I did not realize #samezersky was too chicken to join us over here at the Sky! I've lived with this word all my life. I want the points!
if I announced some renovation on a public property that everybody said was a terrible idea and then I did it anyway, and it immediately failed catastrophically, so I sent police to guard my reno catastrophe & then said what happened was vandalism, you'd call me a deranged old man & you'd be right
This article is so wholesome! It's sweet.
How a Hollywood Tough Guy Found Liberation in Fishnets
nytimes.com
When Trump is talking so you go do your taxes, come back, and he's still talking.
"Universal health coverage is not merely a technical goal to be achieved; it is primarily a moral imperative for societies that wish to call themselves just." —Pope Leo XIV
Why isn't USPS considered a service? DHS and most other agencies do not earn revenue.
Kansas Republicans are trying to ban abortion by proposing an EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT and sneaking fetal personhood language in
That slogan was always seen as pro-democracy but it seemed perfectly reasonable to assume Bezos was pro-darkness.
Bluesky fires shots at Twitter (X)’s Grok “Sad Epstein isn’t alive to use Grok. He would have loved it”
Do we know who this poor guy is? The video, which is pretty scary, indicates he's... unconscious at the end, or dead. It's horrifying. And of course there's Bovino in the mix, too. This nightmare is accelerating so quickly.
Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 7mo agoI'm going to post the link to the video but not the actual video which autoplays and is utterly brutal. Instead I'm posting the photo of the man before ICE assaulted him. bsky.app/profile/dmbm...
I think what's worse is that it goes well-beyond (and in a way, also falls short) of a military occupation -- this isn't occupation, it's a hot war featuring a secret police militia nightmare roving and roaming and terrorizing the populace. This is brownshirts shit. ICE is a sanctioned terror gang.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7mo agoIts not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
As the NFL playoffs begin, here’s a reminder: publicly funded stadiums for billionaire sports team owners are a scam. https://youtu.be/vLkyULxrWiE?si=yOBm-M2Y7pcokmRO
The Sports Stadium Scam | Robert Reich
Billionaires have found one more way to fleece the public: sports stadiums.And if we don’t play ball, they’ll take our f
youtu.be
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
Rape is the core of the MAGA ideology, the metaphor of dominance and degradation that motivates all their actions, and their rhetoric descends very quickly from the symbolic register down into a literal one.
Happy Turner Prize week to all who celebrate @mccallsmith.bsky.social 's 44 Scotland Street series.
Ken Burns’ ‘The American Revolution’ Ends With Number To Call If You Considering Founding Nation
A recent essay, “The Great Feminization,” posits that the growing influence of women is harming U.S. institutions. Sophie Gilbert argues that the real problem facing American culture is quite different: https://theatln.tc/kUfY14fc
I have to commend the Spanish-speaking construction crews working on streets in front of houses with Trump flags. You guys have true grit.
Hegseth hates War Fighters who have Lethality!
A Clash Over a Promotion Puts Hegseth at Odds With His Generals
nytimes.com