If you stand behind Trump next to Mehmet Oz and RFK Jr for a photo op, you are choosing to write the narrative that you are part of this group. That's a hell of a choice, @mcuban.bsky.social 😳

Cuban failed the test even before Trump started talking about his private traitor fund. You don't stand with this guy, nor do you attend an event with the "measles are good, actually" guy.

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

I’m so tired of politicians telling us that we, the people have the power to change government but then not fulfilling their part of the basic premise, which is acting on our behalf. The whole point is that they’re supposed to pitch ideas on how to make things happen and we give them power to do so

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

If I were the opposition party I'd be saying anyone involved in creating this corrupt scheme will be prosecuted but also anyone accepting payments from it will at minimum be required to pay back the full sum with interest

Supreme Racism. A political cartoon by Bob Whitmore about the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Supreme Court.

OK maybe the robot doesn't work NOW, but the robot salesman assures me that some day it will do the work of the ten employees the robot told me to fire

It's not that you reopened it. It's that you ANNOUNCED IT IN THE FACE OF PRECIDENT. God what an absolute deaf response from a total bellend.

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

their stunned reaction proves how utterly disconnected from reality they are. they’re talking about something that’s literally destroying the job market and they’re surprised by the boos! turns out “hey kids wanna walk into this buzz saw” isn’t terribly persuasive messaging

I cannot be allowed to go to the plant nursery unsupervised in the spring. This wasn't my total haul, only what I had in the cart when I realized no one was coming to stop me.

"As social life migrated onto platforms optimized for engagement, visibility, and emotional reaction, questions of truth increasingly became filtered through identity, emotion, and social validation rather than through slower institutional systems of evidence, authority, and debate." That's... bad!

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

the right wing takeover of corporate media catapulting aljazeera +160% year over year is kind of incredible tbh

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

Not just intentions but actions. A woman drinking "male tears" is extremely unlikely ever to have held a man down and forced him to cry in a glass. A man wearing a "your body my choice" T-shirt? Some might just be "joking," but statistically speaking, a good portion have probably acted on that idea.

Me: what is your objective here Cat: Comfort. I am motivated solely by personal comfort Me: … because it sure SEEMS like you are arranging to sit so that you can thwack me in the face with your tail Cat: sheer coincidence, I assure you

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

I have. But it was always worth it.

Just to clarify. I loathed him, before I even knew what party he might have affiliated with. He was, to me, way back in the 80s, the epitome of what used to be called 'The Ugly American'. I loathe him even more now. I just want him gone. #NeverTrump #Resist @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social

THERE IS A GOD AND SHE LOVES ME

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This "bluesky is a bubble" conversation is strange. Like, I'm not on Twitter because I don't like hanging out where large numbers of people I don't like are. Like, is my house a bubble? I don't invite people I don't like around ours. I choose to go to concerts by musicians, or ...

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

📣 ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH While Trump’s administration dismantles the Voting Rights Act piece by piece, people across the country are organizing in solidarity, this is YOUR invitation to be part of it.

/2 Also: being drunk doesn’t make you a fucking bigot. Being drunk removes your social inhibitions about being an OPEN fucking bigot.

These are the same fucks who are constantly saying don't have kids you can't take care of. And now they're mad people are, you know, not having kids they can't afford? Fuck right off.

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

US politics has for decades been dominated by a party that is fiercely opposed to any concept of shared responsibility, of caring for our fellow citizens, and that foments a deep level of distrust that makes it ever harder to operate as a society. Paul Krugman open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Everyone needs to be pointing this out more in every debate with maga.

There were many others using these two as shields and cover. That also needs to be made clear.

people who yelled at Madonna for wearing rosaries like a necklace in the 80s don’t get to turn around and let their babies gnaw on them

ah, there's that Democratic cowardice we all know and love

DEAR RESTAURANTS: Your servers are not volunteers. If you can't afford to pay them more than 2.13% of what you charge, you can't afford to run a business. Thank you!

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

sure gas is headed to $8/gallon but at least cornell got rid of their gender studies classes. or at least i think they did, i haven’t checked and if im being honest i wouldnt really know if they had or hadnt because it doesnt affect me but it makes $8/gallon gas all worth it

unironically as strong as any evidence that it’s a cult

i need to see the overlap of that 39% with men who think they can beat Serena Williams at tennis lmao

"Crush" GTFO. OMG I might have to get a slightly less nice second home in Manhattan! I'M SO DOWNTRODDEN! 🙄

"So what needs to happen now - and it needs to happen now - is that Democrat-led states need to set aside procedure and redraw the maps. New York, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Maryland, and Colorado need to get it done. Do it in 2026 if possible. By 2028 is non-negotiable."

I think MTG going against Trump is useful in a “let them fight” sense but if you actually think she is on our side and isn’t still an antisemitic bigot who is aiming to take over the MAGA movement from Trump I don’t trust you as far as I can throw you

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

Why did they call it Bluesky and not…

There it is. Republicans’ SAVE Act is not about protecting the right to vote – it’s about putting up barriers to make it harder for certain people to vote. Senate Democrats will block this anti-democracy garbage from ever becoming law.

"those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.