Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
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view profile on Bluesky Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.
Eddie Smith (@eddsmitty.bsky.social) reposted
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 The refusal of Jewish refugees by the United States primarily occurred during the 1930s and 1940s, particularly in the context of the Holocaust. Several key events and policies contributed to (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
KSlatteryResist (@kslatteryresist.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
America’s Isolationism caused the deaths of many Jews who were denied entry, returned to Europe, then to their deaths in concentration camps.
Not Your Negress (@notyournegro.blacksky.app) reposted reply parent
Banging your pots and pans in your cozy suburb as a show of solidarity to your fellow white people who are also doing nothing!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Defund-and-Abolish (Rayanne) (@defund-and-abolish.bsky.social) reposted
I beg of you, abandon legacy media.
Mekka Okereke (@mekka.mekka-tech.com) reposted reply parent
This is in part because the laws are specifically designed to target the forms of ID that Black people don't have. 🤡 Eg allow state issued concealed carry firearm permits as ID, but don't allow state issued student IDs. 🙂🙃
Mekka Okereke (@mekka.mekka-tech.com) reposted reply parent
And because of the 4X difference in potency, it's worth it to suppress 100 white votes just to also suppress 100 Black votes.🤷🏿♂️ That's why your voting experience sucks if you are a white person that lives among Black people. Sorry! You are unfortunately by-catch! Dolphin in the net! 🐟🐟 🐬 🐟🐟
Mekka Okereke (@mekka.mekka-tech.com) reposted
This is US politics in a nutshell. White Dems wasting time bleating about price of eggs, and economic anxiety, and kitchen table issues, and how to win back swing voters🤡 GOP and Black people talking about the only thing that matters: It's "stop Black people from voting" vs "Let Black people vote"
💉Josh Rubin, MD 🩺 (@drsandman11.medsky.social) reposted
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually there’s nothing odd about it at all. You are an old white man lost between gazing at your own navel and having your head shoved up your ass. None of this concerns you or will affect you in the least bit, full-on fascism or not, it will all serve you extremely well by design.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
There is nothing assuring about any of my posts. It is your posts that are strangely assuring that military in our cities are not a big deal.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social)
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
I am trying to get people to do something NOW about letting Fuhrer put military in our cities, because despite what he and the media says, it is to test out response and get used to the new status quo. It’s people like you, who think everything will be fine, who allow Fuhrers to get to full power.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Enough votes to win the house and senate. This is the point of the midterm elections, to win a majority in congress. California doesn’t have enough votes to do it alone. Was there some other point to this discussion? Maybe hold off on insulting people before working on your own comprehension.
Angie Rasmussen (@angierasmussen.bsky.social) reposted
RFK Jr receiving the coveted Stephen Miller endorsement for scientific credibility is like an arsonist being praised by a pyromaniac for his firefighting skills
Michelle Bekhor (@phantom2013.bsky.social) reposted
x.com/AsherPress/s... Reminder that the pro-Hamas, pro-Islamic Jihad Students for Justice in Palestine started organizing as the massacre and rapes were still going on
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Watch him do it. Newsom might resist, or he may fold. California doesn’t have enough votes either way.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you understand how voter turnout works or nah?
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Voting at gunpoint probably wouldn’t bother you because you’re an old white man. White men voted for Trump 2:1. That’s who he wants to be at the polls during midterms. Trump’s been showing is what happens to people other than white all summer. They won’t be at the polls.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
You don’t seem to get it. The national guard and actual marines were deployed into cities this summer as a test run for what the midterms will look like. Into blue states. Was very possible. They’ll let the states “administer” the elections while people (who show up) vote at gunpoint.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Hasn’t everyone noticed that DJT doesn’t give a single f-ck about laws? We will all be voting in person with armed military checking our IDs at the polling booth, in every city in every blue state in the US. How do you think Dems will do when the vote is carried out like this in the midterms?
Ryan (@mediumboi.bsky.social) reposted
Larry David should do one single reunion episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm called “The Death of Cheryl” about the character dying of measIes.
That Anonymous Coward (@thatac.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
HAAALLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPING!!!! I am halp.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
The article clearly states that using ChatGPT “did not result in significant differences in knowledge gain or transfer”. And then a bunch of statements implying that it did. Which of course get picked up as being the main conclusion by people who don’t understand numbers.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Forgot @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, @cnn.com.
Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith.com) reposted
Say what you will about Gavin Newsom, but he’s a fighter, whether that’s against Trump, trans children, or his own constituents with nowhere to live.
Dad Jokes (@dadsaysjokes.com) reposted
Who is bigger: Mr. Bigger or Mr. Bigger's baby? The baby, because she's a little bigger.
