And so the circle of @irhottakes.bsky.social's prophecy is complete

I wanna know what the hell the Rams defender was doing there ?

this app is absolutely at the apex of sports discussion when we start getting this

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

"Like an elderly man whose powers are failing, the Habsburg Monarchy sought to recover its youth by a display of vitality...internal action had come to nothing; action in foreign affairs had to take its place."

This is why you can't afford RAM anymore

Lmao this is just, you know, the law but hey

elites have got no idea just how apocalyptically angry ordinary people are about this shit

DHS in general was a bad re-org. Give TSA and the air marshals to DOT, customs and civil immigration to state, criminal immigration enforcement to justice, the natsec shit to Justice/DoD, etc. Only border patrol is the one that doesn’t neatly fit into any already existing cabinet portfolio.

They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal

it is true that it *should not* matter that the murder victim was a white, middle-class, U.S. citizen mother, but it is also true that it *does* matter and that the story reaches people who might not otherwise be reached as a result.

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

Just saw a picture of stuffed animals in the woman's car and man...I really am struggling to find the words right now. This is all just so unspeakably devastating, and I don't know how we come back from it.

not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s

it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

The surprise invasion of Venezuela isn't imperial expansion driven by the dictates of capitalism; it is somehow even sicker. The Trump administration is behaving like gambling addicts chasing clout in an attention economy. Venezuela is a fucking meme stock. www.theverge.com/policy/85807...

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Compare this to Biden leaving Afghanistan & think about what the incentives are for every American politician

The reason you go scorched-earth on this is the same reason we should have gone scorched-earth on impoundment; you can't stop it from happening, but you absolutely need to stop it from becoming a normal part of politics. You have to draw a line.

Every single person involved in this needs to be thrown before The Hague, which quite frankly is merciful given what they're guilty of. No more letting monsters off the hook. You can either keep the Republic, or you can keep these bastards out of prison. You can't keep both.

Not that it wasn’t clear before, but launching a major war out of the blue with zero real effort to build public support and absolutely no approval from Congress demonstrates how much Trump perceives himself as a pure dictator

Remember when Glenn Greenwald called trump the peace candidate?n

We sent a bunch of effete, Ivy League scientists into the desert and they returned with a portable sun.

Obviously it's disappointing that I didn't win the inaugural FIFA Peace Award. I felt like I had a good shot at it, and that there was a case to be made. But I'm not giving up, and I will do whatever it takes to win the next one. They're definitely going to keep giving it out.

The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”

Alonso DRS train goes brrrrrrr

This didn’t have to be this way. Blowback isn’t some immutable force of nature

This is a grown man suggesting that good cocktail party conversation is telling a robot to insult the other guests, and then – and this part is key – making it do it again

I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

CNN: In the last couple of weeks or so, she's become kind of an ally on some issues. What do you make of this? Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.

Much like USAid, if the rest of the world wanted to replace what the US has done for the last 80 years, they would have been doing it already

It’s really cool watching people on this website cry about how anti-technology and progress the world is re: AI and hearing, from the small number of instructors I know in real life, how this stuff is just destroying traditional instruction with no effective mitigation for public education systems.

I hate this sort of meme. “The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.” Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?

Had a perfectly normal Byzantine Revival game going in EUV until...wait is that the pope in Anatolia????

i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia

"Freedom from want is not a noble ideal just because it mitigates against the suffering inherent in poverty—it is also a key pillar in making a society truly open, as personal wealth is nearly synonymous with choice in a modern, commercial society." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...

yes, and: there is an entire generation of voters out there that don't know what politics is like without Donald Trump

This is the ultimate sickos game

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

the brutal ableism of Trumpism is an underrated part of its ideology by most pundits. Trump mocking a disabled journalist *invigorated* his voters rather than repelling them, because it made them feel that they were safely on the side of the bully, rather than the victim.

Bluesky rn

"Let this be the last time I say [Cuomo's] name as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers to only a few.

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

American voters:

yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.