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Heartbreaking: The Worst Persons You Know Just Made Great Points

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taking agency in your life is scary and hard until you realize how addicting it is being the main character. you're literally unstoppable once you decide to do something. you can just do it.

submitted 2 hours ago • 35 comments

In one sense, I wasted many years of my life posting on Twitter. In another sense, every second of it was preparing me for understanding and appreciating the moment we now live in.

submitted 2 hours ago • 12 comments

“I was happy to work with a man I knew was pedophile until he cut my EV credit” is such a hilarious rich person sentiment

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

“Poster’s Madness” is now a structural theory of international politics and domestic coalition-maintenance and degradation. Throw out that IR degree.

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

45 minutes before market close, Tesla down 16%, Musk throws the "pedo guy" hail mary. an extraordinary day in posting

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

I’m happy to be here, nestled in the warm bosom of Bluesky, watching this happen between Elon and Trump over on Twitter and Truth Social, respectively. Like watching the neighbors fight from the window. A real thrill.

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.

submitted 2 hours ago • 256 comments

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

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Oh, I’m sorry. Did your rational and logical economic system not account for what if two terminally online men had a falling out?

submitted 2 hours ago • 68 comments

I'm actually super fucking mad that the Elon Musk era is gonna end because of narcissist infighting with a former reality TV show host, and not because even a single institution in American life made a serious effort to hold him responsible for a decade plus long crime spree

submitted 2 hours ago • 60 comments

when you think about it, the palmer raids were the mean tweets of their time

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

In case you haven’t read the report, here are the headings of the report’s conclusions into Andrew Cuomo’s behavior.

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

My kid got ear tubes and we don’t have ear infections anymore. Go fuck yourself

submitted 20 hours ago • 68 comments

Not sure anybody watches them but Zohran cooked in that debate. I now have that horrible feeling, not unlike a migraine aura, that you only get after you watch a political event and feel a tinge of hope and representation.

submitted 20 hours ago • 73 comments

I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

submitted 20 hours ago • 58 comments

I have seen more than one person say that talking about Cuomo’s documented sexual harassment is “purity politics” and y’all, the purity politics label is supposed to be about “sorry this guy’s not ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, so I can’t vote for him.” It’s not for “this guys the fucking WORST.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 18 comments

nah think i will continue to do my writing and thinking in-house and not atrophy my brain to send faster emails

submitted 20 hours ago • 87 comments

He can go fuck himself, actually.

submitted 20 hours ago • 643 comments

Stop me if you heard this before: DOJ filed this totally collusive suit against Texas (which settled in six hours) in Wichita Falls—where it had a 100% chance of being assigned to Judge Reed O’Connor. Once again, it’s the Trump administration that’s judge-shopping, not its challengers.

submitted 19 hours ago • 18 comments

Just 35% of Americans approved of what Musk was doing in the government, according to a poll from April. 57% disapproved, with 46% strongly disapproving. If Dems are serious about only supporting ideas that are popular, they would never entertain the idea of allying with a guy who was so hated.

submitted 19 hours ago • 89 comments

What do we think chat? Do I do a Blacksky soft-fork of the bsky app? - Still use your bsky login but has Blacksky branding and support/feedback forms - Blacksky Trending replaces Discover as the default feed - @blacksky.app are the default moderators - (eventually) private community-only posts/feed

submitted 19 hours ago • 65 comments

Dems: We're playing chess with pigeons! Look how stupid they are! Every time I set up the board they just knock it over and shit all over the place! Watch... there, she did it again! Watch... yep. Lemme do it again... they can't learn the rules! They don't even know how to castle. Watch... hahahaha

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Speaking of how cooked Americans are

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

the year is 2025. i tap my phone to my high speed metro's contactless payment system so it can take me to pride night at the ballpark. abortion is illegal in 14 states and the operating animus of half the country's politics is that trans people shouldn't be allowed near sports. it's a confusing time

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

the biggest argument against bioessentialism is just the fact that in the absence of cisnormative environments, people tend to explore their gender. the moment that people no longer feel the coercive Eye pressuring them to conform, they stop. this is why we will win. the Eye cannot always watch.

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

terrified to feel optimistic about anything but god, Zohran really is so good

submitted 18 hours ago • 68 comments

Going after that lucrative market of broke students

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The last time he pulled this Muslim ban BS, people rushed into the streets in disgust & lawyers raced to the airports to help. Now, no one’s shocked, everyone is numb… This country is in seriously scary shape

submitted 19 hours ago • 202 comments

Btw, Kat was warning everybody about rightwing Dem donors calling LGBTQ and non-white Americans "The Groups" — and using that term to start throwing marginalized people under the bus — THREE (3!) months ago! This was before she was running. It is crazy how prescient this is.

submitted 19 hours ago • 50 comments

Imagine seeing 10s of thousands of people picketing Tesla for MONTHS and thinking... "we should def court the white supremacist Nazi that those people are protesting."

submitted 19 hours ago • 41 comments

I am getting tired of saying this but I keep sporadically hearing from people things like your life has no substantively changed since trump retook power, bitch yes it has I have a conscience and I wake up mad every day fuck You lol.

submitted 19 hours ago • 116 comments

Oh, you've got a Dreamcast autographed by Fred Durst? That's cool. Here's what I've got.

submitted 23 hours ago • 44 comments

The FEMA head didn’t know about hurricane season and they’ve gutted NOAA weather monitoring. Musk and RFK eviscerated our public health programs. The FAA is in shambles. Trump’s tariff reckoning is coming due. And the DHS head of counterterrorism is a 22-year-old bro. This summer is going to ROCK!

submitted 22 hours ago • 97 comments

theonion.com/gop-maintain...

submitted 22 hours ago • 34 comments

This rules for a lot of reasons, but especially because it dispels the myths that A.) old games were never political and B.) games like this are just stories, they aren't "about" anything. Should serve as a reminder to anyone writing about games why we should be close reading 'em.

submitted 22 hours ago • 23 comments

NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

submitted 23 hours ago • 617 comments

it’s fun when centrists complain about “the left” being mean to them online, completely disregarding this country’s 100+ years of specific persecution of communists and anarchists

submitted 21 hours ago • 33 comments

i sometimes wonder how much of the constant litigating of gripes and complaints is a function of the fact that many democrats seem to be as interested in proving their seriousness or independence to the political press as much as anyone else

submitted 21 hours ago • 29 comments

what if we tried tech billionaires at the Hague

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Greta Thunberg on why it’s essential for climate activists to speak out on Gaza: "The reason I am a climate activist is not because I want to protect trees. I'm a climate activist because I care about human, planetary well-being and those are extremely interlinked."

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

Would you guys watch this

submitted 23 hours ago • 675 comments

“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

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i really do not see how it's difficult to choose between this guy and a guy who lied to congress about how many people died of covid in nursing homes under his watch and has been repeatedly accused of sexual harassment.

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

The speed of writing code has never, and will never be the bottleneck. The bottleneck, the limiting factor, is always in the thinking about the code and how it works, understanding it. People who use chatgpt to write code are literally removing the only part of programming that is actually useful.

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

David Lynch was my neighbor. he would regularly burst in through my front door with an exaggerated physicality, eat out of my refrigerator, and inform me of his unusual schemes

submitted 23 hours ago • 18 comments

NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws. WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week. by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

submitted 23 hours ago • 86 comments