His backers feel similar about some of this stuff. I think they're happy to cull the herd.
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His backers feel similar about some of this stuff. I think they're happy to cull the herd.
No problem :)
W.H. Auden
And if Trump keeps over, Vance is more than happy to continue this. 🤬
Criminalize homelessness. Criminalize poverty. Criminalize mental illness. There is no equivocation here. Trump wants to do what Hitler did, en masse scale. It’s pure evil. His plan is to bring back -Poor houses. -Medieval mental asylums. -Pseudoscientific stigmas. Fascism by any other name.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
I’m covering the “Workers Over Billionaires” rally in Richmond, Virginia. Around 400 protesters gathering in the gazebo around Monroe Park, with more still arriving.
I will write/report about science-adjacent agencies like NOAA, NIH, EPA, DOE, and others, as well as about climate change and public health more generally. I will also continue to innovate in the "descriptions for RFK Jr space," that's the Gravity Is Gone promise. www.gravityisgone.com
![But almost inevitably, it is when the conch is passed to Health and Human Services Secretary and [highlight] wheezing sack of malarial miasmas [/highlight] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that things seem most grim.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u45hqzk7counfbwyg5edhmvi/bafkreidamfxv34v3r5kl7lunlqgtpsf242qbxtttyfybm7i2uxmsfpxt4u@jpeg "Click to view full size")
My pre-labor day reward was to get laid off, do me a favor and sign up to get my now-independent reporting and writing
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
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JFK feeling the same way about RFK Jr as the rest of us.
Just gonna re-up this Nate Silver book review thread. I cannot begin to imagine what Nate finds so objectionable about bluesky. bsky.app/profile/dave...
Just going to keep saying it, it is remarkable (you can still be shocked without being surprised!) that the rest of the Republican party has decided that blatant corruption and enrichment off the office of the presidency is legal for this one guy
I didn't get a sense of the scale until we looped through Horton Plaza and came out the other end and I saw there were still 4 blocks worth of protesters looping in on the other side bsky.app/profile/wren...
Absolutely huge turnout again. Hard to get a sense from the middle of the march but it's at least 12 blocks long
Honestly need the garlic powder take. C'mon man! It's a holiday. Pleeeeeeeease 🙏🏽
🤣😂 Lordy
Brutal, but hilarious (and fair) 🤣🤣🤣
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
Happy Labor Day, Walter 😍
That's what you think. 🤭
Neighbors in a Massachusetts condominium complex watching news coverage of a body wrapped in a blanket, found in the back seat of a Honda Civic outside a hospital, came to the startling realization that they unwittingly helped the suspect move the victim. lawandcrime.com/crime/hockey...
Happy Labour day folks !!! 👇
😂 no worries
Likewise
i'm not blueskyist, BUT—
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
I do know and agree that animal agriculture is deeply damaging to the planet. Plant agriculture is too, but not to the degree of animal industrialization. I will keep an eye out for quality, plant-based "leather" products. Phasing out plastics is a long road.
Remember Nate Silver refuses to use Bluesky and says you'd have to pay him over a million dollars to use it, so I'm going to suggest he not only doesn't know what "normal" people like, he doesn't even know what Bluesky is.... Signal and the noise guy is full of noise once again.
anyway embrace alfhog-blueskyism, comrades! you have nothing to lose but racist replies and training data for elon's mechahitler
I mean, Peter Thiel is paying him, so yeah
why can't people on here just be normal like *checks notes* nate silver
Goodnight 🤭
The MAJORITY of non-leather accessories are made of plastic and they disintegrate.
i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.
Same. And since it's plastic it breaks down eventually leaving behind more plastic pollution.
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“There was a lot of anger at the way the system failed in New Orleans, and not just the levee system. The way that all systems failed in New Orleans at the local and the state and the federal level,” Stewpot Community Services Director Jill Buckley said.
When's dinner? 🤤
Maduro claims that Venezuela is being targeted by eight US military vessels “with 1,200 missiles”. It is an “absolutely criminal, bloody threat.”
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro: “Venezuela is confronting the biggest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years. “A situation like this has never been seen.”
I don't *think* this is what's going on, but we should at least be aware that close to death rumors can be useful if you need a strong man saved by God moment to buck up flagging poll numbers.
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
The most perverse outcome of this dynamic: The more extreme and deranged rightwing politics gets, the more elite Democrats/liberals react with ritual self-flagellation. “They are elevating RFK? Wow, we really must have angered those good folks with our crazy liberal/woke/leftist overreach!”
As a result of filtering everything that happens in American politics through the lens of “They represent authentic America, we are imposing liberals who need to plead with the Volk,” Democratic leaders constantly lend legitimacy to the Right’s claims and sabotage their own response.
This is exactly right! The Right’s core claim is that they represent an authentic, “real" America that is constantly being victimized, made to suffer under the yoke of leftist/liberal overreach, and therefore rightfully aggrieved. And too many Democrats/liberals look at that and go: “I agree.”
