BlueSky Part 1, July 2025

I forgot to notice when the halfway point in July arrived, so this BlueSky round-up is a few days late. As always lately, a lot has been happening in just the last two weeks or so. These posts cover the last day or so of June (which I accidentally truncated last month) through July 15, 2025.

The month started with ICE continuing to rampage in California and Republicans working to pass their budget reconciliation that stripped funding for almost everything good and decent. They eventually managed to pass it.

As the days went along, the Trump regime opened a concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades, billionaire Marc Andreesen said a bunch of white supremacist stuff in a newspaper article, Trump threatened to take away Rosie O'Donnell's and Zohran Mamdani's citizenships, there was huge, deadly flooding in Texas that could have been less bad if someone else had been in charge, Elon's AI became a Nazi, and Mamdani won the New York City mayoral primary only to find himself attacked by both Republicans and "centrist" Democrats and his college entrance scores leaked to the New York Times by a white supremacist.

The mid-month ended with the Supreme Court deciding Trump can toss out the Department of Education  (after it had already made several other anti-democratic decisions on the shadow docket). And Pam Bondi said she wouldn't be releasing the Epstein files, after previously saying she would. Oops.

Everything below the line is from the attributed account and in reverse chronological order, except some of the less timely images, which I move up or down for better visual balance.

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Thought I would be taking July off. But couldn’t not draw this:


Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

social media has been bad really bad for pluralism. previously people who were vaguely socially conservative could kind of opt out from seeing pride parades or whatever and opposition to them wouldn't form the core of their political identity. now there's an entire cottage industry of outraging them. I do think that social change goes a lot smoother if you allow some people to kind of passively opt out of it, not by actively excluding others through segregation of course, but by just going to some quiet rural area somewhere. national media culture wars strained this, social media broke it. not saying "don't put gay people in the newspaper to avoid upsetting MarkWayne," but I am saying that everyone is probably better off if MarkWayne's media diet isn't constantly showing him gay people for the express purpose of making him upset.
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social

I'm sort of agnostic on a lot of the Epstein theorizing, but the more Republicans fight transparency the more inclined I am to think there's something really bad there
Ned Resnikoff

Yesterday I posted info showing that India had added less than a gigawatt of gas power generation since 2020. What are they using instead? "The country added nearly 28 GW of solar and wind in 2024 and has already added 16.3 GW of wind and solar capacity in the five months through May"
Justin Mikulka

Five days short of six months, and most of them he got to a while ago:


Judah Grunstein

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding and tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals. What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research. Hope remains – but scientists say time is running out.
Stand Up for Science!

Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.
Max Kennerly

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
Ryan Marino, MD

Committing to all-day [transit] frequency is a crucial way to say that a single service is for all social classes. (Yes, fare matters too.) Because high ridership is diverse ridership, and when we plan for diversity, not class segregation, everyone gets places sooner.  
Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social

Right now we have three justices and six injustices
arwin Woodka @darwinwoodka.bsky.social

SAY IT ONCE SAY IT TWICE: PALANTIR POWERS ICE!
Purge Palantir

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”:


Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social

“Homeland” is one of the most fascist words imaginable. Anyone talking with a straight face about “the homeland” is a guaranteed psycho. Obama should have torn down DHS 20 years ago based on the name alone.
Hamilton Nolan

In the 1930 census, Kristi Noem's great-grandparents, immigrants from Norway, were listed as speaking Norwegian in their South Dakota home. Her great-grandmother had lived in the US for 24 years, her great-grandfather for 44 years. Anyway, Kristi Noem's heritage likely does not include anyone who rode in a 19th century wagon like that. Nor does the heritage of the vast majority of people who are currently American citizens. That "heritage" depicted in that image is a largely imaginary, whitewashed American history.
Seth Cotlar

Forced car dependency is ableist and ignoring the material disparities that make driving as one’s primary mode of transportation a rather exclusive choice. Most cyclists I know are not advocating that everyone ride a bike. They want people to have freedom to choose how they get around.
LauraGMitchell

My phone just autocorrected "duck" to "fuck" when I actually really did mean to say "duck," and I feel like I have finally broken its spirit
Clare Blackwood

thinking about the democrats who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
Joshua Erlich

“We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands." –Adolfo Perez Esquivel:


Julie Butcher

House GOP released proposed appropriations for FY 2026 for housing and transportation, proposing:
—$2 b increase in highway funds—but a $1.8 b cut in transit spending, essentially eliminating new grants for transit lines.
—$900 m decrease in housing funds, including no new funds for the HOME program.
Yonah Freemark

It's not every day the car industry makes this so transparent, but, put a fine point on it: The US government is controlled by carmakers, who understand with existential clarity that walkable housing + transit threatens their profits. And so, Federal government transfers money from homes, to cars.
Matthew Lewis @mateosfo.bsky.social

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans. President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.
graham steele

It’s absolutely impossible to think this [SCOTUS decision] is the result of good faith legal analysis, especially when they refuse to provide any reasons!
Chris Hayes

The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.
Anthony Michael Kreis

I started renting in Minneapolis over 30 years ago. You know what hasn’t changed? The blatant anti-Black racism. Apartment availability mysteriously disappears the moment I show up for the viewing 80% of the time.
Tana Hargest

E-scooters are remarkably safe: Seattle had fewer than 300 injuries in more than 4 million rides.
Michael Hobbes

i think we should be able to snap towels at people who smugly say “i just don’t think this issue is as important as you think it is” about issues they do not, themselves, experience
bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social

I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.
Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social

Maturing is realizing that Mr. Burns saying in 1995 that his greatest nemesis is the sun because it provides free light, heat, and energy is literally what oil billionaires actually believe.
Ted Raymond

That last line hits hard:


Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social

Since 2019, Google’s emissions have surged over 50%, driven by energy-hungry AI data centers. At the same time, its CEO stood front and center at Trump’s 2025 inauguration, endorsing a regime reopening coal plants and gutting climate policy.
Extinction Rebellion NYC

