Okay, yes, I know this is maybe the oldest genre of post, but: CAN YOU IMAGINE IF SOLDIERS WERE ATTEMPTING SUICIDE BECAUSE OBAMA DEPLOYED THEM TOO LONG, AND IT WAS ALL OVER THE NEWS, AND OBAMA WAS LIKE “YOU KNOW WHAT?? SCREW THE TROOPS. THOSE PANSIES HAVE IT EASY AND SHOULD SUFFER MORE.”
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 16h agoOne major worry has been that the military might support Trump in some sort of coup. I think that is now less likely. www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/p...
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Stancil gets at a key point here which is that, substantively, one of the major policy efforts of the Trump administration is to take people with legal status and transform them into people without legal status in order to create more “illegals,” because there are too few undocumented people
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 21h agoIndiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.
Happy 2nd anniversary to Scroops and Scales I am going to celebrate by posting some of my favourite panels
Indiscriminately putting ankle monitors on an entire nationality, thousands upon thousands of people living in a small community, all of whom were living here entirely legally until a few days ago when you revoked their legal status. It’s an authoritarian nightmare.
Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · 21h agoHaitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...
everybody got the same pitch in their inbox huh
Notorious RBMK@comraderobot.bsky.social · yesterdaybro shut the fuuuuuuck uuuuup
i think you'd be killed if someone sent this during the ch 4 days. nobody would believe it
Are you tired of having to double take everything you see online because it might be fake AI slop? Get ready to double take your own photos because they may be fake AI slop.
I do not believe this is an unintended consequence. I think ebikes are a potentially revolutionary transportation improvement (especially for teens) and the people opposed to them hate them for exactly that reason
Larry Higgs@commutinglarry.bsky.social · 3d agoUnintended consequence of NJ's new e-bike law. Bike shop business is drying up as customers balk at the new law requirements www.nj.com/news/2026/08...
this entire issue is downstream of the fact that kids are trapped in car-dependent suburbs, unable to develop any sense of autonomy until age 16, when they're suddenly allowed to drive a 4,000 lb vehicle
Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸@princetonyimby.bsky.social · 2d agoThe moral panic about e-bikes... "In New Jersey, the state legislature passed a law requiring registration, a license and, in some cases, insurance for anyone to ride an ebike...In this regulatory wild west, legal ebikes are caught in the crossfire." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
low key hilarious that the post that triggered the latest round of "Bluesky is dying" discourse has less engagement on Threads than its screenshots have on Bluesky— likely because it contains an outbound link to a news article, which is an automatic shadowban on Meta platforms nowadays 😂
The American press could probably make better sense of the world if it was not so dedicated to simply moving past the episode where we unilaterally decided to murder all the leaders of a country we were not, until that moment, at war with
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