Hopefully nothing ever happens, but if it does then it couldn't be happening to a worse dictator
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Hopefully nothing ever happens, but if it does then it couldn't be happening to a worse dictator
The kindest thing I can say to the doomposters is: I hope you’ll never get a chance to see how much braver the average American is than you.
Acting like you can't read and insisting people explain something to you, what are you stuck in 2012? Get a new bit bud
The Pentagon Pizza Index/Meter hasn't been a reliable measure of defense posture or geopolitical tensions for over thirty years
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The year is 2024, President Joe Biden has not interacted members of the press in several days, his visibly bloated figure can only be occasionally glanced through telephoto lenses as he shuffles secretively in and out of the White House. The Beltway press is unbothered by the situation.
“Texas Democrats lost. But they drew attention to Republicans’ efforts to put their thumb on the scale, and demonstrated a valuable tactic for galvanizing their beleaguered party. They lost, but they lost loudly. Losing loudly has been a crucial feature of successful political movements.” Gift:
tired: a man who is not a liberal at nineteen has no heart and a man who is not a conservative at forty has no brain inspired: every year you must make a will save against deciding everything new is bad and scary and eventually everyone fails
We need to stop trusting experts - the Secretary of Heath and Human Services
I don't think think I agree with this conclusion insofar that it's not substantively different than elections in the last decade or so
what
ICE forcing firefighters to stop battling a wildfire and make them all show their papers, then arresting some active firefighters and pulling them off the line shows there's no bottom. As @aselrod.bsky.social pointedly argues, it's nothing less than an "active assault on virtue wherever it exists."
Boooooo no fun
The lead up to the declaration of martial law in Pakistan included the use of the military, called to stop a pogrom, for performing civic functions in Lahore like cleaning, planting trees and repairing roads. People began to see martial law positively. By 1958 Pakistan’s fledgling democracy died.
Doomerism is chickenshit. an embarrassment to every ape that threw a rock at a bear to protect the tribe. if you actually believe this doomer shit what are you posting for? it's chickenshit and i will have no truck with it. you had something better to do with your life than make the world better?
“breaking the law and seeing if anyone will stop him”
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.
(remain unendingly annoyed that this "progressive" state is such a pussy about a capital gains tax, a VERY NORMAL, WIDELY USED kind of tax. But nooo, austerity is the only waaayyy)
If only there were some way we could raise taxes on the rich in a way that doesn't impact the poor. Some kind of tax on the rising value of property and financial instruments. We could call it a stock appreciation tax or something
This should not be viewed in isolation from the workarounds to renaming army installations, the removal of predominantly women flag officers from positions they earned, and the decision to grant funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. All designed to shape and re-write history in service of a select group.
Doomers: The 2026 election doesn't matter, Republicans are just going to rig the whole thing anyway Various red state republican incumbents: I'm just going to quit now because if I run in 2026 I'm going to get absolutely killed
There is no possible legitimate reason to do this. It’s what despots do. It’s petty. It’s dangerous. It’s unAmerican. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
In any other era, Congress would have opened an investigation into this. The corruption that we are witnessing is staggering. This is Ben Ali’s level of corruption and abuse of power.
(can't quote-tweet my friend so screenshotting) the problem with Jean-Noël Barrot saying "We cannot leave security of Europe in the hands of Wisconsin voters every 4 years" last year is that the alternative is leaving European security voters in the hands of voters from Provence or Saxony-Anhalt
this is the K-Pop Demon Hunters crossover America craves
Fifteen years ago this week in (and above) Kandahar’s Zhari district during the Afghan surge.
cargo! cult! fascism!
>is getting married MAGA??? I fucking hate American politics so fucking much
Oh okay, that's...*more* reasonable, at least bsky.app/profile/bene...
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
Anything for the likes
what a weird little bitch
Being the only transit rider at a transit related press event continues to be incredibly demoralizing when I wish it was embarrassing for the transit agency involved.
