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i agree that it is genuinely hilarious to see incredibly weird little guys like Nate Silver claim they're more in touch with what Normal Americans think than your average Bluesky user is nothing is more abnormal in 2025 America than being a centrist with a well-paying media job
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
All of the court precedents will be thrown out by SCOTUS. they are not handing their star fascist a lose of that magnitude
Every single person in America knows this is a lie. Anyone who buys anything knows it’s a lie.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Each and every week there's a new post insisting that Twitter is "our national public square" or "the only conversation that matters" and every time it's written by by Some Guy I Only Know From Twitter and Haven't Thought About Once Since Leaving Twitter.
because if they go into NYC they are going to hit a wall of resistance like no other, it's going to be much more conspicuous due to NYC's density, it's going to impact the markets, and it's going to make them look really bad and they know it
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
they could have planned it. why not. propaganda and distraction is what it is
cold comfort
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Remember, the epidemic of mass shootings is neither inevitable nor unsolvable.
This week @AFT.org and @CTULocal1.bsky.social joined the movement boycott of Target. We rarely engage in this type of action, but we’re doing so because Target betrayed promises to communities of color throughout the United States. www.aft.org/press-releas...
Nate Silver should have his own social network. Like, just him. No one else around. Seems positive for everyone.
why wouldnt Trump know the "real" story already (albeit Rudy's biased version of it, which is good enough for Trump)? they talk on the phone
"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.
Question: What "liberal-coded institutions" were kept open during COVID while churches—for sake of argument, pretend they're all conservative—were closed? Universities closed, Hollywood shut down production, unions met on Zoom, progressives avoided indoor gatherings. So... which institutions?
bluesky is dying and there's only one way to save it: by putting on a community theater production of The Black Parade
Substack wants — even more than its general friendliness to Nazi accounts — to lock you into its ecosystem. The longer you linger, the harder they are going to make it for you to leave and take your mailing lists/payment relationships with you. They’re actively fucking with your money
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/
yeah, he's sick, and he'll be back terrorizing everyone in a few days. keeping everyone welded to palace intrigue is also an authoritarian technique to wear down resistance so it all works for him.
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they had the whole response team gathered at four seasons total landscaping headquarters to get this written stat
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
It's well established within studies of propaganda that when you repost conspiratorial content, not just to have a "nuanced correction" but even to outright mock it, the end effect is half the people seeing it are still pulled towards the conspiracy rather than your rebuttal.
Taylor Lorenz is getting defended for boosting a Nazi by an awful lot of covid conscious accounts, so yeah, looks like she's become the entry point for introducing that crowd into the fash pipeline.
The blacked-out word here refers to Jews. Those are the segments of the internet where Taylor Lorenz is hanging out now. We're seeing how easy it is to radicalize a person into antisemitism in real time.
Thread BREAKING: A new 38 page proposal shows Trump & Netanyahu are openly planning to take over Gaza & turn it into a casino & tourism resort. Here are the horrid details, & yes all of this is a violation of international human rights law & further confirms Israel is committing genocide. 1/4
Spent the day driving around Manchester, New Hampshire, a city for 80-something New Yorkers in deep debt apparently. I was driving alone, something I’m known to do. I saw a woman fleeing domestic violence. I “rendered aid,” vaguely. Minutes or maybe an hour later I was walloped by a Mack truck.
Well golly who could have predicted that would happen
For instance, you could’ve named @vanhollen.senate.gov who is in Israel as we speak, trying to get them to end the war to stop the famine. And who is the main reason that El Salvador is no longer housing American abductees 5/
“The internet gives ideologies that rely on mass indoctrination an extraordinary boost by giving propagandists unregulated access to the entire population” is a bad theory in a lot of ways: boring, simple, doesn’t show the folly of US imperialism or neoliberalism. It just also happens to be right
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
why does Rudy, one of the most famous merchants of lies, deserve to have the "truth" ? these hooker stories sound way more plausible to me. so just like a voting machine rigged to count only for Biden, I'll go with that.
If your state hasn't done this yet, call your governor's office as well as top public health official in your state, and request that they do this. If enough people start calling, they will hear us loud and clear!
they are doing this just to mess with you. this has happened before (during the 2024 campaign), he's probably sick or something.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
yah this statement has a lot of hallmarks of someone trying to get WAY in front of some awful, Giuliani-esque details of what actually happened. It's the guy with the hot dog suit trying to get in front of it.
Rudy Giuliani absolutely did not try to shortchange a sex worker and then was pursued by her colleagues, don’t you dare suggest such a thing
“Armed goons with a monopoly on force acting on the orders of the ruling class” is actually one of the oldest concepts of society, having them answer to a democratic government is the new part
in 2020 Michigan, two Republicans almost killed the whole state singlehandedly www.npr.org/sections/liv... and that was *without* an EO giving courts an excuse to go along with it
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
You have to understand, we were Told (tm) that Mueller would definitely get him, that 95 felony indictments and 35 convictions ! He's toast ! SCOTUS would *never* entertain the ridiculous notion of immunity, that's crazy ! The impossible happens every fuckng day with this guy, so forgive us
he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.
Yeah she is on her own personal Matt Taibbization journey of some kind and has passed a few checkpoints by now
HE DELETED HIS SHAME POST ON ME !! I HAVE WON THE INTERNET!!
