I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮

Don't use Threads or any Meta product as a barometer like this because it is a mirror that only shows you what you want to see

hey siri, does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but if it’s not perfect it’s useless.

So surely we can swear in Adelita Grijalva now, right?

The Dutch have given us so much cool biking infrastructure that I can almost forgive them for also producing Max Verstappen

some remarks on the shutdown fight, courtesy of philips o'brien: "A battle is more a snapshot in time--a moment when two armed forces reveal their current strengths and weaknesses. What to take from a battle... is what it reveals about the direction of travel of the armed forces involved."

Knowing beep codes and LED flash patterns should be for when you're resurrecting obscure 80s micro-controllers, not an expected part of the interface for modern "smart" devices. Bring back dot matrix displays.

Be mad at the dems by all means but make sure you're at least 6 times as mad at the republicans

Call and leave your own message for each traitor who just betrayed the American people: Dick Durbin Angus King Catherine Cortez Masto Jacky Rosen Maggie Hassan Jeanne Shaheen John Fetterman Tim Kaine US Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 A few MILLION messages might make the point, please do all

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

I have thoughts, and they aren’t going to fit neatly into Bluesky posts. Briefly: 1. The deal sucks. 2. Probably not as much as you think it does. 3. It’s good to be mad. 4. FFS, be madder at the GOP. 5. Strategy is hard. 5b. Timing matters. 6. The fight isn’t over. 7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)

Discipline can happen in a lot of ways but one of them is "stay on message." I would advise using whatever tiny leverage we have from here to shift the narrative from "Democrats caved, it's their fault" to "Republicans are willing to let Americans starve indefinitely, let alone extend subsidies."

Not a lot of people know he actually said “that’s one giant fucking leap for mankind”

If Democrats get anything above the clean CR, then by definition they didn't cave. Because that means they ended up better than they started. Caving would be them just signing the House CR with no additional funding. That's not what's happening.

There were eight votes here. King isnt a Democrat, Fetterman is Fetterman. Add four “small tight states with razor thin margins” Senators who don’t need a leadership push on this, and you’re left with Kaine and Durbin. IMO the only coordination here was Durbin covering for Warner.

I should be a stress tester for app development Think your app is intuitive? Wait till it meets me I tried downloading the Uber app and accidentally signed up to be a driver

And there wasn’t a secret lever during the Biden administration either

I think every Dem that’s shown even a hint of squishiness needs to be primaried with the full force of whatever the left can muster. But I also think we don’t need to win more than a few of those. Most of these people other than the calcified ancients can be terrified into doing their jobs

now that women have ruined the workplace we should just get rid of it

I need those ACA subsidies. My neighbors need food. I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food. Be mad at Republicans. Be mad at your maga family. Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.

The one thing I'll say about current events tonight is that its ok to be upset about how the shutdown appears to have gone down at time of typing - you *should* be upset. You should be angry and sad and many other things. My usual advice/threat comes attached though: don't fucking doom.

they're not, but I get you need to be mad at Dems for some reason.

the internet has taught me that i need to make friends with an orange kitty

anyway I encourage any bsky poaster expressing this sentiment to donate 100% of your income to charity for the next 13 months in solidarity Maybe mutual aid can help your sorry ass out, because it sure as fuck isn't gonna do jack for me in Mike Johnson's district

I see a lot of folks saying this will hurt Dems in the midterms and frankly I’m not sure that’s true - if anything, it shows the depth to which people are angry and engaged and wanting to fight these assholes but it does substantially increase the chance they will be voting for different Democrats

yeah it turns out that crazy bloodthirsty people are better at playing chicken on the railroad tracks, whodathunkit.

Morally its a bad deal that is gonna hang millions of ppl out to dry on their healthcare. Strategically its a deal that pisses of a lot of the D base. But politically? Politically Rs fought tooth & nail to do a really bad thing while voters hold them accountable bc they have a trifecta government.

I keep saying this. “Even if they get what they want it makes things worse for them.” They’re still stuck with a losing president and everything they want to do is terrible for voters!

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

Nationalize the airlines.

Sleepy Joe at it again

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

Mamdani is going to implement shangri-la, he’s gonna turn New York into a mystical, harmonious valley as described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by the British author James Hilton

Hays Code But Woke

Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all. Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.

very long good thread about why trump is so central to the current GOP--he's the only thing holding together what is in fact a very fractious coalition, and even if he lives out this presidency he's clearly not gonna be a force for much longer

What if instead of car insurance we just gave everyone a thousand dollars? That oughta do it, right?

If the federal government distributed the $91 billion annual spend on ACA subsidies equally among every U.S. citizen, each person would receive approximately $261. Go nuts people.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Hell yeah they are

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command. If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics. It’s trials w real punishments.

I read this too fast and thought it said matériel for some reason and I was like yeah I should give the trans people in my life more tanks

one of my spicy takes, for example, is that limits on strikes are unconstitutional under the 13th Amendment, because if we have a right to be free from forced labor, we must necessarily have a right to stop working and negotiate the conditions of our labor

Bizarrely, about 2,500 people just took a pass on the mayor's race. People, why are you voting in a local election if you aren't voting for MAYOR?

He has to know he’s doing free advertising for dems here right?