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After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve. Doge is the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

I am worried about my future, but I hold zero ill will towards Canada and Mexico for responding in kind. This is a self-inflicted wound, and however much other countries choose to isolate us is justified until we correct course.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

democrats are really going to convince themselves that “a return to normalcy” is what people want when its really “rebuild, investigate, imprison”

submitted 8 days ago • 170 comments

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

submitted 8 days ago • 195 comments

Trump’s budget cuts could kill your local weather forecast — and put you in danger. DOGE has its sights on NOAA and the National Weather Service. Gutting them could imperil millions and cost billions. grist.org/extreme-weat... #NOAA #Weather #Trump #Disasters #Hurricanes

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 35 days ago • 310 comments

So the world’s most wealthy man appears to be taking sole possession of the United States? Seems like something that should perhaps not happen.

submitted 36 days ago • 24 comments

Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.

submitted 39 days ago • 255 comments

Maybe stop voting to confirm his nominees

submitted 39 days ago • 109 comments

It’s not his government. It’s our government.

submitted 39 days ago • 41 comments

If we’re going to get America out of this, might have to mass primary national Dems for people who give a shit, think fascism is Actually Bad, get the political and informational environment, and stand up for their voters’ values instead of normalizing, same washing, and kissing up to the opposite.

submitted 41 days ago • 34 comments

Its remarkable how Joe Biden wins with a 4% margin and he pussyfoots and bothsides everything to no political advantage. Trump wins by losing the pop vote by 2% and then wins by 1% and promptly gives his base everything they want and grows his vote share. Thats why Democrats stayed home in 2024.

submitted 45 days ago • 11 comments

Frame this. www.thenation.com/article/worl... @thenation.com

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

submitted 52 days ago • 641 comments

GOP members complaining about reduction of military standards while using a chart that misspells the word military!

submitted 53 days ago • 1865 comments

Being a “conservative intellectual” must rule so much. There’s this giant mass of babies that are scared of cities, mad at cartoons, and intimidated by women, and your job is to convince them having those feelings makes them brave warriors for western civilization

submitted 56 days ago • 65 comments

late stage capitalism out there living its best life 🫠

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

submitted 60 days ago • 726 comments

It’s so wild that our country is basically being run by 4chan

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

🚨Staggering new data from HUD: The number of people experiencing homelessness in 2024 was the highest EVER recorded. Families with children saw the single largest increase—up an astonishing 39 percent from last year. www.huduser.gov/portal/sites...

submitted 71 days ago • 19 comments

Something Democrats seem unwilling to do is humiliate the GOP. But it would be the right thing to do right now: mock every single GOP elected official showing deference to the unelected billionaire demanding fealty.

submitted 80 days ago • 48 comments

Really tough part of Mike Johnson’s job is he can’t afford to lose any votes. If even a couple house members or two of the four presidents come out against a bill it just collapses

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments

key point. nuclear waste is a problem, but it is not even in the same ball park as fossil fuel pollution. a rounding error by comparison bsky.app/profile/jess...

submitted 80 days ago • 65 comments

What an embarrassing time to be alive

submitted 81 days ago • 151 comments

Yes, yes… all very opportunistic to take advantage of an entire industry built on opportunism

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that Rahm Emanuel still has a prominent voice in the Democratic Party in 2024 is indicative of Democrats' problems. I don't know how to explain to you that a person who actively covered up a police shooting and tried to tank an attempt at universal healthcare [only 2 examples] is terrible.

submitted 92 days ago • 82 comments

scully: it doesn’t make any sense mulder, out of nowhere he started showing empathy and a base level curiosity about the life experience of others mulder [tossing a manila folder on the desk]: ever hear of the woke mind virus?

submitted 93 days ago • 43 comments

Response to coups by elected leaders: - South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens - Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics - United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court

submitted 95 days ago • 292 comments

If Biden is gonna use his last days to do stuff he said he'd never do, maybe he should take a look at shit like immediate arms embargos and adding 4 seats to the supreme Court by fiat

submitted 96 days ago • 19 comments

i hope people continue to protest the hegseth nomination as fervently as gaetz. he allegedly raped a woman while she was barely conscious, and while her husband and children were in the same hotel. he’s a sick fuck.

submitted 104 days ago • 12 comments

“However, the Gaetz episode shows that it isn’t all about process. Trump, after all, could have made him Acting AG. But he didn’t, because people have power. We are not powerless in the face of a fascist dictator.” @kenklippenstein.bsky.social

submitted 107 days ago • 12 comments

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

There's something I need people to understand. The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad. The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

submitted 108 days ago • 675 comments

Leaf blowers are my enemy. Loud, ecologically disastrous, wasteful, sanitizing monsters. We already have a leaf blower, and it’s the wind. And she is beautiful. You want to mimic the wind? You want to tell her how to do her job?? You prick.

submitted 109 days ago • 55 comments

Wrote for @discourseblog.com about how it's always marginalized communities like trans people who get blamed for Democratic failures, rather than the highly-paid DC insiders who actually control the party discourseblog.com/p/its-blame-...

submitted 111 days ago • 31 comments

The fact that the right wing bad faith crowd is now trying to invade Bluesky because everybody left Twitter just shows you that their rotten ideologies can only get spread when they have institutional support to do so

submitted 110 days ago • 56 comments

The two types of political coverage nowadays are i) a leopard is eating someone’s face and ii) maybe democrats should get into nibbling on some noses because that’s how you win, and I would like to see more representation for my anti-face-eating beliefs.

submitted 111 days ago • 26 comments