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b-but Biden, who is not actually POTUS, walks shakily. (Just like the guy who actually has the nuclear codes, whose mushbrains are dribbling out his ears.)

I thought this line was particularly telling, and not just for New Yorkers: “I never used to be as far left as a Bernie [Sanders], but those are the only people who are looking out for us,” said Anita Hennessey, a 61-year-old child care worker.

The pitchbot just jumped off a bridge.

Consequences. We need consequences.

Prosecutors Quietly Drop Charge Over Leaked Video of D.C. Plane Crash by @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/05/29/c...

GRAPE - Gift Received, Announced Pardon Early PORK - Presidential Order Rewarding Kleptocracy BACON - Barron Accepted, College Officially Normalized MILK - Maliciously Ignorant, Like Kennedy MACKEREL - Musk Around: Conceal Ketamine, Ecstasy, Ritalin, Ephedrine, LSD

Judi Dench-backed rebels seized a nature site 250 miles north of the capital today.

Counterpoint: you actually did vote to deport moms. What part of “mass deportations now” did you not understand?

Dear Members of the Press. P0TUS bragging that his tariffs are "already" bringing TRILLIONS of $$ into the US. Beyond the fact that it's not true, will you please ask him, "If that's so, then there's no need to even discuss cutting social services, medicine, education, air safety, etc etc. Right?"

I’m not saying this story is false but I am saying it is totally in the interest of the Trump White House to have a story out there suggesting that some universities are looking to acquiesce.

Trump is likely the greatest charlatan in American history so you sometimes forget that he's also a giant mark

One of the nice things about Bluesky is I never see anything about Glenn Greenwald. Until tonight.

Has he golfed 88 times by any chance?

A case can be made for reworking the PDB into a video because that’s how Trump consumes information but I have some questions about the details. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Going to start a crisis management firm that suggests the day your drug abuse is splashed across the New York Times you macrodose and stand next to the President of the United States, tripping balls on live TV. I may only get one client, but it would be enough.

Ok, fine. I’m helpless against the star power and charisma aligned behind Zohran Mandani.

So we are seeing that the corporate dems are fully embracing a very specific and “civil” arm of the fascist movement especially some of their more vitriolic and awful young voices like Olivia Julianna seem to be fully enticed by the brand of fascism hanania is selling.

Ahem. The latest issue of our newsletter is finally out. It's a big one. WE WON THE FULL NEW YORK STATE DEATH INDEX, THE WHOLE THING, 1880-2017, WE BEAT THE LARGEST GOVERNMENT AGENCY IN NEW YORK AND WE'RE SETTING MORE THAN TEN MILLION RECORDS FREEEEEE Read all about it: mailchi.mp/reclaimthere...

The State Department staffer who wrote the Substack manifesto in defense of "Western heritage" and European ultranationalist parties has ties to dark money groups, hidden Twitter poems, and a mom whose immigrant story turned him to the right. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-sta...

Cutting research at the National Science Foundation by more than half(!) is intentionally sabotaging the future. These are contracts the federal government competitively awards to universities to develop breakthroughs and train graduate students to become future leaders & experts. Future is at risk.

Republican support for gay marriage has fallen to 41%. For those in the LGBTQ+ community who do not believe they are coming after gay marriage next after their draconian anti-trans restrictions, you're in for a surprise - we are all in this together.

Why is this not front-page news? Where is the outrage and alarm?

This is one of the wildest thing I've ever seen

I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

The Primates - Knock On My Door [Astoria, New York, Garage] (1965) https://redd.it/1ki5nrv https://youtu.be/TTty5-r5Fbc

When a homeless man questioned the Phoenix police’s authority to stop him in Feb. 2020, an officer knelt on his neck while another shocked him with a Taser. Another unhoused man said officers threw away his things, telling him, “You guys are trash and this is trash.”

Delta has began removing the fares that hit solo travelers with significantly higher prices, according to a report

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

I don’t want to live in a world where people are in jail and barred from work for smoking weed but an unelected man actively abusing ketamine faces no repercussions for illegally seizing all of our data and making decisions that kill hundreds of thousands of people

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

Attn. RFK Jr.:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed an immigrant threatened the life of President Trump. Then the story quickly fell apart.

WATCH - @jessicatarlov.bsky.social on Fox: “If that was a Democratic dogemaster who showed up with a shiner and there was a report he did so much Ketamine he couldn’t pee straight… you would be leading your show with it.”

"TACO" — "Trump Always Chickens Out" — has become part of Wall Street's lexicon. On @kaitlancollins.bsky.social’s show, @justinwolfers.bsky.social suggests the addition of another acronym: "BURRITO" — "Blatantly Unconstitutional Rewriting of the Rules of International Trade, Obviously."

A key to the White House, like the one President Trump presented to Elon Musk this afternoon, is available on eBay for $7,950, plus $14.95 for shipping:

Be A Pilot™! If you're on the FAA's (public) feed for airspace changes, you have satisfaction of knowing that Trump will be spending tomorrow golfing, at his golf course outside DC (10-mile no-fly zone surrounds him wherever he goes. Will be a disruption to others, but—hey, a man's gotta golf!)

1/ Anyone who has taken flying lessons knows the beautiful, large topographic maps from FAA that are on the walls of nearly every FBO (small-airport office) around the country. You use them to compare routes, judge terrain, imagine the aerial view. One of many products post-Doge FAA is dropping...

groimes, oive fecked ep moi bleddeh

Have you tried listening to the MC5 about it?

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

The fucker is hallucinating in the oval office

Couldn’t help but notice that neither the Times or Post have a story up about Trump saying he’s not sorry that Joe Biden has cancer. I guess that’s just Trump being Trump ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.