Bari Weiss, really? History's trashiest batch of oligarchs have transformed our blue-chip media an intellectual garbage heap on par with WALL-E World and I resent it.
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Bari Weiss, really? History's trashiest batch of oligarchs have transformed our blue-chip media an intellectual garbage heap on par with WALL-E World and I resent it.
Ted Ooze
Turd Ewwwwws
Right? My fat ass shouldn't be fat shaming anyone either, and I had Costco pizza for dinner last night. But since Rafito went there...
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
The Bible does say there will be seven Trumps of the Apocalypse, not just the one.
Right? Franchises are disappointing like 90% of the time. Maybe something on that list will be good, though. Aliens and Terminator 2 were both amazing.
This loop begins and ends with "especially to the press." Deliberate or not, I hope it reminds journalists that no matter how subservient you are to the autocrat, it almost never ends well for you.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Like Charlie Chaplin said, "The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish." WELP
"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish." WELP
Like Charlie Chaplin said, "The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish." WELP
Remember, butterflies. When an opposition leader like Pritzker dies of a heart attack during the transition from democracy to Putin-aligned dictator, it's not "natural causes." It's a massive dose of insulin that disappears from the system before a delayed autopsy. www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/w...
Thank you for speaking up, but be careful! Historically, during the transition from democracy to dictatorship, people like you get hit with a massive dose of insulin to cause a heart attack, false flags, or a "lone-wolf" terrorist attack. Trust your gut when it comes to security people, ok?
This is all WWE-style fake wrestling to distract USAmericans and Venezuelans from the fact that our dictators are trash, and any NYT reporter who has been watching Maduro and Trump for the past decade knows that. Yes, people will die and no, neither Trump nor Maduro will lose any power.
Maduro and Trump are on the same side. Maduro handed 49% of PdVSA to Rosneft in 2017, in exchange for help fixing the 2018 election. Then he and Trump announced "Fake News Awards" the same week; Bloomberg won both. Then Trump sabotaged the Juan Guiado op... www.americasquarterly.org/article/puti...
I spent 10 minutes googling other dictators who disappeared & fed rumors they were dead into social and trad media, in order to defuse opposition momentum. LOTS: Putin, Lukashenko, Daniel Ortega, bin Salman, Erdogan, Xi, Khameini, Kim Jong-un. Must be in the dictator playbook.
You think all USAmericans work outside, in the fields? Where are you posting from, "Tea Party Girl 69"?
They're going to try to take the Chicano out of Chicago and they will fail. At least, I hope they do.
The calm before an invasion by U.S. troops.
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
Huh. Seems like they’re consolidating military resources in the Confederacy. Smith and Wesson just moved to Tennessee as well.
Do these people not shop for their own groceries?
James Cameron made me think the techpocolypse was going to be much more dramatic. Instead, they're just drinking our water, monopolizing our farmland, draining our electricity, impersonating our spiritual leaders, and telling our children to kill themselves. No fancy cyborgs needed.
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
I get you. What's going on in our sh!thole country is unpresidented. I just wish it were true. If democracies defended themselves half as well as the oligarchies, theocracies and autocracies, we wouldn't be sitting around waiting for Putin to drop nukes and Musk to block the West's response.
While Jeanine Áñez and (ironically?) Juan Orlando Hernández might agree with you....
Context, for the youth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZzR...
Bolsonaro could have cashed in on the right-wing Latino circuit from Miami to Mendoza to Madrid, for the rest of his life. Moral of the story: Never take advice from Steve Bannon, or anyone who was the inspiration for the villain from Pauly Shore movie.
Until you're planning an event for September 2026 and realize there's no way it's going to happen because we'll be tits deep in WW3 by then. There's no point fighting about the wording of some AI-generated flyer. Just leave it as is and forget I said anything, none of this even matters.
And yet the internet wants us to blame Boomers, an entire generation of people who are now mostly broke.
I nominate Buddy Carter!
Since states began criminalizing abortion in 2017, the U.S. birth rate has dropped. Since Orban began his “redomestication of women” program in 1993, the Hungarian birth rate has dropped. Maybe, just maybe, oppressing women does doesn’t get us all horny to be reliant on men.
