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FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h agoSPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Paul Sullivan
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Grad student at Georgetown, studying Comms and Radicalization. Sometimes I write things: https://substack.com/@paulsullivan511495?r=bbbvx&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile&shareImageVariant=image
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago
"Tonight, on POLITICS TONIGHT: Tuesday's primaries were a good night for charismatic handsome men. Our elite team of political analysts will discuss what complex social-ideological forces could have produced such an unforeseen result... TONIGHT. On POLITICS TONIGHT."
These troops -- who are generally very friendly and have no say in what they've been assigned to do -- are walking around in circles all day, around the perimeters of parks, up and down neighborhood streets, with hardly anything to do.
NOTUS Metro@notusmetro.bsky.social · 24h agoTrump’s decision to keep National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., through the end of his term will cost an additional $1.4 billion in tax dollars, according to budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office and shared with NOTUS.
"No. I think those of us who choose to celebrate Thanksgiving can acknowledge - as we should every day - that things we enjoy often come at other people's expense. I'm working to build a world where that's not the case. Where we all have plenty to be thankful for."
Just say no. Say no. You say no. That's all you say. "No." Jesus Christ.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayFrancesca Hong was asked last night by Kaitlin Collins if she still believes Thanksgiving should be canceled. Her answer was not 'no.'
whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation
Happy birthday @barackobama.bsky.social! You broke these people's brains. They will never get over that you were so successful and popular.
David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · yesterdayWhat is wrong with these people
The Democrats' midterm ad practically writes itself.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
As someone who has hung out with way too many theater kids I have zero trouble believing that the drama was bad enough to make this a completely reasonable solution
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...
I don't really have words for how this article makes me feel, except grateful for Ms. Rashid and the other lawyers who are representing trans people so each of them does not have to go through this alone.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d agoDOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
"the voters in my district prioritized a different issue" yea, we didn't support genocide
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2d agoDan Goldman is having an argument with Ro Khanna. Goldman is alluding to why he lost his primary, but isn’t saying it directly.
The thing about writing up a year-long research project is that the act of writing - of making sense of something on the page so that someone else can pick it up and use it - is completely transformational for both your own understanding of it and the quality of analysis.
Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 6d agoAt the stage of writing up where night and day don't matter anymore and I may have just eaten some jam off my nightie.
There's a chunk of right-wing media desperate for a "quieter" immigration strategy (see the disappearance of "mass deportation" language on Fox www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...) but also a bunch of extremely loud voices demanding deranged maximalist policies.
Fox stars dropped “mass deportation” language months ago
President Donald Trump’s Fox News propagandists walked away from describing his immigration policy as “mass deportations” weeks or months before a top White House aide reportedly urged House Republica...
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Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat triggered MAGA was Markwayne Mullin saying we should fix agricultural visas. The real transgression was Mullin admitting immigrants can help the economy, and that reform can *actually achieve this.* MAGA wants migration to be seen as fundamentally unmanagable. newrepublic.com/article/2138...
This is what every one of these conversations sounds like
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
This is “one of the most catastrophic events we've seen in our lifetime here in Spokane," KHQ anchor @KHQSean says, noting it's impossible to know many homes have already burned. Now it's sunset. "Tomorrow morning is going to be devastating for our community," @KHQLeslie says.”
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4d agoHarrowing scenes on Spokane's local TV stations tonight – as thousands of structures are threatened by fast-moving fires – here are some of the live streams KHQ: khq.com/live/ KXLY: kxly.com KREM: krem.com/watch H/T to @brianstelter.bsky.social
Trump is torching his own AG nominee so he can preserve his sweetheart tax deal that gives his family a blank check to commit tax fraud. This President is banking billions by abusing his power. Now he’s doing everything possible to make sure he’ll never be held accountable.
The Andre Callaghan interview with Fuentes was so bad I’ve decided to write a Substack post about it how bad it is which means rewatching the whole thing a second time. Because I’m a masochist apparently
I don’t think you could have said this (in the screenshot) in public 10-15 years ago without swift backlash, which is a pretty clear indication of the level of decline we’re looking at
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
The 50s and 60s must have been an insane time to work in government. "Mr. President, meet the head of NASA's rocket chimp division, Dr. Nazimensch." "Guten Tag, my fur- sorry, Mr. President." "Weren't we at war with them?" "It's important we send the monkey to space or the communists will win."
Unironically one of the biggest "flaws" in the constitution is that it was written for an era which presumed that men would be violently defensive of their personal standing. It's why the founders could have never imagined congress' steady surrender to the executive.
Seva@seva.bsky.social · 5d agobiggest surprise from the Lincoln bio I'm reading. The dude just loved to get into fistfights. He's cornered by a gang after beating their leader and yells: “I’m the big buck of this lick!” And they back down! Who knew the great emancipator had a little WWE in him?
Again the next time you worry you are not qualified for your job please remember that Marvel couldn't figure out how to pick a spot on the map, put Mahershala Ali in a Blade outfit and then write a movie where he fights vampires there.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 5d agoMahershala Ali says he’s moved on from ‘Blade’ “I have moved on … I'm good … you had me under contract … if they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie. So we're not doing the movie … They didn't want to do it, so they should answer that question” (via GQ Magazine)
Oh, it's getting good*. * = predictably awful
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d agoLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
In America, everything is either gambling or fraud, including governance
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 5d agoTrump tells TV host to make bets on his military actions in Greenland
It's so morbidly funny that the thing propping up the world economy is that a bunch of crackheads at the stock exchange still haven't figured out you're allowed to fight wars on Mondays.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5d agoUS and Israel are planning what would be one of the harshest bombing campaigns to date against energy infrastructure targets in Iran, with strikes possible throughout the weekend.
