I came here to chew gum and despair, and I'm afraid I'm all out of gum.
Twilight Zone episode where the dummy comes alive.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
Time for everyone to kick out their American ambassadors, or simply shut the fuck up forever about law and human rights (they will do neither)
Jorge Liboreiro@jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 2d ago🚨 Just in: The US has sanctioned the ICC. "We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate," Marco Rubio said in a statement.
Feels like a Twilight Zone episode where you've been invited into heaven and didn't listen to your dog and went right in.
This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 3d agoThe CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
"It is true that the mobility of capital and the relative lack of mobility of labor is an inherent problem that makes the class war more difficult. It is also true that this is the sort of perpetual objection that is crafted to ensure that nobody anywhere ever does anything about a big problem."
Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 4d ago"We are already in emergency territory. These people may be very nice but they have too much money. We need to take a lot of it away from them, soon, or no more democracy. It’s pretty simple." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...
Tony Blair here, writing about extremist politics In Bari Weiss’s notorious crackpot far right propaganda sheet, keeping the company that he was born to keep and clearly loves (fascists, wingnuts and true believers)
Definition of a Harper's Letter signatory: a free speech absolutist who hates when people protest
This article (and Slade's book) are fan fiction. Trumpism isn't a break from Reaganism, it's the intended result, a gov't by, for, and of corruption, lawlessness, racism, and misogyny. That's why Reaganites with power—Thomas, Alito, Kennedy, McConnell—worked hard to empower and entrench Trumpism.
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 4d agoOther than an aside on the "white nationalism that has emerged out of the dark corners of the internet," (which she she pairs with the "excesses of work") Slade makes no mention of the role of race in the construction of the modern conservative movement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
Updated this piece about abuses in grants/contracts: Noem gave $900 million in no-bid contracts to the company of a donor, Salus, which in turn was telling other contractors they had to pay her boyfriend tens of millions if they wanted to get govt contracts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
Governing without Accountability
Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America
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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d agoA 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.
“Charged political climate” is quite a euphemism for a military occupation
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d agoEverything that Trump Touches Dies
GOP is the pedophile party: Hastert was the longest-serving Speaker of the House in US history, found by the courts to be a “serial child molester” (teenage boys he was coaching) but only ever had to serve 13 months for committing financial fraud to cover up his pedophilia. Hell isn’t hot enough.
I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6d agoThis guy just kind of being erased from popular US political history is still wild to me.
My guess is that if the longest-serving Democratic Speaker of the House had been a convicted child molester, Republicans might mention it from time to time. By contrast the Democrats have always been committed to a discreet silence about Dennis Hastert:
“Every dollar received should represent a dollar’s worth of service rendered—not gambling in stocks but service rendered. ..the swollen fortune..acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means.”
Sam Pizzigati@sgp.bsky.social · last wk.A victory for California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax on Election Day “will amount to the first time that a government in the U.S. has successfully taxed the assets, rather than the income, of extremely rich people as a class.” @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Democrats are waiting until they can get back in power and then pass a law saying "you must obey the law"
"But that takes resources like smaller classes, student services staff ... Sure, it’s cheaper to have big classes and to give each adviser 1000 students while rushing students themselves to graduate as fast as possible, but less learning will happen as a result."
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2w ago“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
I’m disgusted by today’s press coverage, which mostly just regurgitates the DOJ press release. The story should be that a) they indicted the guy who got shot, not the guy who shot him and b) previous attempts by ICE to blame shooting victims have all been lies, so no reason to believe this. Shame.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 2w agoSTOP! Do not treat this cover story from ICE and DOJ with any credence whatsoever. So far, they have lied every time about what led to a shooting. At most, this suggests that the ICE agent who shot Wilber Garcés Pérez did so in anger, and had no body camera. wapo.st/4xP6VyM
STOP! Do not treat this cover story from ICE and DOJ with any credence whatsoever. So far, they have lied every time about what led to a shooting. At most, this suggests that the ICE agent who shot Wilber Garcés Pérez did so in anger, and had no body camera. wapo.st/4xP6VyM
Immigrant shot by ICE in Austin is charged with assault
An affidavit unsealed on Tuesday said the officer who shot Wilber Garcés Pérez was not wearing a body camera and that another officer turned his camera off.
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Who charged these people? You don't state this info in your article.
KARE 11@kare11.bsky.social · 2w agoFive people are accused of being fully aware that they were not U.S. citizens when they cast ballots.
In a letter sent to the company this week, US Rep. Jamie Raskin accused Apple of “working with the government to violate its customers’ First Amendment rights to record and report on the activities of their own government." arstechnica.visitlink.me/zit76N
Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals
Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.
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Mr. President.... China, they.... it's bad. They just announced Ultra Intelligence
Trump will crash the market if he steals the election cepr.net/publications... Zimbabwefication is bad for business
The Market Will Crash if Trump Steals the Election: Zimbabwefication is Bad for Business
A contested election could undermine investor confidence in the US, potentially driving foreign capital away and sending stock and bond markets lower.
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MnDOT has identified revenue for roads of $37B over next 20 years and says it needs $15B+ more. So minimum $52B+, or $2.6B/yr. The MAX proposed amount in Bike+ Plan = $146M/yr.or. 5.6% Nowhere near enough.
BikeMN@bikemn.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Statewide Bicycle System Plan is at a critical threshold! Let MnDOT know that YOU want a fairer share of funding to be prioritized towards upkeep, improvement, and expansion of bike infrastructure in Minnesota! talk.dot.state.mn.us/statewide-bi...
Jeopardy! host @kenjennings.bsky.social opposes repealing his state’s millionaire tax. He wants “an America where it’s embarrassing for wealthy people to say, ‘Even though I could afford this, and it will improve public services in our state, I’d rather fight it.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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He is so out of his depth it’s embarrassing. We have the worst possible president at the AI inflection moment. The opportunity cost of putting this guy back in office is vast.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "Super Intelligence - SI - I don't call it AI anymore. I call it SI because it's a much better name. It's a much more accurate name, because when you say the other, that means it's fake. 'Artificial' means it's fake & it's not fake. It's just very strong intelligence...it's much more elegant"