They will not let this horrid abomination die! Time for another round of "Call your Senator even if they aren't listening." Especially given some that usually don't suck and do listen are still supporting this bullshit.

Dieselbrain@dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12h ago

While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate

The buck stops… somewhere over there, probably.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h ago

Oof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Also, when did bluesky fix the gif issue? This is great!

Scott (Rot26) 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦@rot26.wtf · 3d ago

USCENTCOM rn. I hope at least one person responded with “let’s bring in Blotter”

Waiting for the so-called originalists to weigh in on how the framers of the constitution actually intended the executive branch to levy taxes without congressional approval, and to keep the money after courts tell them it's illegal and that they have to return it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

Friendly reminder that Trump may have been granted immunity for official acts as President, but you haven’t.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · yesterday

WATCH — Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social on Trump’s insider trading: “If you pay Trump $100,000 a month, he will give you early access to White House announcements on economic and trade policy. None of this is normal, and a lot of this is illegal.”

Friendly reminder that most SNAP participants who are able to work, do so...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Rollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."

To be clear, MAGA type folks show up here and don’t like it so they leave… How do you change that without making this place as miserable as the one most of us came from?

The Verge@theverge.com · 3d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

I’ve gotten severe food-borne illness before, it happens, but it was a short period between when the outbreak started and it getting shut down, because we fully funded public health, crackpots weren’t in charge, Congress actually engaged in oversight, and the media called out bullshit like this.

Reuters@reuters.com · 3d ago

Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E

USCENTCOM rn. I hope at least one person responded with “let’s bring in Blotter”

Ian TB@iantb.bsky.social · 3d ago

Well, crowdsourcing a war plan is certainly a first: www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

Stop spying on me!

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

My son has informed me that when he grows up he wants to be a professional soccer player, a YouTuber, or a driveway sealer… and I think that’s probably the healthiest spread of career options I’ve ever heard.

I’m camping and my 5 year old just crawled out of the tent, yelled “TACTICAL WEE!!!” as he ran off into the woods.

Ngl running a campaign against Fetterman isn’t the worst idea in the world

Leon English@leonenglish.bsky.social · 4d ago

He ain’t wrong

AAA members will look at this and say “hell yeah”

Dan Hon@danhon.com · 4d ago

OMG MY WIFE GOT US ACTUAL MAPS

He’s just saying what we’re all thinking.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 5d ago

Fact check: TRUE. ✅ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I will never, ever tire of watching neo-confederates tweet through their tears about how unfair it was that they got absolutely fukn *rocked* by the north because their short lived failed state sucked at civil warring.

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

nytimes.com

I feel like the next person who gets hit with a CFAA charge is going to go with the “my agent escaped the sandbox” defense.

I have a joke about Hephaestus that’s FIRE.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have a joke about Medusa but it’s really just a reflection of the audience

Sometimes I think about the time in fire school when I gave a presentation on the impact of climate change on fire season and I got a bad grade on it because the instructor said it was "boring." My thesis was essentially expect massive wildfires and a year round season.

Needs more pretend gold, IMO.

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · last wk.

Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted this video of the Oval Office and it somehow looks even more embarrassing than I realized

When you're looking at people's priorities, don't look at what they say, look at what they do.

Johnny 🫧 Cowlick@jefferycowlick.bsky.social · last wk.

Rand Paul and the GOP released Dr Anthony Fauci's personal diary before they released the TrumpEpstein Files. Republicans priorities.

They're basically claiming that Fauci is personally responsible for the negative effects of COVID, while in the same breath raving at him like lunatics about their views that social distancing was dumb, and vaccines kill people. Just absolute fucking clowns.

Scott (Rot26) 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦@rot26.wtf · last wk.

What's really crazy about this is what happened prior, where this clown used a bunch of weird nerds who basically got their feelings hurt to stand up to make a point that is as far as I can tell, related to decisions that Donald Trump made.

What's really crazy about this is what happened prior, where this clown used a bunch of weird nerds who basically got their feelings hurt to stand up to make a point that is as far as I can tell, related to decisions that Donald Trump made.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Translation: “I spent a ton of money, time, and energy in an official capacity during a global crisis trying to distribute something that wouldn’t have worked, and likely would have made things worse, and the career employees with domain expertise in the government stopped me from doing it!!!”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

Regardless of Rand Paul getting his ass kicked, I’ll 100% trust a career scientist with deep experience in public health over a politician with an extremely limited grasp on science, a penchant for conspiracy theories and a generally nutty view of the world.

The Bitch King of Angmar (Katie) 🏳️‍⚧️@positronrelay.bsky.social · last wk.

Call me crazy but I'll take the guy who didn't get rocked in the face by his neighbor for being an insufferable dickhead.