Michael M
@bedwyr.bsky.social
Drone dude. Sometimes athlete. Sometimes nerd.
Jonathan Chait I find habitually irritating in the Atlantic in part because he clearly writes from the point of view of the Dem establishment and this opens up a bunch of blind spots that inhibit his ability to read the moment and the electorate accurately. He’s good some valid points but <sigh>.
Seconded. It’s wrong on principle, it’s unamerican—we rejected religious tests for office and dual loyalty smears with JFK, Jewish Americans, more—and every minority (especially but not exclusively religious) should recognize it as yet another assertion that only white Christians are real Americans.
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 16h agoi really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office
if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law
We can hardly wait. Our Congress passed a bill demanding that this happen, but they seem too corrupt/intimidated to follow up on it. We're hoping to replace most of them soon, but whatever you can do will be helpful & much appreciated. #ProudBlue
Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.
TBQH I don’t see this as much more than the SNES super scope or LABO. Nintendo tries blue sky hardware ideas because they still have the glimmer of a toy company and occasionally something sticks for awhile like Wiimote or dual screens. I’ve no interest in this but I’m glad they’re like this.
Stealth40k@stealth40k.bsky.social · yesterdayFire Emblem Fortune's Weave supports mouse controls.
The writer is a right winger who also writes for the Federalist, so yeah. Selfish Republican bs is kinda her remit.
Ken Tremendous@kentremendous.bsky.social · 2d agoThat's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
The craziest fallout of the Cyclospora situation for me personally is I used to work in a microbiology lab as the one (1) parasitologist. That lab didn't even have the right gear for many of the tests they wanted me to do. Couldn't train me to run the tests right, bc nobody in the lab knew how!
Behind a paywall but the gist is you split the DSA into two groups. One group is composed of social democrats. These are the people looking to Europe as a model for governance. Group two are total replacement types, “real” socialists replacing Dems. www.thebulwark.com/p/democratic...
Democratic-Socialists ❌ Social Democrats ✅
How to solve the DSA problem.
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Epstein survivor Dani Bensky: "There's always a glimmer of hope that somebody will do the right thing. I hoped that it would be John Cornyn, because he has been such a great advocate for putting sex trafficking rings away. To see that this is how he's going to end his legacy is really depressing."
Last weekend drove across Memorial Bridge for first time in months. Numbers suggest what a gargantuan waste this is. But until you see it in person, hard to grasp how completely amateurish, cheesy, lower-tier-casino it looks. Sort of like that notorious redo of 'Ecce Homo' in Spain in 2012.
BrooklynDad_Defiant!@mmpadellan.bsky.social · 2d agoIf this obscenely gaudy gold shit doesn't piss you off, you're not even paying attention.
How’s this for speech: ABOLISH ICE. Come at me. Every American has a right to participate in this democracy. We are a self governing people. If the people through their elected representatives decide to abolish ICE then abolished it shall be.
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Independent media is growing right when we need it.
Aaron C. Davis@byaaroncdavis.bsky.social · 2d agoAfter 18 years at The Washington Post, I’m excited to announce a new chapter. I’ve joined the intrepid team at ProPublica, which is expanding its D.C. newsroom to pursue accountability journalism on national security, including …
Trump ruins everything and every person he touches www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Brown’s President Will Resign after a Tenure that Included Trump Deal (Gift Article)
The president, Christina H. Paxson, led the campus for over a decade, but in recent years faced protests, political pressure and a shooting that killed two students.
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First question you should ask when right-wing pundits, politicians, or groups propose a "pronatalist" policy: "Would they argue for this policy even if it didn't result in higher birth rates?" If the answer is yes, it's not about babies. It's about a social order & power. Babies are today's pitch.
I assume most of these are AI or photoshopped, but they’re also plausible and illustrate the reduction of worship of Jesus to boyfriend. A kind of weird shift in intimacy from king/savior language to companion and familiarity. There’s got to be a social psychological analysis for this.
AJfromBrooklyn@ajfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 2d agoI dare anyone to come up with a worse album cover than this.
This is a key insight. The point of much conservative ideology is that there should be a hierarchy of the deserving vs the undeserving (I’ll give you one guess how money and race fit into this) and little to no government to get in the way. To them that is the peaceable and righteous way of things.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoMAGA is raging at DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin for discussing immigration reform. But the real reason MAGA is so furious is he admitted immigration can be managed in a way that benefits our country. This is absolutely lethal to white nationalist ideology. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)
Bread, to my mind, is very much like the sun. It rises in the yeast, and sets in the waist. 🐢💨
@cwgabriel.bsky.social I don’t know if your family is still in Spokane, but thinking of them and the city re: the wildfires. 😬
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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In 1944, MN teenager Jeanne Gibson went to work in the Seattle shipyards welding destroyers for the Allies. She then moved to Juneau and joined the Army Transportation Corps supplying ships in the Pacific. She later got a Master’s and her pilots license. RIP, hero. 🫡 www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...
@jvl.bsky.social it’s genuinely hilarious that the Secret podcast transcript read your pronunciation of Ross Douthat as “Rust Outfit”.
