These taken together constitute the toughest measures adopted by any European state yet and come after the Belgian Deputy PM, who is also Foreign Minister, threatened to block all other government business unless Belgium adopted these measures.
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These taken together constitute the toughest measures adopted by any European state yet and come after the Belgian Deputy PM, who is also Foreign Minister, threatened to block all other government business unless Belgium adopted these measures.
All kidding aside, it is so *insane* & *shocking* & *dangerous* that Corporate Media has collectively decided to completely bury objective fact that the President is uninformed, confused, and physically & mentally deteriorating.
Gallego and Sinema both came up through my legislative district, and I am honestly convinced that it's cursed.
He has completed the process of transferring his soul to a phylactery and has thus become a lich, so that even as his body swiftly decays into dust (well...goo) he can remain president, eventually possessing JD Vance's body by expelling his soul and destroying his mind.
At the bare minimum we’ve all forced the White House into doing a potentially really embarrassing proof of life thing by making jokes online and I think that’s pretty neat
Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
By the time she realized that the GOP would never vote for her before an actual Republican, she'd pissed everyone else off and it was too late. I overheard her pushing compromise with the GOP at a fundraiser back in 2018, and at some point 'compromise' turned into 'sell out to."
I think she thought she could become a major centrist power broker in the Senate, with both sides constantly courting her. But she forgot that to be a long term player, you have to get re-elected, and to get re-elected, you have to keep the people who elected you happy at least part of the time.
lot of this comes down to how utterly dysfunctional Congress is as a whole
Here's a better response to RFK's destruction of our public health system than what Senator Schatz is offering here, from JB Pritzker (with some additional ideas thrown in from me and public health experts): newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
I bless the makers of those lists
99% of all issues on here are solved by 1) follow at least 500-600 people 2) block annoying people Once you do it it’s a wonderful experience
Like sorry but if your solution to any problem on here is that everyone needs to be nicer to New York Times people and not that we need more music recommendations and sports clips and general talking about random shit you are just living in a fantasy world, I disregard you.
The flaw in everyone who makes a Bluesky bad post is that they come to the conclusion that making the site better involves importing people with centrist politics to talk politics when the actual truthful answer is that we need less politics and more goofs but that’s difficult when the world sucks
Praise of the Week: @azagmayes.bsky.social for confronting Supt. Horne about the auto-approval of ESA vouchers. Shortchanging public schools for unconscionable purchases like lingerie is not serving Arizona! Thank you Kris Mayes! #POTW #AZIndivisibles #AZPolitics
Tangential but it’s notable that when California does things it gets reported as “Newsom” and when Illinois does things it gets reported as “Illinois”
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
“By shutting down the Foreign Malign Influence Center, Gabbard stripped away America’s shield against foreign meddling. Moscow and Beijing couldn’t ask for a bigger gift.” Robert Morton #NationalSecurity #ForeignInterference #counterespionage
Imagine how much money could have been saved just by going with an actual human to begin with www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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!
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
Yikes. He seems to be having some kind of meltdown.
We have an extraordinary example of someone who is a unifier beyond expectation right now, and it's Zohran Mamdani. He does not throw anyone under the bus. The most important thing he did? Listen to what has people most upset. Propose policy that met those needs.
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.
that’s why some of us are so annoying about the need to include links and not just screenshots. You people are being lied to.
They normalized calling for the death of innocent Black men. They normalized the fact that they can’t stop sexually abusing children. They normalized a traitorous violent assault on the capitol of the United States. And these motherfuckers want to pretend *word choice* is the issue? Please.
I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 to talk about my article on the small acts of noncompliance that we can take against our dispicable government. I guess Summer is over. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
So I imagine that folks who insisted it wasn’t ethnic cleansing, land theft, forced removal are lined up to apologize for insisting that this was just about defeating Hamas fighters and the return of the hostages.
Congestion pricing is actually the perfect example here. Trump declared that “congestion pricing is dead” (and that he is the king) Hochul and the MTA told him to fuck off, and now, more than 6 months later, congestion pricing is still alive and working exactly as planned
I’m serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trump’s first tariff blunder. It’s so irresponsible to ignore this.
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
I remember giving a report in grade school on Canyon "Dee Chellee" and having the teacher ask "Do you mean Canyon De SHAY?" and replying earnestly that no, this is Canyon De Chelly, it says so right in the book.
Los Angeles: share this. Fuck ICE.
Today #ICE and Border Patrol descended on the plaza of the Japanese American Nat'l Museum. The very spot where Japanese Americans, including my family, were rounded up and sent to concentration camps with no due process in 1942. The community wasn't having it. Read JANM's statement bit.ly/4oDsjng
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
Unfortunately the only way this country could be divided is by magic wand. Or possibly a genie.
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
This thread helps contextualize where we landed in our conversation, but it also makes me think of this post I stumbled on yesterday, two degrees of separation from one of the podcast posts. If you’re basing your argument in “this is what the base wants”, you better be clear on what the base wants.
This essay is well worth a read. It neatly addresses the aesthetic argument advanced by the Sad Puppies – which is a difficult task because the Puppies themselves struggled to explain it.
