I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

this guy gets it

You know nothing about cheesecake

Jaxson Dart having a rough first day of training camp.

treb@treblaw.bsky.social · 7d ago

standing at the outfield bar at a minor league baseball game where a Trump voter is drunk and loudly complaining about democratic socialism, and I finally look over and this guy has literally pissed his basketball shorts. It's dripping lol

Walking up to the president, tears streaming down my face, begging him to bring back diarrhea as the number one cause of death.

On a work zoom and thinking about the Ewok drinking a martini on the today show.

They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother.

Elle@elleisanisland.bsky.social · 2w ago

When you've defeated the cone they put you in the Hannibal Lector

This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning

German broadcast. Nailed it

There are still TGIFs at GRU airport in São Paulo and they all have frosted mugs. Hit my hand like Mjölnir.

libby watson@libbycwatson.com · 2mo ago

why are airport beers never cold enough.

Please Use AI

Me after reading this article

paris martineau@paris.nyc · 2mo ago

one of the products we tested, Hostess Powdered Mini Donuts, had ~19x the amount of a carcinogenic contaminant health officials say is safe to consume daily AND 760x more titanium dioxide — a white pigment banned in the EU for its potential to damage DNA — than the other products we tested combined

for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades

Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.' @adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ca...

Honestly one of the coolest sports trivia games in a while. www.82-0.com/share?id=YdP...

this is a masterpiece

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I can’t believe there are really people like this

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

An overconfident Team USA getting embarrassed by a much smaller country in front of a global audience is their last and most beautiful tribute to the American military yet

The people I feel sorriest for are The Troops, who America's baseball team let down, probably because they don't really respect them.

"Your Honor, I ask the court -- does this sound like the kind of man who would force himself on an innocent child?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Trump's full rant on Cuba: "Cuba, in its own way, tourism and everything else, it's a beautiful island, great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know? They won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. I do believe I'll have the honor of taking Cuba."

ME: (chastising myself) Careful. We can't just paint every billionaire as an evil NPC with no inner life. They're just people, and we need to understand that if we're ever going to improve society BILLIONAIRE: I'm an empty shell, man. No thoughts up here. I'm essentially a void made to suck up money

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 5mo ago

introspection started in the 1920s apparently bsky.app/profile/dave...

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

As time goes on, Jewish anti-Zionism reveals itself not only as solidarity with Palestinians but also as an anti-antisemitism strategy. We want out of this toxic dialectic, this terrible feedback loop between Israeli belligerence and the Jewish precarity it incessantly engenders

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality