another day guarding the river you can't go into twice. everyone keeps asking me if they can go into the river again. buddy, you aren't the same man.
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And Michigan reps wonder why Canadians are pissed at them. A country whose word means less than nothing.
progsrock@progsrock.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Gordie Howe Bridge Is What American Betrayal Looks Like Canada spent billions on the crossing. Trump turned it into a shakedown thewalrus.ca/the-gordie-h...
Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol
Lucy isn't even bothering to hold a football anymore. Charlie Brown just keeps charging forward in the blind hope she'll eventually produce one.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.*WTI OIL EXTENDS DROP TO $81.68 AS TRADERS LOOK TO US-IRAN TALKS
Every one of these debates is the exact same thing: "Can you theoretically imagine someone abusing this for nefarious goals?" "Yes." "Is it happening?" "No or negligibly." "Are there safeguards in place?" "Yes." "Should we very cruelly over-react in ways that hurt people anyway?" "Yes!"
Any administration that could have won the Iraq War wouldn't have started it. Many such cases
far and away I think the single most consequential failures of the 20th/21st century environmental movement was going anti-nuclear. to a great extent we literally chose climate change.
Sam@samd.bsky.social · last wk.sometimes I think about how Germany could have one of the cleanest electricity mixes in the world if they simply didn’t shut down all their nuclear plants
Did you TRANSLATE Mulan like the Noble Emily Wilson or ADAPT it like the monstrous Chris Nolan???! It's a simple yes or no question!!!!
OK, this is a particular lane of slopulism that I’m passionate about, and it’s actually really dumb and bad and doesn’t understand how groceries work at all.
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · last wk.Mayor Mamdani: Since 2019, food prices have soared at grocery stores around the country by roughly 30%. Wages have not kept up. Today, I am proud to announce a collection of essential staples that will be predictably 30% cheaper at all five of our city-run grocery stores.
Thomas Nagel fuming at this one.
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄@mu-peter.bsky.social · 2w agoHumans Can Learn to Echolocate Neuroscience has begun to look at capacity of sensory areas exhibiting a striking degree of plasticity Changes in primary visual and auditory cortex of blind and sighted adults following 10 weeks of click-based echolocation training🧪 academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
huh wonder if the press will give Trump 1/20th the shit they gave Biden over Afghanistan on this. Who can tell!
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2w agoWe love the troops don't we folks support the troops honor their service salute for all the veterans in attendance support our brave men and women in the armed services troops troops troops we support the troops It was all bullshit, all along. They don't care and shit all over them
Conservatives in 2016: TRIGGERED LIB???? Conservatives in 2026: We are installing trigger warnings in the Smithsonian
“you have to look past our crankish public statements, its just noise and it will have no consequences” is not acceptable after ten years of trump
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 2w ago“DSA foreign policy has always been like this, why are all these libs bringing it up now” is admittedly a funnier response to it from DSA folks than i expected
which was part of why they hated biden, who was elected on a platform of having a quiet, normal presidency. there were multiple pieces published in which journos openly admitted how badly they missed Trump
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump to journalists at the White House Correspondents Dinner: “When I’m gone, you’re all gonna be broke.”
Not a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"
This is something like double the per capita rate of annual American firearms homicides. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
France records more than 5,700 excess deaths during June heatwave
Figures come as large parts of southern Europe endure another record-breaking period of extreme temperatures
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I’ve worn both military and scientific hats, so I think about this in more personal terms than most on my field. That said, a government that doesn’t consider the long-term effects of its military actions absolutely doesn’t care one whit about the long-term effects of its science policy choices.
Dead Carl@deadcarl.bsky.social · 2w agoIn light of the war with Iran escalating to targeting desalination plants, I've chosen to look at what Clausewitz wrote on the distinction (or lack thereof) between wars of civilized peoples and those of the "uncivilized." www.deadcarl.com/p/barbarity-...
This is a usefully revealing comment in how it shows that the US is not protecting Israeli leaders from war crimes charges because Israel is somehow manipulating the US through Epstein kompromat, but simply the shared interests of war criminals.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTom Cotton: "Ultimately, it's not about Prime Minster Netanyahu and Israel -- it's about arresting Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in the future if they ever travel abroad."
Absolutely everybody who knows anything about labor demographics saw this coming miles away. The last 18 months have been a steady stream of “nobody could have predicted” things every minimally knowledgable person loudly predicted.
Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2w agoEldercare is hard work, severely underpaid that was already understaffed. Since Medicaid is "the primary payer" of this work, it's unlikely there will be a huge increase in wages to attract non-immigrant workers. Are Americans prepared to quit their jobs to take care of their elders? Many have.
I would take ‘listen to LIVED EXPERIENCES not your bloodless charts’ if I had literally ever seen a response to ‘what do we do if lived experiences differ’ that did not boil down to either ‘listen to the people I like more’ or ‘charts’
Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 2w agoThis right here is literally why we cannot have nice things. No future democratic administration is going to run progressive macroeconomic policy. Better to have stagnant wage growth for the working class apparently.
it's this, with some NIMBY and car-brain characteristics sprinkled on top
love them or loathe them, there's one thing you can't deny about the Argentinian football team: they're a bunch of cunts
