These polls aren't weighted by how much people care. Cost of living is bad, but I'm a lot more concerned by the early stages of genocide going on, and if you're desperately trying to avoid talking about it, that comes across as complicity.

None of that polling evidence actually supports "well anyways, what about the price of eggs, huh?" is an effective way for a politician to respond to camera footage of civilians being hurt.

Very interesting thing going on where I see dozens of people screaming about Europeans trying to collectively shame Americans but not one actual European shaming Americans I don't doubt it exists, of course, just kind of a wild dynamic to wake up to

also reading that took me way longer than 5 minutes you monsters

trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him

That's what I get for being unusually hesitant to block somebody, I guess

what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS

Renee Good was still alive. The case against Jonathan Ross is even stronger now. And Minnesota can and should bring accessory charges - or full-blown murder charges - against every other agent on-scene for blocking a physician from rendering aid and delaying the paramedics' attempts to do the same.

People don't want to accept that the primary reason that we have Trump today is that the previous administration completely failed. It should have never gotten to the point where it was in the so-called hands of the voters. It was already too late by then.

Jonathan Ross was a firearms trainer and led a team that included multiple federal agencies. All this training didn't stop him from shooting Renee Nicole Good. His training *facilitated* the shooting. No amount of training will solve the problem that ICE is a violent ethnic cleansing squad.

diminish a band Billy Character Feat

The democratic party, like all centre right neoliberal parties, sees its role as absorbing all the left wing discontent caused by right wing politics, and channeling it into an expression which does not run the risk of meaningfully challenging power. I do not think that is going to be sustainable.

Copy editors and all other headline writers should have bylines so people can scream at whoever actually wrote the headline instead of the reporter(s) who wrote the story

“They need better training” is just the liberal way of wanting nothing to change but also wanting to feel good about nothing changing

"Free societies are under assault from a resurgent fascism. Across the world, fears about immigration have been one of the main—arguably the main—weapon used. And across the world, there has been a timidity on the part of progressives about countering these arguments."

A CHILD was instructed how to KILL HIMSELF by chat GPT and they have the AUDACITY to release *anything* health related? SEVERAL POISONINGS, AI PSYCHOSIS, MURDER FUCK OFF, sincerely fuck the fuck off, absolute fucking sub human pieces of shit this technology is not reliable for this purpose

Seriously, go to your Bluesky Settings and Content and Media page and toggle off the "Autoplay videos and GIFs" option right now. If you don't want to continuously see the video, that'll at least deactivate it from playing when you scroll.

It's so fucking convenient that they get to "fear for their lives" anytime they want to absolve themselves of anything and when we actually fear for our lives because of them and do anything a scared person would do it's justification for our death.

Even the best senators routinely make these weak calls to action. The principals in the Trump Administration are war criminals. They belong in The Hague. And House members should be filing impeachment articles.

Woke up and the first thing I saw on this website was murder footage, so my day's off to a good start

He's saying it because it has been the chud maximalist war theory on talk radio for like 30 years. He said this about the Iraq War, that its biggest problem is that we didn't take the oil. It's about the aesthetics of being tough and business savvy. It doesn't matter that the oil itself is dogshit.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

This man lies like he breathes, but he’s too dense to realize this being a resource grab is a thing he *should* lie about

a friend described this as "a five year old's idea of regime change" continuing the Trump administration of being both stupid and evil like, some people say the evil isn't new, but the stupid has definitely hit new highs

I’m so furious that legal NSFW art and artists are being slowly gentrified off the internet while billionaires make CSAM-generating robots with impunity

"the president's own party will never convict him" (true) has been turned into "impeachment is deeply unpopular" (false) by DC conventional wisdom there's absolutely no evidence that either Trump impeachment was good for him or his party, politically, even if he wasn't convicted

Just listened to @killjamesbond.bsky.social’s episode on The Descent, and… the “oops, that thing we just showed you didn’t actually happen” twist ending is quite possibly my single most-hated narrative trope, can’t blame them for cutting that in the US release, disagree with the hosts on that one.

Hey journalists can we make 2026 the year of Not Taking Billionaire Claims As Scientific Predictions The Market, Nay, Western Civilization Itself, Can Rely On Sure In The Knowledge Such Titans Would Never Lead Us Astray

I see some people talking about the anti-AI crusade going too far and I just...... This is not a Twitter cancelation campaign we are fighting a war with the richest and most powerful people who have ever existed, who've sunk the GDP of a nation into poisoning Black Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I gotta say, it's pretty weird that Justin Trudeau's birthday is an international holiday

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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.

a sequel: cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”

i’m just going to assume the 90% of pages that they blacked out is ONLY donald trump

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Can't wait for his fans to spend the next several months (possibly years) pretending he's been completely exonerated because he's not in the 1% of it that they actually released

“Introducing a brand new edition to a beloved productivity software! … but don’t use it for any actual productivity because it’s gonna fuck up.” SO WHAT THE FUCK IS IT FOR? WHAT TASK IN EXCEL DOESN’T REQUIRE ACCURACY? -.- I feel like the genre of this simulation has shifted to absurdist comedy.

With a backroom deal, Carney has bulldozed Canada’s remaining #climate policies and ignited a firestorm among #Indigenous communities across the country. It is a betrayal, for which future generations will pay. @richardbrooks.bsky.social at @stand.earth: ricochet.media/climate/the-... #Alberta

Mitt Romney arguing that you should tax the rich more in a piece that mostly makes the case for means testing Social Security is actually the most Mitt Romney thing imaginable

Here's an example of how useless and frustrating internet laws to "protect kids" are in practice: When I'm in Ohio, where I am during the holidays, I can't use my Bluesky DMs—unless I hand over my ID to a company owned by Epic Games. Why? To protect kids, of course! spitfirenews.com/p/why-i-have...

Three D's defected to vote for this disgusting bill. If they hadn't, it wouldn't have moved forward. *Don't come into my mentions to "explain" to me that "this will fail in the Senate." Spend that time calling your reps, donating to causes, and doing literally anything for trans folks.

at the risk of starting, or wading into, a Discourse: i just want to say that characterizing that guy as an "alcoholic personality" (he famously does not drink!!) is doing a huge disservice to alcoholics and others who struggle with substance use disorders. He has a *domestic abuser* personality.

I will never apologize for a post

It's wild that all these sports media outlets are reporting on Nacua's comments about the refs and not at all focusing on the antisemitic touchdown dance part of this story.

what do they gain from this