I love you all but you are incredibly (understandably) reactive. It’s making you SO easily manipulated by rage baiters. When you see something without context, a headline or a snippet of a quote, take a deep breath and look into it to see if you really should be upset. Please protect your hearts.

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Ppl being shitty in the replies here are just miserable wreckers who are more interested in winning social media arguments than actually seeing Republicans lose control of congress.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 9h ago

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

I know this website hates AI, as it should, but if its biggest boosters actually talked about it as a tool that could make your life easier? Might be more popular, might be more people willing to try it. Instead, they’re all telling you “lol fuck off idiot, use AI or get left behind”

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 14h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%

AI boosters: "shut up piggies and eat our slop. Did we mention its going to destroy your jobs & end civilization? 😎" Also AI boosters: "god, why are ppl so negative on this new technology?? It must be bc they are a bunch of Luddites"

Man I hate this doomer shit. Medicine. HIV-AIDS is basically cured. Same for a myriad of ailments that were either lifelong maladies or deadly. Cars, technology, hell even though they have become a source of misery, we all carry super computers in our pockets!

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Teach your children ‘democrats are not always good, but republicans ARE always bad’ and in 2026 you’ve covered like 90% of their practical civic education wrt voting.

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 19h ago

The best thing about Vote Blue No Matter Who is that it unloads a lot of cognitive burden. I wanted Tom Steyer to be in the Governor's race, but he's not so I'm gonna vote for Becerra. I don't follow his campaign at all: I'm voting for him because he's not a Republican.

more like freaking gone kelly

I mean, I know Connor McDavid only signed a short-term deal with the Oilers, but this feels like a serious overreact—oh they mean music.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

@bruh31.bsky.social · yesterday

@synonymforwet.bsky.social Kenny Pickett vs Carson Beck

Something I keep thinking of that may not be popular in Pittsburgh is the Steelers current ownership stinks. You see all the NFLPA and player surveys and the Steelers were damn near dead last or last in everything but coaching. This isn’t to say Mike T was perfect or hadn’t become stale, but…

Don't say "Congress" when you mean "Republicans"

Micah@rincewind.run · yesterday

the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation

Real unhinged here this morning. We’ll try again tomorrow.

Hard not to notice that Buttigieg still gets skewered for doing a couple years at McKinsey in his mid 20s during the late 00s, but the general response from most of those same ppl to Graham Platner signing up to work for Blackwater in his mid 30s--not even a decade ago!--has been one big shrug.

CyberOtters@cyberotters.bsky.social · yesterday

www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol... Why would the New Yorker do a soft focus "Platner holds uneasy mirror up to America's veteran problem" while ignoring his PMC time? Seems like an important piece of his puzzle not shared by the vast, vast majority of the combat veteran community.

This is, respectfully, dumb as shit. Tammy Duckworth gave her legs and she’s not using that to excuse her bad behavior

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

"What if we can appeal to MAHA voters with some anti-corporate boilerplate" is the 2020s version of "what if we can appeal to anti-abortion voters by saying that expanding access to contraception will reduce abortions." It's a great strategy if you ignore everything they actually believe

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 2d ago

“It’s not a fight between left and right, it’s between top and bottom. Which is why I met with a bunch of plague cultists for the most powerful man in the entire world.”

Might be a hot take to say on this here website but I don’t think the concerns of people who reject modern medicine are valid. Could be just me, though!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

But hey, the new coach is from here and knows Aaron! That’s really all that matters, you guys!

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s August 2026 and Aaron Rodgers is having a full blown meltdown about Anthony Fauci.

*slams head into brick wall, grits remaining teeth* Boy, imagine if this was Biden….

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump forgets the word for video: "We have photographs, or tapes... Like, moving cameras, right?"

gloves*

brian@blemley.us · 2d ago

Carolina is in good hands

Hall of Fame credited with two interceptions and a fumble recovery.

NFL Daily News@insidenflnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

Kenny Pickett will start the HOF game for the Panthers.

Late stage capitalism began, according to the man who developed the theory, in 1918.

We’ll always have North Avenue@straighttalk317.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’ve heard warnings about late-stage capitalism and why it sucks for years buddy. It’s here and people are saying see I told you so. Like the thing people predicted was going to happen happened, so people are noticing it. What are you talking about?

I…what? This is peak Bluesky.

The problem with the MLB salary cap discourse right now is that there isn’t really a wrong or correct answer. Yes, your Yankees, Dodgers, etc…both have unlimited money and want to win while your Pirates, Marlins, etc…just want to make money. The entire economic system, top to bottom, is broken.

You know something? Hootie never specified how many blowfish he had with him and I believe we’re due for some answers.