Want to feel badly for the wife/daughter(s)/granddaughter caught in the cross-fire of this exchange, but it is objectively funny that these two evil men are honed in on each others' moral deficiencies like this.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d ago

personally i think both of these men should (at minimum) be out of jobs.

I really hate Elissa Slotkin's patronizing "my theory of the case is that what works in the middle of the country will work on the coasts, but not the other way around" shit. It's one of her canned lines that she uses in her eventual attempt to run for president.

FYI for anyone who doesn't know about "The Midwesterner" | Spin Class Case Study: I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" by @emilyhorne.bsky.social spinclass.substack.com/p/spin-class...

I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"

How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

spinclass.substack.com

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5d ago

Wow, you got us! Arabs say Inshallah!

Nothing has radicalized me more against the American state than the American voter like this is gonna give me a brain aneurysm

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · last wk.

"Who's better on..." 🔵Women's Rights: D +18 🔵Environment: D +17 🔵Democratic Norms: D +10 🔵Cost of Living: D +4 🟣Political Violence: Even 🟣Wars/Terrorism: Even 🔴AI: R +1 🔴Corruption: R +1 🔴Guns Control: R +3 🔴Immigration: R +5 🔴Crime: R +14 Ipsos / July 26, 2026

Why TF does this article about China have a picture of Mt. Fuji as its main photo??

Politics of Cars@thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 2w ago

their demand destruction is even more interesting imo finance.yahoo.com/energy/artic...

In Overton Window updates, 2001 George W. Bush was less racist than today’s Democratic establishment www.washingtonpost.com/video/nation...

'Let me quote from the Koran ...': George W. Bush's mosque speech

Days after the 9/11 terror attacks, President George W. Bush visited the Islamic Center in Washington to denounce Islamophobia.

washingtonpost.com

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w ago

Great stuff

Every day is another reminder that it was actually the Obama era that was a fluke of nature and Bush-era Islamophobia is the natural state of US politics

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w ago

Great stuff

A baguette needs to be javelined for best effect whereas you can frisbee a naan which means that while distance on a baguette is dependent on your shoulder and effectiveness of your kinetic chain, the naan will travel further even with worse pronation due to physics. Naan win everytime

Sophie Hall@sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 2w ago

Finally, someone asking the important questions

Some (me) might argue the proof is in the pudding

Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · 2w ago

My instinct when someone says this shit is not 'you're so hardcore', it's 'you are not going to perform well'.

This is so wildly out-of-touch. The local talent pool of skilled personnel is so, so sososo limited it might as well not exist. Not even local companies are able to fill head count.

The Japan Times@japantimes.co.jp · 2w ago

The weak yen is an advantage for for foreign startups and investors in Tokyo, because it enables them to hire skilled personnel at a relatively low cost, Gov. Yuriko Koike said.

I had to stop half a dozen questions in for fear of having a brain aneurysm

Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems@upine.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are many different kinds of Trump supporters. Some are simply clueless. Here. Take this quiz. It tells you about clueless low info voters. Most high info voters flunk it. www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

Words like "obvious" or "truth" should immediately flash the warning signs that a person isn't arguing a position in good faith but rather with intent to shut down legitimate pushback

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Responding to @beaubaumann.bsky.social’s post today, Prof. Wurman deploys the same rhetoric used against every immigrant group in America. Is this racist, he asks? Judging whether one can be part of America based on a culture’s supposed "capacity" for self-governance is the structure of bigotry.

When my Civ VI game gets really interesting

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

Also not for nothing but this seems like an entirely reasonable position to take in a two-party electoral system? There is no "take your marbles and go home" option in the US.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4w ago

I get that you're trying to dunk on the Maine DSA for this, but endorsements and recommendations are two different things. It's explained on page 2 of the voter guide that you're all posting screenshots of.

Incredibly entertaining (and affirming) convo on the need for younger leaders in the NYT's focus group with Black voters. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Not saying you had to spend some time living in New England to pick up that something was not right with him, but I am saying that, having gone to BU, she is definitely a ball knower

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 4w ago

One thing that I think is under-considered in this is that AOC was a bartender before she was a congresswoman and I have to wonder if she saw Platner and immediately went “I know that kind of guy”

This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense

Now look. I bear the individual people in this line no ill will Everyone I spoke to during that hour of Trump blabbering on was very kind. They wanted to see fireworks. I'm sad they didn't get to see them But also? Now their independence day matches my independence day

this thread is better than most reality shows i’ve seen

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · last mo.

Another surge forward, and this one works! The gates are open! The assholes--the ones who blocked the street, who followed the ambulance, who refused to leave --we are the ones getting in first

This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.

Oh good I was worried I wouldn’t hear Lee Greenwood live in a really strange context twice in a ten day period

most irritating part of "how can you root for the US did you know we are bad" is why the fuck do you think I got here without thinking about all this and coming to my own peace with it why do I have to be in the slow lane with you, ever you missed this meeting I'm not giving you my notes

Nothing prepared me for the on-the-nose audio of this clip

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · last mo.

new metaphor just dropped

I want to see the version of this to scale re: the earth's crust

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · last mo.

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

when someone orders 'and fries for the table' and your own order also includes fries

Nick Evershed!?@nickevershed.bsky.social · last mo.

HELLO

Running for president, or really any federal office, without a plan to deal with this out of control institution is pointless. You might as well play pretend

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

this framing, the court standing up to trump, is precisely why this withered old piece of shit is unfit to even hold office, let alone lead the caucus

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · last mo.

Despite Trump’s best efforts to bully them, the Supreme Court just reaffirmed that if you are born in America, you belong in America.

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · last mo.

Kavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"