The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

From their own words; the now infamous on here "I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" quote was specifically in response to seeing a slaveowner auctioning off his own barely teenaged daughter

Megaweapon@megaweapon5.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Someone here a while back said that the average Union soldier went from “why am I fighting this war?” to “I’m going to burn every square inch of the accursed south to the ground and salt the ashes” when they realized how much sexual depravity was baked into southern plantation culture.

the specifically targeted journalist, khadeeja safdar, does not appear to have been present to accept the award for her contributions to reporting on trump's lurid birthday message to the world's most famous pedophile rapist

As Trump returns to tariffs, it's worth checking out what we've gotten from the trade war so far.

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Well…isn’t this a little gem. @jenpsaki.bsky.social did you know about this?

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The thing to know about Linsdey Graham's historical legacy is that he almost certainly won't have one. There have been roughly 2000 senators in US history. How many can you name that served before you were born? I'm literally an expert on Congress and even I probably can't get past 50 or 100.

Pundits: "Don't speak ill of the dead." Historians:

Obama - What? Come On Man, Really?

ALT: Obama - What? Come On Man, Really?

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"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.

Oh, hey, Lindsey Graham is dead. Anyway...put this on his tombstone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The evil that men do lives after them.

VAR spoke to Mitch McConnell this morning for 20 minutes to get his view on the decision.

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 4w ago

VAR attacked the US Capitol on January 6th

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4w ago

Democrats became great by fighting the far left—and today’s party can learn crucial lessons from those battles, David Brooks argues:

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I remember when the New York Times sent a push notification when Biden did this. I only learned about this from it randomly appearing in my feed five hours later

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

get a load of the look on Zelenskyy's face as Trump calls him "President Putin"

As in 1066 England will prevail against the Norwegians before tragically losing to the French a couple of weeks later.

Listen, if you don’t know the difference between Democratic socialism and communism, I’m not engaging with you. Crack a book.

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

It may have been a mistake to allow a small handful of lunatics to hold massive sway over the international political and economic order on the sole basis that they made an effective system to pay for things over the internet.

Michael E. Carter@deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · last mo.

"The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.

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I read “invertebrate inventor,” sticking with that.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last mo.

"Elon Musk, inveterate inventor" I guess thats one way to describe him

I so want the Chicago Pope to excommunicate him. Just 86 his ass, Leo. You’re South Side, you know what to do.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

JD Vance says he hopes the Pope has “learned” from what he and Trump have said about immigration

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

This.👇 If we are a decent law-abiding society then that is where we start - with the fucking law and with human decency. And we should be building our politics to serve that end, not ignoring the law and decency to serve our politics.

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · last mo.

Just saying, when looking at immigration and asylum policies, ‘electoral effectiveness’ should never be the first consideration. Start with basic humanity, then international law.

I repeat: Washington would have chased this two-bit huckster off his plantation with a stick.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

"Speaking as an early American historian who spent decades immersed in what the founding generation thought about political power — specifically about executive power — this presidency is entirely out of bounds and beyond anything the founding folk could have conceived of." — @jbf1755.bsky.social

the entire conservative media apparatus was born out of a conviction that what happened to Nixon should never again happen to a Republican president and it worked and they now feel comfortable enough to admit it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?

Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · last mo.

“All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don’t blow it up. That’s what MAGA has done.” - Tish James on Mamdani 👀😳

On a train to #ChalkeValleyHistoryFest in a heat wave and the conductor has apologized for the air conditioning not working. Why is it broken, you ask? "This is due to the temperature outside."