The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.

Translation: the Republican plan is to let the vulnerable die The ACA is flawed, but it saved lives. McCain cast a brave vote for a reason. Going backwards is not the answer. MEDICARE FOR ALL is.

Me: Don’t expect too much, it’s not like the emails will have a smoking gun. The emails: Please see attached smokinggun.pdf.

I'm really not into conspiracies. And the "Epstein was murdered" one has always seemed a bit too paranoid (suicide is a reasonable option for a rich guy facing major pedophilia charges). But if like 3 emails can change my mind... ?

Sure, no one outside of Seattle cares about Seattle's politics. But there are currently only 91 votes separating the (self-described) dowdy progressive from the wealthy Boomer quasi-centrist.

I remember watching this in 1995. Movies only dream of being this riveting.

Because you wouldn’t want someone to accidentally eat in defiance of a court order.

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask. Cowards

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

Trump announced a deal to lower weight loss drug prices while simultaneously banning "fat people" from entering the United States. All very normal stuff for a president.

The cruelty is the point.

Where is the money going? Like, seriously, WHERE IS ALL OF THE MONEY GOING???

The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds. apnews.com/article/snap...

Not now, carnivorous death ball

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Just found out my account was set to "11 year old with overprotective parents" levels.

I love Bluesky because it's often fun but I hate it because I had to read a post where someone called Leslie Knope a neocon shill and to you I say it is a television show and it absolutely does not matter you sound like a maniac

As a hardcore leftist who once came in second at a Parks and Rec-themed trivia night, my take is that this is a stupid take. #Knope2012

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

I guess I understand why the national news doesn't give a sh*t about Seattle politics. Our polls close in the middle of the night on the East Coast, the interesting elections are always too close to call, and the eventual results are "Democrat A beat Democrat B."

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

Almost exactly 16 years ago, my dad (an unusually good man) had the same treatment for heart failure as Dick Cheney. My dad died. Cheney did not. One of the great "the universe is unfair" injustices of my life ended today.

It was.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

Happy Halloween! Keep a close eye out today for witches being driven around the countryside by their root vegetable chauffeurs in a hollowed out marrow car.

children no longer being safe trick-or-treating on american streets because of the president is where we're at

"The White House East Wing still exists and has not been demolished by any administration. If such a significant event had actually taken place, it would be major international news and would represent an unprecedented action in American history."

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This is actually an incredibly good idea.

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

Accurate.

Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight

It's always something when someone outlives their obituary writer. #RIPJuneLockhart

Not if the entire nation agrees to call it the "Epstein Ballroom" it won't.

it’s beyond comprehension that scenes like this have become routine in chicago. masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets. this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*

In addition to the whole “work hard to enrich the masters” attitude here, they put all this back on the sick worker who didn’t “do wellness” and now should blame themself for being sick.

What happened to all the art, furniture and priceless historical treasures that were in the East Wing? Did Trump just give it away to his buddies? Is it at Mar-a-Lago? Did Jared and Ivana just help themselves to it? No one knows

Republicans strengthened Medicaid the way Trump just strengthened the East Wing of the White House.

AI is a tool created by and for people who hate being human. Same folks who invented Soylent because they think eating delicious food is a chore.

“There are literally no other problems in this country.”