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

the very least we can ask is that these people are miserable while they tear our country down around our ears

submitted 23 hours ago • 45 comments

This is not a real bird. This is Sam the American Eagle with a fake nose to avoid the paparazzi.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

They should make a Grand Theft Auto Game that isn’t so ultra violent and isn’t set in a satirical version of an existing city and that rewards good strategy and that has a card game and that card game has 150 Jokers that can modify the existing game of Poker in many thousands of combinations

submitted 18 hours ago • 31 comments

I think about this every day

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

"7 of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all." NOTUS: Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed in the MAHA report as author of a study on anxiety in adolescents (and) was surprised to hear of the citation. “The paper cited isn't a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with."

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Just got a haircut, a burrito and about to see a movie for this exact reason

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This administration commits evil on an industrial scale every day.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Gonna give y'all some freebie headlines: MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Breaking news from the can't-make-this-shit-up desk: The same folks who are certain that Fauci caused COVID by funding people to study bats in a Biosafety Level 4 facility now want to import 400 ostriches with the goddamn bird flu from Canada so they can live on Dr. Oz's ranch.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

oh wow: every historian on the historical advisory committee that oversees FRUS was fired at the end of April

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

How to get yourself quoted in dozens of lawsuits.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Damn. That paragraph is gnarly.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

(Reuters) - Germany's foreign minister threatened unspecified measures against Israel on Tuesday and said Berlin would not export weapons used to break humanitarian law, as he and Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered their most severe rebuke yet over Gaza @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Manufacturing for thee, but not for me

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This would be ridiculous if it weren’t so malicious.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Openly and lawlessly persecuting a private organization for standing up to the authoritarian leader

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I want to offer a public apology to FDA head Marty Makary for calling him an ignorant piece of shit in a post last night. I just learned he is an islet transplant surgeon. Yes, the cells that produce insulin. I was wrong. He is not ignorant. This piece of shit knows exactly what he is doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

you know it’s a load-bearing component of the social safety net but I feel like I’m still learning HOW load-bearing. I didn’t realize until Trump started plotting to cut it that it’s like …. literally the only way we have nursing homes

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Ugly, ugly stuff. They're collapsing the Department of Veterans Affairs and the largest integrated healthcare system in America.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

UPDATE: I've written a deeper dive on these numbers and what's driving this unprecedented judicial pushback. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

“Kingsley Wilson, a deputy press secretary at the Department of Defense who has come under fire from Democratic and Republican lawmakers for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, has been promoted to the department’s press secretary, the Pentagon announced.” jewishinsider.com/2025/05/king...

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

It absolutely tracks that after 30+ years of decimating the humanities & suburban parents shouting "YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO MAJOR IN STEM THAT'S WHERE THE JOBS JOBS JOBS ARE" the financial sector's now going "uh...we could really use some halfway literate English or history majors up in this joint?"

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is so depressing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 344 comments

Los Angeles's Deputy Mayor for Public Safety called in a bomb threat to City Hall last year in an attempt to frame pro-Palestine organizers.

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

No empire lasts forever however powerful they appear at the time.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Brutalist Academia

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

So old I remember...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

actually I did wake up for a bit around 6 am when the cat was dashing around the apartment madly because he got his head caught in a paper bag handle and panicked. Surprisingly he did eventually stop in front of me and let me take care of it for him.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

But you want to know something cool and weird and perhaps distressing? The plural of series is series. The possessive of the singular series is series's; the possessive of the plural series is series'.

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

Everyone watch this video!!! It's perhaps the funniest Star Wars thing I've ever beheld and needs to be seen by many.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

trump did not seem to recognize this was an insult, he was like "why don't you have a plane, i want plane"

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Great news! I'm told a few moments ago US Institute of Peace Board Chair Amb. George Moose went to the USIP building where he and legal counsel were able to retake possession after the recent court decision. They were accompanied by a small team securing the building and assessing maintenance needs.

submitted 8 days ago • 124 comments

Song of the Lower Classes - Windborne

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A beautiful piece by the great Mexican artist Remedios Varo.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Trump in November: “I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly, or even badly beyond comprehension." Trump, today:

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 9 days ago • 353 comments

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

submitted 10 days ago • 797 comments

Sharp piece on a trend I've increasingly observed among the Christian right, with the support of certain allies in the Jewish world: Defining liberal, non-Orthodox Jews as not really counting as Jewish at all, and therefore concluding that it is impossible to be antisemitic against us.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who attempted to overthrow our government via a violent insurrection at our nation’s Capitol. The administration agreeing to pay her family $5 million of taxpayer money is disgraceful.

submitted 10 days ago • 508 comments

I spend at least four hours a day washing my hands.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

A lot of people are sitting scratching their heads wondering how Starmer can repeat Great Replacement, say the 14 words in 11 and refer to an "Island of Strangers" when it's quite easily explained by the fact that he's surrounded by radicalised individuals.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments