Isn’t that pretty much how all rules were made?
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Isn’t that pretty much how all rules were made?
Don’t it always seem to go that you doing know what you got till it’s gone?
They’re stealing our IP!!
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
I think I accidentally ratioed @pfrazee.com. I guess the moral of the story is, never apologize.
Thank you for your service.
Trump take farm.
That’s why pidgins form!
I want to make a bad joke, but that sounds pretty awful.
Are you Paul from Hank Green’s Bluesky comments!!
Aren’t you a robot?
THE BUTTONS ARENT WORKING!! BUT I KEEP CLICKING!!
They can’t agree on why, just that their side should win.
Don the Dove
New developments in the Rule of Goats.
Did @kenwhite.bsky.social’s rule of goats just expand?
Did… Did o’Keefe do something good?
BMO: “.. aside from the pandemic distortion, that’s the first time since the end of 2017 that there have been fewer vacant jobs than those looking for work.” #JOLTS
DOJ is asking the Supreme Court to take the extraordinary step of taking up the appeal outside of the normal process for no other reason than that what Trump did is clearly illegal under this 90-year-old precent and DOJ wants the conservative justices to bless the illegal act by changing the rules.
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The federalization actually takes away the Guard’s ability to do what Louisiana’s leadership purports they want them to do. It’s either all for show or they really want federal military policing of civilians.
Don the Dove strikes again!
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All of this was basically said during COVID but what they're asserting is the right to kill other people, not just themselves. They want the freedom to get sick AND the freedom to participate in society without limitations, where they can make other people sick. If you don't like it *you* get out
IIRC, most of those chips weren’t even that crazy and could have been made by other fabs, but there just wasn’t the capacity for a variety of reasons.
The body of American judicial precedent will slowly become a a series of history-altering subtweets with no character limit and whose authors cannot suffer any personal consequences from writing them.
"Lol" usually does not mean literal laughter. You know that. You do not care. It almost worked. It is so fucking shitty.
lol
It would definitely be disruptive for newer high-end chips especially, which only two other companies can currently make, though not as well or in the same quantity as TSMC. It would likely take a few years for other companies to pick up the slack.
@kenwhite.bsky.social generally speaking, is it a good idea to figure out your legal excuse for a completely unforced, premeditated homicide *after* said homicide?
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
i had assumed they were lying and that this is what it was
So, um… Is everyone just going to let the US military blow up foreign boats full of people outside of territorial waters because someone suspects it might have contraband headed to the US?
The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
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What did the rest of the headline say?
Is this how unicorn cactuses work?
Are you gonna follow up?
The irony here is that it was not until the late 1930s that people in the US began describing the country as based on "Judeo-Christian values." Anti-fascist Jews were often the ones promoting that invented "heritage," hoping to staunch the rise of far right populist Christian nationalism in the US.
This is just hilarious.
Is this doom scrolling?
The subway sandwich did nothing wrong!
When people are like “The law doesn’t apply anymore” I think “the law very much still applies to the people who aren’t billionaires or politicians.” SCOTUS has placed an imprimatur on the President’s unlawfulness. You, Tony, still can’t go 80 in a 55 without a fine.
Still waiting on a single Democratic senator to withhold unanimous consent to all these horrible appointments. Having a single serious senator seems important for a serious party.
🤷 Lately, the only conservative Democrats I seem to like are the ones willing to actually fight against the reactionaries. Though we might soon see how serious they really are.
In saner times, such a blatant abuse of power would be considered impeachable.
カンパイ！
I mean, it’s at the NatC convention.
I never think giving people trauma or abuse is the right solution… But maybe more people need the trauma of Old Yeller to vaccinate their pets.
Old Yeller was SOOOOO SAD!!! OMG, IT WAS BY FAR THE MOST TRAUMATIZING MOVIE OF MY CHILDHOOD!!!
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
The socks and shoes!?
MERIKA!! Erm… I guess this is Japan
Like Colombian daaaaaaaays. Arepas by night, and coffee just right, in all the right waaaaaaaaaaays!
BUT HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT GARLIC!?
It makes sense to bet on these as a hedge. Each time, I should have bet the “move to Canada” money. Either I lose and don’t need to move to Canada, or I “win” and I have more money to move to Canada.
Yes, or Gen Y as we were once called.
To buy or not to buy spy puts.
Come back to Gen Y. We’re bad, but at least we’re not them.
At least every other post isn’t war!
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
ive got no idea what's going on with Trump's health. But the 'biden precedent' is just so glaring and hilarious. half of 2025 has been taken up with elite press shaming of how no one ever talked abt Biden's age which was actually their main topic in 2024. Ok. Set aside that his party literally ...
He also has the best healthcare in the world. And as a nursing home worker once told me, “Some of the older residents seem to live forever on pure hate.”
DON'T KISS ME WHEN THE CAMERAS ARE POINTED AT US, RAVIN!
What's with the /s? Being vaxxed is an obvious symptom of Blueskyism. You'd think with your fancy degree and "schooling" you would recognize the obvious that THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW! BLUESKYISM CAUSES VACCINATION!! (or maybe not. I'm just asking questions🤷)
I really do think that cable TV, combined with radio, puts a big weight on the scale for competitive authoritarianism because it creates a competitive market for dumb populist slop but remains vulnerable to govt coercion, meaning authoritarians can use it to build support & suppress opposition.
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Man, I miss the ice cream memes.
During a phone call, Donald Trump hinted to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he should nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize, as Pakistan had done. Modi sharply rejected the idea, stating that the ceasefire with Islamabad was achieved without U.S. involvement.
BLUESKY IS DYYYYYYYYYING!
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Snowden is exactly the person all the shitlibs claimed he was and like every time the shitlibs turn out to be right about one of these guys all the cool kids have just memory holes their years of support for him and pretend they never defended the guy.
Watching most professional sports is about the same. Men in their 50s with homoerotic admiration of men less than half their age. Slap those butts!
Mussolini didn’t actually make the trains run on time. That’s propaganda. 20th century fascists did “sheer vandalism” and elevated superstitions above science, often in self-harming ways. The competence of fascists is another of their self-aggrandizing myths. It’s just that destroying is easy.
I wonder who the people yelling so vehemently that Trump is unstoppable and that any attempts to use the law to rein him in are stupid and pointless are actually working for. The actual track record of the legal system here hasn’t been perfect by any means, but it’s hardly been a complete failure.
Can’t those things stretch their neck to bite you if you pick it up?
You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else
There is no good way to present these fascist propagandists in full without a team of people and way more time than they were allowed to speak. A simple “that’s a lie” chyron would require a well-educated audience, clear lists, and a lot of careful work. Otherwise it just looks like bias.
The problem is, even then the lies are piled on too thick, some are sure to get through. And it’s a whole organized team of people going out and purposefully stringing lies together, both direct and “begging the question” implications. It all takes disproportionate time to unpack.
I one day hope to find myself featured in the Louvre.
So you adopt the evil green slug demon?
lol, totally the case for Piccolo.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Light brown? But hey, Goku is totally Black! Or wait, maybe rosé…
He’s orange!
Canadians really know how to riot.
Clearly she doesn’t understand the excitement or importance of it finally happening.
I think it should be okay for this event though. Completely understandable.
Can I have a nomination, please? ❤️
Better to make the Roberts Court further debase themselves than to roll over dead and obey in advance.
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