I was told foreign aid is bad

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Pritzker: "This is a person who thinks that his personal will should be imposed on the United States. That's not how it works."

The Supreme Court could say the president’s allegedly illegal actions must be put on hold while the Court reviews it. Instead, they repeatedly say Trump’s abuses must be allowed to go forward while in dispute. That’s entirely a choice. There’s no basis in law. Made the opposite call with Biden.

today i am challenging democratic politicians, for the rest of the week, to pick one (1) horrifying thing republicans are doing and pretend its as bad as jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended id suggest tom homan taking bribes, but theres a few things to pick from if they want

Rubio previews Trump's UN speech: "POTUS will point to his own history with the UN going back to his time as a developer. He actually offered to fix the UN building & instead they decided to go in a different direction, wasted a bunch of money ... it's emblematic of how feckless the UN has become"

Just ONCE I would like the opportunity to bring MY longevity protocols to massage robots

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

so much of the conversation around autism feels like it accepts that the elimination goal is worthwhile but that the method won't work but the whole thing is just gross

It's not wrong. And it's not right. It's a vote. As we know *gestures widely* voting doesn't always lead to the best outcome.

Bravo, @officialbha.bsky.social. Don’t be ashamed to ask for help. Check in on your quiet friends. Check in on your funny friends. youtu.be/atrtoMid9vE

this is heartbreaking reading the shit we make these people put up with and the square root of fuck all we give them and at no point will the BBC reflect on how their own reporting helped create the unbelievably hostile environment they have to endure

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

BREAKING: 11 West Africans deported by U.S. to Ghana were sent to their home countries despite safety concerns, their lawyer says.

James Fuck U Son more like

These agents should never know a moment’s peace. I think what is uniquely sadistic about them is how much fun they are having.

Best way to get re-elected as a government? Be a competent fucking government.

I agree with this – it has shock value, but isn’t that relevant to people in the UK. I understand why it’s the biggest story on Bluesky: this place pretty much selects for neurodivergence (complimentary)

It's so strange to me how the absolutely core question at the heart of politics - "what kind of society do we want to live in?" - is so absent from discussion, either assumed settled or reduced to meaningless generalities.

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

I’m glad Jimmy’s back. But Brendan Carr still needs to resign. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

waiting for pharma advocacy groups to defend their industry's interests

Co-opting the language of #MeToo to suggest we should indulge conspiracy theories or false beliefs imparted to families by people like RFK Jr, who has himself been accused of being a sexual predator, is nasty work.

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

And reason why is just because it seems to make good copy for them. There is no other effing reason for most journos to be doing this. You can see this every summer now, where it's clear that the silly season now gets filled with "being racist is OK, actually" coverage.

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, as the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships to minority students works to raise $1 billion to strengthen all 37 of its historically Black colleges and universities. https://cnn.it/3IzW9Jf

Just a reminder that, despite what these freaks would have you think, antivaxx is extremely unpopular and we need to attack them relentlessly for putting insane dipshittery over our health

A thing I like about Van Hollen is that he’s managed to really consistently and comprehensively criticize Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza *without* fucking it up in the seven billion ways in which people have fucked it up constantly

The flattening of political conflict into "people I like" vs "everybody else" elides that the far-right option ("authoritarian nihilism") is actually materially worse for a lot of people than neoliberalism

The whole administration in one quote

Important news. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

dudes rock

i sort of halfway believe RFK jr has been telling him he has a big bombshell for weeks and when he got into trump’s office this morning, trump was like, “what the fuck are you talking about, try something else” and this is what they came up with, which is why they started 30m late

I walked down to the celebration in front of the White House when Obergefell was decided and just sat in Lafayette Square looking at the rainbow lights for 2 hours. It’s probably the last time I felt like the world would become a better place than it was the day before.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

The leader of the Unification Church was arrested Tuesday in South Korea over allegations of bribery linked to a former first lady. The Unification Church was founded in 1954 by Han's late husband Moon Sun-myung and has long been the subject of controversy u.afp.com/SW3r

'i've never seen a 70yr old with autism' is the same logic that made vikings scream at an eclipse to keep the sun from being eaten by space wolves

Walk this way

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

exactly. this doesn't change law, or make it illegal, for example, to give your local antifa group a few bucks, but it still marksa big rhetorical escalation, & signals to law enforcement/vigilantes to go after whomever they suspect is "antifa"... & the MAGA defintion of "antifa" is... expansive

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

year of the hater, lionesses edition

i suspect when all of this is said and done and told, it’s going to end up being one of the biggest and most explosive cases of money laundering ever seen

my favorite step in the scientific method: gossip

An 11-year-old Michigan boy was expelled from school for a year after he took a gun away from a classmate, disarmed and disassembled it, according to his mother He’s now enrolled in a non-accredited online program as he tries to keep up

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Recognizing Palestinian statehood “is empty symbolism at best, and at worst, a distraction from a lack of action to stop Israel’s war in Gaza and the starvation and forced displacement of roughly two million Palestinians living there,” Mustafa Barghouti writes.