Diplomatic dude. I know a little about international economics. I once explained the electoral college on Mongolian TV. Climate change believes in you. Vaccines are good, actually.
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Bluesky buddies! I want a bunch of examples for something I'm writing of instances in the last 9 months of the Trump administration insisting on something that was *obviously* untrue - real 'up is down' examples, ideally with news story links to the statement.
No clankers!
thank goodness none of my four younger siblings ever got taller than me!
David Letterman is in the house
When did David Letterman become president?
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
“It’s clear that there’s enough smoke coming from the White House to warrant at least a major story in a major outlet investigating whether there’s fire.” Yet there aren’t any. At this point in the Biden presidency, Fox News was regularly asking “Who is actually in charge at the White House?”
remember when the physical health and mental acuity of the President of the United States was the top news story every fucking day?
Photo of the Three Stooges promoting the polio vaccine for kids in 1961. You know your country’s in trouble when Moe, Larry and Curly Joe understand more about public health than the Secretary of HHS.
If you’ve ever compared unvaccinated kids to vaccinated kids, you’ve seen the former are more likely to die.
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing
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.
Why, Hal, ’tis my vocation, Hal, ’tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
Are there any Marines here? I’m trying read through my late father’s service records, and it’s all a bit impenetrable. The military loves its acronyms, abbreviations, and euphemisms.
There are plenty of us on that hill with you.
I don’t use AI because I’m infuriated for the artists and writers and philosophers who’ve had their intellectual property stolen. I also hate boring and impersonal shit. If someone can’t be bothered to write something, why should I be bothered to read it?
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
WHITE HOUSE AIDE: we need a distraction from the president being dead OTHER WHITE HOUSE AIDE: let’s kill Rudy
Watch movies from like 1950 and people were hopping trains for short trips like that.
happy labor day
act of war
What is your name and what does it mean? Wendell English "one who wanders"
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
This month spoke w the ambassador of a longtime close US allied country. The indignities, damage, and "the cruelty is the point" (tm A Serwer) that this allied country has been put through would defy belief, except that we see counterparts every day in ICE / MAGA news. Just for the record.
The people who brave the Darien Gap and the Mexican desert to come to America and build a new life are more American on the day they show up then J.D. Vance and his disgusting ban of fascist freaks have ever been in their fucking lives.
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
I'm a moderate. I only want to tax the hell out of the super rich, not eat them.
I'm just surprised the plan isn't to load Gazans' consciousness into a computer instead.
okay that's a reasonable use of AI!
you and my spouse are on 'team not joining the team'!
well that takes care of that!
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
Perhaps this is obvious but perhaps not: both my research work and my public-facing writing would be impossible without the astounding resources of university libraries. My household also makes ample use of our local public library. Libraries are amazing.
let's listen to the nurses
There is a lot of unneeded detail in this, totes legit I'm sure.
I just can't help but wonder what kind of people are piloting aircraft full of children who are being flown to another country without due process. It's a choice. Flying aircraft for ICE and DHS is a choice.
this is among other things, delusional
he should be in the Hall just based on his name
hey no picking on one of the VERY best named major leaguers...
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
this isn't beating the weekending at bernie's allegations
Personally, I prefer tan suits to brownshirts.
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books. p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
It took cops three hours to finally go into the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting. If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷♂️
An important piece of context here is that Democrats controlled both houses of Congress for only the first two years of Obama’s presidency. Republicans currently control not only Congress and the WH, but also the SCOTUS. And still, Trump is governing by EO and fiat.
Barbie Nazi say what?
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Pritzker: "We want more help—civilian law enforcement help. We would like ATF agents to help us take more guns off the street. We would like FBI to coordinate with local law enforcement to help catch perpetrators. If they do that, we'd welcome it. That's not what they're doing."
This article was fascinating and I imagine people like the Secret Service and any other professionals involved in providing security to senior officials are reading it. gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
Trump take electricity
Fun fact addendum: There was also a separate Department of the Navy until 1947; it wasn't part of the War Department.
unintended perhaps but certainly not unexpected!
