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Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.
DC does not have school buses. DCPS and WMATA has provided children with smart trip cards to get them to and from school. Majority children get on the metro at Union Station. Parents cannot afford Ubers to get these kids to and from school. We have a very big fucking problem on our hands.
Posted by @washprobs.bsky.social on insta about 15 mins ago. MPD blocking ppl under 18 from entering Union Station. ICYMI, DC kids ride public transit free rather than school buses. Sooo not only are 🐷 assaulting them as they leave school, but they're actively preventing them from getting home.
People celebrating the extrajudicial execution of persons who, even if guilty of the crime they are accused of, would not be convicted of a capital offense... it is a perversion of any sense of law.
Someone has not spent 10,000 hours pursuing sport or science
I’m so tired in whole new ways right now
So many kids (and adults) will die from this. Talk about a place it’s not safe to go that won’t keep itself away from the rest of us. First they’ll eliminate the requirements; then they’ll start banning them. This is absolutely mass scale eugenics.
For more than a decade, Andrew Cuomo pretended he had nothing to do with deteriorating subways and endless delays — even as he siphoned off funding from the MTA he controlled.
I truly cannot express, as a Jew, how depressing it is that America's new Rasputin is the woman in this video, hitting on a Nazi at a white supremacist event by telling him, "I have big tits and an Ashkenazi IQ"
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Overdue to be said and I’m glad Pritzker’s said it.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
I realize I’m just reposting this whole thing but Pritzker feels like the only Dem saying this. Some talk about the power grabs or the racism and they are right but it’s not enough.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
This is gonna cause dead and abused kids
This is some Nazi shit
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
When the Civil Rights Movement succeeded at making it electoral poison to publicly support segregation, did the Religious Right stop? No, they reassessed, retriangulated, and made abortion their pet issue. They're doing the same with trans rights, using sports as their Trojan horse.
Have definitely seen that thing before contractor normal but only one item and at the White House? It’s a little weird
Whenever I eat tuna straight out the can, I feel an urge to knock shit off a table.
I start seriously training my program in 12 days (adult competitive season is concentrated in January - early April) and I’ve done something to my ankle/foot. I see my physio and my skate tech tomorrow but pray for me. This is some sort of dumb overuse injury I don’t have time for
That’s what @charlotteclymer.bsky.social thinks the 2pm announcement is and it tracks. So yeah maybe
Get in the thread for @clairewillett.bsky.social discussing this - she’s great at inside baseball on this and that’s more useful to understanding what this really means than non-Catholics being fairly but amorphously mad at the church.
Wait the pizza index was spiking because everyone in DC had to spend the weekend search-and-replacing “defense” to “war”?
Every person, without exception, who claims they voted for King asshole “because of the economy” is lying. All of them. Not a single person voted for that criminal asswipe because of the economy. They voted for him because they wanted team white man to win and be in charge. That’s it.
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
I dunno but we’re possibly finding out at 2pm today
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
The involuntary sound of dismay that just came out of my body
Maybe he’ll do it on live TV later today
I was just listening to a Charlie Kirk rant about how millions of people in the USA don't speak English ("unity is our strength," he says), then uses India as an example of a "unified country." Buddy I have news for you about the linguistic diversity of India.
That the proof of life photos made everyone even more sure he’s dead really says something about everything right now
You guys see where this is going? Right?
I have dealt with violent cats, and cats with high medical needs, and cats who have needed to go to the ER but making sure both these cats are here is comedically stressful
Cat sitting for twin brother cats. They are orange. They make sure I never know if they are both here because one of them is living up in the moulding of the house. Losing my miiiind.
Unions built this city and keep it running. They’ve fought against power and greed to make the impossible possible. Now, they need an ally in City Hall. On Labor Day, the presidents of the Hotel Trades Council, 32BJ and SEIU 1199 make the case at @cityandstateny.bsky.social.
What's the most amount of red flags you can fit in a paragraph?
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender, total of 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender, total of more than 4,000. Transgender folks are 1.0% of the population and they make up less than 0.1% of the mass shooters.
