I wonder what it would be like to live in a place that enforced blocking the box

The State Dept has an office named for a far right European plan to kick out migrants. But they really really really don't want to talk about it!! www.wired.com/story/the-st...

It's just insulting. You're a governor! You have power! Power you used to commute the sentence of a woman who attacked our democracy! That pardon power is one of the most powerful tools a person can have, and you used it. You don't get to play the victim, man.

Powerful people sure do love to whine about there being consequences for their actions, it’s a shame we’ve built an attention economy that rewards that kind of behavior

This lineup could have performed at Freedom 215 (i.e., 1990)

alright this guy absolutely has scrambled eggs for brains

This is a real ad the Paxton campaign is running right now

This guy won his statewide race in Texas.

Look up Ken and Monte Blanc for the security video of him stealing another attorney's pen at the Collin County Courthouse before he got elected. They had to go find him to get him to give the guy's pen back. He's a common thief. He knew he stole the pen. Thought he wouldn't get caught. Scumbag.

all this stuff is just barely-veiled code for "talarico is a [f-slur] and you're one too if you vote for him"

Four at-grade infill stations on an existing electrified passenger railway is not a megaproject. Or, it shouldn’t be.

A four-term incumbent Republican just lost to a far-right figure who has faced allegations of corruption, financial malfeasance, and infidelity.

free tickets require a ticketmaster account and are only available for the simulcast at the ellipse, ringside seats are only available for the military and people who pay $1.5M a seat, what a fucking disgusting and enraging scam, everyone involved deserves to die in prison

The UFC is a great example of everything that's gone wrong in American pop culture, sports, and the economy generally over the past few decades: an organization run entirely for the benefit of its owners that leaves broken minds and bodies in its wake while catering intentionally to awful people.

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

GOP has "abandoned the idea of crafting policy. They are a full-time media operation, trolling and creating content. The president is checked out. There is no turnaround coming as long as Trump/GOP are in power." On the pod, @dceiver.bsky.social nails the moment: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

love it when the federal government uses predatory loan tactics

They should use NFTs! www.businessinsider.com/what-nfts-me...

This is completely deranged: Iran is required to play games in the US but ISN’T ALLOWED TO STAY IN THE COUNTRY OVERNIGHT. They will instead have to fly back to Mexico. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

When your community removes a racist statue, do like Charlottesville and melt that fucker down. Because if you just stash it in storage, it becomes what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve” — ready for redeployment. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/s...

if you came to Bluesky to complain about Seattle bike infrastructure, I hope you have a really bad time.

Obama’s Iran deal was better than anything Trump will be able to get after shredding Obama’s deal and starting this illegal, pointless, self-defeating war

The JCPOA, as a reminder, was a SIX PARTY TREATY that included China and Russia as co-signatories

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Really telling on themselves

This headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing

Yikes. "Bikes Will Not Replace Us." When you're mimicking a white nationalist slogan you've totally lost the plot.

What a weird false dichotomy. "In this life, there's two types of people: walkers and cars!"

For the second time we know of, Kash Patel's FBI got a warning about a dangerous Nazi sympathizer (the other is the Evergreen shooter) but did not prevent an attack. This time 3 people were murdered. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

The separation from reality in the Republican Party today - vaccines are poison; Iran can be conquered; January 6th was staged by Democrats - should really really worry people. These folks just aren’t fit to govern anymore.

"Unexpectedly hawkish administration" wallet inspector-ass media

This is totally unacceptable and a breach of civilian control over FDNY. The chief who allowed this (or the firefighters who did it without their permission) should be sanctioned.

but like I said the other day, NBC cast Vanessa Williams in The Odyssey in 1997 and no one gave a shit because this outrage is manufactured by racist incel billionaires from South Africa who no longer touch grass.

They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

I'm also really glad we eliminated journalists and let the extraction class broadly propagandize the public more directly on the mass media programs of the dumbest motherfuckers imaginable

I think it was an important step to eliminate academics and subject matter experts and let d-tier comedians and introspection-allergic class predators hash out all our major policy issues

again you'll notice that Axios can't be bothered to mention to readers, even in ambiguous passing, that there's something foundationally very wrong with Elon Musk

They” didn’t leak Trump’s tax returns. An IRS contractor did - along with thousands of other tax returns - during Trump’s first term. Biden’s DOJ prosecuted the contractor, who got the max: 5 years in prison. This is shameful spin from SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.

these cowards will never have the actual balls to go after the crown jewel cities because too many of their donors themselves are dependent/enjoy e.g. NYC, SF etc so what will actually happen is that blue cities in red states will increasingly become laboratories in distributed state oppression

Talking about utility cycling on social media never fails to break some peoples' brains. You can say "Bikes can be useful for some people to run certain errands" and folks will come out of the woodwork to say they recently used an SUV to grab 200 pounds of cement from Home Depot like it's checkmate.

Buddy, do I have news for you about the governments in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore if you think Zohran Mamdani's municipal grocery store is some major threat to your freedom. bsky.app/profile/samd...

NYT: In the middle of the lunch, Trump called RFK Jr and Dr. Oz and told them he wanted the regulation lifted. Trump’s FDA Commissioner then resigned in protest. Things like this are happening every day. RFK Jr is a total fraud.

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

They want to carve up the state and know demagoguery is how they achieve it

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land—the common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

All this hoopla about redoing Penn Station, and what we’re going to end up with is a new entrance, a classically designed facade pasted onto MSG, & Penn Station remaining a series of subterranean hallways.

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3