People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
Seattle city councilmember Debora Juarez, with her head extremely far up her own ass
Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...
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If you're wondering what party will help you keep your Social Security benefits and which one is trying to take them away, this is a Republican on the Senate floor TODAY:
communism is when a charismatic leader tells you how you are allowed to cut and style your hair. capitalism is when your employer tells you how you are allowed to cut and style your hair
President Trump had (loudly) promised that he would ask #SCOTUS to grant rehearing of its June 30 decision blocking his executive order purporting to limit birthright citizenship. The deadline for such a request was yesterday—and ... crickets.
my last feature for bandcamp is subsonic API support! now you can use a subsonic client to play your collection like it’s a self-hosted music server. yay open protocols! (btw there’s only explicit support for 3 clients but you’re welcome to try others, some may or may not work)
Bandcamp@bandcamp.com · 3w agoIntroducing two new features, now available on Bandcamp: https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/07/16/discover-improvements-and-subsonic-implementation/?utm_campaign=organic_social&utm_content=&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_term=bandcamp
Democrats are going to continue to fight to make sure that voting rights are protected. But we're also going to hold this president accountable for the promises he made: to bring down the cost of living, to make health care more affordable. @alsobrooks.senate.gov
HOWTO: turn a great honor into an embarrassing display
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoTrump struggles to clasp the Medal of Honor to Major Nicholas Dockery -- and then ties it?
Just another way for certain people to get rich off insider information.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 2mo agoIf the Warsh-led FOMC really does bail on public forward guidance, this sort of thing is completely out of line. You could make a case that closed door speeches from FOMC members *in general* shouldn’t be allowed but with much less public forward guidance it becomes a massive credibility hazard.
I heard that there are thousands and thousands of cases of Rep. Claudia Tenney drowning kittens in her kitchen sink. It happens all the time. But Rep. Claudia Tenney will tell you it doesn't happen because you can't prove it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoRep. Claudia Tenney: "There are thousands and thousands of cases of people voting in the wrong place, at the wrong time. This happens all the time. But the Democrats want to tell you it doesn't happen because you can't prove it."
Our president demonstrating both inane frivolity and incompetence.
Decoding Fox News@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 2mo agoA love letter of sorts to the dream that was the reflecting pool. It was supposed to cost $1.5 million or $15 million. Biden or maybe Obama probably both of them spent $100 million to try to fix it. It was going to be American Flag Blue a dark blue color and be wonderful.
Whoah! This Dietrich Bonhoeffer person sounds horrible. Was there a specific person he tried to kill or something like that?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoRep. Brandon Gill: "We particularly need the left to tone down the rhetoric ... somebody is gonna listen and believe they are the next Dietrich Bonhoeffer and act on that and that's what we're seeing here."
If you talk about Michelle Obama today, please make it about this video
Trump will brag that any MOU he signs with Iran will include a line from Iran promising never to builds nukes. Yet that was also in the JCPOA, which said: “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapon.” Trump tore up the JCPOA & caused a war.
Observation from life, having been around longer than this guy (and married to same wonderful woman since age 21): I have yet to meet a man who goes out of his way to bait others as "barely straight," who doesn't have issues of this sort himself Have never met a "real man" who bothers with this BS
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoREP. BRANDON GILL: This is a much more effeminate version of Beto O'Rourke ... this is somebody who is really obsessed with children ... I think of James Talarico as a barely straight version of Pete Buttigieg KAYLEIGH McENANY: We know Talarico has a longtime girlfriend and she's very beautiful
BTW, the severely dangerous flesh-eating maggot is either photo.
Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew data reveals that New World Screwworm, a severely dangerous flesh-eating maggot, is spreading throughout Texas. This comes months after Ken Paxton supported cutting Screwworm monitoring programs.
Guys he went ahead and built the Trump Promenade
Mediapolitic@mediapolitic.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom."
James Talarico just announced a bus tour around Texas called "The People vs. Ken Paxton Tour."