Boy, did I read that wrong.

Less a security perimeter question and more a "don't be falling asleep on post because you're still drunk from the night before" sort of thing

FBI and SSA bout to get this briefing

i can’t know how to hear any more about ballrooms

I tell ya, I haven’t been this disappointed in a dinner since the week my wife tried cooking

I don't talk about this online a lot; I survived a mass shooting just over a decade ago. Importantly, it didn't take place at a gleefully-attended gala dedicated to to huffing my own farts while cozying up to a fascist government hell-bent on eliminating dissent at all costs. Spare me, Clara.

It's time once again for Bluesky's favorite game, Try Not To Have A Visit From the FBI Tomorrow!

Me ten minutes after I've had a tantrum about splitting the béarnaise

Luke Russert on MSNOW saying that when the shots were fired he ran down the middle of the aisle in the room, right towards the president, thinking it would be safest near him. Yeah, man, I'm not sure you've really game planned how "rushing the president during a shooting" might end for you

I don’t think I can take another news cycle of Democrats solemnly tutting about how violence is never the answer while Republicans promise to put their political enemies and whatever immigrants they can find in a wood chipper

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

Oh boy, the most irritating people in journalism are about to write some very irritating pieces about their experience tonight

Whatever just happened at the WHCD is going to generate a million conspiracy theories. Many of them will based on incorrect reports from the first moments. Good time to log off, enjoy your Saturday, and wait for some actual reporting.

There are people posing for photos at the White House correspondents dinner. Take down their names. www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

While MACC renovation is aesthetically nice, fencing off outdoor areas from the general public and blocking thru access from the Town Lake trail is fundamentally antithetical to its mission as a cultural centre and sends a hostile, exclusionary message. In this essay, I will…

Dads are no longer trying to get a cross breeze going …and why that matters for the midterms

Let’s just have a look at the library’s book sale,,,,,,, oh no

I for one will never, ever forget how quickly and easily American institutions and businesses embraced fascism when this loser took power

This word combination makes me feel like I'm on drugs

tappers

Palantir is in open insurrection against the US Constitution and the citizens of this country. Nationalize it, dismantle it, try every single employee for conspiracy.

Sitting normal

But you'll never get articles about how the Republican Party needs to move to the left and adopt more mainstream positions on transgender issues because that isn't something that animates the dozen or so individuals setting the agenda the way the reverse does.

I like how you can see the fog of war like it's Diablo or something.

Room full of people reciting the cromulent fuckcrustable tweet in unison like they’re at mass

There's is irreconcilable tension between "We are the paper of record" and "TMZ is literally doing journalism better than we are"

Certified Bluesky Moment™ It is not a bit.

I forgot about this, this is a good post

I think ultimately people On Here need to learn to dislike people a normal amount. There's a substantial difference between thinking someone is a tool or even telling them they're being a dweeb versus reacting to a post with "We should pour cement down their throat"

I mostly don't write original posts about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, specifically, and Palestine more broadly because there's really nothing substantive I can add; it feels far more appropriate to repost things others say who are far more qualified than me. Maybe that's wrongheaded, I don't know.

Can we normalize decorative gourd futures?

after scott adams died nobody took over trimming dilbert's tie and it grew right up through the soft palate into his brain

We need a total and complete shutdown of the Fifth Circuit until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on

Acknowledging the stark, ugly truth that the Republicans basically had no good reason to do what they have done for the last 11 years and have lapsed into vast collective psychosis over totally immaterial and utterly depraved delusions is terrifying, and as such most commentators simply do not do it

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

virginians, if you planned to vote in today’s election & have not already: don’t forget we have same day, in person registration AND if you’re 17 but will turn 18 before nov 3, you can register and vote today. (post from the charlottesville office of voter registration & elections)

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...

Just so everyone is aware, as a promotion in 1984, Wendy's produced terrifying, photorealistic carboard masks of Clara Peller, aka the "Where's the Beef?" lady

The Texas Observer is ten times better and infinitely less evil than the Atlantic. Reading it is universally beneficial and if you subscribe you’re helping sustain real progressive independent journalism in Texas

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

If you give your toddler a toy xylophone to play with at the airport you should be denied boarding

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know?

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

BLOOB FOR THE BLOOB GOD!

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant