The biggest thing? I mean, I agree policy-wise but if you think the best impact of that policy is helping rich kids then you can fuck all the way off, what the actual fuck I'm sure I'm doing a louvre of bluesky thing ignore me if so but idc this just rubbed me wrong

this is far too common to be dismissed as anecdota tbh. the sheer number of clubs and social groups that couldn't survive remote, or stayed permanently remote, had a huge impact on the social lives of like 100 million americans bsky.app/profile/adis...

if I don't die from throwing up, gonna kms after I'm done throwing up

me when I put my deranged thoughts on your timeline: submit to the artist's vision

wtf

i hate u (this tweet is not political)

evil is real, I am always saying this

I did a general QT of this, but I also feel compelled to add at least one detail When Obama was elected, Republicans roughly immediately began mass hallucinating that he was gonna use the military on them, which most famously manifested as the Jade Helm conspiracy, but was present from the get-go

One thing I take small pleasure in is knowing that at least in the short to medium term it will be recorded that Target's abandonment of DEI roughly immediately and somewhat convincingly mortally wounded it Stay woke or go broke bitch

Holy Hell Suppose that for whatever reason, up to this point you hadn't seen sufficient evidence to ignore everything Noah Smith says forever Surely this alone would be conclusive proof

many are saying 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄

Me getting mixed up in my own convoluted narrative while talking to my cat: Don't try to fuck with me Biscuit,

🎶 And if you want me back You're gonna have to ask Nicer than that 🎶 was always such a banger fuckin line lmao

I would be embarrassed to say these things Imagine what it would be like to live with no shame

😠 ORWELL SMASH!!! ...was the right orbs?? 😟

This is an *extremely* bad answer. I almost cannot exaggerate how bad First, the boat strikes are clearly & unambiguously illegal. Slotkin has seen illegal orders, we all have. And despite the lack of action on it so far, they are *clearly* illegal And you do NOT want to be seen walking this back!

Skeet of the Day 🥇 #PotatosSkeetOfTheDay (Today's SOTD brought to you by me having to cary 48 (I am not joking) boxes of books up three flights of stairs last time I moved)

Yeah "we need to be nicer to men" has roughly never been correct I think we can't be wholly surprised with some of the outcomes given how boys are raised, though to be clear that does not absolve men for their behavior, but addressing that doesn't mean "be nicer" it means fuckin raise em right lol

I found the fraud, waste, and abuse they're been looking for

I get the overall reaction, but Cheong has been like *known* to be based elsewhere for quite some time now, no? Like that has been the most common dunk on the shit he says for like *years*, hasn't it, I'm not crazy right???

Do I understand this correctly, that Bessent's position is not that they're not totalitarians, but that it's wrong to try to stop totalitarians that have so far been successful?

I think overall their answers (they as in the collective of MCs who made the video, not just Kelly) have been good, but I would stick with certainty rather than say "questionable at best"

I wonder how much, if at all, such effects persist

I think "we're not gonna… tell the American people they don't know how they feel" is at odds with roughly every other statement made by the administration about the economy, and in fact even the sentence that precedes it ("So, inflation hasn't gone up")

Funny how "gotcha questions" don't work as well on people who aren't unprincipled assholes!

A: "Clearly you want me to be on the record saying something negative—" Q: "—about the guy whose policies by your own statements are resulting in the deaths of children? Yes, I would hope you'd say something negative about that person. Why won't you?"

He doubled down on "problems at airports are all because you are a slob"?? LMAO

lol lmao even (also sobbing)

I can't see Tapper's next question because it's clipped, but you hear the first second of it and it seems like he's just moving on to the next question without any follow-up, can anyone with knowledge of this broadcast confirm that (Not that it'd be surprising in the slightest but just curious)

arrest them then, mr president

What does "took 10 flights out of nearly 300 that required reimbursement" mean? Like what is that 300 denominator referring to?

pretty damn effective form of protest

“But through the power of generative AI, you can put your friends IN frame, laughing too.”

*punch someone every time I see them for the last year* *walk up to them today, they flinch* "you idiot, you fool. you just ASSUMED I was gonna hit you? everyone laugh at the dumbass!"

I think pro-science & pro-medicine is a better rule of thumb than anti-woo-woo (I don't think I substantively disagree with OP, or at least not much, I just think that formulation is not only less over-inclusive, which is obvious, but also less under-inclusive, which may be even more important)

Something happened this morning that has not happened in some time Browsing Bluesky with my coffee on this morning has resulted in me seeing quite a bit more things that make me smile or laugh than upsetting news stories I'm sure I'll get to more news soon enough. But it's been a nice 15 minutes

to whom it may concern in the national media: it is perhaps worth further investigation that the answer to “who is in charge of foreign policy” appears to be whoever is currently answering the phone or that we do not, in fact, appear to have any coherent foreign policy

the Russia Russia Russia hoax,

These are people who entered legally and applied for asylum after entry while still in status. But the process is so backlogged that their visa inevitably expired while going through it. In every previously admin, so long as they didn’t commit a crime, they wouldn’t be detained. No longer.

"From Wilderness to Civilization" is interesting phrasing There are now 7 Cherokee clans. Originally there were 8, but the eighth clan chose to leave Cherokee civilization and live in the wilderness, and became bears, so among other things bears are seen as a connection between humans & nature 1/3

There was civilization in the Americas before the settlers arrived. The other work being performed here is to erase that and present settlement as the arrival of civilization instead of the annihilation of another

You have to wonder if the strikes on the "drug boats" were just a way to test which generals would follow illegal orders wrt an undeclared war with Venezuela and weed out those who wouldn't.

hypomania // mania

Yeah I mean I could imagine reasons to object to them training their AI on your emails but Nick's right ultimate re: privacy, but IMO really the reason to move away from Google as much as you can is how much they're helping the Trump administration kidnap people

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i'm sorry but the photo choice for rfk is perfect

Forget about all the specific policies or advice or whatever that Yglesias says, like it doesn't matter if any one thing he says is dumb or not The fact that periodically he makes general statements like this that are so laughably wrong are why you should start by assuming he's wrong about things

I think Claude Code has achieved AGI

I agree and I think a great start would be for @govpritzker.illinois.gov to push his people to charge the agents who conspicuously committed many Illinois state crimes