That's not his only talent. @themountaingoats.bsky.social Please make a magic the gathering deck about this. đ
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That's not his only talent. @themountaingoats.bsky.social Please make a magic the gathering deck about this. đ
Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.
Is this season bad?? Shit, man, I loved the first two seasons.
I know "overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation" when I see it! #MAHA #Quack
I haven't done this, and so I might be totally wrong, but Heavy Metal.
I'll do one (1) serious post about this: If he was dead someone would post it. If he was doing well someone would post it. Silence suggests a crisis with an uncertain outcome.
everyone needs to relax, trump took the long weekend to spend time hiking the appalachian trail
The alternative is, of course, trusting idiots. Who would prefer that??
History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism.
In some ways Ham-Face is the perfect Trump voter: all his decisions blow up in his face but the explanation is always, you don't understand, the radical leftist Joe Biden made us mad.
![[twitter] Jesse Spafford @jessespafford Can't believe the evil Dems made Trump appoint RFK: [embedded video of Ham-Face bloviating] Erick Erickson @@EWErickson ⢠18h My wife is caught in the crosshairs of the CDC mess and vaccines. The left says](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq6ucuguuc67yqwu4x4eipro/bafkreichwgzalj7dvqgzdmahudlqoekjonwxksgxxovaow5oxmyv3huz6i@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Donât trust the expertsâ? Thatâs not democracy, thatâs recklessness. On a plane, I want a pilot. In a hospital, I want doctors and scientists who understand the evidence. Expertise isnât religion or authoritarianism â itâs training, accountability, and data. Ignore it and we all pay the price.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
One of the worldâs foremost experts? Get the fuck out of here, Doogie Himmler.
Cops are great
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
"All Iâm saying is that a young lady, a 10-year-old girl, 9-year-old girl, 15-year-old girl, doesnât need 37 bricks." â Donald Trump, probably
conservatives love having cool beliefs like âpolitical ideology is geneticâ
A bombshell report from @mapthepower.bsky.social⏠has uncovered the names of those funding the super PACs attacking Zohran. The list includes companies like AirBnB, the owners of the New York Giants, and New York's richest man. Their collective net worth? Over $369 billion dollars.
The American secret police looking like fucking bank robbers certainly is a choice
Itâs crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went âwow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thingâ And if you tell random people about it they go âno, that doesnât seem trueâ and just refuse to believe you
Hell yeah.
get this weird wet creepy freak out of the fucking government
Openly telling us that the goal is to completely politicize the Federal Reserve and monetary policy.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Idols on top of sensitive instrumentation. Name tags on said instruments that follow a theme (Greek gods, elements, etc.). One instrument in the corner that is being cannibalized for parts.
BREAKING: Nvidia, $NVDA, says: Any government demand for a revenue share might result in legal action.
you fucking love to see it
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Where are they flying these mitochondrially challenged children?!
Dying to know what RFK thinks mitochondria are.
Republicans keep telling us not to "politicize" these shootings, but that's only because they understand that these shootings were entirely motivated by the political arguments they themselves have been making and entirely facilitated by the political campaign against gun control that they have led.
Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title. Tom Clancy's Elements of Statistical Learning
If Democratic Party canât lead the resistance against authoritarianism, the Democratic Party will cease to exist.
"I decide who is a Jew..." Hermann Goering
The plan for "gangbangers in Baltimore" offered by someone who influences the thinking of the VPOTUS. Relatedly, what his ex-girlfriend told The New Yorker: "When I asked her if sheâd ever changed Yarvinâs mind about anything, she said sheâd gotten him to stop using the N-word, at least around her"
Two children were killed and seventeen people were injured in a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. A Cracker Barrel logo change received far more scrutiny and attention than any fight against the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Our priorities remain idiotic.
At around the 22-25 minute marks, Yarvin, JD Vanceâs court philosopher, proposes a system where black people would be made wards of religious ministers, who could force them to work as indentured servants and require them to submit to 24/7 âair-tagâ monitoring.
No, it's not any of that. It's the guns.
âA double-tap strike⌠Israel has killed more journalists in Gaza than all journalists killed in wars since World War 2 combinedâŚâ @chrislhayes @krystalmball @esaagar @aymanm cover the horrific Nasser hospital strikes, where rescue workers were targeted. Not a âmishapâ.
i keep saying this but donald trump has a child's notion of what a president does, and to work for him now you have to share that view (see eg kash patel's book portraying him as a king beset by traitors). he thinks he gets to decide everything anywhere
nice of the president to provide the perfect quote for me to use in a column
After all the fancy constitutional arguments & faux historical glosses, this is the practical endpoint of the unitary executive theory. Because when presidential power is effectively unchecked, the only thing preventing it from devolving into authoritarianism is the decency of the officeholder.
My middle schooler is about to take one of these trips now, and I am scored NOW. I was NOT scared one fraction of a second last summer when we took a family trip to DC, rode the metro, and walked all over town having a blast with @martinowk.bsky.social
âTrumpâs pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isnât some quirk to be ignored or waited out â âthere goes our Donald!â â but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.â
âAt last we have arrived at Omelas, from the classic sci-fi story âthose who walk away from Omelas.â
If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, itâs literally just Tuesday.
This guy has shit in his head instead of brains.
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
one sign that the âunitary executiveâ is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."
Cancer is good for you now, apparently.
The reluctance of so many analysts to come to terms with how Trump's incompetent authoritarianism at home and strategic incoherence abroad might affect the ability of the US to sustain its global power status verges on the surreal. An Emperor's New Clothes moment.
