Just remembered I’ve this on my calendar for the better part of a decade. Happy Dying Smart House day to all who celebrate.
Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday
Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.
Politico@politico.com · 2d agoMichigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.
Another day where the president & other national Republicans get to sh*t on cities/urban voters & we have <exactly none> of the National Conversations™️ about Civility, Tone, Respect for/Reaching out to Real Folkz, or the GOP’s problem of not offering enough Moderate Solutions on Kitchen Table Issues
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
Shouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.
imagine getting dunked on by Playboy for being weird about women’s bodies
Playboy@playboy.com · 6d agoWhat are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...
They keep trying to make voter ID sound common sense, but all they wind up doing is making themselves sound like elites who haven't done regular-people shit in a decade. "You need to show photo ID to buy groceries or medicine!" Sure, sure, Scrooge McDuck, that's definitely how it works.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoRep. John McGuire on need for the SAVE America Act: "You can't go anywhere, you can't get medicine, you can't go to the Obama museum without a photo ID."
The conspiracy she’s referring to here is a Slack chat among scientists in 2020 where they went, “it could be a lab leak, let’s look into it!”
Ernie Piper@whoisernie.bsky.social · 7d agoZeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea"
As has been the case for six years any news outlet taking trump live thursday night after he said he’ll lie about the 2020 election and the legitimacy of georgia’s senators is explicitly endorsing that lie as a legitimate opinion
Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC@mattnegrin.bsky.social · 3w agoAs has been the case for six years any news outlet taking trump live thursday night after he said he’ll lie about the 2020 election and the legitimacy of georgia’s senators is explicitly endorsing that lie as a legitimate opinion
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.
These kinds of laws have an invisible ripple effect across the country. A good number of corporations will just change their policies instead of making a NYC-specific protocol. A lot of the consumer protections we have started in one state or big city.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4w agoBREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.
People are dunking on this saying "the Nazi tattoo should've tipped you off" but saying "I fucked up" in the pages of the NYT is no small thing and there are plenty of people on this here tiny social media platform who backed this dickhead and still won't admit they were wrong.
Michelle Goldberg@michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 4w agowww.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...
People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.
there are plenty of people taking potshots at this and i don’t really blame them, but we would be in a significantly better place, politically, if our pundits engaged in this kind of public accounting more often
Michelle Goldberg@michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 4w agowww.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...
there is a rich vein of "if we perform enough of a caricature of masculinity that's gotta make republicans stop calling us pussies" anxiety in Democratic politics that started with Truman and has not stopped for even a single election cycle since
Mamdani’s NY really got free childcare, Knicks in 5, & the royal wedding
constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.
The long term issue is that this Supreme Court is effectively eliminating civil service reforms that eliminated the spoils system that promoted widespread corruption and graft. The federal government cannot function effectively if every single political appointee switches out every 4 years.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.SCOTUS upholding the firing of the FTC commissioner but not the Federal Reserve board member is such a blatant reveal of how this Supreme Court sides with the interests of capital over consistent jurisprudence and precedent.
I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.
Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · last mo.I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.
New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo agoThe Bengali Knicks poet and the Sikh dholi guys combined forces for a follow-up! Now we just need the sewing machine guy and the ride a bike with stuff on his head guy to meet.
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
I've been a Knicks fan my whole life and can't wait until we win these finals. But these ticket prices are obscene. The average fan is priced out of enjoying this moment. In a world in which stadiums and sports teams demand all sorts of tax breaks & city services, this should be prohibited.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo agoGame 3. (via @espn.com)
Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.
Got accosted by some asshole while eating lunch outside with my brother in DC. He called us abominations and said I should be out there impregnating women. What the hell. I'm so sorry people have to go through this on the regular. Happy Pride Month. I love all y'all.
Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.
Genuinely appalling that Dick Durbin, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, keeps (accurately) calling Trump's judicial nominees "MAGA loyalists," and has also personally voted to confirm NINE of them. What are we doing here, man.
Senate Democrats Are Not Taking Their Jobs Seriously
If Trump is picking judicial nominees who will serve as “MAGA loyalists,” why are you voting to confirm any of them?
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I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3mo agoPeltola gets on the "no tax" train that Cory Booker, Chris Van Hollen and Katie Porter are hawking, calling to axe "federal income tax entirely for working Alaskans earning less than $92,000 per year." #AKSen
there has been a recasting going on especially in the pages of the nyt that the gay rights movement (esp. winning gay marriage) was this well-thought out, incrementally planned campaign and if the trans people had tried that they'd be fine and that just, doesn't seem true at all?
Zeeshan Aleem@zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere’s something so chilling about being a former politician on one’s death bed, having a clear portal to an existential, cosmic perspective on the meaning of life, and counseling everyone to ask for less. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...
I think a lot about how Business & Media & Political Elite treat Trump's posts on tariffs & appointments as *law*, but then just ignore his deranged ramblings. They are both posts in the same location, by same person, under same constraints: yet Elite seamlessly elevate some to law and ignore others
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump is posting absolutely deranged shit on social media this morning ahead of departing for China today. Get a load of this stuff.
