Snoopervising.
Sarcastic. Pinballing between anger and optimism. I support 🇺🇦, 🇨🇦, 🇬🇱, 🇵🇦, and any other country our cowardly, weak idiot in chief decides to bully.
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Well, I'm no JAG, but yes, I think illegal, for following reasons: 1. Civilian vessel 2. Not self-defense 3. No attempt at interdiction (i.e. disable engines) 4. Int'l waters 5. No PID on folks in boat (could be civilians) 6. No declared state of war or hostilities so unclear authorization
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the 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?
I just snorted out loud. 😆
Generally speaking. I know there are some exceptions, but that assumption is the default.
And a lot of them don't have a cure because patriarchal medicine has deemed the female human body too complex to study or include in round 1 trials of anything. If something doesn't benefit male bodies, it isn't pursued.
Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
The thing to remember about trump moving Space Command away from NORAD is that The President of The United States Of America repeated raped children, and now republicans are desperately doing anything they can to deflect and distract us from that fact.
WATCH: “Rogan pretending he isn’t anti-woke might be the funniest thing he has ever said.” After getting called out by Marc Maron, Rogan now tries to act like he hasn’t built a business out of being “anti-woke”🤔 Full takedown: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LauI...
Gee, maybe it has something to do with getting ahead becoming harder and harder, wages stagnating despite constant increases in productivity, and the 1% taking more than they earn or can spend in 100 lifetimes.
I feel like losing my mind every time we do another round of Covid discourse because I live in Bergen county NJ, I saw the freezer trucks full of dead people with my own two eyes
I don't remember Michelle Obama swimming in poop water and chugging raw milk performatively or hiking wearing jeans in AZ. Or or or
Also they're using some of the most left/progressive names in the party to solicit donations that then go to this expensive, pointless, court-the-moderates bullshit that moves the Overton window to the right. AOC. David Hogg. It's maddening.
And this is why I just unsubscribed from a bunch of email lists that ask for donations that go to ActBlue. Donations are spent on expensive political consultants who keep moving the DNC to the right. They won't get a dime from me until they jettison these consultant hacks.
Media organisations from across the world have renewed calls for the killing of journalists in Gaza to stop - warning there will "soon be no one left to keep you informed" news.sky.com/story/stop-k...
But he'll say the Baileys recommended he stay.
And the canker that is the Federalist Society. Let's not leave their complicity out.
It’s really sad that America is descending into fascism, but it’s nice that Trump has had to experience multiple news cycles in which the entire nation speculates on whether he’s a pedophile and/or dead.
#EpsteinFiles
Between Trump being 1/2 dead all weekend, Giuliani’s car crash, Clinton traveling with a defibrillator, this, I’m reminded that we’re NOT actually collectively psychologically (& logistically) prepared for the RATE at which the earliest round of boomers are going to start dropping.
It was awesome. I was in college in CO at the time.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Notably all care-driven professions to some degree.
James Langford (R): “RFK Jr. is asking the hard questions.” As opposed to the scientific community who are only asking the easy questions? 🙄
I say this about Chris Christie, Trump, and a host of others who are fat. There is plenty to loathe and roast them for. Fat is the thing you latch onto when you have absolutely nothing more substantive to say.
And no-fault divorce.
When I was in college I dated a guy whose mom blamed ME for his failing grades. As if he didn't choose to skip class and homework on his own.
You got married, or you could be a secretary, nurse, or teacher. That was it.
So he's so profoundly correct (and telling on himself) when he says we shouldn't be listening to him for medical advice.
As with many chores, guarantee women will find a way to do it as little as possible if that's our only option. Or to shortcut it to the minimum effort.
Watch for the repeal of marital rape laws.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Saved a hummingbird! Yes then she flew free!!!
What’s happening is a lot of people who thought a little fascism just meant clearing out some undesirables and making the trains run on time are realizing that actually yes they too will be effected and it’s making them slightly nervous.
They're deporting all the landscapers so they have to pressgang the National Guard into taking care of lawns.
Fleelix
This was inevitable but NOT something we should have just watched passively.
Need people to understand that literally the only lever here is public opinion
the haters and losers will say it's foolish to indulge in wild speculation but you can't deny it's extremely funny that they have to write headlines like this
2025's cyberpunk future is getting your ankles obliterated in the produce aisle by the del monte banana robot at ramming speed
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
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
I hope CA, WA, and OR are working together to make sure COVID vaccines are accessible.
Evangelicals always whine about being silenced, but as far as I can tell they never shut the fuck up
Florida under DeSantis: Seven FHP cops guarding a crosswalk to stop any attempts at gay chalk.
Guy who wrote a book saying his mom is a junkie slag and his people are lazy trash thinks that everyone else should be more grateful
Um ranchers are attracted to nose rings? On women or on cattle? Or both? This is just weird
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
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This is top article on front page. "...Mr. Biden’s voice has grown softer and raspier, his hair thinner and whiter... adding to an impression of frailty. Mr. Trump, by contrast, does not appear to be suffering the effects of time in such visible ways." NYT can go fuck itself with a rented dick.
I've been saying that DOGE, Kristi Noem/DHS, and RFK Jr seem to be vieing for who can kill the most people with their callous, heinous actions. Whoever runs on "these people will be tried in court" has my vote.
