on the moon
Just some woman in Germany interested - unfortunately - in American history, politics and culture
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on the moon
so relatable!
Are you telling me that this old man got behind a wheel himself?
Is that what the Trump administration calls gutting the union rights of over 400,000 workers? Trump hasn’t put “American workers first.” He's been the union-buster in chief.
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I liked it a lot, especially the lead actor and the one who plays the victim. What I disliked most was that the lead role was portraying an asshole detective. There must’ve be better characters from detectives
For an audiobook I could recommend Die Känguru Chroniken by Marc-Uwe Kling. They recorded the author reading the book in front of a live audience and it’s very well done.
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If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times: We need to break out of this political culture that insists every college sophomore speaks for the Democratic Party whenever they post online but the Republican Party is somehow not represented by what the Republican president says on television.
Really hard to tell what these targets of Trumps attacks and smears have in common Trump says Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'must resign' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
are we getting a if books could kill with a jamelle bouie guest spot out of this?
youtu.be/yM2y3EbfORY?... @swordsjew.bsky.social mentioned
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The conservative assertion that there is a crisis of masculinity in America is best understood as a confession
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Louder for the people in the back: paying taxes is a patriotic act because it is a way of caring for your community and your country. Every billionaire has benefited from the public good: our roads, USPS, airports, public schools. Billionaires in America should pay back our investment in them.
The worst thing will probably be when newspapers recirculate the bad science because it gets them catchy headlines
Media Matters shouldn't be paying for this at all. a big firm should be doing this pro bono. this is about basic press freedom. and Elias, if they stand by their convictions, shouldn't be charging them. if they don't have the capacity to take the case for free, they shouldn't have taken it.
They folded. We're fighting. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.
![Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫 [AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette] 2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreigsccsb3rboe3qjtuuicshmrhyho65cwntbj4syjn5y2gkil5m45a@jpeg "Click to view full size")
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A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.
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Nur um die Datengröße von Fotos und Videos zu minimieren. Sonst Erinnerungen oder Kalender
One thing I like about alt text personally is that if you’re searching for an image or a screenshot, adding alt text helps people find it. It is useful for literally everybody.
Yeah
and so many people think is that if you’re announcing and committing a crime in public, it’s not a crime
Please @ifbookspod.bsky.social release the Kessler episode
cant believe that this response from a sitting member of Congress from Florida, to one of his Dem colleagues, is real
I use ghee, but then I‘m European and don’t have a microwave and make my popcorn from corn in a pot on the stove
Die AfD möchte sich mit ihrem Positionspapier gemäßigter geben. Doch nicht aus Überzeugung, sondern aus Angst vor dem Verbot. Das wird jedoch nicht ausreichen, um sie davor zu bewahren, zeigt jedoch, dass der Druck Wirkung zeigt. Wir sollten deshalb dranbleiben. www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/posi...
Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film. But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth. @chloehadj.bsky.social Read more:
red states are also red because of gerrymandering etc
It occurs to me that the converse of this is that if something isn't "secret" or "leaked," it can't be incriminatory, and thus countless Trump actions that would have been shocking scandals in previous eras have been passively accepted because they were done shamelessly and in the open.
London could never
Editors: trusted government agency sends out email full of lies to senior citizens is a front page story
tfw your social media policies are more stringent than your sourcing standards
it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act
there are pizza trackers? the european mind cannot comprehend this
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Nothing--absolutely nothing--stops these Dems from looking at the anchor, saying "what on earth is wrong with you?" and going back to talking about 17 million people losing their healthcare. If you make them look stupid for doing this, they will stop doing it.
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Happy #pride 🌈 NYC
We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent. Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.
”getting my head bashed in“ morphs into “not being asked to lead a heterosexual life" in a matter of paragraphs
his wife gave an award or something to Epstein
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seems like dems are forgetting that ”the nine percent of voters“ have families and friends and coworkers who would like them to enjoy full human rights
Warnock?
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and here i thought that democrats chose their political positions according to what polls well
They indulged it because their donors wanted it (want it) for themselves All this can be laid at the feet of John Roberts and Citizens United
The smears against Zohran coming from the Democratic establishment are also a sign of fear—they’re more scared of the party becoming progressive than they are of the country already being fascist. If Zohran wins, it signals a reckoning. If Cuomo wins, they can keep the failing status quo intact.
This is THE tweet of all time
this is a good time to remember that conservatives only ever want to be in more left leaning spaces to get reactions out of people, if enough people block them they’ll get bored and leave
Well, she grew up (and still is?) in a cult and I guess if you‘re used to follow your dear leader ..
Hey Chuck, this decision rips health care away from Americans
Political violence is always unacceptable. This is a horrifying day for Minnesota, and a sad day for America. What has occurred is a direct attack on our American values and democracy.
bulk billionaires bill
Would love to know if this guy ever got excommunicated from the LDS church
It’s been a long day of bargaining with Vox Media, fighting hard to get a fair contract with better salaries, AI protections, the inclusion of the Dodo in our union, and much more. Come tomorrow, there’s only two days left in our contract — Vox Media, stop dragging your feet.
Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards
I’ve seen a lot of “the left is blowing this race by uniting behind a socialist like Zohran” takes but not enough “the establishment/center is blowing this race by uniting behind a sexual harasser/corrupt weirdo like Cuomo” takes
Misogynist posing as a feminist plus his religious beliefs
Democratic politicians and liberal pundits bemoaning the LA protests need to understand that as *their* failure. None of this would be happening if they had offered effective resistance to mass deportation (extraordinary rendition, in truth) instead of considering undocumented people expendable.
although i’m german, i found no better word than mindfuck
BREAKING The City of Glendale, California — one of the most populous cities in Southern California — says it has terminated its contract with U.S. Homeland Security and ICE.
The whole Trump administration is basically a group of high school bullies, insecure egos all around
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The first thing to understand is that leaving an abusive situation is incredibly dangerous and that abusers are known to kill their victims when they try to leave
“MAHA is, above all things, the apotheosis of a puritanical American tendency to blame the ill for their illness, the poor for their poverty.” This is excellent writing on some terrible policy.
Miss Rachel isn’t on Bluesky, but her posts about Gaza should be. I wish this wasn’t so unusual to see from people with big platforms.
Look at the gender breakdown of who speaks in popular films!
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Tech has entirely turned on the customer www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
W.E.B. Du Bois, Harvard’s best grad, said that it took him 90 years to become conscious of himself as a member of the working class. May we get there more quickly. Academics everywhere: join a union or build a union, and if you can’t do either, then organize your coworkers and act like a union.
I wrote about the Biden hullabaloo. newrepublic.com/article/1953...
getting traction?! www.youtube.com/live/YWblCRD...
One of the things that goes unremarked in these stories is that they rest on relentless armies of fascist goons who will harass and torment ordinary people for years on end, with no recourse for their victims, and that everyone treat as normal. Cops support it. Gamergate is the law.
Members of Congress have the right to conduct oversight — yet Trump is coming after Representative McIver for doing just that. This is another power grab from wannabe dictator Trump, and we won't back down without a fight. Representative McIver has my full support.
dudes rock
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I mean the word *seems* in the first sentence would indicate that there‘s a caveat
This is what a eugenics economy looks like: everyone must keep themselves safe, and anyone who can't deserves to die.
This should be bigger news: ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE. People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.
he‘s got such an insecure ego
Oh, someone has a very insecure ego
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high level of drunk texting
The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from: - #germany (49.9%) - #sweden (49.96%) - #Netherlands (94%) - #austria (25.5%) - #Slovenia (83.14%) - #portugal (24.46%) If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:
I can't top this one.
he wants to join her in prison so bad
I love dunking on these fools as much as the next guy, but we need to realize that many of these fools have been failed by the education system and the media. Areas for improvement