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Ulster-Scot yeoman Southern farm boy: gee, if I please my slave-holding Cavalier masters by destroying the Union maybe I can get my own slaves! Wisconsin German '48er, driven into berserker rage by snorting pure uncut Hegel: the system of German idealism will be completed with Confederate blood
The problem is that as we're seeing with the Strait of Hormuz, "the USA forfeits its global ambitions" does not lead to a new age of peace and sunshine, but to global recession and instability. The Strait of Hormuz is not the only load-bearing instance of US power backstopping modern economies.
@tupolev22m.bsky.social · 2h agoI think the traditional answer is actually "forfeit your global ambitions because you can't afford them and voters won't make the sacrifices necessary to restore them," unfortunately
NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
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Klobuchar is going to put up Saddam numbers in November.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoEvery single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents
I’m not a “Europe is hopelessly poor” person nor a “GDP explains everything” person but tbh whenever I see someone complain that EVERYTHING in MODERN LIFE has gotten MONOTONICALLY WORSE there‘s a good chance they’re in the UK which has in fact been in and out of recession for 10 years
Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
Three lions held at the Tokyo Zoo have died from heat stroke. Four lions remain so ill that they're unable to stand. The average heat index in Tokyo in July was 110°. And we are in just 1.4C of global heating. We are on track for 3C in my kid's lifetime. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/w...
"If you came across these headlines as a non-sports fan, it would probably be fair for you to assume that there's a trans woman playing in the WNBA, or at least one at a high level in college." Well said, @laurentheisen.bsky.social. Numerically a nonissue, but manufactured for politics and bigotry.
The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN p...
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Sinister! A lot of NYPD resent Summer Streets for sulky culture war reasons (hatred of cyclists, car hog mentality, see healthy use of public space as “liberal”) and are trying to ruin it with costly security overkill. @mayor.nyc.gov needs to stop this shit cold even if it costs him
Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2d agoSummer Streets attendees were stunned by the sheer number of police and their vehicles clogging many intersections — in what one cop called "overkill."
🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)
The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.
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this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
None of the Burke Law Group’s lawyers list immigration law as an area of expertise, per the firm’s website.
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Musk is replying to a post about dogs but as the world's wealthiest racist everyone knows what he's doing here
People talk about how if libraries didn't exist the idea of them would be viewed as crazy today, and this is how I feel about property tax.
The boyish exuberance shtick hits different when you're the same age Bill Clinton was at his first inauguration
Cas Piancey@cascoinfoundation.org · 3d agoHard to believe so many people still take this fucking idiot seriously
* Tariff Refunds Have Wiped Out Tariff Revenue Since May @taxfoundation.bsky.social @scottlincicome.bsky.social taxfoundation.org/blog/tariff-...
this is a weird line to draw since the liberal position (correct) is that it's not reasonable to summarily execute people in international waters even if they're involved in drug trafficking and the conservative position is that you must do that even if you kill a bunch of innocent people too
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
I'm skeptical precisely because the Democrats are the small-c conservative party now, and are therefore the most prone to inertia. Can't do a thing that nobody in living memory has done because that would be Too Radical.
Robert Black@hurricanexyz.bsky.social · yesterdayOne of my big uncertainties about the near future is whether Congress, having once constructively dissolved itself, can will itself back into existence next year or not
I sure hope someday the world gets better instead of worse
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.Elon Musk's politics are indistinguishable from Paul Golding of Britain First [except Britain First is more coded on violence, while Musk has been more openly pro-violence as inevitable, necessary, legitimate since Aug 2025] The main pro-Hitler YouTuber "Zoomer Historian" is encouraged.
Absolutely wild story. www.nydailynews.com/2026/08/04/m...
High-ranking Mount Vernon police official arrested for Bronx attempted murder for being son’s getaway driver
Jennifer Lackard, the Mount Vernon police department’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety, and her son, Chase Lackard, 20, were arrested at their Bronx home.
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They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
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.
Remarkable the degree to which the IRGC is just not going to let Trump walk away with anything he can call a win. I scoffed a little bit when some security experts said that basically 'humiliation of enemies' was an Iranian regime pattern in terms of aims, but that doesn't seem far off.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d agoIran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carried out an attack on a US base in Kuwait using three drones, according to a source familiar with the matter.-i24 News
What’s wild to me is most media coverage has framed Tillis and Cornyn holding up the nomination for like 3 entire days as a huge standing up to trump thing and like….it’s just them caving almost immediately.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
pleased to announce that I've been hired by The New York Times. my job is to commission articles written by right-wing politicians, activists, and billionaires where they describe their activities in whatever way they see fit. it's nice because I don't have to edit or fact check anything
