I totally agree that this establishment of domestic "rapid deployment units", along with murdering ship passengers on the high seas, are not just red flags but huge honking red fire alarms for incipient and maybe even actual fascist government.
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I totally agree that this establishment of domestic "rapid deployment units", along with murdering ship passengers on the high seas, are not just red flags but huge honking red fire alarms for incipient and maybe even actual fascist government.
Even the NY Post Editorial Board wants to live.
I'm not sure that a journalist using plain and accurate language is newsworthy, but here we are
I don’t know…..he’s got a lot of guns now
Whose mom is bringing orange wedges and Caprisun to the war this weekend?
Time to make a grocery list and go to the kids’ soccer games!
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
EJ Antoni tweeted, "You can’t run a race on your knees,” in response to a tweet of a doctored campaign poster that depicted a sexually explicit image of Harris (it was a photoshop depicting Harris with semen around her mouth calling her "Cumalla Harris." www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/p...
Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.
That’s the problem with hot takers in general. They just have to keep cooking up ridiculous shit to say.
The NFL's open hand vs. closed fist explanation for not ejecting Chargers DT Teair Tart doesn't mesh with the language of the rulebook. The only question, based on the rules, is whether the action was "flagrant." www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
Would’ve been nice to have that emotion early in the game and maybe the second half wouldn’t have needed to be so difficult
Looking forward to a week of “The Chiefs are washed” takes
Lots of very, very obvious failures tonight. A frustrating waste of an incredible Mahomes effort. Eagles, Giants and Ravens next.
Haven’t seen any Fulton tonight….was he active?
Agreed, like that crew there. But man, the rest of the telecast is ROUGH
And then the prosecutor gave Epstein a sweetheart deal shielding him and all accomplices from any accountability And then Trump hired that prosecutor as his Labor Secretary. Totally adds up.
Holy shit this YouTube telecast is unwatchable. Scam Newton and Mr Beast……woof. The things I’ll suffer through to watch the Chiefs.
Gonna be the best field ever at Silverado
This is a f-ing surreal embarrassment.
What will he do
Are you trying to tell us you're on Epstein's list without saying you're on Epstein's list...?
Trump and MAGA are running an ongoing revolution against the constitution and rule by the people. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party and most affiliated media and political elites are not telling the public what’s happening or acting as if that’s what we’re up against.
This is the correct take
I am not as upset about this as a lot of people here seem to be. It was a tragic, unintended outcome to a very high risk mission, against a country we are still officially at war with. Whether the risk was worth it can certainly be debated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
I'll admit to reading the Nate Silver piece (after linked to here -- clicking a link on Twitter, something no one does), and his prime example of Blueskyism is Taylor Lorenz losing her mind on Twitter. You're not misreading that. Nate Silver's example of Blueskyism is a rant on Twitter.
Deface the Nation
I’m going to defer to @mitchschwartz71.bsky.social on this…..hoping he weighs in
It’s only questionable with illness. I bet he plays.
We really don’t need to take Randy Fine seriously. @cnn.com is trash for having that clown on at all.
It's fascinating how large Bluesky looms in these guys' heads. It's basically just a rehash of the 4chan/Tumblr dynamic. They literally own X and Substack, but the fact there's a social network that exists beyond their influence appears to be literally driving them insane.
Just give Alexandra Petrie a Pulitzer already. "Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow."
Took Denver in survivor…….and if I jynx them oh well
Let’s go, Chiefs! Good luck this season. 👊
Actual conservatives are out there calling out this corruption though.
this is why I don't think the pro-trump tendencies of the media are as simple as them wanting him to win. it's a more complex pathology, shit like this. generation of reporters and editors for whom "scandal" (can be reported as norm breaking, illegal, sensation) is only private things
The way @espn.com operates…….the dumbest and most obnoxious ones
Did he just call Massie and MTG democrats?
speaking of the victims: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This is so perfectly corrupt I’m almost impressed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...
Gotta give Trump credit he did say he would destroy the Deep State and he did because now we don't hide the corruption we just put it in on the front page of the newspaper and nobody cares
Bluesky is better with the Schwartz brothers posting actively
Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.
Legally speaking, this is all complete nonsense from SecDef. For use of force purposes, drug smuggling is not/not an imminent threat. Just because the administration mislabels some criminal gang a "foreign terrorist organization" does not make them the equivalent of al Qaeda.
Imagine that……helping Putin again
I just assumed that this is what they’d do before they “release the documents.” Sloppily, probably.
I bet!
Can we just get reliable ball/strike calls instead?
Take Congress Back! They’re completely abdicating their oath of office and doing so openly.
Raises hand. “What if he ‘suspects’ I am a drug smuggler?”
Just a ridiculous premise. Stop it.
This is a brilliant way to use speech or debate clause protections.
Joe Rogan is spreading climate misinformation on one of the country’s most popular podcasts, scientists say—and he’s not the only one.
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You know your team is good when every other team fanbase constantly has to post about you on socials. Congrats on the ring though! Well earned.
Given the state of sports fans these days I’d hope every team starts doing this
Beyond insulting at this point. He needs to just disappear in shame.
Wyden on RFK Jr: "This committee's unwillingness to swear in this witness is basically a message that it is acceptable to lie to the Senate Finance Committee about hugely important questions like vaccines."
There's been a lot of stupidity today but this is right up there.
But Justice Barrett told us transgender people do not face de jure discrimination . . . edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...
There are very few people more responsible for this situation than McConnell. He built this Supreme Court majority that is making Trump a despot. He could have ended this all with a successful impeachment after J6 and chose not to.
NEW: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is running for Senate in Michigan. I asked him if he trusts the leadership of Jeffries or Schumer. His answer: "I don't trust right now the nature of a party that is more interested in its donors than it is in its voters." lthomas.substack.com/p/interview-...
Seems truly beyond some people to grasp the idea that anyone values democracy, and cares about how we do things, not merely partisan outcomes. But how we do things matters a great deal. Democracy enables a big, diverse country to make collective decisions without violence. Chaos breeds more chaos.
I just cannot stress enough that we have to identify some way of addressing the massive sociopathy problem in this country & its impact on the systems & social fabric that shape our lives.
jesus christ
Lord save us: "Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
To be perfectly clear, the President has now crossed a line in my opinion into outright murder of foreign nationals on the high seas. Alleged drug smugglers. Not many lines left before he is ordering the murder of American citizens for crimes, real or imagined.
Let’s get this show back on the road, shall we?
The Tower Bridge in Sacramento California #releasethefiles
Just 6 years ago anti-vaxxers were a laughable fringe group. Now their victory is so total they're setting government policy. This is like if schools started teaching Flat Earth. A complete failure of education and science comms. Kids will die because we couldn't convince their parents of the truth.
Wow — check out the INCREDIBLY MASSIVE crowd at this morning’s Massie/Khanna press conference with the victims of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein!! 👀
No one would even try to rationalize the family of any previous President amassing billions of dollars in the wake of his election .... until now.
This is how America becoming an unconstitutional dictatorship is described in 2025.
I have never, and will never, give a single solitary fuck about the TV ratings of the sports I enjoy
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?"
File the lawsuit now. Given this move and Trump's statements, no reason to wait for injury where injury appears imminent.
Also, Texas bussed migrants there!!!
idk maybe im just a loser but i feel like there's a better dem strategy online than we're just gonna do 4chan memes too
A bold move given recent protests and the size/weight of a Portillo's Italian Beef
I can’t say I have a lot of fantasy basketball experience so I can’t argue much. The game days/schedule almost dont matter to me though. The weekly grind starts with waiver wire process on Tuesday anyway.
True but still very much a weekly cycle
Some day folks will (maybe) learn to live in reality. "Trump is dead!" "Trump has dementia!" "Trump faked his assassination!" "Trump rigged the 2024 election!" And on and on. It is counterproductive and quite embarrassing when we have so many actual terrible things to highlight about Trump.
Doocy cashing those Fox nepotism checks!
Trump: "We've taken in almost $17 trillion of investment." (That would be more than half the entire US GDP, so no.)
Which would be a true statement about (insert any geographic region here)
Does she not understand that energy can be stored?
There’s a very real chance the US just murdered a fishing vessel.
Yglesias syndrome
Nothing is stopping these guys from building their own community - either here or using their resources to do it elsewhere. This site is open. The Philly sports community built a space here better than what was on Twitter. So did the climate science community. Just do some work and stop complaining
Also Nazis are explicitly in control of X. Bluesky management is a non-entity in this debate.
This is true, but it's important to note that Nazis have infiltrated several law enforcement agencies, hold major sway in the GOP and commit a mass-casualty terror attack every few months. Meanwhile the most leftists ever do in real life is come in 4th place in a small city's mayoral election.
Hopefully more now. That’s just survival……but I’m guessing he won’t out GOP state legislators under police guard
Not really how he governs here though. You’re just referring to PR power. He doesnt target enemies with the power of his office.
"Not enough people is the number one threat to the West, followed closely by too many people." (Or are there some adjectives missing?)
Once again, birth rates are declining in Sweden, Thailand and Afghanistan. So whatever your *fix* of choice is, it probably won’t work.
Insulting word salad