honestly the combination of IV fluids & obligate sobriety means this is the best Rudy's looked in years
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honestly the combination of IV fluids & obligate sobriety means this is the best Rudy's looked in years
Every time the Epstein files are the main topic in the news, Trump starts threatening Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship. 🤪
I’m no theologian, but wouldn’t tossing out a can of energy drink featuring the face of Jesus Christ (after you drank it) be considered… disrespectful? Or would the recycling of the can be considered like a symbolic resurrection?
Man this guy is the least inspiring politician I can imagine.
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
potentially violent www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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[announcer voice] this fall on CBS, watch CHATTERLY: an innovation in news programming wherein thomas chatterton williams spends two hours every night interviewing himself about himself
like, if your target market is, idk, bill fucking ackman, i am not really sure you have a great long term plan
i feel like sooner rather than later, the bottom is going to fall out of the “content produced by and made for rich assholes” market
the only upside to this entire shitshow is that i think ellison completely destroys the media empire his daddy bought him
weiss’ festering wound of a substack has around 155,000 paid subscribers, this is very, very different than running even a *moderately* successful news organization
RIP, cbs news, your executives were fucking assholes who ruined you
lmao, david ellison is “smart” and “plays to win”? his studio has lost money almost every single year they’ve been in existence
genuinely a bit of a welcome surprise from polis
i still think he’s going to end up folding on chicago, but if he doesn’t, he’s given activists and organizers a hell of a gift of planning time
either way, just a real masterclass in strategy and PR
giving more than two million people who don’t want you there more than a week to prepare for your alleged arrival does not strike me as A+ warfighter anti-crime strategy, really
i would like to know the specific orders that were given here
donald trump: i will blow up a boat full of people every hour until my demands are met (nobel peace prize)
it's cool that Trump likely committed an impeachable war crime and Fetterman's like "cheers bro i'll drink to that"
what do YOU MEAN the US didn't even clear the bar of claiming it was under the AUMF before launching a strike
hmm thehill.com/policy/defen...
didn’t Hegseth fire all the JAGs in like February
Kinda think the US needs to embrace the application of international law if we ever make it to an aftermath. for, if nothing else, the purely pragmatic reason that we're going to need the extra resources with all the prosecutions a true aftermath will require.
if there's an "after" after all this we need another march to the fuckin sea
if he bothers to run again he will be the first senator to lose a primary since either 2026 (inshallah Hickenlooper or Warner) or much, much earlier
I'm actually not worried about Fetterman qua Fetterman as a problem, he will get unceremoniously primaried by Madeleine Dean or Chris DeLuzio in 2028. what I am worried about is the dozens of Democratic members of Congress who silently agree with him
need to make it possible for fumbling the midterms to actually bring down a government
impeachment removal needs to be a 55-vote threshold with removal of the president understood as a more or less pro forma consequence of handing the opposition party a 55-vote Senate majority
it's cool that impeachment is a dead letter and the president has immunity for official acts
He’s already tried to kneecap the wind industry in many ways. Now he’s roping in RFK Jr. to warn about electromagnetic fields? It really seems like an obsession in the strict sense of that word www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...
Good analysis showing that even if the GOP gets its way on gerrymandering in every state where it can reasonably get away with it, the advantage will be fairly modest, and that's before we see if states like California and Maryland can pass retaliatory maps.
Proud to be your number one place on the internet for putting lyrics from the Legally Blonde musical over images of the X-Men killing people.
god the sexual tension is killing me
Yeah there's definitely a version of this that involves Jesse Singal getting a Sunday morning news show that runs for 27 minutes and is then replaced with an episode of Big Bang Theory without explanation.
lol at Bari's "broadly shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition." She's not fucking Stone Cold Steve Austin, she is the kid from your high school who's unsettlingly good at talking to other kid's parents. Her only demonstrable skill, a very valuable one, is that rich dummies find her amusing.
I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!
I’m under no illusions that being on Bluesky reaches many people, but I’m not poisoning my information environment. The purpose of a prestige-niche platform is the construction of elite consensus. You’re in the consent factory for the thousand year Reich, I’m in the one for Second Reconstruction.
“Do they know the war is over?” I dunno man you’re the one posting from the bot-buried depths of a lost platform like a holdout in the interior of some island in the Philippines
Whenever I see screenshots of this kind of left-punching on Xitter it’s like seeing a QB get sacked for a safety and then getting up and doing a dance in his own end zone.
The last face you see before your kidneys come out
right, no place is a *good* place to abandon modern medicine, but a densely populated tropical swamp is an unusually bad place to do so
The fundamental problem with parking is that the average car is longer than the average row home is wide
American society is hellbent at all times on avoiding contextual analysis. The idea that some behaviors are okay in certain contexts but not others is viewed as inherently oppressive. It's a form of hysteria that we'd be better off without. It's good to keep private cars out of some places!
Literally tilting at windmills
Without the pitch clock my season tickets would be really rough. The start at 6:35 end at 9-9:20 structure is such a welcome change from the start at 7:05 don't leave the stadium until 10:20 old days. Would make it really hard to consistently go to weeknight games without those changes.
"Domino's pizza line" uh what the fuck is that ted, Domino's doesn't have a line, ted. You're either ordering it delivery or you're picking it up after bars close and there is nobody there
Dogshit writing. No juice. One of the worst to ever do it
Firefighters, famously, have a house they all live in, where they wait for people to call them, actually.
if there's something you'd like to buy, something you'd like to buy, ask me i won't say no, how could I?
