Liberals constantly tell me that only conservatives fall for hoaxes and tabloid journalism and somehow liberal brains are immune to it

True.

love to learn that my recently deceased ex husband's employer cut off the kids health insurance (without telling me) as we're checking in at urgent care 🤪 stupid ass country

I recommend following @atrupar.com. His posts aren't particularly PLEASANT. But the NYT, WaPo, LAT, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, WSJ, et al are NOT telling you what's really happening. They're always going to clean up Trump's bigotry, racism, incoherence, and viciousness. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump has called on Congress to pass a record $1.5T defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.

John Cena is a master of defusing questions designed to get celebrities to say controversial things. Truly, a master of the craft.

“Staff”??

Also a lot of the weird white people on this app resent the fact that so many Black people came over around Sept, October and November of 2024. Especially because they would try to push that it's about class not race bullshit and we would all shut it down with the quickness.

BlueSky grew the fastest when it was most welcoming to Black users, especially Black women. BlueSky's growth stalled when that changed, and hasn't fully recovered since. It's the weird social media resentment: * Black users drive growth on social media * But platforms don't prioritize them 🙂🙃

centrism was always a PR fig-leaf over robber baron shit, don't get hoodwinked

Not April Fools. This is appalling on so many levels.

Funniest part of this hater tweet is that he's wrong about the circulation but absolutely correct about the quality of the work. They spend so much time glazing and sanewashing the babbling of an idiot with dementia and then that same idiot points out their mistakes. Zero self respect at the NYT

Esquire couldn’t book this actor for an interview so fed previous responses through a couple of thief machines and ‘interviewed’ a digital photocopy. Including asking personal questions about his dad. People need to be sued and then fired for this.

Wow, they changed the headline to be *worse*.

Boy, what a terrible headline. We *need* the wealthy to participate in public services. If only poor people ride the bus, then rich people won't wield their power in support of public transit or, worse, will wield their power *against* it.

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

Mother Jones draws on historians to describe the true nature of right-wing transphobia. Elite media like the nyt do something entirely different 🧵

We had a County Executive here who fought hard to close down the library system, on the grounds that it was a waste of money when people could just go to Barnes and Noble if they wanted a book. He later went to Congress and was convicted on insider trading charges. Charming guy!

A root of America’s sickness is the death of belief In public good out of spite. Why should anything benefit everyone if someone I don’t like gets something from it?

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Stupidest headline ever. There is evidently no reality for the NYTimes about a guy teleporting - just opinions.

The concept of "universal benefit for all; taxes on the back end" continues to elude people. This is just "should bill gates get a basic income?!!!" again as if the man wouldn't be a net payer come tax time.

100 percent tariff on... medicine? I'm telling you, one of the best arguments that Republicans are planning to steal the election is that they're actively trying to lose it.

I'm an idiot. I thought Syracuse University was part of SUNY up until a few minutes ago.

Replacing the idling transport refrigeration units at Hunts Point with hybrid/electric units is the equivalent of removing 6K trucks per day from the Cross Bronx Expressway. This is huge for health in the Bronx, and it's thanks to congestion pricing!

Red States: We're going to cut all the programs that don't support our theology Blue States: We're going to cut the same programs, but because they don't support the business school

As a result of Trump & Hegseth's re-segregation, all five service chiefs, the JCS chairman and vice chairman, and nine of ten combatant commanders are white men. Also, the U.S. military is back to zero female four-star officers for the first time since 2008; there were four in 2024.

Harassing people isn't right. And J6ers would be largely free from harassment if they were still in prison like they should be.

Pam Bondi’s whole deal was that she did this type of shit all day, every day and it made her look like a feckless deranged idiot who kept getting her cases tossed

We already subsidize like 15 years of free public school for the kids of many, many people who have plenty of money. Why would anybody suddenly freak out about a couple of years of preschool?

One of the stated goals of the ADF, Heritage, and Family policy council was to drive a wedge between the LGBTQ community to divide and conquer it. This pick me is willingly doing that work for them and is constantly being platformed by major media like the Atlantic and the WSJ.

Jesus H Christ (Read the thread)

Did you know there are actually two sides to the question of whether women are people?

Oh, so it's for SURE because they don't think it's a good idea to invade Iran.

I think Hegseth's idea here is to encourage right-wing service members to use their guns to threaten, hurt, and kill other service members they deem insufficiently right-wing, under the expectation that they will be shielded by the administration (e.g., pardons, thwarted prosecutions) for doing so.

Greg Bovino was just on Fox News in front of a giant picture of himself

no, listen, look at the cabinet, this might actually, in fact, be true

Never forget that this was how The Washington Post greeted Pam Bondi's nomination. Support independent pro-democracy media. Support Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

DNC should have this on loop. The true MAGA will agree. Most everyone else will be appalled.

So interesting how TFG is forcing realignments of the world's political order. First "middle powers" building more complex relationships (not just with Russia, China and the US) and now Iran getting a bigger role in global trade.

Ok but look how competently DoD is run now that black people and women are being purged from the higher ranks and merit is the only criteria bsky.app/profile/empt...

After WWII, we could have expanded federal childcare centers across the US. That's what moms wanted! And that's what our European allies did. But, billionaires and big corporations convinced US policymakers not to invest in childcare if moms could be forced to do (or pay for) that work instead. 3/

During WWII, the US couldn't find enough women to fill factory jobs. So, Congress used Lanham Act funds to build childcare centers in key defense production locations, offering full-time, high-quality care (and even summer and afterschool care) for <$10/day in today's dollars. 2/

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

the president of the United States is a madman seriously damaging the entire world

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

Could be worse. We could have had a woman president.

The medical examiner in Buffalo has ruled that the death of a nearly blind man left alone by Border Patrol agents on a frigid night was a homicide, a finding that could lead to criminal charges.