So Tillis and Cornyn thought the 1.8. Billion dollar slush fun was so bad, that they will be willing to confirm the guy who came up with it. Huh

So that’s the thing to know, if you’re a tabloid that’s going to name-check me in another round of transphobic shit about Bluesky discourse. I don’t stand with you. I stand with my trans friends and family members. ⏹️

It shouldn't be this hard...

Post a perfect album from the 90s

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s.

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

The answer is a lot. Chemours contaminated our state's drinking water for four decades, which is why as Governor my administration sued them. Chemours knows that as Senator I will keep fighting to keep these chemicals out of our water — that's why they're donating money to my opponent.

My man looks like a proud graduate of Duke University

Trump has ruined diarrhea

What, you mean the inscrutable hallucination machine can't be trusted with every nook and cranny of your business?? I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 4w ago

It's becoming the case that it costs more for a business to deploy AI and fire human workers than it does to keep the human workers around. That could be an economic death knell for the whole technology. From me. prospect.org/2026/07/08/g...

We are fortunate to live in a great country and it’s up to us to keep the American Dream alive and well. Happy Fourth of July!

It’s blood donation day. Consider finding a place that gives you a gift card for donating. It helps get me off my butt.

We have a real problem with people’s lives being so boring that they have to make up things to be mad about or persecuted for.

Christian Nightmares@christiannightmare.bsky.social · last mo.

Persecution fantasy...

The long-term impacts of widespread sports betting are only now beginning to be understood. High-quality research is now showing that personal bankruptcies and consumer debt go up significantly. Full article: https://carolinaforward.org/news/overdraft-kings-sports-betting/

Universal pre-K and moonshot cancer research have never been part of a Democratic presidential nominee’s platform. Except in 2016 and 2020. It’s only been over a decade and Dems still can’t get credit for a platform from their own side.

W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ignoring the fact this is not how the money works re: Iran, Democrats love to post "with all the wasted money we could do all of these things that we also do not support."

Vance sounds like a Catholic AI tool with a child's understanding of faith and compassion. I'm surprised he doesn't just respond with "that's a good question" to everything and not provide an answer.

Alexandra Petri@petridishes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I don’t worry about what I will find on the other side of eternal sleep,” J. D. Vance writes in his new book, Communion. “Even as a child, I never feared hell.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"

all those guys on the front lawn of the white house tonight are there because it's not their weekend with their kids and i think it is beautiful when men sync up their custody cycles

"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme

With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX

paulkrugman.substack.com

Absolutely. As I've said before, FDR's court-packing plan failed because most Americans didn't recognize the conservative majority there was acting in a partisan fashion. But the Roberts Six are deeply corrupt, nakedly partisan, and barely bothering to hide their contempt for precedent. Let's go.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

I'll say this for the Supreme Court they're making it easier for me to convince people of the necessity and urgency of court reform

The Loop was supposed to transform Vegas. It's the dumbest transit system imaginable.

I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth

The Loop was supposed to transform Vegas. It's the dumbest transit system imaginable.

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I'm gonna announce a Stanley Cup Final 🥺

All of the dudes in the Epstein files can’t help but use language that sounds rapey. All of them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Lutnick: "That's American products beating the pants off of foreign competition. Check that helicopter out right there!"

“.. government watchdogs immediately pledged to fight what they called a ‘corrupt’ and unprecedented resolution, warning that the arrangement would unjustly enrich people close to the president with taxpayer dollars.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

republicans’ framing of the VRA as discriminatory against white voters has basically gone unchallenged by major media outlets. it’s driving me insane.

North Carolina’s 55 prisons are operating at minimum staffing, in a steep funding deficit. On Due South, WUNC News’ Colin Campbell discusses the current state of the carceral system. www.wunc.org/show/due-sou...

NC prisons' dire funding shortage. Former inmate Kerwin Pittman on buying a prison. And the first podcast from behind bars

WUNC News' Colin Campbell provides updates on the state of North Carolina's prisons. Recidivism reduction activist Kerwin Pittman talks about his own incarceration and how the experience inspired him ...

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We don't talk enough about pre-clearance and that all the states had to do was not enact racist voting laws for a period of time and then they wouldn't be subject to pre-clearance under the VRA. None of the southern states could stop trying to enact racist voting laws. But SCOTUS struck it down.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

My opponent has been telling us that the inflation caused by this administration is coming down. Whatley, what do you have to say now that inflation is through the roof and North Carolina families are feeling it?

SCOTUS thinks the black vote is only worth one-fifth, maybe two-fifths of the white vote. Somewhere around there.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

I demonstrated two things today: that driving faster increases the risk that someone will die and that, after the pandemic, people started driving like bigger assholes. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Gas in North Carolina costs a dollar more than it did just last year, and we all know why. https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article315564730.html#storylink=cpy

Gas prices hit highest in years across US. Here’s what it costs now in NC

The highest recorded gas price in North Carolina was $4.671 in June 2022. At the time, gas prices were elevated by the war in Ukraine.

charlotteobserver.com