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
that's not a plan, it's a fantasy
If you depopulated the District of Columbia, crime would drop to zero.
Thank goodness we still have the foreign press, since American journos are unwilling to report clearly on the Gang that Couldn't Think Straight.
Ah….never mind. Executive orders are bad when Democrats do them. FWIW, Obama signed 129 EOs in his second term. Trump has issued 198 so far in **the first seven months** of his second term.
Wow! Finally some pushback on that barrage of executive orders coming out of the White House with no attempt to work with Congress to pass legislation. And coming from Chuck Grassley of all people! Oh wait, hang on a sec, I’m getting word that this is not about Trump but rather…
damn straight
Lankford: "no, I meant he was following the REPUBLICAN science. That can never be debunked, for it is dogma."
There is no safe way to engage with Trump.
It's even stupider because no Indian govt can ever go on the record as accepting third party mediation and hope to survive, he basically asked modi to commit political suicide for him and is throwing a tantrum that he didn't
It’s true that large portions of the country have now proven that they are at best deeply irresponsible stewards of our freedoms. Even if we survive this descent into authoritarianism, how do we reckon with that?
The law doesn't explicitly prohibit the president from sexually assaulting children as part of his official duties, I think the Supreme Court would find...
“The law doesn’t explicitly give the president permission to sexually assault children.” @nytpitchbot.bsky.social you ready?
The year before this work 'Dawn,' (1889) was painted, Alfred Stevens’ doctor recommended that he take the sea air as a remedy for his bronchial condition. His first visits were to the channel coast near Le Havre; his interest in the sea continued throughout his lifetime.
Just enjoying the dynamism of English modernist Cyril Power’s linocut ‘The Tube Station’ (1932)
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
pathetic. Even notoriously HR-violating countries like North Korea, Belarus, Nicaragua, Russia, El Salvador, Eritrea have undergone the Universal Periodic Review.
United States, right now.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
he was American in all but a technicality
What’s wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are “stunned” by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
Klopfenstein though not taking steps to limit the huge use of power by data centers, eh?
President Trump said late Saturday that he would issue an executive order to require that from now on, Americans be left-handed. Equal legal authority.
My authority over election law is fully equal to the president's. That is, none. Explicit or implicit, ffs.
So accurate
We're trying to bully Japan into taking our LNG, but ... "Fossil fuels generated a record low share of Japan's utility-scale electricity supplies over the first half of 2025, marking an important milestone in the energy transition momentum of one of the world's largest fossil fuel consumers."
You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?
Stopped at a Midas repair shop today and the guy there brought up the CDC. This is an example where raising the salience of what is going on really can break through the noise.
One reason I try to avoid being in a car as much as possible is because I now assume every driver is on their phone doing exactly this.
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
Hi. Do you have suggestions for how I can dress for 115F degree weather? Also has to make me feel like it's 65F, takes no effort to put together, doesn't make me stand out, but also makes me look stylish, works for weddings and pool parties, is ethically produced, and doesn't cost more than $3? Thx.
that is GLORIOUS!
I can
Felt like a pie chart was in order. Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197 % of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095% % of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%
it will still apply to any democrat tho'
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
Here’s your reminder that Vivek Ramaswamy moved his own business out of Ohio to Texas #gobucks #hornsdown
Warning: this tactic does not work on civilian spouses.
If there is ONE thing I am MORTALLY certain about, it is that 100,000 people a year do NOT die from drag shows.
The new Pulte-Trump crackdown on mortgage occupancy fraud is nothing if not selective.
"Won't somebody think of the children?" Looks at gun policies that encourage school shootings, vaccine policies, etc. "Apparently not."
he has nice eyeliner
August 29, 2025
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service—and with it, we are closer to losing the Republic the oath was meant to protect."
And yet, federal employees still have to complete annual whistleblower training that encourages them to report wrongdoing and assures them they will be protected if they do.
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Lee commanded an army well, but was a lousy strategist (so was Jefferson Davis)