This flew under the radar: Trump's new acting AG Todd Blanche shut down major DOJ investigations into crypto companies, dealers, and exchanges as Pam Bondi's second-in-command — all while holding at least $159,000 in crypto assets himself. The fox is guarding the hen house.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

cool bug alert

well sure, but like a kayak hard to hide a container ship

@bennjordan.bsky.social is feeling salty and so should you

lol they really don’t like people discussing this 🤣

Let's talk about war crimes, because the conversation is happening whether we're ready or not.

America is now on the clock. We have two weeks to remove Donald Trump from office through the 25th Amendment or impeachment. Not saying that will happen, only saying that a nation with even a shred of decency would get to work on it immediately.

@thebulletin.org lads I think we’re a bit closer than 85 seconds these days

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

@davidgerard.co.uk I thought zero-days were *critical* undiscovered vulnerabilities, not just previously undiscovered bugs. Are they playing with semantics here to sound more impressive?

The US was going to go into a war of some kind in the name of Operation Epstein Diversion; Netenyahu just had the best pitch for where that war should be. After all, he's been working on selling the US on invading Iran for about a decade.

the vibe

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

I had no idea this was globally referenced! youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?...

They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

It’s a great bit and I did find it funny, but I sure hope this was a honeypot for coordinated inauthentic posting. MANY of these profiles reek of disinfo and seem to want people to conflate Bsky dogpiles with the broad unpopularity of centrist policies among the electorate.

Friendly reminder that being dogpiled on Bluesky, sometimes unfairly, is not equivalent to professional nationwide opinion polling, and that basing your political sentiments on your experience here would be unwise.

I legitimately interpreted this in reference to AI psychosis and the magical thinking endemic in the field. That it turned out to be the opposite is immensely funny.

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

The FBI's New Center for Political Pre-Crime: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbis-new-p...

One of the core issues with Waymo, aside from the technology just not being that good. I wonder if people aren’t so resistant to the idea Waymo actually sucks because on its surface it’s a bit of the old “magic future” we were promised way back when.

How drunk is Lindsey Graham here, on a scale of Jeanine Pirro to Pete Kegsbreath?

when good things happen, leadership is solely responsible and this is incontrivertible proof of their genius. when bad things happen, it's The Radical Left (a group comprised of anyone who has been mean to me on the internet as well as several fictional characters from podcaster anecdotes)

Can’t wait to see the NYT PR account spin this one 🤣

I’m sure he’s busy writing a detailed “Bluesky was mean to me” editorial for the Atlantic as we speak, but I am legitimately curious to hear what @willknight.bsky.social thinks the journalistic process is, and whether it was applied here.

The director of the FBI used HIS OWN NAME as a component of his pornsite login. Good GOD.

Roses are red I drive a car

These are civilian-killing authoritarians, whose civilians we are also killing with much greater efficiency, responding to world conflicts with the 😎 emoji. I hate it here

I have gone from “stay out of Middle East affairs” to “pay reparations to Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba” in a space of four months. What the fuck man.

my brother in linear algebra, you're the one who chose to replace your brain with a clockwork mouse

@robertcruickshank.com What is your monthly housing payment, and which transit lines serve it? If it’s a fixed rate mortgage, when did it start? Shit like this just makes me think there’s a conspiracy to undermine urbanism among the people who actually live within it.

Also, I’m racist. Don’t write in the newspaper that I’m not racist.

@404media.co you folks planning to cover some of the WHACK ads American TikTok is running on Instagram? “Treat yourself” to what?! Trauma?

Perfect 2026 headline, no notes.

Really surprised this song hasn’t had a resurgence tbh youtu.be/gkqfpkTTy2w

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

"THE NEWSPAPER DIDN'T MAKE ME SOUND RACIST ENOUGH"

"The laws will lead to more data being collected on kids, which predatory companies can then use to target them in more invasive ways," writes @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. interc.pt/4s5Rr7u

Would love to see, like, ANY evidence for this uninformed take. The DNC’s OWN polls show why they lost. Every time they did happen to take a strong position, they dialed it back (eg stopping Walz from taking down JD Vance’s bizarre interactions and eyeliner).

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

A Waymo robotaxi picking up a passenger near this morning's mass shooting in Austin blocked an ambulance from reaching the scene, according to a bystander video. A Waymo official confirmed the video shows the company's vehicle blocking the ambulance.

This is the kind of unproductive, factually-inaccurate doomerism that contributes to the learned helplessness of our society. The OP alleges that “nearly all of us” are responsible for rejecting a better world when A BETTER WORLD HAS NEVER BEEN ON OFFER.

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

The Democratic platform 2024. The Republican platform would be “Ice cream for white people only” (poison)

Oh look here I go being right again about the serious technological and conceptual issues behind Waymo. Especially the degree to which people are unwilling to be skeptical of a company exchanging an act for which we bear criminal liability for a nominal fine.