This Hunter pardon situation shows how absolutely skewed the media ecosystem is in this country. Trump pardoned Ivanka's father-in-law (Jared's dad) for tax evasion. Not a peep from the media. (check screenshot for more) Biden pardon's his son and it's all the sudden an assault on law and order 🤦‍♂️

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

Having this little self-awareness should be disqualifying for most jobs, especially leadership roles.

One of the funniest things is seeing one of these MAGA trolls, going to their profile to block them on here, and seeing that they have zero followers. No one is paying attention to these people.

A professional political commentator whose underwear was so tight over "the establishment" he became blind to how privileged it is to not have a greater enemy. Sure we lost the house in a fire, but it also took out the neighbor's tree & oh MAN those leaves were so darn pesky!

Having this little self-awareness should be disqualifying for most jobs, especially leadership roles.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy. It’s not rocket science.

To think twitter doesn't have a data-forward approach to kneecapping left wing content while juicing it for every ounce of legitimacy it can is kidding yourself. Elon would not allow anything else especially considering he said himself that if the left won he'd be destroyed.

How it started vs how it’s going

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e.g. "I can make a shit load of money this next year appeasing MAGA before I turn back to the left" but we all know he'll do what they all do and fall for the money, be salty at the overly argumentative left for valid critiques, and then be another tulsi, tim pool, etc. Calling it now.

It feels wonderful to have been welcomed by so many of you here on BlueSky... especially the sticking it to Leon part. 😛

I know young people with no kids who work as line cooks at cheap chain restaurants & warehouse workers paid near-minimum wage who've given up multiple times on switching careers simply because it's not easy... These people don't have it in them to blame themselves, so they blame Democrats

The republican party used to brand itself as the party of personal accountability but all I see is a bunch of people in cult leader merchandise blaming anyone and everyone for their problems. Migrants, democrats, RINOs, women, etc... whoever can offload the weight of their self-inflicted failures

I know some decently smart people who, when it comes to politics, abandon everything they know about critical thinking and why it's important. They simply can't break out of their bubble. They know the consequences that would come with being wrong about Trump and are too scared to stand up straight.

“She’s obviously a woke deep state RINO, Brian” — MAGA, probably

Traffic from Bluesky to @democracydocket.com is surging while X is falling and Threads remains largely irrelevant. This is powering rapid growth of both free subscribers and paid members.

Joe Rogan needs to stop spreading Russian propaganda. And he needs to have this guy on.

Imagine finding a lamp and rubbing it for a genie to come out and then you wish for every anti-abortion, no-exceptions voter to get pregnant, male and female. Roe v. Wade would be back before they hit their 3rd trimester. A pregnant Clarence Thomas would be funny though

Trump voters swear the country was going in the wrong direction, but their naturally uninformed state of being proves the country was doing well. If it weren't, they wouldn't have been afforded the luxury of being ignorant.

Trump just named to architect of Project 2025, Russ Vought, to his Cabinet. But hey, thank God mainstream media didn't just take Trump's tepid denials at face value and slap them in their headlines before the election!

I'm watching so much Dimension 20 that even my dreams are roll-based

Ahh yes, charlie kirk... the man who told the entire internet he'd force his 10 year old daughter to carry a rape baby because it's god's will.

when you want gender affirming care but have to travel to the city over so your close-minded friends don't see you

I have been trying to remember this gradually\suddenly quote. Thank you, Marc Elias. It is so appropriate to our current situation

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

It would be more logical for Matt Gaetz to be led out of his confirmation hearings in handcuffs rather than to be confirmed

So many new people coming to Bluesky. For those looking for me, I’m here!🙋🏻‍♂️

Bluesky stuns in new App Store ranking

This is going much worse than I expected, and I expected it to be really, really bad.

Twitter needs to be deleted.