Claire’s created some kind of Cronenbergian horror and I want it gone forever
The last 100 years of US politics
i've never watched a basketball player rebound their own miss only to then rebound their own miss only to then rebound their own miss only to then get fouled as much as Angel Reese. she really does have such intense baltimore energy
well it gets a little weird near cincinnati but otherwise
and all of Ohio's population lives within a trapezoid of flat ground
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I'll say this about the Venezuela boat strikes, I appreciate how many prominent members of the administration are basically stating on the record that they are involved in a criminal conspiracy and should be imprisoned immediately following the collapse of the regime.
I need to know if the NYT or Bari paid for the panties. I would imagine she expensed them.
Hello nice to meet you superstar NYT columnist— oh you have passed out drunk on my couch in front of my child and… ok yeah um thank you for the panties. So when are you going back to the US?
Also Bari Weiss seems to have a weird personal life. On a “work” trip to a foreign country, she spent the entire time drunk and crashing on foreign colleagues’ couches and as a thank you got them a few pairs of panties. These people did not know her at all. Imagine how weird that would be.
I think the thing I don’t understand is like what kind of audience is this supposed to bring in? Am I wrong that the Bari Weiss lovers of the world are finite?
Interesting thread on the psychology of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Everyone who stands up to Trump does better than everyone who gives in
it's cool that the ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committee chairs haven't said anything
Ofc also this bit from the piece raises some pretty uncomfortable questions for some folks with stars at the Pentagon and in Miami, at the very least bsky.app/profile/jayl...
I'm saying Adam Smith because lmfao at any Senate Dem doing anything about this
To do this for real (which is a path worth going down) you'd need an investigation for a bunch of reasons, and assuming DoD hasn't already '''accidentally''' destroyed all pertinent evidence that'd require getting Adam Smith on board, and boy, I dunno bsky.app/profile/sky....
By the way, I’m including the troops that pulled the trigger here in this. You had an obvious civilian target that had violated no orders (eg to stop), and instead unilaterally hit it with a hellfire. That is a violation of the LOAC. The order to fire was not lawful.
Look, the next Democratic president needs to put everybody involved, from Trump all the way down, on trial for murder. They blew up 11 civilians in broad daylight without statutory authorization.
This week is too much of a mindfuck politically. This dude is clearly unwell and a pedophile and to distract from that, he’s invading Chicago and ordering the military to murder a boat full of desperate migrants in international waters. My imagination is failing at what happens next week.
("Legal" in the sense of "not just moral but under the color of law this was murder, no way to hide behind legal constructions" not "legal" in the sense of "permissible", of course)
oh they know they committed actual, legal, can't-even-cover-this-with-the-2001-AUMF murder, huh
did they do a strike without running it by the lawyers? is this why vance won't say which authority they hit the boat under
WHAT
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
this fact is going to drive future historians insane
like, i don’t think dems should have confirmed *any* nominees, but rubio is one of the few where i thought “he’s probably the least bad choice possible and anyone else they choose would be worse” was understandable, if not really defensible
i never expected rubio to be good in this role, but i didn’t expect him to become a war criminal in the first year on the job
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Given the shifting stories from Rubio, the confusion around why there would be so many people on the boat, and the administration’s repeatedly debunked claims about Tren de Aragua, this administration gets extraordinarily little benefit of the doubt.
not to be shallow or anything but "what if Gavin Newsom was ugly and uncharismatic" is something precisely nobody was asking for
if you ever need a laugh just remember that Adam Schiff sees a future president in the mirror every morning
"for every month you motherfuckers dance around this shit I'll post another soft-focus endorsement video beaming the nice young socialist from Queens into the homes of a million Janices from Wauwatosa"
0 juice in the VA GOP gov race
The They/Them versus Us thing is the attack helicopter joke for politicians. Learn a second slogan, you assholes.
sorry, i mixed up my roman emperors. that was caligula.
funniest part is they're going to have to fire Adams from HUD once they figure out he's a Bribes YIMBY and not a Bribes NIMBY
And not patronage in a way that effectively broadens the machine's base. Privatizing services such as waste collection removes a lot of middle class jobs. To an extent NGO's fill the gap but its more opaque and less blue collar.
They've also done patronage-austerity. Where they'd once seek out new constituencies and co-opt reformers, they've gotten a lot more belligerent and seek to actively deny them access to power.
this is, I think, a broader problem with urban machine politics in the United States: local government budgets have kept pace with neither inflation nor economic growth, so machines have been forced to choose between services and patronage and have almost uniformly chosen patronage
without knowing anything about the investigation I would bet no less than $100 that this was a deliberate choice by Christie to ease the way for his own gubernatorial ambitions: get some flunkies and donors for the headlines, but leave the principals alone so they don't have you killed or whatever.
yeah the problem with Operation Bid Rig is they never got a big fish like McGreevey.
they put up with Eric Adams being certifiably, clinically insane because he hires the right machine fuckwads, and they put up with Cuomo despite him having...whichever personality disorder is the most unpleasant idk man...because he made sure to tap some machine fuckwads for big jobs.
it sounds fake and unbelievable but I've had this proposition more or less explicitly stated to me, sometimes naming a specific failson bureaucrat, more times than I care to remember.
oh this is THE skeleton key to understanding machine-dominated Dem states. (NY is somehow not even the worst, NJ is. honorable mentions to MA and RI.) it's all about keeping someone's dipshit nephew as the Commissioner of Weights and Measures or whatever.