Trump spoke "with the motormouth intensity of a 20-something banker who just discovered cocaine and now has a really great idea for a new restaurant." www.vox.com/politics/472...

It's not retail, but I have never forgotten the woman who phoned me at the Food Standards Agency to complain 'there is too much white in an egg' Felt like putting her through to some chickens

Working as a Photoshopper in Snappy Snaps (yeah, it was a thing around 2001), someone asked to have a hat taken off a person in a picture. I asked if they had other pictures we could use for the top of his head, the customer replied "well you'll see that when you take the hat off"

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

You don’t reform this. You prosecute it. And you raze the agency to the ground.

DAILY MEMO: Federal Agents Ram Truck Into Fleeing Man Before Abducting Him @eltragon.bsky.social

Frankincense is the doctor, Myrrh is the stupid sound the monster makes, Kevin.

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

In LA Sunday for the live launch of the BURN ORDER podcast on Japanese American wartime incarceration. Backstage, Rachel Maddow greeted us in person like old friends, after having studied our recorded voices in her podcast edit bay for the past several months. 1/

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

There should be a constitutional mechanism for removing a president. Not impeachment, something that actually works, maybe like a catapult

After four years of Democrat Party chaos, America is finally under the resolute leadership of President Donald J. Trump, who reminds me of my alcoholic father. by Susie Wiles

Susie Wiles going to a damage limitation meeting with Trump

Susie Wiles: "Vanity Fair tricked me into saying embarrassing things about the Trump administration. And then I went back to talk with them ten more times."

This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛

I’ve been working all day and am only halfway through to the Vanity Fair pieces, but I had to stop to give @andersonphoto.bsky.social props for managing to photograph Karoline Leavitt the day (perhaps the minute?) she got her lips injected.

The Aristocrats!

Folks, would you believe me if I told you JD Vance was over there railing against the immigrants as the reason for the antisemitism

This is a stunning piece of scholarship that truly presents a novel argument in a time of controversy and circular thinking

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

I googled "Santa" and then AI ruined Christmas

Illinois just passed a law that limits civil ICE arrests near courthouses, hospitals, colleges, day cares, and schools. It also lets people sue if immigration agents violate their constitutional rights. Read: www.mystateline.com/news/local-n...

Yes! It does! The minute you connect your offline identity to an account, it can be revealed by accident, bug, deliberate action, abuse of access, or government subpoena!

Rob Reiner was involved with @glaad.bsky.social as well and helped further progress on LGBTQ representation in media. He said of his work on behalf of LGBTQ rights: “Each one of these steps makes us more one country, and reminds us we are all part of the family of man.”

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

damn man, terrible news

Now we know the identities of 22 of the 23 men in the truck, one of whom is Pohlhaus. All but one of them are from out of state.

The town halls will continue until morale improves. www.status.news/p/axios-cox-...

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

Everybody named Benjamin Erickson is about to have a bad evening.

I’m starting to think Calibri font is not the problem

You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach

The RFK, jr effect.

Ok this story is totally insane Rich Chinese building armies of American born children via surrogacy

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

BREAKING: Emil Bove and Stephen Miller leading contenders in tight MAGA “ghoul-off” competition.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

rare post that gets better with every single word

This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.

Jesus fucking Christ, America. We are a shithole country with a shithole president and a shithole congress that does nothing to stop this entirely preventable violence. Fuck your guns and fuck you.

Fascist activist Bari Weiss is doing what her billionaire benefactors recruited her for: to turn CBS News into an ongoing infomercial for Hitler Youth.

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

An excellent demonstration of Trump diplomacy, which is generally saying "f*ck you" to the world (other, of course, than Russia.)

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

At least 150000 people are not accounted for. This is horrific

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind

Best news of the day and a real sign of AI progress.