I often think about how if you were just now trying to enact the restrictions on smoking and promotion of smoking that we already have republicans would call it soy and woke and all their streamers would be doing the Homer Simpson with 20 cigs in his mouth picture so makes sense we’d get here
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3h agoI'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 15h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Once upon a time, ESPN championed competent journalism and intelligent conversation about sports and the myriad ways it effects society. The enshittification of sports media was inevitable, but the pivot to Pat McAfee and ignorant loudmouths of that ilk will shrink their audience.
Nathan@ngtcollectibles.bsky.social · 19h agoESPN opted to gut their veteran reporter/commentator roster so that guys like Pat McAfee and Aaron Rodgers can yuck it up over medical conspiracy theories. It's been a long time since ESPN was great, but now they're just peddling trash that's ultimately in the service of anti-intellectual fascism.
a sufficiently awful wife beating rep or senator gets the “embattled” treatment but President Pedophile can insult DC reporters to their faces and they just sit there and take it
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects...
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You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24h ago“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
I got fed a Claude code ad the other day where it was bragging about a 65% success rate brother if I fucked up at work 35% of the time I would get fired
nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social · yesterdayI love that AI companies are all like "we just have a marketing problem" when regular people are having AI experiences like this all over the place every single day
I love that AI companies are all like "we just have a marketing problem" when regular people are having AI experiences like this all over the place every single day
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterdayGotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
*Septuagenerian Democrat trying to copy Zohran’s ig video style* WE’RE MASS COMMUNICATIN’
Screamer Jim@screamerjim.bsky.social · 2d agoWell, he's the reform candidate, Daddy. People like that re-form. Maybe we oughtta get us some.
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
I'm really glad that ESPN got rid of a talented and knowledgeable dude like Ryan Clark so they could pay a sleeveless punter more money so Aaron Rodgers could be on TV complaining about Dr. Fauci. What the absolute fuck is wrong with everyone
"It's about protecting women's sports which, by the way, I hate more than anything in the world."
Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
Congrats again to the White House Correspondents Association!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
Never say never, Dave. I've seen people accused of sexually assaulting multiple women continue to own and run $1 billion companies in America. www.businessinsider.com/barstool-spo...
'I was literally screaming in pain': Young women say they met Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for sex and it turned violent and humiliating
Women as young as 19 say they were too scared to speak up after having rough sex with Dave Portnoy, fearing retaliation from Barstool Sports' fans.
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Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 2d ago
AI companies are trying to do this, but with human knowledge. It's why they're destroying the books. Wipe out our ability to think for ourselves, then own the means of thinking.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
someone needs to tell him that even the israelis have started using the "hamas-run health ministry" numbers because they know the real number is hundreds of thousands higher
29 U.S.C. § 157@organizingpower.bsky.social · 3d agoThis guy has 20,000 followers and is using his platform to do Gazan holocaust denialism
I was today years old when I learned that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand attends a bible study group that teaches that Jewish people killed Jesus, which has been used to justify antisemitism and associated violence against us Jews.
Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Corporate media zero in signs of antisemitism on the left. Meanwhile, one of Rep. Haley Stevens's most powerful backers in her Senate race attends a Bible study that teaches that the Jews killed Jesus...
Abdul immediately connected it to data centers and DTE lol
What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 3d agoAnother example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
“Rewriting the rules of business” is very funny. That man can do and get away with anything because even the media treats the kind of corruption that would have ended anyone else as part of his radical way of governing.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 4d agoThe US government granted a permit to build a 211-mile road through Alaskan wilderness. In exchange, it gets a stake in a mining company. This is how the Trump administration is re-writing the rules of business. Read more: bloom.bg/3RBNlHv 📷: Emily Sullivan for Bloomberg Businessweek
Pope Leo if you come home for Christmas please fly coach with a domestic connection into Ohare I wanna see something
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 4d agoLike, there’s a non-zero chance someone tries this and then someone *else* on the plane stands up and offers a religious rebuke, and then the situation devolves into a preach-off.
The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.
hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d agoParty that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh