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
This is right. Any effect on the economy is of secondary importance. Trump is weaponizing the government against people he doesn't like. The very definition of an authoritarian.
Goes to show what huge pants-pissers these folks are.
As a DC resident I feel like I should say: This is a complete and utter lie. My kid, under age 12, walked to school last year into an area close to downtown. Telling the truth is an important thing.
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
With a straight face.
I feel like he needs a gimmick. Something that makes a fun photo.
If I worked for somebody who knew too much about powerful people and that boss got arrested and turned up dead I can tell you one thing I would most certainly not do and that is say that I knew anything about those powerful people and any potential misdeeds
No really. Tell me more about literally anything about Kamala Harris that makes this the better option.
The ubiquitous right wing talk about getting swooped up by gubmint "black helicopters" was always a form of aspirational projection masquerading as anti-government libertarianism.
Q: During the campaign, you called Kamala Harris a communist, but the Biden-Harris admin never called for nationalizing a private company like you're proposing with Intel. Is this the new way of doing industrial policy? TRUMP: Yeah. Sure it is. I want to try to get as much as I can.
everyone involved needs to be permanently barred from public office, for starters www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
This is the best macroeconomic meme Iâve seen. Hands down.
This paragraph is haunting. How DOGE Left Mohammad Halimiâs Life in Tatters www.propublica.org/article/doge...
âTheyâre throwing the entire federal apparatus at one father of three to prove that no one should dare challenge their authority.â
Rep. Jim Jordan, the congressman accused of covering up a university doctorâs sexual misconduct against Ohio State wrestlers while Jordan was an assistant coach, said he believes convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Watch/Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Today the Big Balls Goon Squad snatched people off the DC streets * In front of a library * Off a public bus * At traffic stops * After causing a car crash This has to stop
Could be a hundred things, including farce medical treatments.
There isn't a single classic American plate. If you think this is just another England, you're already lost.
A North Carolina law passed in 2013 made it much harder to improve access for pedestrians and cyclists on state roads. The law says state funds can only go to such efforts if theyâre part of projects that benefit drivers.
Whenâs the last time you heard a Vice President talk about an investigation this way? You havenât. Because the DOJ/FBI are supposed to be independent, and a VP using âweâ to describe a particular investigation is not supposed to happen.
I canât believe they are doing this pollster shit about turning us into a police state.
Bingo. It's fairly interesting, because it sounds like they're using the consultant word list, but they aren't. It's just that the two things get thrown in the same "elitespeak" trashcan by normal people. I think this is why Walz seemed like a barn burner until he got picked for VP.
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Military rule is not a fucking stunt. Get real. The president is burning our constitutional order down and Democrats are shrugging it off. This isnât an opposition party, itâs a group of incompetents. Everyone should just move aside and let @aoc.bsky.social and @raskin.house.gov run the show.
ICE has cut Spanish-language requirements for its new recruits because it doesnât want them to understand what people are saying as theyâre being terrorized.
My first reaction seeing Lavrov on US TV is why are they platforming his propaganda? But actually it turned out to be pretty useful because Americans get to hear their real position - all the despicably & intransigence - while Trump & Vance are claiming they are being reasonable.
Almost anything Jared Harris has done, but Chernobyl is incredible. Then Sam Neill in Hunt for Red October.
Nah, those are going to be classics. Can't sleep on Shaw and O'Reilly, either.
Ms. Zen Honeycutt is going to have her mellow harshed so bad by this man. She's not wrong about not going to doctors but it won't be because we aren't sick, it will be because Trump will have implemented rationed care more firmly than even the ACA authors dreamed about. There won't be enough drs.
Like if you don't think centrists use their own impenetrable jargon that nobody likes then I have a commonsense bipartisan opportunity economy where existential threats to fair trade are a national security threat to sell you
This is atrocious messaging. Just substanceless. The guy is acting like a dictator, and your response is âI love copsâ?
Also, what Trump is doing is THE MILITARY INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF AMERICAN CITIES and has nothing whatsoever to do with fighting crime. Military units canât and havenât apprehended criminals or solved crimes. âHeâs lying, this is an authoritarian occupationâ - how hard is that to say you idiots
Harvard is not the enemy. Nor is UPitt, UNC Chapel-Hill, Baylor College of Medicine, or UVA. But that is how the administration is treating the entire landscape of federally supported research & the next generation of scientists. They and we will lose out. đ www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Dean Cain, when he got home from training campâ
Leading Democrats are weirdly silent about Donald Trump taking over Washington DC with the military and the National Guard. They should be filling the airwaves with outraged statements, but they just⌠arenât.
Honestly surprised we're not seeing more incidents like this -- both the masked men impersonating cops and the intended victim shooting masked men.
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Everyone's screaming about how the left doesn't compromise and I keep saying I will vote for this guy. I am a communist who will vote for a billionaire. Centrists, tell me about even one instance when you have compromised like anything close to this. Or at all.
As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Hereâs a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, whichâŚ
Just last month, DOJ told a federal judge that Abrego Garciaâs immigration proceedings would be handled like any âgarden varietyâ case. No decisions would be made, they said, until he reports to ICE and is assigned a case officer. That officer, they insisted, would call the shots.
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia says the DOJ and DHS are conspiring to threaten to deport him to Uganda in an attempt to coerce him to plead guilty and instead be deported to Costa Rica after serving his sentence. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Every V.A. medical center in U.S. has severe staffing shortages: Report www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin... via @msnbc
Sure, Ghislaine, the guy who ran his hand up a womanâs skirt on an airplane and made surprise visits to the Miss Teen USA dressing room was a perfect gentleman when he was with you and Epstein.
Probably should say Prestin.