This is actually my personal least favorite thing about Bluesky. Can't even follow sports posters without getting hit with weirdo politics on gameday. I get enough politics. I want people talking about how the Panthers are gonna run their way into the playoffs.

In accordance with Canadian law, all Mariners tweets will be posted in both English and French for the duration of this series. Go Mariners / Allez les marins.

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Sister Jean was a role model in Illinois — inspiring us to embrace our neighbors. As a lover of life, she taught us to channel positivity to keep us hopeful in times of need and kept that attitude all the way to a life well-lived at 106 years old. May her memory be a blessing.

Really sad to hear about Sister Jean. She lived a good long life.

The Supreme Court ruled states can ban trans youth from receiving gender-affirming care, which is scientifically validated. The Court is now poised to rule states *cannot* ban conversion therapy on kids, which science finds to be akin to torture. Through line: Religious bigotry > LGBTQ humanity

Janitors and cafeteria workers _contracted_ by the federal gov’t will likely see no backpay at all. “It’s so sad that they think they can play with ppl’s lives,” said Smithsonian Museum of American History cleaner Audrey Murray. “Stop this. Stop messing w/ppl. We have families who depend on us.”

it is not the Department of War and I've seen dogs that roll over for belly rubs with more dignity than this

Why is all news like this now

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

So I need journalists to start asking for names when someone pulls this "some people are claiming"/"some experts disagree" nonsense. I get that would be asking access journalists to do work, but needs must here guys.

but i REALLY want us to incentivize cops to side with us guys. I don’t care if they are Newsom-style gloryhounds virtue signaling. I want that

If the Phillies lose game 2 tomorrow I'm not sure there will be a Philadelphia on Tuesday.

Never doubted the Panthers, not down 17-0, no sir. In other news I'm glad I wasn't on bluesky a couple hours ago.

One month in, my conclusion is that Massachusetts fucking rocks and I'm so glad to live here now.

Rizzs was at 110% excitement that whole first inning and I'm so here for it

Some personal news Go Ms

No, I'm America too, that queer person is America too, that Black radical, that hispanic farmworker, that urban liberal Democrat, that DSA member, we're all also America and we get a say in and make up a part of this country too. It's not all honkies stomping on faces.

The fact that SF cameras have already caught thousands of people going more than 15 miles over the speed limit is a perfect illustration of why these cameras were needed in the first place. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

one of the main sensations I’ve had with Silicon Valley, for a long time, but watching all these (mostly men) fleeing to adolescence has been one of the most _embarrassing_ things I could imagine.

I was just as shocked with the news about the route 2 bus only lane as you. We are working on it. We need to prioritize pedestrian safety and not go backwards on our transit investments.

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

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everyone should legitimately be done forever with @gavinnewsom.bsky.social if he doesn't sign SB79. people took massive risks to get this through, YIMBY groups scraped together a coalition that could get through both chambers, if he fucking bails out now he's worthless.

Lincoln gets the last word. On Dred Scott: msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa...

This is one of those cases that you can view from different perspectives. One perspective is the First Amendment and the importance of journalistic freedom. But the other perspective is that someone in the FBI leaked investigation documents to harm the target of an investigation… /1

I think all of our media - traditional media, social media, all of it - really has trouble dealing with things that are simultaneously extremely cringe loser shit and ALSO rhetorically should be treated as profoundly fascist

I love how people are acting like this is Bluesky's idea when once again, every website on the internet is going to either be doing this or geoblocking the state by next month because THE STATE PASSED A FUCKING LAW SAYING THEY HAVE TO

Well this is disappointing news. I really liked this show and hoped we'd get a couple more seasons out of it. deadline.com/2025/09/mid-...

It makes me so fucking mad that there was a right wing conspiracy theory that Biden’s FEMA was denying funds to North Carolina and then Trump gets into office and actually does it and…mostly silence.

It's really reached the point where you can be confident of the dude's politics (and how public he was about them) almost precisely based on how much 'caution' the authorities are exercising in making them known to the public.

And now we see that sadism transitioning—in the spectacle presented to the audience—from humiliating the subjects, offending their dignity, etc., to making their whole life and existence potentially forfeit to the rich man. That’s what I think disturbs people.

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

The Major League Baseball playoffs begin on Tuesday. If you're someone who doesn't really follow baseball much and just wants some suggestions on who to cheer for, here's a quick guide you can use to pick a team:

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important. the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

The wider implications is that the DOJ just nuked whatever is left of the presumption of regularity (this is highly ameliorative). Their own staff argued that this indictment shouldn't be pursued because it's liable to be tossed out of court.

The slow death of one of the few good things to come out of COVID is maddening

It's politically incorrect to say this, but 90% of this discourse is just the ongoing fallout from the breakdown of the patriarchal bargain, which is why it cuts across ideological lines, and why it's going to keep getting worse.

one of my biggest gripes with the MVP discourse is that it assumes that the most valuable player only hits. it doesn't take a look at fielding. so it ends up being on the surface like "oh Raleigh only has the HR and RBI it should be Judge" that's not? how baseball should work?

Good morning, Mariners fans.

Pool and patio Orange County Chevy dealership owner types who give their kids Corvettes for Christmas has to be the biggest pool of Republican donors outside of the big corporations

This is a great thing for MGP to have worked on. I had clients in SW Washington who had real problems accessing VA benefits in Portland even though that was much closer than coming all the way to Tacoma.

I used to say that German politicians were afraid that inflation caused the Nazis and that inflation was the thing that would bring them back. I owe them an apology because clearly they were more right than I thought.

I always made fun of pre-2020 German politicians that were afraid of inflation like the Plague, turns out they were right!! Prices rising are the one thing that cuts through every messaging, chart and metric that you can throw at people, it is not even irrational per se!

"There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours." That's a call for isolationism pure and simple. Also while there might be a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems, they won't.

Note to other Feds, NavyFed will issue 0% APR loans for military, fed civilians, and contractors, but you need to bank with them and apply by 9/26

This is not the first time ICE agents in our area have kidnapped kids to get to parents. They recently grabbed and released a teenager in Milford with the goal of coercing a meeting with the parents at the Burlington ICE facility. Luckily, they were not detained at that meeting.