Here's a better response to RFK's destruction of our public health system than what Senator Schatz is offering here, from JB Pritzker (with some additional ideas thrown in from me and public health experts): newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Omg. Yes. www.criterionchannel.com/70s-thrillers
Holy shit, @criterion.bsky.social... And it's not even my birthday. www.criterionchannel.com/alan-j-pakul...
OMG
Three former officials of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including recently resigned Chief Medical Officer Debra Houry, discuss the future of the agency and public health in the U.S.
“When something happened to the Negroes in the South, I said, ‘That’s their business, not mine.’ Now, I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us anywhere in the world had better be the business of us all,” Mamie Till-Mobley said in September 1955.
Last week, @julieroginsky.bsky.social & I showed how Russia used Nazis & white supremacists to influence the 2016 election. This week, we dig into how the Kremlin penetrated Fox News and other right-wing outlets Check out our series, subscribe, and please share so people can be armed with facts
September is the time for Marian Burros's plum torte cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3783...
Gift link! cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3783...
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
I’m dying. Michelle Obama tried to do something nice and cute for the kids helping them stay healthy and she’s being put into comparison with a guy who believes people can target diseases by race and wants to ban life saving medicines!
Michelle Obama asked people to eat vegetables and take walks and she hasn’t been forgiven since. It’s wild.
JFC!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 🫠
lol they actually did it
It's awesome!
No one has threatened to kill me on Bluesky so if you think this place is too hostile maybe you're the problem.
It's fascinating how much they equate the logo with racism and hold it dear. There's nothing anti DEI about the original logo. Just the personal projections of the worst people. It's a sketch. Tell me what the new logo has to do with D, E or I 🤷🏻♀️
OPINION: "We were never going back to live there. Never see the house again. Never heard from some of the friends I had again. It was like life flipped in one night,” Silas Sanford said.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
The people shouldn’t be afraid of their government. @chefjoseandres.bsky.social is amongst the most sincere, giving men on the planet. Today, he’s serving an honest #CupOfJoe to the felon in chief. Chef José Andrés radiates compassion. #DemsUnited
Citizen is AI generating crime alerts that are wrong. one of the worst applications of AI I've seen yet www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...
The cash benefits of the new tax law, signed by President Trump in July, are rippling through the oil, technology and telecommunications industries.
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
A 56 y/o company is “America’s heritage”?
You won't see this on the news. In fact, you may not see this anywhere. Residents of Washington D.C. march up 14th Street on Saturday August 30, 2025 chanting "Troops Go Home".
It wasn’t until 1938—more than a half century after the Haymarket Riot and the national strikes for eight-hour workdays—when Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which limited the workweek to 44 hours, and then amended the law two years later to 40 hours.
A Labor Day classic: www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
A Texas County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites as Trump Attacks Mail-In Voting Nationally talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-texas...
Good morning, George ☕
There’s a bunch of statutory protections that specifically apply to removals of unaccompanied migrant children. But DOJ argues that 6 U.S.C. 279(B)(1)(H) establishes an independent basis for removal in order to “reunify” kids w/ a parent abroad… bsky.app/profile/joed...
THIS
You only have until September 19th, to contact the US Forest Service and object to the rollback of protections on 45 million acres of wild land and forests. Go to: Regulations.gov and voice your objection! Otherwise these lands are subject to being sold, & forests being cut down.
Today and every day I love my union. MSP
Not a good look when you open your piece on birthright citizenship by misquoting the 14th amendment. (It does not improve. It’s really really bad. And the author has been cited by Supreme Court Justices.) lawliberty.org/cutting-the-...
Good morning, Kimmy ☕☀️❤️
Good morning, BC! Have a great week in spite of everything. ☕🍳☀️❤️
Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan discussed Trump's health and America's diminishing global standing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOy...
Jesus
Poland
The U.S. is spending billions of dollars in a rush to beat China to the next evolutionary leap in artificial intelligence. China is running a different race.
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth...
*never had
Foucault points out that routine large-scale criminal incarceration was a relatively late development as it is very expensive and only affordable at a certain level of material resource. And this is how the US has chosen to flaunt its wealth.
Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves. (Hope that everyone who could do so made it to the Hockey exhibit in Paris, as it closed on Sunday. I wrote about it here: www.lawdork.com/p/stepping-b...)
In the early hours of 1 September 1939, Germany's Luftwaffe started bombarding the Polish town of Wieluń. The attack is considered to be the first war crime committed by Nazi Germany in World War II. Bombs destroyed ca. 70 percent of the town's buildings. Video: https://www.wielun.pl
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Dude! You need to post here. Your music is awesome!
This is awesome!
I fucking love the sound hitting tubes makes as an instrument. Used them in Warcraft and in Mute soundtracks because it’s just COOL. Now i need to go listen to some of @iamclintmansell.bsky.social work on MUTE.
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.