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Alexander is right, so presumably MAGA's next step will be the mass deportation of members of the Irish- and German-American diaspora

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

my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

It gets better. His company’s name: Greenwater Services. Did he once pay a bribe to Jim Traficant: yes, of course

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 2mo ago

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

You REPRIMAND Tomatillo? You place him on the PERFORMANCE PLAN?

Charlotte Garden@charlottegarden.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I did make it to the nursery where I met this guy, whose hobby is starting fights with dogs

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And then there's this: The settlement gets sweeter for Team Trump In a newly-posted, one-page document, the Justice Dept details that it is now prohibited from pursuing tax claims against Trump or his family in the future Signed by Todd Blanche

>Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson were all on Russian payroll >Orban loses in Hungary >Rod Dreher immediately leaves Budapest >The Daily Wire fires half their staff was all the right-wing conspiracy posting about USAID just massive fucking projection?

Unexpected item in bagging area. 📸 Aubuchon Hardware

people think you can just dwell in a cave but the quality of dwelling depends entirely on many cave factors such as dirt, rocks, etc.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

I'm in my 20s and I have vague memories about the world around me smelling much, much worse when I was a little kid. Especially car exhaust and the lingering scent of cigarettes (and my parents didn't smoke!).

Aaron Grote@aarongrote.com · 4mo ago

Also just like, everything smelled bad. Like the whole world. Car exhaust, cigarette smoke, industrial exhaust, dirty waterways, worse cleaning.

Also just like, everything smelled bad. Like the whole world. Car exhaust, cigarette smoke, industrial exhaust, dirty waterways, worse cleaning.

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

Evelyn Normielib is real and she is coming and there is no better place to meet her than a No Kings protest

Mike (beep boop era)@latimeriidae.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

this site is essentially built for left-liberals and socialists who read Janes's content

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 5mo ago

observation: Bluesky is definitely no Olde Twitter for following the news, but it does have an astonishing density of military hardware discussion carried out at a very high level

Footage from inside Trump’s golf club Super Bowl party reveals the Bad Bunny half time show played on the big screens. What a bunch of hypocrites.

NO EVIDENCE EXISTS SHOWING THAT VOTING BY NON-CITIZENS IS A REAL PROBLEM, but Donald Trump confidant Steve Bannon is still calling for ICE and the U.S. Army to surround swing-state polling places in a show of force for the midterm elections.

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good). www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Obviously this is a setback but I think it's important not to let it discredit the concept of building a long, extremely narrow glass city in the middle of the desert. www.ft.com/content/036b...

Saudi Arabia to scale back Neom megaproject

Review expected to propose a significant redesign after years of delays and overruns

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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

People will still debate what Star Trek "should" be but, if they do some research, they'll discover what the man who created it meant to convey:" I believe that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day it learns to value diversity in life and in ideas.” -- G Roddenberry

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

It's not the algorithm. There's no 'algorithm' on 4chan, after all. It's not exactly 'social media', either. It's us. Our culture. We haven't adapted to the new leading medium of human communication. When we do, it won't be any more toxic to us than print is (which gave us the Wars of Religion).

Gluon Spring@gluonspring.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“memetic gestalt” sounds like algorithmic social media is tailor made to be fascism fuel.