The mods can make everyone happy easily with one simple rule: BlueSky has zero tolerance for death threats, unless they are a pop culture reference and/or are very funny.

Honestly I was surprised that people I respect were going to bat for Sarah Kendzior. The lady has been giving off bad vibes ever since 2016.

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

Oh no calling Hitler "evil" is ableist takes are going to drop.

I love how at some point in Scotland, someone looked at a bread roll and went "This is nice, but what if it was burnt to absolute fuck?" And the well-fired roll was born.

A galaxy with non-smooth features, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.94 (lookback time 7.70 billion years) with coordinates (150.27916, 2.68135). 62 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Pueblo viejo resto bar; Unnamed Road, MQ62+FFR, Montero, Bolivia https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-17.3387553%2C-63.24886000000001&query_place_id=ChIJp2vl-VY_7pMRY9ThY7Dxa9c

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.

No kings includes angus king

“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The films have continuity? I thought they all just rebooted anew each time?

They're the same picture.

The fact that not a single member of the Senate Dem caucus has called for Schumer to be replaced shows you how deep the rot is. This includes Sanders and Warren.

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

How inspiring! Because of this post, I am announcing the Heather Heyer Initiative Against Distracted Driving.

Nope (2022)

Things are sad right now but remember you can look up into the sky and see billions of years into the past.

A spiral galaxy, possibly merging, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.58 (lookback time 5.77 billion years) with coordinates (150.31238, 1.73009). 29 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

in case you wondered how the normies were taking in all of the recent shutdown-ish events, here is twenty minutes of Jon Stewart screaming at the Democrats:

You ever call a senator's office and ask the staffer who picks up what it's like to work for someone without a spine? 10/10 recommend.

This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.

anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle

We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...

Here are the at least 6 House Democrats, 3 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 4 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

Yeah this is a bad opinion (the video discussed). The thing is, while you do eventually realize Undead Burg is the best direction to go, there is a lot of fun stuff you can do around the margins of the other areas.

Are you REALLY trying to rally us for a shitty vote that is guaranteed to fail AFTER you gave up the only concrete leverage you had? What the hell is wrong with you? Primary.

This is so offensive I don’t even know where to start. “Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.” Nope. We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours. You work for us.

oh it gets worse

This is a funny illustration of how reactionaries just make shit up about liberals and leftists.

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

This is what is so galling. We didn't want just the ACA tax credits! But that is where Schumer and company decided to put their foot down. And ... for what?

democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up

OK I dislike this skeet becasue it makes the Democrats seem relatable.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Stop patting senators on the head unless they are calling for schumer's removal. Everything else is just in the script

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Becoming increasingly clear. Dems answer to their donors. That's it.

These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.