[The funds newly appropriated to ICE] could sustain the National Science Foundation for 17 years and make the US a great country. Instead, they'll be used to terrorize people in the US.
David Ho

I think a lot about how when Casablanca was filmed, nobody knew who would win WW2.
Malaclypse the Middle

NPR had a quick, upbeat mention about how farmwork could function as healthcare with people "prescribed" to do it and it feels maddening that a significant swath of elite opinion seems to be trying to soft relaunch serfdom.
David Forbes

The elites treat GOP voters like they are children to be coddled and they treat Dem voters like they are grown-ups to be disciplined.
Prisonculture

“Viewpoint diversity” is a moronic goal without a whole lot of caveats and qualifiers. A physics department hiring phlogiston theorists and an astronomy department hiring flat earthers and geocentrists would increase “viewpoint diversity” and also radically lower the quality of education.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social

We also talk about Trump mainly in language reserved for children. "Meltdowns" "tantrums" "punish" "understanding" "attention" "distraction." It's a daycare at the Whitehouse!
Whalen @timeformoretea.bsky.social


1bigbullshitbill.bsky.social

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.
Thomas Kennedy

It's laughable to think Democrats want to hide the Epstein files because they think Bill Clinton is in there. In fact, most of them would see that as an added bonus.
Phil Klinkner

To recap: The people covering up a pedophile ring, who sent armed, masked men into our cities to abduct and incarcerate people in concentration camps, while gutting healthcare to pay for tax breaks for themselves and friends told you to blame DEI for our country’s problems.
Melanie D’Arrigo

The Abrego Garcia fiasco keeps getting worse. The way Trump and the WH are bringing the full weight of their propaganda and legal machines to destroying this one day laborer is an extraordinary abuse of power.
Greg Sargent

Toxic Masculinity is OUT! Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN!
- Loud laughs
- Roasted meats and spiced drinks
- Hospitality to strangers
- Living in the moment
- Singing in public
- Body positivity
- Emotional generosity
- Sick robes


Luther Patenge @ironwhale.bsky.social

This has always been the GOP's strategy:
1) Cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves.
2) Explode deficits
3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions.
4) Repeat.
Robert Reich

Venn diagram of political and media figures who say activists should care less about police shootings because they don’t actually kill that many Black men each year as percentage of US population, and political and media figures who obsess over “boys” in “girls’” sports, a thing that barely happens
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social

Whether or not humanity has a future basically depends on us developing a system where the rich are afraid and the rest of the people are not.
Jared Friedman @silkscreenfiend.bsky.social

I admit to being shocked at how MAGA anti-semites are using anti-semitism as a weapon. But of course MAGA racists are using race as one too. Don't fall for it or accept it.
Peter Gleick

Obviously not the biggest problem here, but it is a radical destruction of longstanding American constitutional norms that Cabinet secretaries are now so overtly, unabashedly partisan. That is not their job. They're not exactly apolitical, of course, but they're not supposed to talk like this.
Andy Craig


Brian O @prouddanadaveteran.bsky.social

NEW: President Trump’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, quietly raised over $50 million through private token sales –n likely sending tens of millions to him and his family.
Zach Everson

Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!
Roxane Gay

There are reporters still talking about Biden’s mental sharpness while the current president is declaring Rosie O’Donnell a “threat to humanity.”
Sam Youngman

I don’t care if he doesn’t back this up with further action, in a normal time, this is a major scandal, showing the president of the United States has nothing but contempt for the first amendment, basic rights, and his fellow citizens and will act accordingly in various ways.
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social

There are a lot of things wrong with this country, but it’s hard to imagine anything less American than the President threatening to revoke someone’s citizenship for the crime of free speech.
Max Berger

countdown until the Times runs a "Liberal Activists Say Trump Can't Revoke Citizenship of Americans - But Scholars Say It's Not So Simple" piece
mtsw

Claremont is a fascist org, never gonna stop saying it
Adam Gurri

As always:


Danny Rubin

The truth is that higher education in the United States should be free and accessible, and people like Andreessen are the reason it isn't. The truth is that people like Andreessen are advocating for segregation and discrimination for ideological reasons, not because it's fair for any students.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Missouri Republicans overturned our will on abortion and earned sick time and a higher minimum wage. They told us we are too stupid to know what we are voting for. But, do you know what else was on the same ballot? Sports betting. They haven’t tried to overturn sports betting. Weird.
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

Who are Andreesen's people? Apparently, not Black Americans like me whose families were here building this country long before the first Andreesen boarded a boat.
Serious Talk

whites supremacy isn’t mostly people in white hoods or proud boys. it’s mostly this belief that the mere act of being white imbues superiority upon you; that white people should have first, best or only access to every good, opportunity and privilege has to offer before anybody else gets anything.
renakj.bsky.social

One of the most fundamental and commonplace delusions of white America is the idea that if they are not affirmatively treated as superior to others and given favorable treatment, they are being discriminated against.
David Menschel

I think you should be able to say things the president doesn’t like and still be a citizen. Maybe we should write that down somewhere.
Adam Steinbaugh

In the history of social media, has any commenter ever said something insightful after the words “to be fair…”?
Qagggy!

