Pickens is putting on a clinic. #DallasCowboys

No one is better at explaining things than @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. Wishing you all a wonderful and MEANINGFUL Juneteenth! 🖤

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · last yr.

Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!

Did Trump just not find the time to declare Juneteenth NOT a federal holiday, or…?

This crisis in Iran is entirely because of Trump's shitty leadership. They stopped installing centrifuges until Trump ripped up the deal Iran made with President Obama—simply out of spite. Now he's barreling toward another poorly planned conflict in the Middle East. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Journalists should report the truth the way this judge laid it out.

Ari Drennen@aridrennen.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

Democrat Lawmakers… Start going into the offices of EVERY GOVERNMENT AGENCY… DEMAND TO MEET WITH ANY REPRESENTATIVES FROM DOGE IN THOSE OFFICES. DEMAND THEY IDENTIFY THEMSELVES. PUBLISH THEIR NAMES. IF THEY REFUSE TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES, POST THEIR PICTURE AND WE’LL IDENTIFY THEM.

In the U.S., one can use traditional Catsup and the invented word Ketchup interchangeably. You can thank marketing (and Heinz, specifically). In the U.S., one can use the name Donald Trump and the title President interchangeably. You can thank an oligarchical system (and Elon Musk, specifically).

Happy 12+12=24 day

Bluesky I need your help - this raccoon needs a name. Perhaps something to do with chonkiness?

Everything is bigger in Texas.

Go follow OTM and Brooke Gladstone for some of the smartest, most nuanced, and useful analysis we will need in the coming years.

On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING: Brooke Gladstone is on Bluesky! brookegladstone.bsky.social

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Reskeet if you want to see trans people grow old and live full and rewarding lives

This very well written piece will make you think, make you sad, make you angry all at once.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3y ago

I wrote about the common centrist lament, that so many of us refuse to be friends with conservatives over "political views." This suggests that conservatives want to be friends with us. It's a shock. I hadn't realized. https://armoxon.substack.com/p/if-you-want-to-be-friends-then-why

Maybe states having this much power over medical rights is not a great idea?

Alabama can enforce ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender children, court says

A federal appeals court is allowing Alabama to enforce a ban outlawing the use of puberty blockers and hormones to treat transgender children.

apnews.com

okay Richard Scarry I see you

“Devastated Tuohys”? AP doesn’t care how Michael Oher feels, apparently.

Devastated Tuohys ready to end conservatorship for Michael Oher, lawyers say

A lawyer for a prominent Memphis couple with a longstanding relationship to former NFL player Michael Oher says that they want to end a conservatorship that he’s challenging in court.

apnews.com

it’s going to be embarrassing as shit when some other country decides to take decisive action on twitter’s major legal and ethical breaches before the united states government does

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3y ago

this Nick Pickles fellow does not appear to be familiar with CSAM laws

Donations needed. MoveOn is going to run an ad that will make TFG spit out his Diet Coke.

“Still punk as fuck”, I whisper as I eat dinner at 4pm, cause I’ll be asleep by 9.

Antelope@wovenantelope.bsky.social · 3y ago

“Still punk as fuck,” I whisper as I give away a ticket to a show to stay in and read.

“I've been working here Monday, it'll be a year And I can't recall a day when I didn't wanna disappear” -Jason Isbell, the most underrated storyteller songwriter of his generation.

Honey? Where did you put my teeny tiny violin? I want to play it for Elon.

X marks the lawsuit: Elon Musk's social media company sues nonprofit highlighting site's hate speech

A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been sued by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

apnews.com

If anyone is curious, here is the research published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate referred to by X Corp https://counterhate.com/research/twitter-fails-to-act-on-twitter-blue-accounts-tweeting-hate/

Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts tweeting hate

New research reveals how Twitter failed to act on 99% of 'blue tick' tweets containing racist, homophobic, neo-Nazi, antisemitic or conspiracy content.

counterhate.com

We need a new voting rights act.

If you don’t watch Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, you may not know about Austin home-town heroes of local cinematic commercials, Radiant Plumbing.

The Toilet Exorcist (Youtube Short)

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B.S. 1) It is impossible to pull one’s self up by one’s own bootstraps 2) We did everything we could to ensure formerly-enslaved people possessed nothing, including boots. 3) When talented freedmen became politically dangerous to entrenched whites, we incarcerated them and leased them as “laborers”

The GOP claim slaves could have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps | Opinion

As the GOP’s arguments about slavery show, meritocracy, taken to its logical extremes, ends up functioning as an apology for cruelty, violence, and hate

independent.co.uk

I just ate some furry blueberries. Am I going to die?