A delivery bike rider told off ICE agents and then zoomed away while they fell over each other. Worst case scenario is people are taken in the middle of the night from their homes and we never hear about it

The wheels aren’t staying on this bus until 2029

I didn’t see DOGE coming. Nobody did! I’ll take the L on that one. Didn’t think RFK would ACTUALLY get a real job and successfully do anything. All the immigration horrors are…what they promised to do, and have been about what you’d have expected.

Yeah. I didn’t even know what to do with that headline. Worst case? My god. Honestly it’s about what I expected, which means “it all sucks but they’re clearly doomed, politically”.

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

I think those who wanted to salvage the old system are feeling pretty doomerish. The old system is dead. Those of us who want something better than we had can at least recognize a path forward from here.

if they were doing it with 47% approval I would be worried and I thought that was possible. They never tried doing any of the stuff that would have achieved that.

I mean, for starters, it would be a lot worse if they were doing all this to, like, 60% approval

i actually pretty strongly disagree with this, the worst case scenario is a lot worse than this, trump is visibly and rapidly declining and surrounded by absolute dipshits, some of whom are coming apart at the seams less than a year in

This is the most respect you can give and get in return. The most honest Bluesky relationship.

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Just laughing at the idea that a National Guard civil affairs Major is lecturing hardened 30+ years operators on “lethality”

all these guys are getting the morning consult polls telling them they’re gonna get blamed, trump knows he’s gonna get blamed, they’re getting spooked despite johnson and thune’s bullshit

that “it may be popular” is a tell

This coming out the same day Lutnick is on the record saying that the United States won’t defend Taiwan unless they move 50% of chip production to America shows how everyone in the administration is just out running their own foreign policies in their fiefdoms

oops, all scheming viziers

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

you know, a hasty and ill-advised leadership summit with hardly any warning or planning to put all of your military leaders in one room for a 30 minute lecture sounds *exactly* like the kind of thing you do when you’re blowing through eight balls that would’ve killed belushi

the most interesting thing about Homan's corruption is that it was found during not a corruption investigation but a counterintelligence investigation

people who want schumer to be more ruthless should give him credit for that post-meeting quote.

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

i'm sure he tells himself he's being "nice", but this is not a man who wants to live on substack money

he’s so wrong it’s discrediting to some extent

*whispers* ezra has no beliefs when it comes to what's necessary for the sake of his career. this is the company line on kirk and he's not going to stray from it

No part of condemning political violence morally requires you to say the words 'Charlie Kirk did politics the right way,' I think especially if in fact he did politics the wrong way and getting you to say its good, actually, is part of their political project

So fundamentally the division between Ezra Klein and TNC, that I can identify, is that Ezra Klein thinks he has a moral duty to tell soothing lies about the dead because he has a large platform and boy do I have big big issues with that

years from now, i think historians are going to mark september 2025 as the month where he started to go into visible decline

this is basically the aim of every AI company

think a lot about how this guy thinks parents want kids who run on 4 hrs of sleep

sorry to @stephenkb.bsky.social post but this is fundamentally why i think the HBO potter series is going to end up crashing up as soon as the actors end up hitting their teen years what... exactly happens if one of the actors involved decides that they're non-binary? does rowling go to war?

it seems really good that the entire american government right now is these two dumb bitches and 1000 evil viziers

thanks for nothing, you absolutely fucking useless piece of shit

really respect lewis hamilton for taking care of his dog. i feel like a lot of celebrities treat animals as playthings or accessories. or they buy an expensive breed and treat it as a status symbol. but he seemingly cared about his dog like a member of his family.

resolved: sandwiches taste better when cut diagonally

Sir that is no way to talk to the Supreme Court

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

One of the things I run into with my mom's dementia is that the things she doesn't want to remember are much more easily forgotten than what she had for breakfast. I suspect the same is true for the president.

The number of cancelations Disney saw in the week after suspending Kimmel was 436% above baseline subscriber churn.

lmao

Uh. That's.. exactly what you do?

Nature is healing

the cool zone: oops all viziers

I think there's an interesting comparison between the Ukrainian response to disaster in 2014 - major military restructuring and reform - and the Russian response to disaster in 2022, where there's undoubtedly been a *push* for change but they seem locked in failure.

There will be a thermostatic swing back right. That's exactly why we have to build robust defenses for the people.

The assumption of thermostatic swing is so fucking pervasive that it makes meaningful action impossible. It is a shockingly comical failure of self confidence and vision.

“Yes but what if some voters sour on us for it” we should probably endeavor to create a vision and message that lasts between cycles, not just today

That TNC and Klein interview was ominous in its timing. An entire cohort and class of democrat that cannot imagine what strategic defeatism means and entails. A fight that is more than optics and polling. It’s fucking humiliating to see it on here so much.

Again, it’s the cold war warriors who still remember how to fight for something they believe in. astounding.