Ken Paxton is the worst state Attorney General in the United States.
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The US continues to lose manufacturing jobs—payrolls are down nearly 100k over the last year, & another 12k jobs were lost in August. Transportation (especially auto manufacturing) and electronics/electrical manufacturing are the biggest losers, but few subsectors are doing well.
US blue-collar job growth has completely stagnated, hitting the lowest level since the onset of the pandemic—manufacturing is currently losing jobs at a rapid pace, and growth in construction/transportation has slowed to a crawl
Block early, block often, and block whenever you feel like it. Helps me, at least.
There were parts of that thread that I thought were reasonable, but that was a real “what the fuck are you thinking” moment. Like genuinely; I cannot imagine how bluesky could be worse than that, especially given how the nuclear block works over here.
It was a post on here. I found it after searching a little bit.
Weirdly, I think he does. I remember that some amount of time ago (I do not remember exactly) someone screenshotted one of his posts from the other site where he says people there call him slurs all the time.
no we’re talking about the DOJ guy who got catfished by an o’keefer he met on hinge saying, on a second date, that every republican name on the epstein list would be redacted
Really frustrating that they take other people’s good ideas, and then only contribute the strategy of “letting Republicans steal your wallet”.
And the final verse. Full on apocalypse cult. I’m here to do two things, destroy the slave power and experience Armageddon, and wouldn’t you know it, I seem to have brought Armageddon with me. Absolutely terrifying. Julia Ward Howe should have been in Metallica.
I‘be said this before but “as He died to make men holy let us die to make men free” goes harder than any other line in the history of music, poetry, trash talk. This isn’t “I don’t care if I die too so long as I take you down.” This is “dying while I kill you is a sacrament before God” Lunacy
Fourth verse is like, hey, wait… are you saying we’re ALL gonna die? Like, you too? This is going beyond regular trash talk. This is suicide bomber level psycho talk. As I said reminds me of the key and peele sketch. Hints at Legitimate crazy person level wrathfulness
Gonna keep beating this dead horse but as a Yimby it pisses me off to see this group try to co-opt a progressive movement that I believe deeply in. This lady's family shot at me and Bureau of Land Management staff and now shes an invited speaker. I want cities and trains and these people do not
i have a lot of friends who are trans, some of whom are close friends. am i to overlook that the median republican does not believe that my friends have the right to exist as who they are? that they demand my friends be someone else? if i do, can i still call that a value?
Also, the fact that those policy proposals are only at home on the left is not some kind of sacrifice for the left. All the policies in there advance the goals of the left! bsky.app/profile/pseu...
The last 100 years of US politics
I’ve been waiting for this one for a while, given it hits me where I live. And another very good & thoughtful article. But one which makes an argument I do not agree with. We already have the kind of discipline SODRock proposes. It’s history. We need to reintegrate history into larger NatSec.
No. Aerys violated what someone in power owes to someone beneath them (see the scene where Brienne swears herself to Catelyn) and Robert was the person most closely related to the Targaryen dynasty that wasn’t a direct descendant of Aerys.
Okay, but Renly didn’t accept. That’s the problem here. Renly chose instability because he wanted to be the guy with the crown. I’m aware there are differences between the books and the show, but I prefer the books, so that’s the characterization I went with.
A monomaniacal focus on creating a living being using the power of electricity.
When I'm president I'm giving BonerWizard a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“Go rough up that farmer and take his stuff.” “Heh heh. Yeah boss, I’ll go rough up his stuff. Com’ere, you little bastid.”
Look, man. Charlie had a really rough game, and he’s finally started making progress on his mission tree. He’s doing really well for his first time, especially since he isn’t birding.
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.
Best of luck with your job! I hope everything goes well for you.
I’m not sure how to phrase this question, but I would really like to know the answer, and I’m asking in good faith. What do people who hold honest pro-life views think people who hold honest pro-choice views think of the wider pro-life movement?
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
Such as support for immigration (all life means all life), not cutting benefits for children with disabilities (all children means all children), or supporting free school lunches (see the pro-life quip about children getting support until they are born). bsky.app/profile/pseu...
Evangelicals often use Catholic arguments (children must be protected, all life is precious) because those arguments are more respectable, but they are not willing to follow through with the actions on other issues that are what makes those arguments more respectable.
To circle back to clarify myself again; I perceive Evangelicals hold positions across issues that are consistent with conservatism, while Catholics hold positions across issues that are consistent with their stated philosophy, even when that philosophy leads them to conflict with conservatives.
That is why I respect Catholic orthodoxy even and especially where I disagree; because it comes from a consistent philosophy that they actually hold to, even when it is inconvenient for them to do so.
Evangelicals do not take a consistent pro-life stance on other issues, even when they claim those issues as pro-life arguments. Evangelicals are not using those arguments honestly in all cases, or the Republican Party would be much more supportive of free school lunch.
This is also why I am comfortable labeling Catholic pro-life philosophy as philosophy, and why I am also comfortable putting Evangelical “pro-life philosophy” in quotes.
Even though abortion remains a flashpoint of conflict between the Catholic Church and the left, the Church also has conflicts with the right on immigration, treatment of the poor, treatment of children, and the death penalty, all of which also come from the Church’s pro-life philosophy.
My point here was intended to say that the Catholic Church holds to pro-life philosophy across issues, even when the positions from that philosophy lead them to clash with other philosophies. bsky.app/profile/pseu...
Your point about single issue voting gets to the heart of this very well, because a coherent philosophy does not stop at one issue, but is something that can be seen across many issues. bsky.app/profile/cath...
And yes, I do believe the quotes are appropriate, because I do not think that Evangelical explanations for their opposition to abortion specifically signify an honest philosophy on the subject.
I dashed that post off relatively quickly, so I’m not sure I expressed myself perfectly. I am personally pro-choice, so all of my arguments will come from that lens. I was attempting to contrast how I perceive Catholic pro-life positions versus how I see Evangelical “pro-life” positions.
The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Y’know, in my Latin classes in college, we read De Bello Gallico. What the fuck, man.
“I tried to kill my own vice president. I was held civilly liable for rape. I’m a felon. I was part of a pedophile human trafficking ring. Honestly, what’s a man have to do?”
He admits he’s in a Brewster’s Millions type situation where he has to be impeached to win fifty billion dollars but gives up because he’s out of ideas.
Especially when those positions change!
[2/2] Opposition from the Catholic Church is taken more seriously and seen as more important because it belongs to a serious worldview, while evangelical opposition is taken as a given because of how uncritically supportive they are of any conservative position.
Another way to demonstrate the strength of orthodoxy can be to use an example where the Catholic Church is in the wrong; abortion. The Catholic Church is consistently against it, but so are the Evangelicals. [1/2]
Am I still irritated by the “Haitian refugees welcome here” sign in a neighborhood where no abstain refugee could afford to live? Absolutely. Is it better than “They’re eating the dogs”? In every way.
Counterpoint; the harrying of the north.
To be fair, I think it’s a relatively reasonable rule of thumb, I just don’t think the average person understands how high of a bar it actually is. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_...
Earlier discourse about the rule that 3.5% of the population showing up to one day of protest means the regime doesn’t have enough support to survive means that number is around 11 million people in one day for the US.
For at least some of this discourse, I don’t think people know how big the US is.
Trump’s mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Biden’s advanced age
We gotta cook up a psyop about how the wicked vizier JD Vance poisoned the king to seize power and that's why it's vital all True Patriotic Americans stay home in protest on election day.
I literally found Toby Buckle through his article in The New Republic about this exact problem. So many people are just not willing to learn how to work in a coalition.
there he is. that's him.
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
He can appeal to the far-right flank of the Republican Party, and if he can hold control of the party institutions he can get the median Republican, but MAGA only cares about Trump and he has nothing to appeal to swing voters. That’s more than enough to collapse the republicans in 2026 and 2028.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
"Look at the pattern! Every winter and summer, electricity bills across the country spike. These creatures obviously hibernate half the year."
scully: mulder you can't seriously believe in this mulder: I'm telling you, glonzo is more than just stories.
jd vance should show more gratitude to the united states, which raised him out of the primordial slime
Spawn more overlords.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
I only got rejected once, but that was because I botched the in-person interview by implying Yale was my safety school if I didn’t get to go to my first choice of college, my state’s flagship public university. I got into the school I wanted though, so all’s well that ends well.