So true, we should go the other way and condemn those stupid urbanites to death instead to bail out the suburbs, a-fucking-gain. Or should Dems hit the magic infinite money button so nobody has to make any cuts anywhere?
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rfk jr. had armed security march these public health heroes out of the agency *that they helped build* just to prevent CDC workers from saying goodbye and clapping/saluting them out in the afternoon, like they did for anne schuchat.
demanding a do-over military parade because your birthday military parade was a huge flop is the kind of thing that the undead corpse of george washington would smash through his coffin and murder you with his bare hands for, if he could
lol lmao this video is perfect
I followed them through the Biden era (fell off after Trump's win though, needed a morale break) and not really, no. They're certainly not loud, passionate advocates but whenever housing and transit comes up they always had at least passable takes
(also I'm a hefty dude so it took like 7 people all crammed in behind me lmao)
There's a picture of me somewhere out there in this exact pose by a bunch of my choir friends. We'd just won a competition and were absolutely giddy about it, and it's sad that Pavlou is so Gendered up that he can't see that joy
two part strategy; shame ICE, be friendly and supportive to the Guard in a 'I can't believe you guys are having to go through this shit' way.
Progressive organizer Katie Wilson was a longshot just months ago to unseat Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, a fellow Democrat. This week she accepted the endorsement of Washington's largest union as the frontrunner.
The White House does not view senators as having legitimate oversight authority and will terminate officials who are candid with senators.
This administration's immigration policy is fundamentally sick. Trump has wrongly detained lawful green card holders and even CITIZENS. No one should assume this was necessary. These firefighters put their lives on the line for us ALL and Trump is detaining them.
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
A. Bless and protect Jon Lovett B. I thought his response was going to be that young people would like to live in LA PERIOD, which they can't do if we don't BUILD HOUSING FOR THEM
>raid his apartment with a dozen dudes in tactical gear >release a highly edited video of the arrest >grand jury declines to indict him Lmfao
And of course the answer is fucking no, no matter what they defensively mewl when you bring up the idea of gun control they value their toys and the absolute freedom to play with them however THEY choose over the lives of children And then they wonder why people don't want to be friends with them
When we say "free speech" around here we mean to a comical degree. Whatever that makes you think of, go twice as far, and you still might not actually cross the threshold
My fav fun fact about immediately post-Revolution America is that a guy shouted about couping the Presidency for months, recruited a sizable militia (including NCOs), gathered them in one spot, and the Supreme Court still ruled it was all free speech because they didn't make it to the white house
Not a particularly useful take, but it's striking just how forced and wannabe all that shit the latest school shooter drew on their guns is. It's desperation to look like they don't (or didn't, I guess) care
WaPo reporting the CDC director is being removed. She was confirmed by the Senate in July.
this is literally what the FBI was for before the Trump Administration decided it should be restructured into Cops Plus
My kingdom for partisan Democrats, please god above. You do NOT, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, have to hand it to the OPPOSING TEAM
This is an awesome horny and non-horny idea. I'd play the absolute SHIT out of a ME-esque CoD
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm adjacent to the audio-based erotica scene and there's a shocking amount of male VAs doing scenes as Ghost
My wife's therapist suggested she talk to ChatGPT about something and I felt like reality jolted under my feet. Like it or not this is a Thing we have to deal with as a society now, and by god I wish we had a functioning legislature to help with it because we are doing a TERRIBLE job on our own
So we should more politely fund left wing influencers? If 50 people have all misunderstood your point, maybe it's just not a very well made point
We tried being better than for the last decade and look at where it's gotten us
There was loose consensus that the Dems needed to win the slop battle, and guess what? This is how you start to do that. I'm eyeing anyone who's mad about this with suspicion.
ICYMI: The municipal grocery store craze is headed to Seattle. Once a skeptic, mayoral candidate Katie Wilson says she will explore a public option grocery store to fill the food deserts created by corporate greed. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/mayoral...
isn't this what we keep complaining that democrats don't do
the core issue here is that crime rates are down exponentially from where they were just a few decades ago: you’re asking Democrats to make “effective plans to deal with crime” that *largely only exists in the deluded minds of brainwashed MAGAs, most of whom don’t live in cities*
You intimidate the hoes with your bold, progressive policy. The hoes shrimply aren't ready for the next gen of Democrat
Taking over the world’s most important central bank is, uh, a pretty effective diversion
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
PRC not being able to actually take advantage of the US torching itself and its role in the post WW2 global order would be a great bit
"A message nobody hears cannot persuade them... They’re [Blue Rose] testing with a captive audience when their task is to actually get heard — meaning get people to stop scrolling in the first place. What they’ve tested is so bland no one is going to notice.” Care to respond, davidshor.bsky.social?
How it started - How it's going
Imagine being pulled out of your actual job to do community service because the president wanted a photo op and your superiors are too chicken shit to do anything about it. American century of humiliation shit, fuck this admin
It gets tiring to constantly be asked to be the bigger person. I don’t wish for a massive wave of rural fentanyl overdoses or anything, but it’s just enervating to be clucked at and scolded for giving people the same energy they’ve given you your whole life.
Here’s a clip of marines refusing to shoot at Taliban using women and children as human shields if you think it’s really difficult to follow LOAC (which Lew seems to be implying)
Melissa was able to visit Zahid recently and asked us to share his statement. He is currently in an isolation cell. From Melissa: “He can't even see a clock to tell day from night, and he's still under the 24/7 bright light exposure. This has to stop.”
I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
At this point calling something derivative seems like the most derivative thing you can do. Have an opinion of your own, name what you don't like or stfu
Really just a perfect example of the kind of thing the founders despised, and as un-American as it gets. In the properly functioning democracy we make from the ashes that tariff grandpa's death tantrum leaves, this will be an impeachable offense
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, it’s literally just Tuesday.
I think the next time we have any power we should triage whatever is left of the health care system as best we can and then rebuild, but states are going to have to make some really hard decisions in the meantime and cost/benefit favors preserving urban systems over rural.
LINE 2 ACCESSIBLE IKEA LFGGGGGGG
he’s not perfect, nobody is, but there are very few people with Krugman’s longevity in the takes game who have a better track record
Authoritarian power grabs like this will trash the American economy. This is about YOUR MONEY 💰💸💸! It’s about every family’s savings & retirement. Republicans need to get serious about drawing a line here.
You win battles by ENGAGING WITH A LARGE ENEMY FORCE THAT YOU ARE POSITIONED TO DEFEAT, not by waiting until the adversary has quit the field!
What if we funded local news the way we fund local elections? Call it “News Notes”! On the “Mostly Economics Podcast” with Dean Baker, I make the case that a program that allows individuals to fund local news w/ public $ would revive the media industry and strengthen democracy! youtu.be/pAyw5Xwp0EQ
The Seattle City Council is about to start taking votes on the 20-year Comprehensive Plan which will determine how housing in Seattle is built. I biked around Seattle to talk to people about what we need to do to build more housing, and make our communities more walkable, and livable.
can we get to the midterms and/or actual primary before we all sentence each other to the mind gulags
>tarrifs in the high teens causing global trade collapse >central bank independence compromised >dust bowl disasters we're reaching levels of Hoover that shouldn't even be possible
Catte
Negatively polarized into supporting Trump's takeover of the Fed is craaaaaazy
trump administration thus far consists of watching someone load several dozen chekhov's guns while loudly insisting they will never go off and that anyone who says they will is soy and gay
Fighting back once again immediately pays off
Good thing economists measure things to determine success then, rather than opinion polling non-millionares
They’re making fun of the media referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Maryland man as they threaten to send him to Uganda, a country where he’s never lived. They’re simply fucking vile.
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."