at a baseline, the elevator in a public transit station should not smell like urine. you should not have to "put up" with that.

Oh don't worry. Scotland's largest city would be annihilated in a nuclear war regardless of if any nuclear weapons were anywhere near it.

A dollop of education in the history of political thought is helpful here. A republic is, among other things, a regime that has banished arbitrary rule from its politics. As I look around me here in the United States in the year of our lord two thousand & twenty six, I observe much arbitrary rule

We have been cognitively offloading thinking/work for a long time. It’s very human. This frees up the only commodity we can’t control, time, to do more interesting things.

Thank you Commissioner Ahmed Tigani. U Da’ Best.

Champlain Hudson Power Express was first announced in 2008. Power finally flowed June of 2026 and now has stopped because of a fault the line so it won’t start till August again. 18 years to do something. Insane.

Was just thinking of all the fields and careers that are reflexively uncool, forbidden and not allowed in the left/liberals world. Abdication decides who rules, not whether. Sadly we don’t get a veto over rooms we walked out of is a lesson we can never seem to learn.

Upstate NY has a genuinely good siting case. Cheap firm carbon-free hydro at Niagara and Massena, cold climate cutting cooling load, existing nuclear, and transmission that’s underused because the industrial base that justified it left in 1975.

Putin could announce mobilization as early as September involving potentially over 1 million people, Ukrainian military intelligence says.

Mitt Romney voted in alignment with Donald Trump’s legislative positions 75% of the time over his Senate career. After his impeachment conviction vote that only dropped to 65%.

Trump was illegally withholding aid to Ukraine with the whole purpose being to get another country to influence the 2020 election by declaring an investigation into his opponent.

Data centers are provoking public outrage. But what do they actually do – and what do they represent? @andymasley.bsky.social joins Jon Bateman to separate data center myths from facts on The World Unpacked: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6t...

Today, we honor Rep. John Lewis, whose lifelong fight for voting rights transformed democracy in America. In the face of the Supreme Court’s erosion of the Voting Rights Act, we remain committed to protecting the freedom to vote.

Glastonbury Tor this morning shortly after sunrise. The grass is looking very dry at the moment.

they. don't. have. the. dudes. "with all the power at his disposal" his self selected goon squad has been unable to pacify one medium US city at a time while the ARNG has demonstrated their goals are: - per diem - T32 bennies - stave off boredom - 8 million other things - avoid cops crossfire

He also broke into a woman’s house and raped her Rebecca

Rebecca Traister is using the death of an innocent man at the hands of ICE agents to argue that a Nazi rapist shouldn't have been forced to drop out of a Democratic Senate primary. The depravity in these people's hearts knows no bounds, and neither should your contempt for them.

“…working class aesthetics that have so offended Platner’s detractors” Fellas, is it working class when you’re a lying fuckboi

Aerial photo of Super Nintendo World at night.

Micron said on its earnings called the shortages MAY not end till 2028!

Dang, 220 million voter files stolen by China starting in 2020? Who was president back then, it sounds like he must have sucked ass

Again:

Yes, again, they're not allowed to "do this" (in this case, refuse to cede power & seat duly-elected Democratic Senators/Reps). And once again, I ask, "Who is going to stop JD Vance & Mike Johnson when they try and do this?" The same thing is true of all the other things they're not allowed to do:

Once again, I ask - w/o being overly alarmist & recognizing that these most extreme scenarios still remain low probability events - what anyone has seen since Jan 2025 to make them believe the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & democratic by any normal standard: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

It has been interesting to see just how many people on here aren’t only willing to accept things as true based on flimsy evidence, but also how many are willing to do so based on nothing but the hearsay of flimsy evidence. It actually helps explain a lot about misinformation spread on the left.

Its disappointing NYC government screwed over a local by not going with Oonee and Shabazz Stuart.

you know its odd to me that we beat Trump in 2020, and literally NO ONE! wants to look at how that worked, what Biden ran on, the messaging that cut through to voters (and indeed Hillary got more votes, but never mention her eh?)

This, to me, is the essence of Bluesky.

I have seen many people complain about the “consultant class” and few investigative journalists spend real time digging into the personal fortunes of people like Morris Katz, Rebecca Katz, etc.

The proper question for Fight from the Platner campaign and their filings that a journalist should ask: why don't you show up anywhere in the filings? Who pays you? Is it through your buyers? through helix?

a big part of how Platner won was bombarding Maine with Presidential swing state levels of on-line advertising, with an insane burn rate its illogical and wild, but for people who either A) want to steal campaign cash or B) see beating norm Dems as the only goal, this is fine...

oh boy I look forward to watching the Bernie bro's racism being kicked into hyperdrive, they HATE Clyburn but of course this is a great endorsement and he's 100% right. and I'm glad national Democrats are stepping up (this time) to stop a disaster

Keir Starmer's official spokesperson: "The World Cup might not be ours but the Falkland Islands definitely are” Asked who the PM would be supporting in the final, the spokesperson said: “The PM wishes both teams well for the final, especially Spain.”

Time to make sure Greece never gets another financial bailout ever again. Which to date is about €288.7 billion total disbursed, which almost $331 billion in USD.

This, to me, is Bluesky.

A remote-controlled anti-drone weapon station, camera and optics on top, sitting in a Ukrainian wheat field. No crew standing next to it. Ukraine keeps pushing static air-defense points toward remote operation, since a manned position is now itself a target. Pretty cool!

In 1990 I could get blind drunk in the evening and still feel great the next morning. I don’t know what happened to the alcohol since then. I bet foreigners changed it somehow.

KulakAnnhilator420: it's actually extremely problematic for you to assume that rural farm owners don't have revolutionary potential. this is the problem with liberals.

okay. fine. you got me. the current job market is not literally the *worst* one ever

This is what happens when England voluntarily gave up the Avro Vulcan in 1984. Typical English self own.

Apple $AAPL jumps to a new all-time high and is now within striking distance of becoming the 2nd company to be valued at $5 Trillion 📈 🤑 🥳

It’s so Anglover.

Heart of knotty pine are there ships, heart of knotty pine are there men; The English always are losing, lost, boys, losing! They’ll fight and England ’ll lose again and again.

It’s true. This is unacceptable. “NYC’s $6 billion power line from Canada likely down rest of July”

I'm deadly serious about this by the way. Behind every raving screed about how the Jews are stealing this election or that election away from the latest crank candidate is a wink to their audience of.. "And SOMEONE ought to DO SOMETHING about that!"

That's what they're hoping for. It's not just dipping into antisemitism to win over antisemites, it's because they want someone to assassinate their opponents.

We really can’t continue like this. Someone is going to get hurt.

Oh fuck right off with this shit Canada.