After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

welcome to personalist america, where the new bar of constituent service is “personally ask the king to release one of my constituents that his paramilitary abducted.” it’s great that mamdani can do that, but feels very, very ominous that he has to.

Anyway the risk profile for Platner isn’t Fetterman, it’s Gabbard

Honestly most likely (and funniest) outcome is that Platner is woke but medically stupid

I’m not sure there’s any way they could have done more damage to public safety than lying about tracking down a missing kid so they could go abduct a university student on campus

The smart kids of Bluesky are kinda uniquely situated to not understand the kind of stupid kid that Platner is.

Not everything is terrible:

d-infowars is not something we need

any dem is going to be better than any republican, and i am not a mills fan, but i hope she beats him, because he won’t be a manchin, and he won’t be a sanders, he will be a whole new kind of ignoramus pain in the ass

Maybe don’t go to Texas if you can avoid it.

Controversial take: this is an accurate portrayal of the state of the union and it's why going in the first place was a dumb idea

"The president had DOJ illegally cover up documents about allegations he sexually assaulted a child after Congress specifically passed a law requiring they be disclosed" is, in and of itself, enough to merit rapid removal from office regardless of how true or credible the underlying allegation is.

This is very literally Protocols of the Elders of Zion shit

anyway if we end up doing a "killing US nationals is completely unacceptable and a justification for invasion" national discourse reminder that argument should logically result in Operation Jerusalem Freedom given how many Americans the IDF has murdered

I don’t want to live in a world where “insider trading on what a celebrity is having for breakfast” is a real thing that can happen

every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy

Front page of reddit only has Omar and Tlaib’s protest and Al Green’s placard with nothing else State of the Union related which tells me it was a big old dud that no one cares about except the chattering class and the snarling cancer on humanity that is Trump’s base

Trump's speech was under two hours, which bolsters the thesis that the leaks about it being more than two hours were meant to work the prediction markets

Drove past a Luby’s today and thought of @thenortyemp.bsky.social

"If we lose the Marxist Left will kill us all 😱" man that shit's not real you just won for 40 years straight and you got bored so you gave yourself Phone Madness. You decided to destroy the post ww2 world order bc u saw an interracial couple in a Toothpaste commercial

This guy's smiling photograph is appearing today, in normal news coverage of an elite gathering. He has killed 215,000 adults and 445,000 children with USAID cuts, as of the most recent estimates. 14 million deaths are expected by 2030.

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. how many random people around the world built their identity around US signifiers. the decline of American cultural hegemony is going to have long term consequences we're only beginning to see. new post

Where is Mitch McConnell?

Worried about Trump’s foreign policy? This one pot zereshk polo will make you feel like you’re in Tehran.

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George H.W. Bush had the good sense to start a war *before* having an embarrassing and widely publicized gastrointestinal incident at work.

Trump pooped himself on live camera 17 days ago. It’s weird you get to go declare war after that imo

"the Netherlands" is a fictitious country made up by Shakespeare for a dirty joke.

At No Point While Rewatching Every ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Does It Occur To Man He Might Be Depressed https://theonion.com/at-no-point-while-rewatching-every-planet-of-the-apes-does-it-occur-to-man-he-might-be-depressed/

i do find it absolutely hilarious that even among American centrist types, Canada appears to be like, socialist Europe when the average Canadian complaint is that we are 10 megacorps in a trenchcoat

I’ve spent a grand total of 10 minutes in Miami and I can’t believe they built an entire city out of the “Latinos for Trump” song

Oh man, Trump is Bluesky-fantasy-posting

this reminds me of the best SOTU drinking game I ever heard, in the first trump term: start drinking as much as you can at 5pm so you pass out before it starts

oh my god SCHUMER dunked on him

Me @ the Heated Rivalry fujoshi Discourse:

you could not pay me to give a take on the BAFTA thing

Man I wish Mao Zedong Thought with Mark Carney characteristics was a thing cause someone needs to crack down on the landl*rds

one billion canadians (2026)

literally rousseau's entire life is him being consumed and destroyed by his obsession with what other people think of him. he took every awful thing inside himself and projected it onto "women." and then in so doing he reasssured himself he was Rationality incarnate

as we edge ever closer to a completely arbitrary war with Iran, the obvious geopolitical lesson of this era is that you should acquire nuclear weapons by any means necessary

People saying OpenAI reporting a user it banned for posts about gun violence would be mass surveillance are fucking idiots. The tech industry *is* mass surveillance. There is no genAI or ChatGPT without mass data collection on everyone. Don’t like mass surveillance? Stop using fucking chatbots.

sorry to be such a cliche or a middle aged man but i’ve been reading and thinking a lot lately about the late roman republic and our current moment and i can’t help but conclude what actually matters is not allowing power to concentrate itself among people who self-select out of a need to dominate

essay by a guy whose entire media career has been built on hippie punching wondering why more people aren't helping the hippies topple the fascists

This is exactly the kind of stuff that was getting played on a loop by cable news in 2024 when Biden was doing it as proof of his declining cognition.

man, reading about the Flying Tigers (US pilots flying for China during WW2) makes me feel like sobbing 😭

I think we need to say the obvious -- that the president intends to defy the court, in fact, IS DEFYING the court.

What Bishop Robert Barron, Lil' Marco et al stand for is precisely anti-culture (utilitarian art shorn of inherent, humane value) and anti-civilization (remember, civilization comes from civitas, "city," and there isn't a large, vibrant city these reactionaries haven't loathed, dreaded and derided)

Germany's far-right AfD has scheduled their party conference this year for exactly 100 years since a major Nazi rally in 1926 - in the same location. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...