A core conservative demand is being able to benefit from living in a society without incurring any obligations. A philosophy for infants
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoNIH Director Jay Bhattacharya: "We shouldn't be keeping kids out of schools because their parents have made different decisions than other parents" (Note that Trump is asleep)
curious how I haven't see a paint blistering media freakout about Trump STARVING THE TROOPS anywhere close to comparable as when Biden ripped off the bandaid in Afghanistan www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Exhaustion, low morale plague USS Lincoln crew outside Iran, family members say
‘Apparently, the ship’s doctor or therapist said they need to hit port soon or people are going to start, you know, losing their minds,’ says Bonnie York, whose stepson serves on the carrier
independent.co.uk
Yeah these guys gotta go. When they lose the House or the Senate their markets will be used for election denial. Gotta rip the wires out.
QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 4h agoi personally think polymarket and all companies like it should be regulated out of existence and their assets seized by the state
tech ceos love to talk like it's impossible to know what the computer will do at any given time as if that's smart and powerful and amazing. the determinism was like, the best part of the computer though. removing the determinism is the opposite of smart. it's stupid
Who could have known that taxing the extremely rich would be an easy way to fund a massive expansion of the welfare states? Who, I ask, who?
Franklin D. Roosevelt Thug Life Meme
ALT: Franklin D. Roosevelt Thug Life Meme
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Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 11h agoMassachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.
all the shitposting in the world won't change the fact that Trump lost his war of choice in Iran resoundingly and drastically diminished the US military in the process
college admissions people talk about this too - you can throw out the entire admitted class of an elite college and pick a new one from the rejected students and they will be completely indistinguishable in terms of achievements for competitive positions there's never any objective best candidate
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h agoof course he wasn't 'more qualified than every other candidate' because *it's very rare that that kind of clear distinction actually exists in hiring, especially in oversubscribed and underresourced jobs like academia.*. It always becomes somewhat arbitrary at the end.
We fed an AI bot the entire works of Milton Friedman, it told us to strip the economy for parts then killed itself.
DDavid Wessel@davidmwessel.bsky.social · 12h ago
Axios: Warsh has told associates that before taking office, he built AI bots that ingested the collected works of economists Milton Friedman and James Tobin. He then turned to them for their insights on contemporary economic questions. [Who needs task forces?]
I love when people come over to Bluesky to beg us to fight with them on X again. You lost! We’re not playing with you anymore!
I've been saying this. if the Very Serious Centrists are getting dogwalked by DSA radicals with almost no money, they have no business claiming to be the most electable ones
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 9h agoIncredible that the center-left habitually chides progressives for forgetting the "ancient wisdom" of politics and then watches as they're beaten by the most basic organizing: campaigning in public, finding volunteers, canvassing. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...
"One of the defining differences between the US and these other countries is that the US has a wildly expensive and dysfunctional healthcare system while these other nations, all of which have universal healthcare and better health outcomes, do not." peoplespolicyproject.org/2026/08/05/u...
US Is Not Winning Actual Individual Consumption Either
Some basic adjustments take the air out of this alternative measure.
peoplespolicyproject.org
The Plot to Enslave The Americas
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6h agoThiel escalates in Latin America: "Peter Thiel will lead a forum in Buenos Aires that seeks to promote Milei's model" lanacion.com.ar/politica/el-magnate-peter-thiel-encabezara-en-buenos-aires-un-foro-que-busca-proyectar-el-modelo-de-milei-nid06082026/
They want to kill our kids and won't stop until they do
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 6h agoBREAKING — Trump is planning to sign an executive order today that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines, breaking the MMR into three separate shots and making other key vaccine changes. @lenasun.bsky.social @rachelroubein.bsky.social
The arrow of causation runs both ways, but it is not a coincidence that places that are welcoming to immigrants are far more prosperous and thriving than places that reject them.
PETE HEGSETH: Napoleon, how do we defeat Iran? AI NAPOLEON: Vaccines? You have vaccines? PETE HEGSETH: Yes but they're woke and gay AI NAPOLEON: Send me typhus vaccine PETE HEGESTH: No, I need your help with Iran, we're running low on artillery AI NAPOLEON: Vaccines then Iran
Kygosi@kygosi.bsky.social · 10h agoThis idea that if we could just talk to Einstein or Adam Smith, then all our problems would be solved, is just so incredibly stupid
Forget about the details; the way Dems should respond when Republicans say this is that it's the whiniest loser shit imaginable. "It's not our fault! It was the other guy!" Take some responsibility, stand up and be a man for god's sake, you pathetic weaklings.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayBREAM: 76% of voters say the economy is fair or poor. When can Americans expect relief? HASSETT: The prices went up so much under Joe Biden that we understand why people are still frustrated
NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.
More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
newyorker.com
Thank you, NBC, for noting this is in fact an American city. Too many people here pretend it isn't.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 11h agoA major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in a San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of thousands of people in and around the American city are facing rolling water shutoffs brought on by an historic drought. NBC News’ George Solis reports from a well that locals are using to get their water.
NEWS --> Dems are launching an investigation into Trump's corrupt prosecutions for "vandalism" of Reflecting Pool. They're demanding access to WH-DOJ communications and more. “Participants in this frame-up will be held to account," Jamie Raskin tells me. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2141...
Trump’s Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him
The David Hearn affair isn’t over. Far from it. Jamie Raskin is launching an investigation, and Hearn’s legal team will pursue remedies.
newrepublic.com
(pausing as I nail up the Ten Commandments in a classroom) "They shouldn't be forcing their religion on schoolchildren!"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayNancy Mace claims on CNN that if El-Sayed is elected “our granddaughters will be wearing burkas to school” 😆
I don’t like when people think Being A Dick is the same thing as Having Balls. It’s not. Not even close. In fact there’s a Vas Deferens between them.
It is utterly damning of this country that a "Check If Your Salad or Your Guacamole is Especially Likely to Make Your Ass Explode" app is necessary, but since it is, I guess it's a good thing one exists
Daniel Carlson@danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 21h agoThis site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.com
hillary clinton ran in two elections that were supposed to be glide paths to victory and ate shit both times i hope she has some advice for me about voters
Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · yesterdayThe absolute best way to keep the fascists strong is to run in terror from the lazy, completely predictable shit they say instead of mocking them then punching back 10x harder. nypost.com/2026/08/07/m...
Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · yesterdayEXCLUSIVE: Trump turns National Parks into "piggy bank" Funding shifts from parks to White House vanity projects macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/trump-turn...
“Winning is the worst thing that could happen to the left” is a genre of commentary that you can expect to get more and more popular now that the “These wackos will never win” genre has lost its plausibility.
Washington Post Opinions@postopinions.bsky.social · yesterday"If the AAUP wants to be in the political fray, rather than above it, the organization will have to learn to think of politics like professionals, rather than professors," @mcmegan.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4z1Wnyd
I don’t know what to tell you, man. everyone still over there is essentially melting their brains on contrarianism 24/7. “are scuba divers faking the need for bottled air?” these are addicts
Sam@samd.bsky.social · 23h agoI’m starting to realize that all of the annoying pundits just suffer from oppositional defiant disorder increasing your kids’ risk of melanoma to own the libs
