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Reparations for documented systemic racism are considered such a ridiculous proposition that people assumed asking Bernie Sanders to consider it was some nefarious disqualifying stunt. Meanwhile, rioters who were looking to lynch lawmakers are getting after that paper.
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
The US far left hates the Democratic Party, especially centrist figures such as Joe Biden. The US far right is in control of the Republican Party and US govt, enacting far right policies right now. The party most pundits chastise for indulging extremism is the Democrats. What a massive symmetry.
"That is why I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it." Yes, there is a difference.
Gold price vaults past $3,500 to new record on.ft.com/47UUrwg
The administration and the GOP could use a war to consolidate more power fo rillz
Make law enforcement an attractive career to educated libs somehow
That Venezuela take is freaking me out tho
This guy is going to be a serious contender his star is only just now starting to rise
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Sweet we got those two days of rain last week that put the kabosh on fires in the T Roots at least.
If Democrats knew how to message holy shit
Great day for this story to drop
Bro you been over the pass into Macalester I knew there was a fire over there but I didn't know it was like *right there* on the road!
They like Trump and are trying to help him
Yes.
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
This guy can tho
Together with the labor movement of Maine, together with Bernie Sanders — We will defeat the oligarchy, and we will defeat Susan Collins.
Hanania is still an evil shitbag but this take is correct.
I mean Richard Hanania is right about the GOP and its voters getting crazier and pushing out the "normies" in the next couple years, especially after Trump.
“There are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissension…” — Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
Trump’s mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Biden’s advanced age
Hold me back
The killer is 100% a Republican but everyone already knows that
Just want to know the reason *why* the media isn't covering Trumps disappearance.
Murdered a child, shot him in the back. “A man was detained at the home where the shooting happened and questioned by homicide detectives on Sunday, KHOU reported. But Houston police later said the person was released after questioning.” www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/11-...
Totally. I just wanted to dream for a moment.
A million Plattners arise
churn baby churn
All paid for with taxes specifically from the billionaires who supported him.
Wtf is this real
What's surf taco a local chain or something?
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
The 2024 election was a national referendum on living in factual reality and trying to address challenges responsibly. A plurality said no, even if some didn't consciously grasp that. Another example: Trump & Vance lying so much it hindered FEMA response to NC floods. Then the state voted for them.
... it's their targets who must apologize. They're never held responsible for the lies. Never held responsible for getting so many people killed. Never held responsible for anything. It's just the people who care, who try, that we hold responsible, that we shit on & demonize. Never the gibbons.
I've written a million threads on this theme, it's pointless, I know. But it's insane. Dems have to try, to be responsible, to please everyone. Republicans just have to jump around like fucking gibbons, throwing shit at the wall, and if they occasionally, accidentally hit something ...
COVID was Dems' fault because they acknowledged it. Any societal disruption could've been avoided if only we pretended. First time US media and voting public didn't hold the president responsible for a bad thing on his watch. Even as he messed it up on live TV. Nothing I can think of comes close.
For a sense of how crazy this was, allow me to invite you to again consider the over-the-top-we-lost-our-collective-sh*t response we had to Joe Biden completing Trump's plans for leaving 🇦🇫 (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) & to temporarily higher inflation due primarily to global factors beyond 🇺🇸 control.
they like Trump and want to help him and telling the many, many people who understand the world through the filter of the NY Times or Washington Post that the real world is full of anti-Trump protesters would not help Trump or help him win.
Bluesky is good, actually simply because the users here chase these freaks out because they're bad people with bad opinions. It's not that complicated!
I mean...it's gross but this isn't that wrong
Lots of reckonings need to happen but to be lectured about any of them from any sort of conservative is absurd and laughable.
Also anyone on the Right who says "there needs to be a reckoning" about anything at all, much less about COVID, is full of shit and should be laughed out the room immediately.
I bet this is extremely common tbh
Rudy Can’t Fail Card cheat Giuliani says he crashed while trying to save a young Janie Jones from a hateful lover’s rock. But it’s more like likely he had brew for breakfast instead of koka-kola when he was lost in the supermarket on the way to his brand new Cadillac. by Maureen Dowd
All Dems absolutely should eject their profiles off of that fucking app
Outside of Bluesky the discourse always favors the Right too.
ActiVote poll | 8/1-8/31 President Trump approval Disapprove 50.4% (-1.7) Approve 43.7% (-0.8) www.activote.net/trumps-appro...
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
This is exactly right! The Right’s core claim is that they represent an authentic, “real" America that is constantly being victimized, made to suffer under the yoke of leftist/liberal overreach, and therefore rightfully aggrieved. And too many Democrats/liberals look at that and go: “I agree.”
