I feel like it might have been a bad idea to hand the world over to sociopaths

Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 1h ago

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

correct are you serious about beating fascism or not? get in, we’re beating them in november you can be mad, you can be disappointed, but at the end of the day having someone with D in any and all seats is better than having someone with an R in them

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 9h ago

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

pure fan fiction for people who don’t live in DC and will never visit and only hear about it on Fox News

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 5h ago

This notion that they've done anything to improve DC in any way including re: crime is ludicrous. Ask anyone who lives in DC. They've done nothing, zero, bupkis.

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

Doctors say that you should eat a balanced diet that includes whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seat seats and doesn’t wipe his ass says you should subsist entirely on sauerkraut and steak. For a busy eaters it can be hard to know who to trust.

SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

The thing that drives me up the fucking wall about this line of apologia for MAHA is that MAHA's strongest soldiers are not the desperately poor and uninsured, they're rich douchebags who shop at Whole Foods if Erehwon is unavailable.

Your Ad Here@cooluser354.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh my god no it does not. Canada has maha type cranks. The UK does. Japan does, Germany does, Sweden does, India does, France does IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE SYSTEM, WHICH YES ARE BROKEN MAHA IS A EUGENICS MOVEMENT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

Maybe taking a drunken rapist Fox News host, whose only management experience involved running small non-profits into the ground, and putting him in charge of the US military was a bad idea after all?

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · yesterday

"US has used 'virtually all' PrSM and ATACM munitions" we are out of ammo www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

As everyone knows from experience, some parents were already psycho and weird about kids sports when nothing was at stake. Now they’re pouring thousands of dollars into it and firmly believe something very important is at stake. Of course it was going to become an ideological warzone.

I dunk on playoff Lamar as much as anyone, but on what planet is he not a better, more accomplished QB than Burrow? If he had Chase and Higgins, Lamar would be putting up Madden numbers.

The Athletic@theathletic.com · yesterday

Our 2026 NFL Quarterback Tiers results are here. The panel this year consisted of 21 execs and 29 coaches overall. Each voter placed 35 veteran QBs into five tiers, from best (Tier 1) to worst (Tier 5). nyti.ms/4yYcfln

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

ICE has killed another person.

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

thecityreporter.nyc

So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.

There are more people who've parlayed middling athletic prospects into profitable careers decrying the inclusion of trans women in sports than there are trans women in sports.

“because my chatbot keeps asking me to clarify what I’m trying to accomplish and I’m sick of it”

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

PENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

I think this is pretty easily attributable to the fact that people evolved as hunter/gatherers, and the thrill of the chase is a hugely important part of human development and contentment. It's simultaneously why being a billionaire (thus having access to whatever you want) turns brains into mush.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

A synthesis of Republican bad faith and Democratic Party political failure.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

I agree that leftists on social media can be too glib about how upsetting it is to see people suffering on the streets. That is, however, roughly 198th on my list of priorities on this issue. "we can't address this until people stop annoying me on the internet" is fucking asinine and *everywhere*

It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarceration

The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs

Policies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.”

theatlantic.com

what the hell??? youtube just removed the original rick roll youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

I can tell the bond folks the exact date Kevin Warsh will start advocating for major rate hikes to tame inflation: January 20, 2029

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 5d ago

"it’s clear that the bond market reaction wasn’t a judgment on the rate decision itself. It was, instead, a judgment on Warsh." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...

As a fiscal conservative deficit hawk, there’s no way I could support a $1.5 trillion budget. Unless that $1.5 trillion was for an alcoholic Fox News weekend anchor who’s losing a war to Iran’s third tier army.

I think the way that the lab leak morphed from being about the CCP to being about Fauci was instructive

Leon English@leonenglish.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is what blows my mind Like the wet market was already operating illegally by allowing the vendors selling exotics They arrested people for trying to alert the public about the virus once infections started You don’t need to build an elaborate conspiracy if you just want to blame the CCP

once you amass a certain level of wealth you should wake up in the dead of night to a ghost telling you that you will be going to hell

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 5d ago

Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...