Volunteer? I think people will pay for the privilege. Big tourist activity. We're gonna sell tickets to the bonfire of Trump's vanity. $100 to watch, $150 if you want to throw something into the blaze. Music provided by every JFK Center artist who canceled & Springsteen.

Diedrich Bader@diedrichbader.bsky.social · 5d ago

Looking forward, I’d like to once again joyfully volunteer to take off all the gold in the White House and throw it out I’ll stay at my uncle’s so it won’t cost me anything but time

Wait, so everyone is twelve theory already had a name?

The cucking of the Republicans by Trump is something that is going to fascinate me until I die. I cannot for the life of me figure out how it got to this point and it's simply inexplicable that this is who it took to get them to be like this.

Arbaz Kakkar5@arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 6d ago

50 Senators let a Weekend News Anchorman run the Pentagon because they were afraid a gameshow host would yell at them

The life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, duchess in her own right, Queen of both England and France, went on Crusade, and mother of two kings of England.

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · last wk.

youve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd

In the last six weeks, Fox News has devoted over 13 hours of their programming to the WNBA in an attempt to tie the league to the right-wing culture wars. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

I really can't get over this, this is such a wild example. there was a whole Church Inquisition torturing and extorting suspected heretics in Newton's day and we are being invited to ask whether he would have survived land acknowledgments lmfao bsky.app/profile/pwhi...

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last wk.

Apparently the test of the modern university is whether it would accommodate a seventeenth century academic exactly as he was

All young democrats talk like people because they are people, all young GOP sound like ghouls because they were incubated in a grooming chamber to believe what they believe and to know the world isn't what we see, but what they feel.

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

If you have concerns with Muslims in politics … you should see the Christians

People sometimes ask me what I dreamed the world would look like when I was a kid in kindergarten. I thought I’d get to live in the beloved multi-cultural community envisioned by Sesame Street, Mister Rodgers’ Neighborhood, The Electric Company & Zoom. Apparently, that was MAGA’s nightmare.

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

Jesus Christ this should end so so so many careers. Up to and including but way beyond just Hegseth.

Gail Waldby ❌👑@gailwaldby.bsky.social · 3w ago

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...

Pritzker has been told directly how this is a bad law that does real damage to kids, increases surveillance and is likely unconstitutional. He chose to sign it anyway because it'll give him headlines about protecting children and taking on big tech for his presidential run. A huge disappointment

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3w ago

When addictive social media feeds depend on keeping a child's attention at any cost, their well-being takes a back seat. Enough is enough — we’re requiring these companies to make social media safer for the future of Illinois.

The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 3w ago

Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh

With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

“USAID is why rap music is popular” has to be one of the wilder right-wing conspiracy theories I’ve heard. I’m not exactly sure how, but somehow I’m guessing the Jews are involved in this one.

"It is a bleak view of the world, a kind of male doomerism in which a meaningful life can be found only in the domination and exploitation of others."

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Very few people know things like this. When in doubt, share.

Avel Guénin--Carlut@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 4w ago

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

AI can target drone strikes via cell phone call data AI can generate extremely detailed nonconsensual deepfake porn AI can trap people in states of unreality AI can read bumper stickers on your car from hundreds of feet away these are priorities for AI developers you should hate AI

“A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration, several of them sellers of experimental peptides, dismissed the concerns of the agency’s scientists on Thursday, voting in favor of allowing broad production of poorly understood peptide treatments.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

A Peptide Showdown: F.D.A. Scientists May Clash With R.F.K.’s Agenda

Agency scientists are advising against allowing widespread use of several peptide injections. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has said people should be free to experiment.

nytimes.com

🎶 You can wash your face and hands in the stream of my anger... 🎶

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · last mo.

Absolutely everybody who knows anything about labor demographics saw this coming miles away. The last 18 months have been a steady stream of “nobody could have predicted” things every minimally knowledgable person loudly predicted.

Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · last mo.

Eldercare is hard work, severely underpaid that was already understaffed. Since Medicaid is "the primary payer" of this work, it's unlikely there will be a huge increase in wages to attract non-immigrant workers. Are Americans prepared to quit their jobs to take care of their elders? Many have.

Not that we didn't know this already but having ICE - whose jurisdiction has absolutely NOTHING to do with elections - investigate voter fraud gives away the game. ICE is no longer a legal entity bound by laws and norms, it's Trump's personal force, focusing on whatever he wants.

404 Media@404media.co · last mo.

NEW: DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation information — to help ICE investigate “voter fraud”, according to documents reviewed by 404 Media.

I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.

I think this is PROBABLY right, but I also don’t think it’s entirely coincidental that he’s built a massive loyalist paramilitary force, radically reshaped the actual military, and had federalized troops deployed in the capital for the past year for no intelligible reason.

Jonathan Bernstein@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · last mo.

Please listen to Rick. Trump will lie about the elections. He will attempt to subvert them. It may succeed...on the margins; it's unlikely to do more. That's still terrible! Impeach and remove terrible!! It's costly to the nation. But people are fighting back, and he will likely mostly lose.

If “anything can be a weapon“ then anyone – everyone – wearing, eating, holding, driving, drinking, cleaning or petting anything can be armed and dangerous. Thus, we’re all eligible for shooting if we do any of those in the direction of the brown shirts hunting brown people.

In the wake of the birthright citizenship decision, I decided to examine some of the ways the American right talks about and treats children. I think it’s hard to conclude they cherish children quite as much as they say. www.liberalcurrents.com/what-to-the-...

What, to the MAGA Right, Is a Child?

The right views children as a resource rather than as human beings.

liberalcurrents.com

a decade ago there was an entire movement dedicated to confronting the militarization of state power against its citizens Not only did you not listen... our political actors increased police budgets across the entire country Now military forces are killing White moms and nurses

Senator Lindsey Graham has died. His death was preceded by the death of his longtime friend and colleague John McCain in 2018, and by Graham's supposed principles shortly after. Known for saying "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will deserve it," then enthusiastically backing him.

Get bent w the phrase “purity test” ffs. Do people not get what they’re saying is “do not have standards”? “Do not change your mind when you learn new facts that are v troubling — & stfu when a person’s actions & explanations around those facts are shifty, hostile & display a lack of maturity?” 🤡