I remain convinced the only reason Obamacare wasn’t repealed in 2017 is that Collins & Murkowski were certain McCain was a yes vote.

Grudgie the Whale@grudgie.bsky.social · 23h ago

Every fucking time.

An ICE goon walked across the street and pepper sprayed a woman for filming him on her phone.

“AI will make everyone more efficient and reduce labor”

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Called a bunch of aquariums asking if we could shoot the greatest PSA of all time, but they hung up at "animals escape."

The single strongest theory that describes modern leftists is that leftists are raised conservative, realize republicans are bad, but stop deconstructing right there and hold on to all other preconceptions their conservative upbringing left them with

mrsomerton@mrsomerton.bsky.social · 2w ago

read theory

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

Nope the voters did that. White people decided that empty gestures for Palestinians were more important than civil rights, climate, women's rights, Trans lives, peace itself, and the lives of the likely 20M people who will die because they abandoned us at the polls.

Permanent standard time, you dumb fucks!!!!

One group sees what MAGA has done as a blueprint. All that matters is the policy; it doesn’t matter how we get there. The other sees MAGA as a warning. If you sacrifice your soul along the way, you may get what you want, but at such a great cost that you won’t even recognize yourself in victory.

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

Okay, so, here's the playbook: STEP 1: Platner drops out, giving a speech saying that this movement is bigger than him and the moment is too critical for these distractions. He endorses Shenna Bellows or another young-ish Dem. STEP 2: Platner fucks all the way off. STEPS 3-1,000: Repeat Step 2.

As many have noted, Black Americans are the patriots white Americans think they are. Thank you all. ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🗽

JP@johnathanperk.bsky.social · last mo.

Black Americans are a crucial part of the nation’s Americana. 🇺🇸

The entire city is on edge right now. It’s 96 degrees, we’re interrupted every 5 min by the sound of low-flying fighter jets, and the president has managed to ruin July 4th. Quietly muttering to myself: “just wait until IT happens. Everyone will be so happy when IT happens. It’ll be incredible…”

The Constitutional Crisis started in 2000. You've been living through it your entire adult life. The reason politics feels hopeless is by design — conservatives broke our democratic form of government to guarantee that the people cannot act against them and are continuing to break it.

Always one cat with zero chill at the vet.

The greatest country in the world: one where we all wait with baited breath to hear the results of the seance six wizards in robes selected by two presidents who lost the popular vote had with child rapist slavers to decide whether marginalized people are allowed to exist.

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Spending on the 2026 elections is going to hit at least somewhere around $12 billion. AIPAC represents $50 million of that, but because they use it in primaries featuring some of the most beloved left Democrats of Bluesky, they're depicted as the most singularly influential group out there.

when does the cat become prime minister

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

There’s a rainbow outside the Kennedy Center right now as a crowd awaits Trump’s name to be pulled off the arts venue

Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. Both are back because of this science denying administration.

he looks like he lives on a hot dog roller

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Trump looked swollen and unkempt during his pre-recorded Meet the Press interview

/2 Also: notice the parallels between Trumpism and the sort of Matt Stoller politics on display here: the notion that what the people really want is to be able to be douchebags in public without any social sanction. The commonality is being assholes; whether it’s for left or right is just cosplay.

Speaking as a Star Trek nerd, this has been my favorite for years.

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

BREAKING: Janice, last surviving member of rock group Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, disavows any connections to 250th anniversary concert promoted by WH 👇

conservative pundits (sneering): actually our christianity is more a set of ideological views about race and gender than anything resembling faith or observance everyone else: yes we know, it's not a secret

I want to focus on developing clean energy, funding programs to help the poor, and legislating against corruption. If your approach to that is to begin with a poetic speech about what the word freedom even means I will probably block you. This isn't a creative writing class.