This follows the news that the minibus spending bill has no restrictions on gender-affirming care either. It looks like Democrats dug their heels in on this one and won. bsky.app/profile/eric...

Republicans could end all this tomorrow if they wanted to. We could have President Mike Johnson by mid-week. He'd suck, but he'd be better than Trump or Vance. They're letting this continue bc theyre too cowardly to stop it.

Bond traders… beloved of God, lions of the spreadsheet world… heed the call and punish the man who did this… destroy Donald J. Trump and scatter Babylon’s financial foundations to the winds.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Every freakin' game with this team

Slightly diminish a game: Splinter Mitochondria

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

ICE AGENT, ICE AGENT, HOME, TO YOUR WIFE! WE LOVE DEATH MORE THAN YOU LOVE LIFE!

white women and queers - and people who love them - this is a good week to look GOP voters you know in the eye and ask them if they think it should be legally permissible for men to shoot you or your loved one in the head on the basis of being a “fucking bitch”

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

He murdered her

Good thread. I sincerely hope Jonathan Ross is charged and convicted for the murder of Renee Good, and that seems to be Ken White's stance as well. But the cards are stacked against us and it will take time to actually build a case, even with the video evidence at hand, it's no slam dunk, sadly.

QOTD timeline cleanse: Post the first photo in your roll when you type in “blue sky.”

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

The video shows that the driver of the vehicle turned her wheels to avoid the ICE agents who surrounded her, screamed profanity at her, and gave her conflicting orders. They escalated the situation, put the public in danger, killed her without justification, and kept firing at her.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

Maaaannnnn....

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

Border Patrol goes to Interior, park/forest rangers handle it.

it is true that it *should not* matter that the murder victim was a white, middle-class, U.S. citizen mother, but it is also true that it *does* matter and that the story reaches people who might not otherwise be reached as a result.

good: blue states turbocharging housing development bad: dangerous childhood diseases re-emerging like wildfire

You can file impeachment charges everyday, but the Speaker has no reason to ever bring the motion the floor to be voted on. You can file the motion as a question of privilege, but that is a one time option, and historically the majority party then simply votes to table the motion.

I also need a lot more people to realize that performative cynicism makes you look dumber rather than more sophisticated, this appears to be a very common misconception

Just yesterday DHS was taunting us on social media. Now they've come to our city and killed a legal observer. How much more can we take? We are being invaded and shot by our own government for the purposes of generating content for a mob of Nazis on the internet.

RFK Jr. loves and worships Death. He is the Baal-Hammon of the Carthage, watching impassively from his seat in his idol, the burning children writhe and scream

Greenland sharks are so cool

If we aren't doing anti-reactionary electoral interference, what the fuck are the point of Langley and Fort Meade.

The venn diagram of people who defended "good Russians" as a bunch of smol beans who can't do anything meaningful and Americans who balk at the idea that we bear responsibility for our government is almost a perfect circle

Exxon CEO sending Sky's thread explaining why they dont want Venezuela's oil to the Admin.

Yes, next question.

I'm going to say it plainly: Vote scolding is good, vote shaming is good. You should be reminded that the choices you make have consequences especially if those consequences are dire. If you don't like people pointing out what your decisions lead to, try making good decisions.

It's Their Time

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Worth a read, but tl;dr Kelly ain't having it

in all seriousness people are aggro’ing over increasingly stupid and bad things because they feel useless in the current moment which, to be serious, means you should log off and do more things instead of just screaming at someone

We're doing acts of war beacuse Pete Hegseth wants to kill ppl and look cool doing it, because Stephen Miller wants chaos and war to legitimate authoritarian crackdowns at home, and because Marco Rubio wants to knock over some leftists in Latin America just because.

You’ve got exactly a year until at least the House formally flips (I’m putting the senate at 70/30 odds). Filing deadlines for most states are only a couple months out at latest. Campaigns go into full speed in July. FY27 NDAA spins up in February and you’ve got less than a month til the CR expires.

i do think the fact that the situation room is tweets is fascinating, because it suggests an administration that is a) still struggling to "go around" its own institutions and b) an administration fucking *obsessed* with spectacle over substance

The good arguments against as I see it are 1) this is going to make things worse (that's the WTF argument) 2) this is extremely illegal by American law and 3) this is extremely illegal/immoral internationally. I'm fine with statements hitting any of the three and not actively rejecting the others

Who controls both Houses of Congress? Stop giving them free passes. You're angry at Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins & Thom Tillis & other the 10 other Republicans who could caucus immediately, today, w/ the Democrats & actually given them control of both the House & Senate. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I swear to god, a kid I went to high school with who was posting the “Harris will send me to war” memes reposted this with “we’re so back”

>realizing the massive amounts of arms in Venezuela that could proliferate to non-state actors across the region if things deteriorate

Doubly, triplely so for Republicans. Johnson and Thune have the actual power to end this today. They have agency and oaths of office to uphold and the entire Republican caucus in Congress has gleefully surrendered their enormous legislative powers to an incontinent, senial old man.

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

Trump voters have turned the most powerful country in the world - the longtime leader of the democratic West - into a violent rogue state. In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order. This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.