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NYT reports TRUMP & MODI had a falling out because Modi wouldn’t back Trump’s lie that he brokered the India-Pakistan ceasefire — a lie 🇺🇸 media has let him get away with with even as India’s media has openly mocked him for it. Video: x.com/thetnholler/...
“They only hear their own voice.” • Replies disabled Irony isn’t dead yet! Mike Stern is having a normal one tonight, ranting about big mean progressives who want to defund the police. I sweartofuckinggod people need to come to grips with the notion that the DNC is part of the problem.
Great day for this story to drop
We all want it to be something funny but it’s going to be that he’s invading another city.
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
You think explaining lesbians to kids is awkward? I was at Domino's and my 5-yo asked what a sticker that said “avoid the noid” meant and I was like “uh, it's um the anthropomorphism of waiting for a pizza more than 30 minutes or uhhh it's not fresh or something um” and quickly changed the subject.
I am amused that Mamdani is seen as a raving communist for suggesting mid-tier FDR type reforms and there's an actual Eugene Debs dude running for Senate in Maine and he's not freaking out anybodyyyy oh yes. Shit. He's white. Sorry, I just got it. Go about your business.
The Democratic Party has badly lost its way.
Everyone expects it's him going into hospice but I bet it's a new war and maybe also that there will live executions on the White House lawn
Like AOC, Zohran Mamdani has betrayed his progressive principles to suck up to the shitlib wine moms who define themselves by their hatred of Donald Trump, who I do not support. by Glenn Greenwald
Maybe Susan Collins has finally worn out her welcome...
Loomer is pregnant
“In 2017, O’Hanlon was captured at Trump’s first inauguration festivities in DC decked out in his full Eagle Scouts uniform. The photographer who took the photo wrote on his personal website of ‘the Boy Scout kid that looked like a Brownshirt.’”
journalists are being threatened and jailed. media outlets are paying settlements to THE PRESIDENT. but gosh golly gee, is democracy under threat? who can really say!
“He was a great man of morals, ethics and character and will be eternally missed,” Greene’s agent Michael Greene said in a statement to Deadline.” “Greene was born on June 22, 1952 in Ohsweken, on the Six Nations Reserve.”
if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
Just went down a rabbit hole to figure out that Grant's Pass is a city of about 40k in southwest Oregon that is 90% white and went triple Trump by a decent margin. Not shocking that they led the charge to criminalize homelessness. Not great that Charlottesville is following their lead.
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
Remember Nate Silver refuses to use Bluesky and says you'd have to pay him over a million dollars to use it, so I'm going to suggest he not only doesn't know what "normal" people like, he doesn't even know what Bluesky is.... Signal and the noise guy is full of noise once again.
When Labor Day was est. as a holiday in 1894, ~ 30 yrs from slavery’s abolishment, it represented a key U.S. paradox: Black workers continued to be excluded from labor unions and benefits via Jim Crow laws, systemic racism, sharecropping systems, and other exclusionary labor practices. #BlackSky
Satire is dead.
Cville: being unhoused is not a crime. Folks who can’t afford housing deserve shelter- not a criminal record that will only make housing harder to access! Please tell City Council we want real housing solutions, not criminalization. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Incels and "alpha males" are two sides of the same lame ass coin.
This is VERY. BAD. Russell Vought at OMB wants to rip away Congress' most important power, the power to set the budget, and put it in the hands of a president-king. This illegal impoundment stuff runs contrary to the most important principle of Anglo-American gov't—
So far this year, Baltimore City has recorded 91 homicides and 218 nonfatal shootings, which represents a 29.5% drop in homicides and a 21% decrease in nonfatal shootings compared to this time last year, per Mayor Brandon Scott's Office.
ACTION ALERT: Tell city council to reject the ordinance to ban camping on city property! On Tuesday, September 2nd (tomorrow!), City Council will be considering an ordinance that would make it illegal to sleep on city property or to leave personal property unattended on city land. 🧵
Russell Vought might be Public Enemy No. 1. More than RFK, jr.? Yes! Because without Vought stealing all the money from programs, agencies, grants, and states. Trump's govt could *not* close USAID, withhold NIH grants, penalize states and so on. IMPEACH OMB Director Russell Vought!