ICE killed a farm worker who was just doing their job. Murdered.
Bill Corbett

Thanks jibjab hot dog:

superhero "woke," my dudes. Y'all became the bad guys.
Ashley Esqueda

So the Kerr County, Texas commissioners refused Federal ARPA funds for emergency warning systems because of “communism” and the result was they killed over 200 people… This is what hate and GOP rhetoric does to your brain. It’s deadly.
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

Recently met a HS grad whose Americorps job suddenly disappeared when the entire program was axed in April. 2025 budget for it was $1.3 billion. When he got the news, he was on his way to Texas to paint low income houses. He'd been helping people living in poverty to prepare tax returns before that.
Seth Cotlar

Them: "But Jerome, I see empty buses all the time! What a waste!"
Me: "I see empty private cars sitting still taking up public rights of way all the time. Yet no one seems to see how wasteful that is. Imagine what we could do with that space if we gave it back to the people?"
Jerome Alexander Horne

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
- Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
- Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
About that record-high share of Americans saying immigration is good for the country: The surge is primarily driven by *Republicans* changing their tune. Rs have become much more positive on immigration than they had been before Trump took office.
Catherine Rampell

Trump genuinely believes that tariffs are a free money hack that everyone except him just never noticed.
Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social

lawyers who turn in a court document with AI-generated fake citations - ONE TIME - should be disbarred. for life. that's it. career over. sorry fuckers.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social

Nuclear advocates have mostly shouted their environmentalist opponents into submission, but it turns out that didn't solve the real problem, which is that the nuclear industry is a f'ing disaster with long, rich history of subsidies built on false promises, failures, & cost overruns.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

that this administration would be the most lawless and corrupt in history was 100% telegraphed yet the pre-election press spent most of its time portraying trump as mostly just a quirky and unorthodox hero for flyover country
Karl Bode

"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" –Raymond Williams
"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality" –Bell Hooks


Dr. Aaron Thierry

An “anti-government militia” is “targeting Oklahoma weather radars, days after a man vandalized News 9’s weather radar. Meteorologists are trying to explain that weather radars do not control the weather
Phil Lewis

NEW: Buried inside the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is $6 billion for border security tech, including surveillance towers. CBP just confirmed to me that this surveillance tower money can *only* go to Anduril, the Trump-friendly military contractor.
Sam Biddle

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
Nude Gingrich @jarjarfan69.bsky.social

this is the best single encapsulation of how modern conservatism works
Robert Evans @iwriteok.bsky.social

Actually starting a viable third party would take enormous focus, persistence, and sacrifice, across many many years. Does anyone on the planet think Musk has any of those qualities? This is his latest toy, in a few months it will be gone like smoke, I can't believe we're even talking about it.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

Naming and shaming Klan members was how the good people of Buffalo drove the Klan out of their town in the 1920s. “Doxxing” racist terrorists is good and it works!
Colin Dickey

Caring:


Tom Flood

The 14th Amendment was ratified on this day in 1868. It guarantees:
• due process for all
• birthright citizenship
• equal protection under the law
Now more than ever, we're determined to protect these essential rights.
ACLU

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
Adam Bonica

Of course, qualitatively, the lower-court injunctions in the Biden cases were almost entirely horseshit, while the injunctions in the Trump cases are almost entirely slam dunks. Making this even worse than the numbers would indicate
Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social

We need to start calling this an occupation. This is an occupying force. It is present without the consent of the populace or its duly elected officials, beyond the bounds of any legitimate mission. It’s also a testing ground for what this administration wants to do in Dem jurisdictions elsewhere.
Evan Bernick

I want to see the Venn diagram of prominent people who say we need to keep looking back at Biden’s brain and the attempts to downplay how much of it was visibly leaking because of how important the story is, and the prominent figures who said we need to move on from the bush torture and war crimes now that Obama is in office.
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social

“provocative ideas about race”:


Dave @nookum.bsky.social

It's just hilarious (in an existential dread sort of way) that SCOTUS didn't consider Covid and climate change emergencies meriting extraordinary executive action, but Trump's completely made-up migrant "invasion" and laughable fentanyl-tariff link get complete deference.
Radley Balko

OK new plan: we divide up America into a series of new states each with a population of roughly 500,000 people. If it's good enough for Wyoming, it's good enough for the rest of us. Why shouldn't you, an American citizen, enjoy the same privileges as those freeloaders from Wyoming? Time to take a chainsaw to the map of America!
The Alternate Historian

The media coverage of the Biden administration’s FEMA response to Hurricane Helene was FERAL. Now another tragic disaster has struck, this time under Trump, and no one seems to care that his head of FEMA is barricaded in his office. I know standards are different, but what gives, people?
Marisa Kabas

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.
Greg Pak

For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities. Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member:


Victor Ray

Amidst all the daily AI horror stories, some newspapers still seem to think the biggest technological threat we face is from wind farms and heat pumps
Dr Charlie Gardner

The funny thing is that it’s not like the NYC mayor can suddenly expropriate the private wealth of Manhattan or anything. What they’re scared of is the bully pulpit: the city’s very visible leader calling them out on their excesses, trying to change the narrative on wealth accumulation.
Diane Curtis

We are living in a time where people are cheering at the idea of people being eaten by alligators and still demanding that we believe they are “pro life” and follow Jesus.
Rev. Benjamin Cremer

Reconstruction went so poorly because there were too many living Confederates
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about.
Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.
John Timmer

Reminder that Elon is still suing Media Matters in like 15 different venues for reporting that Nazi content even appears on Twitter. Now the bot that’s trained on the site’s tweets sounds like Rappin’ Goebbels.
Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social

The planet’s boiling, floods are swallowing towns, and the Supreme Court’s practically gift-wrapping Trump a dictatorship — and the Times gives us another deep dive into Biden’s insularity, age, and nap schedule. Christ. I’d trust a houseplant more than their editorial board.
Robert Falls

Investors just gave Elon $10 billion for his racist chatbot. What a time to be alive.
#TeslaTakedown

The richest family in the United States, the Waltons, made money by not paying Walmart employees enough. This forced employees to seek government assistance for food and healthcare. Republicans’ response is to take away that assistance because the Waltons aren’t rich enough.
Mrs. Betty Bowers


Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social

Newly relevant. Among other things, SCOTUS' disrespect for the lower courts' backbreaking work is stunning. Detailed rulings and fact-findings met with shadow docket proclamations like, "the administrative stay is granted," or "the govt is likely to prevail [no further detail,] so stay is granted."
Heidi Kitrosser

Info for [Secretary of Transportation] Sean Duffy. Crimes per 1M mass transit trips...
* NYC: 1.3
* Miami: 2.6
* Dallas: 38.0
Mark D. Levine

