It's friggin embarassing

Hoarding wealth is still just hoarding.

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Gun control now. Gun control TODAY. I'm sick of the excuses. Get rid of the goddamned guns.

To be more specific: Ezra Klein not only said nice things about Charlie Kirk but *made up nice things* to praise him for. Kirk was an open white supremacist who spread “great replacement” conspiracies and claimed that the end of Jim Crow via the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a mistake. Klein is out.

Number 5 is the important bit.

Take a moment and read this. Every life is a whole world.

All the things you imagine, and more besides

100%

Our country, encapsulated.

Good morning, Boundary Waters!

If you thought it was difficult to get a psychiatric bed for a suffering patient a year ago, it's much harder now. Where will be be a year from now? Who will care for the thousands harmed by this worthless technology?

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

lol I found it! My very first skeet. My third skeet was about the charmingly menacing orcas. Remember the orcas? Oh! Bless them! What a simple time it was, that 2023. Now instead of orcas attacking the yachts we have hordes of orcs running our government. I prefer the orcas, myself.

Unfortunately this is some of the final stage for the medias fascist consolidation at the highest levels.

Honestly, me too.

There really is.

Okay bsky buds. A number of us have been #onhere for quite some time and remember the cacophonic hedonism of the early days. And we like it; and we've stayed. But I'm curious friends: what do you wish this place had? Something silly, something fun, something useful, something random, something rad?

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Really disappointed in every comedian who agreed to shove blood money into their pockets to participate in this obvious sham. Many are folks who are already stricken from the record as far as I'm concerned, and I'm not surprised to see that they said yes. Gonna have to add some names to my NO list.

I do love all of my nerdy bluesky buds and their quick opinions to my various tech questions. I am working on a novel (slowly, slowly) longhand in a notebook, so it will be a while before I start moving to the computer for that. BUT. I am now fussing on short stories. And those I compose typing.

incredible

*salutes*

Judges tend to take a dim view of this sort of thing.

Lying is expensive

I had the opportunity to sit down with Eric Roper to share why I think Minneapolis has everything we need to tackle our biggest problems. I hope you'll take the time to read about what I know we can do together with compassionate, principled leadership. www.startribune.com/dewayne-davi...

Full force to do what, exactly?

Well friends, I've had it with microsoft. Too bloated. Too janky. Too expensive for what I actually use it for, which is just typing words into a document that I send to someone else eventually. What tools do you use? I used Open Office once upon a time, but it failed spectacularly, and I'm skittish

What a country

Perspiring Peter wants everyone to think about something other than the fact that he is definitely in the Epstein files.

Drip, drip, drip.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... This piece by Anne Applebaum thrills me. I’ve supported Ukraine 🇺🇦 from the start. 🇷🇺 is collapsing. Ukraine 🇺🇦 has been canny, ingenious, & innovative. US military missed the opportunity to see how to win 21st century war. Trump took us backwards.

Just failures all the way down.

We are now raising an entire generation of kids who will become accustomed to hearing the following sentence from their pediatricians: "The President has absolutely no idea what he's talking about."

Help da Hook!

Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.

Setting aside everything else: wait, wasn't the Trump/RFK Jr. don't-use-Tylenol recommendation specific to pregnancy, not infancy? Like, is he adding an entirely new claim here?

No Democrat should vote to keep the government open unless ACA funding is restored for the millions of Americans at risk of losing health coverage next year. Remember that this funding is on the chopping block because Trump and Republicans want to give the richest Americans a giant tax cut.

I interviewed Minneapolis City Council Member Katie Cashman @ward7.minneapolismn.gov, who is asking MPD to add clearance rates -- which indicate whether cases have been solved -- to the city's crime dashboard

This.

i can’t get over blois olson talking about lake and bloomington like he was there. people who don’t leave their houses talking about events they didn’t go to later on like they were there just because they saw videos or social media posts is one of my biggest pet peeves now

I keep trying to explain to other folks in tech that the cost of these free ai credits they are using for their startups get passed onto the consumer through rising electricity costs, and I feel like Chicken Little.

Yup.

Sure isn't.

Keep mentioning this bit

Mayor Frey has NO IDEA what could have happened to kur civility in politics, but he assures us he is looking for the guy who did this.

Mayor Frey shows up to the debate by the Downtown Council but did not show up the People’s Forum in South Minneapolis about housing, working people, immigrant and marginalized communities.

100% on board with any efgort to impose a vacancy tax. He should include the hedge fund owners of the Uptown business spaces as well.

Frey is seeking a third term and has never demonstrated an ability to act civilly with city council. Reminder that he has issued the most vetoes of ANY Minneapolis mayor.