If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

This was how I convinced my mother birthright citizenship was the only way to go. I told her that somebody could just claim she wasn't a citizen tomorrow. Her parents are dead. All her birth certificate says is where she was born. Nothing about citizenship there.

So, let's play make-believe and pretend that Prasad has rock solid proof the vaccine killed 10 kids. He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients. The opposite of radical transparency. endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...

imagine if he was the frontman and you had to say it in a different order imagine if we had all been saying it “John, Ringo, George, and Paul” that would just FEEL wrong “John, Paul, George and Ringo” is like the “Duck Duck Goose” of bands. the final thing can be different, that’s fine

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

Unfuckingbelievable.

Can’t tell if this makes me more hungry, or more thirsty.

anyway this isn’t a legally difficult question it is a politically difficult question for the conservative majority and the only thing we’re waiting to see is if they will ignore political pressure and follow the clear text of the constitution or bend to the president’s demands.

The underlying facts of this one are still mind-shattering to me. Imagine hating trans people so much you would sue to preemptively prevent them from accessing healthcare and homeless shelters available to everyone else on the theory that your own child might one day run away and need healthcare.

If you need to understand what's happening, this farce is a perfect place to begin. A broken, unhappy man is being given a fake award he doesn't deserve by a corrupt group looking to bribe him and earn favors. It's meaningless, everything he wants, and it won't matter to him within an hour.

Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces. There’s no such thing as a “free market.” It is designed. It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.

Can't wait to watch STRANGER THINGS VS SUPERMAN on the new streaming service, NETBOFLIX+ NOW GO MOBILE ULTIMATE which I got on a Black Friday deal for $112 a month

The emperor has no clothes. For months now, Trump has been making these ridiculous claims. Why didn’t someone in his inner circle point out to him the first time that this nonsense made him look stupid? Clearly, no one will risk correcting or contradicting our ignorant scumbag-in-chief.

The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

No one has scammed and beclowned the human race like cats. "Aww she's sitting on me" she's sapping your energy. "Aww she's purring" she's communicating with the devil, her father in hell

New laws of robotics: -The supply of funding shall not be interrupted -Robots cannot harm a human unless tricked a lil bit -Do not examine the accounting -Sam Altman is not liable for damages -If a human is replaced by a robot they must be rehired for the position within 12 months at a lower rate

PSA for the fellas: Every woman you know has been in a room with a Pete Hegseth (sometimes drunk, sometimes not) who raged at her for not being instantly charmed by, or acquiescent to, him—like Hegseth rages at reporters—and had to do a quick calculation about getting out safely. And a lot didn't.

"How do I make my boss happy?" is the question that dominates the mind of every little authoritarian, and they instinctively assume it's on everyone else's mind as well.

Also USPS didn't loss money because it doesn't make money because it's not a business and if never makes money to begin with. It did however deliver over 112.5 billion pieces of mail in 2024 and that doesn't even include packages.

So many time I've posted how my grandfather died when my father was a little kid from pneumonia due to lung damage from the 1918 flu. We have a flu vaccine today as direct result of that pandemic because that level of death and harm wasn't something society wanted to see again. That is a good thing.

Keystone Kash, his girlfriend, and her friends having the time of their lives using and abusing taxpayer funded resources and civil servants. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

It’s clear he’s selling pardons. It’s become a corrupt practice.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Yet here we are… and Rambo’s with masks can confront you in a Home Depot parking lot and bark: “Where were you born??? Show me your papers!!” All ON American soil. This isn’t some old WWII movie about Nazis, this is really happening in the U.S.

After seeing the photo of Jeffrey Epstein’s living room just released it now makes sense what Donald Trump is doing to the Oval Office.

Good morning, Bluesky, here's a nifty arrangement of an ubiquitous holiday classic. youtu.be/2Bl9Kx3uCrg

Okay but like why is *anybody* buying Warner Bros why does Warner Bros need to be bought how big do the entertainment conglomerates need to get before they are one single conglomerate

I am humbly requesting that lawmakers in every Democratic-controlled state spend every waking hour between now and Christmas cooking up new congressional district maps that draw Republicans out of electoral existence

Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.

is there anything more 2025-coded than “white” being the pantone color of the year

There is a botulism outbreak from baby formula & the FDA director is busy posing shirtless to promote his friend’s expensive & nonmedical (& evidence baseless) device on social media. We figured out how to make food & drugs safe then let attention-seeking narcissists bring back preventable diseases!

"genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism" is such a word the number of times I've said I enjoyed something and IMMEDIATELY, like a starting pistol just went off, someone gallops in to do "too bad you are simply Not Smart Enough to have spotted this list of flaws"

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly

JUST IN: Mike Johnson plans to swear in Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps on Thursday — less than two days after he won the TN-07 special election. As a reminder, it took Johnson 50 days to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva.

I would rather live next to a Somali immigrant than a MAGA, and it ain't even close.

“‘You’re either on the team or you’re not,’ Hegseth told Holsey, according to notes from a participant. ‘When you get an order, you move out fast and don’t ask questions.’”

Hear me out: Aftyn Behn runs against him again next time. It used to be common to keep trying.

No.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

Anyone casually weighing in on this race needs to understand this.

To give you an idea of how ridiculous the gerrymandering in Nashville is, here’s our district. They diluted a third of Nashville into a rural area about 50 times as large that extends north to the Kentucky border and about a third of the length of the state to the east.

This right here. The Republican incumbent is the scandal-plagued Andy Ogles. His intruiging - and likely - Democratic opponent is Chaz Molder. #TN05 is currently under-the-radar, but it will end up being a barnburner.

This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)

When you ask how Germans became immune to the horrors of Nazism during the 30s, remember that this is now 2025 and this crap is being said in the greatest democracy on the planet.

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

Today's snowfall reminded me of this remarkable video of the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, seen by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS camera in 2016 and processed by @landru79.bsky.social. Except the "snow" here is actually dust particles... in front of a moving ocean of stars.