The most glaring double standard in American politics today is that if a Democrat said 1/10th about GOP-leaning areas what this guy says about cities on the daily there'd be a media dogpile so swift and vicious there'd be nothing left of their bones for the hyenas to pick at.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

Trump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink The sidewalks are loaded w/horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term bc my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports, when I do the weightlifter."

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

i got a weird one for you all: partway down my driveway, perpendicular to the drive, is a neat trail of what looks to be rabbit or deer droppings. they are in a perfect line, across a seemingly unremarkable latitude. what’s the behavioral analysis here? taking a slow, continuous shit across 6ft?

guy who doesn’t live in Detroit voice:

Delta Nupe@itsnotuitsme1911.bsky.social · 23h ago

El-Sayed won. I’m urging Black Detroiters to STAY HOME and be “uncommitted’ like El-Sayed was for Kamala Harris during the general election. Dearborn voted for TRUMP instead of the Black Lady. I’m encouraging Black Detroit to vote for Jill Stein or Trump , like the Arabs in Dearborn did in 24!

El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

Thank you, Michigan. I love you from the bottom of my heart!

as someone who lives here in Michigan i sure am getting sick of the armchair quarterbacks who’ve never stepped foot in the state giving their two cents tonight.

catch me making flop Halo games because im 343 baby

B_Rye989@brye989.bsky.social · 2d ago

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I think on the whole it’s totally fine in principle to urge people to be cautious in how they talk about AIPAC et al but some people really do need to get it thru to themselves that it is actually exceptional for one organization to spend >30M on a single primary like it’s nothing.

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

everything aside, why would you need AI to make a map? we have a billion maps. use one of those maps! they exist.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

mystery booster commander (mbc) reveals are absolutely fucking bonkers. it is going to be impossible to get your hands on this set lmao.

GM.

just finished watching Conner o’malley’s Rap World on YouTube. very funny, guy is one of the best comedic minds around rn

I was getting ready for bed and then Tarik Skubal got traded and now I'm going to be up until the Sun comes up potentially.

french patrol to jean valjean french patrol to jean valjean take your loaf of bread and put your shackles on (two) french patrol to jean valjean (four, six, zero, one) his sentence ends, parole’s begun (two, four, six, zero) said the bishop “and may god’s love be with you” (one, run off)

Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 7d ago

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

I've spent the better part of the last 12 years being told that Dark Souls II is this critically flawed, lesser game, only to see it be slowly redeemed. I was right when I reviewed it. I'm right now. For @aftermath.site: fuck the haters, Dark Souls II is (still) good. aftermath.site/dark-souls-i...

They Could Never Make Me Hate Dark Souls II

I have spent over a decade being told that Dark Souls II is bad. But history has vindicated the game, and I never let the haters win.

aftermath.site

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hater week isn't over. I got one more in the quiver.

boss yelling at me for messing up at work and i raise my shirt over my head to make myself appear bigger so he will leave

misheard KBBQ as “gay BBQ” and i was like oh shit that sounds like fun

leaning back in my chair, running a hand over my chin, tapping on the desk for a minute, then clicking "interested"

thank god i have real problems like i poop too much and i’m too sexy

Over and over, top officials debase themselves in public, showing they’ll readily adhere to lies on Trump’s behalf. Over and over, influential figures (eg bankers) reassure that the officials are just putting on a show, lying to get/keep the job, they’ll act responsibly in official duties. Nope.

Nasim@thenasimiest.bsky.social · 7d ago

because they deluded themselves that warsh was just playing for cameras in the hearings. but, once you submit to trump’s whims you can’t really grow your backbone back while still staying in public life.

for all those curious, we’ve turned around on day 3 so im going with my original suspect: 7-day-old cheesy cauliflower potato soup

funkle d@kaczynski.bsky.social · last wk.

i do love the fun new game of “is this cyclosporiasis or just normal diarrhea?”

pessimistic on any of this sticking longterm, but it sure doesn’t bode well for the midterms

Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · last wk.

2024 Trump Voters - "Do you regret voting for Trump in 2024?" No: 77% Yes: 22% GSG / July 27, 2026

i do love the fun new game of “is this cyclosporiasis or just normal diarrhea?”

a lot of what we're seeing today is downstream of the lab leak conspiracy theory. there's a lot of people across media, including legacy newsrooms, who went down that rabbit hole and never came back up for air. it's embarrassing, and no surprise, it tends to be the people flambéing their brains on X

Jamelle asks the question that, in retrospect, is the obvious and pressing one: why do we tolerate this? And it’s clearly not because we need his cars or even his rockets, which makes any plausible answer all the more disturbing.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · last wk.

"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...