
A 35-year-old former U.S. Army sergeant, Bajun “Baji” Mavalwalla II, faces up to six years in prison for protesting against ICE deportations in what legal experts are calling a test case for the Trump administration’s attempts to criminalize and punish dissent.
Almost as if marginalizing the left was never really a strategy, but a goal in and of itself
Pretty sure "the Democrats" here means politicians and party officials, not voters, and in that context the article is correct - this is one area where the party itself is out of step with its likely voters, who, as you point out, are largely fine with Mamdani
Which I believe has since been ruled illegal. And again, that certainly doesn't mean Trump won't do it again anyway - the law only matters to the extent that it's enforced - but I'm assuming any Republican governor like Abbott would just give the order themselves anyway, saving him the trouble.
Big thanks to @altwatcher.bsky.social for talking with me, everyone should go follow his work!
(preacher watching some horrible tragedy unfold on the news) why would god do this.. now i gotta write a whole new fucking sermon
please i just want to mail a comic book
Bluesky is an echo chamber. We need to expand our minds by creating an elite underwater city only for specific people who we like. It's the only way
i constantly think about this post
"The year is 2025, and Illinois sits at the precipice of war with Texas" sounds like the opening of a low-budget 80s sci-fi movie with a cult following and a score under 50% on Rotten Tomatoes
I'm suddenly remembering that when Texas had those horrible floods that took the lives of many young girls, Illinois sent aid. The people of Illinois stepped up to help Texas. I know I shouldn't expect much, but maybe Texas should remember that.
I know posting excerpts from 1984 is passé but this is literally the fifth page of 1984
I don't think a state's national guard can legally be deployed if that state's governor says no (to whatever extent "legally" matters at this point, obviously)
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
You could be someone's light in the darkness. The dangling lantern of the anglerfish, drawing creatures to your toothy maw, or a dancing orb of witch-gloom in the forest, drawing folk to their mossy doom.
Authoritarian Strongman Threatens to Suppress Regional Dissent with Military Force
Post a PERFECT phonograph cylinder from the 1890s that isn’t by John Philip Sousa
Hearing that Nelvana is shutting down. For half a century it has had a hand in some of very iconic productions. The Magic School Bus, Beetlejuice, Care Bears, Babar, The Edison Twins, Inspector Gadget, Three Amigos. Even the Star Wars Holiday Special. Very sad to hear.
When late 90s CGI, FMV adventure games, and GUNDAM 0079 combine. And things do not go as well as usual on Side 7. 📺: Gundam 0079: The War for Earth, Presto Studios, 1997 (Apple Mac version)
how long till we find out that wasn't even the right boat
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Playing as Canada and checking the turn log like: America has declared war on Persia. America has entered into a dark age. The American city of Los Angeles has rebelled and has become a free city. The American city of Chicago has rebelled and has become a free city.
Gandhi gonna nuke us
At some point "run the govt like a business" turned into "run the govt like a game of GTA 3 after entering the cheat code that gives every NPC a rocket launcher"
Now let's be fair, some of them are busy *running* ICE
I know it’s all bad faith bs BUT I keep thinking about how the whole “reason” we apparently can’t pass any effective gun control legislation to prevent mass shootings is the idea that we need an armed populace in case the federal government decides to invade our cities and towns. Like??????????
is there a dairy... king?
Important to understand that the media doesn't JUST maintain the public feeling that crime is up while the stats show it's actually down, it also presents a militarized police state as the solution TO rising crime, and BOTH are wrong. Fascism would still be bad EVEN IF crime WAS up!
Crime is down in Chicago, but it’s up 752% in the imaginary Chicago in their heads.
stephen miller targeting mexican independence day celebrations, anything you want to say about this man is correct
young lady I believe I’ve been very clear about how much diggity is allowed around here
does the song baby shark still include the bits about dying in a shark attack
lol I just looked up that episode and it sounds incredible. It's kind of heartwarming to know they put that much thought into how Fraggle/Doozer society actually works. I might seriously have to revisit that show, I haven't seen it in a million years.
Like without exaggeration, this is a major mainstream news outlet presenting the fascist occupation of "blue" cities as a reasonable and necessary public safety measure. Just full-on, explicit institutional buy-in to fascism.
All legacy media is just degrees of Fox News now abcnews.go.com/US/35-shot-w...
missed the proof of life speech, did he outlaw sandwiches
Who knew that all schoolboards had to do was threaten to ban Atlas Shrugged? www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
I think they're running out of ads to show me
It so... nihilistic that this mad king meandering gibberish is what passes as "oh he's normal."
This past Sunday the Trump administration attempted to deport unaccompanied minors back to Guatemala. But a federal judge in DC intervened, blocking the administration from deporting the children. I was there when they got off the plane here in El Paso. Here is my story - tinyurl.com/yc89fa9d
[1985] ME: what if we made a movie about science HOLLYWOOD: no thanks ME: *thinking quickly* what if the science….was also weird HOLLYWOOD: I’m listening
"You know who else showed up at work drunk? A man by the name of Jesus." -me before getting fired from my job as a youth pastor
And honestly even the idea that there's any significant number of active Republicans who could accurately be described as leaning towards the center is pretty laughable, unless the "center" is, like, Reagan at best
this is the ur- falsehood of our political era and everything from "schools shouldn't have locked down during covid" to "trans women in sports is a national crisis" are downstream of it and the through line of all of them is national media's willfull ignorance and complicity
In the context of American politics, what in the flying fuck is a "left leaning Republican"
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
Were those little green guys in Fraggle Rock supposed to have seized the tiny little means of production at some point, or were the Fraggles their bosses?
