Trump summoned the top American military officers stationed around the world to VA to tell them that the enemy they should be primarily concerned with now is American citizens.

So... Trump is threatening Dems by saying he'll cut Social Security and Medicare if there's a government shutdown... and he's going to explain these unpopular (and likely illegal) moves by saying, "Democrats made me do it!" In what world does he think that will work?

"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...

The weaponization of the legal system. Justice for the rich.

really good point about the incredible burden of litigation in this country

Fantastic read. Hemmer doesn't even bring up Jocelyn Elders in the 90s. Conservatives have always been about censorship, and a bunch of idiot centrists decided to team up with them because they felt threatened by the left. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Masterful work by @elienyc.bsky.social. www.c-span.org/clip/washing...

Over a two-year period, prosecutors across 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, with most of the charges originating in states with near or total abortion bans, according to a new report released Tuesday.

“Siri, zoom in.” @calltoactivism.bsky.social

These guys had no clue what they were voting for. They thought Trump would cut their taxes and magically lower prices. They will blame Trump for the shutdown. The buyer's remorse is stronger than ever.

If Joe Biden were giving this rambling speech, itd be treated as a four alarm fire in every newsroom in the country about his very obvious physical and mental decline. But because its Trump, they'll all mostly just shrug and move past it.

Wow. So strange these people aren't more popular.

Definitely not clicking this ragebait but... Gingrich lost his shutdown battles — why would you have him write about how to win one? @nytimes.com

This is correct. If you heard someone in an assisted-living facility rambling on this way, you'd be talking with the doctors about appropriate next levels of care. No kidding. And every officer in the room has to realize it.

This is just straight Klan meeting stuff now. Wouldn't sound out of place in The Order.

Brilliant.

That's been my take. "Fascism Marketing."

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

I joke, but it is just beyond question that the info environment was *fucked* in 2024. a critical mass of voters had no clue what the Trump campaign was even saying publicly bsky.app/profile/fyod...

This piece gets at something that I've been struggling to articulate: We've seen this exact push-pull before. When Republicans were out of power in the 1990s they invented "political correctness" to pretend they were being censored. Then they went right back to censoring once they had power again.

Yes.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Kavanaugh stops.

So Trump gathered the leaders of the military so he could lead a lackluster pep rally?

I just went on Twitter for 2 minutes and felt grosser than I have in years.

Um... Did anyone get lobsters at Walmart growing up?

The stupidity never stops.

democrats can now reach young men by telling them that trump wants to take away their naruto and their one piece

People saying that the WAPO is now partisan or biased clearly don't read the paper, we represent views across the entire spectrum, from the moderate right to the extreme fascist right!

This was the exact section I screenshotted.

A rich sociological text here, so many angles—white male privilege? get-rich-quick scam culture? tort reform propaganda?—but male loneliness jumps out at me. They chose this sad too-online life of copypasta hostility towards imagined enemies who did nothing to them. It's their fault they're lonely.

the beating heart of MAGA: an alcoholic sex creep reality TV guy who now runs the military whining and sniveling that people don't respect mass murderers enough

Another day, another ludicrous whitewashing of history.

I thought Middlesex was bloated to the point of boring, but the middle section with “The Obscure Object of Desire” was extremely rich and beautiful… and I wondered if the whole novel had been built off of that section.

There will be no lesson. Centrists are like Trump in that they refuse to admit mistakes.

This is also very funny to read after the thoughtcrime memo declaring certain words (being mean to conservatives) tantamount to violence. Trump never fails to humiliate his defenders, were they capable of shame. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

We’re in danger!

Love the precedent set here, which will enable us to use the thinnest possible pretext—and no written or oral evidence—to prosecute every single government official, billionaire, and business executive who ever testified in front of Congress. See ya soon, Elon!

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

Halligan thing captures key essentials abt trumpism. Dark dark and will be implemented by a low rent insurance lawyer who’s comically out of her depth. Five days to indict fmr FBI director with case so weak grand jury cld easily just say no.

What a fucking loser, just like his followers.

he is legitimately a bad person and has no business in public office

Donald Trump wants to lend $20 billion of our money to bail out a political ally and his global investors before an election. Oh, and Argentina just struck a major deal with China that crushes American soybean farmers already suffering from Trump's tariffs. “America First.”

It's true. We've done it to ourselves. I'd like to blame Republicans and the electoral college, but Trump won in 2024 with the majority. Americans chose chaos to get a tax break that's not coming. We can't be trusted.

Oh boy. This is some next-level fascist shit.

Whoever could have seen this coming... Oh, just about everyone on BlueSky.

It’s rare that one clip can both be grounds for a massive corporate lawsuit and grounds for the 25th Amendment at the same time.

I re-read Kimmel’s comments that got him suspended, and they’re not anodyne, but there’s not a whiff of disrespect toward Kirk. Team MAGA got pissed Kimmel suggested Robinson was one of them. In retrospect, seems like a massive overreach by Carr, Sinclair and Nexstar to exploit Kirk’s death.

Maybe it’s the alcohol, but I enjoy going through Laura Loomer’s posts and replying, “Why aren’t you as interesting as Chaya?”