Flying Mezerkis
@bananapantz.bsky.social
Ne'er do well, sailor. The Jim Belushi of poasters. Biding my time. Every day and in every way, I’m trying to become a better Lieutenant Junior Grade. The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time.
This requires active and deep messaging from democrats and others on the left starting now.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h agoIt seems really clear that by 2028, we're going to have an empty SPR, substantial munitions shortages, greater strategic challenges, a larger national debt and substantially higher bond rates which will massively constrain future administrations.
Haley Stevens was out with a gracious concession and a commitment to support Abdul El-Sayed within about one hour of the AP call in her race. If she can buck up first thing in the morning, everyone else can. That’s actual political leadership.
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 7h agoI meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.
I think he’d rather be kingmaker but I don’t think he can do that without fox, maybe hes successfully blocked out by Murdoch but I think he’s the only person that can keep a bunch of trump voters to continue voting instead of never doing so again
“It looks like America” I thought TC was starting a new political party. Have they contested any elections?
Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 2h agoFor federal elections, splitting the GOP into two competing crank Nazi movements would be great for Democrats. At the state/local level, however, we'd be condemning large portions of the South and Midwest to governance by Crossfit George Wallace's.
The suit’s really helping him here.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3h agoQ: "If a Democratic senate primary were held in Pennsylvania today…do you believe you would win?" Fetterman: "Like today? Uh, yeah. I mean, uh, I mean, that's, that's, ugh, we don't, we don't know exactly. But overall, uh, it's 2026 so it's really kind of a theoretic."
My “boots” theory is that Wellington boots haven’t caught on in the US because of how silly the nickname “Wellies” sounds. No one in America wants to be caught dead in their Wellies. So we just buy rubber.
correct are you serious about beating fascism or not? get in, we’re beating them in november you can be mad, you can be disappointed, but at the end of the day having someone with D in any and all seats is better than having someone with an R in them
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 7h agoI meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.
Bari Weiss: As a journalist … Chorus: Billionaire’s pet Bari: and successful executive … Chorus: not even close … Bari Weiss: I offer my services as a truth-teller … Chorus: liar … Bari: and a media-fixer. The doctor is in. Chorus: CBS is in free fall.
Community S03E18 Britta - The Grief Causer
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Sarah Szalavitz💡@dearsarah.bsky.social · 21h agoLean In To Fascism
Michael Flynn got paid by the Russian government to do anti-American propaganda, got paid by the Turkish government to conspire to break US laws, and now got paid by the US government for helping cover up a hostile anti-American foreign intelligence operation, ensuring perpetrators got away with it.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 5h ago🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
nytimes.com
my sense is that a lot of congress literally have no understanding of these tools because they are old and insulated and also that the tech sector is fighting tooth and nail to avoid any scrutiny of the attention economy because they think the industry will collapse if they are not exploitative
Chuck Edwards, the Republican Congressman from NC-11 with a weird/creepy staffer sexual harassment ethics case open, abruptly ended his reelection campaign at 3:32 am this morning. The local GOP committee will select his replacement; the seat (where I grew up in WNC) is currently rated a tossup
It's the infantile frustration and rage of a psychopath unable to understand that the world is not behaving in the way that he wishes. Add to that the fact that Trump is uneducated, unintelligent and now in the grips of geriatric dementia, all is explained. Oh, and the fact Iran is way smarter...
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 9h agoYet another story framed around Trump’s supposed anger rather than his incompetence. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds.
"any settlement could give Tehran control over some of the waterway and without denying it the power to eventually charge fees from vessels using it — conditions that would have seemed unthinkable to US geostrategists just a year ago" www.ft.com/content/87b0...
Donald Trump trapped between escalation and an Iran deal on Tehran’s terms
US president faces few good options to exit a war he once said would end swiftly with the Islamic republic’s surrender
ft.com
Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
⚡️Update: Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue. A massive Russian attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported Aug. 5.
Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue
A massive Russian ballistic missile and drone attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported overnight ...
kyivindependent.com
"A federal judge on Tuesday indicated she was likely to find in favor of a coalition of renewable energy groups and order the Trump administration to resume reviewing wind projects." www.courthousenews.com/judge-likely... via @courthousenews.bsky.social's Monique Merrill 🔌💡
Judge likely to make Pentagon resume wind project reviews
The Department of Defense cited national security concerns as the reason it has stopped reviewing wind energy projects.
courthousenews.com
Apparently Trump can simply alter WH or DC grounds in any manner of his choosing. Like a dictator.
Mezerkis Law of Increasing Stupidity: [VEEP theme music]
Financial Times: "Beijing is stepping up efforts to attract foreigners to its sovereign debt by building out futures contracts and other bond market infrastructure." www.ft.com/content/0fe0...
China courts global investors with bond market tweaks
Building out market infrastructure is welcome but the country’s economic challenges could remain a deterrent
ft.com
I’m old enough to remember when the Right held the independence of the judiciary sacrosanct. And was outraged when the President even met with District Attorneys or the DOJ to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
That’s it. I’ve seen enough. We’re all losers here. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
nytimes.com
