Estimates like these are always uncertain, but I reiterate my position that we’re not paying nearly enough attention to the absolutely staggering accumulating death toll from the destruction of USAID. It is arguably one of the great crimes—morally, if not legally—of this millennium so far.

Boy howdy, Helen Lewis is real stupid, huh? You can't attribute this to not knowing the American political system, either: Westminster system political parties don't work this way! Gordon Brown has only his personal moral authority when it comes to the Labour Party!

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

It has come to my attention that Peru is Peru-ing again

Let Cats be cats obviously, but also if I meowed a two minute ‘I’m home’ song every time I got in they would not be as tolerant of me.

It took like 3 min for this to happen

I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat

Not believing in the existence of principles or sincerity or virtue is, y'know It's a Trump thing, that's how he works, it's what he offers

Honestly the most predictable thing. It was kinda wild for a moment everyone assumed there wouldn't be massive buyer's remorse

There’s also the part where the chuds who sign up to work for ICE or CBP do so for $50k bonuses and to feel respected, and instead the checks keep bouncing and everybody hates them.

Threads like this are why the internet exists. Everything else is just noise. bsky.app/profile/cowt...

oh yeah this is the other thing, half of this being polled literally doesn't exist, its just hypotheticals made up to cast folks as evil. I'm reminded of the "litter boxes in schools" bullshit they also tied in with this.

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

I feel like Dungeons & Dragons geeks like me could massively reorder the military in a far less disordered and embarrassing way than the weird history fetishists. NO MORE MULTI-CLASSING, PURE FIGHTERS ONLY. AND ONLY ONE RACE, IF YOU GET MY DRIFT AND I THINK YOU DO

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

The year is 2067. Someone put an AI hologram of Ben Franklin in the 2064 Dem primaries as a joke. Bad news: He is president now Good news: He's been ok as far as Presidents go because Congress works Other news: His only scandals are sex scandals...somehow. He's a hologram?

If the Bluesky Discourse Machine can pretend it’s the summer of 2028 and Gavin Newsom is inexplicably our nominee, then surely we can skip ahead to the summer of 2032. Pretend he’s been re-nominated or that he lost the election years ago, whichever fits your priors. Choose Your Own Adventure!

"Trans people are standing up for basic rights that everyone has (. . .) the right to free expression, the right to talk about yourself, the right to change your name." www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

Again, a key problem is that we've turned "working class" from a quantifiable term to an abstract one. It now better means "jobs I personally think are worthwhile" rather than an income or education range. So we have people now who think 6 figure salaries after taxes are "working class".

That a lot of the story of 2024 is the American *consumer* class going Kalecki is really important and something we need to deal with; instead of pretending something more convenient happened.

if you tell me a good use of leftover egg whites is a souffle, and then proceed to tell me that the souffle also needs 4 egg yolks, then i'm throwing you into an oubliette

Yeah they loved it when my Christian ancestors arrived Pic unrelated

Even compared to the dire state of the newspaper business in general, Black newspapers in particular are getting fucking hammered.

This is probably ok

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

this is yet another example of DHS employees literally doing the kind of thing that would get your entire family bloodline erased in morality tales from medieval times, like, bread and salt shit

Sorry, it was Willow the cat’s fault. We tried to stop her.

Your epistemology is deeply impoverished, seek help

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

I keep using the line "but the dow is at 50k" as almost a compulsive tick I'm annoying everyone in the house. Even the cat. She meowed for dinner. I told her the dow is at 50k and she should stop complaining. She complained. I demanded she apologize to me.

One thing that's fun is that if you're black and you don't have much experience, it's woke dei if you get the job, and if you're black and you have all the experience in the world, you're an out of touch elite who is not really black and doesn't deserve the job.

Hi. Healthcare worker here. You’re full of shit.

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

“Russia’s South Caucasus.” Something has gone seriously wrong at the Washington Post

Every single person responsible for this—from the agents on the ground all the way up to the ppl that lead these agencies—need to face prison time for all of this

For no reason whatsoever, I feel the need to mention that the one-time owner of Miss Teen USA - a best friend of Jeffery Epstein - bragged about accessing women’s dressing rooms if he owned the place.

So as a hospital worker, my two cents is that this will result in patients waiting longer, because patients will delay coming in when they otherwise would have.

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My Hot Millennial Take Of All Time is that most public playings of Bohemian Rhapsody should be replaced by Welcome to the Black Parade.

Perfect illustration of what the Trump regime means by "antisemitism," how it distorts the concept into a weapon. See the end where AG Bondi, after trying to change the subject by smearing a Jewish Rep. as antisemitic and noticeably upsetting the descendant of Holocaust victims, grins with pleasure.

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

now, yes, employment numbers are suffering. but have you considered that we are tearing communities apart and ethnically cleansing your neighbors?

Happy to hear that Trump’s Commerce Secretary took all of this children with him when he left pedophilia island, but I hope a congressperson follows up with him on the fate of his nannies.

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...

what changed *squints* at the beginning of 2025

this may draw a lot of mockery On Here but it's true, the u.s. build a mount everest of soft power that it is now in the process of burning to ashes