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the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

submitted 11 hours ago • 139 comments

complaining about Black Lives Matter in a speech to the Republican Attorneys General Association should be the end of whatever remaining liberal cred the ADL had

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 1 day ago • 839 comments

given the current state of the DOJ, i have some skepticism about their ability to make these charges stick with a jury (grand juries are much easier to goad)

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

The masked goons from the Department of Child Snatching are the real victims here, Mike Johnson says.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 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 3 days ago • 29 comments

When does the team move to East Lansing

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Every realtor in Phoenix messaging Mateen Cleaves just to lay the foundation

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Universities should be allowed to defend themselves against saboteurs trying to help tear them down from within.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Don't Print Lies In The Newspaper (especially in the fucking headlines, push notifications and social media posts!)

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

He can believe and say whatever, but no one is going to want an impossible to curate, impossible to QA open world of AI slop with no artistic intention.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

I’m so excited to announce that my book was published today! The book retells the life of Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator who co-framed the Reconstruction Amendments. I wrote this book with my blood, sweat & tears as a student at Yale Law School. (1/x)

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

They're literally doing the meme

submitted 4 days ago • 143 comments

No regrets about the harassment or nursing home deaths then

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

I can't believe people think that using LLMs to write isn't destroying their critical thinking abilities. I'm like 5% dumber just because of spellcheck.

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

headline construction masterclass

submitted 7 days ago • 490 comments

Me doing a quick dive into Eaton’s late 80s (to be fair I got his jazz teams confused with the rest of Sloan’s tenure when they were just ok defensively despite their rep mainly because they fouled so damn much.)

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown both scored 20+ in the first 4 games of last year’s ECF. But they couldn’t do 5 when the series only went 4. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #sweep

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

submitted 7 days ago • 4939 comments

Why would any school destroy their own reputation like this when beating Trump in court is a lay up?

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

I was told all last season that the Celtics were a SuperTeam (so JT could not be MVP) and OKC won 68 games with the greatest raw point diff in history this season and are currently favored to win the title. There are still SuperTeams!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

CDC's always had a lot of gutsy, committed people in the mix and today's decision is proof they still do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h... archive.is/202505302213...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

FU, MM should be the default position. Well done, CDC.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

oh yeah he absolutely said that shit

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

lawfare is of course when you try to hold political figures accountable for crimes they commit

submitted 8 days ago • 125 comments

there is a lot to unpack here, none of it good

submitted 8 days ago • 291 comments

currency of the realm in republican politics is a blithe contempt for life and indifference to suffering

submitted 8 days ago • 240 comments

In addition to the cruelty of upending people who've made lives here (legally!), this is going hit economies in red areas around the country -- Twin Falls, Idaho; Springfield, Ohio; Louisiana, Tennessee, upstate NY. TN will lose $120 million in GDP. NE, $50 million. TX, $2 billion.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

The Nurgle FDA is trying to get rid of COVID vaccines completely.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.

submitted 9 days ago • 157 comments

going to be on @chrislhayes.bsky.social’s show shortly!

submitted 10 days ago • 107 comments

Aside from improved sanitation, no innovation has saved more lives in the history of the world than vaccines have. They are among the greatest things ever created by mankind. I will NEVER understand how people came to scapegoat these things that are nothing short of miracles of science

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

The Free Press is gross. I'm sorry, Olivia.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

This seat is open because asshole Democrats in the Senate wouldn’t confirm Biden’s pick for the 3rd Circuit because Biden’s pick was Muslim and did pro bono work for Muslim clients.

submitted 10 days ago • 98 comments

We all love febrile seizures

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

yes. they literally blame higher education for a social order that doesn’t give unquestioned deference to people like themselves

submitted 10 days ago • 192 comments

This dude going on Fox News to say Biden was worse than Watergate in the middle of trump shredding the constitution. Nobody can possibly be unclear on what he’s doing here.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

The biggest endorsement I can make for Bluesky is that replacing Twitter with this app on my phone probably improved my general mood when I’m on my phone by 20-25%. I know there are better reasons but it is what it is!

submitted 11 days ago • 729 comments

I think my biggest problem with “we have Biden to thank for Trump 2.0” is it puts the bad decision onus on one man and absolves millions of bad decisions from voters who had ample evidence to know better. And absolves a press that obviously didn’t convey the stakes very effectively.

submitted 11 days ago • 71 comments

Absolute insanity *CDC STOPS RECOMMENDING COVID VACCINE FOR KIDS, PREGNANT WOMEN

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

TIRED: the federal government can't compel state authorities WIRED: the president can compel local authorities bsky.app/profile/pale...

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

Fan caught it at 0.5!

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

The league has got to fix this. This is supposed to be an entertainment product.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

do I think it’s a coincidence that probably the defining children’s screen media of this generation is a single-authored fluke of success from Australia, as far outside Hollywood as it is physically possible to get? not really?

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments