There will be consequences for this day.

Trump's "it would cost a lot of money and be very difficult to undo" argument in favor of the tariffs is kind of giving away the game, huh? The whole point of most of this administration is to do a lot of damage very fast before anything gets through the courts, to make it hard to impossible to fix.

To be clear: No, Trump is not going to send you a $2000 check. He is not going to send anyone a $2000 check. He is lying, because he wants to make a case for being allowed to levy tariffs at will. The tariff income would not pay for this. There would be no "left over" money. It's a lie.

Schumer has secured... a promise of a vote on healthcare. All he had to do was give up all the leverage he had, leverage he could have used to make that vote go his way.

Very safe creatures, leopards. Many people are saying. Maybe the safest. Safe like you've never seen before.

I guess Republicans will enact single-payer healthcare just to avoid releasing the Epstein files? I dunno, maybe we should let them cook?

I don't want anyone to be able to ignore or forget that right now Republicans are fighting tooth and nail to starve people.

Being pro trans rights doesn't lose you elections. Being transphobic doesn't win you elections. This was proven multiple times last night, across the country, including in what were apparently surprising places. We need to strike this idea from the "common wisdom."

If I were a Republican campaign strategist, I would've shit my pants tonight.

There is a direct throughline from things this man fought tooth and nail for and many of the ills of the current era, including the imperial presidency we are now seeing. Dick Cheney was always of the opinion that Nixon should have fought for keeping the presidency powerful and unaccountable.

Sometimes I wonder if @theequeerstrian.bsky.social is okay, and then some angelic smut lands on my timeline and I stop worrying.

I love these music school dorks.

Oh, they're going to be changing the reply button so it doesn't reply.

A man who got rich dishonestly who's constantly trying to impress old money? Little TOO on the nose, there.

You just know in your bones that at some point Trump had, or is having, a conversation in which someone laboriously explains to him that he can't add gold to the Resolute desk.

Whenever someone brings up that Christ tells you, personally, to help the poor rather than having the government do it, I have thoughts.

Does he rule this land? Has he works or are they sand? Is he king of kings? Or has time scattered all his things? Nobody wants him Trunkless are his legs Mighty despairing Of his empire are dregs

If you're going to give him a crown and feed him cheeseburgers, we've got Burger King at home.

They're aware of what this looks like. They want it to look like that.

Gotta say, this does not look like a healthy campaign with good momentum.

The thing that's shocking Americans is this used to be super classified and only come out in leaks, but since this administration is white knuckling through purely on fascist aesthetics, it gets posted by the SecDef and/or the president with full video and the evidence-less legal justification.

I don't think you should make another milkshake. The duck's starting to look sick.

"Appears similar" here actually means "A line-perfect Totenkopf, a symbol used by the SS division that ran the concentration camps, which Platner has referred to as a Totenkopf when asked about it, and also he's a military history buff so he absolutely knows what that means."

When you find yourself buying a toilet plunger that for all the world looks like a miniature pogo stick, you start to wonder if you’re eating right.

Okay folks, I know someone out there has to be sufficiently into Chaos Dwarfs that they can post a size comparison between the Forge World ones and the Helsmiths of Hashut models.

Interesting strategy declaring South American heads of state to be illegitimate, and sending the CIA there to depose them. I bet nobody's tried that before.

For gosh sakes, give us HER on the tabletop in Old World, GW.

So a troubling thought: Did KISS register their makeup on eggs at the clown museum? Because that shit's no laughing matter.

Okay, look. Nobody seeks out CNN to enough of a degree to spend money on it. It got where it is by being bundled in with things you actually want. CNN is absolutely not desirable enough to be ITS OWN STREAMING SERVICE. Especially when "All Access" DOESN'T GET YOU ALL OF IT.

Well, shit.

Every so often there's just a weird song that lodges in my brain because it's a straight bop.

Came across this gem in a discussion, and oh *buddy*, you do not know chess.

This may be a hot take, but if you control the food supply of a region, and you decide to halve it to put pressure on the dominant faction of that region to accede to your demands, the population isn't likely to blame that faction for them starving. They'll blame you, who control their food supply.

You might think I'm joking but I'm honestly not. He was a fascinating guy, and kind of local to here.

"Tom Homan didn't engage in any criminal wrongdoing" is a very different statement than "Tom Homan didn't take a paper bag full of cash from an undercover FBI agent."

He's your grandpa who gets mad at windmills and thinks magnets are kinda sus. But he's got the nuclear football.

So, there are no foreign military bases on American soil. None. Very much not a thing we do. We'll put 'em on your soil, you don't put 'em on ours. American exceptionalism, or whatever. That's about to change apparently. What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck?

Really kind of amazing and beautiful that all the cartoons we watched in the 80s and 90s actually somehow prepared us pretty well in ways to combat fascism.

Aaron of Trust and Safety is a weird combination of having his notifications set so he only sees replies and mentions from people he follows, but at the same time constantly searching his name.

Looks like you're up to bat, @ceronomus.bsky.social

The best towns and cities are the ones you walk through. You almost always forget the ones you drive through.

The mistake entirely too many people make is in thinking they can improve on Jack Kirby's Fourth World designs.

In the current Skybound Transformers title, Carly is basically Mikaela Banes at her most dirtbag, and I think that's beautiful.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but emergency rooms are not equipped to verify legal residency in the US, and even if they were they wouldn't be in a position to turn anyone away.

it's pretty weird that BlueSky decided to tell people they don't want to be another Twitter forty million users in, isn't it

"Leave this area you are indigenous to or we will kill you" is genocide, plain and simple. It is not a threat of genocide, the act of clearing an area of its indigenous people is genocide in and of itself. And that's where we are right now with an American president saying this.

Ian Roberts now stands charged with a federal felony. This is an educator and former Olympian who used to inspire his students by running footraces with them. The administration has to turn him into a dangerous monster to justify what they're doing to him.