UPDATE: now DHS says "globalists" will be blocked "from ever entering our country."

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

Thinking how Stephen Bannon got fired in 2017 because Trump got mad that people were saying he's the real president. Probably wouldn't work with Miller because they only feed Trump AI slop now. They got him in the Professor X rig watching videos of himself leading troops in battle

So, uh, y'all see this?

Bari Weiss would've of course worked for CBS without buying out her website, but the oligarch class wants to reward her for her years of service to their cause including her time as an infiltrator destroying the New York Times from the inside.

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

how insane was it to say “we tortured some folks” and then not only not do anything about it but keep everyone involved in polite society. what did we think was going to happen after that

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

i hope the democrats see that there is no working with these people. it really does need to be pens down. file court cases, lie down in the street, but theres no getting back to the business of washington or whatever. it's all on fire, act accordingly

Their only move is waiting for Republicans to screw up badly enough to win the next election by default, except now we're in a situation where, even if they do win the midterms, it won't stop what's happening. You need a whole different set of guys for this moment

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

man. i hate it when mastodon people are right about things. that's annoying af

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Three cheers for the Constitution's right to a jury: a federal jury in Los Angeles "took just over an hour to acquit [Brayan] Ramos-Brito of a misdemeanor assault count" in an ICE-scuffle case hinging heavily on the testimony of border sector chief Gregory Bovino, now doing raids in Chicago.

honestly it was pretty funny when the right was pretending that charlie kirk was a revolutionary civil rights leader when his whole deal was barely winning arguments with children

Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.

Every now and then, we get a reminder that Bluesky is moderated like a business, not a community. They're not going to ban transphobes, they're not going to ban racists, they're not going to ban fascists, as long as the propaganda is shaped like polite dialog.

A sex-blind admissions policy at selective universities will not go the way that the Trump administration thinks it will.

I’m not talking about the “AI “actress”” thing because it is so clearly an astroturfed non-story which only benefits from people taking it seriously, even as outrage / distaste. It does not exist. It *will* not exist, at least as executed by these people. I refuse to fall for it.

Increasingly, I feel as if these self-proclaimed coalition builders talking about "winning the middle" aren't talking about the people they hope to win over. Rather, they're talking about themselves, and defining what it will take to keep them in the tent. Not opposed to purity tests; issuing them.

sorry if this seems dramatic but i think we need to make it so people are afraid to say shit like this in public

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation. Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

If he replied saying "mr pope is my father" I would convert to catholicism

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Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

If NPR has no federal funding I think that means they're allowed to cuss

They like Trump and want to help him

There have been two hosts in the history of Reading Rainbow. The Legend of Literacy, LeVar Burton! And... me, Mychal Threets, a librarian 🥹🤯 I am a reader, a librarian because LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow made us believe and see we belong in books, we belong everywhere ✨ youtu.be/e7es7qdWVnU

If I was a military general I'm not sure I'd be impressed by a guy wearing makeup and a haircut from Fox News telling me to be tougher

"no more superficial individual expression"

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

This one neat trick can help you teach US politics during an institutional collapse: Tell the truth. That's it. Just tell it like it is. Be radical.

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

When Trump threatens to nix funding to NYC if Zohran Mamdani wins, it only helps Zohran. It inflates the Trump threat, positions Zohran as a fighter for NYC against Trump, and pushes Cuomo into the role of Trump stooge. There's a lesson here for Dems. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2011...

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

They accidentally defunded their own police?

Honey I Shrunk Kid Rock looking ass

Here's a thought. Fuck these guys.

Anyone trying to primary the Dems. Here’s your ad:

imagine flying halfway around the world for a meeting that could’ve been an email and some guy with a hangover is just shouting at you that it’s against the rules to be fat or gay

Can you imagine being trapped in the internet and you see Mr Beast and it’s like “well at least it can’t get any worse” and then Jared Leto comes walking over a hill

“average voter is centrist” is a statistical error, average voter holds dozens of contradictory and sometimes insane policy views that more or less counterbalance because theyre all conflicting

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people: