I am 64 years old and FOR MOST OF MY LIFE two things were true: - fascists were trying to take over the USA - we were beating them Those creeps are beatable. We beat them for decades. In the 30s they tried a form of MAGA and US beat them. The 50s? McCarthy purges. US beat them. Do. Not. Doom.

So now that we know that the bar is "Literally ANY Democrat between a socialist Muslim or a centrist-coded CIA mom-boss wins huge;" are we still insisting it HAS TO BE the Oyster Nazi weirdo for Maine or nah?

YAY! Got it working!

Everyone having fun with a meme generator that doesn't work for shit on my laptop's Chrome browser:

Kinda wild that BOTH Arnold Schwarzenegger action sci-fi movies released in 1987 and co-starring Jesse Ventura are getting new movies this month bla bla bla Doofenschmirtz nickels meme.

Most conservatives cannot distinguish their enemies. It's all the Big Evil Blob. Osama bin Laden praising a secularist socialist? Makes sense, they're all Blob. The 15-Minute City is a communist Deep State neoliberal WEF plot? Makes sense, they're all Blob.

Nightmare employee experience and speaking personally, nightmare customer experience too. Fuck off Target. Fix your DEI policies, pay your employees more instead of regulating their emotions, then apologize for 10 years. Until then, eat boycott bitches!

Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine

this is the most informative label on Bluesky, mufo-gossipy division

Mamdani represents a kind of Palestinian activism that is inclusive of Jews. If you don't want Jews on your side, he's a threat.

The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

insanely annoying about it is all of this race/iq bullshit was dealt with by academia decades ago but dc and nyc pundits who fancy themselves intellectuals just can’t let go of the vision of it as a kind of Forbidden Topic that No One Talks About rather than the boring gutter racism it is

Hey Axios did you know the current President admitted to sexual assault into a hot mic like a decade ago

Covid is still here because we chose not to do enough. The climate is changing because we chose not to do enough. And democracy? We can’t afford to just wait and see.

I know the skies used to be filled with birds that are now extinct. I know that change can happen and that it is usually permanent. That is the real status quo. What we do matters. It’s counter intuitive but often inaction leads to change and it takes effort and energy to maintain stasis.

Something I’ve noticed is there seems to be a sort of pervasive assumption that the status quo has gravity. That there’s a natural, comfortable way things should be and that deviations from the normal state of the world will correct themselves in time. But as a paleontologist, I know this is false.

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If you read in a history book about a dictator in failing health who cut off money and food supplies from his people, attacked them with violent gendarmes, seemed oblivious to a national public outburst of anger in local elections, and wiled away the days building vast palaces, what would you think

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

explaining to anyone remotely offline that you're a youtuber is genuinely torture. i'd rather have a gun pointed directly to my head

Schumer: hey let's be nice and feed the children Thune: I want to be very clear to the parents of America's starving tykes: gargle my balls

Genuinely wild to see the republicans refuse a softball and instead prefer to ride a rollercoaster made out of rusty screws

In the immortal words of Napoleon Bonaparte, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

I think at some point we're going to have to have a reckoning on how the memefication of "genocide" and "genocidaire" as extremely bad and harmful for pretty much everyone except Trump.

Honestly though, if I randomly passed out in public, Trump is literally the LAST person in the fucking universe I'd want to try to "help" me.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Okay, are we absolutely 100% SURE they're not Weekend At Bernie's-ing him already?

My crush on Lea Thompson in BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) remains undefeated.

I am BEGGING the studios to pivot to Bluesky so entertainment journalists and critics can stop using Twitter as part of our jobs. My Predator: Badlands reaction post is bringing out nothing but misogynistic nazis.

It is insane that in the year of our lord 2025 people are still like, “it’s not a problem if a country’s conservative party goes off the rails; they’re all equally bad.”

Why would you pass on this

Man people never give Columbus the credit for being kind of a sicko, right?

Stranger, it doesn't matter what the fuck I "prefer." We have the system we have. If you wanna reform it, then fine, go reform it. You have literally EVERY ounce as much power to do so as I do. Best of luck.

also the path to this is not the Dems reaching out in conciliation. it is the Dems grinding the actually-existing GOP into dust until its leadership once again agrees that the bargain of liberal tolerance is worth abiding by

*sandwich hits federal agent in the chest* Narrator: “Subway. Yeet fresh.”

fwiw i think one reason why Trump is avoiding negotiating with Dems or really meeting with Dems is that they're hiding his condition.

This sets a dangerous legal precedent that I intend to profit from, as the inventor of the knifewich

As a former Subway Sandwich Artist, I'm enjoying the acquittal discourse

"Why can't we stop people from ever being bad?" Because the only way to do that would be to get rid of free will. which would, itself, be a bad thing. (aside from also being impossible.)

Has it crossed people's minds that Mamdani won because he wasn't incessantly hostile like other people in his cohort, as opposed to just the socialism?

Great idea! How do you propose we convince them to do that?