i know not everyone on bluesky is familiar with pete hegseth’s pastor doug wilson so let me paint a picture for you: imagine if pete hegseth had a pastor.

Nationalism and Patriotism are not the same thing. Patriots want what is good for their country. Nationalism is relativist, formed only from the resentment we feel towards some “other.”

We need to resist, but this is not the way. Remember, the Reichstag Fire was the excuse that allowed Hitler to solidify Nazi rule. MAGA wants and needs “extremist leftist terrorists.” Our resistance must be peaceful.

Yeah this is alarming. Gift link > www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

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This is just unconscionable man

ICYMI

Millennial fantasy protagonist who refuses the call to adventure because it’s from an unknown number.

These days I roll up to the party with white people food like unsalted, boiled potatoes or a bag of over-cooked frozen Lima beans/carrots/corn and suddenly that’s a “crime” and “how can you stomach this”

BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly. "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees." Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...

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Winter-grown tomatoes from my greenhouse 🤩

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Talk about controlling the narrative

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

The Kid Rock halftime show is such a perfect embodiment of MAGA. “Family friendly” but not actually. “Super successful” but not actually. “Taking a moral stand” but about a TV segment. MAGA is nothing but pious-sounding self-delusion.

TBH I have a time limit of 15 minutes per day for social media for myself, so I draft my stuff in Bear.app 😄

No Kings includes Draft Kings

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

"I'm only watching the Super Bowl for Bad Bunny" is the new "I'm only watching the Super Bowl for the ads"

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work “This ticket is probably a 2 or a 3.”

Recommended.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Sheesh hope he’s ok

For years my MAGA friends and relatives told me, “there’s no such thing as systemic racism. Racism is just being mean to other races, and we don’t have a racist bone in our body.” Alright, are you going to say something now, then?

Dear Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: You may not be aware of this, but it actually matters to the American public whether Donald Trump (1) has the intellect and temperament of a five-year old, (b) is a racist cretin, or (c) as seems most likely, both. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

"It is my great honor to introduce the goat..."

This is well beyond a dog whistle! If you’re still excusing his behavior you’re more than enabler, you’re a participant in his racism.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Come on Dems! Hold fast, don’t cave!

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

Click through and read Johnson's defense of the indefensible. The thing that strikes me about his interpretation of Leviticus 19:34 is that it's really nothing more than, “It is directed at individuals so it has no bearing on the state.” To some extent, this is true: it is talking... [1/11]

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.

The thing about due process is that even when you’re *convinced* someone is guilty, they’re still considered innocent until proven otherwise. Johnson’s thought process here is abominable. He should be ashamed.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

“If you came here illegally, you deserve what’s coming to you. No one is above the law.” This might land better if the guy enforcing it wasn’t caught on video accepting $50K in bribes and his boss being in the Epstein files 1000+ times with no consequences yet

Of course this is horrifying & transparently about rigging elections forever. But assuming the GOP goes along with it, it’s also a reminder of why the right’s insistence on ”federalism!” & “states rights!” is always just naked self-interest. “It’s not dangerous federal overreach when we do it.”

February is a time to honor the generations of Black Americans who fought, and continue to fight, against injustice to achieve equal rights. May we reflect on our nation’s past as we continue working to build a society that lives up to its democratic ideals.

How could the right believe a narrative about Alex Pretti and Renee Good that contradicts the evidence of their own eyes? Because they are already primed for it. 🧵

C.S. Lewis fans, get your popcorn ready.

straight up Gestapo shit

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

A fool is one who stubs his toe on the same rock twice

“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.” ‭‭Exodus‬ ‭23‬:‭9‬

I keep hearing the same argument from MAGA: "What about all the citizens murdered by illegals". Then get a warrant and go arrest them! Don't patrol the streets terrorizing everyone, arresting children at schools and US citizens because you don't know who to arrest. See the difference?

I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder