Bluesky holds a lot of opinions that don’t survive contact with even one ordinary person

We have demonstrated to the whole world that we don't have a system for honoring our agreements and they can be reneged or broken on a whim.

anita72.bsky.social@anita72.bsky.social · 2d ago

Aside from the apostrophe being in the wrong place, I agree.

Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d ago

(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...

Doris Miller is his name. I sure wish all discussions would name this hero. #USSDorisMiller

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 7d ago

"The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor ... there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor Trump." www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...

I am glad Ossoff made that offhand "Natali" remark. Now assholes like Wolff are forced to dump their shit, instead of sitting on it to publish a "tell-all" book in 4 years.

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 7d ago

Trump’s biographer Michael Wolff is revealing two bombshell letters Harp wrote to Trump, calling him her “Guardian and Protector.”

the left was blamed for stagflation in the 70s & has been less trusted on the economy ever since the right has been catastrophically wrong about climate change, financial deregulation, multiple wars, & immigration control & it's always forgotten by the next election

[seinfeld voice] what is the deal with natalie harp youtu.be/XqpTkbNRAjY

So what's the deal with Trump's aide, Natalie Harp?

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You see the way the GOP is freaking out over one Ossoff attack? And how weak they look? Thats how Dems look all the time to them. That’s why we steal their playbook and then win.

It's the truth. We can't even make the controlled environment of the internet better.

#1 Wnt Hater Richard@richardr.bsky.social · 2w ago

Shitty to see so many responses like "that's just the way things are on social media" So many people who angrily shout that better things are possible out in the real world but somehow better things aren't possible on the internet

Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...

There is precisely one race card. And precisely one group that gets to play it.

The Subtle Full White American Psycho

Alt: A plain white card

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At this point we have to reject the left-right narrative. What we're looking for is not even on the same plane. We have economic, racial, gender, environmental and foreign policy issues. Each of those is its own dimension and it can't be bundled into something that fits neatly along the party lines.

I don’t wanna single out this person, because this sentiment is so common, but we’ve all gotta update our priors about deliverism after the Biden administration. Because they tried it, on both quality of life issues and sweeping economic policies, and it didn’t work. Sucks but it’s true.

And it's getting worse. #QOTD

"$2,358 per person...According to a new tool launched by the Economic Policy Institute, that’s the whopping amount American taxpayers are shelling out on average to fund Trump’s mass deportation push." www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Opinion | Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade costs American taxpayers an estimated $2,358 on average

A new tool developed by a progressive think tank helps Americans realize the massive costs of the president’s mass deportation agenda.

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The argument that their transphobic actions are to protect women rings hollow since Royce White is a domestic abuser. The judge issued a 50 year, yes 5 0 no contact order against him. He has to stay away from his ex-wife and child for 50 years. www.complex.com/sports/a/ber...

Judge Issues 50-Year No-Contact Order Against Ex-NBA Player Royce White

Former NBA star Royce White has been ruled 'abusive' by a...

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remarkable that the United States has made it official policy to only accept white refugees and people still think it's up for debate whether or not they're white nationalists

Is any high-profile media outlet going to run a story contrasting how Platner was treated by the Democratic Party (run out on rails) with how Max Miller is being treated by the GOP (protected, supported) and drawing the obvious conclusions?

i think the only really legitimate policy debate in america is between the far left and center left. i do not recognize conservative policy as a legit alternative.

Just a reminder to my fellow wht Dems, if maga is successful in stripping Black/Brown voters of their voting rights, we will lose our country forever. This is not hyperbole. Do not fool yourself in thinking that this is a Black/Brown issue - it's a DEMOCRACY issue. Full stop.

Whenever a frontier lab AI CEO says that AGI will create a utopia, I play out the following thought experiment; imagine the Trump administration had a computer that could answer any question correctly. Would that world be a utopia? Is the lack of AGI what prevents our world from being a utopia?

💯 Who’d a thunk that a worldwide pandemic would fuck some shit up?

CJ Higgins@cegjeg.bsky.social · 4w ago

A huge example of an entire society experiencing grief but some being stuck in the denial/anger/bargaining stage. Most if not all of us lost the life we should have had because of COVID-19, but we wouldn’t have magically had that life by ignoring that COVID-19 was happening at all.

It'd be great if people could criticise the actions of the government of Israel without using the exact language that gutter anti-semites have been using for decades.

Susan Collins is financed by a man who wants to make it easier to create nude pictures of children

Portland Press Herald@pressherald.com · 4w ago

Elon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid

They tried to throw an Olympian, who trained and competed for his country, in prison to cover for the wannabe king who destroyed a national treasure with a corrupt deal with one of his cronies. This is why you don’t tell them “welcome home” or vote for their nominees or vote to fund their govt.

My broiling hottest make people froth at the mouth like they're possessed by demons take is that Hillary Clinton was and still is substantially to the left of Bernie Sanders, because she actually believes in the existence of racism and sexism, and he fundamentally does not.

I often think about how this cartoon went from satire to reality in America. People really got bored with having a well functioning government.

lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism

a fun mirror of the Biden-era phenomenon where we had the fastest growing economy in the world (but it was instead reported as a painful recession)

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · last mo.

As Trump returns to tariffs, it's worth checking out what we've gotten from the trade war so far.

the misogynists understand that media matters. republicans understand that media matters. nearly four decades after fox news launched and two decades after a half-hearted (at best) effort with air america, liberals still dont think they should invest in media.

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: I wrote about how the Andrew and Tristan Tate's media business whirs into overdrive every time they're arrested in their little outfits www.motherjones.com/politics/202...