Grant was just so goddamn good, man.
Just by itself, fact that he used the knowledge from that for the Overland Campaign automatically makes him one of the best generals in the Civil War. Being able to learn and improve is a real skill.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
[cont.] the strategic implications of the US controlling the Mississippi, the morale boost it gave to the north, the simple fact that it cut the confederacy in half … The craziest part of this is that I think I forgot a reason in that list. Just an absolute masterpiece of a campaign.
Running the gunships past Vicksburg, just the organization required for the engineering attempts, the things he learned about supplying himself in enemy territory after Van Dorn’s raid, the string of aggressive battlefield victories, the conduct of the siege, capturing an enemy army of that size
Honestly, it really is a masterpiece of a campaign. Every individual piece of it is something that would have made the reputation of a lesser man.
Not counting Vicksburg, which was just an absolute master class.
Eh. I think Grant’s strategic acumen puts him above Thomas. I’m aware this is kind of an apples to oranges thing, but Grant directing the strategy of five armies at the same time while actively in command of one of those armies is just something I find incredibly impressive.
Ike was right and @dicknixon.bsky.social knows it now
Less that, more that Grant’s alcoholism tended to run in extreme short term binges.
It's a good thought exercise to realize that Lee's situation in 1862 and Hood's in 1864 were identical. Joe Johnston almost lost a major city and got replaced by an aggressive bloodthirsty idiot. The difference is one faced McClellan and one Sherman and the results were night and day.
I have to play eight hours of that so I can go to sleep
All jokes aside if they actually announce it after he just disappeared for three days I don’t think anyone on this planet is prepared for how absolutely not normal people are going to be about it
It seems that fate has an option on my take here. Specifically the part about whether people should be preparing for it to happen tomorrow or just enjoying tonight. bsky.app/profile/pseu...
To clarify, I would of course never wish ill on any elected official who was acting in the best interests of the country.
He should (possibly) die more often.
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
I’m getting increasingly incoherent as the night goes on, but Lloyd Austin.
Look whoever does Gavin Newsom’s social media, all I’m saying is, when It Happens, just post this:
I suddenly understand the guy who gave his life to god in the Cracker Barrel parking lot. Go back to the new-Google style logo.
Estrogen could have saved Miller’s hairline. Not Miller’s politics, but at least the public wouldn’t have to deal with crimes against humanity brought to you by Dr. Robotnik.
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
Just a reminder to myself (and others who want it) of the actual data that tonight’s bacchanalia was built on.
I think I remember seeing people saying something similar around when he got COVID.
Trump gets a state funeral, not because he’s respected, but because it lets the National Guard watch all the approaches.
RFK is the last to know, not because he’s the last person told, but because the DOGE aide doesn’t realize that he’s taking to the brainworm.
Toggle it back and forth real fast and see what happens.
You might have been thinking of this? bsky.app/profile/prop...
Here’s the context for those who are unaware: the scene in every police procedural where the detective “runs the serial number on the gun” in some search engine? That does not exist. Republicans made that illegal to happen. Firearm records are, *by statue*, on paper or un machine-searchable PDF.
Trump had a lack of appearances which got noticed on a Friday night. Lots of people on this website wondered if that meant he had a health emergency and that spiraled into hoping he was dead. Everything else is just people having fun on social media.
Less money bet on the Longhorns because all their fans blew it on booze for the party.
if you had any scheduling latitude at all for a surgery, immediately after a cabinet meeting going into a three day weekend would be a pretty good time
They should do this to Stephen Miller when It Happens
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
“could a dead man be blasting les miz???” is objectively funny, props to the WH for that one
I mean, she’s going for exactly this! bsky.app/profile/mari...