Daniel Stainer (@spiritualized67.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I just saw this. Wishful thinking maybe lol.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
And yet, Schumer’s most likely response will be to become less of a “Palestinian” in Trump’s eyes instead of doubling down. Because Schumer is a weak man incapable of fighting and Trump knows it, as do the rest of us.
Son Thou (@sonthou.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Yes, but it doesn’t matter. Even if we get a competent and trustworthy government again for some period, everyone should know that it can’t last unless structural and constitutional reforms are made. The fascists are among us and unless they are structurally disempowered, they’ll be back.
Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) reposted
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
Not Your Negress (@notyournegro.blacksky.app) reposted
Question of the day….. Have you thought about how you’d communicate without cell phones/internet? I remember on 9/11 all of our phones in the DC area went down. I’m guessing it was a way for the government to cut off communication between the hijackers but it cut us all off from each other.
God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
Eli Valley (@elivalley.bsky.social) reposted
Out of the ten top news results for this story, this was the only one with a headline indicating the charges are baseless. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Yes the Dems have gotten better on guns. But like so many issues they didn’t do that on their own. They have to be pushed.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
This is also how we should "negotiate" with the GOP.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Can you imagine? He’ll just use the opportunity to accumulate vast amounts of BS that he will unleash on us the moment the ceasefire is over, or as soon as he can’t control himself any longer, so like a day at most.
Jason Karsh (@jkarsh.bsky.social) reposted
And the other problem with this is the media’s addiction to him. He’s like McDonald’s, terrible for them, but he requires no journalistic effort. They just have to set up the camera, turn on a mic, and he’ll say so many stupid/illegal/enraging things, they see their job as done for the day.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Zero forcing problems doesn’t help either.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social)
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Stef Schrader (@hoonofthe.day) reposted
all right, that's pretty neat insideevs.com/news/769931/...
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the way
Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean the midterms *are* the best chance to stop him, I’m not arguing that. I’m just worried people think these are going to be normal midterms instead of something we’ve never seen before. He’s getting ready, and we have to respond. White people especially. We f-ed this up bigtime.
Myron J. Clifton (@deardean22.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I feel for the democrats in Texas because there’s been 30 years of gerrymandering, suppression, closing polling stations where Black folk vote … and very low turnout for those and apathy reasons..
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
The problem with waiting for the 2026 midterms to stop him is that it will be too late. People in cities will be voting at gunpoint. The Democratic base will not turn out because they will be justifiably scared for their lives, not just apathetic. These trial runs need to be stopped right now.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News (@froomkin.bsky.social) reposted
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Doug Ramsdell (@dimmsdale.bsky.social) reposted
"our most influential newsrooms" are ENABLERS of autocracy. And if/when we come out on the other side of this, they'll posture like heroes. But many of us will not forget.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Some people think only MAGA got brainwashed, and they somehow escaped. That was not the case at all. Everyone should look out for themselves and their loved ones. It’s not paranoia thinking they’re out to get us. They are. All of us.
Whale-Killing Windmill Hate (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted
I mean honestly I always thought sooner or later a Kennedy would finally succeed at getting a few million of us killed
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Remember: swing voters don’t exist. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
You can get ordained as a Universal Life Church minister online, slap one of these babies on your car, your person, and your house, and be free of all laws forever, amen! www.ulc.org
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Our war with thee GOP will be settled in exactly the same way
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Just because it said “Jesus” on his name tag doesn’t mean he found God, no matter how good it felt.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Maxwell doesn’t think she did anything wrong either. So the president did the same things Maxwell was convicted of, and it didn’t seem wrong to her. Did she say the words “he did not have sex with those young girls”?
Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) reposted
It’s clear that the main goal of the Maxwell interview was to get her to say that she didn’t see Trump do anything wrong. Which can only mean that there is something in the files that suggests that he did. Why else would she need to say that? The interview is more incriminating, not less.
CAKE (@thebandcake.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Benjamin Dreyer (@bcdreyer.social) reposted
Sure, Hitler negotiated his brains out, and then we negotiated tf out of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading Hirohito to unconditionally negotiate.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, good point. Our war with the GOP will end with a “negotiation” exactly like our war with Germany and Japan in WW2.
Mekka Okereke (@mekka.mekka-tech.com) reposted
Still talking about that silly list of words... If you say "No politician even used any of those words!" That tells me that you can't even name five Black women in your personal life.🤷🏿♂️ If you say, "People only talk like that online!" You only interact with Black women online.🤷🏿♂️
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors (@originalist.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates" Crimes per 1M trips * NYC: 1.3 * Dallas: 38.0 "Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians" "being within California’s borders 40% less gun violence" "Liberal policies, like California’s, keep blue-state residents living longer"
Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted
He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.
Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) reposted
It's almost as if something had given them an inaccurate idea of how xenophobic Americans are and how popular Trump is
Aviel Roshwald (@avielroshwald.bsky.social) reposted
Greenland breathes sigh of relief as it turns out Trump has decided on a military occupation of the United States instead.
John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) reposted
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
U OK, Bro? I mean no harm, I swear.
John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
What is harming us today came out of mainstream media hothouses like our friend Tom Nichols (@radiofreetom.bsky.social), who everyone should block, because the reason we have fascism today is people like Tom Nichols, not people in academia.
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Tom Nichols, @radiofreetom.bsky.social, was posting some of the dumbest things on the internet today with his replies off like the pussy ass bitch that he is. Blocked me for calling him on it. Have you blocked @radiofreetom.bsky.social? You should.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social)
Yeah, that’s how Trump got all his voters in the first place. By avoiding words liberals find objectionable. You really have no idea what’s going on around you while you stare into your own navel with your replies turned off. Go away, pest!
ex-Lethality Jane (@lethalityjane.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It reminds me of the arguments over land acknowledgements. "I've never heard a land acknowledgement in real life" Cool, come to a Seattle Kraken game some time. They have one before every puck drop.
ex-Lethality Jane (@lethalityjane.bsky.social) reposted
Living in Washington State and reading all the complaints on BlueSky that no elected politicians use these words is such an exercise in cognitive dissonance because I can pull up the official city government Facebook pages of half a dozen towns within an hour's drive that use most of these words
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, that’s how Trump got all those voters! By avoiding words that liberals hate! These people are out of their minds.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social)
If Trumpers hate these words, then we should use them much, much more. We should attempt constructing entire speeches using nothing but these words. Certainly social media posts. Among the dumbest things on the internet today. Congratulations to whoever came up with this.
Erin Biba (@erinbiba.bsky.social) reposted
I’m done making the argument against Newsom. We have made MANY arguments over and over and over. Anti-trans, attacks on the homeless, anti-union, buddies with alt-right Nazis. At this point anyone asking why we don’t like him is a troll, an op, or willfully ignorant. End of conversation.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social)
Shitposting Trump is great and all, and it IS great! Keep going! But make no mistake, @governor.ca.gov, if you run for anything, including CA governor, there will be hell to pay. But keep doing the shitposting! It’s great!
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Typical billionaire behavior. Drop a bunch of turds and escape back to the compound. GFY, and don’t come back.
Alex Timmons (@a1extimmons.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Thanks for proving once again billionaires shouldn’t exist and that there are no good billionaires.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude! We are so done with billionaires, it’s not even funny how done with them we are. After Trump is gone, and the reconstruction is finally finished, you will be a millionaire. Enjoy it while it lasts, because it will not last long.
Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) reposted
Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
There are many more voters who didn’t vote than voted for Trump. Not voting is a far more rational position than voting for Trump. Those people are gettable. Trump voters are not. Please try to learn from previous mistakes!
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Hypotheticals are dumb. Trusting Trump to keep his word is much, much dumber.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Democrats lost because they tried to peel off Republican votes instead of putting more distance between themselves and the MAGA cult. It is a far more rational position to not vote than to vote GOP. There’s more of them than GOP voters, and they’re gettable, but only if we emphasize the differences.
Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) reposted
A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
How many times do we need to see that the law and judicial orders are not impediments. Trump wants all urban voters to vote at gunpoint during the midterms. He will stop at nothing to achieve that. Physical force is the only thing that may deter him because he is a pants-wetting coward.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m pretty sure this is on purpose.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
And I can see why you focus on who says things and not on what they say.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Leggy?
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
What a dumb way to say that racism has gotten worse and is more out in the open. Only a white professional writer working in a disproportionately white profession would come up with something like this, and then display that turd proudly and publicly. The death rattle of journalism.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh huh. The US is who you want to stop murdering people. Is the US the top murderer of people in the world right now? Any other country come to mind? I know not to you, comrade AI.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social)
Did the famously conservative University of Chicago Economics department play a hand in accumulating unsustainable debt, just like its ideas and some of the same people had a hand in Republican administrations accumulating the national debt? Maybe the prudent thing is to pause Econ PhDs.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social) reply parent
The “Chicago School of Economics” is famously conservative. Their ideas are responsible for the outrageous debt imposed on us by conservative administrations. Now these policies are gutting their school, but not the economics department. Obviously. Same as it ever was.
The Ill (@the-ill.bsky.social)
This is why you don’t read *anything* in the @nytimes.com. They are lying to us constantly.
Jason Linkins (@dceiver.bsky.social) reposted
no love for John Bolton but the fact that the home of a cable news green roomer got raided seems to have finally alerted a great many people to the fact that Trump just might be a dangerous authoritarian in a way that sending a occupying army to the nation's capital didn't