Good morning Bluesky. I've been running some queries for research on Kagi this morning that were giving me bupkis on Google—and it's SO MUCH BETTER. Question for those who have switched: if you have Google Mail and Calendar, do you keep using it? and important: did it transfer all your bookmarks?

Doesn't look like he's been missing too many meals

Imitation of Hitler is really all of Trump's fascism. He's not a theorist (though I'm sure Steve Bannon keeps trying to make him one.) He just sees things Hitler did and thinks "me for that, only *I'm* gonna get away with it."

Then let's triple them.

"At least not if I can help it!"

Here's the real thing about the future of truth: The American left has been overwhelmed in the past several decades by self-proclaimed experts with no success or experience in media or technology who occupy space with callow and childish ideas. We have to stop living in a fantasy.

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lmaoing intensifies

Every GOP primary story is like “syphilis loses to pancreatic cancer”

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

SOLD OUT THE STRAND A SECOND TIME 125 SEATS

The New York Times calla this a “deal” even though it’s a deal between Trump and himself, which means it’s a scam, not a deal.

This may be the stupidest thing he's ever said in public

i mean, you could add that he is doing this as *acting* attorney general because he can’t get senate confirmation

BREAKING: The Senate confirmed Sheria Clarke to the District of South Carolina after she refused to say Biden won in 2020 and dodged questions about January 6. Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Hassan, Heinrich, Reed, Shaheen & Whitehouse voted to confirm her. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/eight-demo...

Senate votes 50-47 to advance an Iran War Powers Resolution after newly unfettered CASSIDY, joins COLLINS, MURKOWSKI and RAND PAUL. FETTERMAN voted to continue the war. Final passage vote, however, is uncertain. Cornyn, Tillis and Tuberville did not vote. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

its literally the same shit that trump, vance, and fox news say every day about muslims. but the msm wont admit that.

This is an unprecedented level of corruption. Trump is forcing the government to drop ALL tax audits of him, his family, and his businesses—giving him FULL IMMUNITY from prosecution. What is Trump hiding from the American people? Congress must step up and stop this corruption.

Worth reading this thread. What a monumental disaster this society is creating.

There is only one reason, and it is extremely obvious, for why Trump is exempting himself from IRS audits. This move is beyond corrupt and can't be allowed to stand by Congress or the courts www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/u...

This is smart and good politics. Democrats who refuse to enjoin need to move out of the way and make room for those who will. They need to hear that constituents have zero tolerance for anything less. Put the pressure on. 🧵

ok so this is like CRIME crime

this is gold. this is the most paul schrader post possible. i thank god that he allowed this to exist in our world.

No you shouldn't be at all worried that a crazy authoritarian president is desperate to build a tall building full of sniper nests in the middle of the capital city.

They really led with the successful brewery nypost.com/2026/05/17/u...

NEWS — Local prosecutors warn Trump: "If you send ICE to the polls, we'll put them in jail." District attorneys across the U.S. announced today that they’ll charge federal agents sent to conduct voter intimidation. “We’ll lock their asses up,” vowed Philly DA Larry Krasner.

dystopia, we're in it Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

this is a masterpiece

A US middle school board full of bigots banned kids from performing a piece of music entirely because it was written to honour trans Stonewall icon Marsha Johnson, then put the school in active-shooter lockdown mode to prevent them from walking out in protest, but they did anyway, good on ‘em

The techbros still think it's a PR problem -- but they also keep telling us that they're going to destroy our jobs with AI. That's because to them, PR is a weapon. They're not trying to convince us AI is good. They think if they shoot enough PR at us, we'll submit. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

Good. The goal for Democrats going forward should be to not reward dumb motherfuckers who make myopic political decisions based on how things worked in 1996.

Hell yeah. Don't let bosses convince you that you don't deserve more. Don't let someone who hoards $100 million tell you that working people don't deserve $100,000. Instead organize and get yours.

Reported and blocked

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NEW: I recently started seeing more and more videos featuring youthful Scientologists from “orgs” around the world, especially on TikTok. It turns out this is part of an coordinated campaign, and I spoke to some of the people who helped develop it: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

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It is not legal. What I every journalist start with is: it is not legal.

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It is better to know than to not know. “What you thought was a constitution turned out to be a courtesy.” www.thelongmemo.com/p/rollback

MAGA social media outlets are filled with seemingly professional media content, almost all of which is generated by a handful of disinformation labs located in s 5 square mile area of St Petersburg, Russia. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Starting to think AI psychosis is the most urgent mental health crisis in modern history. betakit.com/ai-godfather...

This is a headline justifying murder. There’s no other way to read it.

primary every centrist democrat

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

This is no hyperbole. This is the truth.

Normally I'm extremely suspicious of nostalgia, but this is just plain true.

The fact that Trump could even TRY to do this reflects a rottenness in America's legal culture that's FAR deeper than what's wrong with SCOTUS. But no surprise to public defenders, I'm sure. Never clearer that we have a legal system, not a justice system, and the two are RADICALLY at odds.