I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for

Very good weekend at the (two) range(s)! First with Boston @pinkpistols.bsky.social and then with the New England @theliberalgunclub.com . Met a lot of cool folks, walked a lot of folks through their first experience with firearms. Love doing this.

Bingo. That's the goal. Turn the US into a fascist kleptocracy where the ultra-rich use their ties to the state to enrich themselves and control any competition.

The Democrats had almost a year to devise a strategy to counter Proj. 2025 should it be enacted and they completely neglected to do so. That they're now on the back foot against it is a problem of their own making, and it isn't being a bad solider to tell them we expect better from them.

Some things you can do. No one can do all these things, but most people can do at least one: Feed people. There's work for you at Food Not Bombs or whatever you got going on where are. Join a local cop watch, ICE watch, or rapid response group. Who's being targeted in your area? Have their back.

The main thing elected Dems lack is *they don't actually communicate with their base.* A few exceptions like @aoc.bsky.social and @schatz.bsky.social, but by far most Dems don't actually know how to get the pulse of rank and file resist libs, as many of us on BlueSky are.

One key thing is *they aren't afraid to fail.* A lot of these right-wing efforts flop and don't get any traction on Fox News, GOP electeds, or the MSM. There was a full-court press to demonize Jasmine Crockett after she made these comments re: Brad Penny's trial.

For ~a decade, while studying “rumoring during crisis”, I’ve seen how the right takes advantage of newsy moments, throwing out different frames & phrases to find what resonates. They don’t wait for focus groups. They throw everything at the wall, see what sticks, then lean into the winning bits.

Reminded of how Britain rose to prominence on coal, and how their decline (and the US' rise) coincided with the shift to oil

alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

The way forward is the same as it’s always been - organize your neighborhood, your household, your workplace. Nobody is coming to save us except ourselves. Look out for one another.

Damn bro if only you'd been president for the last four years, we could've had this already smh

Trying to settle a rap beef in court is by far the most Drake thing you could possibly do

none of this shit matters in the slightest. they are not holding Trump or his minions accountable. Hegseth is getting through. You fuckers and your newspaper are half the useless slime that brought us here and I hope you feel the shame in your bones

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc. It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.

“Gee Crow, why are you depressed lately?”

haha funny po - AOC????

I have a brilliant plan, all I need is: - the copyright to everything - all the money in the world

this has been my overwhelming finding in talking to normies about this. random public assassinations are not popular, but also everyone gets how an otherwise decent person could be moved to violence by our healthcare system.

Wow: 69 percent of Americans believe the healthcare system was at least partly responsible for the UnitedHealthcare CEO's murder, per new poll

Merry Christmas. I hope today you get to see the felt frog and Michael Caine

Seems like a pretty obvious conflict of interest

would it surprise you that an Ivy Leaguer wrote this out of touch drivel bsky.app/profile/theg...

The American people are not intellectual, to put it mildly.

We will happily turn haters' energy into profit, which will in turn help us grow. Gun rights are for everyone, bozo.

“We know the health system does not work as well as it should,” — the UnitedHealth Group CEO, who was able to pay himself $23,534,936 last year by making sure our health system does not work as well as it should. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/unitedheal...

Fucking finally, a politician recognizes that there are underlying issues that prompted the killing

not disagreeing with The Riffler, but I wish people understood just how transformatively powerful communities are on people in regards to making consumer decisions if you want to truly understand the power of combining sunk cost fallacy with social validation, you could do worse than study Tesla

I want to believe we have some control here, but if we we definitely don’t have it if we don’t use it. Click below and then click on “subscribe” to choose whether to mute or block. Either is fine, IMO! bsky.app/profile/did:...

as a fun moral question can anyone explain to me an ethical difference between being an insurance company CEO and firing a gun blindly into a crowd

Seems like a remarkably bad idea in light of recent events

Did a cartoonishly named Monopoly guy write thi

"Why do you need a gun?"

Stands to reason. If you're dumb enough to buy that hunk of shit in the first place, you're dumb enough not to care that it's constantly breaking

Work from home was a boon to productive workers and an absolute catastrophe for the group of middle managers and executives who make their living putting their names on other people's work and that latter group started to undermine it as soon as they realized this.

We are a shooting group that honors diversity and is open to all shooters. We help bring new shooters into the practice and provide a fun social environment for all our members.

Appreciate this may not be a universally popular opinion but the less you treat BlueSky as a crusade or cause, and the more you position it as simply a superior user experience with a better governance approach, the more sustainable the growth will be.

I was pulling for Dr. Drake Ramoray

I see a lot of you still sharing posts from the obviously fake Count Dracula account, so please be aware: - the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania - his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir - he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post

Your reminder that Clarkson is bitter after he told The Times in 2021 that he’d only bought his £4.25m farm to avoid paying inheritance tax This only impacts farms over £3m, 99% of Farmers protesting won't be affected. The media are selling missinformation for political gain

You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. You have never made a film before and it would take a long time to figure out.