Once. In 2008. The exception that proves the rule.
Nate Silver is always wrong, zero exceptions since 2009. Guess I'll keep posting on Bluesky!
Just occurred to me what was going on the last time Trump wasn't sick.
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
Keir Starmer and the current Labour party need to be fired into the sun. I simply cannot believe what he's become. What are backbenchers saying about this?!
So wild that the UK's corporate media is platforming closet fascist Keir Starmer and openly fascist Nigel Farange instead of anyone even remotely normal. 🙄 The media freakosystem is at least predictable from country to country.
Barf
"choose your preferred candidate" betch I'm a writer I'm not doing any work till the deadline is so close I can see the whites of its eyes
UGH. No matter how much I like you, nothing is more off-putting than work emails written by ChatGPT, especially about conservation 😐. I feel devalued, like I wasn't worth the effort, plus they're long-winded and... smooth like potted meat. And did you use AI research? Do I need to fact-check too?
Never forget that in 2017, Maduro sold 49% of PdVSA, the oil Hugo Chavez went to all the trouble to nationalize, to Rosneft in exchange for Putin's help fixing the 2018 elections. Afterward, both he and Trump announced "Fake News Awards" the same week. Bloomberg won both. They're on the same team.
100% chance that photo has multiple pedophiles trying to divert attention away from their own pathetic perv.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
"As our neighbors vanish daily"
"As our neighbors vanish daily"
Hey guys! Unemployment, like inflation, is at historic lows! Gas costs less than $2 per gallon, drug prices are down 1500%, salaries are up by $500 per month, and illegal border crossings are zero! And I know my fellow Libs will fall for it. #PBS #DINGDONGUN www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...
Road trip to Albuquerque!
Hey vernal equinox
My nation's politics, I've always assumed has been irrelevant to most people in the world. I rarely ever find any purpose in talking about it because I find it hard to believe that anyone but ourselves would care, but Indonesian police brutality is truly incredible.
A minor character from a Faulkner novel bwaaaaaaaaa hahaha omg
I know Marjorie Taylor Greene*, and you sir are no Marjorie Taylor Greene. *I don't actually know her. I just leave snide comments on her FB sometimes.
To be fair, you don't need to "defend" the USA from law-abiding taxpayers who happen to be immigrants, LGBT+, female, non-white, non-Christian etc. But you can go to war with them!
Many white people, especially cis white Christian men, thought Trump would benefit them. Even if they voted against him, they thought they'd be safe if he won. Made it easier to stay pure rather than vote for realpolitik, which meant a continued alliance with Israel. Oh well
I suspect the biggest shifts are happening among conservative Latinos and Latino-adjacent neocons, eg the South Florida GOP. I wonder if this Venezuela op is designed to turn things around before the midterms. Still don't see Maduro going anywhere though... www.americasquarterly.org/article/puti...
We bring back so much stuff, why not Art Deco? I've wanted an art deco PC case for decades. Is it really so much to ask? Come on.
*their
Tennessee and Georgia here. I can assure you that most MAGA delusions persist. But there lies about lower unemployment, higher wages, and especially that 2.7% inflation rate are too big for even the most devout Trump-lover to swallow. Everyone's got to eat.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
USAmericans are too exhausted to not believe our eyes and ears, no matter what the party commands. Maybe if they'd slow down, let us have a nice holiday season, we'd have the bandwidth to imagine new clothes for their dumb empire.
Buddy's been promoted to MAGA's Georgia bulldog, to replace the disillusioned Marjorie Taylor Greene as she goes rogue. Dude gets an A for effort but is clearly not up to the task.
Trump and Maduro are both Putin-allied dictators, so I suspect this will be a series of scripted WWE-style skirmishes that won't threaten either man's hegemony. But do distract USAmericans and Venezuelans from how both are a$$ at their jobs. But who knows. The dogs of war don't come when called.
F*** him and the pale horse he rode in on.
Even he looks like he's exhausted by all the awful he ushered in.
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Sometimes, when ICE rounds up children from our grade schools, I think about those Denver Airport murals.
Oh he will be. And the Nazis he thinks he works so well with will be the ones to do it.
