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“We’re not banning them from these swimming pools on account of race, we’re banning them on account of the melanin levels in their skin.”

Let's be clear: Trump is thinking of entering a war against Iran without Congressional authorization or legal basis because his birthday parade was a dud and he thinks the war will produce arousing pictures for him to look at on Fox News.

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

If someone throws a can of soup at a riot cop who's attacking them we have three months of discourse about non-violence meanwhile the Right has been carrying out assassinations for my entire life and there's never any of that shit directed towards them Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

ny times reporters love adding a "bluesky is going to hate this article!" addendum on here because they both resent criticism and resent having to post their work on the only platform that doesn't throttle outbound traffic lol

Keep pushing back at their lies. We aren’t protesting Trump because we hate the United States. We are protesting because we hate what Donald Trump is doing to the United States.

Israel committed another massacre at a food center in Gaza

Trump: You all know the great PM of the UK and we just signed a document *drops documents* Trump: A little windy out here. We just signed it and so we have our trade agreement with the EU

Patriot Front crashed Springfield, MO Pride festival. Driving a Penske truck. U-Haul banned Patriot Front from renting their vehicles. It’s time for people to tell Penske to do the same.

Acosta: This was obviously an embarrassment for Donald Trump. He wanted a Kim Jong-un–style dictator parade for his birthday, and it was more Snoozelini than Mussolini. There were times where he could barely stay awake It’s just so sad.

D.O.G.E shirt guy identified as Gerald Gregory Gentry, age 55. Gentry lives in the Glendale/Phoenix area and claims to operate an ADAS diagnostic business, but it's not registered with the corporation commission.

as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

I feel like some writers deliberately set out to antagonize Bluesky and like three of them work for the Atlantic

Calls for civility are meaningless when her colleagues Mike Lee and Bernie Moreno are lying that the assassin was a leftist. They’re fueling hatred on the right while she’s taking the high ground.

It has been four days since Kristi Noem, the head of the department of homeland security, said this in public. If meant literally, it describes the end of democracy in California. If not meant literally, would be nice for that to be clarified and for the troops to leave. bsky.app/profile/just...

"The Senate will be MORE aggressive seeking savings from Medicare" is at "the vampires will be MORE aggressive seeking iron for their diets" levels of language obfuscation.

When does the “great” part start?

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

Mamdani: This military parade the other day is a perfect example of everything that’s wrong with the MAGA movement—a focus on pomp and circumstance over actually addressing the needs of working- and middle-class Americans.

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

Photo from The Hill's Al Weaver (from Xitter) catches Tina Smith confronting Mike Lee.

WE HAVE QUESTIONS… This is a kidnapping. No uniform, no badge, civilian car. Who are they? ICE? Sanctioned bounty hunters? Either way, they’re grabbing people without warrants. How often is this happening, and why aren’t more people talking about it? Congress?

All the 3.5% magic bullet nonsense is the ‘Boom! Mueller Time!’ of this moment and it's doing my head in. Protests work, there's many disparate reasons why and it’s not always a numbers game. Just take some action.

Elon Musk and DOGE are sabotaging our Social Security system. They're spreading lies. They're pushing out thousands of dedicated staffers. They're falsely declaring people dead. They're accessing our private data. And even with Musk officially out, DOGE is still running the show. (Gift Link)

They do the same thing with celebrity. Ultimately modern populists are just frustrated elitists. bsky.app/profile/norm...

Next time a publication publishes a piece about "ideological diversity" simply google if they have any trans writers or editors on staff (they don't)

Yes, he was asked about the flag and I think people need to hear what he said. “My parents came from Mexico, that’s the thing. I’m Mexican. My blood is Mexican. I was born here, I love this country. I would fight for this country any day. But I’ve got to represent where my blood comes from.”

i've had success getting boomer conservatives on my side by talking about how fucked up it was of ICE to raid a restaurant and deport employees who were just doing their regular jobs and ended up forcing the business to shut down for the weekend

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

I don’t think there are any marines as far as I can tell, all the closeup videos, they have police on the back of their vests (plus a few HSI guys) tho the fact that you can’t really tell is incredibly problematic…

This is the military carrying out law enforcement, I'm sorry, there's no other way to interpret it.

look at all those empty bleachers

No man, this is what happened stop lying