I think @normative.bsky.social made this point yesterday, but once you get beyond the outrage of the brutality of the original “arrest” here, you also have to confront the fact that a D.A. CHOSE TO PROSECUTE THIS and a judge SENTENCED HIM TO A YEAR IN JAIL. Total system fail. WTF

great replacement except they want to import racists

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

seems obvs to me that mamdani gets far because of his charm. why do "male self improvement" types always focus on things like looksmaxxing instead of personalitymaxxing or charmmaxxing?

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

30 years. This video should be on every network.

I read about this study in an article from Science Daily but in that study the sound therapy was also coupled with super fast flashing lights. Breakthrough Study Shows Sound Stimulation May Help Clear Alzheimer’s Plaques share.google/FEYsO0gKbiga...

So, he'd been "in the Erie County Holding Center since Feb 2025 after being arrested by...police" And he'd only arrived in the US in Dec 2024? He spent nearly his entire time in the US in custody. And then they dumped him--a blind man--miles from a home where he'd only ever spent a few wks. 🤬

this is roughly the number of internally displaced peoples from conflict in Bangladesh or the Central African Republic. state governments, the White House, and their allies in the NYT have perpetrated a civil war-sized disaster on trans people in the US.

Remember that every test for "citizenship" will necessarily exclude trans people who cannot obtain identification that matches in all particulars. In this case, banks will either have to deny trans people new accounts or possibly liquidate existing accounts. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

Nope, sloplords, there were just far fewer horses after they ceased to be the central transit and hauling technology.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."

Of course @mjsdc.bsky.social gets it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The right wanted Hunter Biden to stay in the headlines, so he did. They wanted "her emails" to say in the headlines, so they did. They wanted Biden's age to stay in the headlines, so it did. This? Corruption with measurable ill effects on FBI performance? It will vanish before the day's out.

All my life, Democrats have bent over backwards to run scrupulously scandal-free administrations, while Republicans have wallowed publicly and unapologetically in crime and corruption ... and Democrats have gotten zero advantage for it. Zilch.

The best Twitter riposte of the day is a community note.

Not every elected Republican wants to execute their Democratic colleagues but there is not a single one who will protest or object if it happens.

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas

More than three-quarters of Americans say that the issues that divide the United States pose a serious threat to the future of the nation's democracy, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll.

In 2024 Rufo offered $5000 to anyone who could prove Haitian migrants were eating pets. Then he turns around and wonders why the brains of so many people on the right have melted into conspiracy slop

Good grief. Holding a network of sex traffickers and rapists to account for their actions (and/or for spilling gov secrets, if that’s quicker) is in no way mob justice or moral panic. It’s justice.

Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes. If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.

How much of what Dems did from 2021-24 was identical to what they would have done in a world where Mitt Romney was the previous president? 80%? 90%? 95%? This failure to react to an obviously existential threat is proof positive that they were in the grips of a delusion of artificial normality.

triple yikes

Silly. You need ID (not “voter ID”) to get on a plane. Not “proof of citizenship,” which is what the SAVE America Act requires.

Scott has spent the last 15 years of his life working in the highest echelons of government, as FL Governor (from 2011-2019) and as a U.S. Senator (since 2019), during which time he has undermined every effort to use the tools of governance to improve the public sphere.

THISTHISTHIS

“Solar is more dangerous than oil, coal, and gas because the battery storage could catch fire [as if oil/coal/gas aren’t themselves flammable] and cause nuclear radiation pollution [how?] that will leave the area uninhabitable for generations [wtf?]” Just gobsmacking idiocy.

no matter how violently and cruelly trans ppl are targeted and oppressed, jesse singal and the nyt will rush to inform you that more violence, cruelty, and oppression is needed, and that any plea for mercy must be silenced.

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

This is why I non-ironically think a few courses in philosophy would help every college student. It's like an exercise class for your brain. You learn how arguments work, how they're constructed, how to analyze & break one apart, how logic & reason proceed. Basic shit we're losing in today's media.

"America’s essential problem is that we have an economic system that concentrates huge amounts of money in few hands, and a political system in which we allow money to directly buy power. The outcome of that combination is easy to grasp."

She should have been stopped. It's astounding to me that there is no body to assess, monitor and interrupt the behavior of a Judge as obviously partisan and corrupt as Cannon.

The irony, of course, is that no one in the modern era has cared as much about what other people think of them as Epstein and the men around him. Also, I'm again struck by these men- who are *obsessed* with human intelligence- not seeming to have any idea what it is.

this entire situation was crafted by the BAFTA hosts to create discourse and drive up the amount of press for their show. absolutely ghoulish behavior, they straight up used this guy's disability for shock value and directed it at two black men on stage to milk an intersectional oppositional framing

Enraging hypocrisy

i feel like not editing out his tics is not only an insult to the people being awarded but also a huge disrespect to an advocate for tourettes

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

I have a bugaboo about the term "race science" because it sounds like a legit thing because it's got the word "science" in it. Accurate to say "race quackery" when referring to eugenics, skull measuring, all that shit.

Maybe democrats in congress should pick someone to serve as their corruption czar to convene a daily news conference highlighting an example of "these people are stealing your money" and announce a running tally of how much taxpayer $ is being siphoned off through this bullshit

look if someone, somewhere misuses public funds that's proof we no longer need a welfare state. But if a right wing figure uses public funds for corrupt purposes well, he's just entitled, right?

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Nick Shirley: “30 voters registered at a California UPS store!” 🤔 Paul Mitchell: um, people live above it. Look up, bro. 🙃 As usual this dude’s *reporting* is full of holes

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.