This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.

The standard Icelandic musician bio is “weekend supervisor at fish processing plant / experimental synth composer / deputy foreign minister”

I think how the term elite gets used by conservatives and some liberals and leftists has contributed to the confusion and we’re better served dealing with the elite in terms of how C. Wright Mills conceptualized it, as those in power who “occupy the strategic command posts of the social structure.”

It’s not how they would have put it but certain pundits liked Adams because they think racism is an effective political strategy and as a black man they figured he could get away with it easier. Anyway i’m sure his poll numbers are great, looking forward to his next term bsky.app/profile/josh...

there’s something distasteful in the way people describe the poor as having only their economic plight guide their values. it feels almost condescending, as though they can’t walk and chew gum and think that disrespecting an historic office is bad.

Not simply fascism. Monarchism.

I could easily see myself voting for someone who runs on abolishing ice and prosecuting every single one of them and the entire administration free campaign idea to good home

A left wing politics that is oriented around your rights and identity as an individual consumer instead of your responsibilities as a member of a social or political community is basically a left aesthetic pasted onto an internalized neoliberal ontology.

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

This is such a tedious misdirect. Yeah while we’re here let’s check everybody’s 1040 before they take the Staten Island ferry. If you make more than $200,000 a year that’ll be $3 please.

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

The senate has approved four of this guy’s federal court appointees in the past 3 days. One of them got more than a dozen Democratic votes that weren’t even needed for confirmation.

From the article referenced below: tldr esp. in authoritarian systems, mediocrities and worse tend to go into the secret police b/c those with better performance have better opportunities elsewhere, so secret police gets the dregs who are extra-dependable because the thing they can offer is loyalty

Enough time has passed that I can definitively say that the “everyone is 12 now” post is THE load bearing post of Bluesky. The hall of famer Bluesky post. It commands respect even from Bluesky skeptics and haters

lmfao, holy fucking shit

Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here. NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.

Fascinated by the philosophical and theological implications of this

ahem youtu.be/0dBJIkp7qIg?...

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

Research is clear: millionaire flight due to higher taxes is simply not a thing. Millionaires move *less* than the rest of us and often move from one higher-tax state to another (because of amenities!). prospect.org/2025/10/23/m...

Trump’s EPA: where chemtrails are real and climate change isn’t.

you can’t really call this anything other than cowardice

The University of Virginia has capitulated to Trump on transgender and race (affirmative action) issues. The details are currently sparse, but reporting suggests they've agreed to define trans people out of existence and ban trans students from facilities. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The lack of , I dunno what to call it, elite concern over a chunk of the White House being arbitrarily torn down kinda fits my idea the American empire ends not with a bang but with everyone just wandering away, people just stop showing up to work etc

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence” when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

'As of Monday, roughly 8 per cent of US warships deployed globally were in the Caribbean, according to a fleet tracker. Until destroyers arrived to start the build-up in August, the only US ship spotted in the region by the tracker this year was a hospital ship.' www.ft.com/content/dc10...

I do believe that people can change and maybe even that there are second acts in American lives but maybe if you’ve ever had a Nazi tattoo then being in the most powerful legislative body in the country is not the right career path. And you should definitely not still have said tattoo while running.

What's "small" here is John Fetterman, a person so weak of mind and devoid of principles, so used to the lazy grift he switched to after winning office, that he won't even criticize corruption so brazen it has no parallel in American history, the President literally paying himself a fortune.

could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh

it is so abundantly clear that mamdani's position on palestine is what is driving schumer up the wall. it's kind of pathetic at this point.

BREAKING NEWS - DAD WITH LEUKEMIA IS FREE!! Jose Contreras Cervantes, who has a rare form of Leukemia and was arrested and detained for more than 2 months, was released today and has been reunited with his family where he belongs!

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN

100% true even-dumber-than-you-think reason they do this: fear of "most liberal senator" a la Kerry, so it's savvy to throw away cheap nobody-cares votes to juice the stats. They think their DW-NOMINATE score matters b/c it was a third-tier attack line in a presidential election two decades ago.

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

The Jays have the chance to do the funniest thing Canada has done since 1814

I guess I just feel like it should be a bigger deal that Penske Media owns the Golden Globes and ALSO Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, GoldDerby, and Deadline, plus 20% of Vox Media

Judge Nelson, a Trump appointee, amps up his campaign for a Supreme Court seat with a concurrence asserting that the president can, in effect, deploy the National Guard for any reason, regardless of statutory restrictions, because his decision is unreviewable. An astoundingly dangerous argument.

I think something uniquely corrosive to the US, and not other countries, is that their legislature *effectively does not pass new legislation anymore* and the electorate has spent the last decade plus going absolutely stir-crazy from that fact.

Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this. Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

People who still hang out on Twitter daily bullshitting and posting like business as usual give me the extreme ick.

So, shout-out to the winemoms in unicorn blow-ups with FUCK ICE posters in Waukegan or wherever. Gonna need you at the Home Depot tomorrow.

When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.