Stephen Nein, Supervisor 827
@stephennein.bsky.social
Sometimes known as Großer Roskow of Pajiba. Studied Covert Activities, minor historical adjustments, cat ownership at Constellation d'Orion
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@minimallycrazy.bsky.social I follow ANYONE who can quote lines from Terry Bisson.
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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I'm so sick of the scam calls plaguing my phone. I'm thinking of using a loud whistle to answer these damn things.
The Death Penalty has sickened me for years, but Pike's botched execution may have left her with a brain injury but alive.
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survives execution attempt after two injections
Killer Christa Pike's lawyer says she is being given "life-saving measures" in hospital after two syringes of pentobarbital.
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Today Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a “State of the Force” address at Marine Corps Base Quantico. He announced he had transformed the military by enforcing the idea of “[n]o fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors.”
September 30, 2026
A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.
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WTF is this face??! His Alec Baldwin impression? (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)
"[Y]ou’re really just collecting the worst ideas from generations of the last century. You’ve got the authoritarianism of the ’30s, the racial panic of the ’50s, the religious crusading of the ’80s, and the grievance engine of the internet... That’s a greatest hits album of stupidity.”
Open Letters by Mersault@open-letters.bsky.social · 3w ago𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟐: 𝐈 𝐌𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 my patience with two Young Republicans. patricemersault.substack.com/p/part-2-i-m... #books #booksky #booktube #bookclub #fiction #literature #reading #poetry #art #philosophy #BookRecs #CurrentlyReading #BookThread #maga #ai #youngrepublicans
I am so embarrassed to have come out of the same city as this unambiguous racist shitbag.
Anil Kalhan@akalhan.bsky.social · last mo.When Neil Gorsuch sends us his people....
No matter what you think of the Supreme Court majority, they’re educated and at least intelligent enough to get through legal academia. It struck me while driving that as much as Roberts is a hack, some of the reasoning for any who are institutionalists has to be
🔥 TEXAS: “Registered voters in Tarrant County has increased 30% — to be closing polling stations is blatant voter suppression… when I joined the Navy, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic…Talking to you, Comrades."
I'm not a robot. I get very emotional and feel a strong sense of pride watching stuff like Band of Brothers... ...because it reminds me of my grandpa and his brothers. Good men who did what they had to, and earned my undying love and admiration for doing so. I could take or leave the flag.
you have the freedom not to love this country too. because a state is incapable in of feeling or returning love. your feelings otherwise are irrational. I appreciate and am grateful I was born in a safe, stable and affluent country. I don't love the USA. It certainly does not love me back.
John Schwartz@jswatz.bsky.social · last mo.In the U.S., "free speech, including the freedom to criticize the government and its leaders, is not a sign of our democracy’s fragility. It is evidence of its strength... Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it.”
As it ever has been, just MAGAnified
Allison Hantschel@allisonhantschel.com · 2mo agoMy favorite thing about being a Democrat is the party having to answer for every single person on the internet's every idiotic word while Republicans aren't held responsible for the actions of their actual no-shit senators and presidents.
New favorite epithet/euphemism: "Pervert Hoover" Works on multiple levels, including how he sucks up all the money and attention he can.
Ottant'anni, you motherfucker. May this one be the last one. #8647
Who else has been as negative for peoples' lives and emotional states in US American history as Donald Trump? There's an argument that Pierce and Buchanan, appeasing Northern Democrats who were in office before the Civil War, but I don't think they were nearly so personally hated.
Lizzie O'Leary@lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew York's entire vibe today is like a class about to give the substitute teacher a breakdown
Rob Sand's Lt. Gov. running mate: Crawford County Supervisor and rural farmer Dave Muhlbauer.
MSN
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I noticed the PBS Newshour didn't even bother to repeat Rollins's dumb denial in their article.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4mo agoVery bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.
All you have to say is “all kids deserve free and fair access to school sports and sporting bodies make the rule for who’s eligible. My opponent would like to have the government inspect your kids bodies personally in a way to help defund your public schools.”
@elienyc.bsky.social made me scratch my head - "Crossing Joseph Stalin . . would get you jailed and, likely, killed. Trump hasn’t needed to enforce party discipline using any of those methods." Elie, after Jan 6, he didn't need to. elienyc.substack.com/p/the-gop-is...
The GOP Is Not a Political Party—It’s a Cult
ELIE V. U.S
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I remember Iraq and how the GWB administration 'planned' the reconstruction of the country, essentially telling Free Enterprise to do it for them off the public dollar. The Orange regime isn't putting even that much effort into it. They don't *do* planning.
Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 5mo agoTotally endorse this @dandrezner.bsky.social analysis that the Trump administration can't be trusted to have any real plan for Cuba, but that won't stop them. Would only add: beware US presidents deciding to "solve things once and for all" using military force. Goes all the way back to Korean War.
Ossoff: "What those who build ballrooms and monuments for themselves, what they hate the most is when people hold them accountable at the polls. So why Fulton County? I submit to you it is bc the fact Black voters were instrumental to his defeat might be more offensive to him than the defeat itself"
Readin' @elienyc.bsky.social's weekly, he quotes the “I’m not a member of an organized political party—I’m a Democrat” mantra in his grafs on the Dem2024 autopsy. Shit, Elie - if there's one thing I learned from working the IA caucuses, the DNC literally breeds disorganized failure by touch.
I'm 2/3rds of the way through "The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States". When he reviewed it in 2019, the respected @drfarls.bsky.social, said the Trump characterization was 'exaggerated'. 1/6
@timothysnyder.bsky.social Writes the end of Pax Americana: "Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power, and succeeded with such rapidity." snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...
On Superpower Suicide
And the recovery of justice
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