Pickens is putting on a clinic. #DallasCowboys

No one is better at explaining things than @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. Wishing you all a wonderful and MEANINGFUL Juneteenth! 🖤

Did Trump just not find the time to declare Juneteenth NOT a federal holiday, or…?

This crisis in Iran is entirely because of Trump's shitty leadership. They stopped installing centrifuges until Trump ripped up the deal Iran made with President Obama—simply out of spite. Now he's barreling toward another poorly planned conflict in the Middle East. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Journalists should report the truth the way this judge laid it out.

Democrat Lawmakers… Start going into the offices of EVERY GOVERNMENT AGENCY… DEMAND TO MEET WITH ANY REPRESENTATIVES FROM DOGE IN THOSE OFFICES. DEMAND THEY IDENTIFY THEMSELVES. PUBLISH THEIR NAMES. IF THEY REFUSE TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES, POST THEIR PICTURE AND WE’LL IDENTIFY THEM.

In the U.S., one can use traditional Catsup and the invented word Ketchup interchangeably. You can thank marketing (and Heinz, specifically). In the U.S., one can use the name Donald Trump and the title President interchangeably. You can thank an oligarchical system (and Elon Musk, specifically).

Happy 12+12=24 day

Bluesky I need your help - this raccoon needs a name. Perhaps something to do with chonkiness?

Everything is bigger in Texas.

Go follow OTM and Brooke Gladstone for some of the smartest, most nuanced, and useful analysis we will need in the coming years.

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Reskeet if you want to see trans people grow old and live full and rewarding lives

This very well written piece will make you think, make you sad, make you angry all at once.

Maybe states having this much power over medical rights is not a great idea?

okay Richard Scarry I see you

“Devastated Tuohys”? AP doesn’t care how Michael Oher feels, apparently.

it’s going to be embarrassing as shit when some other country decides to take decisive action on twitter’s major legal and ethical breaches before the united states government does

Donations needed. MoveOn is going to run an ad that will make TFG spit out his Diet Coke.

“Still punk as fuck”, I whisper as I eat dinner at 4pm, cause I’ll be asleep by 9.

“I've been working here Monday, it'll be a year And I can't recall a day when I didn't wanna disappear” -Jason Isbell, the most underrated storyteller songwriter of his generation.

Honey? Where did you put my teeny tiny violin? I want to play it for Elon.

If anyone is curious, here is the research published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate referred to by X Corp https://counterhate.com/research/twitter-fails-to-act-on-twitter-blue-accounts-tweeting-hate/

We need a new voting rights act.

If you don’t watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, you may not know about Austin home-town heroes of local cinematic commercials, Radiant Plumbing.

B.S. 1) It is impossible to pull one’s self up by one’s own bootstraps 2) We did everything we could to ensure formerly-enslaved people possessed nothing, including boots. 3) When talented freedmen became politically dangerous to entrenched whites, we incarcerated them and leased them as “laborers”

I just ate some furry blueberries. Am I going to die?

Interesting idea. Construction might be more complicated than other ground-mount installations.

Might be past time to recognize that there’s an international authoritarian movement and that all these close calls in elections will turn into disastrous, tragic losses unless people start addressing the underlying conditions that got us here.

Say what you will about the politics of The Andy Griffith Show, but the theme song was a banger.

Austin, ain’t this some bullshit here?

More of this, please.

This is criminal.

Once Bluesky allows open signups, we'll see a massive horde of nazis and antiblack reply trolls descending on this app. I see very little in terms of readiness and attitudes of the Bluesky staff, the technology, or the tooling made available to users or instance admins for this scale of onslaught.

I think we should listen to @elienyc.bsky.social about a higher standard in practice, in the law and online through community and site management action. He is right - the law is not settled and we are not done with the fight.

“An unarmed black man is roughly SEVEN times more likely to be killed by police than a white man.” But… we are in a post-racial society, and we’ve erased bias, right?

If we can’t find the political power to pay teachers enough, subsidizing home ownership is a start. It can’t be the end. Educators perform perhaps the most under-valued work in the US.

I just want a site for all my marginalized and harassed friends to feel safe. BlueSky seems to be the best hope, so far. I know trust, safety, and all the work required to fulfill those promises is hard work. BlueSky should invest more in this (relative to stability and features) than other sites.

Summary: SCOTUS has accepted the position that money is speech… that you cannot limit money for the sake of equalizing speech… so the voices of small donors can never be equivalent to large donors. (Oh, and SCOTUS is for sale).

The trend in anti-science agenda of governments and politicians is troubling.

Shocking but somehow not surprising.

How has he not deleted this tweet?

Am I the only one that hadn’t heard of this trend in dating sites? unvaccindated.com promises “Pure Blood. Pure Love.” WTAF?

Meanwhile, over on Spoutible DMs… What do you think he wants to discuss?

Just got a VIP gift card to Pip’s from the boss.

Some people genuinely struggle to comprehend just how horrifying qualified immunity is in practice. People want to believe it's about split-second, lives-at-stake, no-good-options decisions by police officers. Their minds refuse to believe the kind of facts routinely blessed by district courts.