I just popped in on Threads, & saw accounts posting about what an unusable hellhole Bluesky is. I'm not engaged to the extent that I have a feel for these things. Bluesky doesn't feel like a hellhole to me. What are they talking about?

@edzitron.com is pretty much the only writer in the media who recognizes this Ponzi scheme for what it is and is willing to call it out. I’m so grateful, because I had a real case of The Emperor’s New Clothes paranoia that I was the only person who knew that the gross tyrant was stark naked.

👀 @ericswalwell.bsky.social bringing it 👇🏽

Pro-tip: Don’t try to take on Gavin Newsom’s press team. Especially if you’re a dumb dumb.

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

Quinnipiac has Trump's approval down to 38%. AND - he's polling at 41% or less on EVERY issue. Moving to WaPo/Ipsos - 76% of America say Trump does NOT deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. I like this poll because it identifies that half of all Trumpers are now seeing through his shit.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

The U.S. Department of Energy intends to cancel more than $13 billion in funds that the Biden administration had pledged to subsidize wind, solar, batteries and electric vehicles, it said on Wednesday.

This awful story has been overshadowed by the notoriety surrounding Charlie Kirk’s murder and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel: Immigration advocates warned that the Trump administration would “disappear” migrants Now 1800 men detained at the so-called Alligator Alcatraz gulag can’t be located

Thanks @dalewalls1.bsky.social for the shoutout! Hope your Wednesday goes well!🤍☀️ Here’s to the middle of the week! #LAUGH #STAYLOUD @chaserbaybe.bsky.social @seizeday.bsky.social @thisdudeabides.bsky.social @eggzbacn.bsky.social @moberzan.bsky.social @atoth99.bsky.social @redsun76.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.

What Jimmy Kimmel said is accurate. What Brian Kilmeade said is monstrously disgusting. One of them is still on television.

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

Consumer pressure can absolutely work. If you're able: #CancelDisney+ and/or #CancelHulu to send the message that your hard-earned dollars will not be spent on products and services from fascist-enabling corporations

Benny Johnson, who had FCC Chairman Brandon Carr on his show earlier today, says “we did it for you, Charlie. And we’re just getting started…”

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

I've known Disney chairman Bob Iger since 1979. He's now made it official: he's a whore

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Individuals are being targeted on hit lists for their opinions. Private companies are being coerced into monitoring employee social media. They are weaponizing Charlie Kirk to curtail your free speech rights.

Victor is a hero.

Fire Brian Kilmeade. This is despicable and cannot be allowed to stand. Not Monday. Not tomorrow. Right now. Tonight. Fire Brian Kilmeade. If you are a Fox advertiser, you are on notice: you are supporting a media network calling for the murder of human beings. #FireBrianKilmeade

This is random, but with stressful work and the world today, I randomly started watching "Lost" for no reason. It's been so long it is like watching it for the first time & the first season is amazingly engrossing. That is all.

Our feral cats, all fixed, friendly but don't want to be touched. Cat Container Gardening.

From Berlin:

Haven't visited Threads in ages. Never deleted it. Vile RW trolls & bots must be salivating over L.A., Israel & Iran. Remembering it is like approaching a bad car accident on the freeway. I won't be able to resist looking, and then I'll regret that I did for days.

Fück you, AstraZeneca for forcing us to listen to your Farxiga side effects over and over and over again. Just fuck you.

It's as if the dumbest, racist (& proud of it) bully in my small rural 70s middle school became the president. Demanding Sweden comply with Trump's anti-DEI policies? Someone make it stop. Please. www.rawstory.com/trump-dei-26...

The 10th Circuit US Court of Appeals has DENIED the govt a stay of a state-wide temporary restraining order against removing aliens under the Alien Enemies Act without 21 days notice, in a language the alien understands, advising of his or her right to bring a challenge in habeas.

Congressional Republicans are planning to cut health care to pay for tax breaks to billionaires. These Medicaid cuts will kill tens of thousands of Americans PER YEAR. #HandsOffOurMedicaid Pass it on.

Life is stressful. It is normal & healthy to seek distraction. Another Earth premiered in 2011 & I've never forgotten it. It is science fiction but philosophical, no weapons involved. It is on Hulu. This scene always gets me. #Disraction youtu.be/bk9cFb5OJmE?...

If only someone had warned them. Oh wait we did, & they replied "cry harder lib" and "Trump's your daddy" with a "Sleepy Joe" thrown in here and there. www.rawstory.com/hurricane-he...

Via @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social:

When a government asserts the power to ship you to a foreign prison, with no hope of review or release—what exactly are your obligations to that government?

Looks about right... Almost comical if it wasn't so serious...

I can't reply to this. But Watter's statement tells me that someone working behind a screen, a lawyer perhaps, injured him, so he weakly seeks to invalidate and emasculate whoever it was. Perhaps he can show us on the doll where the person behind the screen hurt him.

The "let them eat cake" analogies are daily now. www.rawstory.com/lori-chavez-...

Fun fact: eight in ten married women have changed their surname which means they don’t have a birth certificate that matches their current legal name. Over 69 million women would have to get new IDs to vote under the SAVE Act. The GOP is trying to silence women across the country. #HandsOffHerVote

He's wiping out your life savings, destroying the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid upon which you were promised you could depend, ending the medical research that would protect and prolong your life and that of your families & gutting your liberties...and he doesn't care about any of it.

This was not an "astonishing admission". This is a DOJ lawyer aware that there are court & ethical rule boundaries on what we can say in court. There are consequences for violating those rules beyond Trump's control. (1) www.rawstory.com/trump-doj-la...

It's as though you took DNA from every dumbass P.E. teacher from the 70s who taught civics & health with poor grammar, extracted all the most dumbass traits & blended them for a clone & then made it a senator. www.rawstory.com/tommy-tuberv...

I'm excited for this movie. This is a use of AI I can endorse. Trailer in comments. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Concerning New Study Finds Nation’s Poverty Growing Faster Than Officials Can Build Prisons theonion.com/concern...

Cretins we knew in high school & morons online have claimed to know better than doctors, legal scholars, experts in their fields. But I'll admit, re: Trump, I'm repeatedly finding myself thinking "how did I see this coming & you didn't?" www.rawstory.com/reaction-to-...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social - busy but tuned in long enough to see Treasury Secretary Bessent looking like Jackie Gleason defending the tariffs Trump announced today. #tariffs

@jayapal.house.gov (Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal from Washington State) is hosting Resistance Labs that have grown so fast that @maddow.msnbc.com covered the phenomenon last night. This is concrete action we can all do! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Musk and his staffers will descend upon CIA today.

Ronald James: Two weeks ago, ICE kidnapped my friend Karim while he was picking up documents to renew his work visa. Karim came to the US from Egypt legally 20 years ago. He has no criminal record and is BELOVED by our community. ICE disappeared him anyways. We need your help to #FreeKarim