No Kings in Beaverton was a great success.

top two, very smart

some of the greatest New Yorkers, including Brad Lander, David Dinkins and Zohran Mamdani are transplants! And some of the worst New Yorkers like Donald Trump, Andrew Cuomo, and Eric Adams are natives!

anti-transplant rhetoric is basically just fancy xenophobia for self-hating gentrifiers

people got mad at me when i called the subway takes guy reactionary but "transplants don't assimilate" is straight reactionary bullshit with a red coat of paint on them

The Democratic Party and the Left generally are responsible for every over-sensitive person on the Internet, but the GOP isn't responsible for its *party leaders.*

… why would they admit this?

The new OBBB is the start of an American sovereign debt crisis.

From a scale of 1-10, how at war with Iran are we?

Is Iran and the US at war now?

🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS: We won our tariff lawsuit!

You almost never hear a driver complain that EZ-Pass is an arm of the surveillance state, but you almost always hear that about speed cameras. I wonder what the difference is!

So how are we feeling about the Abundance Movement here on Bluesky?

Turns out that traffic modeling is kind of voodoo, and that predicted increase in traffic in the Bronx that a lot of congestion pricing opponents hung their hats on did not come to pass

One of the dumbest aspects of the Trump administration is that once he says something idiotic, none of them will walk it back. So they spend days telling girls why they can’t have dolls. Or talking up Alcatraz as a great prison. Or attacking Canada. It’s all so damn stupid!

I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

A lot of people are ageing into being a reactionary grandparent but because they don't want to lose clout they dress it up as like the inherent wisdom of the earth that they shouldn't pay taxes

Very narrowly lost the vote on this. This was a chance for the Senate to put American businesses, farmers, workers and producers first. Most Republicans chose Trump. I’m not done, I will keep at this until we repeal Trump’s disastrous tariffs.

It is *very* funny that Trump put up tariffs on China so high that even if he backs down in the most utterly humiliating way, they could still be economically ruinous. Totally checkmated himself

Tom Homan on ABC does not deny that the administration's position is they have a right to grab people off the street and deport them without a hearing

They had no plan for the fallout from this, did they?

I think I have to cancel a trip to Canada I was really looking forward to. I was born in America, but I'm not White. I don't trust border security not to.... like actually send me to a gulag.

The Trump administration is laser-focused on making harder for you to file your taxes while making it easier for the super rich to cheat on their taxes

“They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,” the former official said. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Restocking supplies at work, wowza a lot of this stuff is from China.

Sell your house and buy bullets I guess? I don't fucking know.

Hey so A lot of people are talking about how liberals and leftists have to put aside our differences, to fight the real enemy. And I entirely agree. And what I’m about to say to you, I say in complete sincerity. I consider myself a liberal, and I think I speak for a lot of us when I say this:

So what does this yield curve mean?

I'm only 29 so I have decades to recover, but I lost 97% of my retirement returns this week. I haven't checked if I'm even breaking even anymore. I knew this was possible, and know that trying to time the market is foolish, but still this sucks.

Reminder that even with all this DOGE bullshit government spending is UP

Reminder

If Britain opens up U.S trade to the extent Trump demands to get rid of the tariffs, then that's the end of the British farmers and fishermen. Which is ironic, considering that British farmers and fishermen voting for Brexit got them into this mess.

Honestly what I really hate is the view you see expressed a lot on here and in other very left-wing circles, that the only way to oppose MAGA is to become far left, and that therefore we can use Trump to trick liberals into adopting a far-left policy agenda, which is the real goal

Journalism ratfucked democracy. They wanted to be kingmakers, and in the process, purposefully downplayed how bad Trump and Republicans were.

Easy money and social media points.

Is there any precedent for a complete own-goal recession like we are about to do?

This is Senator Jim Banks from Indiana. No need to tell you he’s a Republican—it’s clear by the cruel disdain he shows his own constituent who was laid off. Note: he waits until the door’s about to close before telling him he deserved it & calling him a “clown.” He’s not just cruel—he’s a coward.

If tariffs, as the White House asserts don't cause inflation, then somebody forgot to tell the bond market, whose whole raison d'etre is to bet on where inflation is headed. And the inflation swaps market has been ramping up bets on higher inflation rates:

doomerism and "it was always this bad" are both types of bootlicking submission

Hundreds of highly educated and incredibly credentialed men debasing themselves trying to pretend the incoherent ramblings of an idiot constitute some sort of masterful geopolitical theory

I imagine "I'd really like to get a lawyer's opinion about whether I can publish what I have without going to federal prison for eleventy trillion years" might also have played a role in the delay of a whopping one business day

how we doing @kenklippenstein.bsky.social

lmao, literally 1984 shit

I think this is something the left and liberals could easily agree on: the cowards in academia, law, and corporate America who are caving preemptively to this tinpot dictator shit must be made to regret it bitterly

It's abundantly clear that the Framers intended Congress to be *by far* the most powerful branch, and its total abdication of virtually all of its power to the other two branches is a major reason we're in the current mess.

Brain worms

Watching a man get disappeared for political dissent in the middle of the United States, as the opposition party agrees to give the tyrant a blank check to do whatever he wants