These fruit pictures from the USDA pomological watercolor collection are the greatest, and for anyone who appreciates them, I highly recommend this recent gorgeously designed print compilation
I have meandered over here from Elmo's Hellscape. Sarcasm is my jam. I like to use the f word a lot. Uh... Why does this feel like a job interview? Stop pressuring me. See out there on the field, kids.
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These fruit pictures from the USDA pomological watercolor collection are the greatest, and for anyone who appreciates them, I highly recommend this recent gorgeously designed print compilation
The numbers are in: National Guard deployed to DC to fight crime has picked up 500 bags of trash along 3.2 miles
Why didn’t we just track and interdict the vessel in US waters, arrest the crew and seize the drugs, as the US Coast Guard routinely does?
> @denverpost.com EDITORIAL BOARD: “The message the president is sending is clear — get on board with team Trump or he will try to hurt your state. . We hope this decision .. will help sway voters .. when Trump tries to retain office in just a few short years.” www.denverpost.com/2025/09/02/t...
Biden didn't do news conferences and we didn't expect them because he wasn't a needy, narcissistic, ego driven, sociopath who lives for attention. Unlike the sad little orange man who finally showed up in front of the cameras today. Buoyed by his little pep squad.
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
"Be loud for America" is a great line, tbh. I can picture it on t-shirts and bumper stickers, etc.
"No tax on tips. It's got a bit of alliteration to it, but no economic logic." This populist carveout gets just 1% of the tax cuts given away in Trump's budget, but a far larger share of headlines. It’s the populist fig leaf for a tax bill whose trunk and branches lean hard toward the wealthy.
Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
Let's be honest. This guy is always late. Like the worst doctor in the world. He doesn't think your time has value and thinks his is worth much more than it is.
the sunglasses keep falling off
I heard they’re still struggling to get the president to master the line “putting on the ritz!”
President Trump's press conference is delayed because he is having mitochondrial issues and one of his hands just fell off.
This week, I sat down with @bencollins.bsky.social. He pulled no punches in his assessment of the news business, confessed to a devastating addiction to Balatro (which I will not be downloading), and told me his employees should "pick up hammers and throw them at my head." Why? Click to find out!
If the Trump Administration declares a National Housing Emergency does that mean they'll send the National Guard to build houses???
What did I miss? He's already done?
Yes, we do. And what do you propose to do about it? If it's writing angry letters or posting on the internet, I think you might want to find someone who's a little more appropriate for the moment we're in. That moment being the rise of fascism and a party who isn't doing enough.
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
The only way to know what the rules are now is to observe proceedings and read CRS reports.
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
This isn't a surprise. Even though it's located in a very conservative part of Colorado, Alabama isn't going to rub Trump the wrong way. They're going to bend over backwards to make him happy. Is it the right place for Space Force headquarters? I don't know. But Rep. Jeff Crank is going to have a
* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SET TO ANNOUNCE SPACE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS MOVE TO ALABAMA FROM COLORADO, SOURCES SAY @reuters.com
Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.
The genius of the Trump administration. Batteries don't exist in their world.
My Mom said to my yesterday, "Yeah, but he can't take it with him." I told her he doesn't think he will ever die, so that's not a problem. He's going to have a pharaoh's tomb built.
I'm guessing this is what the story is... www.ismworld.org/supply-manag...
Essentially, Breyer bars the Trump administration from using troops illegally in California. The ruling is stayed for 10 days, to allow for implementation to be planned and for any appeal.
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
40 days in a Wyoming jail, along with numerous other moves around the country after coming to this country from Cuba in 1993... an illustration of how the ICE crackdown is impacting one Florida man via @wyofile.com & @andrewgraham88.bsky.social
I’m probably going to regret saying this but sometimes I wonder how much of elite dialogue is driven by rich people being upset by how dumb their kids are/what shitty parents they were.
With with Bessent’s most optimistic projections, that would take about 27 years.
The White House account on X boasts of “$8 trillion in tariff revenue.” 🤡
Not to be grizzly, but if you see JD Vance wearing Trump, it'll probably be Buffalo Bill/Silence of the Lambs style Trump wear. He's got those "vibes". Ya know?
ICE detains green card holder—days after she passed citizenship exam. She was awaiting the official ceremony—when agents tricked her into coming in for appointment—only to arrest her. She and her husband have owned their Los Angeles balloon shop together for almost 20 years.
Please help! Today's furcast comes from 9-year-old Bailey, a Royal Bahamian Potcake who is good with other dogs/cats! *Bailey is at risk of euthanasia if she isn't adopted in the next 2 weeks* Please share the word to anyone who can foster/adopt her - all info below! #COwx
"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover. Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.
Or CNN doesn't want to get into shit with his administration?
Uh subscribe to The Onion, by the way. For like one more week you also get a tote bag. membership.theonion.com
Not to be a buzzkill or anything, but
Is she happy about that?
It's almost worse than the beatings.
I wish I'd known that before I started paying for internet.
Let the lawsuits begin!!