The fucking Grants Pass Supreme Court decision being cited here jfc… Charlottesville leaders had better vote AGAINST criminalizing homelessness on Tuesday
I have a language suggestion, which everyone can do, but is primarily for media members who value truth and Democratic politicians: Instead of asking and adjudicating if an obvious lie is false, make the fact that it's false your premise. "Why are you lying?" instead of "some say that's not true."
A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. It’s long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
HEY NYC! The great @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dancing on the @jcod3.bsky.social float at the West Indian Day Parade! #CuomoCouldNever
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
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This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
I swear if they fire Ensign for not being sufficiently openly lawless for them it will be the most hilarious thing ever.
FSB handlers
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
Liberals: “We could try to DO some things to reduce gun violence; ‘thoughts and prayers’ isn’t enough.” Republicans: “Outrage! Disgrace! They’re attacking prayer.” There’s no need to be polite or defensive in response to this. Invoking faith as an excuse to shun responsibility deserves no respect.
In addition to the corporations trying to destroy the NLRB and 90 years of labor law, don’t forget a university is also helping, just to fight their own faculty and students.
Pedocon theory works hard, even on Labor Day www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...
This is an immense sign of weakness and the only viable reaction is to push HARD against MAHA and paint the entire RW movement as culpable for it. Be hard, be cruel, be offensive, do not let them worm their way out of the label of idiots thoughtlessly killing children for no reason.
Local Ohio outlet did a good story on this, with pretty eye-popping quotes from the sheriff. www.mahoningmatters.com/news/local/a...
NEW: 72 of the 76 Guatemalan children previously boarded onto planes have been returned to ORR custody, per DOJ, with the remaining 4 expected to be returned in the next 15 min. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Until now, I wasn't convinced the rumors were true. But if the White House wants us to think Trump does NOT have Congestive Heart Failure, they should not have sent JD Goebbels to say on television that Trump has 100% perfect health. (Overkill) Nor evangelicals to fundraise his way into Heaven. /1
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Assault on a Federal officer is Subway guy, yeah?
Rudy Giuliani absolutely did not try to shortchange a sex worker and then was pursued by her colleagues, don’t you dare suggest such a thing
The city is now sharing know your rights info and other resources here: bit.ly/fafochicago
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
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."
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
Some fools are telling me that legislative people can never be real leaders, that the skill set is different. Bullshit. Watch this LBJ speech. Is @schumer.senate.gov giving speeches like this, citing Lexington and Concord, about the reanimated Confederacy conquering DC? Do this, Senators.
pedocon theory still undefeated www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It's absurd seeing people lecturing trans people and telling them they HAVE to support someone who opposes trans rights for president three years from now—or else fascism wins!—when there are other leaders who are still standing up for trans rights, from Illinois to Kentucky.
Su: The BLS collects statistical information — things like the nation’s inflation rate, the unemployment rate, the number of jobs created, which industries are growing, and which are contracting. And on every one of those fronts, Trump is failing.
literally just saw 10 FBI agents and 2 MPD across 5 cars pull someone over, look through their windows with a flashlight, talk to the person, then let them go terrorizing the community & what a fucking waste
Chicago is a wonderful city. Trump is a fucking liar
Wait! I thought Trump was supposed to be “ending homelessness.” HUD just announced a nationwide audit of Section 8 “citizen status.” Mixed-status families could lose rental assistance, even when kids are U.S. citizens. Families including children could be thrown into eviction & face homelessness.
The 3 other Democrats who had previously been affiliated with AIPAC and who have now renounced ties: Rep. Valerie Foushee of North Carolina Rep. Maxine Dexter of Oregon Rep. Deborah Ross of North Carolina Two others, Rep. Escobar, D-Texas and Rep. Jackson, D-Ill are sponsoring Block The Bombs Act.
A month and a half after the North Carolina Democratic Party passed a resolution declaring Israel an apartheid state and calling for a total arms embargo, Rep. Valerie Foushee of North Carolina disavows previous AIPAC support and pledges to not take any money from the organization in the future.
A third previously AIPAC-backed Democratic member of Congress has renounced ties with the organization and sworn off future affiliation or fundraising with it. Rep. Deborah Ross of NC confirmed that she won't accept AIPAC donations in the 2026 midterms, making her the 2nd one from North Carolina.
This is a good sign. Also AIPAC money today comes mostly from Republican billionaires. Double good.
Nobel committee soon to be accused of mortgage fraud.
