Another genius move by Trump!
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Another genius move by Trump!
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this is one of those news stories you read and immediately feel your stomach drop
Man they did this with Nixon too they straight up had proof that Nixon had committed treason to keep the war in Vietnam going and they just fucking sat on it and let him take power Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
I love Steve Miller Band so much
Lib Dems also falling into the bullshit of "if we resolve the asylum backlog efficiently, we defeat Reform". Reform don't care about the 'asylum backlog' outside of it being a tool. It could be 0 people and it wouldn't matter as long as there are people of colour in the UK. That is the end goal.
Testimony from Dr. Nada Abu Al-Rub, a member of the Australian medical aid mission in Gaza:
A child cries while carrying his younger sister on his shoulders, walking the long displacement route from northern to southern Gaza amid intense Israeli bombardment.
I keep saying Ezra Klien's job is to sell fascism to liberals and I mean it! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Yep!!!
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China calls for 'comprehensive ceasefire' in Gaza with pressing urgency Top diplomat Wang Yi criticises Israel's efforts to take over Gaza City and its "encroachment" in occupied West Bank, saying its actions "seriously violate international law"
Ew
Nothing inexplicable about deep fat fried goodness
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I finished this last week and there's a passage in it that's stuck with me since. One of the people in it loses pretty much everything due to being sucked into QAnon. He has a crisis of faith, and suffers a pretty horrendous car accident. In recovery, he talks to the guy who saved his life...
Yup. I recently decided that we are done with bagged salad, period. I still buy bagged spinach, but only because the preschooler and I both happily eat it steamed.
Sometimes it feels like this heavy portcullis is dropping behind us as parents, we JUST squeezed through. COVID got us but we got through to solids without needing formula during the formula crisis. The toddler has all her vaxxes except the 4 years, preschooler's doing the 4 years now
No idea about frozen veg safety under this FDA but maybe someone following me does?
mayhaps the jimmys could take turns every night hosting a jimmy show
Also, it's FAR more accessible. My brain cannot comprehend academic writing - especially political theory. I'm not a dumb dumb, I just have limitations. Are leftist ideas only allowed in academic friendly brains?
Using popular media that channels the same ideas as revolutionary literature is infinitely more practical than trying to get people to read some obscure political tome. Meet people where they're at.
For real. I haven't read a lot of theory, but I loved the stuff about class & power Sarah Byam used to put in her comics, like Billi 99.
I've talked about it before how there's some people I've had better luck describing myself as trans with "I went past gay a while ago" than anything accurate and like, you don't get to do it that effortlessly without those two being SERIOUSLY interlinked
Not enough attention gets put on white women since, as an older white lady on tiktok once said, it ain’t their daddies raising these boys.
95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
People thinking that the girls in D.C. are sellouts. What if they're actually being threatened? It would go some way toward explaining it.
🤔 Just saw this today:
Is there a Teddy Cruz I don't know about?
TIL Michael Eisner is still alive
Not even the Lovely Angels claimed that!
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People are calling. I haven't cancelled because I wrote a letter saying I'd give them a week to reinstate kimmel and also issue a policy clearly spelling out how they plan to protect freedom of speech especially for their news divisions.
I cannot stress enough how much of a direct attack on Trump’s own voters this is
Fucking losing my mind watching the big trans media people doing Discourse about being sad about Charlie Kirk's death while ICE blows people's doors down with explosives and shoots them in the street what the FUCK are we doing here Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Looks like this is from 2001. I hope in the last two decades it's gotten a little better, here and there. But considering the whole anti-painkillers backlash era we're living in, I would believe it if you told me it's gotten worse.
All three of us kids got whooping cough (pre-vaccination, I think - we had religious exemptions, anyway). It was hell and worse for my parents. People who decline that shot could come to regret it.
Now they are in power. In control. When you get the keys to the car, we get to all watch where you go, how you drive. You are in charge. No one is censoring you now. And this moment reveals the truth about these individuals. 4/
The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/
Apparently Charlie Kirk's death is the most traumatizing thing imaginable to some people, and I have to conclude that, for those people, it's because Kirk seemed real. And the children slaughtered in Uvalde* while a small army of LEOs stood by uselessly... did not. *or any school shooting
If Democrats ever get power again there needs to be a proper reckoning. Criminals need to be indicted, prosecuted and convicted for trying to subvert our democracy and rights for Trump. There is no room for Merrick Garlands and milquetoast centrists anymore. You need accountability.
The Comics Code would be too socially conscious for the present reactionaries.
Aaron Bushnell self-immolated in protest because as *active service military personnel* he saw the genocide being carried out with the tacit approval and material support of the US. And we all had to hear that he was crazy, if we heard about it at all. Where’s his fucking day of remembrance?
Democracy depends on a fearless and free press. Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with many other business interests should not be allowed to control our media. They cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests.
So he thinks Fox should have had its stations taken away when they broadcast him saying things about Obama? No, of course he doesn't think that. He's too thin-skinned. Dubya put up with being called a chimp for eight years! But Dubya is not only from a political family, but actually American.
It's a distinction without a difference. They're going to tap our electronics, surveil us, and dismantle all of our NGOs. Sure the average trans person won't be immediately targeted but they will feel the effects when all their friends leave discord and their local trans org closes down.
I think they are building a casis belli for eradicating us from society eventually yes. And this is another step. But they are not labeling us all as terrorists by default and we shouldn't scare other trans people by saying they are.
Many of us are numb to it, but almost every day he publicly confesses that he is at war with our laws and Constitution.
this is the death drive
Reading would be simpler
yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.
Bluesky is wild man...
Damn I thought girls loved living under constant threat of the most alcoholic parent in the district demanding they prove they have a vagina
The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.
It's technically correct to refer to Larry Ellison as That Jewish Bastard. Is it helpful? Eh....
Not to mention 2020, where the last wave of resistors to web culture were finally forced online, completely uninoculated to the slow creep of radicalisation (AND enshittification) the rest of us have built up a tolerance to. It must have felt like snorting a line off the Ark of the Covenant.
They thought they were fantastic human beings who had earned every privilege, only to discover that anyone they hadn't hired to tend to their needs found them vile. IMO, this is just what happens to any/every person who's surrounded by panderers & never, ever denied. We lose our heads.
Suddenly I almost understand the accounts saying, "Hillary & Kamala warned us." That's the kind of engagement certain pols want. Well, not me. I demand my constituents say things like, "Bless his heart, he's a shithead."
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
Liberty University? Bloody hell, I don't ever want to hear them claim to be Christian again.
Charlie Kirk Says a ‘Patriot’ Should Bail Out Alleged Paul Pelosi Attacker who beat Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer. "If some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out..."
Billy Connolly's alive? But Boosler, Yeah, okay, that's worth a snitch tag. @eboosler.bsky.social
This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.
(Henry Ford didn't like that at all.)
Democrats are doing what a lot of people *on here* asked them to do by holding shadow hearings. Help amplify!
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
This is fucking insane, this is not something anyone can be silent about, it’s insane…
I don’t think any country in the history of the world has ever done anything as stupidly self destructive as what Trump and RFK jr are doing with vaccines.
Oh since we're talking about boycotts, way too many of y'all still eat at Chik fil A and shop at Hobby Lobby, two companies whose profits are literally dedicated to killing trans people
It was never about “freedom.” It was always about who was in control.
Eight months in, and Trump/Vought have already accomplished implementing 47% of Project 2025, per this tracker: www.project2025.observer/en
I do know that we need politicians who *can* think, & I do try to think, even if I don't think well. I feel like I'm much more temperamentally suited to acting like a menace. But a terrifying angel of death is not a solution in itself. Hurm.
The GOP was built, originally, for fat cats to reshape the country. (But they needed progressive weirdos to get a coalition.) I suppose the Constitutional Convention was somewhat the same. 😕 I don't know.
And here's the problem, I guess: Civil servants, bureaucrats, cops, they have rules to follow & enforce. A lot of that works. The supposed top-level rulemakers are the wrong people, because fat cats pay to put the wrong kind of person in--but maybe also because it's the wrong system.
