shes turning 29 at the end of this month and aging out of trumps interest
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h agoFLAG: Trump just announced that Karoline Leavitt is leaving her role at the end of the month.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h ago
There’s a whole mythology around ‘leftist FDR, conservative Truman’ that gives people the impression that politics were way more leftist in the 40s than they actually were. Truman was left of his own party in Congress!
Christo Silvia@christosilvia.bsky.social · 11h agoTruman was pretty good though
The one enduring continuity across the Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Trump, Biden, and Trump administration's foreign policy programs is the refusal to punish Israel to not adhering to the terms that the US has bent over backwards to develop for the sole and exclusive benefit of Israel.
Board of Peace blurs Yellow Line as it wages uphill battle to advance Gaza plan
US-controlled Gaza oversight panel avoids specifying whether Israel must withdraw to original ceasefire line, opting for ambiguity in bid to get both sides on board
timesofisrael.com
Boomer psychology explains so much of this. It's not just the Karens who want to speak to the manager.
Luke Steuber@coolhand.bsky.social · 12mo agoTo me this really highlights the extreme parasocial relationship between Trump and his supporters. This man didn’t think about his daughter’s business when he voted, and now he thinks he has a line to Trump?
they literally had a fit about Mamdani calling a lady his 'aunt' who was actually, like, his mother's cousin or something? somebody who literally every culture in the world uses 'aunt' about, anyway
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12h agoWho will be the first conservative columnist to crash out about this in a 50,000 word screed about how the Left is trying to trick voters and rejecting the essential biological truth of true family in the name of postmodern degeneracy, and will it be in @theatlantic.com?
wild watching people defend calling Jews "demonic". "there must be a good reason for this!" nah. there's really not. this is alex jones level behavior.
“dating and fumbling a woman who, it turns out, was always two leagues above you” is like a defining story of the entire millennial (and now zoomer) male cohort. That is literally what drives a bunch of men crazy now. There’s nothing secret here except how her fiancé held on as long as he could lol.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Robot Mel@robotmeile.bsky.social · 24h agoYour last saved meme is your moral philosophy
highly anecdotal, but I've been getting the growing sense that certain demographics are just kinda over social media more broadly
Sarah Perez@sarahp.bsky.social · 2d agoBluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app
With everyone obsessing over a handful of DSA candidates, the broader trend that might be getting missed across the country is that lots of Dem primary voters seem to have decided it is time for a new generation of younger nominees in lots of places.
this is cartoon villain level shit but the first time an ICE agent reaches down to scratch his balls and tases himself is going to be incredible content
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterdayJFC
If they were so inclined, Democrats could make some brutal TV ads tying Republicans to these torture devices designed to be used on protesters
AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.
apnews.com
Democratic 'strategists': You guys we gotta just steadily erode trans rights because they're too divisive, too bad, so sad Democratic voters:
Micah@rincewind.run · yesterdaythat’s fucking right
The same people who had to duck under tables to avoid a gun toting madman coming after Trump and then decided to throw him another dinner? I think they're the stupidest people on earth. Dumber than MAGA. At least Trump doesn't openly call MAGA the scum of the earth. The press? Yes. Morons
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d agoEvery reporter who was on board Air Force One when Trump abandoned it as a decoy to be attacked knows exactly which administration staffers were also left as sitting ducks there. There's a real opportunity here to get some inside dirt from people who have every right to be bitter and spiteful.
So apparently JFK's original bronze casket is at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean somewhere.
National Cinema Dictionary: C is for Chinese Cinema. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002). A wuxia film.
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops Firefighters and residents of south Lebanon have accused the Israeli military of lighting wildfires in the region, as forested areas burned down in blazes sparked by Israeli bombing. Environmental groups said the fires in recent weeks were part of a longstanding Israeli practice of targeting Lebanon’s natural environment. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
to prog candidates who follow me: run TV ads pls
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · yesterdaysharonism confirmed
Incredible.
Nathaniel Rakich@baseballot.bsky.social · yesterdayPer Votebeat's @alexandershur.bsky.social (who is in Milwaukee), no absentees will be reported for a while. Five of the USB sticks the city delivered to the county were missing the results. Election officials need to return to the absentee facility to get them.
i think this is partly a function of how well NYC-DSA is at organizing and party-building
Magenta@magentab.bsky.social · yesterdayis zohran the only one who actually did the "remake the electorate" thing because we keep on expecting it to happen and it never happens
Seeing some extremely funny posts about how this guarantees Minnesota will have its first woman governor, as if it would be a big question mark had Lindell won
The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterdayLisa Demuth, the speaker of the Minnesota House, won the Republican primary for governor of Minnesota on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. She defeated Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder who was endorsed by President Trump.
Minnesota will have an all-new slate of senators next year. I'd forgotten.
Still, she was an absolute idiot for not running tv ads thinking streaming ads would be a good substitute was phenomenally stupid and should never be done again
Make sure these motherfuckers get wet, whatever it takes.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterdayICE plans to spend $20 million to give officers electric shock gloves
