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The American Right: "We would have a preferred a pope who ignores Jesus. Like we do."

submitted 14 days ago • 127 comments

Though actually, that would be pretty awesome.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Have to say, I wouldn’t have predicted this. Nice, MSFT!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 1012 comments

A strong letter! Yay! A strong letter!

submitted 26 days ago • 365 comments

Of course. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Is 20 hours the typical length of time it takes to die after encountering a demon sent by the Antichrist?

submitted 32 days ago • 184 comments

Also, feminism has shown the way! Subsidized childcare! Robust, paid parental leave. Tax credits! Reproductive freedom. Universal healthcare. Until they make the world better, there is little incentive to have kids (though they are adorable lil munchkins)

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Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

submitted 39 days ago • 317 comments

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

submitted 39 days ago • 586 comments

I heart @brooke — telling a suicide bomber who blew up the economy due for no reason that he is brilliant is peak beta chode for Ackman.

submitted 44 days ago • 1045 comments

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

submitted 43 days ago • 311 comments

Failed the Lando test

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

You know, Kristi, you’re not supposed to point your gun at the head of someone on your own team. It’s dangerous, bae.

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Do you hear the people sing for democracy? We are the resistance, 5000 strong! Unbelievable turnout today--keep coming every week! #HandsOff our country! @indivisible.org @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social

submitted 47 days ago • 11 comments

Hey #newyorktimes, why are you burying coverage of yesterday’s Trump protests? FFS. Read the room.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Don’t blame just Trump for this. Blame every congressional Republican. They own this tariff disaster too. In fact, they own every stupid, ignorant, cruel, authoritarian, un-American thing Trump does. Cowards. Enablers. Accomplices.

submitted 49 days ago • 86 comments

Thank you, #SenatorBooker. At long last, someone other than Bernie takes a stand.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Never mind about the national press club donation below. Fuck them.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Bingo

submitted 54 days ago • 632 comments

NYT: It’s “not clear” if Trump even knows about the visit?????

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

That’s a sell.

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They DELETED the files? 30,000 Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

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Finally, something nice. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/s...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

I once had a conversation with Franklin Graham in which Brown v Board of Education came up and he didn’t know what it was. So yeah, dumb.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

You forgot rapist.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

The dinner lately has become an indefensible conflict of interest for journalists. But #TheNationalpressclub needs the proceeds to survive. Best idea: sit it out and make a donation to the club and to public media or an organization fighting for journalistic freedom like the #OverseasPressClub

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Commendable, particularly when the business of selling journalism is barely a business. Should be a model for other organizations unbowed by tyranny.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Climate change is a bitch.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Ok. Yeah. Bad. But let’s stay focused on the criminal syndicate dismantling the federal government. Then we can fix the Kennedy Center. This is what they do.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Ok whatever. Dissent and resist.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

By ~2005, the Republican right had gone full fascist, so 🤷 bsky.app/profile/leed...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Assuming that ever happens, the con is to get you to dig deep into the report while the Trump cabal degrades constitutional provisions. Happy reading.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Every picture tells a story.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 69 days ago • 757 comments

When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.

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Makes you wonder about a quid pro quo.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

submitted 69 days ago • 1356 comments

I guess we finally found a hill the senate was willing to die on. Weldon is a nightmare—but, I mean, so were almost all of the other nominees. Odd.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

It's almost as if a gibbering degenerate President with zero understanding of markets or respect for the rule of law who is engaged in moronic tariff wars and a wholesale betrayal of our alliances is bad for the market. Strange how that happens.

submitted 73 days ago • 202 comments

This is honestly just deeply embarrassing for House leadership. They didn't proactively coordinate an effective response, and instead of doing any reflection on their own role, they're getting mad at the people who at least tried to do something.

submitted 78 days ago • 120 comments

That’s right. 🇺🇦

submitted 80 days ago • 331 comments