with apologies to the young man who left his extremely well-curated spotify account logged in on the hotel tv: if my daughter didn’t hear elmo’s alphabet rap we were all going to die
The Hormuz crisis is taking place specifically as a consequence of American power projection capabilities.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16h agoThe problem is that as we're seeing with the Strait of Hormuz, "the USA forfeits its global ambitions" does not lead to a new age of peace and sunshine, but to global recession and instability. The Strait of Hormuz is not the only load-bearing instance of US power backstopping modern economies.
the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 16h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
this guy (doomloop dispatch) literally killed a biker with his car… and he’s posting on twitter how it just made him even more anti-bike lane. The NIMBYs are not OK.
Theo Gordon@theogordon.bsky.social · last wk.Move over zucchini lady, this guy calling 'bike lanes white lanes' and calling the Terner Center the 'Gentrification Center' is my new favorite Berkeley Council moment. #berkmtg
www.reddit.com/r/nerdfighte... He's actually clarified this and is not using Claude "write" his book, but it's cool that people can just participate in misinformed dogpiles without consequence
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Mugi@tsumugi-chan.bsky.social · 6d agoFor the sake of posterity: Here's Hank admitting he's writing his new non-fiction book about cancer with the help of Claude Might want to skip buying this book, folks!
suspiciously green bananas is sadly one of the funniest things i’ve read in awhile
Not to mention the right really underestimates how much the left can argue among itself. An echo chamber it is not. lol.
Mikell Taylor@mikell.bsky.social · 2d agoI came here to get away from the Nazi site not to find a political bubble. The fact that most people who want to avoid Nazis that make being online a deeply unpleasant experience also lean left is not my fault.
I get that there's a lot of legal power in saying "you're not even following your own self-assigned murder rules". But I also hate giving even an inch on the framing, because, just so we're clear: any drug runners on those boats are also murder victims.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Bluesky can’t just be about liberal/left politics or it’ll definitely fail. It’s why you need to get your sportsball folks off X and onto Bluesky, the official app of sports.
The Verge@theverge.com · 3d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
Charlie Kirk wishing on a monkeys paw to have huge influence on the youth of America.
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3d agosister tells me that the kids these days don't say "low key" they say "lowkirk" or "lowkirkuinely" and I don’t know how to handle this information
Oh look, the exact thing those of us who believe in trans rights warned would happen has started to happen
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Presenting biased opinion as factual news is not journalism, what is it? I let you name it.