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
Fellow New Yorkers, please call your state rep and state senator and tell them to support this bill! Find your reps here: reps.fyi
Buffalo is the site of a human rights crisis — a constant stream of deaths in the local jails. The sheriff who oversees it (a Republican in a Harris-voting county) is up for reelection this year, but he is running entirely unopposed. We report here—don't look away from these spaces.
The guy got 2000 reposts and 500 credulous comments.
Florida under DeSantis: Seven FHP cops guarding a crosswalk to stop any attempts at gay chalk.
R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
An Arizona court rejected a right-wing lawsuit seeking to make mail-in ballot signature verification harder. The ruling will help prevent wrongful ballot rejections for the nearly 90% of Arizonans who vote by mail.
Ocean’s 9 but it’s all these women suing the shit out of Meta and taking control of the company
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
Dude if he dies before Biden lmao
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
Bluesky right now ...
my favorite fact about james garfield's death is that alexander graham bell invented the metal detector specifically to try to find the bullet in him. this also didn't work
don't want to let it slip under the radar that racist law prof amy wax lost her discrimination suit against penn and will be suspended from teaching this year
At the very least it’s fun to think of this as a sort of tailgate party before the big event
hot ghoul summer
my wife just got back from her book club of mostly offline people and i can report that the rumor has broken containment
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
I just checked Threads and even they’re getting in on the action. There are some ideas so beautiful that they manage to reach every corner of our balkanized internet.
I’ve spent two weeks thinking carefully about this, and I’m going to do my best to explain the theory of change for RFK’s removal, as I see it. That includes where impeachment fits, what to ask from House vs Senate, etc.
I don't think you Benghazi the RFK world by impeachment. I think you literally just Benghazi them. Again: Republicans do this all the time, because they're bloodthirsty, relentless freaks who only care about winning. Let's just be bloodthirsty, relentless freaks about this.
They should do this to Stephen Miller when It Happens
Yep. Point of access is so important. FWIW: in CO, I was not able to get an appt at Walgreens, CVS, or King Soopers even if I marked that I had a prescription. But Kaiser (my insurer) gave me an appt right away. I think if you are insured, try contacting your pcp
When Trump finally dies there will be calls for civility and “respect for the office” from even his harshest critics and I’m telling you right now I plan on saying things so harsh they might knock the earth off its axis
Yep. I don't really think he'd dead, though he might be having some kind of acute health issue. But, you know, thoughts and prayers...
Crapped out, spellcheck!
It wrapped out on me at the end cause I'm in AZ. Annoying.
They are states that have some form of law against giving vaccines that aren't authorized by the CDC.
I just did a test on the CVS website, and all they do is ask you to check a box if you have a risk factor. Doesn't even ask which one.
COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.
Yeah, Harris said similar things to all the "Do you realize that Biden is Old?" questions.
Yeah. Even if he actually has something like congestive heart failure, he has he best medical care in the world. He could go on like this for years.
Expand/collapse threads is my number one want.
:whispers: they're joking
The de minimis exemption which exempted goods under $800 from tariffs has now been ended. This affects 92% of goods shipped to the US. This officially the ends buying cheap goods shipped from China on sites like SHEIN, Temu and Ali Express. Permanently it seems.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
there isn’t a single democratic representative who would *prefer* having to make decisions about funding metro health care systems at the expense of rural health care systems; the decision to deeply cut the resources we have available was entirely and exclusively a republican choice
every discussion about whether we should prioritize urban wellbeing over rural wellbeing has to start with an acknowledgment that the primary reason we are having the discussion at all is because the representatives of rural americans are forcing us to
the founders envisioned a madman potentially becoming president what the founders did not envision was the majority of Congress and the Supreme Court becoming part of a cult of personality around said president. it’s both pathetic and horrifying
And we even have a few of those, if he cares so much about them he doesn't have to block them.
it is a little weird to read stuff like “this place used to be great once” i mean it’s only been a little over two years and a portion of that was just twenty people posting alf memes lol
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
Yeah, this.
you mean "we're all going to die" wasn't polling well?
Track errors have declined by about 40 percent, intensity by about 30 percent, and warning and watches go up 12 hours earlier than they did back in 2005. 🧪
My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
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Boo fucking hoo.
"The media seems to have accepted Leavitt’s 'frequent handshaking' diagnosis. But photos from last Saturday showed Trump with bruising on his left hand too. Are we to believe he’s double-fisting his handshakes now?"
This is actually less an "end-run" and more "example #145,436,884 of how Congress repeatedly gave away its powers and hoped norms would just hold everything together and now they aren't." Congress lets POTUS petition for a clawback and withhold funding for 45 days during the process. But here?
This is an absolute slap in the face to every single serviceperson who has protected this country and the Constitution. Ashli Babbitt was a traitor who deserves no recognizance whatsoever. Every person involved in this decision deserves the same.
I got an NYT push alert about Taylor Swift getting engaged, but not about the United States spying on Greenland
Since we're discoursing on bluesky culture: the worst posters on here aren't those dogpiling somebody with a heterodox (for bluesky) centrist or conservative take. It's people like this who are flippantly insulting and better-than-thou towards people who just said something *they 100% agree with.*
I’m gonna lose it if one more person suggests that Lisa Cook admitted to mortgage fraud or that she tried to explain it away as a “clerical error.” Neither of those things happened!