Yeah, okay, this thread was dumb. I get that.
But I also think our Congress has too much centralized authority in itself, over vast territory, while being small & remote. Pols become *person* pleasers, never mind how they hurt the people. Or the country itself. Never mind the future, there are "relationships" to maintain in that building. 🤮
I have a lot more sympathy for lone wolf gunmen than I do for political "people pleasers." And that's partly due to my own social incompetence. I can at least understand how to do what Timothy McVeigh did, even if it's stupid & evil. I don't think I have a caucus leader in me.
It seems like politics as we have it now is a circlejerk for circlejerkers. And I don't mean in the reddit sense. I have much more of the furious outsider in me: John Brown, Ambrose Bierce, Ralph Nader. Deep down, I am something like a cop. But more socially alienated. Just autistic rage.
OK, having slept on it, this thread was kind of stupid. I think I'm a little funny. I'm not funny. I'm a socially inept mess. I don't have tact, & I don't have people skills. I see Donny Trump dancing around wrecking things while never learning, & I see a version of my own AuDHD dysfunction.
Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least
nobody saying "don't put your name on the protest list" means "stay home instead" and i'm not sure why that assumption is being made
Oh. Eighteen, sure. Nationalize Paypal and all of Google. Good day.
Just to be clear, Charlie Kirk was a racist piece of shit, Israel is committing genocide in Occupied Palestine, and trans rights are human rights, and if a million people file ARDC complaints against me or send me death threats I will never recant any of those things.
Pardon me, but while MAGA and Trump may want to use it that way, we don't need to let them. I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October. But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.
(I rewrote some of these to read as less bloodthirsty.)
In short, force them to try to rule by naked force because they *do not* have enough force and the very nakedness of it will mean they have less and less. The Civil Rights movement overcame far more with far less, if we had a fraction of their courage, we'll win.
Seventeen, at some point I'll probably just wander off and leave my VP in charge. Or die, either way. Not saying I won't have left a trail of destruction in my wake. But I don't want to be rich, nor even liked. I just want to take power away from the people who broke all the things.
Okay, to put an even sharper point on this: they are not even 9 months in and they are openly censoring *Jimmy fucking Kimmel* because he poked fun at the president for lack of empathy. These are desperate moves. They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.
I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.
i am getting pretty weary of a politician's "this is not normal" without an "and here's what i'm going to do"
Fourteen, we kick Visa & MasterCard out of the country. Fifteen, the Bureau of Printing & Engraving put the image of Liberty back on the money instead of dead Presidents. Sixteen, Grover Norquist gets to try to drown me (but my VP will watch, holding a gun).
Eleven, total public takeover of post-secondary education, which will be tuition-free. Twelve, Elon gets to go to space. Coming back, maybe not. Thirteen, so much Confiscation of billionaires' assets that I'll go down in history alongside the worst tyrants in history.
Nine, I am from Harry Truman's home state. Russia wants to threaten nuclear retaliation if we defend Ukraine? Yeah, let's test that, nerds. Ten: If we survive that, I am pulling the USA out of the UN Security Council. But also joining the International Criminal Court.
Eight, I genuinely think the USA is too big to administer from one side of its territory. A moving capital is nice, but honestly, we need to set up a process to be able to break it into at least two more manageable polities. Whatever that looks like.
(Seven was deleted by Bluesky, and quite rightly too. So we'll just skip that for now. 💀)
Six: I hope to build a new, vast, and substantially independent Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I'd like to declare eminent domain on all TV & radio, & put all the channels under its control; but all such agencies risk being subverted eventually, so I can't actually leave it with a monopoly.
Four: Three really important cabinet positions in my mind are Interior, Agriculture, & Commerce. We have to restructure a lot to stave off agricultural & economic collapse. Those departments are relevant here. Five: Antitrust enforcement is coming back, no matter how many judges I have to remove.
Three: I do plan to demolish the White House, but President Emeritus Trump will get to use it for one more season of The Apprentice, where he will get to pretend to train future dictators. This will be broadcast on government-controlled television. Then he can be sentenced. And we bulldoze it.