Dude is straight out of those crazy Denver Airport murals the conspiracists were all agog over a few years back.
I'm not against deadnaming X on aesthetic grounds, but at some point we have to accept that the pasty-faced space Nazi destroyed what we loved.
Both these jerks work for Putin. Sure, maybe this is a real skirmish, anything's possible. But I'd bet $50 this is WWE-style wrestling, pure performative BS to distract USAmericans and Venezuelans from the fact that our garbage "presidents" suck at their jobs. www.livemint.com/politics/new...
Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.
I’ve tried it a few times, mostly praying for theist who asked, “Please Christian God if you exist, please let my friend’s baby survive. Amen.” The kid died, btw, after like 29 heart surgeries and idk how many bills. I did not thank God for unanswered prayers, but luckily have friends in low places.
Since unemployment has been dropping steadily since Trump and Musk gutted the Department of Labor back in February, sure these roided-up mercs could find a six-figure job in the private sector.
If it were the first red flag Fetterman had thrown up, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. But John looks like Moscow on May Day. In 1986. Filed in the same Dem/Lib/Lefty Excel column as Tulsi Gabbard, RFKJr, Kristin Sinema, Eric Adams, Russell Brand, Lindy Li and maaaaybe Ruben Gallegos idk tho.
Nice committee you have there. Shame if something happened to it.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Yeah, this is a whole strategy for suppressing the opposition, isn't it. It'll probably work. bsky.app/profile/kate...
Heh. Just posted this about how they've played the same game with Putin-allied dictator Daniel Ortega since 2006. It keeps people from fighting back, just in case death does the hard work for you. bsky.app/profile/prpe...
Most recently, back in May 2025, the 79yo dictator had died! Except, he hadn't. I believe the purpose of these rumors is to keep the opposition from fighting back as hard as they could, and instead wait for death to solve the problem for them. But who knows. confidencial.digital/en/english/d...
In 2020, he disappeared for a couple of months (he does that a lot, according to rumors to get special health treatments on some Russian oligarch's yacht) and it was rumored he'd died of COVID. He came back refreshed and, erm, pro-COVID. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...
Sometimes, when my fellow libs stop resisting while waiting for Trump to [redacted], I remember that Nicaragua's transition from flawed democracy to totalitarian dictatorship was accompanied by rumors of strongman Ortega's impending death. Back in 2009, it was lupus: cpj.org/reports/2009...
Twitter is dead. It's been dead. Might as well call it X now, although I prefer swastika. com
I'm on day 11 of whatever strain of COVID my kid brought home from school. It's HORRIBLE. Not the sore throat one. The "everything hurts and I can't breath" one. If I ever stop testing positive I'll be wearing masks in public buildings until the CDC is functioning again. 2029 at the earliest.
melania constantly refreshing the tl
When Nicaragua transitioned from flawed democracy to dictatorship, rumors swirled that the Putin-allied strongman, Ortega, was dying of an autoimmune disease. That was 2006. It's a strategy. Keeps people from rising up because they think death will do the work for them. It won't.
He's trash and if civilization survives the next few years, will always be remembered as trash and studied as trash. His grandchildren and great grandchildren will be embarrassed to admit they were descended from such trash.
So jealous. I hope enough of the CDC eggheads are stuck here in Atlanta that they'll start their own lab ASAP. They aren't collapsing our medical research infrastructure to save money, they're softening up our defenses for a reason.
This should bring down the price of eggs
The terrorist who shot up the CDC was an Anti-vaxxer. Can anti-vaxxers all be held accountable?
The only way that closet case can get it up for a woman is out of spite.
SkyNet didn't need to invent cyborgs. It just needed human collaborators and glowing rectangles. Because we'll fall for anything.
SkyNet didn’t have to build cyborgs. Just hire collaborators.
But “Bobby Brainworm” is alliterative and fun to say.
RFKJR was chosen because he was an Epstein client who did horrible things on camera and can be controlled with kompramat. people.com/ask-not-maur...
Cue a bunch of people saying they won't vote for Newsom in 2028, as if we're going to even have elections in 2028 if we don't ally with people we don't agree with on every single thing and fight back
