What could go wrong?

At this point, I think that there's no longer any coherence (not that there was ever much in the first place) behind Trump's tariff policy. This is a power move. He's doing it because he's "the boss" and he can.

Someday everyone will have been against this.

"Because it is Lisa" and "because I want her out of the homelessness business." That's what Deputy Mayor Tiffany Washington said when asked why she denied a request by Purpose Dignity Action, headed by Lisa Daugaard, to open a shelter in North Seattle. www.propublica.org/article/seat...

As an American intellectual, Baldwin is quite underrated.

I keep seeing people dooming with "they're not acting like people who ever think they'll be out of power" and I keep thinking maybe, but they're also acting like they're terrified of what will happen to them when they do lose power.

Darleane Hoffman, a trailblazing nuclear chemist who was hailed by Discover magazine as one of the 50 most important women in science and whose research confirmed the existence of several elusive superheavy radioactive elements, died last month. She was 98.

Honestly, no matter who wins Mariners vs. Tigers, I think they're going to get absolutely smoked by the Jays.

Curtis Yarvin is a joke. What's most laughable about his claims that anarchists somehow have inexhaustible resources at their disposal is that Yarvin would be a nobody without the support of very rich men who liked what he had to say.

Thugs and cowards. ICE is a Trumpist paramilitary force. Nothing more, nothing less.

Agreed, and I think that this is due in significant part to the media environment that Americans are in, e.g., social media sources that silo information, right-wing propaganda, and MSM outlets that soft-pedal what's happening.

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

Some of us work in the private sector and do not receive health insurance through our jobs. Some of us have also worked in the private sector and have been on Medicaid.

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Charles Barber rolls in his grave.

Opinion | While the Democrat Party tries to force their warmed-over economic policies on America, Argentina is showing the way forward with a right-wing libertarian approach. Here's why we need to give them $20 billion to bail out their economy.

"Dude, I don't think we're in the right color".

Andrews is a complete joke. She plays the part of an intellectual, but it's completely phony. She's a far-right hack with no insight.

Gift link bc McMillan Cottom is always worth reading.

If you’re noticing a parallel between the way people in the administration are demeaning most Americans and the way your boss is now treating you, you are in very good company. (Tyranny in government begets tyranny at work begets tyranny in the home.)

Well, now I know what news media outlet *not* to trust.

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

Things have grown so dire in Portland, Oregon that residents may soon face a shortage of artisanal baked goods, almond milk rose petal beetroot lattes, and cold brew mushroom tonic.

Exactly this.

This is what Trump was trying to provoke on 1/6/21 and it's what he's trying to provoke in Portland now.

Agreed, but the Republicans won't nuke the filibuster because they know that in the long term, they beneft from it far more than the Democrats do.

In retrospect, changing reliable and pretty cheap wires for shitty, unreliable wireless and Bluetooth was kind of the technology endgame for everything.

In my experience, the people who do this kind of thing tend to be those who are most able to ride out the consequences of tyranny. They say "noting matters" because they can *afford* to say it.

Who controls the (pumpkin) spice controls the universe.

Every so often I sit quietly, look out a window, and think to myself -- as so many people who remember the 1980s must -- how surreal it is that the American democratic experiment was ultimately undone by *that* guy

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Hm. Sounds like socialism to me.

I wish.

After the Mariners triumphantly broke a 24-year AL West division title drought Wednesday night, Seattle M’s fans confessed they’re still highly skeptical that they have a chance at being AL West champions this year.

Swisher was calling Musk a "visionary" as recently as 2022. She "broke" with him after he insulted her personally, but his awfulness was already there to see.

I do.

Vought and the rest of the Project 2025ers miscalcuated. They thought Trump would suffice until someone more competent could consolidate their program. But Trump doesn't have the ability to pull it off, and he's getting worse. This could really blow up in their faces.

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This. And miss me with that "reverse American exceptionalism" nonsense. That's the viewpoint of like two dozen people.

"He says what he thinks!"

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

Exactly the kind of account that Bluesky needs.

Can't grow up in a Polish-American household without it.

Matthew 7:22-23: "On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you who behave lawlessly.’"

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

I remember some kind of prohibition on worshipping graven images. I'm pretty sure about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

So I screwed up my old Bluesky account (don't ask) and now I'm starting over on this one.