Paul Tree
@paultree10.bsky.social
it’s still a pun on "paltry” do you get it
Teach your children ‘democrats are not always good, but republicans ARE always bad’ and in 2026 you’ve covered like 90% of their practical civic education wrt voting.
Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 15h agoThe best thing about Vote Blue No Matter Who is that it unloads a lot of cognitive burden. I wanted Tom Steyer to be in the Governor's race, but he's not so I'm gonna vote for Becerra. I don't follow his campaign at all: I'm voting for him because he's not a Republican.
you know i'm starting to think she just hates holidays for their own sake, not even as a woke thing
My dream is that all out of state money wasted on democratic primaries instead had literally any positive purpose. Like buying newspapers, developing voter outreach, or maybe just being lit on fire in one of those garbage cans that bums use to warm their hands in derelict alleys in 80s movies
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 18h agoJust a girl thinking about how many failing newspapers could be bought with the amount of money Stevens set on fire
“It’s always been like this” no it hasn’t. This rhetoric would’ve been extremely unusual even in explicitly far-right spaces just a few years ago. Hearing it coming from a United States senator is — or should be, anyways — shocking
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h agoSen. Jim Banks refers to American citizens as "the babies of invaders" and compares them to Nazi spies and terrorists
The thing about Odyssey discourse is that we allowed the professors to break containment. The whole purpose of the university system was to find a humane way to segregate them from mainstream society.
I know the “what if a democrat” scale is long broken but come on lol
Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 2d agoTrump Media’s idea was so plainly ridiculous — selling special access to his tweets to Wall Street for $100k per month — that it seemed hard to believe the plan would ever be implemented. And yet, as of now, it’s live. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
That this criminal returned to power represents a total institutional failure
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/
this is like my favorite genre of twitter screenshots if you have any good ones, PLEASE post below. we could all use a good laugh 🙏
Shoutout to the teens with summer movie theater jobs opening for a 7:25 AM Saturday morning spider-man showing at the theater near me
Winner's been declared but god dammit they're still trying
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 5d agopleased to announce the Winner of Bluesky
Too bad for Hearn that this didn’t happen under a Democrat*, he’d effortlessly be able to parlay this into a talk show, book deal, and conservative convention sinecure if the situation were reversed. * I know it never would
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
Tip of the hat to mainstream media, who credulously gave us those "Musk is getting out of politics" headlines last year and those "Musk has regrets" headlines last week, and will give us those "regretful Musk is getting out of politics" headlines next spring.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d agoNYT: Musk preparing 9 figure spending campaign in support of Republicans in "swing" states like Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas.
The only thing I’m sure of is that in Earth 2 where the lab leak became the early consensus, all of the Earth 1 lab leak truthers would be at least as passionate in talking about the outrageous wet market theory coverup
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d agoMeanwhile, the market has - Dozens of confirmed early cases (the lab has zero) - Clusters within the market near animal stalls - traces of virus found in animal cages Leakers often cite "bayesian likelihood" but animal spillover is common while a novel virus leaking from a lab has never happened.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference reut.rs/4x9eTCW
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.
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The way student discomfort became valid the second it became right-coded, you have to laugh
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 6d agoA college professors is fired for teaching an Ottessa Moshfegh story that causes "mild discomfort" for one student. Implication is that DeSantis government was involved in the firing. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
There’s a nonzero — not, like, good, but nonzero — chance that the Odyssey could be the first ever movie to win all four acting awards at the Oscars, for Damon/Hathaway/Morton/Leguizamo (or maybe Patel).
“We need a Democratic Tea Party”* *defined as losing multiple critical elections due to nominating clearly dogshit candidates
Phil Rocco@philiprocco.bsky.social · last wk.Topline Democratic primary preference, including leaners, in this week’s MU poll: 46% Hong 21% Barnes 11% Crowley 4% Brennan 4% Roys 14% Undecided MOE ±6.6
As an IP litigator i think this is true and a big culprit is specifically YouTube’s enforcement being *far* more restrictive than the law requires.
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · last wk.I think intellectual property is the dark mirror of immigration law, in that people’s intuitive sense of what existing IP law allows is far more restrictive than the reality while their intuitive sense of what existing immigration law allows is far more permissive than the reality
Respectfully, I strongly suspect that the movie most scholars envision being made about something in their field that lives up to their expectations would be absolutely dreadful.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
PARIS: Um. So like… when I make a decision, will you be mad at me? ATHENA: I am the goddess of wisdom and warfare, favored of Zeus. The frivolities of lesser women are beneath me. PARIS: Oh good. I wasn’t choosing you. *LATER* ATHENA: Odysseus. Kill them all. I’m not horsing around.
Democrats should explicitly threaten to do this to red states next time they’re in power No unilateral disarmament. bsky.app/profile/newr...
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoCrypto would be funny to include in a sci-fi story. Like in Star Wars the First Order funds Starkiller base by using SithCoin which has become a meme investment for bored young men on Coruscant
Still don’t understand why Buttigieg didn’t run for the Michigan senate seat this year. He’s really going to go into 2028 having not run for anything since 2020 and not won an election since the 2015 South Bend mayoral election?