Increasingly clear that if you want great discussions a microblogging platform is not it but you'll certainly get a lot of great shitposts from it

In a dramatic sign of eroding support in the US, 61% of American Jews now say that Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza and 39% say it is guilty of genocide, according to @washingtonpost.com poll. Naftali Bendavid @sfcpoll.bsky.social @emgusk.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

they’re illegally sending troops from more and more states to occupy my fucking city because a bunch of shitass ICE chumps can’t tolerate a person in an inflatable frog costume legally gyrating at them in front of a single building they lease from us, keep it fucking shut down, fuck these people

Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

A Republican state lawmaker in Alaska succeeded in censoring a news article that provided factual context about Charlie Kirk www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

idk if normie takes count as discourse but: people referring to "skitty person" and "rockruff person" or similar

The way these people think they're entitled to whatever they want. This is what happens when you raise children who are never told no. 1/ www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

Swear to god I didn’t even know hand sanitizer and mouthwash got you drunk. Just like the taste

This is the state secret police committing acts of public humiliation and torture. Americans don’t have a language for this in the public consciousness but that is what this is with no exaggeration or embellishment.

per reddit this is the 'ten car' incident -- weird!

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

unbelievably ominous, sorry for taking it seriously!

trump confirms we live in the homestuck timeline

InfantryDork

What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs. Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/

I honestly think his analysis is somewhat right in that Caesar is not doing what is necessary to prevent the Roman Senate from convicting him once his offices lapse, so to speak

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

this guy is awesome

what the fuck is going on

I coulda swore at least one person here blocked me

the rude label is actually meant to designate the tribe of rude

lmao credit where it's due: this website figured this guy out pretty quick

Explain your user name I once found a discarded 1950s era TV in the woods. Got a cool picture of the bezel sticking out of the ground, vacuum tubes peeking out of the dirt, but then I couldn't find the picture again and used my OC instead for my pfp

when you hear that an album "blew up" do you avoid opening your music app for fear of getting your hand blown off? OP is blatantly not saying "the protests need to blow up" as in "they need to get violent". "blow up" is common slang for "get more popular" and "get larger". give me a fucking break.

"I know how things work" says the lady who keeps inexplicably telling me the Hatch Act makes it illegal for Democratic elected politicians to participate in protests or mass movements.

honestly the simplest way to describe him is that he's the person everyone thinks Will Stancil is

“you want all democrats to get thrown in jail, you need to watch Andor” is one of the most delusional and confounding interactions I’ve had on this website

I think this guy literally went down my profile and started picking fights with the literal next minority he saw that i reposted and who was making a similar complaint re: democratic response to national protests. The minority is a professor in political science.

Alright sure whatever

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

Can't believe my favorite musician sold out to her need for making music. Oh how did she sell out? Well see she's in the music business so, uh... uh

Going to be disastrous if it comes out that CPD was instrumental to DHS cleaning up one of their own crime scenes

Sorry guys there are no climate protests. Ever since Greta Thunberg started talking about anything else everybody forgot climate change was a thing and they all went home. So I just can't do anything about it. She's gonna have to come back before I get off my ass

In Trump’s America, billionaire and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is a kind of shadow president. Meanwhile, the Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

whole lot of argumentation the past few years about consciousness and its definitions and bounds from people who clearly haven't examined their priors or attempted to study the concept

Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece just incredible @katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???

Bouta check for "chemtrails" outside rn

we did it, reddit, we turned our back on family

every AI ad is like “hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?” and then the phone is like “sandwich” and the guy is like “wow”

The "Left" labeled this guy weird. Rather than explore the merits we're instead going to breathlessly provide his rebuttal

Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all. The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.

Absolutely heinous.

fwiw from my vantage point there’s a slice of Bluesky that is incandescently mad at Jay, a slightly larger slice of Bluesky that’s vaguely aware there’s drama, and like 85% of the pie that is totally unaware anything is going on

ben shapiro rightfully gets flak for being a gish-galloper (among the many far more glaring issues, the racism, for ex), but i find it amusing that some people who definitely think he's bad for that think doing it in reply-spam form is cool and effective

Being a columnist is so cool. You can have absolutely no experience whatsoever and still drop whatever takes you want. Serve in the military? No? Work in natsec? No? Have an academic background in defense? No? Have any government experience at all? No? Who cares! Fire that column off anyways!

NEW — Darius Fitzgerald, a security guard, was in the midst of a 10-hour shift at a BP gas station in Chicago’s East Garfield Park on Wednesday when he saw a Black man being chased by two federal agents. thetriibe.com/2025/10/secu...

American intelligence officials have now confirmed to CBS News that Netanyahu ordered the drone attacks on the Sumud flotilla while it was docked in Tunisia, an attack launched from Israeli Navy submarines off the Tunisian coast.