His vocal cords know he's lying and don't want to comply.
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His vocal cords know he's lying and don't want to comply.
Until Trump speaks publicly, I’m going to assume he’s incapable.
Never use whom
Has the white house threatened the major papers if they cover Trump's health?
Careful. There's a rick and Morty episode for you to watch. youtu.be/RNtTylNR7ks?...
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
While I was abroad I had a Florida man and an Iowa expat ask me about Giving Newsom. I said he isn't a pedophile and so far he knows how to win elections... I'm not sure I like him but he says Trump is weakness masquerading as strength, which is exactly right. He seems to understand the moment.
Me too. She inspired me to call my assemblyperson to urge them to vote for the bill and ask their position ( no official position yet ).
Her argument that the bill would strip away her power over housing is not as convincing as she thinks it is. The longer I listen to her, the more I want her stripped of all power or influence in housing or any other aspect of people's lives.
I had a client show me a Chat GPT design for their backyard they had created. First time for me, other designers say it's becoming common. The AI design was slop and client knew it, but showed me anyway. Its helpful when clients try to draw their own designs. This was not that.
Yes, let's
The National Park Service just celebrated its 109th birthday. How is Donald Trump marking the occasion? By taking an axe to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS7IJaB5NDc
'Armed soldiers patrol the streets... Immigrants...are abducted and disappeared by masked agents... Election integrity is under attack. Political opponents are targeted with criminal probes. Federal judges’ orders are ignored. Educational institutions are extorted into obedience.'
I'm glad I routed my bike trip thru the Great Bog National Park and the Vandalorum museum with this beautiful new meadow by Piet Oudolf. The bog and the meadow hit as hard as the fjords.
Good try, but the terms wouldn't appear in official comms so I don't think your analysis proves much. Do an analysis of DailyKos and you'll find, yeah, our side -- me included --sounds like that sometimes.
You should give them a shrubbery
They resent California's size and strength, and are terrified of us using it.
I would go this if it were in driving distance of the SF bay area.
I need Newsome to troll Vance about the couch thing.
Sweden's Great Bog National Park. Come for the bilberries, stay for the longest two plank boardwalk in southern Sweden. The English language signage talks approvingly about 'mire'.
I'm a big admirer of the swimming platforms in Sweden and Norway. The height is intimidating to dive, fun to jump.
Public opinion will be won in the headlines, not the technicalities. Republicans are winning a bunch of debates because they ignore facts, let alone the nuances.
Trump has halted or dropped enforcement actions against 160+ corporations, including: -42 consumer protection cases at CFPB -20 foreign bribery cases at DOJ -6 employment discrimination cases at EEOC -7 crypto cases at SEC It's a new golden age for corporate criminals.
I would have known it was Trump.
“A .. CNN review of Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein—backed by records, photos, videos, interviews & messages—shows a long, close relationship until at least the mid-2000s .. with Epstein saying Trump was his ‘closest friend for 10 years’ in 2019.” @kfile.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/p...
It's actually pretty high brow for Dutch.
Geometry of Innocence, Doug and Mike Starn 2018
I'm also shocked as a native of safety regulation and lawsuit America, that they let people go up into this bamboo piece at the Ordrup museum. No steel, nails or screws, just bamboo and lashing. Awesome.
Sweden's sauna/cold bathhouses are great. And I caught myself in two cultural norms. My surprise when the young woman walked into the men's area past naked genitalia to show me the lockers, and how batthouse just sounds to my ear, as a SF bay native, like a place to get chlamydia.
You take at face value what voters feel about things that they have no first hand knowledge about. The border? They only know it from anecdotes on the news. Crime in DC? Even DC residents build their opinions on hearsay. Democrats problem with voters is they still believe in facts and reality.
All that supposed data and he still just talks out of his ass
i had been arguing for years that trump's popular vote defeat really mattered in 2016, and his popular vote victory in 2024 vindicated that take
Society is reflected in its gardens coming within the context of the president paving the rose garden.
Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf (of High Line fame) says a society is reflected in its gardens. I'm at his lovely new meadow at Vandalorum museum in Sweden. The garden and the widespread appreciation for gardens in Sweden reflect something really positive.
There are obviously so many reasons you need to count all people. Occupants in a building is obvious for fire safety, but also drivers on the road for road safety. People to vaccinate, people using drinking water, people using electricity, etc... You can't just apportion resources to citizens.
Looks great
I love Chillida's sculpture there and La Ruta del Cares is a little ways from Gijon, but is one of the best day hikes in the world if you want some exercise.
Photo should have the weird cider aerator contraption in it, but drunk and in Asturias is a great way to go through life.
Three weeks out of the country and I see a painting of a sea monster/troll and my first thought is 'that looks like Trump.' The Sea Monster by Theodor Kittleson
It's tacky how the existing and new paving meet.
Looks great but also show the underside. That's how I judge the longevity of a furniture build.
It's striking how every foreigner I ever meet outside of the US has only positive things to say about California, and the two negative things I've heard in Denmark are from a Christian expat who gets his news from the Internet and a Florida man who was an asshole to his son.
A community space with wildflowers and bird boxes -- I remember thinking owls and swallows but I'm not so sure now --alongside a random bike path. More extensive and successful than I've seen in the states. So jealous of the Danish governmental commitment to three of my favorite things.
Farmers in Denmark use California native Phacelia as a green manure. I don't think I've ever seen that in California. It doesn't fix nitrogen but it's a great bee plant and very pretty. Makes me happy every time I ride past a field of it.
wondering how long it takes for the mainstream press to cover these numbers before they abandon the "he's the tribune of the people and the spirit of ordinary, hard-working American taxpayers" pre-framing they all do in their minds before reporting on him
It's hard to express how pleasant it is to ride around Copenhagen on a bicycle.
What is totally undeniable is they poured over these files with really only one thing to determine: could they release them without incriminating Trump and the answer was “absolutely not.”
"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."
This is your sign to kill your lawn and plant native wildflower seeds!
Another insightful piece from @vermontgmg.bsky.social www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/who-actual...
I will always vote against anyone over 65.
I will always vote against anyone over 65
I recognize that he and Trump have had some successes but I still don't believe it is savvy for the administration to let him set the agenda.
Beautiful. 'When making an axe handle, the model is near at hand.'
Happy bear cub playing in sprinkler is what every #bluesky timeline needs... 🐻🤗
What Stephen Miller is planning and Trump will approve
Thanks to the bill that just passed the budget for ICE is LARGER than the Russian military. ICE now has the 3rd largest military budget in the world after the US military & China... I wonder what that will be used for? 🫥 @indivisible.org @lindsaymeyerharley.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
Another form of kompromat. Everyone facing liabilities if the Democrats take power is going feel obligated to help keep Democrats out of power.
I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.
I got the email. Genuinely not sure where they got my email address.
Shamelessness and tolerance for cringe is the essential Republican skill these days
A lot of stuff I'm outraged about us funding. I appreciate your bleet here but wish it had something actionable by you or me.
I recommend NO as well and probably am due for a rewatch. Almost anything about Pinochet's Chile and Dirty War Argentina are worth looking at right now.
Mainstream media feels like a lot of credulous people talking about and with a lot of stupid people. Breathless discussions of all the straw men in Washington.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
That's great. Your kids did well. Reminds me of a turtle I had named Clearcut.
the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.
Our country is split between the people who think the Japanese Internet is one of the most shameful things in our country's history and people who don't. Along with a significant number who don't have any opinion because they can't be bothered to learn history or follow the news.
All these people want to argue about NYC politics to keep themselves and NYC politics in the center of the news. Even for the writers I like it feels like everyone trying to think of something to say in their book report due the next day.
Zoot skipped a groove again.
Zoot skipped a groove again.
There needs the be a general strike in response. I don't want to generate tax revenue to fund this.
What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
Looks great.
are these numbnuts actually wearing operational camo in an urban setting? are they trying to hide in the Home Depot's garden department?
Does anyone know how he was polling? He might be seeing a democratic wave in the future in addition to a possible Trump challenger
She's doing a bit called Manic Big-Boobed Dream Girl, whether she or the creator or the internet knows or not. And one level of this is that the actress is probably fine to hang out with when she's out of character and acting like a normal human.
I have never said I will praise Schumer for anything except resigning. He hasn't resigned, I haven't praised him, I don't see the conundrum.
You're efforts are pathetic. You need to resign so that the party can have a real leader in charge in the senate
Fox brain doesn't think about long term implications, it just reacts with knee jerk factionalism. There's a long term perspective of power and party without thinking through the actual consequences.
And lots of cancer
Molly's game should have been titled Peter Principle
Add Sorkin to the list of 'Don't these people have wives (or husbands)!'
I think she's in on the bit. Many signs that she relishes what she's doing, loves the lying, loves the cruelty, loves the role she plays.
Yep it's pablum, and she was probably really pleased with it when she read it beforehand.
I don't follow NYC politics but I knew Cuomo would lose when Clinton endorsed him. A Clinton endorsement is the Streisand effect for political endorsements.
Your newspaper sucks
Algorithm, please stop with the ad, I'm not from Jersey, Springsteen is ass.
She looks fun to hang out with. Hope the programs get funded.
Mike Lee is among the worst people in Congress.
Selling large amounts 😁 f public land should require a stand alone vote. Maybe there should be an acreage law, 5000 or more acres must be a stand alone. It's our land, they should be accountable for selling it.
Chris Murphy gets it. I'm struck by how well this has the sardonic tone of a bluesky poster rather than the typical politician tone someone like Schumer or Jeffries would use.
Aside from gender, they aren't entirely wrong to see it that way. Democrats have a strong 'eat your vegetables' vibe. Republican tax cuts are ice cream for dinner and selling off our public lands is 'go to Florida with your college fund'. An eight year old would choose that.
Van Jones sucks and doesn't know it. His talent is to sound sincere while talking out of his ass.
AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”
