Well, it does help that this is a completely fake post about something thats not real

It’s a real problem that our elite institutions are just much stupider now than they used to be

Wonder how they would have framed it if AOC was making the same claim

Gdi, experts are /skeptical/. The /claims/ are dubious* * false

Trump is once again proposing to destroy Alcatraz — a globally popular tourist attraction — by wasting billions to turn it into some sort of prison gulag. It’s an absurd, idiotic idea, a complete waste of taxpayer money, and yet another sign of Trump’s dementia. Back off.

Folks, I give you the New York Times

Oh Ted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nug....

Trump's budget proposes a massive cut to national rail infrastructure development: —National network grants from $4.8 b this year to $1.5 b —Northeast Corridor grants from $2 b this year to $600 m —High-speed rail grants from $900 m to $0 —Fed/state grants from $3.8 b to $1.4 b

Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver was facing federal criminal charges — until he sought the services of a select club of President Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to top DOJ appointees. (Published Jan.)

The NYT, a paper devoted to spreading the propaganda of rich “centrists” and right wing Trump apologists, isn’t critiquing the wealthy or defending the needy; it’s just trying to stigmatize public services and evangelize for means testing to undermine a socialist mayor. Just my opinion!

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.

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

The single most important thing that has to happen is criminal, civil, and/or professional consequences (whichever their behavior warrants) for everyone who has participated in the horror show we've been watching for over a year now

Trump is preparing to release a 2027 budget plan that will frame his party’s midterms message around a massive defense buildup, partially paid for by cuts to domestic agencies and health-care entitlements

One thing that always strikes me about this 60 year old photos of NYC is just how many fewer cars there were. NYC made the streets too wide at a time when demand wasn't there, and they've filled up with too many cars in the intervening decades.

Lee Zeldin has spent his career failing upwards because the voters of Suffolk County have New York City Derangement Syndrome.

she's gonna go down in history as by far the worst AG (so far) in American history, and Trump is firing her because she's not even worse

$4/gal gas and rising and here I am looking up how to insure and register my e-bike because @stateofnewjersey.bsky.social has its priorities ass backwards.

Bruce Blakeman was too cowardly to respond to a request for comment on this canceled project, which led to a death he is now responsible for

Bookmark this for the “but Obama’s Iran deal was bad” people in your life

HE LIVES

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Absolute gutter racism and nonstop lies. This is a thousand times worse than Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queen” lies. Any other modern president would have had to resign if they said these things on camera.

This is the sort of gangsterism that even Genghis Khan found to be offensive, it breaks a taboo that predates the very idea of true international law.

"No president can decide to withdraw from NATO without Senate approval." —Marco Rubio in 2023 "It's the president's decision if we stay in NATO." —Marco Rubio in 2026

Iranian Americans now oppose this US war on Iran by a two to one margin.

Alito is the American dream—in a single generation, he went from the son of immigrants to sitting on the highest court in the land, where he gets to opine about how more recent immigrants shouldn’t have rights

"well, the framers of the constitution and the authors of the 14th amendment had no concept of 'illegal immigration'" maybe is a bit of a double-edged sword for the conservatives if you think about it for like 30 seconds.

The Post’s City Hall Bureau Chief hasn’t seen a bus in NYC in 6 years, I guess. What a clown show.

“Now to take a big sip of water and check what Republican evangelicals believe.”

Now imagine what being surrounded by sycophantic humans for your entire life does to your brain.

"The idea that there are huge swaths of the United States populace who want and need the right wing’s unreality—their alternative reality—is a farce: a gaudy, festering artifice constructed and maintained by a million people who need it to be real for financial, political, and cultural purposes."

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Emphasizing that there is no such thing as a federal list of citizens. It does not exist.

The Post is such a disgusting newspaper

NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.

folks they’re calling it a suicidal mix of isolationism and interventionalism the likes of which the world has never seen

The essence of all the Russia stuff from the first campaign and first term was that Trump was an insider threat to the US, NATO, the UN, etc.—a manifest danger to the whole complex of post-WWII arrangements to defend free societies, stave off world wars, and advance the cause of human rights.

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

immigration violations are civil matters but the regime is treating and talking about them like they're crimes because they want Americans to associate immigration with criminality

the way the american right slobbers over this absolute loser is something else

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

See if you can spot what’s wrong with this crosswalk

People are pointing out that soy is no longer the hip nondairy milk but what they’re missing is that it doesn’t matter because soy *is* still a right wing dog whistle about effeminacy due to a debunked theory about phytoestrogens in soy and their effect on male bodies

so, one of the most fucked up things about the whole history of Tesla Autopilot is that Elon Musk literally goaded the first American to die in an Autopilot-involved crash into overtrusting the system by retweeting a video of his just weeks before the fatal crash www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/b...

at this point I think we have clearly avoided "Trump successfully consolidates power", but the jury's still out on if the stove is hot enough for voters to actually learn long-term lessons

60 Minutes obtained documents that reveal just one day before last year's midair crash killing 67 people, two separate passenger jets had to take sudden action to avoid colliding with Army helicopters. cbsn.ws/4cd2y9h

it's because the people whose job it is to enforce that law are among the worst offenders