Oh did you see the bullshit I got?!? bsky.app/profile/nick...
Nick G-B@nickgb.bsky.social · 6h agoThis is such a fucking tease
Journalism has become the art of stubbornly refusing to draw the obvious conclusion
Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterdayIn a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
mediaite.com
So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterdayPhang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
The Plot to Enslave America
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · yesterday🚨BREAKING: Nearly a year after voting advocates launched a campaign to prevent a GOP gerrymander from taking effect in Missouri, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins officially blocked the citizen-initiated referendum on the new map from appearing on the ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Little Morton Salt Girl is a merry fellow Dark blue her package is and her dress is yellow
Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d agoBet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
oh good, a new and even more dangerous phase of universities actively looking to collaborate with the behemoth looking to destroy them.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d agoSo no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
one of the many things about biden that pissed off our society's elites is that his administration had started - in a pretty small-bore and limited way - prosecuting the people who had defrauded the PPP program and that happens to include a huge % of small business tyrant types
Kirk Rudell@rudell.bsky.social · 3d agoShouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.
i mean look: a whole war got fought. people died to settle the question of whether we were going to be a multiracial democracy or not. the scumbags lost. the constitution got amended. this question was squarely answered by the supreme court itself. you cannot answer this correctly? disqualifying
the three guys who voted in favor of that birthright citizenship EO should be impeached and removed just for that alone. it's sufficient! you simply cannot do the job you were assigned to do. time to go. kavs lawyer-weaseling around it just barely saves him
A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
more generally: any American seriously committed to democracy (apart from other ideological commitments) needs to grapple with the fact that racists and ethnonationalists are a permanent fifth column in US society and a chronic threat not just to social justice but to social order itself. (1/2)
[Christopher M. Federico]@chrispps.bsky.social · 4d agorelatedly, one thing that has happened to me as I have aged is that I have cast off every last vestige of residual Gen X free-speech libertarianism and now believe that some kind of Volksverhetzung is a prerequisite for civilization in a country that has our history of violent racism
👇🎯🧵 This is what more folks need to understand. The fascists aren’t going anywhere & they exist in every country in roughly the same proportion, & it’s a question of whether we keep a set of bad political institutions that allows them to control the government or not.
[Christopher M. Federico]@chrispps.bsky.social · 4d agoThey -- as in most nations -- are a minority of roughly 25-35% of the population, but institutions need to be restructured to prevent that minority from exercising national power: shifting to some variant of PR, getting rid of the EC, expanding SCOTUS, adding states to fix the Senate, etc. (2/2)
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 · 4d 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...
Susan Collins is financed by a man who wants to make it easier to create nude pictures of children
Portland Press Herald@pressherald.com · 6d agoElon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid
if voters think democrats are weak on crime, one weird trick to fix it and other problems would be burying miller under the jail
I think that not only is this good politics, but the stability of American society depends on it. Liberal American normies are out for blood, but *everyone* is in an anti-system mood. If we don't feed that beast some sacrifices, it'll find someone who can, and those sacrifices will be innocent.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d agoChaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”
Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”
This is why the number one thing liberal con law people should be working on is arguments that Trump’s pardons are not valid. Obviously none of this can happen without court packing but once the new liberal court is in place, there need to be arguments ready to hand them.
Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 5d agoI think that not only is this good politics, but the stability of American society depends on it. Liberal American normies are out for blood, but *everyone* is in an anti-system mood. If we don't feed that beast some sacrifices, it'll find someone who can, and those sacrifices will be innocent.
I got two: Trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th amendment thus all his pardons and executive orders are null and void. also, it cannot possibly be the case that the Founders intended the pardon power to be a viable criminal conspiracy tool. pardons in service of crime are void as well
karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is why the number one thing liberal con law people should be working on is arguments that Trump’s pardons are not valid. Obviously none of this can happen without court packing but once the new liberal court is in place, there need to be arguments ready to hand them.
A reminder that a lot of union soldiers became radicalized by what they saw first hand in the abhorrent treatment of Black ppl by the slave owning South. One of the more iconic quotes of the war was in reference to that: "By God, I'll fight till hell freezes over & then I'll cut the ice & fight on."