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Insanity: The deportation flights Trump used military jets for—that Mexico refused to accept—cost the U.S. up to $852,000 per flight to attempt to deport just 80 migrants at a time. To compare, flights directly chartered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement cost just $8,577.

submitted 29 days ago • 1415 comments

For anyone deleting X. Look at this. The UI was tweaked to shift the clickable area of the deactivate button a few cm away from the actual "Deactivate" text.

submitted 34 days ago • 58 comments

I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

submitted 34 days ago • 623 comments

Apparently with all of their investigative reporting teams the Times and the Post can't figure out what the gesture is that Elon Musk made (twice). Now is the time for fearlessly independent, pro-democracy platforms. Now is the time for Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

submitted 34 days ago • 315 comments

Here’s more.

submitted 34 days ago • 801 comments

A British theory from 2005 suggests that, for a variety of reasons, the 3d Monday in January - termed Blue Monday - is the most depressing day of the year. (Google it) Seems close to the mark.

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submitted 34 days ago • 661 comments

CNN reports that the January 6 criminals have been told they are invited to attend inaugural balls tonight. They are going to be released from the D.C. jail momentarily. All are insurrectionists. We are not a democracy anymore, folks. We do not have rule of law.

submitted 34 days ago • 1501 comments

In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.

submitted 34 days ago • 502 comments

Exactly why @bsky.app is so important. Engaging on this platform is important. As is growing this platform. Which one of these men joins Tom Anderson and MySoace in the annals of history first ? Their greed is our opportunity.

submitted 34 days ago • 931 comments

ATTN: THREAD: The loyalty interviews have begun in DC. As someone who has direct experience with this, I have a couple of recommendations for all federal workers. Please share this widely, and with any federal government employee you know. 1/

submitted 41 days ago • 564 comments

True.

submitted 41 days ago • 667 comments

Crockett: The fact that we have Americans that are saying, wait a minute, are you saying that tariffs are going to negatively impact me? It's kind of like that wall that we are still waiting on Mexico to build, that they are going to pay for. No, we are going to pay for it.

submitted 88 days ago • 578 comments

Not a single grand jury of Americans declined to prosecute Trump. They all returned indictments.

submitted 90 days ago • 15 comments

So let me get this straight. If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check. But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't? Got it.

submitted 90 days ago • 1633 comments

The president-elect and his team have spent much of November baiting and trolling their opponents while throwing red meat to the MAGA faithful. But Americans shouldn’t fall for it this time. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 90 days ago • 183 comments

The Democrats on the ethics committee need to grow a pair and leak the report. Then “I am Spartacus” that shit to the end.

submitted 92 days ago • 204 comments

It’s follow Friday ! @danielpayne.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social @nytimes.com @thedailyshow.com @billsimmons.bsky.social @muellershewrote.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social

submitted 94 days ago • 1650 comments

Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky

submitted 96 days ago • 246 comments

who cares if aliens invade earth. what are they gonna do, ruin it

submitted 311 days ago • 20 comments

Since the Republican Party seized control of the schools 12 years ago, Oklahoma has gone from 7th in the nation to 49th in the nation.

submitted 96 days ago • 270 comments

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence. More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop. Now.

submitted 95 days ago • 448 comments

When I say that the right is dominating the left on almost all platforms, this is what I mean. I hope Democratic officials take this into account every day. If you want an ecosystem that will advocate for YOU, then YOU need to help build it. Give interviews to creators, break news with creators...

submitted 96 days ago • 792 comments

We're big time now, Bluesky fam

submitted 96 days ago • 180 comments

Time to 100,000 followers: Twitter - 7 months Threads - 16 months and still at 98k as engagement plateaued Bluesky - 13 days Y’all are the best! I’m so grateful for your support — and I promise I’ll return it tenfold. LFG!

submitted 97 days ago • 589 comments

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me. I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

submitted 96 days ago • 6109 comments

Jarvis: His generals called him fascist. Joe Scarborough called him fascist, and now the fascist is in charge and it is journalism's job to cover it that way, not to back off and say okay, well that's it, we lost. Let the fascism happen. No

submitted 97 days ago • 517 comments

ohhh you’re gonna use the military ohh so scared. where’s your wall, bitch

submitted 97 days ago • 200 comments

The same Republicans who wasted years and tens of millions of OUR tax dollars obsessing over the laptop of Joe Biden’s private citizen son are now trying to hide an ethics report on the disgraced former Congressman Trump wants as Attorney General? The hypocrisy is INSULTING.

submitted 97 days ago • 32 comments

Not watching MSNBC or any other outlet that normalizes this administration whatsoever. Not participating in the bullsht.

submitted 97 days ago • 2143 comments

His insane nominations... His promises to deploy the military on home soil... His threats to go after anyone who opposes him... Now, there are messages going out to specific communities threatening deportation and "re-education camps". It's by design. His objective is to fill you with fear ...

submitted 97 days ago • 1975 comments

Now that I've fled Leon's site for bluer skies, I'm sure I'll be called an #Ex-X, but personally, I'll always consider myself a #TwitterQuitter.

submitted 97 days ago • 6261 comments

Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this is your fault.

submitted 97 days ago • 773 comments

Is anyone else wondering why Trump is free to use executive power to declare a national emergency to destroy this country, but Biden refuses to use ANY to save it?

submitted 97 days ago • 35 comments

The chummy Biden-Trump photo-op that Keith gets at here really demonstrates the asymmetrical priorities between the Dems and GOP. Dems hold norms, institutions and the abstract "preservation of democracy" sacrosanct, while Rs are craven for power. The former isn't an effective electoral driver.

submitted 97 days ago • 23 comments

Monday should be Second Sunday and the work week should start on Tuesday.

submitted 97 days ago • 113 comments

Donald Trump “has already put forward a batch of nominees so aberrant by historical standards that any one of them would have been a gigantic story in the past,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/Zw3cV2aD

submitted 99 days ago • 58 comments

“The F.B.I. said in a statement on Friday that some recipients of the latest messages were told they had been selected for deportation. Others were instructed to report to a ‘re-education camp’ for L.G.B.T.Q. people.”

submitted 98 days ago • 174 comments

No. The 2nd amendment isn’t so private citizens could fight the government. That’s a right wing lie. It was for slave holding states to form militias against slave rebellions and defend slavery. — Historian Carol Anderson Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The 2nd Amendment www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1...

submitted 97 days ago • 158 comments

this is literally the future republicans want: public funds for segregation academies and religious private schools that actively discriminate against LGBT students or students with special needs

submitted 97 days ago • 134 comments

The President of the United States will come into office with his own social media platform. That, combined with X, means Trump will have turnkey state-run media. I don’t think the media has fully grasped that yet.

submitted 98 days ago • 473 comments

Just absorbing the fact that the first order of business in the new QAnon-inflected MAGA Republican era is to demand that Congress bury its report on sex trafficking and drug allegations against a Republican member of Congress who they're trying to promote to higher office.

submitted 98 days ago • 636 comments

"There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the other person – but because if you don't speak, they have changed you”. Melissa McEwan

submitted 98 days ago • 19 comments