regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.

News: Hundreds of Jewish healthcare workers from around the US and beyond are circulating a letter demanding an “end to the genocide in Gaza.” They “reject the weaponization of accusations of antisemitism to suppress criticism of Israel and expressions of solidarity with Palestinians.”

its just not defensible in 2025 for democratic candidates and officeholders not to have a clear position on asserting the equal rights of transgender americans. if you're unwilling, step aside and let a patriot take your place.

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Do you know what? It doesn’t matter what causes autism because it is not in fact a bad thing in itself and some of your posts to say X or Y doesn’t cause autism are pretty fucking ableist

At this point, if you do not see what is going on here, you are dumber than a Nazi

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

The Strib doesn’t mention that the U administration advised faculty to hold classes online today instead of on campus

the admiral in this convo understands that deliberately killing civilians is a war crime and people who do it are war criminals

I wonder what happens in France, historically, when the super rich position themselves in opposition to regular people in order to hoard wealth

the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real

Must-read by journalist Mario Guevara for @bittersouth.bsky.social: "On the afternoon of Saturday, June 14, 2025, my life changed completely. Just as I was doing a regular news coverage, I was arrested by the police in the state of Georgia."

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

they're gonna double funding for amtrak?

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

She was doxxed and fired for this post which didn't celebrated his death. She said his death was a tragedy and she feels for his wife and children...and even says she would pray for him! Everyone should let Ball State know how wrong this is. @ballstate.bsky.social @ballstatemedia.bsky.social

What the picture doesn't show is Lee Greenwood singing "Proud to be an american" in the background as the pyro goes off. This is the tackiness singularity

LET'S GET RRRRREAAAAADY TO DISSSSSSSEMMMMMBBLLE!

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Another example of the same phenomenon; they are killing people so they can make videos of them killing people. There is not actually any policy that Venezuela or Colombia can enact to satisfy them, because the purpose is just content creation. Podcasters with the power of the Federal government.

Completely untrue. First, because those hearts have not been changed. "The leopard ate my face!" Is not the same as "I see now that trying to get a leopard to eat anyone's face is wrong. I was wrong for that." People that have really changed, are already welcomed back with open arms.

The allegations in here are awful. Im interested, however, that the NY Post, in theory a local NY paper, chose to emphasize a Democratic senator from Oregon in the headline as opposed to his wife, the owner of a NY institution that everyone knows and the actual person accused of wrongdoing.

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

"Telehealth abortion care is highly acceptable and beneficial for trans and gender expansive patients, as they benefit from an at-home experience coupled with reduced gender discrimination" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Global opinion used to be all-in behind children working long days in horrible conditions from a very young age. And there are way too many people who think of their children as extensions of themselves or...dolls/toys, essentially, and any opinion or individuality is to be squashed.

There are signs that while ICE is driving around, they may be scouting out homes where they see any signs laborers are present. If you have people working for you, whether it’s roofers, painters, landscapers, carpenters, whatever, you should have a plan to protect them if ICE shows up.

I agree with this, but it's very important for me to do this half the time to preserve the illusion that everything is normal and invalidate my rhetoric from the other half the time that we're in an emergency.

you cannot negotiate with a tiger when your head is in its mouth

The anti-vaxx ACIP is using the same strategy as the anti-abortion groups. Small changes that seem insignificant or "common sense" that are actually meant to erode trust, chip away at access, and abolish vaccines. These folks aren't using science to make decisions. They are deliberately ignoring it.

The reason they did the sting on Homan was because another person they were investigating for corruption let it slip that Homan was taking bribes. It wasn't the deep state, it was a suspected criminal who was also knee deep in bribery.

You mean pro-sepsis candidates? Pro-women bleeding out in parking lots candidates? Pro-forcing girls to carry the product of rape and incest candidates? Pro-goverment all up in your cooter candidates? Just the most unserious conciliatory pendejo shit these two are peddling.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Old enough to remember the shitfit Republicans threw after Paul Wellstone’s funeral, when they characterized some of the oratory from the dais as incendiary libels. Let’s stay tuned for the gentle rhetoric we’ll hear about Dems today.

Wait, you’re saying a bunch of reactionary conspiracy theorists are already splitting over whether the government is telling the truth www.theverge.com/policy/78186...

Barro gets it backwards: having a decent moral compass, ethics, and concern, caring, empathy for one’s fellow humans comes first; the liberal-to-progressive opinions on issues flow downstream from there.

If the concern is authoritarianism, I struggle to think of more than a very few things a state can do that are more intrusive of human rights, dignity and freedom than forced pregnancy.

Just spitballing here but what if the Democratic Party committed to a set of established values and campaigned to win people who already agree with them instead of trying to convert people who are Republicans and do not agree with them

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

I truly don't understand how democratic leadership think they are going to move forward after voting to honor a white nationalist who essentially called Black women—the base of the party—stupid. It's insulting. I find it personally insulting.

Just a suggestion to those who don't look like me in all our many beautiful shades: when you say this has never happened before you mean to y'all. When you say "this is not how we are" you mean to each other. My folk can give dates and times this sh!t has happened to us and yes that's who you are.