Notice how the reporters have all remained individuals since all of this started > a decade ago? They're all trying to 'out scoop' the other. Never form teams, alliances or coalitions. They'll never win and can't with that sort of mindset.

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

marty makary ended up approving the flavored vapes anyways at the direction of trump specifically to save his job. it's not noble if you end up giving into corruption to save your job!!! do not hand it to him!

Am I going to have to actually watch this thing just to find out where they’re stowing the other seven kids? www.wsj.com/business/boe...

This is technically called a lawless Society. It doesn't end well, for everyone. Everyone.

I think water storage towers/tanks use similar or the same products, right? 😬

Fake letters about a fake new law regarding "aimless driving" are impersonating me and other governors. If you see one, please report it to Bluesky to help stop the spread of this fake information.

Xi is eating Trump's lunch. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

an honest health care plan from a 2020 primary candidate would have just read, “IT’S NOT UP TO ME IT’S UP TO JOE MANCHIN, AND THAT’S THE BEST CASE SCENARIO” in bold text but every debate was conducted in the fictional universe where the president writes the laws

In retrospect the fact that like 60% 2020 primary revolved around the various candidates’ health care plans was incredibly stupid and a case of the media both sabotaging Democrats and actively contributing to Americans’ civic illiteracy

Xi basically threatened to invade Taiwan and dared the US to do anything about it. He intimated that the US is a declining power like Sparta. I see no good vibes.

trump has been at the center of american politics for a decade now and he’s in his second term as president. you know what he’s going to do and say, you know how he’s going to treat you. you either come prepared to do something about it or you are complicit in his behavior. take some responsibility

I suggest the press thinks it’s being clever by giving Trump enough rope to embarrass himself before the public. It’s a self soothing lie that allows them to rationalize & excuse their inaction. That’s both a gross overestimation of the public & an abdication of duty.

something I am always saying is reeducation camps for journalists

new video youtu.be/P9NlRz7w27E?...

Every politician in my lifetime that ran on a platform of being "tough on crime" has targeted the poor. Now that white collar criminals are running the country, murdering citizens, taking away rights and stealing everything; can we finally stop the lie that they are no threat to society?

Why isn’t the “corruption” message getting more traction? Does it just need better branding like “Watergate” or “Teapot Dome,” like how meteorologists brand storms?

Trump just rhetorically gave Taiwan to China.

The justice’s most recent financial disclosure, which was filed last August and covers 2024, showed holdings in individual stock worth between $60,007 and $245,000 in ConocoPhillips, Phillips66, and five other oil and energy companies. (cont.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

I had been sort of wobbly and putting off my CA gov choice but uh yiiiiiiikes

update!! his father says he has a "serious but temporary" illness, which he also describes as "a real illness" that "won't linger," and mike johnson had a conversation with him two weeks ago (?) that he describes as "short, very positive" www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

Rot in Piss, John Money "Money was a proponent of genital surgeries for children with intersex conditions, based on his belief that gender was malleable during the first two years of life and that **raising a child outside the male–female binary was harmful.**"

I used to think the constant contradictions in MAGA politics were weakness or embarrassment. I don’t anymore. The contradiction itself has become the badge of loyalty. The more obvious the hypocrisy, the more it proves you’ll defend the tribe no matter what. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

“I would not advise my children today to go to the US, get educated there or work there, simply because a certain social climate has suddenly developed there.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...?

An undercurrent I keep seeing from those talking about her posthumously is how sweet she was, how pure and good and harmless. I'm glad she'll be remembered fondly. All the same, I am haunted. If she *wasn't* "just like everyone else", would they still care? History causes me to doubt that.

A friend once told me that love means someone looks at you in totality and doesn't want to look away. It sounds terrifying, and it can feel terrifying, but I don't think you will ever find anything as wonderful as someone truly seeing you without so much as a wince.

Oh look, the Trump administration in the US is formally proposing to roll back a Biden-era rule that stops coal power plants from releasing hundreds of millions of gallons of toxic metals into nearby waters, according to the New York Times. #collapse

Starting to see a wave of detransitioners retransition. Many of them never really stopped being trans, they just suppressed it with guilt and shame. There will be a lot more of this over the coming years.

and, again, that public system *would 100% not cover transgender care*, because the public would demand that it not. it would not cover any care that isn't fully popular with the most repressed, conservative members of the public. it would be oppression and I'm tired of being gaslit about this

At some point we ought to (we're not going to) have an adult conversation about the fact that private insurance companies employ around 2 million people in the US. We are not going to do something that's going to put 2 million people out of work.

FUN FACT: When Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott was CEO of Columbia/HCA his hospital chain paid a record $1.7 billion in fines to the federal government for widespread Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Republicans elected him governor of Florida in 2011 and its senator in 2019. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her dissent on Trump’s Immunity case.

Frosted Red Velvet PopTarts (2013-2017, 2020-2022): Bright red, red velvet cake-flavored pastries, with cream cheese frosting-flavored filling, white icing & red sprinkles. They were rolled out at the nexus of cupcake AND red velvet manias, then re-released as a pandemic comfort food

I already did my bitching as lib friendly as I could here:

instead of paying each other millions of dollars to tell this to each other after the election there are probably anarchist trans puppygirls who would bark this at you before the election for a kennel and biscuits

sigh. couldn't get through before needing to bitch so fuck it we'll do it live 🧵

That “We'll see what happens” line he uses so much is just incredibly weak and passive. So weird how MAGA hears “strong leader” out of that.

There it is again, “we’ll see what happens.” This can be interpreted a few ways… 1. He is waiting to be told what to do (by his handlers, maybe Putin) 2. He is waiting to see who offers the largest bribe 3. He is completely checked out 4. All of the above.

Trump got absolutely rolled by Xi. He’s afraid of upsetting the Chinese because he’s weak.

She was just like me. Just like so many of us. She liked Pokemon plushies and played Hollow Knight. They say she was a bright light to all around her, she loved singing … and she’s dead now and it’s so sad And I’m just supposed to keep going knowing the world is like this

lol, Enron founder Ken Lay was at one point floated as a potential cabinet secretary in the George W. Bush admin but they decided they already had "too many energy businessmen from Texas" and passed on him

my humors are perfectly balanced whereas my haters are splenetic and suffer from an excess of bile and phlegm

Thatcher was prepared to give him a seat in the House of Lords; the only reason he didn't end up there was because he considered a life peerage to be beneath him and refused to accept anything other than a hereditary title

This drive to rehabilitate the foul racist pig Enoch Powell has been going on literally my entire life. It's ironic because the 'rivers of blood' speech was clearly recognised as racist, and widely condemned as such, including by Tories, at the time. We're being asked to misremember clear history.

BayBay writes jokes & comics that only land if you're terminally online-poisoned (complimentary)

Alan really gets at it here:

Being born in and leaving SoCal is interesting because other places do it and openly say “well we don’t want the undesirables, right?” SoCal does it with a smile and a smoothie colonic while saying “I mean, we feel for you and empathize with your situation” And then sage smudge where it was