Profile avatar
impulse725.bsky.social
Do not back up. Severe tire damage.
90 posts 148 followers 144 following
Prolific Poster
Posts 44 Comments 3

yeah. we're not super close to it but we're materially closer than we were two days ago. do I think it is likely? no. do I think it is plausible? sure, I don't think "that would be counterproductive and insane" is a good rebuttal any more

submitted 6 hours ago • 27 comments

How did so many people across the political spectrum hallucinate this into being an issue?

submitted 2 hours ago • 74 comments

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 1 day ago • 1606 comments

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 1 day ago • 801 comments

This is the most consequentially illegal act a president has ever taken.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Yes. Stephen Miller literally overrode the Secretary of Agriculture on worksite raids. She convinced Trump to back her, he publicly announced a new policy, and Miller got that entire thing overturned in a matter of days and made Trump publicly back his vision instead.

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 3 days ago • 3208 comments

NEW: The child sex abuse material trade on X is spiraling out of control… and a key child safety partner just cut X off after they say to company stopped paying them www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

NEW: The Ninth Circuit reverses Judge Breyer's order, finding that President Trump "likely ... lawfully exercised his statutory authority" when he federalized the California National Guard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 529 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 5 days ago • 766 comments

Faceless government goon arrests public official for refusing to hand over a vulnerable person without a warrant. Guess the country.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

NYT fired their ombudsman years ago with the justification that readers can provide feedback directly to their asshead staff via social media, and now they’re constantly pissed off about people doing it

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era. It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.

submitted 5 days ago • 109 comments

The "whoever he last spoke with" rule strikes again.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

This is unfathomably shameful. How do we even have to debate this? Why would anyone ever again be so foolish as to trust or help the United States if this is how we treat people who risk their lives on our behalf?

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

Everything that is happening and will happen with Iran is a direct consequence of Trump’s first-term decision to shit on American diplomatic credibility by impulsively shredding a hard-won nuclear agreement.

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

submitted 7 days ago • 258 comments

For years, right wingers' favorite attack on government overreach was a single memo written about a Nazi's attempt to infiltrate a far right Catholic Church, which they claimed was an attack on the Catholic Church. And now they're leading the attack.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

this man is realizing what the reaction is going to be when he dies

submitted 8 days ago • 117 comments

It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

submitted 7 days ago • 492 comments

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

submitted 7 days ago • 288 comments

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

submitted 7 days ago • 436 comments

It’s bleak out there, but it’s heartening to know millions of people from all walks of life took the time to ruin one specific persons birthday, America’s hater spirit remains strong

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

I have some exclusive images of the Trump parade

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 8 days ago • 218 comments

Showing your child affection improves their mental and physical well-being, increases brain development, and might even one day save the American taxpayers forty-five million dollars.

submitted 8 days ago • 30 comments

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 8 days ago • 384 comments

If we’re keeping count that’s - - one governors mansion set on fire - one successful political assassination - one attempted political assassination -four elected officials arrested/charged/roughed up by the cops -one threat to arrest a sitting governor/liberate his state w/boots on the ground

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

A few days after Kristi Noem said that she wanted to liberate municipalities from dems who were elected to office...

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

These are assassinations to flip control of the Minnesota House (was 67-67) and Senate (was 34-33).

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

huh almost as if having skilled people in government creates the capacity for dealing with crises even if they don't seem 'necessary' according to idiots feeding documents into AI. who knew

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

this is the basic fact of the CIA, but there's a built-in disincentive to disbelieve it, because it means that a lot of countries have been messed up by a bunch of dingalings in northern Virginia with a magic Rolodex and an unlimited expense account, not the Dark Lord of the Sith or whatever.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

From the New Yorker, 2018. I was so ahead of my time.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

Quite frankly, if they are as dangerous as people say, we need the normies even more because it’s important that we have a couple photogenic martyrs who aren’t weird nerds everyone hates.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Acceptable names for a dog: Biff Speedy Jennifer Acceptable names for a cat: Mork Potato Arturo Perez-Reverte Acceptable names for a horse: Pulchritude The Securities and Exchange Commission A Single Man in Possession of a Good Fortune

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

Thank God, we are being protected from (checks notes) veterans who want to visit an office of the department of veteran affairs. Surely these are our greatest enemies!

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Uh, whose fault is this?

submitted 9 days ago • 266 comments

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

submitted 11 days ago • 100 comments