A principal bedrock of American foreign policy for 250 years has been free navigation on the sea. Trump has lost it in six months. What a moron.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h ago

Iran and Oman have reportedly agreed that all ships transiting Hormuz have to go through an Iran-controlled corridor, and are finalizing tolls of 3, 5, or 7%. This would close off the path outside Iranian waters the US encouraged ships to use during the MOU, then started bombing again to keep open.

my strong prior about michigan btw is that the vast majority of primary voters were actually happy to vote for either candidate in the general and will consolidate quite easily behind el-sayed just like they are coalescing behind talarico in texas online freakouts are not real life

the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 9h ago

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

Restricting products to 0.4mg of total THC is like capping beer at 0.4% alcohol. That's essentially modern prohibition and what NC House Bill 328 will do to the local hemp industry. Let your reps know you want regulation, not bans.

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

U.S. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has promised a national ban on abortion. “We don’t have complete victory yet, but we will have victory, and victory will be soon, and and and it will be permanent,” Blanche vowed to his anti-abortion supporters.

Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.

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The most corrupt, unethical AG in the US history will now take office after a sham deal with retiring Republican senators. Now this lawless DOJ will run amok with Trump’s criminal defense attorney carrying out his retribution tour against the innocent while the guilty go free.

Thom Tillis today....

Neville Chamberlain's Peace in Our Time Speech

ALT: Neville Chamberlain's Peace in Our Time Speech

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Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d ago

John Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.

Or, you know, the President, who is an adjudicated sexual assaulter.

"Kids fell behind with your lockdowns!" (Eliminates Department of Education)

Lockdown people are so funny. They pull out their hair at the fact that schools were closed for five minutes, and then you ask them if they actually want to educate poor and minority children and they’re like of course not

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

RFK didn't just beat his wife - he mentally tortured her until she hanged herself.

This guy is so clearly an abusive prick

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

New polling from The 2035 Initiative, a climate policy research center at UC Santa Barbara, suggests that the Democratic Party’s “climate hushing” is not a winning strategy and that US voters would welcome candidates talking about climate action. By Kate Yoder for @grist.org:

'Climate hushing' has swept the Democratic Party. New polling suggests it's a mistake.

Climate change might not be voters' top priority, but new polling suggests that emphasizing it may actually boost support for candidates.

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One indicator of advanced dementia is the complete belief in the hallucinations and fantasies created by the diseases mind.

Every day I wake up and check my phone hoping the night before was the night. One day it will be.

Trivially easy to write, yes. One can almost post it to the internet with little thought. Now pass it. Have fun.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 4d ago

A 100% tax on all IRA income (capital gains or ordinary income) above $10mm (or some similar amount, indexed to inflation) balance with contributions also capped at that amount is trivially easy to write into law.

How long till he demands the Government require us all to use his product.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

The issue here isn't the Reflecting Pool (which seems trivial). The issue is the President ordering his subordinates to arrest and prosecute an innocent man on completely fabricated pretences in order to cover for his own corrupt contracting deal.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 5d ago

The US Justice Department dropped its case against a former Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying the hurried renovations ordered by President Donald Trump had been botched. ➡️ u.afp.com/SrvP

Ask him how our bases are doing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Stephen Miller: "There has never in history been a more total asymmetric one-sided annihilation of the enemy than what is unfolding right now in Iran"

I lost my job, my kids have measles, my electric bill has doubled, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now Black kids won't be getting free breakfasts from Head Start anymore.

Increasingly looking lie the vandals who damaged the Reflecting Pool...were Trump's hand-picked contractors who got a no-bid contract www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Reflecting Pool peeling probably caused by application flaws, experts say

President Donald Trump has blamed vandals, but a Washington Post analysis finds that the peeling tracks closely with stages of the renovation process.

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@alanib.bsky.social Bankhead needs to suck it up and drop out of the Montana Senate race.

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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There should be a corporate death sentence

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last wk.

ICYMI: plastics giant Dow Chemical, not content with the quantity of microplastics in the air, water and soil, wants to make it legal to dump plastic nurdles directly into water sources in the US.

Another "LOOK AT ME!" review

Richard V. Hirst@richardvhirst.bsky.social · last wk.

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

Has there ever been a bigger lyrical copout than "La, a note to follow sew..."?

It's darkly depressing that the entire GOP -- from the White House to Congress to the Supreme Court -- insists that the president and his aides cannot be held accountable for all the very clear crimes that they clearly committed, but they think Dr. Fauci should hang for alleged mishandling of COVID.