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Better report my accomplishments for the week before the deadline

submitted 39 minutes ago • 2 comments

This might be a good time for the annual reminder that a cool thing to do to combat the helpless rage you might be feeling is to pick an organization or cause and donate to them every time you get pissed with no outlet. Even if it's only $1.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

When Black people, Latinos, women decide against joining the military because they know they won't be treated fairly are white men going to volunteer to step up and replace them? Maybe Trump should bring back the draft? That'll be popular!

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Reading a biography of Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five, and it struck me that a distinctive feature of the espionage world of the 1920s-50s or so is how literary it is. Lots of writers who became spies, and spies who became writers. That contributes to the air of fantasy about the whole affair

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

It's so weird that Murdoch uses Fox News to give Trump cover for every horrible thing he wants to do while telling Trump what he really thinks with the Wall Street Journal and even the New York Post. What is the point? His papers have 1% of the influence that Fox has.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

We also don't need to see photos of Mitch McConnell on the skyline every 30 seconds. We all have the same opinion of the guy. Your reciting-commonly-remembered-moments is not insightful, it's tedious and it's robbing the joy from life in small increments just as all those Republicans wanted

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

lol if you vote for a racist, what are we supposed to think? 🤔

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Not good news, but needs to be said: Hamas claimed that Israel killed the Bibas children and their mother in an airstrike. Forensic examination of the corpses reveals the kids were murdered and that Hamas didn't even send back the mother, but a random body. Depravity piled upon lies.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 282 comments

Satire open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

@govmurphy.bsky.social let me translate Trump into language that a New Jerseyan such as yourself will understand, and see if you can spot why you should rethink this nonsense: Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain’t satisfied ‘til he rules everything

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hey @bluecollaracademic.bsky.social there are hundreds of starter packs on different topics if you’re looking for people to follow.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Here's one small thing to look forward to: An opera of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY coming to the Metropolitan Opera in September. www.metopera.org/season/2025-...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Voters in every congressional district need to know about the impact these budget cuts will have on their lives.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

In line at the post office a woman ahead of me apologized for taking a little extra time on account of the fact that she's 96 years old, and I'd just like to say that if I'm still making my own post office trips at 96 years old I expect them to hand me a medal every time I walk into the building

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

make him President

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“For Nancy Hastings, the face of the federal government is the young man who picks her up every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5:45 a.m. to drive her to dialysis... Then suddenly, in late January, word came that he was gone. With the Trump administration’s spending freeze…he was laid off.”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I haven’t found one collector on Bluesky I’m a watercolorist from South Carolina

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

A Delta flight appeared to have flipped over at Toronto Pearson International Airport (photo via KellieMeyerNews) simpleflying.com/breaking/del...

submitted 5 days ago • 216 comments