like a salacious f*cking reality show to entertain the overlords..

Good night, Bluesky! Bandon, Oregon 📸Jessie Hikes

When you think the bigotry won’t come around to bite you.

“The vast majority of Canadians (78%) no longer consider the United States a friend or ally.”

Donald Trump cares about one thing and one thing only: that people are paying attention to Donald Trump.

This 👇👇👇

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Steyer announces plan to jail ICE agents, calls agency a ‘violent extremist group’

Businesses really are getting better at letting you know ahead of time to never ever use their services.

CC AMERIKKKA STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS NOW

WIN for trans youth! Federal judge just crushed tRump’s RFK Jr. “Kennedy order” that tried to slash Medicare/Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care. Oregon +21 states sued and WON. Judge: “Unserious leaders are unsafe.” Trump’s cruelty blocked by the rule of law. Protect kids, not MAGA ideology.

To be fair, if I was in the Trump administration, I’d be drunk all time too

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

“WHY AREN’T MILLENNIALS BUYING-“ Imma just stop you there. Because twelve GenX and Boomer assholes have all the money.

No lies detected. AND change the laws that allowed this abomination to be elected (checks notes) twice.

The U.S. in three ideas 🧵 1/3 Mark Twain’s character Huck Finn leaves his readers by saying, “I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and civilize me and I can’t stand it.” >>>

If everyone simply ignored Trump, he would burn up like a vampire in sunlight And I mean everyone: elected reps, bureaucrats, military personnel, the public. He has no power except the attention paid to him People don’t ignore him for various reasons — but mainly greed or belief in quaint rituals

Yes. The press and media could — but won’t — just stop quoting that asshole. Two reasons this won’t happen: One, Trump still gets clicks and pageviews, even if it’s rage-clicking Two, the press and media are still working in the quaint past, where “If the President says something, it’s news.”

Part of Trump’s penchant for making wretched decisions is insecurity: somewhere in his fetid brain he’s pretty sure everyone knows things he doesn’t. So if someone — Putin, Netanyahu, whoever — tells him something, he takes it on as his, not realizing they might have a different goal than he does.

Facts, according to Pete 😳😳😳😡

Hard to even process that Team Trump said the Pope didn’t know the Bible, then quoted a monologue from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction script, apparently thinking it was a real Bible verse. Don’t know how we get back from the fact that we stood around while the whole govt flew into a mountainside.

Tell me if I’m wrong but if people can go to prison for lying to Congress, then shouldn’t members of Congress go to prison for lying to the people?

In Maine, ICE brazenly called their operation “catch of the day.” The banal inhumanity of it all is overwhelming. The deaths, the injuries, the conditions in detention, the brazen disregard for people’s rights, including American citizens. And it’s still happening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Only three U.S. Presidents did not have pets at the White House: James Polk Andrew Johnson (although he is said to have adopted a family of mice that he found already living in the WH) Donald Trump Martin van Buren is thought not to kept any animals AT the WH but is said to have owned horses.

ouch

The séance was a success

"hi can you recommend any super cheap, ethically made clothes that will last forever and make me feel like a swaddled little baby while also making me look like a super attractive, stylish man, yet take no time or effort to acquire? this is social media, so pls just drop a link."

Listening to a lil Jackie Shane tonight Jackie Shane (1940-2019) was a staple of the ‘60s Toronto lounge scene and helped define the era's "Toronto sound." Sidenote: Features Johnny Jones on guitar. Jones boosted Jimi Hendrix early, played with Hendrix and Billy Cox in The King Kasuals (1962-64).

Today on Bluesky.

As an American. I make the decision to buy a gun and go shoot somebody. I get convicted and go to jail. An a health Insurance exec. I make the decision to deny care and kill someone. I get a bonus.

If any folks genuinely cared about Trump as a person, they would stage an intervention. But sadly, no one does.

Hundreds of posts note that it would be another world if we’d elevated Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris over Trump 💯 I’d add that that it would be another world if we’d elevated Al Gore over GW Bush and possibly an entirely different world if Biden had chosen Sally Yates over Merrick Garland.

One thing about the Epstein files that I feel like is not talked about enough, is how much they (those in the Epstein files) talk about manipulating the public. With all the power they held they looked at the public as sheep.

My dad had quite a few pithy bits of wisdom that he hauled out when needed. Among them, You can't get out of debt by borrowing Money is necessary but not sufficient Faith is believing something you know isn't true Just remember, there's nothing so bad that it can't be made worse

Hot take: it’s wild to see anyone from the ‘vote blue no matter who’ cohort advocate for centrist establishment Democrats but balk at enthusiastically supporting leftist candidates. It gives me an unsettling feeling that the ‘no matter who’ part is just for the rhyme.

Nonprofit local bike shop that sells only used, donated bikes that are repaired and fixed up by teens learning to be bike mechanics absolutely rules. Got the youngest kid a fancy Guardian bike that is pristine for $60, and they even took off the pedals and chain so it can start as a balance bike.

There are plenty of excessively groomed cats here on Bluesky gathering thousands of likes. Our cats are little jealous, staying behind like underdogs. Our cats managed to survive 4 winters of war already, which is great achievement in itself. Tough cats are cute too ❤️ youtube.com/shorts/zlRwc...

On this day in 1873, the Supreme Court held in Bradwell v. Illinois that states could continue to exclude women from the legal profession. Myra Bradwell argued “that woman has a right to think and act as an individual.” The men on the Court disagreed. #WeTheMen

Just spent the evening writing about historical forms of Anishinaabe governance — what a pleasure. Now tomorrow I have to write about explorers to the Upper Great Lakes and the first white settlers — I try to maintain a chipper attitude about that content.

Dear America, Please stop saying that Donald Trump is the Leader of the Free World. He is not. We have Zero Respect for Him. Signed The Free World.

It’s actually incredibly difficult to vote these sociopaths out of office.. both parties. Our campaign finance laws make it almost impossible. People think voters choose these candidates but actually that’s not true. Corporations & foreign lobbies do. We get to select from the plutocrats draft picks