Trump admits what we knew all along - the shutdown is happening because they want to repeal Obamacare by choking off funding for it. Project 2025.

The President of the United States is lying and/or delusional, and it seems like we should be talking about this and nothing else.

really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt

But seriously, how dedicated to being a total douchebag to you have to be to still be driving a Cybertruck at this point?

This is a GREAT graphic. I'm going to add to it this one from @johnnorcross.bsky.social, which visualizes the text below.

New Apostolic Reformation in action = huge mansions, slavery, & godly rape. "Armor bearers were Taylor’s personal servants who fulfilled Taylor’s demands [...] Taylor and Brannon did not permit them to leave without permission. [...] women transported to Taylor took Plan B emergency contraceptives."

Also the point of “never forget” stuff is definitely not “make sure to police the particulars of people who recognize something very dangerous is happening”

Here’s an idea for a reporter: Gather some retired cops or MPs together and show them how ICE handles hecklers and protesters. I guarantee you’ll get some amazing copy. Especially if your outlet lets you reprint profanity.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

The Conservative Men Who Are Scared of Cities have escalated to gassing civilians for being rude to them.

this is possibly the best description of this i've heard yet.

Weird stuff happens all the time but I do have to say I’m pretty skeptical that federal agents were “rammed by 10 cars” and somehow none of them were injured? If that’s true, surely it wouldn’t be too hard to track down 10 busted vehicles?

it is interesting to me how the MAGA right has a balkanized view of the United States that does not, at all, correspond with the reality of the United States

“Our opsec is clean”

I'll tell you what trans people did to me - they've been great friends and I've learned a lot from them No problem in my life has been caused by anyone's gender expression

and now my feed keeps trying to get me to use meta ai video creation tools and blocking it didn't seem to work the first five times (but now that I want to screencap it it's gone of course) i fucking hate it all!!!!!

Between the dumb tariffs and the dumber server farms, they're devastating the farms of heartland America, poisoning its water, and driving its electricity rates into the stratosphere.

Signalgate 2.0, this time not about plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen, but sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland, Oregon

The MAGA complaint with Biden is that he used an autopen to sign things, which makes sense because the *only* part of the job that Trump apparently can still handle is scrawling his stupid Sharpie signature across government documents

The number of responses like this today is a reminder to say THEY'RE CHIPPING AWAY AT YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS, TOO, YOU FUCKING DUMBASSES. Books being unavailable to kids in schools DIRECTLY IMPACTS YOU THROUGH JUDGMENTS LIKE THIS. bookriot.com/the-average-...

There are banned books all the fuck over. You're being a dolt on purpose. You don't want to acknowledge it because it's easier for you to spew the party line about "they're available elsewhere." That's privilege you've got, and it's absolutely choosing to ignore the reality. GTFOH, liar.

man if only @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social could tell me who the hell this guy is

What is the average age of the most banned books in America? It's 22. The most banned books in America are not new books. Why are they suddenly a problem now? We know. We all know. That, plus an *extensive* roundup of book censorship news this week. bookriot.com/the-average-...

If the Democrats don’t cave on the government shutdown, Trump will fire lots of federal workers (which is also exactly what Trump did when the government was open)

He WHAT from WHERE

I’m not religious at all and this offends the shit out of me

Lots of people seem to be reading this to refer to the exhaustively reported on department emails to employees. But I am reading this to mean individual employees are told their personal away messages should blame Democrats. And that seems worse!

The entirety of this administration can be summed up by a show I was on for NatGeo Explorer in 2016 where Gavin McInnes tried to peddle his brand of alt-right bullshit, and I told him flat out “if you believe in rule of the strong, throw your coffee mug at me and see what happens” He declined.

Oh nothing just the president reposting “Qanon76”

Who would have ever thought that trying to pander to bullies gets you nothing in return

I remember all the “Kimmel is the turning point” nonsense and know that rhetoric wouldn’t last. I hope I’m wrong and folks give a shit about the right to read—and about the first amendment being stolen from young people especially.

Open your fucking eyes. You’re just parading your privilege and ability to ignore the world around you. Also there are FIVE YEARS OF NEWS about this. You are nothing but nakedly ignorant by your own decision.

can't believe @kevinmkruse.bsky.social shut down the government! 😡

Great column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

the dictionary's social media team is so cool

It's probably because libraries have been targeted nonstop now for 5 years, including several long-running series of bomb threats at them in many states.

yeah i feel like maybe something happened in 1968?

chickenshit motherfucker

Bin-go

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

Please remember this in the days going forward: Everything going forward could have been avoided if Republican Congress members simply did their job and obeyed their oath to the Constitution. It’s that simple. They abandoned the country. They can say what they want, but that’s what happened.

Democrats "blocked" this bill by ... not voting for it. No dirty tricks or sneaky moves, they just didn't vote for a GOP bill. It needed 60 votes to pass, 53 Reps and 2 Dems voted for it. That, according to the broken Washington Post, means Democrats Are To Blame even though the GOP runs it all.

oh i'll play! ancient domains of mystery* chrono trigger super mario world x-wing alliance star wars kotor pokémon heartgold/soulsilver mass effect trilogy gta v ftl: faster than light slay the spire nba 2kXX red dead redemption 2 you can make an argument for RDR2, ME, kotor, and chrono as art

Every ranking military official in attendance today should stay in their positions. Force Trump, Miller and Kegseth to "purge" them. Make it public. Each episode will be a disaster and rile up veterans and the majority.

I'm choosing to live in a world where every single officer who was at this meeting gets back to their base and immediately starts drawing up contingency plans for how to push back when Trump orders Civil War 2 to begin.

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

paragon interrupts bout to be like "destroy the oppressed rebel scum"

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!