interesting

Omfg

Aaron Rodgers playoff bound

Logging onto Bluesky today be like

World Cup

Gotta wonder about the historical chops of someone with the surname “Kelly” praising colonialism

Don't forget too that Marco Rubio's good buddy, who's awaiting trial for acting as an unregistered agent for Venezuela, was an associate of both Maduro and newly installed leader Delcy Rodriguez.

As Trump uses violence abroad and turns America into a global pariah, he’s also threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act at home to give himself dictatorial powers

If you are a Minnesotan, I need you to call or write your state lawmakers today. People are, as of today, not making payroll, declaring bankruptcy, wondering where they or their kids are going to live, losing their jobs. I know the politics are tricky, but this is the wrong approach.

Keeping the social safety net as small and as punitive as possible helps to ensure that there will always be a steady stream of people for employers like Bezos to exploit--people in such a precarious position that have no choice but to take whatever underpaid, overworked job they can get.

fun fact: Donald Trump had Charlie Kirk killed

I’m sick to death of how frequently people have to ask Republicans to specifically stop talking shit about their murdered relatives

Ironic that our celebration of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence will be led by a mad king.

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

In America the fourth-richest man uses his newspaper to print columns about how the poor have too many sweets

they should do that now actually

Every editor after decades of being sued by politicians: hm we can’t just accuse him of a crime in the banner headline. Let’s go with TRUMP CAPTURES MADURO IN UNORTHODOX MILITARY OPERATION, RAISING LEGAL CONCERNS Trump: no no I kidnapped him. it was a crime. I love crimes they’re my favorite

Right now what I'm hearing it: providers are taking out loans and preparing to shutter. Provider networks and supprting politicians are asking dept human services to help. DHS is saying: Payments by Jan 27 for those that aren't actually suspicious.

The rest of the world ought have a coordinated, anti-U.S. sanctions package queued up for the next time the regime tries something.

BREAKING: An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths.

But if he invades Greenland, he presumably has to deal with Denmark, which is an overwhelmingly white country. Is Trump going to kill a lot of white people on camera? Will white people in the US tolerate that? Don't know!

Absolutely correct note from @annakeesey.bsky.social - Wikipedia says 89.7% of the population is Inuit! Which frankly helps explain in part why this racist administration is so fixed on it. blacksky.community/profile/did:...

It'll be interesting to see what happens when he starts murdering white people.

Colin and Sophie Hortman, the children of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, are asking Trump to remove the false posts about their parents' killing:

Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened: -- a second strike against Venezuela -- Cuba -- Mexico -- Colombia -- Iran -- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:

In a highly unusual move, the EPA is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. (Published Dec. 2025)

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering

Just a quick reminder that these nations are all under threat from Putin, who wants to slice off the northern regions in order to command unfettered North Sea access.

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

Not sure how bad the deepfake problem is? Read Stella's farewell thread. This is an extreme form of remote sexual harassment that can now be used to target anyone, regardless of platform, in seconds. Despite news stories focusing mostly on CSAM it's still unchecked and rampant on Twitter.

So when can you start

You know what looks even weaker?

surprisingly few people brought up ankha during today's discourse lol

Hundreds of millions of people used to actively LOVE us. Impossible to imagine now.

Genuinely remarkable to step back and appreciate how completely America has squandered away its global goodwill and superpower status in my lifetime

The framers were not infallible. Here is there biggest mistake 👇. There were no formal political parties as we understand them today, only a loose collection of interests.

This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro. But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.

right off the bat he has a claim to absolute immunity. they're of course taking the position that he's not really the leader of venezuela but that's an even weaker claim than they had against noriega the last time they did this

he just keeps escalating and escalating and getting away with it. Hitler was like that for a very long time bsky.app/profile/dsqu...

no, you don't understand, my little eichmann will get in trouble if he doesn't drop a bomb on civilians so that marco rubio and pete hegseth can see good numbers on their tweets!! we're a military family and that means you gotta call us brave and good even when we do basic-ass coward shit!!

And lo and behold, from the Miami Herald about how Rodriguez pulled off her coup and played Trump for a fool. This also explains why Marco Rubio looks like such an ignorant, flailing little bitch right now. Because he is. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

As discussed here previously, the US seems to be gearing up for a strike on Iran.

Look, Bluesky is a Twitter byproduct that exists as a community because Musk bought Twitter and killed it and now has X wear it as a skinsuit. No one is here really because they believe in the fediverse, we're here because of what happened to Twitter. This is twitter for opting out of Musk-Twitter.