TIRED: trump bond crisis INSPIRED: trump bond invasion

dr. rich traditions, JD@helldude.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump Bond Crisis

Insane scene over on “the other site,” where a State Department undersecretary admits to handing off “leaks” to an election conspiracy theorist social media influencer, who then flames her for it

This is just mental illness at this point

If I'm not mistaken, Karen Bass came out against taco trucks and for the WB/Paramount merger in a 24 hour period. A reminder: Karen Bass is running for reelection as mayor of Los Angeles, California.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · yesterday

coming out against taco trucks is the caliber of self-imposed destruction with very few rivals. I'm thinking Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus, General Custer, Division General Leclerc. Sun Tzu wrote a whole book about not giving your opps this much to work with

if my dad said this about me, I'd want to die, oh my god

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 19h ago

"When she said people loathe you, that really would have hurt Elon, because I know Elon very well, I mean very, very well. He’s a bit childlike — and with young boys you have to be careful what you say.” He’s 55, I splutter. “Yes, but he’s very much like a boy.”

“While I did several monologues in voiceover claiming that sea lions have a quiet majesty, they are actually just stinky, slippery wet dogs with fins that are mediocre at best” — David Attenborough

David Attenborough Admits To Exaggerating Wonder Of Seals

LONDON—Acknowledging that the sea mammals were far from being “awe-inspiring, beautiful creatures or a splendor of nature,” an embarrassed David Attenborough finally admitted this week to exaggerating...

theonion.com

“If you go back and look at his presidential portrait, he’s always had two dots as eyes and a big Sharpie smile right on his cantaloupe head” — Capt. Sean Barbabella

White House Doctor Claims President Has Always Been Face Drawn Onto Cantaloupe

WASHINGTON—Dismissing public concern about the president’s health as baseless speculation, Capt. Sean Barbabella, the director of the White House Medical Unit, announced at a press conference Friday t...

theonion.com

ICE imprisoned another extremely dangerous 5 year old. The streets of Austin are now immeasurably safer. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Another 5-year-old boy named Liam detained by ICE, family says

Liam Tadeo and his father are being held inside a notorious family detention center in rural Texas where Liam Conejo Ramos was held earlier this year

independent.co.uk

After Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shot and detained Carlos Ricardo Parias last October, the Los Angeles-based journalist will cross 300 days in ICE detention on Monday.

ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.

With the case of Carlitos Ricardo Parias, the U.S. has broken its own record for holding a journalist in custody.

theintercept.com

elder millennial gets sent to hell, returned to the land of the living after insisting on calling hellhounds "heckin pupperinos"

Why the right-wing outrage over Jon Ossoff’s “travel with Natalie” comment is a lot like flopping. www.readtpa.com/p/flop-era

Flop Era

Get up.

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I wonder if it's a winning talking point for Democrats in 2028 to say, "first day in office, I'll un-name all the shit he named after himself and we'll go from there."

oh nooooo don't do thaaat i'd haaaate to be thrown in the briar patch...

Curb Your Malthusiasm@manucleardevice.bsky.social · 10h ago

This by far is the most insane one to me, like why are you siding WITH the tech companies

This sums up all of evolutionary psychology

That girl with The Posts@roodypatooti.bsky.social · 13h ago

I unfortunately read the letters from the president's creepy handmaiden against my better judgement & I know it's very far down the list of atrocities these people commit but for real the Random capitalization of Things they think need Capitalization is so Bizarre and because He does it they All do

if there's one thing that will help american ranchers rebuild their business, it's importing foreign beef and selling it at a government-mandated discount

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18h ago

Trump announces that the U.S. will allow 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to be imported and that it would be sold at 25 percent below market prices. All of this comes as Trump warns about the dangers of socialism and communism.

What do you call a leader who conquers other nations, forces their peasants to work under grueling, literally deadly conditions, only to seize the food and goods from the people, starving those people in order to enrich his own nation? Stalin did that. Stop pretending he's in any way leftist.

this ossoff guy not only for squarely landed a hit on these freaks, but he gave the absolutely, unassailably correct response to the pearl clutching: these are adult public figures on the public payroll. no one gives a shit about how they feel. that's the only response it deserves. quit if youre sad

My husband is reading producer Walter Mirisch’s autobiography and shared this tidbit with me: When they were prepping to shoot MOBY DICK, director John Huston had an idea for how to portray the whale: A shark in a whale suit. I repeat: A shark. In a whale suit. I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS.

oh you know the ones

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21h ago

Which opinions?

again, unless im mistaken, everyone humored these freaks including rfk on the question of whether that preservative in vaccines harmed kids. finally they caved to them and took it out. autism rates went UP anyway. did they take the L? no they did not. they kept going

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d ago

The media relentlessly promotes the narrative that progressives are too mean to anti-vaxxers and we must bring them around with compassion. This isn't true and isn't helping. The more public sympathy you show them, the more empowered they are in their beliefs. www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/s...

"Why Has the Left Not Considered Adopting A Point Antithetical to Its Very Existence?" asks Conservative Who Says He's A Socialist

10,000 Motivated Rats@bombsfall.bsky.social · 19h ago

It's Time For The Left To Have A Conversation That Has Already Happened Multiple Times But I Didn't Care Then

This is kind of rumor that you'd spread about a rival in the Roman Senate to get him murdered by an outraged crowd.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · yesterday

The US Navy is considering renaming the future USS Doris Miller, an aircraft carrier honoring the Black sailor who became a hero during Pearl Harbor, and have discussed naming it after Trump instead, CNN reports.

i don't want to overstate the importance of any one thing that won us the war but it's pretty revelatory to read about how much of an impact it made in the pacific when one navy cared about principles like "building good fire suppression systems" more than the other

ALTON🏺🦊@rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 20h ago

I like watching a lot of videos on WWII organization and tactics including the less glamorous bits about logistics and it's difficult for me to believe this is nominally the same organization that bodied Germany and Japan simultaneously. World record century of humiliation shit.

found another new type of guy

Florida School Board Leading “War on Woke” Loses Conservative Majority

Florida School Board Leading “War on Woke” Loses Conservative Majority

A Florida school board that was led by a Moms for Liberty co-founder is now moving in a new direction.

newrepublic.com

Race scientists are like asbestos: unwisely built into the fabric of universities many years ago, will absolutely kill people, and require careful but total removal. Also, mostly harmless if embedded in concrete.

FYI, Magdalen Berns was a founder of For Women Scotland and Magdalen Berns's mother was a founder of The Communist Party Of Great Britain. When Berns died her sister did an interview with Graham Linehan vowing to "continue her work" which tells you all you need to know about the mother.