really glad the post fired all my friends to focus on stories like this

It brings me great pleasure to report that the "Mamdani at the Knicks game" "scandal" news articles are getting roasted locally by normies about as much as they are here on Bluesky. They really don't have anything on him.

Kind of funny that Google saw Microsoft self-immolate its customer loyalty by stuffing AI into everything regardless of whether it was useful or even non-harmful, and then decided to do the same with its FLAGSHIP PRODUCT.

Future activist investors are going to demand that the CEO be banned from all unsupervised groupchats, and preferably the Board as well.

Counterpoint: No I will not

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

The "magical" thing this person argues AI provides is also available to all of us through the simple act of having conversations with other people

We must push on to liberate New Ivaarsen

On top of the fact that AOC is an all-time ball knower, the fact that a candidate who raised considerably less than I did in my run got a gigantic outside expenditure from a group with dubious financial connections should be a giant red flag that they're an op.

Hot pot lunch for my sinuses was exactly the right decision.

He will literally be golfing but in a different state lmao

"A vote for me is a vote to abolish ICE." "A vote for me is a vote to close the camps where tens of thousands of people the regime abducted are captive without trial." "A vote for me is a vote to lower your healthcare premiums." "A vote for me is a vote to stop killing school kids abroad."

I'm going to start saying I can't attend things because of "circumstances related to Government, and my love for the United States of America."

Imagine getting an official communication from your father, who is President of the United States, that he is skipping your wedding

one of the nice things about tim walz harping on how weird these guys are is that we're so used to right-wing media selling the obverse by going "look at this normal piece of shit at a playoff game for his favorite team" or "i bet this maniac thinks fucking his wife makes him heterosexual"

Big 'this is why we do this' moment here in my professional sphere that I had a small part in. Can't go into details but it's a feel-good Friday rn.

See, the thing is that whether USAID was a cynical op to expand imperial influence or a sincere act of goodwill from the United States, all those Africans are still dead.

Happy Anniversary to the "Andrew Garbarino sleeping through the budget vote" meme. Our local town committee has a specific ActBlue link for it, if you'd like to help make his and his cronies in the Islip Republicans lives a little more miserable today! secure.actblue.com/donate/sleep...

Could be some reasons that the US Constitution assigns to Congress the authority to take the country to war rather than leaving it to the whims of one man. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

One thing that is genuinely amazing is how badly they keep fucking up the basic Authoritarianism 101 task of suppressing dissidents. The Broadview Six case, done to intimidate protesters, has instead become a bleeding wound that demonstrates their complete impotence at punishing dissenters.

they do keep fucking up in ways that are avoidable, but it's also a reflection on the strengths of the American system - and more importantly, our PEOPLE - in an attempted fascist takeover gov't wants to make disliking ICE illegal? too bad for them, >15 of your peers wouldn't let them do it.

The thing about correctly pointing out the cynical way that "civility" and "decorum" are often employed is: You have to bear in mind that the utter refusal to cloak one's racism behind seven proxies is a *novel and meaningful* development Civility - and its absence - is laden with *meaning*

France floods Europe's grid with solar, pushing prices negative www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is like trying to drill for oil through the ruins of Pompeii. Chaco canyon is one of the most significant native archeological sites in the United States. Absolutely disgusting to even propose it

"Mayor attends huge local sporting event and doesn't even get comped seats or sit in the best spot" is such a hilarious way to try to burn someone, really nypost.com/2026/05/22/u...

“America has always been like this” responses to “Orange Man Bad” posts annoy me. Obama didn’t post a video of him dumping his own fecal matter from a F-18 on his critics, then threaten to go to war with Denmark. That isn’t true.

I just want to point out, politely, that there are other colleges apart from Ivy League institutions. They are where most college students go. They are where, believe it or not, America's massive comparative advantage in higher education exist. You would never know this if you read the Times.

oh compliance costs, you say? can I assume you're also in favor of eliminating work requirements for food stamps and other welfare benefits? no? weird

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

Recall: Dems hung tough on no funding for ICE & BP, Rs caved and passed rest of DHS and decided to do ICE and BP via reconciliation. Trump wanted ballroom then slush fund, couldn’t work it out, & here we are. Lesson for Dems: Hanging tough put pressure on Rs, -> Rs in disarray.

Whatever your thoughts about The Boys' finale, it made Elon Musk mad, which the show's creator and cast think is hilarious.

As a compromise position I think every municipality or county with a population larger than the smallest state by population should get a single Senator. Singlehandedly shifts the Founder era bias for rural localities to the cities that actually make things run in the modern day.

Oh no, I have a dark sense of humor, its incredibly funny that this country thought they were pulling the lever for the 2019 economy again and instead got exactly what they pulled the lever for, in truth.

If reality is a simulation, it's the one where Ohtani is a SI living his best life.

🚨If a state is making it harder for your family to vote, why reward them with your talent and your NIL money? I said what I said. You can still make it to the NFL, NBA, or anywhere else without propping up politicians attacking democracy and voting rights.

I love how inventive this shithole regime is when it comes to pissing off voters. Their poll numbers are only gonna get worse.

There are critical staffing shortages in nursing facilities, group homes, and other human services related places all across this country, and it's getting our most vulnerable fellow citizens hurt and killed.

Do I think it was a decisive factor? No. Much like 2016, I think there were fifteen different factors and if four of them were different, Trump loses badly. But a competent AAR would've examined all of these and done real analysis, not whatever nepobaby BS this is.

Get ‘em

This is extremely lawless and corrupt by the Trump DOJ. So, par for the course. The presumption of regularity is a joke now, and federal prosecutors won’t recover the esteem they had from federal judges for a generation. (Which, actually, is fine.)

it is a violation of my human rights that i may unknowingly encounter Keir Starmer in a private space such as a restroom or changing room. Keir Starmer should have a separate room, guided into such upon disclosure at entering the building

Dear pedophiles, could you please all block me and add me to your “person who hates pedophiles lists”? This would be appreciated as I do in fact hate pedophiles and their apologists

This would be what I was talking about the other day. We *very* much have leverage if we're willing to use it.

how is AOC the only Democrat doing righteous and non-insane demagoguery on an issue that polls like 80-20

It's all falling apart

a thing I occasionally keep in mind is that the own-party dam broke on Nixon in August of a midterm year

an underrated factor of "why is everything so shit" is that we haven't had stable congressional majorities in 20 years, congress doesn't know how to congress because it hasn't congressed in decades, and most of congresses procedures suck which makes the rest of the government suck

i mean, this is just an unusually blatant version of what the GOP does in every high profile election — same idea they ran over 20 years ago attacking war hero Kerry as a coward and elevating Bush, who got his dad to get him into the Air National Guard so he wouldn't get sent overseas, as a hero

So basically the answer to how they got the indictment against Kat Abu, given how hostile grand juries would be, is just illegally dismiss every grand juror that voted against them, lie to the rest, and try to hide it from the judge