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

This is worth knowing about if you think the best answer to our current ills is at ballot box https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/

submitted 1 hour ago • 8 comments

While it's good to see him riled up a bit, filing these videos in what looks like the lobby of a posh nursing home isn't exactly meeting the moment.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I know it's pointless to say this, but the Beneficial Ownership reporting is really simple to do. The only way it's an "absolute disaster" or "economic menace" is if you are fully aware that writing down your owners will produce criminal liability.

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

A bunch of Trump’s most influential advisors are advocating for the US to leave NATO and the UN. Short-sighted, reactionary morons. You should really ask yourselves why anyone that has the US interests at heart would want us to leave the most powerful alliance in history.

submitted 7 days ago • 308 comments

Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters right now that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

submitted 10 days ago • 167 comments

Saw a cybertruck and my son asked why Elon Musk would think that looked good and I said "remember that drug they gave you at the hospital when you broke your arm, and you got scared and said everyone had 4 eyes? he takes that all the time"

submitted 12 days ago • 54 comments

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

submitted 14 days ago • 38 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 14 days ago • 1014 comments

Worth a listen.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 15 days ago • 87 comments

Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has the power to push back against the Trump-Musk misuse of federal funds. If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.

submitted 17 days ago • 84 comments

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 17 days ago • 79 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 19 days ago • 859 comments

The cost-saving claims don’t hold up. Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $2.46 in economic activity, research shows—a total of $93 billion in 2023 alone. “It’s incredible to me that we would give up this thing that has such obvious societal benefits,” says biologist Mark Peifer.

submitted 20 days ago • 50 comments

again, this is the easiest political slam dunk in the world find a veteran with a lifetime of public service who has been fired for no reason and bring him on television with you do it again tomorrow with a different veteran, and again, and again show the human cost

submitted 20 days ago • 145 comments

"The overall burden of influenza (flu) for the 2023-2024 flu season was an estimated 40 million flu-related illnesses, 18 million flu-related medical visits, 470,000 flu-related hospitalizations, and 28,000 flu-related deaths." www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/p....

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

More young Americans are being diagnosed with cancer than ever before. We need to understand why. But instead, the GOP is slashing cancer research funding and blocking our path to a cure. time.com/7213490/why-...

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

So can the Kennedy family ask for their name to be removed from the Kennedy Center? (And Bobby Jr?)

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

One picks his nose and the other fills his diaper as the ketamine kid spews bullshit. What a time to be alive.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

We are in a constitutional crisis right here and now www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

submitted 26 days ago • 252 comments

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

submitted 34 days ago • 1035 comments

Stop what you’re doing and read this.

submitted 36 days ago • 65 comments

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 36 days ago • 817 comments

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

submitted 36 days ago • 133 comments

In the space of a few minutes, he left behind Afghan allies who fought terrorists alongside American soldiers and let 1500 domestic terrorists out of jail.

submitted 47 days ago • 17 comments

He'd be demanding the death penalty for attacking police if they were of a different demographic.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

TIL you can buy one AirPod if you lose one. As I did in the blowing snow on Lake Harriet. 🤦🏻

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Chris Murphy: "I read the headlines about the Liz Cheney criminal referral and almost every single one of them in mainstream media played this straight as if it was a normal function of legislative power, instead of telling the truth, which is that this is made up out of thin air."

submitted 80 days ago • 656 comments