Ya this is exactly why I love Bluesky
I still can't fucking believe only one ex General is speaking out about the Ashli Babbitt stuff.
"To pretend that her death deserves the same recognition as that young soldier at the gate is obscene. It is a betrayal of the oath she once swore and a desecration of the sacrifice made by so many who kept faith with theirs."
Someone please kill me right now.
I want to see a show that's kinda like the Handmaids Tale but it's just no one has a cell phone and the internet has been destroyed.
I’m in the camp that blames this on the internet. It showed people with extremist views they’re not as fringe as they thought, and gave them tools to organize, while getting tons of regular people to believe the most important issue is “something must be done about the people who bother me online.”
the flag is at half mast and they’re throwing stuff out the white house window… is he dead?
Both the Army Corp of Engineers and some sort of national service program to build more housing would be good actually. Put some kids from the rurals in with some city folk to build up America would probably work.
All those guys. Same with Goldberg and Southern Keeks lady. Just genuinely bad people who think they're absolved because they didn't go in on Trump 100%, just 50%
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
It's mostly "the biggest victim of COVID was me" combined with "I can't get mad at a virus, it doesn't react in a way that gives me emotional satisfaction." Obviously COVID policy wasn't perfect. But to think it was political persecution, and pretend Trump wasn't president then, is really something.
As best I can tell, the core of the "COVID measures restricted conservatives while being permissive to liberals" conspiracy theory is "I hated the George Floyd protests." Because the big public health institutions/officials were consistent in recommending against gatherings, even outside. See Fauci:
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.
lol the Atlantic rules
You cannot tell me that being on X is not bad for you when it turns Senators who had the clearest view on the 2024 election to COVID school closer guys. And again imagine people in 1948 saying that Britons spent too much time in bomb shelters during the Blitz.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
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.
What exactly has this Supreme Court done to give us confidence they *won't* find a tortuous way to greenlight Trump firing Powell if he decides that's what he wants to do? ICYMI @kimwehle.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/if-trump-t...
An enemy attacked our nation's capitol. Tried to take it and the government by force. Doesn't matter if it was a domestic enemy it was still an enemy they should've been gunned down and we all know it.
This is something I'd like to hear from any of the Generals about. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Is this what a real Zombie Apocalypse looks like? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
America’s in a “sex recession”, adults having sex weekly dropped from 55% in 1990 to 37% now. Key culprits are smartphones and the pandemic. Social time has tanked too, young adults went from 13 hours a week with friends to just 6.5 by 2019. The loneliness epidemic keeps manifesting in new ways.
Soft succession or some sort of civil strife what else is there wait for them to find their marbles?
Keith David ruled in this movie
donald trump has been convicted of more felonies than 99.9% of Washington DC residents.
What happened I used to work there way back in the day
GOP voters want this stuff. They love watching people suffer so much.
Strap yourselves in, folks 1/
He was on the Bulwark not long ago I like him he's good.
She's incredibly annoying
There is no such pattern. There are simply a variety of very emotionally disturbed people of all stripes who seem to have no difficulty getting their hands on a firearm. Shouldn't responsible firearm owners want to prevent this?
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Comical double standard but not in the way he thinks at all
They like Trump and want to protect him?
100%
Ya well all find out soon
Chuck Todd was even better than this and Chuck Todd sucks so hard
Bill Kristol and Anne Applebaum = good. youtu.be/F8yzpfxOm6o?...
"SOVIET MILITARY CAPABILITIES S-100-18-85 BOX 1 OF 2," slide 37 of 40 [gallery]
Actually, he thinks that he is the state, and that everything should be controlled by the state, as long as he's the state.
I mean I still remain skeptical Dems would pursue any of it. I'd love to be wrong af and they become extremely aggressive but not a great history of that!
Whether it’s Republican Donald Trump defunding NIH or Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. gutting the CDC, both parties are to blame for the demise of America’s scientific institutions.
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
Also, if Dems ever have control of Congress again, I assume they will compel Rob Manfred to testify about the "deal" he struck with POTUS? Very curious to know how secret deals with the president jibe with MLB's anti-trust exemption.
They're going to Baghdad Bob the economic data until the lies crash into reality the hard way.
Missouri is now following in Texas’ footsteps. Of course Democrats have to respond. To say they shouldn’t is unilateral disarmament. www.kmbc.com/article/keho...
I bet the creepy old farmer guys all think she's attractive and that's really the only reason they keep voting for her
The whole "if Romney won" is so (not really at all) funny because he's now so hated by the GOP voters that he needs at least 5 grand a day security to protect him from them because they want to physically harm and/or kill him for not being sufficiently sociopathic and evil.