Strongly suspect that Sean Duffy appears to soil himself at the thought of riding the subway for the same reason that it’s a great small-d democratic institution: it’s one of the few places where you routinely find yourself in close proximity to people of all races and income levels.
Ned Resnikoff

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you
Cooper Lund

On X, Elon Musk Has Trained Grok To Be Overtly Anti-Semitic. But On Bluesky, Some People Say There Should Not Be Genocide Against Palestinians.  Do American Jews Have Anywhere To Go? We Asked Stephen Miller. Tomorrow In The New York Times
@kenwhite.bsky.social

The main thing I take from Mamdani’s Columbia rejection is that Columbia fucked up.
Courtney Milan

if we measured car violence AS violence we'd see that car dependent communities are the most violent communities
Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social

Measles cases reported in the US hit a 33-year record high and infections still spreading, according to JHU:


Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social

I used to think the people who make Nazi comparisons are not serious people. Now I think that the people who dismiss the Nazi comparisons are the unserious ones.
Omri Marian

You know what works better than thoughts and prayers? A functioning government.
Phil Plait

The money just given to ICE could fund the NEH for 850 years
Bobby Lee

Every major U.S. medical association supports healthcare for trans people.
GLAAD

you’ll never hear me complaining about that shit [that knowledge workers should quit and get factory jobs]. my grandparents did factory work and labored as domestics — and my parents joined the military — so that my brother and i could provide for our families without destroying our bodies. more americans should have the opportunity to work laptop jobs, imo
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

The Trump regime is rooted in white supremacy. They believe that anyone who is not white is not human. In their erroneous worldview, this belief justifies their cruel actions against any people they deem lesser than. Eventually, that belief will extend to everyone but them. First they came for…
50501: The People’s Movement

The builders behind Alligator Alcatraz and other detention sites are top DeSantis donors. They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine. Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail.
Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com

When the military is deployed for the express purpose of intimidating the domestic population, something has gone badly awry.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social

Tuesday:


ian.fenrisgames

I grew up in NYC when crime was much worse, and I never knew anyone who had been hurt on the subway. Then I moved to Maine and became car-dependent. After just 8 years there, I needed both hands to count the number of people I knew who had been badly injured or had lost family members in car crashes.
Sarah Goodyear

Drivers spend almost no time considering risk when hopping in their car, and yet people who don't regularly ride public transit get so nervous about the "danger" of the subway
Gravel Influencer

Trump trying to choke off clean energy in order to make Americans the buyer of last resort for Saudi oil assets that will otherwise go stranded.
mtsw

RFK Jr. is undoubtedly gearing up to fire HHS staff for having the unmitigated gall to support equity in science. If someone supported people of color, people with disabilities, etc., they will be investigated and likely fired. This is a fucking witch-hunt.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD

Crucial from Garrett Graff: Law enforcement agencies that staff up quickly historically get badly corrupted. ICE is more vulnerable to this than most.
Greg Sargent

These guys [at ICE] are already the dregs of the federal workforce. To dig up another 19,000 they’d need to scrape clean through the bottom of the barrel and make for the earth’s core at speed.
Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social

An unelected, unconfirmed neo-Nazi is running the government. Steven Miller is the one ordering the arrest of innocent people. Steven Miller is the one ordering the creation of concentration camps. Steven Miller is the one sending armed paramilitaries into the streets of our nation's cities.
Craig Calcaterra


Andy Singer

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising and teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties and ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly.
Amy Diehl, Ph.D.

Any Democrat working against Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, was never a Democrat in the first place. They are moderate Republicans who spent years seeking political power by posing as Democrats in a heavily blue area.
Brandon Friedman

it’s pretty clear that the NYT leadership sees its primary mission as disciplining the left. it’s easy to just say “they’re conservatives” and be done with it, but my best read is that Sulzberger et al are in fact moderate Democrats who believe that the left is responsible for the rise of Trump, and they believe that beating the left back and defeating Trump are a singular project
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social

Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized:


Craig Calcaterra

Image resolution degrades when you zoom in, but that's a sniper rifle with suppressor and scope on a tripod. Actual machine guns don't employ suppressors. The larger issue is that this looks like US troops in Baghdad c. 2006, a point Radley Balko has been making for over a decade.
Patrick G. Eddington

Maybe people who don’t care about people and the health of the planet shouldn’t be put in charge of the future of the planet.
David Ho

An astonishing figure in this piece:
Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.
This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.
That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.
Brian Goldstone

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple: there is enough. there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe. once you accept that there's only one question: why don't we?
ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com

ICE agents were caught on camera unlawfully trespassing and urinating on the grounds of an LA public school, risking exposure to minors. They’re not only terrorizing our communities—illegally kidnapping people—but also urinating on playgrounds. ICE is a morally bankrupt, state terror organization.
50501: The People’s Movement

A consistent lesson of this devastating time has been that federal agencies you've never heard of do brilliant, crucial work that holds up your life in ways you've never thought about. Anyway, I'm here to tell you that the demographers at the National Center for Health Statistics are a treasure
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

Car buyers will now be allowed write off up to $10,000/year in interest paid on qualifying auto loans. Car drivers can still get over $3,500 in parking tax benefits too. But, bike commuters got their $240/year benefit cut. It's not about the budget, it's a preference and subsidy for people who drive.
At an estimated cost of $57 Billion the deduction for auto loans will amount to ~three times the amount spent on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure by the federal government in the last 35 years. Instead of Safe Routes to School, we get new trucks in the pick up line.
Ken McLeod

this stuff often gets described as "culture war" but its got nothing to do with culture. it's just a material war on the poor and liberals. robbing people that don't vote for republicans of money any way they can and giving republican constituencies (car dealers) as much money as possible.
mtsw

Cheat code for great cities: add trees and subtract cars:


John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social

There's a lot of calling Crémieux an academic and Chris Rufo a journalist going on in this news story accusing a man of misrepresenting his identity
S Peter Davis

