the indignities can really stop at any time now
We’re in the shit now, somebody’s gotta shovel it.
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the indignities can really stop at any time now
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
The American Dream is doing fine, we all just need to work harder to be born rich.
RETVRN
Eventually they will come for you, too, is the lesson.
After almost 20 years of Republican trifecta, I assume Ohio democrats are like those kidnapping victims who don’t even know they were ever kidnapped and just assume Republicans are supposed to be in charge and things are supposed to be this way.
You know what this is, someone trying to mentally prep a society to commit genocide.
nghhh
Yeah, no, that’d be terrible if you got caught in the dryer.
RIP, Big Russ 🙏
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
Shout out to the unions who have given me the chance to make a comfortable wage and work with dignity: UFCW Local 135 IAM CSLEA SEIU Local 1000
I’m really perplexed. My de-stress game for the last few months has World of Tanks. Ping has been 30-45, FPS was 25, for like months. Then, suddenly, with seemingly nothing changing on my end my computer bogs WAY down and ping and fps have become insanely bad during play.
It’s been a really short ride from: USNA ⬇️ Mascot Handler ⬇️ DD214 ⬇️ Palantir-associated, VC-funded, MAGA vetbro death industry PAO ⬇️ Chicago-bound future killer of a homeless person just waiting to happen
Down with clankers
Happy Labor Day only to those who respect labor.
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
Centrists have not a thought in their heads. If you willingly call yourself a centrist: - you care more about how you’re perceived than your actual politics - it’s more important for you to be able to sit in judgment of both parties than to take a side, or - are just ashamed to be openly rightist
Pre-ordered, your turn #civmilsky
Yooooooo
a kid like this can either bloom into an empathetic beautiful soul or can curdle into a bully bent on revenge
Now somebody go interview his mom about this
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."
That’ll do psychic damage. Yow.
“The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.” - US Constitution, Art. 4.1
Me: “I think A.I. is stupid and embarassing.” Somehow the most confident stranger in the world, every time: “Yes, which is why I only use it for the following reasons—“
there is a very narrow and very limited way in which this is true, and it’s that if you present as white and straight, you are being recruited, and it is not very subtle
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Second reconstruction? Second reconstruction tonight, queen?
“Why should I help cover the cost of someone else’s shitty parenting?” Because they’re children, Susan, and we live in a society.
Gun nuts reading this like
“If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I would literally rather send my kids to Kanye West’s homeschool.
Took a sec to decide if this was a football post or a BlueSky post.
“We noticed you from across the fjord and really dig your vibe.”
Get your spoopy season started off right.
Lost Causer nonsense is what it is.
Reading Chernow’s bio and Grant’s memoirs makes me feel like he’s also a top three president. Lincoln performed excellently but with a well-bounded problem and his tasks were more evident. By comparison, Grant had far more ambiguous problems and wasn’t necessarily forced to do much of what he did.
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.”
"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Second.
we'll know it's for real when Fox News starts playing Lee Greenwood's rendition of "Swan Lake" on loop
any body want to help me plan sneaking around and raising all the flags back up to full mast
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Anhelina was born under russian attack in October 2022 and died from a russian attack in August 2025. She was only 2 years old when russia killed her yesterday along with her mother.
I hear nifty takes from dudes who were or flirted with the right as Principled or Chamber of Commerce Conservatives and… even if you were Never Trump, you still had a small hand in building this movement. Reagan, Brooks Brothers Riot, the apathy and irony since. You are a shareholder in this.
No Mike, I want it all
Deep cut.
Somebody check what The Rock is tweeting right now.
[pounding the table and chanting louder and harder each time] cog! COG! 𝗖𝗢𝗚! 𝘾𝙊𝙂!!!
[Walter Cronkite voice] It is appropriate to address clearly and unambiguously the present rumors which seem to taking hold this evening that the President’s health may be faltering: That would be fuckin’ rad as hell. [puts on Pit Vipers] [does a kickflip] [skates away]
Straight-up fucking dictator shit.
This was striking. As in it struck my heart and made me sick. Turn over in the German Nazi camps was so high because the average citizen couldn't handle the cruelty and depravity. But we seem to have selected for the cruelest guards right at the jump.
We're about 5 minutes away from Trump posthumously awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to John Wilkes Booth.
truly baffling that a culture obsessed with machismo and swimming in semi-automatics would struggle with gun violence
They said it was about personal choice. It was really about making sure you can't get vaccines.
Happy birthday to Jack Kirby.
@pattonoswalt.bsky.social as “Doug the fucking Vulcan” is the hardest I’ve laughed since getting fired by the nazis last month.
Blurting out “oh, she about to get the ‘Live Long and Prosper.’” 🖖
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
I have a really good guess who some of them might be.
Checking my sent items folder to make sure I didn’t come up with this drunk
I read it in a Jar Jar Binks voice sooooo
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
Man watching the Republican party eviscerate a still-living Vance like the execution scene in Braveheart would really lift my spirits. Literally or figuratively, I’m not picky.
Roses are red Asters bloom late
If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.
what did you finish/what are you starting? I have really enjoyed Grant’s unabridged memoirs. I imagine the narrator makes a huge difference and recommend this version.
Read it and weep babe.
From Dr. Demetre Daskalakis' CDC resignation letter: "Their desire to please a political base...(and an authoritarian leader) will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults."
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
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But what I meant was “lectern” 😞
American flag as a pocket square or nah?
This has to be a crude attempt at making @dieworkwear.bsky.social have an aneurysm.
Hydrodynamic ballistic armor.
Chocolate hazelnut, my dude.
Thank god it’s Friday.
the irony is the people of new york city did not even recognize him they just know an asshole when they see one
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
This I don’t understand. I live in a rural area. Many of us are gun owners. Most are sportsmen. Folks I know can fit their firearms in one safe. What you see below is a problem of paranoid suburban white guys who accumulate guns like Beanie Babies because it is fundamentally a hobby.
BIG BALLS HAD IT COMING would make a tremendous protest sign for labor day no kings
So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
Everybody take a deep breath. The media, general public and politicians are going to have a hard time wrapping their heads around this one, but Joe is spot on. "esoterica without a center"
Tom Clancy’s Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul
Spotted at NOMA metro. These folks are bored: send them back home to their regular jobs so they can work on their careers and spend quality time with their friends & families.
This isn't even really new. French Surrealist André Breton wrote a hundred years ago that the purest surreal act would be to empty a revolver into a crowd. Violence as a performance where its only point is the violence itself. Here we are.