What works in the Midwest is clearly a moderate CIA operative who will threaten your dog if you stalk her and also a nice Muslim doctor with big arms. Simple.

it’s a pretty amazing drug

David W (aka Flex NP)@rnflex.bsky.social · 53m ago

Absolutely insane numbers from Eli Lilly this morning. 15 billion dollars in sales for tirzepatide alone, in just 90 days. Now on track to ~55-60 billion in sales for one drug. We need a different term than blockbuster drug. This is wild.

"I shouldnt be at 42% approval" Good news! You're not.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2h ago

Trump: I shouldn't be at 42% approval. We have the greatest economy in the history of the world for any country

somewhat different tone than Cornyn on Paxton

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 1h ago

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

this is not at all clear and is a poisonous sentiment

Another Josh Smith@jcsmith55.bsky.social · 1h ago

It's pretty clear that, for centrist/establishment Dems, "Blue No Matter Who" applies only to progressive voters whose preferred candidate lost The establishment has cooked their brains into thinking winning over moderate GOP voters is a winning strategy

btw if you’re ticked at AIPAC for whatever reason them spending a maximum amount of money to barely lose is ideal, 10/10, just as a pure matter of don’t-know-ball and forward outcome for them as an organization. this cycle has been catastrophic for them purely in terms of inputs and outputs

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

I strongly recommend having an HBO documentary about your favorite sports team’s training camp air the night of any contentious primary

bonus wrinkle: DC water shut off my water today (see other longstanding water related billing beef, there’s lore) and then I sent a bunch of emails and they sent out a crew to turn it back on at 930 PM

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 4d ago

so i have a genuine Water Damage Mystery unfolding at my house, including an epic number of dehumidifiers. here are the facts as we understand them:

this will make no one happy but I have an oddly good feeling about site usability for the rest of the week

i support [$democratic_candidate] for [$public_office] and believe that their politics is a perfect fit for [$state]. I would drag my [$genital] over [$harmful_object_or_substance] to vote for [$democratic_candidate] this fall.

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 14h ago

I support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.

Max Miller feels like we played an UNO reverse on all the cross-contamination the GOP was going to try with Platner

Soft natalism: the gap between children desired and children had is a policy issue Mid natalism: in a more pro-natal environment, people would want more children Hard natalism: a series of crimes against humanity

Angela Carter writes like she’s on the run from Horny Interpol

this is kind of a hobbyhorse issue for me tbh- i haven't seen the image, i don't wanna see the image, but yeah like pics of your toddler playing in the sprinkler or whatever are private and you should keep them that way but characterizing them as CSAM seems to me to be serving no one here

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h ago

TAPPER: One of the files you released was an image of your daughter naked. It was available for a day before it was removed. Your ex-wife's attorney says it could quality as CSAM. That's shockingly reckless behavior MAX MILLER: I wouldn't say it's shockingly reckless. There was no genitalia exposed

iwbh i think Bluesky has less of this problem than other places

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 20h ago

On social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?

they’re calling it a movement

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same thing as he’s doing with the war

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 24h ago

Scoop: Trump has ordered workers to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad new WaPo photos show how past work was removed over weekend Trump is contemplating changes to White House lawn's slope, raising bigger Qs about project and cost

can imagine the personal relationship between Senators Slotkin and El-Sayed going anywhere from “buddy cop movie” to “literal homicide”

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23h ago

Slotkin tells me on Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, “the most important thing is putting a check and balance on Donald Trump, so I will support whoever wins.”

i, also, look forward to his colleagues reading everything for themselves

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 23h ago

over on the other site

I’m a big sucker I guess but I do think it’s important to leave some space for David Ellison to pivot back left after Larry kicks the bucket

there are real and underrated advantages to financial news repost bots

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · yesterday

Fuck, are you kidding me? This news comes out the day after I buy Innolight? I seriously want to die.

This is the best one I’ve gotten:

one of the better voice transcription errors I’ve gotten

MAHA is incredibly passionate, super dangerously wrong about an infinite variety of things, and very gullible. so I’m pretty much fine with cozying up to them rhetorically during election szn as long as you don’t do any of the shit they want because they want it

we’re older, have fewer kids, there *are* fewer kids to hire to babysit, and babysitting is freaking expensive

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

so a thing I have really noticed among the U.S. upper-middle-class is that they use babysitters far, far less than their parents' generation.

a question that is bitterly dividing my household: are feet part of the leg?

holy shit that’s a lot of mediocrity in one picture

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d ago

Who could have seen this coming other than everyone?

the 2025 Seahawks were the #4 team of all time by DVOA, are on Hard Knocks starting this week, and also somehow have a credible “nobody believes in us” story for 2026. if you are not a strongly rooted NFL fan there’s plenty of room on the wagon