anectdatum: got my renewal passport in the mail 10 days exactly after applying on line — no picture of fuckface in it 👍 (still waiting on passport card after 21 days)
Dead Kennedys at SLO Vets Hall — had a ticket, couldn’t get off work— don’t know about great show as there was a riot and the cops shut it down…but I missed that 😅
John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · yesterdayHow about this? Best concerts that you ALMOST got to see but DIDN’T. Include reasons if you like: Rolling Stones (play rehearsal) Johnny Cash (I dallied) R.E.M. (play performance) Nirvana (canceled, college declined to pay requested $500 appearance fee)
Last March, after Musk bought control of the federal government and unleashed his army of evil children to gnaw through the wires, the Democrats had a chance to force a shutdown over it and chose not to. There's no stomach for a fight with him, much less billionaires as a class
29 U.S.C. § 157@organizingpower.bsky.social · 2d agoIf Dems wanted to win huge majorities, they’d be running non-stop ads with Elon Musk, flashing his net worth, with a mash-up of: -how little in tax he pays -how X is the largest CSAM distributor in the world -data centers -all his “predictions” that never came true -sieg Heil -his stupid dances
Nazi Germany voted away its democracy, Britain voted away its prosperity, and the US voted away both. Propaganda kills and troll farms are a weapon of war. Half measures and civilian counter propaganda and fact checking isn’t enough. We can’t win a war against an enemy that controls our minds.
Anyway, "Lake America" is another example of how pants on head stupid unitary executive theory is. That power rightly belongs to the Interior Department operating under strict procedural guardrails to provide a rational basis and public input. Those are our maps, not the personal property of POTUS.
Chris Wyman@wymancr.bsky.social · yesterdayAmong other reasons to do this, renaming a prominent location on your maps only to have that yanked back within weeks or months by courts finding APA deficiencies makes you look like a chump. You want some assurance the policy will stick before making publicly visible changes.
You want a precise operationalization of “the vibes are rancid?” Got you covered.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · yesterdayThe link between consumer sentiment & the actual material state of the economy - at least as measured by the traditional state-of-the-economy metrics that everyone accepted before we started playing Calvinball when Joe was president (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) - broke during Covid & hasn't come back:
little by little, then all at once, just like the "hysterics" said
Loukas Christodoulou@loukas.bsky.social · 2d agoHow did the USA become authoritarian? Two ways: Gradually and then suddenly.
Dolly Parton spent a not insignificant part of her life trying to get books into the hands of children and Republicans spent their time trying to stop her. Often Republicans are so blatantly evil that it becomes impossible to write off the people carrying water for them as anything other than evil.
hey SF—i have an extra ticket to see LP at the Castro on Weds. 9/2 in case that strikes anyone’s fancy
a good mat Pilates class & regular practice would practically erase so many ’aging body’ symptoms body awareness, foam roller self-massage, a strong core — all help reverse the tolls of long sitting & poor posture i’m 58 — at 40 I felt like Imani does. now only when i don’t do enough yoga/Pilates
Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d agoI feel like 40% of my time is spent trying to figure out ways to make my back stop hurting
The MAGA movement is Christian in word but deeply un-Christian in deed.
Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
startribune.com
"Democratic states have not particularly covered themselves in glory when it comes to higher ed. There’s no counter-movement in blue states that offers a robust counter-vision for higher ed — that it might, first of all, be actually good for society, or provide the kind of education students want."
The endless takes demanding "moderation" from Democrats never spell out precisely how this message is supposed to be delivered. "I am pro-trans but not too pro-trans" looks to the left like you are anti-trans and to the right like you are not anti-trans enough.
GROUNDWORK: “.. After adjusting for inflation, corporate profits have grown 52% since 2019. Wages have grown just 12%.” @groundwork.bsky.social
This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves
ICE agent wanted on felony charges in Minnesota has been released from jail in Texas, per NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u...
ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
nytimes.com
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 5d agoTexas law states that a person can only be detained on an extradition warrant from another state for 90 days. After that, they have to be discharged. The sheriff holding Christian Castro has said he’ll be released tomorrow absent a court order or issuance of a rendition warrant by Gov. Abbott.
The 19‐old-wife is being forced to fight the entire apparatus of the United States Navy, while caring for a toddler and a baby, in the wake of her 19-year-old husband's mental health crisis. 19.
The US, which in 2000 won the status of having eradicated the disease, has registered almost 3,000 cases in 2026. Read more: www.semafor.com/article/08/2...
Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 6d agoJesus Christ. All green card interviews worldwide are paused indefinitely
This idea that the rich people leaving would bring Americans to destitution is dubious imo. They contribute back as little as possible in the first place, their exit might be the best possible outcome actually.
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
I don't argue with religious people because my thing sounds crazy too. Here's the deal, a big star blew up and the debris flew across the universe and eventually assembled itself into me
top 5 comfort watches, GO - O Brother Where Art Thou - Blade Runner - Shallow Grave - Cool Hand Luke - The Jerk
Catbus@catbus.phd · 6d agotop 5 comfort watches, GO - The Apartment - Withnail & I - Vernon, Florida - The Killer - Thor: Ragnarok 📽️
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
-why is it the ONLY unforgivable sin?" And then she told me, "I finally figured it out. The Holy Ghost is that part of God that lives in everybody, and the way you sin against it is by not loving everybody with all your heart, for exactly who they are."
Dolly Parton - Travelin' Thru [Official Music Video]
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