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Mother of Dogs Retired marketing | Ex-pat | Gamer Clinical & Org. psych “Do not obey in advance” — Timothy Snyder “The only thing that is the end of the world is the end of the world.” — Barack Obama, after the 2016 election

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

Susan Collins’s defining political sin was not waiting until Todd Blanche had the votes before announcing concern. It was selling Kavanaugh as safe for Roe, then helping confirm the justice who helped overturn it. This isn’t moderation. It’s a long con with press releases.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h ago

They know voters hate this shit. So they wait until Blanche has the votes for Collins to come out against him. So she can claim to be a moderate. So she gets reelected. So she can spend the next two years voting for more Todd Blanches.

This could be an early-warning signal of things to come. The immediate question is not what the monitors do today, but what narrative Donald’s DOJ is preparing. We’ll be watching to see whether this becomes rehearsal, evidence-gathering, or pretext-building for federal interference in November.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · yesterday

Heads up: The Trump Justice Department says it's monitoring polling sites in four Michigan cities today: Detroit, Lansing, East Lansing, and Hamtramck.

there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

My taxes paid for our military and Claude to bomb a school in Iran, to arm Israel for their genocide in Gaza, and also paid Trump and Friends to build a bunch of concentration camps and paid the Gestapo to shoot innocent people in the street. I'm fine with folks getting cheaper food on my dime

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

He's losing words. Anyone with a parent or loved one suffering from dementia will recognize this pattern. Wen he says "moving cameras," it's because he can't recall the word "videos" and so he's stating the component parts as best he can. E.g., a "camera" is involved and the images are "moving"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."

Maybe the reason Donald doesn’t think what Max Miller is accused of doing to his ex-wife is a big deal is because of what Donald did to *his* ex-wife. In a sworn deposition, Ivana Trump said Donald, angry over a painful anti-balding procedure, yanked tufts of hair off her head and then raped her.

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Fashion outsider here: when the Met canonizes Galliano and Anna Wintour controls the guest list, how free are invitees to dissent? They can stay home, but that has costs. They don’t have to forgive him; they do have to decide whether to legitimize the spectacle. people.com/2027-met-gal...

The 2027 Met Gala Theme Has Been Revealed — Here’s Why It’s Causing Controversy

The 2027 Met Gala theme has been revealed as “John Galliano: Horizons” and will recognize the work of designer John Galliano. The designer upended his career in 2011 following a string of antisemitic ...

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Kevin Hassett is Donald’s director of the National Economic Council. So this isn’t just some MAGA talking head making things up. It’s the nation’s top economic adviser making things up - because population data is apparently optional when discussing the nation’s largest blue state.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d ago

Population of CA: 2023 - 38.9 million 2024 - 39.5 million 2025 - 39.5 million 2026 - 39.5 million bsky.app/profile/atru...

Reality check: MAGA Republicans worked with Moscow Mitch to dismantle checks and balances. The question isn’t whether Blanche deserves confirmation. It’s whether he has become embarrassing or politically inconvenient enough for a few Republicans to deny it.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2d ago

Republican politicians support Todd Blanche hiding the Epstein files. Republican politicians support Blanche cooking up bogus charges to please Trump. Republican politicians support Blanche giving the Trumps tax audit amnesty worth tens of millions of dollars. Vote against all Republicans.