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
Inspector convening White House staff: “My job is to determine which one of you murdered the President.” Pan to room: *JD Vance awkwardly holding a couch pillow.* *Kristi Noem nervously rubbing gun barrel.* *RFK Jr. swigging raw milk.* *Stephen Miller crouched in corner gnawing on a deer’s femur.*
And yet the Democrats piss money away on this shit. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...
I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.
Blocking me gives you a lifetime of papercuts.
Let's not forget the cuts to mental health services at the VA.
And no, I haven't unsubscribed because I want to see a change in tactics. Not optimistic, though.
Sick of this, @aoc.bsky.social and @davidhogg.bsky.social. This is the same shit we got BEFORE the election, and we now known this money is going to highly overpaid consultants who are either extremely bad at their jobs or actively working to undo the liberal movement in this country. Fuck the DNC.
In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏
Cue specific tariffs on Portugal in 5, 4, 3, 2....
Please do not "trans women and girls are extra vulnerable to Nazi recruitment online" in my mentions. I will remove you. It's nonsense. There have been members of minorities in nazi lone wolf terror as long as it's existed. But there's no reason to collude in the idea that it's a trans problem.
It's such a ludicrous notion, too. Nazi spaces these days function almost entirely as places that fetishize & offer explicit instruction in violent masculinity. They are structured around a desire to achieve a very specific vision of white manhood. That's so obviously not a draw for trans femmes.
I’ve donated, but the relentless spam emails and texts have put an end to that. Do better. I love your take, and agree that we should primary most of the sitting dems. But this: data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...
And they read like scripted hostage messages. "Smile for the camera, read this statement, and raise money for us, or you're out on your ass." Meanwhile those massive political consultant fees aren't doing jack shit.
I get similar emails, supposedly from David and from AOC. It's feeling more and more like Schumer and the DNC's political consultant class are fucking tone deaf and dumber than a bag of hammers.
:: blinks in founding fathers :: $107.9B budget.....
absolutely insane to see a man with a completely cooked brain take a country with such an intense founding mythology about the rejection of kings, and turn it into his personal vanity project in the span of like six months. kind of embarrassing for us collectively as a society
motivational poorly drawn cats
I just don't answer. See? Easy.
when your politics are fundamentally aesthetic (per walter benjamin on fascism), but you lack the necessary thread of connection with reality to produce anything *besides* the aesthetic
"Civility" has and will always be a weapon the powerful wield against the powerless.
How long are we going to have to put up with mush like this? Frowns? Muttering? The humanity! Also, what do you mean ad hominem attacks were "just as harmful?" Surely they were more? Dreck elevated in the discourse so readily, you're not even expected to make the strongest version of the argument.
“Some activists launched ‘No sleep for Ice’ rallies, with chants and music blaring through the night, in hopes of pressuring the hotels to kick agents out. Now, public records shared w/the Guardian show that the protests indeed sent federal agencies scrambling …” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
These kids were literally in the middle of mass - so tell me again how thoughts and prayers work.
I do not understand why one would feel compelled to make this point unless you are (a) actively trying to bolster Trump's lies about crime in Democratic-leaning cities, or (b) you're super naive about the ways the media landscape operates. Which is it, Rich?
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
Your periodic reminder that people who blame “mental illness” for every mass shooting want to make it easier for people to get guns and harder for people to get mental healthcare.
Already available for pre-order.
Its good that 2028 will not be the most important election it will be one of these whatever elections
Seeing as you got me to read Kirsten Miller's The Change, I must know more about this!
This is literally what we were afraid of when the DOGE kidiots were given access to SSA info earlier this year. Good on the whistleblower for going public with this. But OMG I cannot emphasize enough how much this goes against all of our policies to do this. I will drop a paywall free link below.
We should turn them all off, just in case.
Take this clip and a camera onto the streets of Dublin or Edinburgh and you'd quickly assemble a feature-length documentary of the most withering insults known to man.
Most striking thing about this clip is not Trump floating the idea of being a dictator (again) and claiming some want that. The most striking thing is his sneering dismissal of the counter argument "freedom." Only modern US president to explicitly oppose freedom. Should be the basis of opposition.
This is how you stand up to bullies and aspiring tyrants.
I read that two ways: one, "you have a right only to the care you can afford" or two, "you have a right to have care be affordable to you." I think he means the second one, because the first one is where we are now, with a lot of people having zero care because that's what they can afford.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
Also the World Cup. If you don't boycott out of principle, boycott out of fear that border guards will arbitrarily throw you in a horrifying prison.
File this—and the entire movement it was referring to—under “aged like milk left in the sun in the desert with a heat-lamp shining on it for good measure.” Or, really, “PREDICTABLY aged like milk left ….”
Apart from being total bunk methodologically, this shit is so insulting even to a basic level of intelligence. This is not leadership trying to win hearts and minds of citizens for societal benefit. This is an amoral quasi-scientific manipulation program that thankfully doesn't actually work.
Are there no actual political or social scientists among the Democratic Party that can read this and see how bad the methodology is to tell everyone else? David Shor advocates for "popularism" instead of what's right, and this think tank research is heavily biased toward that.
Corruption in plane sight.
