the previous dumb as shit republican president nominated his personal lawyer to supreme court and she was laughed out of contention the current dum as shit paedophile president nominates his personal lawyer to ag and he gets waived through despite all the red flags the flags are red cos blood

James E. Clyburn@repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 18h ago

What a sad state our country is in when the Senate has to debate whether a President’s former personal lawyer—who has led the burying of the Epstein Files and promised to make Trump immune from tax crimes—should be our nation’s highest law enforcement officer.

In the Democratic Senate race in Michigan, Stevens never totally appeared comfortable with how to talk he should have just ended the sentence there

more mr. nice guy@juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 17h ago

kinda bullshit that the other guy didn't even come up with a funny new character to be. he just talked normal the whole time. doesn't seem fair

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

🇺🇦 "Ukraine is starting the war of the future: Ukrainian forces conduct first air assault involving ground robots delivered by drones," — Forbes

Study: Students get more liberal during college, but it has no detectable relationship to the subject they study or the partisanship of their professors. micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

yeah sure babe ruth the most photographed person in usa at the time was not real meanwhile it’s insane that normies think elon musk - the glitchiest sim ever - is a real human

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d ago

The whole Mariners' pen believes Babe Ruth didn't exist. Kinda want all MLB players to believe this and make the owners agree to it in next CBA

there’s no such a thing as a red city

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "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."

it can only bad happen

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

1/ US university autonomy just fell faster in five years than Hungary managed under a decade of Orban's rule. The score dropped from 3.3 to 1.7 between 2019 and 2025. Here's the index that proves it and what's driving the crash. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Pope Leo is drawing on a 95-year-old Catholic principle called ‘subsidiarity’ to argue that AI should be governed by the people most affected by it, not concentrated in the hands of a few powerful corporations. theconversation.com/the-catholic...

Print from 1556 published by Hieronymus Cock , designed by Cornelis Floris II and engraved by Johannes or Lucas van Doetecum. More of these highly elaborate ornament prints, mostly in the grotesque style, from the collection of the Rijksmuseum here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/1...

The difference--

i just finished hand feeding my magpie overlords and then my king parrot buddies visited for a feed 😍 #birdsky #birds 🦜

We made our own entertainment in the old days

cows are the cats of the big beasts so cute and friendly not worth destroying your soul to eat them for lunch

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 4d ago

This cow learned to clear showjumping obstacles just by watching horses do it, and now she jumps like a pro.

the only good Leonard Cohen song is Everybody Knows

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

oh so you reflexively like russia and china because you hate how usa and uk and eu countries have colonialist pasts now imagine your family is tibetan..

Foreign Affairs@foreignaffairs.com · 6d ago

China’s new ethnic unity law codifies, “under the guise of civic inclusion,” a requirement that Mongols, Tibetans, and Uyghurs “become part of a single, party-defined Chinese identity,” write James Leibold and Tenzin Dorjee.

who needs water anyways? ai will take care of that

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

Hackers have targeted water systems in several US states in a coordinated cyberattack that has caused some utilities to issue boil-water notices and switch to manual mode, taking their systems offline, according to US officials. https://cnn.it/4fw9Fvh

you’d think journalistic outlets of repute would hire and promote those who have a long proven track record of fearless reporting, correct analysis, clear communication, and societal benefit meanwhile mastheads like nyt serve up maberman and dross

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5d ago

We're near the ten-year anniversary of this interview, which was viewed as wildly controversial at the time. It led to hit pieces on me from liberal outlets like The New Republic as well as death threats. Now it's seen as conventional wisdom -- but it always was!

i am grapefruit for this discourse

open all borders. stop having them be closed 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@dov.bsky.social · 5d ago

Where does this idea of gratitude as a social expectation come from? Is it some Protestant thing again

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

how about no geffuked ya doge cant

John Skiles Skinner@skiles.blue · last wk.

DOGE is avoiding FOIA oversight at HUD by claiming an "AI privilege" supposedly similar to attorney-client privilege bsky.app/profile/wire...

Secret Service agents are trained to take bullets for a president but not this shit

Neil Hamburger as Odysseus would be perfect

Neil Hamburger Tim And Eric

ALT: Neil Hamburger Tim And Eric

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

If not Matt Damon, who is you alternative Odysseus?

it’s nice to watch the worst people eat shit

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 6d ago

Vivek Ramaswamy tells a crowd of young Libertarians in Ohio "The truth of the matter is, people in my generation have already made it. We're gonna be fine." He is then booed off of the stage

remember how rupert murdoch and everyone at fox news muscled their way to be among the first people in world to receive the covid vax …and then they all died?!

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 6d ago

The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.

australia needs a resources windfall profits tax, or a general windfall profits tax it would control inflation better than the smarmy hacks at the RBA

Reuters@reuters.com · 6d ago

Portugal approves 33% windfall tax on oil companies' excess profits reut.rs/4xdkjNr

did a child do this?

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 7d ago

Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

This is the first passage of Maggie and Swan's book. Consider the agency it sets up. Democrats. Partisanship. Why not focus on the "irony" that Maggie had done propaganda for the man for years? Why make this about Democrats, rather than her complicity?

what do the yokels in East Bumfuck Dakansiowaklohoma think about trump‘s unhinged attacks on windmills?

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 7d ago

Once upon a time, industry was powered by rivers. Once upon a time, industry was powered by coal. Things change. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...