I know there are some folks who say it’s crucial to be “civil” when discussing fellow physicians But if those physicians are senior MAGA/MAHA actors in the Trump regime—a regime that’s terrorizing & killing people—& if the MDs are dismantling public health, which will kill kids, MUST we be civil?

It’s not doomerism to say trump, his party, and his government are trying to rig elections including the midterms; that’s just … reality It is doomerism to act like they are likely to “cancel” the midterms or that their success in rigging it is at all a given

Calvin’s got better things to do this weekend🤣. What are your weekend plans? #CalvinandHobbes

It's the randomness, stupid.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

anywhere you find people who want nothing more than to hole up at home and have an endless frictionless conveyor belt of food and entertainment delivered into their waiting receptacles, you find people like Elon Musk willing to exploit their passivity and greed

SillyCon Valley at its peak.

"We've been trying to reach you about your Constitution's extended warranty"

MICROSOFT: "We're putting AI in Windows!" CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that." MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open." CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad." MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"

Your now-regular reminder that Congressional Republicans are demonstrably totally fine with him running what is - for now - the world’s most important economy this way.

The thing I appreciate about this chicken-fried chucklefuck is he really is this brain-dead stupid. Tuberville's not pretending to be an idiot to fool the rubes. He's honestly just dumber than a sack of hair.

rutger, hit ‘em again with facts youtube.com/shorts/EybsP...

I called Schiff and Padilla and told them tomorrow's DHS bill is weak sauce, that Schumer isn't fit to lead the party, that they have NO idea how angry the voters are right now, and that ICE should have been ordered out of Mpls, a sanctuary city, as soon as they murdered people.

Meanwhile, Trump says we don’t have enough money for these programs: The highly successful Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act FEMA preparedness grants Funding at the EPA to support clean drinking water Heating assistance for low-income households Feeding starving children here and abroad

As someone who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it), let me tell you something: The lies Trump, Vance and Miller say are not meant to be believed by their followers. They are meant to be REPEATED. The repetition of the lie is the test of loyalty to the cult.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Just throwing this link out there for no particular reason play.tetris.com

“The life of a professional player is not worth more than the lives of countless people in various regions who are being directly or indirectly attacked or threatened by the World Cup host”

Not missing anything, don't read the Post ('cept for a few gift articles) and don't pay attention to the Olympics (neither winter nor summer).

Q: What's the difference between someone in NATO and Donald Trump? A: Donald Trump would never put on a uniform to defend the United States.

The TikTok deal has improved the privacy of exactly no one and has done nothing to improve national security. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

When you blow $50 billion that is not yours. futurism.com/artificial-i...

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

Malicious stupidity or solely maliciousness? I suspect the latter despite Clauswitz's adage.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

No, this does not "allow" them to break the law, it merely further encourages them to do so.

This is not materially different from Josef Mengele. The concept is to deliberately expose people to serious harm so you can gather more data on what you already know will hurt them. It's not some big coincidence the Nuremberg Code expressly prohibits everything resembling this kind of "science."

When announcing the intent to commit a felony, it is best to do it in a soundproof booth with no one else present. Be forewarned, a shitpost can easily be mistaken for a an announcement of an intent to commit a felony.

Not great Bob.

Agree with this thread. Their obsession with polls is really an obsession with avoiding backlash. One thing I'll disagree on: Schumer and Jeffries ARE going to be remembered. In infamy. As ineffectual cowards. Like Hindenburg.

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We did business for 25 years and kept measles at bay. The only thing that changed was Kennedy.

I said rightwing billionaires like Larry Ellison and Anschutz and the Murdochs buy media outlets b/c the billionaires’ agenda is unpopular. As @warren.senate.gov recently noted. Billionaires use those media outlets to promote antivax lies to divide the public. I stand by that.

10 years of this shit

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

Both houses of Congress were about to agree to 0% multi funding this year. Then Vought and the Project 2025 White House got involved. They threatened to primary R’s who wouldn’t strike the MYF ban. People, is Russell Vought on our side? Why do we think he cares so much? (It’s a tool to harm us!) /3

when I talk to my European friends my stance isn’t “sorry”, it’s “I hate that motherfucker with every bone in my body and will do everything in my power to achieve a world in which he spends the rest of his life in a prison cell”

Just did some conference paper reviews and I’m pretty sure one was substantially AI written. Very clean and smooth but made no sense in parts. Cited real court cases but got them so wrong it’s hard to imagine a human who read the cases (or knew anything about them) writing those lines.

I don't think you can truly grapple with where we are, and how we come back from it, without recognizing this is not a constitutionally legitimate government and he is not the lawful president of the United States.

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

Voting is a *practical exercise*. It's not a platform for people to register their feelings. It's a method of achieving outcomes. And the top outcome we must all be squarely focused on right now is *ousting the fascist government*.

Not sure of attribution, but I like this a lot: "All models are wrong. Some are useful."

The statement appears to challenge the editorial independence of Stars and Stripes, which while a part of the Pentagon’s Defense Media Activity has long retained independence from editorial oversight from the Pentagon under a congressional mandate that it be governed by First Amendment principles.

At the beginning the 20th century, my grandparents emigrated to Minnesota (Selma), to escape Russian conscription. There were many others like them. These are the descendants of that cohort.

Short fingered vulgarian

So much of what is happening to us is due to the fact that we gave a "voice" to every slobbering moron in the country, bestowing them with collective powers so vast that they now threaten the life and well-being of every person on the planet. But this is hardly ever even talked about.

The reality is that ICE and DHS actually CAN and ARE attacking people who are exercising their rights. I say this NOT to dissuade anyone from exercising those rights, but to challenge @tedlieu.bsky.social and other politicians to do more to protect those rights than post this kind of thing.