A fed appeals court ruled that the US Constitution does not guarantee a right to clean drinking water, rejecting a lawsuit by Jackson, Mississippi residents over the city's lead-contaminated water system. Think about that. You’re not guaranteed to drink water without lead.

I understand this question, but since the dawn of Trump 2.0, the centrists seem to have all pretty clearly aligned themselves WITH the Trump administration, which seems to settle the question of where they fall on the fascism scale

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · yesterday

I go back and forth on the debate about whether centrists just agree with fascists or are simply cosying up to them because they're too craven and stupid to realise this is morally evil and politically suicidal. Some, to me, appear to be in Column A and not Column B, and vice versa.

Regulating supplements would be a major change

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

This Labor Day, remember that the only reason you have an 8 hour day and a 5 day workweek is bc people paid in blood, they went on strike and were murdered, shot dead by their employers and the US government for daring to ask to be treated like human beings.

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

"Bayesian" means "from the Bay Area".

The irony is the multi-billion dollar supplement industry is the most unregulated industry, which is what the wellness and MAHA movement push. Big pharma for sure has its issues, but at least it is regulated.

As you surely suspected, and @attackerman.bsky.social confirms, ICE and CBP are ridden with sex criminals & child abusers.

The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP

Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026

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the real Trump Derangement Syndrom was thinking his agenda was ever popular

This is absolutely incredible. Farage thought he was talking to an American and his UK son about funneling foreign donations through the son and instead he was talking to investigative reporters wearing wires.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d ago

Well, this is a marmalade dropper

the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

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Trump has been determined to disprove every argument that Electoral College proponents have made. No, it doesn’t compel candidates to pay attention to the interests of voters all over the country. It shields a tyrant from electoral blowback when he tells states that voted against him to drop dead

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 7d ago

Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about his brazen politicization of federal disaster relief aid, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and election results. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The left flank of the party is regularly characterized as an insurgency taking over the party, while they’ve been pretty stalwart partners to leadership since the Biden Administration. Centrists, on the other hand, have made bucking leadership their entire brand to no such effect.

Today, thousands of Haitians are in chains because Donald Trump decided their lives are a crime. There is no excuse for treating our neighbors with such contempt. The Senate must take the long overdue step of passing our legislation to restore TPS for Haiti. My full statement:

this is correct: the USPS rule is about mailing *to* voters (not *from*) we have an explainer on this! boltsmag.org/mail-voting-...

Michael Anderson@michaelander45.bsky.social · last wk.

Just to be 100% clear here I just read the source materials and the whistle blower is describing the process for handling ballots that the state is mailing TO voters.

This is why you can't have healthcare. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-buy-robot-dogs-immigration-enforcement-rcna594897

ICE plans to buy robot ‘dogs’ for some immigration enforcement operations

The doglike robots are equipped with cameras and sensors that can detect chemicals and would be used in situations that

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We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry

Brian Morales, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen, was riding in a vehicle that was stopped by police in April. After the police called ICE, Brian explained to immigration officials that he is a U.S. citizen, born in Colorado, and even offered to show his birth certificate. (1/3)

I have a zoom meeting in an hour and am battling the kind of headache that makes focusing for more than a few minutes difficult. Wheeeeeeee

it's because she hates you but she loves your money

Chaz Stein@charlottestein.bsky.social · last wk.

The reason JKR is suddenly saying more and more “moderate” seeming things is not because her views are “moderate”, you daft shits. It’s because she is registering that her extremely overtly transphobic points are now making her very unpopular.

reskeeting with alt text bc this is a funny as hell way to dismiss someone's dumbass argument to their face

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 2w ago

In which @jamellebouie.net reveals the Secret Sauce of his punditry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...

Voters got Orban out. Voters got Bolsonaro out. Voters got Trump out in 2020 (though other voters put him back in). Further back, voters got Pinochet out. You have to willfully shove your head in the sand to say voting can't do anything about this. In fact, it's probably the best way.

I know I'm old because now we all argue about how politicians interact with Hasan Piker instead of Chapo Trap House.

Claims that immigrants are responsible for measles outbreaks are a lie. 94% of US measles cases are in unvaccinated people. Contact tracing shows a majority of imported measles cases are in unvaccinated US residents returning from travel. The cause of measles outbreaks is anti-vax disinformation.

AOC just mildly disavowed "woke 1" and it sparked a weeks-long, ongoing discourse cycle about radicalism on the left. The idea that prominent Dems "disavowing" far-left figures will stop the right from talking about them is laughable.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w ago

I really need people to understand that this is not how anything works. "Talking about him constantly makes us all look bad and I wish we could stop," you say, immediately after calling for "everyone" to disavow him. Do you not see how those things contradict each other??

The FDA just approved daraxonrasib, a breakthrough drug for advanced pancreatic cancer that doubles survival time. This is huge: pancreatic cancer was once thought untreatable. The researchers received a standing ovation when they presented the trial results, unheard of at scientific conferences.

Folks in Gary and other areas in Northwest Indiana are still without power. This article has a list of places you can donate if you want to help. chicago.suntimes.com/weather/2026...

Want to help Northwest Indiana storm victims? How to support recovery efforts from Chicago

Chicagoans looking to help from across the state line can donate money and supplies or volunteer with organizations providing relief to Indiana residents.

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thinking about how they were having to fire & arrest people to try to bully them into being sad about some of these fuckers, and if you want the whole world to stop and grieve your loss, there's one simple life hack: be a good person who just wants to do good things

Dolly did what other disaster nonprofits are too chicken shit to do — she gave the families affected by a wildfire a universal basic income. www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...

How Dolly Parton Gave $12.5 Million And Unprecedented Research To Sevier County

It’s been two years since wildfires burned Western North Carolina and devastated the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Country music superstar Dolly Parton…

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