I am not a blind defender of the Democratic Party establishment* but IMO, the correct line about Omar is "This is outrageous, she has our full support, and we're all looking at what to do next". It looks like that's what they're saying. * in my heart I'm still the last surviving Romney Republican

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Happy Indigenous People's Day

Biblioraptor, PhD@biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 12mo ago

james talarico claims he has the flu but he was actually transing his gender recreationally

man, if you wanna post on Twitter then post on Twitter, nobody’s gonna stop you most of us are just not going to join you

Ruin a book by adding a word: Great Neck Expectations

T. Greg Doucette@gregdoucette.bsky.social · yesterday

Ruin a book by adding a word: Starter Dough Villain

look, we already have abundant evidence that David Brooks is the furthest thing imaginable from an authority on good times to shut up

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

tag yourself in this photo, I’m the 19th century Japanese depiction of an American

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2d ago

A 19th Century Japanese Depiction of an American

I think Trump is dialed in on “everything bad in my life is Zelenskyy’s fault”. VZ wouldn’t give him the goods on Biden, costing him 2020. VZ got him impeached. Now VZ is ruining the big beautiful deal to bring down the price of diesel before the midterms. I honestly worry what Trump will do.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Hours after President Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel, a Russian attack in Ukraine, on Saturday killed at least 20 people. The Kremlin said there would be no immediate resumption of discussions to end the war. Trump said Ukraine should “get a new president.” trib.al/6soAOJj

Carrie isn't supposed to be curious, eager, kind, and excited to be there. She's supposed to be dull and annoying and smelling funny, and the challenge of the story is to make you feel compassion for that person, too, and then see how she becomes the monster at least in part due to people like you.

so the thing is… “Mohammad” isn’t really a more stereotypical “scary Arab” name than “Abdul”. I don’t think this is just/mainly “Trump being racist”. I think he got the name wrong in public, someone gently corrected him, and now he digs in on “no, *I* call him MOHAMMED!”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: "This guy, I call him Mohammed El-Fayad. Some people call him Abdul. I call him Mohammed. Somebody said, 'why?' I said, I don't know. I feel like it."

WE DON’T HAVE TO TOLERATE THIS DETESTABLE FOOL

Remarkable: As of now, Latino early vote is outpacing where it was at same time in 2024 in both percentages of vote share and in RAW VOTE TOTALS. That's big. Presidential turnout is usually higher than midterms. I obtained new analysis from Dem firm TargetSmart: newrepublic.com/article/2164...

Ms. Leavitt is certainly a very pretty young woman but her face lacks that certain indefinable "edritch horror screaming from gaping hellmouth" quality they love at Mar a Lago

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 3d ago

Conservative commentator Katie Zacharia has replaced Karoline Leavitt as Trump's White House Press Secretary.

obviously there's an element of poe's law playing out here but am i the only person on This Site who thought that the train-a-voice-model-to-read-to-your-kids post was pretty clearly a joke

he says this as an ASIDE to focus on how Collins wants to take money out of everyday communities to give it to the wealthy, he's running Air Raid and those corners are in HELL

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Ossoff says that Mike Collins has "hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office"

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

It's quite literally human sacrifice. They continue to cargo cult fascism, because "fake it until you make it" is the only thing they know. They're hoping a ritual public killing will bring their flagging power and legitimacy back, no different from previous sacrifice religions.

"Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed." --CSL

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d ago

Q: “How do you define socialism personally?” Vance: “I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports.”

(taps mic) more like jeff bozos. thanks i’ll wrap up here

I get the "I want to tie everything back to my job/hobby/favorite toy". The non-weird version of this post could have been "...so I talked with (favorite AI model) about the right book for our baby, and we came up with great choices and a good sequence to follow." not the grindset mindset I guess

🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 4d ago

this is so fucking sad

"The ceremony will be held at a summit titled 'The Science: A New Golden Age of Science' at the Institute of Peace." dystopian YA novel ass sentence

so far the reax to my late night thread are better than I expected. Several thoughful replies. One snide point-scoring I clicked "hide" on. One "look at the baby killer" quote-post (blocked him). Not bad for the blue skies.

Closing out the day by getting myself added to a few more blocklists. If you say “Israel isn’t committing genocide because the death toll is too low”, your argument is, AIUI (IANAL), legally flawed. And it’s morally abhorrent...

animals-crushing-pumpkins season is actually so important to me. spiritually www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyVBE2hL/

The GenZ mind cannot comprehend the I Dream of Jeannie/Bewitched Power Hour. An entire ½hr of Veteran & Submissive Magic Wife Who Leaves When Your Friends Show Up followed by Salaryman & Mischievous Magic Wife Whose Mother Never Leaves These were The Two Lifestyles. And we used to masturbate to it