bdoggle.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

submitted 5 days ago • 512 comments

If you’ve been scolded by the Pope AND by the Auschwitz Memorial in the same week, it’s time to take a minute and reconsider your choices.

submitted 5 days ago • 154 comments

Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, and Gaza could not immediately be reached for comment

submitted 5 days ago • 1108 comments

"USAID’s fate was sealed the moment that not even a single elected Republican was willing to defend it against Elon Musk. If there is no bipartisan consensus regarding America’s responsibilities as a global power, it will cease to remain a global power." www.publicnotice.co/p/usaid-dest...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 845 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 861 comments

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

submitted 5 days ago • 893 comments

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

submitted 5 days ago • 784 comments

Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 5 days ago • 91 comments

Cybertruck vs. Honda Civic 🤣

submitted 5 days ago • 374 comments

Hey @JDVance, and @elonmusk, and @realDonaldTrump it looks like the Auschwitz Memorial wants to educate you. STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

submitted 5 days ago • 828 comments

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

submitted 5 days ago • 2682 comments

Imprisoning journalists is fine when we do it

submitted 5 days ago • 612 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 728 comments

As someone who spends a lot of time with wildlife, I’ve been asked what people should do in this situation. The mama bear would appreciate it if you would make her cubs feel welcome. First, scoop her cubs up in your arms and take them to the kitchen. Then, make pancakes or waffles for them.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

these are the worst people and deserve worse fates than can be comfortably imagined

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/w...

submitted 6 days ago • 895 comments

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

submitted 6 days ago • 486 comments

Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

submitted 6 days ago • 147 comments

A point to consider.

submitted 7 days ago • 1263 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 6 days ago • 2241 comments

This is extraordinarily dangerous. Tomorrow, the legacy media will ask Republican officials about this. Those officials will lie and obfuscate. And the legacy media will move on. That is part of the crisis we face.

submitted 7 days ago • 725 comments

This is fascism.

submitted 7 days ago • 3193 comments

This. Also. @aoc.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social et al , can you do what ever you guys do in the House to let Musk, Trump and everyone know that the UCFE, which funds unemployment benefits , is in the Dept of Labor. If these funds are cut, the cost will fall on the states.

submitted 7 days ago • 838 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 7 days ago • 2927 comments

Spot on.

submitted 7 days ago • 1550 comments

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.