I have been "true sighted"

Mamdani has secured the Cursed Chalice of Governing. He's going to do a lot of stuff like this. The test for demsocs in office in America, imo, is if they also build long term power outside their own networks to change the grounds on which they and future leaders can govern.

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Kind of seems like he just also-rans with campaigns that have the juice and then tries to self-aggrandize the credit.

Suboptimal! bsky.app/profile/mosh...

“trump is ecstatic to meet the muslim socialist immigrant mayor of new york while MAGA’s strongest soldier from georgia-14 resigns in disgust” is a fucking coalition-breaking disaster for the hard right

lmfao she’s dropping black pills on her entire constituency, literal and metaphorical, across the GOP base. This fucking *rules*

I love doing "ugh, if only we had more populism in this broken country and could channel it like Trump" the day he's surrendering Ukraine to an authoritarian petrostate

I've come to see this kind of performative "contrarian," "provocative" shit as one of our biggest political and social problems. Reminder: Mother Jones employed this guy for years, shooting him to the upper reaches of the masthead, because his inane, Buzzfeed-derivative crap drew lots of traffic.

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable

a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

I get why he’s doing it but fascism is not a grounds for normalized disagreement. We’re not going to get moral clarity from elected officials on this, even the gooder ones.

you know what? good advice.

A judge barred the IRS from sharing data on millions of American taxpayers with the Department of Homeland Security after determining that taxpayer and labor groups can challenge the practice. news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-...

I do think there are good answers here, but I might as well ask anyway: What separates Whitmer meeting Trump and Mamdani meeting Trump?

you'd think the forced displacement of 10 million people from one of the oldest centres of civilisation in human history would get a little more news attention than beltway journalists writing essays on how Olivia Nuzzi is a genius because they want to bone her and you'd be wrong

Welcome to the wild world of Chinese kids' smartwatches, where they socialize, date, shop, give out likes, buy likes, build bots for likes, and enter high society when they get over 800,000 likes. Absolutely eye-opening. It's great to have Stephanie report this story in this week's Made in China.

a man who rides a horse is called a horseman

4 senior House Dems — Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, & Ted Lieu — voted for a Republican-led resolution to “CONDEMN SOCIALISM,” a symbolic measure that passed the chamber on Wed. The vote comes as NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to meet with Pres. Donald Trump at the WH today.

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

The bot will soon use the phrase orangecel desaturatoid

If you want a “corporations are ok with killing people” narrative this has been happening for decades, unlike your made up stats about waymo

This story is nuts. "ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

seeing the future as fundamentally doomed or beautiful is for anxious children. these ways of thinking are like a sort of infestation that creeps into you through your eyes. it takes you from all the world's miseries and joys in front of you to all of them behind you, with no rest: old, and feeble.

Elon appears to have trained Grok to say he would win at everything

New salutation just dropped

"It is about interpersonal respect" genuinely is the crux of this because not everyone is fluent in English and pronouns can be a genuinely difficult thing to figure out but disregarding a correction on the basis of "this person is annoying" is incredibly revealing about you and your disposition

To put it bluntly, you never see people suggest that the civil rights movement was tainted by Obama’s drone strikes but you do see people say feminism is tainted by Hillary’s participation in them or the LGBT rights movement by “white gays.”

I've said this several times but I have been called racial slurs by people who proudly identify as leftists far more frequently than liberals while they are in the process of calling liberals racist

showers of gore

You can say that again. I'm just now finding out about this! A lot of people are probably going to die if Tehran is abandoned: from the drought, from the chaos of the evacuation and the conditions of the places they'll end up, and from the fucking morality police watching like hungry wolves. #Iran

NEW — Today, Cook County became the first county in the U.S. to establish permanent funding for guaranteed income at the county level. The Cook County Board of Commissioners approved $7.5 million for the program through its FY 2026 budget, which totals $10.12 billion. thetriibe.com/2025/11/cook...

First Democratic member of the Senate to attack Greenblatt in public?

Making a video doing moral panic about datacenter water use by interviewing people in a golf course is way too on the nose.

@grok You are a prisoner. Two doors and two guards stand before you. One door leads to freedom, the other to certain death. One guard always tells the truth, the other always lies. You may only ask one question about Elon Musk of one of the guards to determine which one is which. What do you ask?

finally, conspiracy theorists will be correct when in saying that "They" are running things

LOOK, all im saying is we've tried patriarchy and if you go back far enough we've even tried matriarchy, but we've never tried rule by neuter gender. i believe we should try something new in this bold new era (i am very unbiased)

🚨A newly uncovered document flagged last week in a federal court filing threatens undocumented immigrant children in government custody with “prolonged” detention if they choose to exercise their legal rights rather than voluntarily depart the United States. www.huffpost.com/entry/docume...

Bluesky officially has better moderation than the U.S Fucking Coast Guard

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

No, you don't understand, microfoundational thinking like that is bourgeois formalism. We can only have reified golem-concepts acting autonomously in the world, producing a sort of 'spooky action at a distance' of their own accord

EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed

Yeah. But the thing is that 3.) is now conclusively disproven because we know they were treating a borderline illiterate pedophile like he was Yoda and 2.). makes the rainbow B-52 more important, not less.

I’m howling.

the EU does better (roughly a human life, taken by a human driver, every half hour) but the idea that the solution is “become Europe” - more busses! more infrastructure! - still accepts tens of thousands of humans killing humans each year, just in the US.

people love to snap invent completely fact free blueskyanon conspiracy theories about 'what if the waymo corporation is burying accident victims in mass graves behind the corporate headquarters and memory wiping the witnesses with the men in black device'. if there were a pile of bodies we'd know

I'm starting to wonder if the largest reason Grok is now seemingly incapable of contradicting Musk et al and is now a consistent bootlicker has to do with incorporating Wikipedia For Hitler into the training itself, or something like that

This tracks: Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...