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

Trolling is a kind of complicity theater. Either you look away, in which case you’ve accepted a role—”see no evil”—or you “take the bait,” in which case you’re playing a part, even if, as I am here, you’re in conflict with the whole production. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/tingles

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Measles Outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico Sicken Nearly 100 People Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

submitted 23 hours ago • 220 comments

Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when President Donald Trump elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

DoJ investigation into cases against Trump marked by vested interests From Pam Bondi to Ed Martin, the tangle of possible conflicts of the investigators is acute

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

They needed a medical procedure to clear their uterus, but their doctors delayed it or didn’t even counsel them about it. ... abortion laws are affecting how physicians treat pregnancy loss & other complications because the procedures used in these cases are also used for abortions

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

As the rapid unscheduled disassembly of the federal government continues apace, the Regret Caucus is growing. Earlier this month it was Venezuelan migrants in Florida ...More recently it was farmers explaining how Trump’s freeze on federal payments were pushing them to the bring of bankruptcy.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

⚡️US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters. The U.S. first raised the prospect of shutting off Starlink after Zelensky rejected the deal presented on Feb. 12. Starlink terminals are critical in securing Ukraine's battlefield communications.

submitted 16 hours ago • 440 comments

“When New Scientist asked explicitly if human-caused climate change played any role in the record high temperatures, the NOAA press representative abruptly ended the call, saying, ‘I’m not seeing any more on-topic questions from the media.’”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

SO MUCH THIS. I've been thinking that limits in the public's civic knowledge is one of the most serious threats right now. Means that statements like, "well the president should be able to align federal spending with his vision" go unchallenged. Really good thread with receipts below 👇

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

New — All Department of Defense agencies were sent a video of an agitated Pete Hegseth debunking supposedly fake media stories. Today at least one agency called an “emergency” town hall and forced employees to watch the propaganda. www.dvidshub.net/video/953069...

submitted 22 hours ago • 217 comments

A #parable about the #MAGAs finding out.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

With his designs on Greenland and Gaza, Trump has signaled that his first term’s outlandish gestures are the second term’s savage demands.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

👇👇👇

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

“As plaintiffs put it, ‘efforts to foster inclusion have been widespread and uncontroversially legal for decades,’” Judge Abelson wrote, adding that “plaintiffs’ irreparable harms include widespread chilling of unquestionably protected speech.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

The final report revealed that the FBI had engaged not only in highly intrusive domestic surveillance but also in illegal break-ins, smear campaigns and covert operations, known as COINTELPRO, to disrupt groups deemed “subversive.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump is nominating a retired Air National Guard 3-star to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Highest major command was Deputy Commander, CENTSOC www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

submitted 21 hours ago • 24 comments

They just can't help but make themselves look like idiots in court, can they?

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Florida AG Sues Target for Not Warning Investors About Anti-LGBTQ Backlash The lawsuit is the latest in a series of Republican-led legal challenges to corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Caller: "I'm concerned the liberal media might run with this, one of our tenants just recently got laid off from the USDA, and he's a stable vet, multiple deployments overseas. And yeah, the guy is without a job now, and I'm just afraid that, you know, stuff like this is going to get out there."

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Fifty years ago, the dystopic film that imagined suburban white men swapping their spouses for robot trad wives terrified viewers. Now, it watches like a GOP playbook. by @damemagazine.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Hahahahahahahha. Dumbass. “I won the Presidential Election in a landslide, won ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, THE POPULAR VOTE, AND ALL FIFTY STATES SHIFTED REPUBLICAN, a record, and now I have the best polling numbers I’ve ever had”

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

🖋️ “Block USPS Move Under Commerce and Privatization Efforts” hit 250 signers!

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Tim Barton: We "arrest students that break the Ten Commandments," so we should put the list up in schools Laws against theft and murder do not justify putting up a list of religious rules in public schools

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump Is Not Taking the State Out of Public Schools, He Is Putting Christianity In MAGA doesn’t need the Department of Education to advance its religious makeover of K-12

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities “The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump and Elon’s ‘Pointless Bloodbath’ at the FAA Is Even Worse Than You Think The Trump administration fired several FAA lawyers tasked with helping keep reckless and drunk pilots out of the skies — and officials are baffled

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

That is correct We are in Nuremberg Laws territory already

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

these people are demented

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

"farmers are apoplectic. In Ohio, they’re stressed about USAID contracts and USDA cost-sharing investments. They held up their end. The government made promises. Now their family farms and livelihoods are on the line. Billions of dollars are at stake. It’s all being held hostage by Musk and Trump."

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Connecticut has ended the death penalty. Now, it's considering a bill to stop its businesses from helping executions elsewhere. “In recent years, too many executions around the country have connected straight back to the state,” said an advocate. boltsmag.org/connect...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“The effects of decreased snowfall extend beyond epic ski days,” writes Helena Huizenga in an op-ed.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

NEW from me: Alabama Tried a Trump-Like ‘Frankenstein’ Immigration Overhaul. It Ended Badly. www.thebulwark.com/p/alabama-tr... via @thebulwark.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The incompetence here would be funny if it weren't so dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Rare to see someone confront Trump in person. "We’ll see you in court,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills told Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Bridget Bean, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, just held a virtual all-staff meeting as employees are reeling from recent layoffs. (Employees are in-office but watched Bean remotely via MSFT Teams.) A few highlights from her remarks, shared by a source...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Indeed, Americans seem to be quite concerned by how far Trump is going, and most of his signature policies and initiatives appear to be quite unpopular — especially those spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Amy Paris, a transgender official who worked at the highest levels of the federal government, suspects her termination was politically motivated.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

submitted 1 day ago • 2542 comments

US business activity stalling, consumers' inflation expectations surge "Long-term inflation expectations highest since 1995" www.reuters.com/markets/us/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

WOW "Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods." ⤵️

submitted 1 day ago • 171 comments

Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments