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Donald Trump invented Bluesky in real life

Opens marketing deck: “What kids today demand is authenticity. Real people. Real experiences. Real life. And that’s where our proprietary AI comes in…”

Deeply, deeply worried for the next natural disaster (that includes virological ones).

Denying citizens a robust social safety net while allowing necrocapitalistic healthcare interests to cook? Perfect conditions for harmful mis and disinfo. People have been left to the wolves and then we wonder why they don't respond to effective public health education programs.

Half the audience of fox would keel over with heart attacks if they showed this.

What makes me pessimistic about trump: the vaccine thing. You want to hurt people, with that vaccine policy, and Miller is smart enough to know that. What makes me optimistic, but in a completely dodged-a-bullet way, is stuff like this:

The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.

Going for the gay Magic: the Gathering crowd I see. Rad

incredible Brian Wilson self-edit here:

Completely unrelated, but for less than $100 you can buy a whole cop outfit on Amazon.

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

DING DONG!! DING DONG!!!

Trump and Miller are trying to provoke a "black hawk down" scenario in LA, with the ICE teams as bait. They'll get caught somewhere and 700 marines will storm in to rescue them on the most destructive routes possible.

This still-trying-to-be-born trump dictatorship is really just revenge for the burning of Atlanta.

Absolute fucking 🔥. "Over eight hours...people throwing back tear gas...throwing anything that they could to defend themselves...Border Patrol retreated. “And the hundreds of workers in the factories were able to escape. If any community was going to fight back without apology, it was this one."

"Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?" Yes: 68% No: 18% YouGov / June 9, 2025

Again, the pain from most of Trump’s policies hasn’t really even started.

Boots on the ground in LA before Canada or Greenland or Mexico actually catching me by surprise.

sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes

Does anyone remember when the Marines were deployed to Los Angeles during the 1992 riots? In response to a domestic violence call, they fired more than 200 bullets into a house… www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...

I guess one thing you're not supposed to say is that, in aggregate, immigrants contribute vastly more to America's economy & culture than the dull, mean-spirited rubes that compose Trump's coalition.

It would be so great if Democratic elected officials started acting as if the president was trying to arrest them all, because he is.

leftist police departments like the LAPD

so if elon gets deported, does he get sent back to Canada or South Africa?

The plan: Tell the world the president is in the Epstein files to force the release of the files he can release at any time

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

where's the top of the escalation ladder when one person is the president of the US and the other is the richest man in the world? do the other oligarchs take sides?

"I was this pedophile's biggest supporter until he was personally mean to me" seems like a bit of an own goal.

This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator

The American fascist movement appears to be fissuring back into its rival jock and creep factions

I was talking about this with my students yesterday—throughout Western Europe, Nazism is treated in public spaces and memorials as a nightmare, as horror that must never be repeated. If slavery and Jim Crow received the same commemoration in the US, we'd be a very different country.

oh noooo don't split the right aha that would be awfullllllll ;)

Hey @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov... any concerns that the bill you eagerly pushed is now being talked about by the folks who have been kidnapping people off the street for opeds and the guy who begged for his FTC job by saying he was going to "fight the trans agenda"? No?

A million years ago, this was a national scandal. Today, it is just an every day occurrence that we all tacitly accept.

we really need more study of mass politics of abuse

Hot damn, man.

- www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

It was inevitable they would fight, although lots of people said it wouldn't be, but it's started...

I figured June is when we'd really start to see fundamental hits from Trump's policies: impacts from tarrifs, hurricanes and tornadoes and disaster aid, cuts at national parks, ... This isn't a brilliant observation. But the prices are starting to show up: finance.yahoo.com/news/tariffs...

The US in June 2025:

Someday we'll have to reckon with the fact that not only are billionaires bad for society, having that much money seems to be genuinely bad for their own mental health. This is a problem we need to address--if not for our sakes, then for theirs.

WTF. This is the most sensitive, classified information and they want a Fox News anchor/producer to have access to it? Good luck having anyone share intel info with us. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...