Downplay a book or movie The Empire Claps Back
Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻@punkonbuslives.bsky.social · yesterdayDownplay a book or movie. Indiana Jones and Yet Another Crusade
Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻@punkonbuslives.bsky.social · yesterdayHow can anyone born rich be this insecure? His dad must have seriously messed with him.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
This line’s a keeper: “If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office,…”
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d agoMoreno statement on Miller. Remember: Max Miller worked in Trump's White House and played a key role in January 6 (if nothing else, as one of the people who talked Trump OUT of sending 10K Guards out so he could march on the Capitol, Julius Caesar like).
Donny’s wrong again. Major damage caused by VISIGOTHS!
Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 5d agoSome might see this and assume it’s fake, but Trump actually published it. The White House perpetrated a fraud on the public, and after the DOJ was forced to abandon a baseless prosecution, Trump doubled down on the self-satisfying fiction he prefers to reality and threw Pirro under the bus.
Oh Look the MLB trade deadline and the McConnell replacement special election deadline is Monday August 3.
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the U.S. exposed to cyber attacks. Thankfully, our experts in Minnesota were able to identify the vulnerability quickly and work with local communities to stop it.
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The ACLU has put together a know your rights guide for people within 100 miles of a border. If you are in that swath of land, please take a look at this and learn your actual rights. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...
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“All of them said very strongly, ‘Finish that ballroom.’”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"
“It could take at least a year for OMB to respond to the comments and amend the draft rule”. Friends, this is a direct result of our collective action. The OMB Rule that would require political review of grants has prompted at least 50K comments. Thanks to all who commented, and you still can.
A Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy.
In tens of thousands of comments, researchers, doctors and others warned the rule could hamper progress on important health issues.
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Biden used his decades of legislative experience to masterfully thread the needle.
digby@digby56.bsky.social · 4w agoAnd considering how tight the margins were in the congress it was a miracle they got done what they did.
“If he’s unfit to communicate, he’s unfit to serve.” “He can no longer make sound choices, not even the choice of words. He can't communicate in a way that’s coherent or persuasive. We are well beyond sane-washing. We have arrived at assisted living.” www.editorialboard.com/the-press-co...
The press corps is Trump’s assisted living program
We are beyond “sane-washing.”
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hey US journalists import the self-respect question. No tariff
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoWOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
The concept of 'polarization' comes from physics. 🔵🔴 It describes two symmetric poles. 📍↔️📍 Moving apart in space. ⬅️➡️ Mutually pushing each other in opposite directions. This metaphor has come to shape how we understand democratic crisis. But every part of it is wrong.
youtu.be/t3Yq9_lKpQw?... Give us your tired and weak And we will make them strong Bring us your foreign songs And we will sing along
Willie Nelson - Living in the Promiseland (Live at Farm Aid 2004)
YouTube video by Farm Aid
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Nothing quite captures the spirit of America 250 like promising a century of single party rule if only one party can change election laws.
Jim Lokay@jimlokay.com · last mo.Just now at Mt. Rushmore: Trump renews calls to pass election overhaul, saying “if we do…we will not lose an election for 100 years.”
so that’s what the last 2 years have felt like. Nice work America!
Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · last mo.new metaphor just dropped
#tdih 1820 You've heard of Amistad, but what about Antelope ship 19 years earlier? Ship captured by U.S. Treasury. 281 Africans aboard in bondage were imprisoned. Not given rightful freedom as they demanded. 7 year legal battle. #Reparations #TeachTruth🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/an...
June 29, 1820: The Antelope Ship Arrived in Savannah
Two hundred and eighty one Africans aboard The Antelope ship were brought to Savannah by the U.S. Treasury.
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