Who knew ridiculously long deployments and demanding op tempos run a ship and crew into the ground!

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h ago

Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...

I think you could write two or three thick books on why this won't happen

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h ago

SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Is it me or did the Capital One affair not really break through On Here Another day, another scandal that would have tanked basically any other presidency

Clearly the only True Gamers are people that struggled against the last few levels of a movie-tie-in Gameboy game, only to find out years later that it was incredibly rushed and not properly finished

TWILT 🎧👩‍🎨@twilthero.bsky.social · 2d ago

Can you really call yourself a gamer if you haven’t played a 7/10 licensed platformer that obviously didn’t have a lot of budget but was surprisingly fun for the GameCube or PS2

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

I avoid the term “gentrification” when talking about housing affordability because it mostly describes *how people feel* about neighborhood change, not the change itself. For example, this author talks about how containerized trash pickup will “gentrify” NYC’s streets by replacing parked cars:

◥◤Kriston Capps 250@kristoncapps.bsky.social · 4d ago

Finally, someone willing to speak up for throwing your garbage onto nasty streets: "The bins will contribute to the sense of New York becoming more 'sanitized' each day, where it is gentrified and perhaps physically cleaner but losing its character and history." www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

Pretty much the expected result when you fire everyone who knows what they're doing

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

Imagine, just imagine, if a Democrat told people to eat liver and tripe if beef is too expensive.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 6d ago

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver"

Squishiness on trans rights is a dealbreaker for me because (a) it’s a straightforward issue of personal freedom and bodily autonomy much like abortion, and (b) the right is obviously coming after us cis gays next.

ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · 7d ago

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue

They need to absolutely throw the book at this woman to dissuade copycats.

Fenit Nirappil@fenitn.bsky.social · last wk.

How did a false allegation lead to Pete Buttigieg's separation from his kids? Our exclusive reporting shows how authorities did not take steps to vet the caller who left her contact. We found the caller who said she wanted to thwart his White House ambitions. Gift link: wapo.st/45ok5XP

I am very ashamed to live in a country where people will wake up with the terror that the secret police are coming to kidnap them, separate them from their families, and brutalize or even kill them because they are not white.

really something to see tech YouTuber types calmly discussing the latest Tesla or SpaceX business news without once mentioning Elon’s 50 Day of the Rope posts per day or his murdering 700,000+ people

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

I miss knowing there's an Anthony Fauci in charge of health. A Hillary Clinton or Antony Blinken handling things internationally. A Pete doing things for transportation. A Lloyd Austin handling defense. A Haaland protecting our lands. I miss knowing adults are in the room. Or at least non-traitors.

I'm glad that he actually got an appropriate sentence for this act of domestic terrorism.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Man who killed Democratic Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman is sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in prison.

It’s only a matter of time before poorly trained ICE officers, who are forced to meet unreasonable, quotas for rounding up migrants, shoot and kill American citizens. Oh wait….

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan: "It's only a matter time when you weaponize that two ton vehicle where an officer is not going to be able to react in time and we're burying an ICE officer ... so the vehicle stops are back on"

At this point, the media should just treat Trump's little "this is how I will retaliate against the civilian population" posts like a running list of war crimes he is confessing to at this point.

Posted a video on TikTok due to a brief burst of madness, and this is the first thing it shows me after the video uploads. Just silly.

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

I try my level best to be as Pro Transit and Pro Cycling as humanly possible, but sometimes the real life behavior of cyclists makes it challenging

it is pretty insane that the movement which produced the idea that Kamala Harris would go to war in Iran has not produced any sort of resistance, even messaging, about the actual war in Iran

Mamdani would somehow get 102% of the vote

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3w ago

we deserve to see this

My daughter has helped me realize how hard Marvel was cooking with Spider-Gwen / Ghost Spider. She's a Spider-Man who's also a ballerina and her outfit has cool wings.

If a hostile foreign power was trying to destroy American leadership on the world stage, this is the kind of thing they would do.

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.

Yeah, Texans, vote for Paxton because he's such a stand-up guy who promotes marriage.

@daddyboy9.bsky.social · 3w ago

He is current in divorce proceedings, but not yet divorced. That would make these condos martial property as the money used to buy them was martial property. Putting them in trust and using a fake address sure looks like a fraudulent scheme to hide assets from his wife.

Sure, but the American electorate just demonstrated that they would rather re-elected a demented rapist than deal with even the tiniest scrap of price increases. How do you think they'll react to tax increases?

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3w ago

seeing a baffling take on here that the US will have no money for big programs come 2029. Denmark’s tax bite is 20 points of GDP higher than ours

Freud would have a field day psychoanalyzing Hegseth

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting