Your standards for spending time on a website must be: -maximum user growth -seeing many things you find unpleasant or uninteresting -frequent harassment The fact that anyone wants to chat, express themselves, and laugh—ie seeking community, not arena combat or world domination—breaks some brains.

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

I understand why the average american sees it as far worse if we blow up innocent people who weren’t doing anything but this will never not be true. If we want to be the country we pretend to be, than these distinctions don’t matter when the state is going on a killing spree. Prison guards weren’t…

Steve Saideman@smsaideman.bsky.social · yesterday

Even if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.

…allowed to just summarily execute Charles Manson because we all didn’t like what he did

the accuser here has been a gigantic fan of trump and the gop, and this is what it’s currently doing to her

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

NN: The abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller -- Moreno says he should resign, but President Trump disagrees. Do you think Miller should step down? REP. JIMMY PATRONIS: No. I agree with the president. This is a family fight. Unfortunately, divorces are messy. There are two sides to every story.

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

MORE CASES DROPPED: Prosecutors are now dropping charges against three more defendants who'd been accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. Jeanine Pirro abruptly abandoned the four cases after investigators concluded that botched work by a contractor was the primary cause of "widespread damage."

Prosecutor in D.C. Moves to Dismiss More Reflecting Pool Cases

After revelations that a botched renovation, not vandalism, had caused the pool’s recent problems, the U.S. attorney’s office has dropped several prosecutions.

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“Voters don't think Dems are too extreme. They think Dems are weak” @paulwaldman.bsky.social dismantles the centrist panic over progressive primary wins. Time to build a winning coalition for Nov! Essential independent journalism from @atrupar.com & team. Go subscribe to Public Notice!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."

More grifting by the maladministration - of course. x.com/HormuzReport...

The Hormuz Report (@HormuzReport) on X

BREAKING: A source close to Iranian officials says Tehran has documented a pattern of oil market manipulation tied to Axios reports and Trump administration insiders, including evidence of a $9 billion insider trading operation linked to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. Some of

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Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

New Yorkers had to subsidize the $117 million that the NYPD paid out for misconduct lawsuits in 2025 alone, even though most of them were never personally abused by a cop. Where's your worried op-ed on that one?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

At a minimum, up to 25 million older Americans who rely on Medicare will see the costs of their prescriptions go up.

The Real Cost of Ending Medicare’s Prescription Drug Subsidies

A horrendous decision could have dangerous, even life-threatening implications for some Americans.

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The Contrarian@contrariannews.org · 2d ago

This week, the Trump administration announced plans to stop a federal subsidy program designed to hold down prescription drug plan costs for millions of older Americans who rely on Medicare for their health coverage.

NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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Caitlin Flanagan was a prominent Atlantic staff writer for 25 years. Explain to me again how the Atlantic is a serious-minded, left-center publication.

This isn’t hard folks. It’s been done before. The people of our country don’t need to keep suffering just to keep minting new billionaires at the expense of their health, food and rent.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2d ago

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

FYI the states that generate the most wind power are Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"

So Tillis and Cornyn thought the 1.8. Billion dollar slush fun was so bad, that they will be willing to confirm the guy who came up with it. Huh

Slow down a cat chattering and it’s way funnier

Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure

@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · 2d ago

ABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

404media.co

New from me: Some data points for a MAGA melt-down: *Hardcore Trump loyalists declining *Right wing influencers losing viewers *The Heritage Foundation is rife with dissent and incompetence, with conservatives worried about the pipeline of talent 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/is-maga-me...

Is MAGA Melting Down?

Signs and wonders, portents and data points

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First, @theunpopulist.net published a poll showing that hard core Trump support has declined by about a third in the last two years. Now that Trump is governing, and governing poorly, fewer think he is on their side. (Would like to see more polling on this). www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-har...

It seems relevant that the thing Isaiah is being sent to do in that passage is to deliver a prophecy of doom to his own people for having fallen away from the path of righteousness. So if these guys were like, Isaiah, that would be robustly bad news for...the United States.

Matt Thiessen@mattthiessen.bsky.social · 3d ago

American Christianity in one social media post.

Patty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.

Virtually all discourse re internal fighting within the Democratic Party is progressive versus centrist, and I think it's a counterfeit discourse, because that framing overlooks the fact that both take for granted the base as it exists in favor of chasing whiteness.

Update: Third Whistleblower—Israel, the Stolen 2024 Election, and the Epstein Files open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

Update: Third Whistleblower—Israel, the Stolen 2024 Election, and the Epstein Files

How a transnational crime syndicate is influencing U.S. and global politics, and what it will take to stop it.

open.substack.com

Feel like this is holding up well.

Patrick S. Tomlinson@stealthygeek.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Hegseth and Trump don't want professional soldiers. They want the homoerotic, 80's action movie parody of soldiers. Dumb, cruel, and ultraviolent. They need obedient thugs to carry out their illegal orders, not trained professionals who will question them and stand in their way.

the Ohio delegation everyone youtube.com/shorts/OJeUs...

GOP senator silent as daughter accuses Republican congressman of abuse

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6d ago

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ has officially handed over UNREDACTED Epstein-related records directly to federal Judge Emmet Sullivan for private review following a court order in MeidasTouch host Katie Phang’s lawsuit.

Trump DOJ Hands Judge Unredacted Epstein Records After Katie Phang's Court Win

The Justice Department now says it delivered the records directly to the judge after Katie Phang successfully challenged the government’s Epstein-file redactions.

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