We have a lot of the answers in front of us, but we're held back by assholes who refuse to accept that they are the truth. Soon, though.

borderless@borderless.bsky.social · 2d ago

The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.*

“You go to Seattle or Minneapolis or any of those other crime-ridden hellholes, and you’re gonna see planes smashing into skyscrapers constantly.” — President Donald Trump

Trump Claims 9/11 Attacks Happening Every Day In Democratic Cities

WASHINGTON—Saying the tragic events of 25 years ago were just the beginning in the nation’s blue states, President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that 9/11 attacks were happening every single day in De...

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Y’all pray for me! My nonprofit thurmanperryfoundation.org has gotten to the 2nd round for a $100K grant for our Girl Code program With our manufacturing partner, $100K will buy us 750,000 organic menstrual products for incarcerated women, putting us over 1M for Operation Pinky Promise!

We'd been hearing these rumors but now it's out there. Here's the thing - the attacks on the 14th Amendment are the most breathlessly racist since Reconstruction. And, also, we know FOR A FACT that if this comes to pass (it won't) it wouldn't be applied equally. they'll count TX but not CA.

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)@hansilowang.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING: Trump admin proposes major #2030Census changes that would reshape voting maps, including no race & ethnicity questions and excluding non-U.S. citizens without a green card from a count that 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state” www.npr.org/2026/09/09/n...

BREAKING: Trump admin proposes major #2030Census changes that would reshape voting maps, including no race & ethnicity questions and excluding non-U.S. citizens without a green card from a count that 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state” www.npr.org/2026/09/09/n...

Trump officials propose sweeping changes to the census that would reshape voting maps

A Trump census proposal would stop asking about race and exclude millions of U.S. residents from a count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."

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Fuck. Off. I am not a widget for economic growth and valuation.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Dr Oz: "If we can get the average American to feel so healthy, so vital, so with it, that they want to work one extra year, just one extra year -- instead of retiring at 62, they want to go to 63 -- that's worth $1 trillion to our GDP every year"

Unprecedented corruption www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Everytime someone listens to my “Black Owned Coffee Shop” playlist they’re like YOU made this? And I have to suck my teeth because, yes tf I did!

Brother Ali posed that question in 'A Letter to My Countrymen' and I think he gave a compelling answer: 'I think the struggle to be free is our inheritance.'

Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · last wk.

What does it mean to be an American? Those of us on the side of equality and inclusion have much to learn from those who have come before. Ben Rhodes discusses his new book, All We Say, on The Briefing with Michael Waldman. bit.ly/4gyutTl

Cool the fuck down!

Article link. Also, ahem: EAT SHIT DENNY HOSKINS, CATHERINE HANAWAY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY MIKE KEHOE. It was illegal from the jump and y'all broke the law. Hoskins committed fraud and should be held accountable as such.

Missouri Supreme Court puts referendum to overturn new congressional map on ballot

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the state’s voters will decide the fate of a plan aimed at ousting Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver.

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VoteHub@votehub.com · 2w ago

NEW — Missouri's Supreme Court rules that the referendum on HB 1, the state bill which would eliminate Rep. Cleaver's (D - Kansas City) seat, will be placed on the November ballot. The 2022 congressional map will be used for this year's elections.

While on the topic of lyrics by white men, I'd like to say that I find Johnny Cash's, "The beast in me Is tamed by frail and fragile bars, Restless by day and by night Rants and rages at the stars God help the beast in me", to be the most honest description of life as white American male.

i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job

No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.

1. This is cool as fuck. 2. (and more importantly) This is why being connected as humans is so incredible. Everyone does their own thing and then someone does their own version and it becomes something at once familiar and completely new. This is why I know the fascists will lose 🥰

TW@twesq.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is awesome

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

Even more than sandwiches, there are no "rules" for a salad. Should it have greens? Probably but that's a normative question. I'm perfectly happy to comply with that AS WELL AS adding leftover steak, shredded cheddar, crushed up sour cream and cheddar Lays, chopped broccoli w/sweet Vidalia dressing.

Excellent case making for uncapping the income limit on FICA taxes!

Cato Institute@cato.org · 2w ago

Social Security is not merely a future insolvency problem. It has been adding to federal debt for over a decade. By 2032, it is projected to add $5 trillion, according to Cato Institute’s Romina Boccia and Ivane Nachkebia. https://ow.ly/s8lI50ZGIX8

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

[Exit Queen.]

When your timeline is filled with queer folks and brown/Black people singing the praises of and loudly mourning a 1940s-Tennessee-born white Boomer lady, welp. She was pretty goddamn extraordinary, you can assume.

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

A message from the family of Dolly Parton

"I was not shocked that he helped somebody. My shock is that he was murdered. And no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it's been 7 months! ... there was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice" -- Alex Pretti's parents

This thread is correct, don't get me wrong. But if you got to *extremely* rural/isolated areas, there are some things. Salad bars never died out! County fairs are still sleepy affairs mostly focused on livestock, but also has stuff for kids (mutton busting, pedal tractor pulls, etc), and

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3w ago

A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way?

I say this with total satisfaction: Trump is a cuck ☺️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

"He's the Executive Exclusive Senior Adviser to First Lady Melania Trump ... "

We can absolutely raise taxes to get ourselves out of this mess.

Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · 4w ago

You can’t talk about debt without talking about how we got into a bad predicament, and there’s only one correct answer: tax cuts enacted this century