Puppy Court is now in session!

It's genuinely insane that it's a mainstream belief that the problem with COVID was that we did *too much* to address it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."

if you’re an immigrant and unemployed, you’re a freeloader, but if you’re gainfully employed, you’re stealing someone’s job. They just don’t want these people to exist except as targets for their hatred one way or the other bsky.app/profile/heba...

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

Glad to see this issue getting some coverage! Muni is the only major transit agency that bans all bikes from its light rail trains at all times.

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 2w ago

For years, San Francisco has only allowed folding bikes into trains. Now transit activists are pushing for reform, and they have the support of at least one city supervisor.

For years, San Francisco has only allowed folding bikes into trains. Now transit activists are pushing for reform, and they have the support of at least one city supervisor.

Most bikes are banned from S.F. Muni trains. Some riders want that to change

For years, San Francisco has only allowed folding bikes into trains. Now transit activists are pushing for reform, and they have the support of at least one city supervisor.

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interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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Not a single store was left unlooted by the trans people. They burned cars. Pulled down signs. Tore up parks. The’re EATING THE PETS!!!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "We had transgender for everybody. Men in women's sports came ravaging through our cities."

Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com

Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E

LET THE DOG DRIVE

“All of them said very strongly, ‘Finish that ballroom.’”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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i cant believe the ceasefire thrown together at the last minute as a bit for a sex criminals 80th birthday party has fallen apart

what seems obvious to me is they are secretly selling much earlier access at a higher price and this is the plausible deniability

Be honest, would you hire her as your travel agent? #dogs #DogsOfBluesky

Not terrible

loudspeaker voice "kash Patel please report to the principals office"

Can we stop fucking around now? We should have a long time ago. But we should be sick to our stomachs that parking and throughput are exchanged in blood for peoples lives.

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 4w ago

This morning a driver struck and killed Louisa Gag, a biking advocate and transportation planner. Gag had coauthored a Vision Zero Action plan: visionzeronetwork.org/wp-content/u...

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Trump gave fraudsters $2 billion www.gov.ca.gov/2026/03/05/t...

Trump pardons wipe nearly $2 billion in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery for Medicare and tax fraud, and more | Governor of California

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

JD Vance: "I ask you a very simple question: When you come to vote in November, are you gonna vote for the pro-fraud party? Are you gonna vote for the party that is sending your tax dollars to the fraudsters?"

See, the difference from Mamdani's grocery stores is that these are called "Freedom." www.cbsnews.com/news/freedom...

The White House announces the first Freedom Fuel gas station, selling gas at $3.47 a gallon

The Freedom Fuel Network is offering gasoline for more than 30 cents a gallon below the national average.

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They lost their minds when Mamdani proposed opening one city-run grocery store in each borough

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w ago

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w ago

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is not about the southern border. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets. It cannot be reformed. It cannot be retrained. ICE must be abolished.

In order to defeat communism, all of the AI companies are gonna have to give up equity to the federal government.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump really thinks he's cooking by running against "communism" and saying it over and over during his speeches

fireworks in San Francisco: GREEN DIFFUSE GLOW. RED DIFFUSE GLOW. BLUE DIFFUSE GLOW. YELLOW DIFFUSE GLOW. ORANGE DIFFUSE GLOW.

Jef Poskanzer@jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · last mo.

Yes! Webcam at https://www.goldengate.org/bridge/visiting-the-bridge/current-weather/

Here's the argument: MAGA can't accept a sealed border, an end to TPS/asylum, and the closing of other legal pathways as success. Their movement isn’t really about securing the border. It’s about ethnically cleansing the country. My exchange with Raul Pinto on this: newrepublic.com/article/2125...

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

“.. He also reported earning $636 million in royalties from Celebration Coins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...