Even if reading is performative—good! Show people you read books! The world needs some goddamn virtue signaling.

“I want to hear what everybody is saying regardless of where they fall on the ideological spectrum.” Okay. There’s your problem. You can research antidemocratic, eugenicist, fascist ideology but you don’t need to “listen.” It’s poison. Always has been.

Just gonna get an entire summer of Trump impotently demanding Iran give him things that we got in the JCPOA and getting turned down

“Oh I don’t need a lunch, I’ll just have a smoothie” Young man. Have your smoothie for an HOUR and have it somewhere other than at your desk You are legally entitled to your hour break and you are required to have an hour break

Every accusation they make always ends up being a confession

I think it’s cool that, unlike Claudine Gay, Monica Crowley actually plagiarized swaths of her Columbia dissertation, but because she’s white and a Republican she faced no consequences and has only thrived in GOP politics. Sort of gives away the game on that stuff, no?

U.S. news media is incapable of calling a lying racist fascist any of those things if the person in question holds power or influence.

There are numerous great and correct counterarguments to people saying “this is no big deal they’re not really doing anything,” but to just pick one, Trump’s completely unnecessary show of force and intimidation tactic already got one soldier killed Surely, that life mattered to him? (Rhetorical)

TFW the example you use as a nightmare case of bad application of language technology has actually been implement (and in the works since 2019) in your own city. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

More than half of Americans say they can't afford healthcare. For the 1st time the majority of Americans told Gallup healthcare has become unaffordable to them. Over the last year 3 million more people fell into being unable to afford access to quality care or pay for visits and prescriptions.

the only reason we are forced to work in the office instead of from home is that our bosses derive sick pleasure from lording it over us, and this is now supported by evidence www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

In some ways, the biggest failure of leadership has been a failure to understand or learn. Many of the reasons this govt is unpopular were avoidable or at least mitigatable, but realism constantly lost out among Starmer and his team to an outdated and ideological understanding of Labour voters.

I work about 20 minutes from the fire and the air was so bad today it was scary.

Many many uniquely infuriating things about this war but high high among the list is that — no actual exaggeration — there was no mission. Donald Trump and his top to bottom degenerate criminal administration started this bloodbath without agreeing what the mission was Objectively monumentally…

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

It wasn’t news to Iran. Just to many Americans.

I would say happy father's day to Batman but not to Professor Charles Xavier.

“Trump is using the presidency not so much to govern, but to attempt to erase the contributions of Black Americans, all in an attempt to feed his narcissistic pathologies.”

DC Statehood was a moral and political necessity before Trump II but Trump II has aptly demonstrated that not immediately remedying this over the objections of Republicans is a moral and political failing.

funny how that works

EXCLUSIVE: Pulled together, details across four UFC plot affidavits portray a Christian extremist movement. But I tracked how law enforcement's explicit references to Christianity and religion vanished by the time top officials addressed the scheme. And how badly they're missing the target.

There are lots of phrases to describe stealing 20% of cargo that passes through waters you control by force. "Guardian angel" is not one of them.

It’s objectively good to seek peace instead of waging war, but these negotiations have two separate sets of spoilers who are not at the table: the Israeli government, and the US president, who functions separately from his representatives, running in his own realm of impulsive and erratic choices

There are people in DC who have been pushing for an Iran war as long as I can remember and it is important to note they are psychos and idiots

I’m not too embarrassed that we are losing to Iran. It’s a big boy country with missiles and drones and so forth ran by stone cold killers. That’s NFL ball for you. I am a little embarrassed we are also losing to algae.

Yeah it's downright hilarious on one level but it's also sinister as fuck on another

I'm sorry, but we've passed the point of GreenwaterGate being some cutesy ridiculous story. It sure seems like the WH sent cops to find people to arrest/detain because Trump can't accept that his contractor messed us, decided to blame "liberal scum," and his troops were ordered to find "suspects"

If a billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, a trillionaire is the equivalent of a rogue state, and other nations should work together to constrain it in the same way.

The media is abnormalizing Mamdani as pathologically as they normalize Trump

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Mega Man!

The police didn't see the need to tase this guy and repeatedly kick him in the head, and the media haven't seen the need to make this racially motivated axe and knife attack the top story on all channels with immediate calls for the government to do something about Islamophobia. How odd.

Periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution

I just pulled a list of all 59 references to Unindicted Co-Conspirators in the MN Antifa indictment (most or all now linked). The last two discuss coordinating w/Delaney Hall protestors. I would assume DOJ is working on a similar indictment there. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

For those going “New Jersey?!” Yes. Slavery happened in the north too. Most passed gradual emancipation laws post-Revolution. NJ’s was so gradual there were still enslaved people in 1865. Lincoln’s proclamation only applied to the South. The last people to be freed were in NJ, Delaware + Kentucky.

Step 1: Brag that Trump was fixing something Obama screwed up Step 2: Pursue most corrupt solution possible Step 3: As a result, badly fuck up Step 4: Loudly squeal that someone else sabotaged you, so as to dodge blame Whether it's the reflecting pool or Iran, Trump's con is the same.

“The majority of the actions attributed to individuals involved in the alleged conspiracy are routine organizing activities, such as moderating a meeting, sharing a fundraising link, or posting to social media. Many, many times, the action is merely ‘sent a message’ a Signal group …”

They want to give Todd Blanche a promotion for this

These crooks are full of shit

As far as I know the thing that makes Obama bear the entire blame for republicans doing every bad thing they do is that he portrayed Mitt Romney as “rich” and “out of touch with normal people”, like I think that’s their literal belief as to how he was mistreated

lmao poor yorick. they got his ass

If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©

I dunno, none of those guys lost to Iran

Grok is key to national security, the White House is arguing—so xAI shouldn't need permits to pollute.

I hate shorter TV seasons for many reasons, but a big one is: Industry unions, with difficulty, for a while secured for their members a decent standard of living. This coincided with a lot of your favorite shows getting made. Oligarchs broke that machine and I'll never not be salty about it.

Mom said it’s my turn to chastise the fandom

"Weeks after they met with Trump, he was still regaling associates with stories of how Zuckerberg and Bezos were 'kissing my ass' ... 'You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys. I've got to show you,' Trump is quoted as telling some guests."

That Trump Touch does it again.