Ironically, the way mainstream papers lower the bar to give space to middling hacks in the name of ideological diversity is the closest real-world phenomeon to how MAGA imagines DEI works. Does anyone think we’d know the name Mark Thiessen if he were on the center-left competing for that slot?

Thor Benson@thorbenson.bsky.social · 1h ago

Trump shared this Marc Thiessen article yesterday lol

Glad that all of this got resolved 100 years ago and none of these companies are alive to commit their horrors upon us in this modern age!

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last yr.

Fun fact: the guy who invented leaded gasoline was Thomas Midgely Junior, in 1921. He *also* invented CFC's By 1923 he had symptoms of lead poisoning, by 1924 several factory employees has already died of lead poisoning. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_....

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I can’t believe this needs to be said, but the only people who want to be immune from tax audits are people committing crimes

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

“.. Blanche posted a second statement saying that only Mr. Trump, two of his sons and the Trump Organization would be immune from audits ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

🧵We only knew in retrospect that the young would not have had the mortality rate of their grandparents. But as vectors for their teachers and staff as it swept through schools in no way equipped to mitigate risk, closings would have happened anyway. Just after more people died. Including kids.

miss andry@defnotadino.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’m going to have to sign off for a few days if we’re not going to stop relitigating 2020. The big thing missing from this discussion about “lockdowns” (not really accurate because no one was locked down) is that even with school closures, our HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ALMOST COLLAPSED. Yes we 

Sometimes I remember how the top secret materials Trump piled in a Mar-a-Lago toilet were so highly sensitive it complicated the prosecution against him for stealing them. And how from the Biden debate on that was pretty much memory holed.

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

one policy debate we deserve but are never going to get to have is what demands to be done to make blue states and cities whole after this presidency

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

this absolute scumbag www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d ago

Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

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

The pedophile president has an actual pedophile army

Pacific Antifascist Research Collective@pacantifa.is · 5d ago

Here is our full list of all 145 sex pests and sexual predators from ICE and Customs & Border Protection in a single image. The entries outlined in red indicate entries involving alleged sex crimes against children.

"did u spray paint those penises all over portland" "yes, lol" "it worked they filled the potholes!" "the what now"

tyler@tylergscott.com · 5d ago

in portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Trump insulting blue cities, states, refusing to give aid to those states who haven't voted for him, while collecting bribes, shaking down companies for stakes in their companies, insider trading, selling pardons is all well documented. It's just not acknowledged in day to day coverage of him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Q: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.

Remembering how the "Ebola Crisis" was literally *the* most covered news story - consistently framed as though it was a huge embarrassment to Obama - before the 2014 midterms (after which the media totally abandoned the story)

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d ago

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 1,500 people in just over two months, and it is spreading much faster than previous outbreaks, the nation’s health ministry reported on Thursday.

Oakland is a town often misunderstood. There’s the good, the bad and the ugly. And yet, there’s no place like it. Here’s a local’s guide to the soulful city https://www.latimes.com/travel/list/oakland-guide-things-to-do-restaurants-museums-hikes?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

A local's guide to vibrant, soulful, often-misunderstood Oakland

Those who've explored the diverse neighborhoods from Chinatown to Fruitvale to Temescal will tell you there’s so much more to “The Town” than it gets credit for.

latimes.com

UEFA channeling everyone: "The World Cup cannot be treated as an investment product. It is one of football's greatest sporting legacies. It has been built over generations by players, national teams and supporters across every continent. No part of it should ever be surrendered to private investors"

James Stafford@jpstafford.bsky.social · 6d ago

Excellent. And if you don't like it, Infantino, just 'chill'. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

remarkable how it's consensus within all realms of transportation academic/professional/political pundit spaces that transit projects cost too much and how rarely it's coupled with "we spend orders of magnitude more on highways which also suffer from exorbitant cost overruns and consultant grift"

Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · last wk.

There's some truth here: Transit projects cost too much and the urban transportation market is getting more competitive. Withholding transit grant money, as the Trump admin is doing, addresses neither of those things, of course. But what would help? t.co/cZmiMFc6yf

hundreds of millions got the COVID vaccine and there were so few problems that the main form of criticism turned into "friend-of-a-friend" hearsay stories, so this guy can't actually cite an actual case but knows his base will think they know people who know people this may have happened to

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."

yeah look the default bad Democratic candidate is either 'shitty tweets' or 'boringly careerist' and the default bad Republican candidate is 'serial rapist' or 'literal Nazi'

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence.

The subtitles here are phenomenal.

Mega Thee Tron@valarmordollars.bsky.social · last wk.

The president has a poop aid/diaper changer

imagine having to do this forensic investigation on an algae infested paint peeling smelly reflecting pool merely because the president of the united states is a fuckin habitual liar

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3w ago

Breaking news: The lining of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool peeled in at least seven places along seams that were created when the material was applied, indicating likely problems in how it was installed, according to experts and a Post analysis.

The point is that "Chinese interference" is a theater whose audience is purely domestic. It's purpose is to enable more federal control of elections to ensure that the ruling regime stays in power.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

REPORTER: Was there an agreement on election interference during your talk with the Chinese foreign minister? MARCO RUBIO: We didn't discuss that topic

Republicans trash bureaucratic red tape for businesses but then bury people who need assistance in it. It's intentional because they serve the interests of big business, not the people.

hilzoy@hilzoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gift link. It’s heartbreaking. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

Just want to say that @jaketapper.bsky.social wrote a book on the wrong candidate’s dementia and that should be obvious to every American.

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...