There are ways to mitigate and adapt to extreme events, like stopping the burning of fossil fuels and building early warning systems (or not firing people who make forecasts and coordinate with local officials), but prayer is not one of them.
David Ho

insane how Israeli public messaging has flipped the narrative on this: any bit of food aid that gets through is billed as a special gift that proves how moral the IDF is
m @keptsimple.bsky.social

My theory is that liberal elites have gone insane because they cannot reconcile their liberalism with their elite status and so picked the latter. Why is the NYT newsroom so white? Well, I can’t be the beneficiary of structural racism because I got here on merit. Must be that racial IQ stuff.
Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social

Tech bros get frustrated with politics, which involves painstaking, often frustrating communication and compromise with other people who have different backgrounds & perspectives, so their approach is always to wish it away: a brand new city! a brand new political party! this one weird trick! The fact that fascist "intellectuals" are inevitably utter dipshits but get taken seriously over and over again should suggest to you that there's a large, subterranean *demand* among alleged non-fascists for permission to be just a little more fascist.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

If you have enough street trees, you can’t even see how tall buildings are:


Oh The Urbanity!

galaxy brain: practically everyone who thinks they are a ‘politically homeless’ centrist is in fact a far-right doofus and psycho
Amateur Expert Opinions

I’m weary of the ‘closing schools during pandemic hurt kids’ garbage. The true hurt is that 1. money was not invested in helping to mitigate the harms 2. Nobody listened to teachers telling us what the actual harms were.
rustbelt rebel

Farmers market dahlias:



i checked yesterday and bill ackman has been tweeting nonstop about Mamdani for days if not weeks. used to be you'd see a guy crashing out obsessively like this on a web forum and you'd toss them in the crank file. now it's just Normal Billionaire Behavior
jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social

social media has done enormous amounts of damage but maybe the worst of it is driving the tech and finance bros completely insane. all the weird rich guys spend all their time losing their minds online instead of going on vacation to the bahamas or some shit
Micah @rincewind.run

In the run up to 2016 Elizabeth Warren who was not running for election that year toured Massachusetts with a presentation about how the policies of the past 40 years or so only enriched the rich.  Nobody covered it
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com

After the IRA passed, Biden toured the country giving dozens of speeches promoting it. News media never aired them or wrote stories about them. Later, "Biden is hiding in the White House, no one ever hears from him" became the knock against him
mtsw

Biden, Harris, Cab Secretaries, and White House leaders were talking about climate change (climate change!) all the time, in DC and around the country. Barely registered. We had the 1st ever White House Summits on Electrification, Fusion, Sustainable Campuses, Circular Econ, etc. Heard this before now?
Costa Samaras

Seems like many people are learning how much local emergency communication relies on outdated perceptions of how social media works.
Joseph Galbo

How justice 'works':


BladeoftheSun

If you think the white union-busting billionaire from apartheid South Africa is for working people but the working class assemblyman from Uganda is an elitist then its not economic justice you’re protecting its white supremacy.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

“If you wanted free disaster alerts you should have tried not being poor” is likely gonna be official MAGA policy for the next four years
Faine Greenwood

Career civil service employees are dedicated to helping people and improving their communities. More than 80% of all federal employees live outside of the DC region. The illegal cuts across agencies and threatening environment makes us all less safe.
Costa Samaras

Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation
ceej

We are in the midst of a borderline miraculous decline in crime across the country and the media just does not care
W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social

We've always been told we don't need to dismantle the fossil fuel industry as we could trust the power of free enterprise and the free market to deliver better technology. It has, but FF is using its power to prevent its roll out. Techno-optimism doesn't account for the power of incumbent interests
Dr Charlie Gardner

More people in California—six million—voted for Trump than did in Idaho. More Texans—four million—voted for Kamala Harris than in Vermont and Massachusetts.
Rebecca Solnit

Congestion pricing by the #s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%
So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
Mark D. Levine

Taking the radical position that it's bad for people to be put in camps AND it's bad for people to die in climate disasters like floods even if they voted for Trump
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com

It's looking dire:


enrich12

It's so weird how everyone who says they're "politically homeless" is a far right winger who lives in NY or CA and still wants to get invited to parties
maple cocaine

It’s amazing that capitalists are literally knowingly setting the planet on fire and that’s still not enough for people to be done with capitalism
Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com

Apparently Texas sends mass “Blue Alerts” to phones every time a cop is in danger. And a lot of people are so understandably sick of it that they’ve *turned emergency alerts off entirely*, meaning that they aren’t getting actually-useful notifications.
Faine Greenwood

The Journey. Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social:


Tom Flood

Just keep doing the next good thing. That’s all that’s asked of us in this moment. That’s it.
Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan

The National Weather Service did its job in Texas, with advanced warnings even in the middle of the night. If officials want better warnings, Congress and Trump shouldn't be dismantling NOAA, weather and climate research, and new models, monitoring, and technology.
Peter Gleick

The New York Times was more skeptical of the academic qualifications of a black woman who had secured tenure and become the president of Harvard than they were of a white man who washed out of a grad program with a massive scandal and then became a white nationalist troll.
Kevin M. Kruse

Any objective observer would think this photo makes the man look ridiculous, like a child with a toy, the adults applauding his first steps:


@pattho.bsky.social

As our cities get hotter and hotter, dark-coloured buildings make no rational sense, even if you like that aesthetic (I do). The same goes for dark-coloured roofs. And dark-coloured streets and parking lots with dark coloured-asphalt. That really should be obvious.
Brent Toderian

Americans have really got to unlearn the propagandist indoctrination that socialism is bad. It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth and those around us. We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

I think what's really freaking people out is that most Americans under 40 already have
Gillian Branstetter

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." This is real police state behaviour. Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act
George Monbiot

So to be clear it's legal in Britain to travel to Israel, volunteer in the IDF, commit war crimes and kill babies, and then return home? But it's illegal to wear a t-shirt?
The Serfs @theserfstv.bsky.social

While this cartoon is probably referencing a particular activist group in the UK, it tends to hold true for others, protesting different issues non violently around the world:


Extinction Rebellion Global

Before he got "handled" by DNC messaging people, Tim Walz made a public comment in a speech that what the the GOP call socialism is what most people call being a good neighbor. I don't think I have ever heard another candidate for national office use that language and I hope it's not the last.
Kate Crowe

The NYT story [about Mamdani's SAT scores] really is getting under my skin, but I think it's with good reason. It's a very stark example of how easy it is to launder right-wing propaganda into legacy media, including outlets that have no affiliation with Rupert Murdoch.
Snitty @clofsnitville.bsky.social

should a brown man be mayor? We asked a eugenicist
Emma Berquist

Going to mildly suggest that making Jamelle Bouie the sin-eater for every management fuckup at the New York Times is not particularly cool
Ian Boudreau

Calling a grad school dropout an academic [as the NYT did] is a heck of a lot more deceiving than an Ugandan born teen ticking a box marked “African American” and clarifying it by writing “Uganda” next to it.
Jeremy Chao

Today’s NYT wouldn’t publish the Pentagon Papers, but would totally publish Ellsberg’s unredacted psychiatric file.
Jeremy Chao

They paved paradise to put up a concentration camp
ChatC-A-T @raisingonebrow.bsky.social

This is evergreen now, isn't it:


C. J. Lavigne

If Mamdani had checked just Asian or say,  Asian and white (bear with me) NYT would never have run that story. The only reason they ran that story is because of the cultural belief that being Black gives you leg up in society despite research that says that isn't true.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com

Just your evergreen reminder that Minnesota has low traffic fatalities in a US context, but if we had the rates of Victoria or New South Wales 200 fewer people every year would lose their life on the roads.
Evan Roberts

obvious maybe but still worth noting that the western news media treats someone shouting "death to america" or "death to the idf" much, much more seriously than the actual deaths being caused by america and the idf
shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
Kevin M. Kruse

people seem really confused about racial categories maybe we should have some educational programs to teach how these historically constructed categories structure our entire society in insidious ways we could even do programming in workplaces to improve how people communicate with each other
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social

whoa, are there any theories that could help people think about race more critically?
Barred and Boujee @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

The shocking thing about Trump tossing off a “shylock” slur is he pushes antisemitic conspiracy theories, said he needs accountants with “funny little hats,” does dual loyalty smears, openly speaks of Good Jews and Bad Jews, hired neo-Nazis, and more, and media still says he’s opposing antisemitism.
Nicholas Grossman

Let's just be straight, any news outlet that asserts Trump is concerned about antisemitism is lying. A serious news outlet would say that Trump "claims" he is concerned about antisemitism. It's simple impartial reporting — teach the leading reporters.
Dean Baker

So the Times didn’t even cover the “Shylocks” thing at all? Like it’s not only not on the front page, it doesn’t appear to be in the paper anywhere, unless I’m missing something?? Truly a stunning choice. I don’t get it.
Laura Bassett

Trump's argument for the elimination of the estate tax is that the heirs of the super rich will no longer have to go beg a predatory Jewish banker for a bridge loan to overcome cash flow problems associated with the $15 million dollar estate they're about to get.
Chris Hayes

i can't even imagine the freakout if mamdani or ilhan omar had ever referred to lenders as "shylocks." but unlike them, trump actually has a very long history of making disparaging remarks about jews
mtsw

Boomers: You all learned how to pronounce Zbigniew Brzezinski in the 70's. You can learn Zohran Mamdani.
Qagggy!

I probably spend $600 a year on transportation. It's so insignificant, I don't really even worry about it. Crazy that people will spend upwards of $20K a year just to own a car.
Bryan @bryanformhals.com

Louisiana releases state test scores. New Orleans, the all-charter district, scores far below the state average. Remember when "reformers" told us that charters would revolutionize education?
Diane Ravitch

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.
Jane Coaston

The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion." But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
Mike Masnick

Today I’m celebrating the fall of Vicksburg and the Confederate retreat at Gettysburg, which is why we set off fireworks and grill, yes?
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com

Is there anyone in the Trump administration who isn’t the worst person to hold that position?
David Ho

Not to do TOO much Mamdani discourse this morning, but one of the reasons American racial categories are what they are is the idea that "African" is a single, coherent, and consistent racial identity. That belief is downstream of slavery ideology, and has no real salience for actual reality.
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social

According to a new poll, nearly three-quarters of Californians believe local police officers should arrest federal immigration agents who “act maliciously or knowingly exceed their authority under federal law.”
Victor Narro

Asked to solve the trolley problem, Lisa Murkowski would kill the person on the tracks with her bare hands, set fire to the trolley, poison the switch operator, and end all access to public transit.
Lyz

Essentially 100% of patients I see for substance use are on Medicaid (or uninsured and working to get on Medicaid). Most cannot afford their lifesaving medications without coverage and I’ve seen devastating results from coverage lapses in the past. This bill’s new “requirements” are going to kill people
Ryan Marino, MD

There’s something SERIOUSLY WRONG with a political system like this:


Jon Cooper

Who first looked at the top of a tower and said “we need some weird stone monsters up here”? Visionary
lukelukeluke

Methane fee paused for 10 years. Between 2024-2026, it was supposed to ramp from $900 - $1500 per ton. Funding for IRA clean transport programs is gone as are civil penalties for violating CAFE standards.
Chirag Lala

China's progress in developing a green economy really is great news for the world. It means that they and the rest of the world will be containing their greenhouse gas emissions. It also means that once we no longer have someone suffering from dementia in the White House, the technology will be there for us to convert quickly and cheaply.
Dean Baker

Pro tip for NYT: You are not obligated to run slime from right-wing hackers that is intended to discredit progressive politicians, unless of course you decide that it is newspaper policy to try to discredit progressive politicians
Dean Baker

One last thing. How does a eugenicist have such ready access to reporters and/or editors at the NY Times? Cause if I wanted to get a “scoop” or angle inserted into the paper of record, I’d have to jump through a lot of hoops to do so.
Zack Pizzaz @chadstanton.bsky.social

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
one dozen rats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social

nothing more american than an abandoned toys r us, a company destroyed by private equity, painted with a giant flag mural


Marisa Kabas

A liberal Minnesota politician was murdered along with her husband and another was shot along with his wife by a right wing anti-abortion psycho and I haven’t seen 1/100th the coverage that Luigi, a man with severely muddled politics, received for shooting a healthcare executive
Screamer Jim

“Supreme Court lets Trump admin deport men detained in shipping container for 6 weeks to South Sudan” Unbelievable headline. Will I put up my flag tomorrow? I don’t know. My country is unrecognizable.
Jill Lawrence

When you jam your bill through overnight…
When you are forced to cancel town halls…
When you need to wear masks to hide your actions…
You know the people aren’t on your side—and now, you’ve lost us forever.
We will remember this day. We will remember your names. We will remember you as traitors.
50501: The People’s Movement

Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.
News Eye

One of the most frustrating things about this era: they will mock the dumb administration talking points all day but they will not fail to report on them and use the language the administration prefers. It's happening again with the concentration camp in Florida. They refuse to not use the name.
baekjesmile.bsky.social


Anti-capitalist meme pebbler @seizethememez.bsky.social

the good news is that *at least* half of that ICE funding is going to be stolen. like, do you have a magical dowsing box you want to sell? now's your time. maybe it detects 'illegals' by using AI!
BeijingPalmer

250,000 Minnesotans kicked off health care
28% higher energy bills
More hungry kids
All for billionaire tax breaks
This ugly bill is devastating to Minnesotans just trying to get by, and a huge handout to the richest among us.
State Sen. Jamie Long

Can we call it fascism now?
Nicholas Slayton

Bin Laden is dead but his idea of creating a reactionary wave that would destroy American democracy from within and cut us down to size as a global power seems to be working out pretty well.
Joshua Holland

This country has never been the same since 9/11. Hate and fear has dominated ever since.
Robert Simonson

I’m not gonna say Americans voted *for* a gulag archipelago but they didn’t vote against it and I hope the world punishes us appropriately
Matthew Downhour

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social

Seed-grown strawflowers bursting into the scene:


City Mouse Garden

The national media, rightwing media and social media algorithms spent 2024 repeatedly telling the electorate that the result of electing Trump would be an end to high prices for consumer goods, and explicitly denying that it would result in these sort of health care cuts. Propaganda works.
mtsw

This [Republicab budget] bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States. It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps. It’s fascism. trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether. It’s fascism. Trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
Max Berger

Joe Biden’s trifecta spent money to reconstruct our industrial base by building renewables and chips. Trump’s trifecta is spending money to cage innocent people at scale and then taking money from sick people to give to the rich.
Adam Gurri

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.
Michael Hobbes

Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital. Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Kevin M. Kruse

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
jamelle @jamellebouie.net

Here are some nice mushrooms:


lukelukeluke

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did with ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA, and others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

For 50 years GOP has relied on 3 big scams:
* deficits pose civilizational threat (when a Democrat is in the White House)
* tax cuts for the rich pay for themselves
* safety net cuts are needed to purge welfare cheats
with this bill, Trump's "working class GOP" is supercharging all three
Greg Sargent

Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism, said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”
Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social

The Equal Protection Clause was written with Black people in mind post-slavery. It's a Black ass amendment. But now it's being twisted to protect white people from DEI while denying protection to trans and queer folks. We need an EQUITY Protection Clause — not legal oppression Olympics.
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.bsky.social

Like I need something else to be mad about but already getting pissed at DFL moneybags who want to primary Ilhan Omar AGAIN when we need to concentrate on replacing Tina, taking back the state Capito; trifecta, keeping District 2, and defeating Finstad, Stauber, Fischbach and Emmer.
David Brauer

Democrats: “Is Zohran Mamdani an antisemite? He’s Muslim so we can never be sure”
Republicans: “What if we made a Holocaust denier one of the most powerful lawyers in America, wouldn’t that be fun”
Will Stancil


@lorihjschaffer.bsky.social

When Dems considered an agenda called “Build Back Better,” mainstream news outlets agonized publicly about how they couldn’t use the term, and would instead call it, e.g., “Biden’s spending bill.” With Republicans in charge, calling their agenda One Big Beautiful Bill, that’s all out the window.
Brian Beutler

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.
Ken Burnside

Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so his is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.
Karl Jacoby

more than half of all GOP political donations in 2024 were over a million dollars. the democratic donor base is the educated professional middle class, employees in public unions, and older upper-middle class/lower-level rich libs. The GOP donor base is ~300 rich cranks.
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social

Extremely dark that the entire U.S. government is lying down to be steamrolled by something called the Trump agenda for fear of some force called "Donald Trump" while the actual Donald Trump has no idea what's happening
Tom Scocca

If some random BLM activist in 2020 said “kill all white people tbh” then there would still be columns in The Atlantic about how it was a mistake for Joe Biden to have made that the official Democratic Party policy. But we all sorta expect Trump advisors to promote genocide so hey no big deal.
Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social


George Conway

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

Imagine if a fraction of the journalists who helped manufacture claims of "anti-Semitism" against anti-war protesters began to cover the fact that white nationalists are helping to direct attacks on non-white people in the US.
It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social

Rural economies are propped up by commodity prices, immigration and public funding. Tariffs, ICE crackdowns and the Big Beautiful Bill go after all 3.
Bobby Big Wheel @kleinman.bsky.social

Yep. It’s a known and consistent finding in public health that expanding Medicaid is the fastest way to reduce crime.The social supports being decimated, the increased prices, the jobs lost, will all lead to a crime spike and then they’ll say”see,we need armed masked men everywhere for safety.”
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us:


El Norte Recuerda

All I have to say about the Diddy trial verdict is I’ll never get over how much our society hates women.
Leah McElrath

I have a degree in Economics but I don’t fixate on GDP. In America, when we build a massive freeway, buy a car, fill it with gas, crash it, repair it, and treat the associated injury and cardiopulmonary disease…that all adds to GDP. But what did it buy us? My daily walk on 19th C. infrastructure to a local coffee shop probably generates less GDP than the typical suburban Starbucks run. And the physical, mental, and social benefits are largely ignored by GDP statistics.
Qagggy!

