As the author of the screenshot, let me state it clearly: I do not consider myself a "bully" but if "bullying" is necessary to keep influential people from working on behalf of scams like Kalshi and Coinbase, I think it's worth the cost. Working for private enterprise is fine. Selling their BS isn't

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Instead of tit-for-tat expulsion resolutions, any member of the House could offer a privileged resolution to simultaneously expel Swalwell (D), Cherfilus-McCormick (D), Gonzales (R), and Mills (R) on a single combined vote.

this was a bad idea from people that are unbelievably high off their own supply

If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

You’re not “disenfranchised” if you choose not to vote, you’re just an idiot

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. I know trans people and I know fascists who are making life difficult for trans people. The trans people are pretty cool and I'm glad I know them. The fascists can go fall down a deep dark hole.

Good rule of thumb: If someone says something ambiguous and refuses to clarify it, they want to be misread. If someone says something ambiguous and you refuse to listen to their clarifications, you want to misread them.

Reading the response to @mjsdc.bsky.social and it's literally the exact same set of abusive freaks who make my life hell every three or four days. Like, the exact same accounts. You can solve this problem! Just ban this contingent! Delete their accounts!

I think if you wish death on someone you don't get to hide behind your minority status as a shield. People should absolutely not pile on these people but their behavior is unacceptable and I will be blocking them.

I want to put this as plainly as possible: This site has way too many self-righteous, underinformed assholes looking to pick a fight. We need fewer of them and more people with Mark's expertise.

All of the hit dogs hollering that Mark highlighted them: You don’t get to attack someone with a fake name and then expect that name to be sacred

FYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

Jon Favreau on AIPAC.

It’s almost too stupid to be real. But this is a reporter from NBC News. Staring at a bunch of TVs is the whole point. And the TVs don’t work.

@davidjbier.bsky.social is so so good at this. He's my guest on next week's #WITHPod

You average normie Democrat in 2026 loves AOC, wants to abolish ICE, and thinks Israel shouldn’t get another penny from us. It’s laughable how out of touch centrist consultants and politicians are.

These people are, to be blunt, substantially less intelligent than they believe they are.

What makes a Democrat call themselves moderate may be about demographics (African-Americans, people without four-year degrees) more than policy positions. This bloc is not a bunch of Bloomberg types trying to stop economic populism. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

If Trump wants Zelenskyy’s help against drones, I think JD Vance to have to fly to Kiev, and sit in the Ukrainian equivalent of the Oval Office and say, “Thank you.”

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone] Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

"Hey Kurds, it's the United States. Remember us, from all the betrayals? Anyhoo, would love it if you all could march into this thresher for us. Let us know."

theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

you are literally the one guy who isn't allowed to complain about this

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.

Okay I feel like this is going to come up a lot in the next 24 hours so let's just clear this up: Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader allegedly killed today, is/was *not* the same person as Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader who came to power in the 1979 revolution.

Real credit to Ro Khanna here too. The cycle sometimes works.

Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.

If this is airstrikes only, who are they supposed to surrender to, and who are the 'forces of liberation'?

If you are an elected Dem and your reaction to this is "Let's downplay DC statehood," let me suggest an alternative: Do Your Job. You have 3 years to build support for an institutional reform agenda that clearly must include DC statehood. Stop cowering in fear of a toss-up issue and get to work.

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

This seems to be a common reply to my thread, so I'll address it here. Basically, the argument is who cares if this is a misleading attack on Newsom, he's bad so if it hurts him it's fine. And I think it's important to push back on misinformation so that when there are legitimate criticisms...

What this technology is going to do is not end higher education, but it is going to undo so much of the baseline work on accessibility by pushing overworked professors to take things back to offline modalities, in person timed exams, keeping tech out of the classroom, etc.

NEWS Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza.

The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.

Chuck Schumer spectacularly failed the “vote blue no matter who” test and should be hounded from office

My "vote blue no matter who" shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt but unironically

When you say "vote blue no matter who" these guys always say "oh ho ho, but what if it was Lina Khan, would you vote blue THEN?" And the answer is "yes"? Very obviously? Was "vote blue no matter who" unclear?

The reason that it's important to establish now that WE MUST ELECT THE DEMOCRAT IN 2028 is that you won't be able to get people back in the fold if you spend three years attacking Dems as a feckless party that's possibly no better than Trump. The damage we suffer now will hurt us in the future.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

You must vote. You must vote for the Democrat against Trump. There is no other remotely morally acceptable position. I’m sorry if this simple truth gets you yelled at but it’s still true