As our neighbors vanish daily, this serves as a meaningful way to honor them and highlight the extent of this issue throughout the city’s
Wrote about Comer/Mace attempting to doxx and intimidate Wikipedia editors in an effort to force their own viewpoint onto Wikipedia.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Washington D.C. — 163 years ago today “When the Wisconsin regiments of Union soldiers arrived in DC after the Second Battle of Bull Run, they rested on the White House lawn. President Lincoln came out with water, offering it to the tired and thirsty.” — Wisconsin Historical Society
Nice to see the Situationist International (SI) getting play here. For a dive into their ideas on mass media, consumer capitalism, and resistance to it, check out our interview with Bill Not Bored here: itsgoingdown.org/shake-in-you...
CHICAGO…
JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.” { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
Blue Green Yellow Orange Red by Ellsworth Kelly, 1966 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137719
"83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written"
Please help me welcome to Bluesky @drdebhoury.bsky.social - brave, brilliant, and principled. abcnews.go.com/Politics/vid...
Love watching pilot program after pilot program determine over and over and over that UBI is an unambiguous positive that does not ruin economies or neighborhoods or lives and everyone nods and goes "wow, cool, interesting" and then does fucking nothing until the next pilot program 15 years later
This is something that people don’t talk about, but is quite important to the authoritarian dynamic. We are all now exhibiting the hallmark signs of a population that is no longer living in a democratic reality, but living in the Funhouse of authoritarianism and Palace intrigue that comes with it.
Yes I know. And she had Malcolm X's head in her lap as he took his last breathe and was a likely friend of his widow. She was in the Hal Her NYC apt was a gathering place for activists, including Malcolm X. Really loved learning about her years ago but still learning.
Shame he posted it on a Nazi funding site.
“ICE raids do not make us safer, they make us afraid,” North Chicago Mayor Leon Rockingham Jr. said. “These raids are not law enforcement, they are fear enforcement, and I cannot go quietly into the night and let our city be the staging ground for inhumanity.”
China is making massive investments in electrification to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and the US dollar. @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss the geopolitics and how other countries are getting on board. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/291_...
Republicans and union-busting brands will post “Happy #LaborDay,” knowing damn well that they were the types of people Labor fought against to bring us: - minimum wages - overtime pay - 8 hr workday and a 40 hr week - end to child labor - workplace safety Support unions.
Senator Bernie Sanders ( @sanders.senate.gov) pens New York Times op-ed calling for RFK Jr. to resign: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
my wife just got back from her book club of mostly offline people and i can report that the rumor has broken containment
"I'd love to support trans rights but the public is against it." Go figure that a bunch of the public are against an issue where all our leadership starts by fundamentally agreeing with the right-wing position. That agreement won't win back those votes. Democrats are campaigning for the GOP.
Still think it’s amazing the right whined for years about an old president then eagerly re-elected a guy we all sort of believe died on the toilet in recent days.
I truly don’t understand the people who think teachers telling children how to run, hide, and fight during school shootings is normal but think a teacher acknowledging that someone has two moms or two dads is indoctrination.
Wish the anti-trans weirdos cared this much about the grown men who don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom.
The start of a new school year (K-12 & college) also brings the start of seasonal increase in COVID cases. Local data is no longer tracked—here's Virginia state-wide charts to 23 Aug 2025. There's been a large increase in positive COVID tests since July 1 and a steady increase in ED visits.
Blue states can also buy vaccines in bulk and distribute them via their chief medical officer or via doctors, says @sbagen.bsky.social. The idea would be to make vaccines available to all, including those restricted under RFK lunacy. Great stuff from Sam here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
"Spreading mulch" in Washington D.C. only costs taxpayers $17.95 per hour. But for the low low price of $179,500.00 per hour, you get "Operation Enduring Topsoil: tactical deployment of organic vegetation matter to preserve moisture and fight the war against weeds for the future of our children!"🤡
And then I'm going to remind you that more than 50% of white women voted for Trump too. And I'll remind you that white women contributed almost as many votes for Trump as white men did, by turning out at a higher rate than white men. This admin is a self-described ethnic cleansing campaign.
No. If you say "55% of men" I'm going to ask you what color those men were. White men were the only demographic that voted for Trump at more than 50%. The only. And yes, about half of all Hispanic men in the US are white. Latinos for Trump are deep in the "finding out" part of FAFO right now.
Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in Lviv by an attacker disguised as a delivery courier. The assailant fired multiple shots and fled on a bike. Authorities launched a manhunt. Parubiy was a key political figure in Ukraine. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/30/e...