I even got shame quoted with a screenshot so I can't escape. I get three blocks for way less than this. None yet
She wrote the WIRED article you linked
Couldn't help but push the shiny red button. Here come the blocks
But Taylor Lorenz being paid by a cellphone company to shill for "actually, kids SHOULD have phones in school" literally as she was doing this article, THATS all a lie right
Yeah but red states are going to do it. There are so many ways they can protect their majorities in 2026
WELKER: Do you have 100% confidence in Secretary Kennedy? LANKFORD: I believe he's who the president picked. He's challenging some of the assumption - what is it about autism? He seems to be following the science WELKER: The science has debunked links between autism & vaccines for more than 20 yrs
A lot of progressive journos who’ve been circling the wagons round this lady need to take the L and just cut her loose already
The UN HQ should have been moved out of the imperial core a long time ago. The US has no right to dictate which heads of state attend the UNGA, especially in this case since it’s not a neutral arbiter. Nor should it keep being able to abuse the veto power in favor of a genocidal apartheid state.
Pretty much
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
This question is pretty loaded. I suspect Harris voters may be more honest on this point than their counterparts. My racist aunt threw my cousin out of the house for dating a Black guy, but I guarantee you she also would have said it was wrong to cut anyone off for their political views.
The goal as always - take away healthcare, vaccines, essential medications, to produce a population that is less healthy, more desperate, more death, more pliable to fascist rule
That's right, the reason Germany has so many fewer mass shootings than America is because they don't have antidepressants.
science is of course completely political like everything else. the problem is public trust in science drops like a stone when the science community is perceived to having political leanings (which is tough since reality has a liberal bias). this mistrust is catastrophic as we see with vaccines.
More specifically if science and other research becomes centered in Europe, China, Japan, etc., those folks are not coming back to the US. We'd remain a backwater shut out of the loop. Think mRNA cures for cancer we barely have access to since they are controlled by China, etc
“F you, make me” should always be the response to fascist demands
Forcing them to fight for every inch - and escalating every conflict to the utmost - spends their time, their legal resources, and makes each subsequent battle RISKIER for them rather than SAFER, as you’re constantly testing public acquiescence and you never know when popular opposition might emerge
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 progressive Democrat flipped a staunchly Republican seat in *Iowa*— won it by 10 points, in fact— by running *As A Progressive* focusing on issues of education, and making housing, child care, and health care affordable. Stop running to the right. Stay left, and fight.
I've seen lots of people in public health and science stating that generational levels of damage to scientific and medical progress is already done
I’m not sure what’s better. To be on BlueSky and be aware of what’s happening and totally depressed all the time, or be on X and convinced that crypto matters.
stop it. You know very well they DO NOT CARE. Why continue to pretend these people have any good in them ?
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
I dont know know they're "misunderstanding". What made me aware of this, which I decided is probably correct, was Suey Park's "cancel Colbert" campaign: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suey_Pa... . the tweet wants you to think the stereotypes are awful, while you still laugh at them, which is the problem.
you can't limit cults. you have to disarm them. that's it
The Lorenz investigation into Democratic dark money funding paid influencers is a little bit of an odd read given Lorenz's own (unpaid, but weird) "partnerships" with private companies. It seems like these kinds of relationships are just the coin of the realm when it comes to influencers generally?
I'm not sure I understand what the problem is here. Everyone keeps saying that Dems need to have "our own Joe Rogan" etc etc...is it the lack of disclosure that's the issue?
"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.
GOP Sen. Susan Collins’s first public, press conference-style event in her home state in nearly a decade, turned into a public shaming as more than 200 protestors gathered to jeer. “You don’t ever listen to us!” “Your votes destroyed our Supreme Court!” trib.al/dEglsv3
There's this thing I've seen, as a gen Xer who grew up on horrible humor, that younger generations don't like parody at all. Because in the act of parody, you're portraying something horrible and it doesn't really matter that you claim to be mocking it, you still portrayed it and that's just wrong.
is this under the umbrella of US gov / FDA ? hopefully not? else it will be killed
what is the data being visualized there? datapoints from media stories? FMRI plots? opinion polls ?
so for those who don't know what DHS is referencing, it's an academic study the New Right has grabbed onto about how liberal moral universalism flows outwards while conservative moralism flows inwards in terms of priority
National Weather Service meteorologist applicants are now being asked to pledge their support for Trump’s executive orders. (Image reposted with alt-text)
NICE
FUCK ME DO NOT DESCRIBE TRUMP'S PLANS IN THE HEADLINES WITHOUT NOTING THEY ARE ILLEGAL.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
there are 180 other apps that kids of various ages use and these apps change every day there is zero reason for kids in school to have phones and everyone with kids / who teaches kids / who IS a kid is completely fine with it this is a solved problem. except for grifters selling apps to kids
I get pulled over way more than white people, not because most cops are interpersonally racist and just want to rein a Black person's day. I get pulled over because police are incentivized to arrest Black people. They are *punished* if they don't, and they are *rewarded* if they do. It's systemic.
Real slow so you understand.
you have to understand he knows all of it, he is willfully lying.
"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.
I am broke as hell and do not want my currently non-existent children using phones at school wtf are you talking about 😭
Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.
Vance: "If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." Washington Post, May 8, 1945: "Germany Surrenders Unconditionally."
Democrats really gotta put their heads together and game out what happens when the "legal avenues" are exhausted and Trump still sends in active duty and guard units to occupy major American cities
dog bites man .....riveting!
On a personal level, I've already made this transition. When I look for leadership, I immediately look to see what Pritzker, Walz, Beshear, Wu, Mamdani, etc., are saying before anyone in Congress. More Democrats should do the same until Schumer and Jeffries are gone.
How come Mike Johnson gets to be full on red meat MAGA at every turn? Everything he says is exactly what the base wants (like, oh, we lost that election to illegal immigrant voter fraud) This great schism of "the right gets to indulge fully, the left must always be chastised" needs to be explained