🚨 Important action item ❗️: Do you live in one of the 13 states (& DC) where CVS currently requires a doctor's Rx to get a covid vax (AZ, CO, FL, GA, KY, LA, ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA & WV, & DC)? - or in MA, NV & NM, where CVS won't give the vax even *with* a note or Rx? Or, re: Walmart's Rx...
A whole bunch of people sitting around d chatting about how these folks don’t know their own minds and it’s hard for them that they’ve changed was maybe not the hopefully accidental allegory for 2025. Also imagine if they had treated Una and her ex seriously? How lovely it could have been. But no.
Ohhhhh valuable data. Thank you. I will totally get on the PATH train so I can get my vax
(And while we’re here, it’s super obvious that Batel was originally intended as an antagonist who was sleeping w Pike for info about Discovery. It’s set up so clearly in S1E1 it’s maddening. I love Melanie Scrofano and she’s made me love Batel but this shit makes no sense.)
I don’t even mind Vulcan comedy eps (I love the one in S1 and rewatch it a lot) but this transphobic mess and also how it treats Una and that dude… I could scream.
(Also why why why are we doing universal heterosexual serious relationship monogamy in Star Trek. This has literally never been the thing. It makes me crazy)
I just can’t get my head around Pike being the guy who drapes himself across a woman’s legs in S1 and wants Batel to be a little wifey and is unable to respect her bodily autonomy in S3. It’s not even that I’m mad he’s a jerk; it’s that it makes no sense
There are very specific plot things and characterizations in S1 that are dropped or completely flipped in/by S3 and it’s maddening to me.
S1 (which has my whole heart) absolutely pointed in a direction that we are clearly no longer going in and I feel less crazy to know it but man oh man. I think we’re gonna be hearing stories about this fact for a lonnnng time too.
time travel to 2005 and tell yourself that in 20 years, the president is Donald Trump, he's threatening to invade Chicago, no one is 100% sure if he's actually even still alive, and the Governor of Illinois is on the internet asking if we're in a Weekend at Bernies situation.
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
And hilariously that’s widely considered her “best” book!
A great question. #nyc #nyclife #newyorkcity
Them: “JD Vance is even more evil! Nothing will ever get better!” Me: “Vance is stupider than Ted Cruz and more disliked. His oratory style is atrocious and feels condescending to the folks who like Trump and sounds like a minor-demon possessed terrier to those who don’t. Not cult leader material.”
Trying to parse what part of this bonkers Giuliani story is fake. Did the woman exist? Was it the abusive partner that ran him off the road? Or, could it be… Russia? (Please hear my church lady voice on that last question). Also if we’re in a simulation it’s a fucking annoying one
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."
After WWII, social scientists studied the personalities of fascists. What they found perfectly describes today’s Republicans: “ethnocentrism, superstition, aggression, cynicism, conservatism, and an inordinate interest in the private sex lives of others.” (Story by @annaleen.bsky.social.)
STRONG opinion incoming: zombie by the cranberries doesn't belong on halloween playlists. it's a protest song about the children who were victims of a 1993 bombing during the troubles. it's not about the living dead!! stop putting songs on halloween playlists just based on the title please!!!
thread. this judge is not fucking having it.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
A lot of the studies on media influence on political behavior focus on Fox's position in the channel line-up to generate an exogenous effect. This one looks at the effect of a city boycotting a particular newspaper because of its coverage of a sports tragedy. theconversation.com/did-the-sun-...
(Also if you “missed the antisemitism” in Heyer it just means you haven’t read The Grand Sophy. People reccing that book to me without a warning for it are how I’ve found out those friends were antisemitic … not like in a casual culturally absorbed way but in a Hitler way)
Anyway, if you wanna do Regency events and not be surrounded by terrible white people, Do Your Research. And no it being at a sci-fi convention or Bridgeton-inspired doesn’t mean it’ll be fine! And I haven’t even begun to talk to you about the transphobia situation!
Historical reenactment of course always has a host of potential problems at hand but Regency events in particular often have a very visible clash between queer multiracial nerds who dig the clothes and folks who make the Duggars look moderate.
Also Heyer’s super pro-racist interpretation of the era has become a feedback loop wherein Regency costume events often have a significant amount of overt Christian nationalist racism and misogyny going on because Heyer’s books have caused those spaces to seem safe for that.
They can say “voluntary” all they want but this is forced relocation and ethnic cleansing. It’s being done for profit and cruelty and it’s being done in our names as Americans and as Jews. This is crime against humanity shit and everyone should be able to point out that obvious fact
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
There was a time when if you were a queer couple before marriage equality Wells Fargo was one of the only reliable paths to a joint mortgage. Like to the point a lot of us were like “rainbow capitalism is bad but it can provide useful data.” But here we are. Fuck them into the sun.
reminder that the owners of the NYT are fascist apologists and cheerleaders
"Since Hasan and his team of reporters don’t own or use computers, the newspaper is handwritten and then photocopied. But they also believe writing stories by hand ...makes the paper feel more intimate and brings their community closer together." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
I agree with much of this thread, but I think it needs to be said: if unity is the way to get around fascists, we need to fucking unify, and that means at this stage, swiftly discouraging the wedge issue dividers in our own party.
One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.
See what a difference a headline makes? I far prefer @hyperallergic.com’s coverage. hyperallergic.com/1031310/home...
I’m trying to engage in fewer pile-ons but please read a history book. Eugenics, societal “purification” through mass death and the fetishization/fusion of occultism, religious extremism and junk science is kinda the entire fascist thing. Did the Nazis not do mayhem, my dude?
“Owner of an AI company” as a romance hero job is definitely right up there with “republican politician.” Absolutely would expect the author to show their whole entire ass
All I know is when he dies, anyone tries “don’t speak ill of the dead” is getting punted into the sun. I’m gonna speak so ill of that dead it’ll make Satan blush.
Cool to see this federal agency schedule an important workshop for early career people to overlap perfectly with Rosh Hashanah This, actually, is the antisemitism problem, not people who oppose genocide
Anyway, I’m really enjoying learning to navigate these films in ways that work for me and if you love film but think you aren’t up to horror, I get it, but you are missing great stories and there is a way!
I do not like jump scares. I can tolerate but don’t enjoy most gore. I find medical horror triggering and body horror can be an issue depending. But I do, apparently, love horror movies, and the real discovery of the last ten years is just how much room there is in this genre for me.
I both agree with you and also think that depends on how many of your friends are Irish, Caribbean, or just really bored.
Jokes aside, if Biden was AWOL for four days and had nothing on his sked for a holiday weekend: -CNN would permanently show a running clock on the last time Biden was seen in public -Alex Thompson would publish multiple stories a day on Axios -Chris Cillizza would crank out 56 "But His Age" stories
I just saw somebody doing the Weapons run on Fulton and I’m sorry but it’s too 2025 for this shit
I didn’t know that! (Love that film but hate Leto)
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.
How many times were we really sure the Queen was dead before the Queen was dead?
'Trump and his granddaughter Kai Trump load the motorcade on the south lawn of the White House in Washington DC on August 30, 2025, as they head to Trump National golf course in Sterling, Virginia' (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
"Surveillance will continue for salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, but has ended for six others: campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio, and Yersinia. " Oh Anyway, unrelated (vibrio is the flesh eating bacteria)
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
You asked me to confirm Trump sightings Went through all pool reports. This is the last activity involving second party that confirmed that this occurred. “On background from a WH Official: Can confirm the President has spoken with Governor Walz. Wed, 12:32pm ET”
I’m going to bed. Someone wake me if Fox News starts showing Swan Lake.
If nothing else, these times have brought “ghouling out” to the lexicon
Threads has been like this for like a week - any time he’s missing for 12 hours. So honestly, over here people are at least making sense
David Bowie as Tesla in The Prestige. It’s about the smartest casting ever to have Bowie as a maker and unmaker of men within the conceit of the film. I get giddy just thinking about it.
If you have time this 3 day weekend for some prep work for possible future events, you may want to watch this movie.
Good.
Newsome doesn’t want to meaningfully challenge Trump; he wants to be his successor. He knows he’s a little better looking and a little smarter and that the cult won’t follow JD.