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we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over
The world is full of young men who lived dissolute lives, who think as they approach middle age, that ideological rigidity and moral posturing are the path back to self-respect and redemption.
Picard management tip: Tolerate failure, not incompetence. Learn the difference.
NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE! It looks like tens of thousands have joined. This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏
#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.
This war is not just on a major American city. This war is on Black leadership - and by extension, on Black Americans writ large. DC, Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans: what do they have in common? Black mayors. Deny it all you'd like.
I've never seen a comma work so hard
Guiltiest man alive.
Noted
Feds do not have to repay *severance* received, only a *buyout* via early retirement or separation. The union rep had to payback his to receive backpay because he was reinstated to his job. But he was double-taxed on that.
So it's been brought up among my colleagues that my agency's HR gave out incorrect info in a webinar about RIFs yesterday, which was then misinterpreted in the following union webinar. I deleted the thread but here's what was said. No alt text there as it's inaccurate. Alt text in the other pic.
I’m gonna say it again in hopes that it one way or another makes it to ears that matter: FEC records over $200 are public and searchable, state and local democratic officials need to (quietly and deniably) be building lists of which armed men they can trust in the breach, and which they can’t
Rep. Massie is dropping nuggets.
Brilliant outside the box thinking and action. This is what I want to vote for. Poverty abolition.
Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!
All-timer
It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.
Twitter is owned by a neo-Nazi, the LA Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are owned by pro-Trump billionaires, and CBS News will soon be run by a far-right Likud extremist. American media still has a liberal bias problem.
“We’ve been lavishly bribed.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
I'm gonna need dems to get out there and be like "RFK and the republicans who enable him want your children to die" bc that is what is happening. Like, it's not just RFK, he is being supported and enabled by the rest of that death panel ass cult of a party
Jesus.
sweet christ on a bird flu biscuit how was he ever confirmed
How does ending birthright citizenship fit into rebuilding the growth machine? www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
Hidden camera FTW
Virginia senior senator @markwarner.bsky.social thinks sucking up to Trump could convince him to release federal funds ($12M of which he's already probably illegally clawed back from Richmond's water plant project) to help fix the region's failing infrastructure: www.richmonder.org/warner-asks-...
NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER share OR click a link with anything similar to "?id=" "?si=" "?igsh=" "?utm_" **DELETE THAT PART** It is literally ONLY to track you and the people who click your link. DO NOT CLICK LINKS with these tracking tags. Copy the link, paste it, delete ALL that shit after "?"
You were one of the deciding votes to confirm him, Bill Cassidy. You are going to be responsible for tens of thousands of preventable deaths and it will be your only legacy.
get his ass
wait can we post gifs from our computer, is this going to work
RFK Jr. calls himself a protector of children. That’s a rich claim coming from someone who flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet on multiple occasions.
These are broken people. They are fundamentally anti-human savages. That we allow them to speak in public says more about our capacity for delusion than anything else.
This is the animal magnetism, apparently, that some people, especially New York Magazine feature writers, just can't resist.
luke i am your lawyer
I want us all, but men in particular, to really, really hear these words. "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me." "I thought someone was going to kill me."
Still one of the best ever.
There are many reasons we don’t let drug warriors play judge, jury, and executioner — like killing innocent civilians. No doubt Hegseth would have cheered this shoot down of a suspected drug flight over Peru in 2001. Whoops, it turned out to be US missionary Veronica Bowers & infant daughter.
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If you're saying, "I believe women but not Nancy Mace," you're part of the problem. Nancy Mace is AWFUL, but more than 50% of women in America have suffered some form of sexual violence. Chances are better that she has than she hasn't. You can't just believe the women on your side of the aisle.
No, this tracks.
And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
OOP.
Absolutely extraordinary and accurate speech which should be widely spread around British social media and television. Cf. @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Amazing and perfect.
thread delivers
"we may give" the condescension disgusting
Your occasional reminder that the positive effects of UBI have been tested and validated hundreds of times more often than the murderous Musk robotaxis or LLM’s we’re rushing to put into our schools and streets.
The best quote I’ve ever seen about this is that every Democratic leader of the 21st century is ideally suited by temperament and mindset to be in congress in 1995 debating the v-chip.
“Film things you see happening…Be loud for America” is quite the rallying cry.
I love it when a politician sounds like a human being who likes living in reality
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
Imagining how galvanizing a simple "Democrats will never find common ground with racist thieves" would be, instead of being served this putrid gruel.
when you're deciding which couch to fuck
jeffries: maybe we can find common ground trump: i want to send troops into california democrats are simply unprepared to fight this war.
I’m sorry this guy sucks
Happy anniversary to (imho) one of my better jokes
This weekend in a nutshell:
JD Vance solemnly wheels out a TV into the white house press room... "Hello America, if youre watching this, I've just had a big beautiful death. the most amazing death a president has had, ever, they're saying - more so than lincoln, in fact."
Exactly what you’d expect a dead guy to do.
Well done.
Meanwhile US EV tax credits expire this month.
I don’t always say this, but this feels like a situation where any joke answer as to what’s being tossed out here won’t be funnier than what’s actually being tossed out here bsky.app/profile/nihi...
Senator Kelly escapes Magneto’s lair in the first X Men movie
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
*Daniel Craig voice* Donas e cabaleiros, é Setembro
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
Rudy Giuliani just set a world record in the field of Statement That Invites More Questions Than It Answers.
goddammit lol
Heartbroken for Lando. #F1 #DutchGP
Give Charles the spot. My dude earned it #F1 #DutchGP
CNN editor: U get that story on Mamdani having lunch with some off duty cops CNN writer: Sure did, boss, made it real 53 paragraphs, just like you wanted CNN editor: Well, idk is it unfocused and meandering with a weird tone throughout CNN writer: It sure is, boss CNN editor: I love it
L.A. Taco is an incredible locally sourced organization that does a lot of old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting.
Now that's an impressive smorgasbord of euphemisms
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
we can just keep saying he's dead and refusing to credit or acknowledge anyone who refers to him being alive, this will work, trust me and just follow my lead
It's beautiful.
Post a meme made by you
Fucking hell, Joe Biden had to go biking and hang out at the beach, all in front of cameras, in order to prove to the vultures in the media that he was still physically capable of doing the job. Trump disappears for days and it's only on BlueSky and elsewhere that anyone's asking if he's alive.
This
"So, uh...um...you know,...I have this source and, well...you know...um..." /Alvarez "SO HE'S DEAD RIGHT???" "Yeah, well -- yeah, um...that's...um...THIS person would...um...know..." /repeat for 45min
Max is a damn miracle worker. Good lord.
No zealot like a convert
Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill