Two flavors of never Trump. One that dislikes the things he does, one that dislikes the things he says
Two flavors of never Trump. One that dislikes the things he does, one that dislikes the things he says
After a Republican lawmaker nixed the idea for a public hearing, the lone Democrat chairman of a Nebraska leg committee has scheduled a hearing for the public to air concerns about Gov. Jim Pillen's plan for a state's ICE facility Via @cgonzalezne.bsky.social nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/09/02/l...
BE LOUD FOR AMERICA
GL = Girls Love BL = Boys Love HL = Half Life this says a lot about our society
"my observation is..." *Says the most ridiculous nonsense you've ever heard*
What if polling about immigration wasn't actually helpful?
This was authorized under the 2002 AUMF
It is December 2373, Starfleet Command orders the Alpha Quadrant aperture of the Bajoran Wormhole to be mined under the 2002 AUMF
"I wish Chicago was safe like it was under the Daleys."
Your Party waited far too long before announcing/launching. If they’d done it a year ago (and didn’t stuff the party with quite so many transphobes) it might be a different story, but as it is, it’s likely to fizzle out and be a retirement home for weird blokes in berets.
#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous uses new state law that never mentioned crosswalks to justify his unpopular crusade to erase street art. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
It's been like a year since Ohio legalized recreational weed and it still feels weird Like, "Yes, I am going to the marijuana store to buy a marijuana. One marijuana please"
Stopped on my way to Soulcycle to record an HSI, Park Police, and MPD arrest downtown, and some HSI guys waited until they were in their unmarked car to tell me to smile more.
fuck the uk's terrible laws but this is so goddamn funny. we're takin' yer loicense t' post, sir
60 votes
It still blows my mind the NYT pushed out Krugman for *handwaves* whatever this is
“Is it morally wrong to refuse to hand your wallet to someone pretending to be the wallet inspector because they might become a real wallet inspector if you hand it over,” the greatest intellectually debate in BlueSky H - *slaps self with newspaper* NO! BAD GIRL! NO STIRRING THE POT!
Pope Leo XIV confirmed his intent to include LGBTQ parishioners within the Catholic Church continuing Pope Francis' policy of inclusion for all www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...
conversation in this thread had this end result
Sorry if this offends, but uh, I would very much prefer it out of state national guardsmen did NOT come to my city. I don’t want Chicago to be used as a political prop for the dumbest people who deeply, deeply, do not give a shit about any of us.
Get a load of these iconoclastic free thinkers over here
I appreciate Pritzker making this point very clearly. Yet again, we arrive at another moment where we need our media outlets to step up and call out what's happening. This is using "crime" as an excuse to deploy the military in American cities. This is authoritarianism. CALL IT THAT.
seriously guys keep it rolling, make him appear in public CONSTANTLY, we could have him outta there by halloween
also the time Falwell Jr and his wife tried swinging with their pool boy if i recall correct
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
hell yeah www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Impossible for Heritage to say if it's bad or not
WHAT
I haven't seen the president in 10 minutes I'm pretty sure he's dead
the correct way to attack republicans if you're afraid of being depicted as attacking voters is to say the republican *party*, or the republicans *in the government*. but the people who need to know this certainly know it so idk what's up with that. they'll focus group positive messages to death tho
like yes hochul is objectively right here i'm just going insane because we have to basically do this to get through to people's eyeballs
it's insane that the meme emerged fully formed out of the froth of social tbh, that's as much of a vindication of the project as anything could be imo
I think the gender critical element of the Greens - which should by no means be seen as wholly contiguous with its rural membership - will now shrink rapidly. There'll be some noise about it in the right wing press but I doubt much else, especially if (as I suspect) Jenny Jones stays
The argument is: We're all meant to sacrifice a bit, so that tariffs can help rebuild American manufacturing. Let's ask American manufacturers whether they're helping.
Seems maybe not ideal
A judge has found that Trump exceeded the limits of federal laws when he deployed the military to Los Angeles. From LA to DC to Chicago and beyond, we are united: NATIONAL GUARD GO HOME. #FreeDC www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
Well, he just fucking said it outright. Let’s see if our media betters can pass the “Dude, he literally, explicitly said it outright today in front of your cameras,” challenge.
The headline is borderline irresponsible imo
Insane we haven't gotten a "why was/is the vice president chatting up high school students"
oh are we going to do dumber gulf of tonkin
Venezuelan government bonds (which are in default and trade for about a quarter of their face value, *with* a coupon near 10%) traded to session highs on the news that the US may* have started a war with them. *IANAL and we don't have all the facts here, don't yell at me pls
Does he only respect Pritzker bc he’s a fat man
i love how this would be extremely orientalist if not coming out of the mouth of Xi Jinping
"Blueskyism" is just the latest rhetorical stand-in for a certain class of political commentator to signal that principled progressivism annoys them personally. Previous stand-ins include "woke", "DEI", "critical race theory", and "political correctness"--also all used by the far-right. Curious!
DEFINITIVE PROOF THE “SPACE FORCE” ANNOUNCEMENT WAS PRE RECORDED! If you look closely at the video, it features Donald Trump in the right side of the frame, and if you zoom in you can clearly tell that he is alive, which is impossible because he is dead.
it's starting now www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Dn...
well, at least we know it's the real Trump
space command? alabama should be more worried about commanding the line of scrimmage pawwwwwwlllll
important to realize that Greenwald explicitly wants to kill any site that isn't controlled by oligarchs and tyrants because his project requires trapping people in a propaganda-supported alternate reality
god bless the woke northern baptists
Having the Destiny 2 legacy collection as a headliner is fascinating because as someone who doesn’t play Destiny, I just look at this and can’t figure out what stuff is still needed to have the full game, what stuff has been sunsetted already, and what stuff is going to get taken out later.
BREAKING: Keir Starmer has announced the fifth major relaunch of his leadership! His inspiring new slogan is "delivery, delivery, delivery", but since he has no policies to deliver, he has vowed to shut down all refugee hotels. This is better than affordable bills, isn't it? x
getting everyone on the internet to watch your press conference so they can see if you’re dead is one way to expand attendance
That would be a mercy
I hope he shits himself on camera, lives with the shame for a month, shits himself a second time, then dies.
you don't hate these guys enough
BRO. THAT’S THE BOOK. THAT’S LITERALLY THE BOOK. WHAT THE FUCK.
the program also hasn't raised Hungarian fertility rates
JFC, Atlantic Monthly. Michelle Obama wanted kids to eat healthy and exercise. She wasn't bent on destroying our federal health agencies.
At this point, it's not clear if Pirro could get a grand jury to indict an unmasked man caught on camera, flashing his passport while holding a gun to a teller's head, and yelling, "Hello, my objective this morning is to rob this bank, which is a federal felony under 18 U.S.C. § 2113."
🚨BREAKING🚨Tonight live on BBC1 at 7.25pm (just before EastEnders) Sir Keir Starmer will felate a flag in front of a photo of the queen (proper one, not the alive one) while a Chas & Dave album plays.
tbh i'm surprised conservatives haven't started arguing for Gilead on natalist grounds, primarily because the more education and freedom women have, the lower fertility goes
what the fuck
Look, all I’m saying on the matter for the rest of the day is that I do not like it when I get punched by someone then get blamed for bruising their knuckles. I do not like it when Gavin Newsom’s buddies to it. I do not like it when Jermey Corbyn’s buddies do it. I dislike it intensely.
While I understand why city council members want to keep their power to personally approve or deny ~every proposed housing development, it is a big part of why cities like LA and NYC have housing crises. We should replace this bad system with actual urban planning and the rule of law for land use.
"The Trump administration plans to reconsider a permit issued to a large wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, the latest move in its targeted campaign against the clean energy resource." -- www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Being almost 30 minutes late to your “I’m totally alive and not dying” press conference is always a good sign!
let's get this circus started
holy shit
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
one of the ways in which both tech and political media fail us is their failure to point out that these guys all have views that would’ve been considered noxious and unworthy of discussion fifty years ago
His trans daughter is on another magazine cover today
I did my student teaching in a rural PA school district and they called two minutes of silence during the morning announcements "morning meditation"
My take on Vance as president can be broadly separated into three strands: - On policy, Vance is probably a bit worse than Trump (more ideologically committed) - Probably a bit more technically competent and smart (this is a low bar) - Much more likely to crash in flames because of lack of support
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
Last year, Idaho passed a strict law that forbids anyone from providing to a minor any service that could be construed as medical or psychological in nature without parental consent. Now, minors calling the state's suicide hotline are being forced to have a parent speak for them or hang up
there has been no articles on the fact that the Vice President follows a guy who reads SS memoirs
some scattered thoughts on the bluesky environment vs twitter: “we should compromise on the ability of trans people to exist” will get you yelled at here every time and frankly you deserve it it is, however, a lot easier for other centrist ideas to turn you into the main character than on twitter
finally, I think the overall attitude on bluesky re: how elected Dems should behave - "give them not one fucking inch" - is a lot closer to what the actual Dem base wants than the Clintonian triangulation the centrists are pushing and most of them can't see that because they find leftists annoying
Well I was close
Gotta remember that a big part of the decline in total fertility rates is the disappearance of teenage pregnancy
The guy who regularly goes on the majority report is definitely not blueskyism hahaha
The best part of it is that both Mamdani & Platner are presented as "progressivism without blueskyism", even when presented with the fact this site loves both of them. I just can't figure out what makes them un-bluesky! its a mistery
It’s all starmerism
The actual proposition of the MattY/Nate Silver nexus on X is that the Democratic Party should feature handsome men offering free money & good vibes, & hide anyone else who might piss off bigoted low-info voters (& who happen to piss them off too).
My statement on today’s ruling that Trump’s deployment of thousands of Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles is illegal.
A federal judge has declared Trump’s use of military troops in Los Angeles illegal, barring the Pentagon from using National Guard members and Marines from performing police functions, like arrests and crowd control.
A house divided!
Appropriations are law* *FedSoc judicial exclusions may apply
Ohio State and Michigan please explain I’m fascinated
Name the flags in your house game! Pride Puerto Rico Ohio State Michigan Expedition 33 Attack on Titan
This is going to get so, so ugly
They say crime but half the time they mean visibly unhoused people
trying to pick up abundance again after setting it aside in annoyance about halfway through, and, man, for a book that spends a not inconsiderable amount of time lambasting liberal smugness and arrogance, the smug, arrogant tone of this book is why i set it down the first time
One huge reason this anti-immigrant backlash is going to be so damaging over the long term is that population growth is the only way we pay for what we need over the long term.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
it is wild to me that none of the centrist twitter brigade ever reconcile the fact that they are essentially using the algorithmic extremism app as their main guide to modern politics
these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes
JUST IN: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated federal law in the use of National Guard troops amid Southern California immigration enforcement operations and accompanying protests. Read more:
Assigned to search for govt waste, #Florida DOGE targets Tampa Bay’s climate change policies (which should tell you what's REALLY going on). www.tampabay.com/news/environ... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social