My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
hammancheez but spooky@hammancheez.bsky.social · 3w agoAndrew Cuomo, through tears : this is marxism
the AI CSAM generator guy also wants to strip women of the right to vote don't promote, buy or utilize a single product or service that touches Musk
Excellent article with many great details about a hotel team's response to a moment of chaos. Shows us a different side of the riders too.
Jacob Whitehead@jacobwhitehead.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Interviewed Guillaume Villeneuve, manager of the Pyrenean hotel that rescued the Vuelta a Espana from a hailstorm, and his barman Hugo. "It was instinctive. A hotel is also a place of refuge. This is simply our job." Inside story ⬇️
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.
Things you won't see in the New York Times....or any legacy media:
Jackie Kashian@jackiekashian.bsky.social · 2mo agothis
Miller Lite stat o' the day 1 day(s) in US history with a national retail gas price over $4.00 per gallon after August 9th in any calendar year. Today. good luck in the midterms!
How is it that this story still hasn't appeared in the New York Times?
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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I'm sorry Grandma but you can't pet the sharks today.
Alexa Wilson@alexadwilson.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat's your sign?
Your daily reminder that Trump alone cannot destroy our system of free and fair elections. The Republican Party is actively fueling his lies about rigged elections.
So true and why USA is very behind now. In the EU, the solar revolution is cutting tens of billions in fuel costs anually
Another entertaining Sunday morning nature quest with Christopher Brown's Field Notes. Great fun!
Christopher Brown@christopherbrown.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe solstice lands harder in Texas. Some notes from its long wind-up this year, a pair of vignettes from research trips to Silicon Valley and industrial Houston, and some great new summer reading in this week's Field Notes: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/lacewings-...
historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new
Do you enjoy science? Great thread on the Reflecting Pool.
Buttons (Ashley) 🏴☠️#OFMDForLife🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈🤡@sevensugars.bsky.social · 4mo agoSince I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
Ossoff: The president has been humiliated on the world stage. Many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity for the office. It’s deeply distressing to Americans to see a president so incompetent attempting and failing to represent the nation.
Follow her now! Don't wait for her to show up here on Bluesky, communicate that we want to hear her share her thoughts.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 4mo agoSince my mentions have been on fire w/ discourse over this for ~12 hours I'll note @tiannahpedler.bsky.social is on Bsky though hasn't been active in a couple years. I messaged her on TikTok and do hope she starts cross-posting this kind of stuff here regularly, there's clearly appetite for it!
“Everyone is human. Everyone has a right to live” “Bro, I have a brain!” So simple yet so powerful. Let’s get to *this*
Wet Owl@levisatyrane.bsky.social · last yr.Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
Four wildly different (and interesting) articles to choose from. My favorite for a Sunday morning: "A perfectly ordinary restaurant should have good produce, good craftsmanship, warm hospitality...". Thanks FT!
Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com · 4mo agoGood morning and here is your Weekend FT gift link highlight thread. First, a thing to worry about: Fearmongering over global spread aside, we need to look at why Ebola came back and how unbelievably underprepared we still are for the next “Disease X” pandemic as.ft.com/r/0bd03331-e...
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
Opportunity is knocking. Everybody, please step up!
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4mo agoThese working class voters respond well to a populist economics that centers villains (pharma, corporate price gouging, etc), hits Trump/GOP for enabling them, and pledges Dem action. They don't like the tariffs and the war. There's a big opening for Dems here: newrepublic.com/article/2116...
Excellent article on Anthropic - worth your time!
Janine Gibson@janinegibson.ft.com · 4mo agoSo a while back I started doing a thread of FT Weekend highlights on Blue Sky of a Saturday morning. Today and throughout June you can register here to read four of those articles for free! subs.ft.com/weekend This week featuring: Nigella, Anthropic, Colombia and the World Cup
My old person hill to die on is you need to say “hello” and “thank you” to people working in any service industry. Treat people like people, you have to