Of course she is. She should take up acting, too. She had us all believing she gave a shit about people and our nation. Maybe she can do a play or movie with John Fetterman.
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
Ken, I'm sure you probably believe what is in this post. It may even be mostly true. However, looking at today's Democratic party, I am struck by the fact that if you were early day Union leaders, you would have taken the rich guys money and tried to bullshit the workers. We need you to fight. So...
So glad to see him reelected, and y'know *in* office since they literally changed the locks on him I wrote about this town last year bc there was a lawsuit to make it have elections, which coincidentally stopped around when the Voting Rights Act was passed 🙃 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
We did this to ourselves www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
Hank's public response to his son's suffering was "these things happen." There's so much crap that Hank Ketcham did that Behind The Bastards did a two part deep dive that's longer than they spent on some nazis. But suffice to say, bro sucks.
I call Hank ONE OF the worst cartoonists because Bal Thackeray, who quit comics to become a violently racist politician who called himself the Hitler of India, existed.
With a picture taken today by Getty Images; once again: do I know WTF is going on with Trump? I do not. Do YOU know WTF is going on with Trump? You do not All I know is he has never voluntarily STFU for five days since he was born
Dig this guy's style. Chaz Langley, the man behind the camera, runs a great Instagram account if you like street style. Unfortunately had to clip the video bc Bluesky only allows 3mins (developers pls change this!) IG langleyseye and iamsuedeofficial
Every five minutes some rich guy somewhere is like I have a brand new idea: colonization!
Source:
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
And be sure when you take a pic of it and post it to social media that you don’t confess to doing it yourself. It’s never “I did this” or “Look what I did.” It’s always “SOMEONE did this” or “Look what SOMEONE did.”
Also, when engaging in resistance using a sandwich, do not take any bites from it first, because DNA. And remember that your condiments can be used against you in a court of law.
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Raddatz asks how anyone could object to the National Guard in DC because carjackings are down 87%. Brilliant. If they hermetically sealed all DC residents inside their homes, they could get that stat down to nothing at all. Should we do that, Martha?
Invite him in? Invite? I don't think he's waiting for an invitation from any of the blue states he's forcing the guard into. Let's see these high murder rate states ask for help from Trump. I cannot imagine that is every going to happen.
Absurd and outrageous map would lead to a 7-1 GOP margin in a state that is often split about 60-40 GOP by creating an absurd district 5 that spans about two thirds of the way across the state, 200 miles from West to East Oppose this.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
Our news media are so broken. There's a way to challenge someone in an interview without looking like you're the press secretary for the other side. ABC's Martha Raddatz badly misses the mark. "Why fight with the president?" she asks.
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Grateful to the public health folks at Aurora Pride today who had sunscreen, condoms, COVID tests, gun locks, and didn’t once mention mitochondria.
Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.
Mark Knoller, longtime CBS News correspondent, dies at 73
BTW, I once heard the story of South American caudillo who announced his own death, then watched, hidden on a balcony, to see who came out to celebrate.
The Deere layoffs this week. The Caterpillar warning about tariffs. Just the beginning. @bloomberg.com $CAT $DE @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
You heard the lady! zohranfornyc.com/events
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.
The fact that no one in healthcare is at all surprised by this is just one more example of how our insurance system is not designed to help people or promote health.
Medicare will start requiring prior approval for certain procedures — and will hire private AI companies to determine if patients are covered. The AI companies would have financial incentives to deny claims, because Medicare plans to pay them some of the savings from rejections.
The Trump Administration celebrates the long tradition of violent domestic insurrection against the United States. Next up, a massive statue of All-American Patriot Timothy McVeigh!
Is this a joke? Susan "I'm So Disappointed" Collins is being asked to help "turn the party around"? Anyone who has the expectation she will do any other than vote to approve all this Trump garbage (unless given permission by Thune), is seriously delusional.
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
HAPPENING NOW: Hello from the media room in DC district court, where Judge Jia Cobb is set to hear argument on Lisa Cook's motion for a temporary restraining order to block her removal from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️🧵
Abbe Lowell is arguing for Cook. Proceedings are starting off on questions of a timeline.
This morning, a federal judge will consider whether to temporarily block Trump from ousting Fed Gov. Lisa Cook for her role. Judge Cobb is presiding and the hearing is about to begin. Follow along www.allrisenews.com/p/lisa-cook-...
Don’t worry guys, we now have an investment banker/former political speech writer with no medical, scientific, or public health training heading the CDC. American will not get healthier with the clown car of unqualified bozos dismantling public health services. We are fucked.
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Please, Dear God, why do you allow this picture to exist?
Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved earned sick time last November. Governor Mike Kehoe and Missouri Republicans signed away that right. Corporations won. Working Missourians lost.  This is an actual email forwarded to me from an employee of a company removing earned sick time.
Jim O’Neill is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience. It’s hard to get away from the feeling that they really are trying to kill us.
No words. This is… a) …laughable b) …dangerous c) …damaging