Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
Doc McDoom, Dinosaur Doctor
@docmcdoom.bsky.social
This seems like a nicer place
"Is Trump going to do the thing he always does or the thing he never does" is a really hard question for a lot of people for some reason
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
Once you recognize it, you can't unhear how he talks like a wifebeater.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoTrump: "We're gonna hit them very hard. I can actually say that because there's very little they can do about it. They've already apologized. But we've gotta smack them a little bit."
(ms. rachel showing a squad of UMD-YDSA militant recruits how to clean the breech and bolt carrier group of a looted m4 carbine during the 2027 Hyattsville Offensive) aaaand open! yaaaay!
If Fauci had come back with "I'm a guy who would never ignore his son-in-law beating the shit out of his own daughter," I'd have asked for his hand in marriage.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
If there's one thing society needs right now, it's a technology that makes people way more wrong but way more confident at the same time, a combination that was sorely lacking before
AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found
A study found that access to AI advice collapsed people's willingness to say "I don't know" from 44% to 3%, while accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%.
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The thing you can do to counter this is to play a Disney or Taylor Swift song very loudly so that when the “evangelist” posts the video they be hit with a takedown order
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
If hypothetical President Harris’s DOD was covering up KIA’s in a war of choice with Iran in its 6th month, we’d see slurs being hurled not seen since reconstruction, instead its:
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2w agoFFS 🤦♂️ The Pentagon removed the names of 4 servicemembers who died in Jordan from their official list of casualties. They explain that this is because "their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...
Making the case Silicon Valley is fake too-to-bottom. The companies, the culture, the people. This person's judgement and ethics are so warped that neither her wealth nor position has any basis in reality.
Rob Larson@ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 3w agoQuarter million a year
The logical endpoint of the American conservative political impulse: pissy HOA behaviors + death squads of otherwise unemployable gun chuds. It's all been leading up to this baby.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW: Trump is now threatening to punish Canada for wildfire smoke blowing into the U.S., as a GOP senator intros a bill to sanction Canadian officials “responsible” for the fires driven by climate change. “Insane," says one leading Canadian enviro group. www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie...
Tillis prodded a rape survivor to go public with allegations against Hegseth, promising her that it would sink the nomination of a dangerous man to a powerful position. She did, at significant risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote in favor of Hegseth. He has always been a coward.
Profiles in poltroonery: Senator Thom Tillis
Recognizing the cowards who choose Donald Trump over our republic
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Did she write the guidance code for the Flamingo missiles or ????
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoExclusive Senior Adviser to Melania Trump Marc Beckman: "I believe that our First Lady -- the current First Lady Melania Trump -- is the single most consequential First Lady in the history of our nation ... it is fair to argue she's had more impact on the peace process between Ukraine and Russia..."
Even if it's clownish & won't lead to anything real happening, it is *incredibly dangerous* for the president to declare his political opponents illegitimate.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump on his Thursday speech: "It's really big news. It's really big news. Our country has to shape up. What we're gonna be talking about Thursday -- it doesn't get bigger, because without free and fair elections you don't have a country."
"Lindsey Graham was 71. While the deceased had no children of his own, he is survived by his beloved horsemen, Conquest (White), Famine (Black), Death (Pale), and especially War (Red). In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Disabled American Veterans."
"Say what you will about his material contribution to the suffering of millions but Holden Bloodfeast knew how to be polite when it served his purposes, and isn't that the *real* measure of a man??"
"Will we add a drain? Wouldn't you like to know!"
Meg Rowley@megrowler.fangraphs.com · 4w agoNo one doing more consistently unhinged work than the folks who design hotel showers. Containing the water to the shower itself? The lowest priority, have a half wall. The tile? The slipperiest imaginable, and just no regard for those who might have to shave their legs. Bunch of maniacs.
WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
Illegally hauling 400 cases of Coors beer across state lines in 28 hours with Mitch McConnell, while dodging a relentless sheriff.
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 4w agoPlaying doubles at Wimbledon with Mitch McConnell.
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
Jon Hendry@jonhendry.bsky.social · last mo.Worse than Twitter, private discussions (text, email, whatever) among like-minded wealthy lunatics who are all surrounded by yes-men who talk like ChatGPT in maximum ass-kissing mode.
im just going to go out on a limb with a wild theory: day after day of this, of seeing your ostensible head man up there brazenly lying, talking about cutting corners, breaking the law, never taking responsibility, etc. my hypothesis is that this is inevitably corrosive to the soul of a people
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Q: About the FIFA decision, what do you say to critics who say this starts a precedent which other powerful leaders---? TRUMP: I can only say this: I had nothing to do with the decision. I said, 'I think this should be reviewed.'
"Culture wars require American boredom" is how you explain so, so much.
OGBobbyJoshson@jawalker.bsky.social · last mo.This is the kind of shit that only works when Dems are in charge and have largely stabilized the country. Culture wars require American boredom.
Hamilton (2020) Independence Day (1996) Glory (1989)
Zeddy@zeddary.bsky.social · last mo.Jaws (1975) Gettysburg (1993) Smokey and the Bandit (1977) On Deck: OG Texas Chainsaw (1974)
