Merlin says they’re all grackles. I can’t see any of them up in the tree really but I have seen many grackles out front.

$26.82 a gallon for gas. That’s what some Alaskans are facing right now, and it’s only getting worse. We need a senator solving the problem, not one still voting for a war that keeps driving prices up.

lol some chud apparently signed me up (or they got my number from a spam list) for GOP text messages and it's a real window on their psyches.

Is it “extremely flattering” to report that Vance repeatedly blatantly lied about the situation? Why is the lying presumed to be forgivable? “Well, he had to appease Trump.” YES! He betrayed his oath, acting in Trump’s interest instead of the nation’s. That seems pretty damning. Or it should be.

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d ago

This article is what's called a "beat sweetener," where access journalists write a story that's extremely flattering to one of their sources in order to keep the line open www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...

The Netflix UI on Apple TV for live feed is absolute ass.

If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me

Yes, I know the law says that it's criminal to bribe people for their votes, but not when the president does it, because he is above criminal law. Else he would not be free to make the tough choices, like whether to bribe people for their votes.

REACHER: I need help with my iPhone SUPPORT: regular iPhone or duo? REACHER: how can I tell SUPPORT: if it folds it’s the duo *extremely loud crunching noise* REACHER: it’s the duo

NGC 1566 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2o2hBzW

It doesn’t really help. The argument here is that “Israelis didn’t elect Netanyahu, they elected a bunch of MPs who then selected Netanyahu as the PM”. That doesn’t exonerate the Israeli electorate. They elected a bunch of MPs at *everyone* knew would select Netanyahu as the PM. They’re culpable.

This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky

College football matchups are just absolute dogshit this early in the season.

Hegseth needs to pay for his crimes.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.

When Pete Hegseth polled top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during military operations, he bet they’d back his view that the program was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” officials told ProPublica. Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea.

When Pete Hegseth polled top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during military operations, he bet they’d back his view that the program was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” officials told ProPublica. Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea.

Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.

The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...

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The Jerusalem Post argues indebted Americans should be conscripted into the Iran War.

L'Arc de Participationne

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · last wk.

A triumphal arch, that's gonna be cool. And definitely not a hilarious way to remember losing the war with Iran

Any Democrat running for president in 2028 not pledging to tear down this grotesque thing and tear down the ballroom must not get the nomination. And they better make good on that pledge.👇

50 years ago today The Sex Pistols and their biggest supporters, The Bromley Contingent, Paris, September 4, 1976. 📸 Ray Stevenson #punk #punks #punkrock #sexpistols #bromleycontingent #50years #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Trump’s Pentagon wants reporters to be not just docile recipients of the administration’s preferred narratives but active propagandists. That is a direct attack on the free press.

I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.

Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.

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House Republicans failed to muster the necessary votes to back a proposed constitutional amendment that would set membership of SCOTUS at nine, although they did remind everyone that the number of justices is not enshrined in the Constitution and can be amended at any time by statute.

Moulton's district office earlier today

This kind of reaction from mainstream Israeli military and political leaders is all too rare and much more is needed, but it's something. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/w...

These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.

A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b...

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I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck

I left a review for Google Maps then deleted the app.

I sent feedback to Google Maps, told them they were quisling bitches, and deleted the app. Fucking cowards scrambling at the mad king’s command. What’s the point of being one of the biggest companies in the world if you’re still just a toady?

Dave Jorgenson@davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2w ago

The renaming of this lake is so dumb and petty and should not be the focus of the news right now but … I cannot overstate enough just how sad and pathetic this update is for Google

In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.

what if Canada just declared this America's flag, and started using it on their literature and websites