we live in north korea

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”

This got me to finally read the entire New Yorker article on the Tates and... yeah. I don't see how what they're doing is any different than what everyone has accused Jeffrey Epstein of doing. Except they're *more public* about admitting to what they're doing AND getting young men to join in.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d ago

However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.

america

Police Officer Saluting

ALT: Police Officer Saluting

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slate@pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d ago

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

@sarahz.bsky.social's latest video on SYOT is both hilarious and great, but I'm not sure what's up with the gauzy filter? It was strange. I assumed at some point during the video there would be a moment where I went "aha" but... no, I just stayed a little confused

To this day I know families in Texas who "jokingly" refer to it as The War of Northern Aggression so I think this has a real point www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again.

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

nytimes.com

Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...

Corey Ruiz police killing reveals an America numb to violence | Will Bunch

Police killings like the death of Madison’s Corey Ruiz, caught on gruesome video, are rising, but public outrage is not.

inquirer.com

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here? He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets. And they all shake hands?

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

This is a perfect illustration of why I have no faith in US mainstream journalism to protect us from anything.🤷🏿‍♂️ This is their idea of holding some people accountable: going to their banquets and causing fleeting, awkward moments, seconds before accepting an award from them and shaking their hand.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wolf Blitzer just presented the Wall Street Journal an award for uncovering Trump's ties to Epstein and reveals Trump doxxed the journalist's home address in his lawsuit causing her to move. Trump is sitting humiliated on stage as Karoline Leavitt comforts him.

yeah, I mean, there's a reason the Niemoller poem has "first we came for the communists" in there. and a reason that that is the line that is rarely if ever quoted.

max asher miller@maxashermiller.bsky.social · 2w ago

My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.

i'm watching a video about Citizen Vigilante and saw a clip where social media influencers are praising him, and I'm fairly certain they're supposed to be Ian Miles Cheong and Stefan Molyneux

Okay what's with the black and charcoal gray houses

This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w ago

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...

i remember people used to say things kinda like "we'll know we've crossed the line if there are concentration camps" okay well there are concentration camps

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 2w ago

86 people in a single ICE holding room, "all jostling for space in a closet of humanity that smelled of sweat, urine and feces." What would we call it anywhere else? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

86 people in a single ICE holding room, "all jostling for space in a closet of humanity that smelled of sweat, urine and feces." What would we call it anywhere else? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

antisemitism among fascist stormtroopers? this is my shocked font.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Jake Tapper reports that Greg Bovino on a call with the office of the US Attorney in Minnesota during Metro Surge made an antisemitic remark about the Trump-friendly US Attorney in Minnesota

Kaylee Hottle, a deaf teenage actress who appeared in two “Godzilla” movies, died on Tuesday in a car accident at 18.

Kaylee Hottle, ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Actress, Dies in Car Crash

A deaf teenage actress, she appeared in “Godzilla vs. Kong” and “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.”

nyti.ms

sure would be nice if a single journalist could respond with "you don't have a constitutional right to eat at olive garden"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Scalise: "For God's sake -- you can't get pasta at Olive Garden without a picture ID! Why not be able to show a picture ID to vote?"

do cops next

11th Hour with Ali Velshi@11thhourmsnow.bsky.social · 2w ago

In one deadly ICE shooting after another, DHS claims the victims were attacking the agents who shot them. Time after time, those narratives have fallen apart. Investigative journalist Radley Balko calls out ICE for "blatantly lying."

So, he's down 100,000$, broke his ankle, people are inundating him with messages about how they can't wait to piss on the statue, his fundraising efforts crashed at 1400$ and none of the rich far right figures he was clearly catering to cared? Sometimes the universe whispers. Sometimes it shouts.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy

“It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a ‘real’ billionaire in a way he never was before, and it will be solely because of the public office.” @swin24.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/swin... bsky.app/profile/thor... bsky.app/profile/ifin...

Trump thinks it was 'stupid' to not cash in more during first term: Rolling Stone

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Adam Rifkin 🐼@ifindkarma.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“If you read or share only one article today, make it this: HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000 … Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of power of the office for self-enrichment.” @leahmcelrath.bsky.social No paywall: archive.is/ZmfJC

Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

Lmao I can't believe this caused a controversy amongst Libsky. That's what I get for having any sort of opinion.

Lemondrop 👉 anime arbor! 📚@lipstick-lemondrop.bsky.social · 3w ago

holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???

these are delicious

is this better i can't tell

apnews.com/live/world-c...

Live updates: Spain beats Argentina 1-0 to win its second World Cup title

Spain defeated Argentina to claim its second World Cup Championship 1-0 in extra time. The young Lamine Yamal denied all-time great Lionel Messi a final swan song.

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DOINK!

SickosFC@sickosfc.bsky.social · 2w ago

OH NO IN THE FACE

Labor unions don’t actually operate like 20th century labor unions anymore, they have no industrial control, they cannot urge any mass political action. They’re functionally PACs. The rank-and-file members aren’t proletarians, their consumers. That’s why you can coddle UAW, but half will vote GOP