Thinking today about how rich conservatives throw their money at 500 different people doing whatever they want and if 10 payoff they consider it money well spent while rich liberals will make you complete a 35 page proposal to hope to get $15k for certain prescribed activities.
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social

They built the concentration camp on an Indian burial ground. A little on the nose but subtlety isn’t really the vibe these days
Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com

The GOP's greatest superpower is the sheer cartoon evil of their policies. "They are taking healthcare from the poor so they can give tax breaks to millionaires" makes you sound like a hysterical SJW but it is straightforwardly what they are doing.
Michael Hobbes

Truth:


rprobbins.bsky.social

Call me crazy, but my idea of making America great involves a lot fewer kidnappings and concentration camps.
The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will supercharge ICE kidnappings: 10,000 new ICE agents. 100,000 new detention beds. “You think we're arresting people now?” says Trump’s border czar. “Wait till we get the funding."
Rolling Stone


Observation suggests that the opposite of “woke” is selfish, cruel and stupid.
Brent Toderian

Best Canada Day emoji:


Annalee Newitz

People and the media have accepted it as a normal political discussion that good people can disagree on but it’s straight up sociopath shit to take away someone’s healthcare and I don’t really have time for anyone who feels differently
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social

It’s amazing that it takes so many public meetings, environmental impact assessments, scientific studies to implement Everglades restoration, but they can just put up a concentration camp in the Everglades overnight.
David Ho

Question: does it make America great again to deport a guy who’s willing to run into the ocean where a shark is prowling to save a child and chase away the shark?
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

How many rural hospitals did the author of Hillbilly Elegy put an expiration date on yesterday?
Dean Barker

With all these bribes and "gifts" going to his future presidential library, does anyone have a feeling that his future library is going to be a new Trump golf course and resort that is paid for by the bribes and "gifts"?
Barry Goldstein aka Buck Nikit

How dare they edit a 2 hour interview down to just 60 minutes for their show called ‘60 minutes’
StMiley

Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT:


Brandon Friedman

every institution in american life has utterly failed us
the courts
the congress
the universities
law enforcement
the military
the free press
every single one
Oliver Willis

Before the election, energy analysts said that repealing renewable energy tax credits was an "extreme" and "unlikely" scenario. Many Democrats said the same, because Republicans would never willingly harm their own districts and constituents, who were benefiting from subsidies. Here we are.
Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social

The basic catastrophe is that when you say what republicans will do, nobody believes you and the media calls you a liar
Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social

In October 2024, multiple top-tier media outlets told me their editors wouldn't approve stories on our Project 2025 modeling because Trump disavowed the plan. And here we are.
Silvio Marcacci

I am no fan of Springer, but to preempt objections that this is hyperbolic language, the Nazis literally banned the same journals and justified the decision using very similar rhetoric.
Ben Brubaker

Recently I opened a PDF and immediately a message popped on the screen that said "this document appears long. Would you like an AI summary?" The document was only five pages long.
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social

I used to think of vice signaling as a minor point about political communication. now I wonder if we need to develop it as a core aspect of political theory, at least as far as the Americas are concerned
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

This is where this country is headed:


Sanho Tree

The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.
Mrs. Betty Bowers

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
Daniel Nichanian @taniel.bsky.social

Every time Trump says something awful about Biden, I get a little upset that Biden was nothing but cordial and friendly to Trump, even though he knew exactly what Trump is. The reaching across the aisle good old boy stuff is gone. Biden never understood how to play Trump’s game.
deliarn.bsky.social

They built a concentration camp in record time but can’t fix healthcare.
They built a concentration camp in record time but can’t solve the gun problem.
They built a concentration camp in record time but can’t work on the housing issue.
They built a concentration camp in record time.
 @kdnerak33.bsky.social

Everything RFK Jr does seems designed to kill more people.
Jonathan Cohn

Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.
Seth Cotlar

the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.
Daniel Nichanian @taniel.bsky.social

I've been thinking about what needs to happen to fix this country, and I think should reason somehow prevail we'll need to change the names of both parties. We've been so tribalized by propaganda that many people will NEVER vote for "a Democrat" or "a Republican," ever.
Bob Alberti @a1batross.bsky.social

Spoke with someone who works with a public hospital system. His assessment of the effects of the GOP spending bill: “I think this is going to be a very apparent catastrophe, very quickly.”
Philip Bump

A diseased and impoverished nation is easier to control.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat

My earlier post about the Republican's Big Murder Bill, including Lisa Murkowski's role in it, contains a number of posts about that topic.

Civility will be the death of democracy
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social

When the AI bubble bursts, I don't think the tech industry is ready for how many people are going to take genuine pleasure in it, even with the economic chaos that will follow. Never in my life have I seen such outright disdain for both tech and its executives
Ed Zitron

“It wasn’t until public planning began to prioritize cars that children lost not only areas to play but also the freedom to get to places on their own. Tellingly, the share of K–8 students walking or biking to school fell from 48 percent in 1969 to just 13 percent in 2009…”
LauraGMitchell

Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did
Ian Boudreau

If a sitting president can openly muse about arresting and disappearing someone who is likely to become mayor of the country's largest city, while also getting the funding for a massive secret police, it'd be hard to find sufficient evidence to qualify that country as a democracy.
Soon to be fired DoJ video editor @darinself.com

$45 billion for ICE, a 10x budget increase. And now the call to deport AMERICAN BORN citizens.
Matt Okumura

This is a concentration camp
Anthea Butler

Truth...


Roxine King

Zohran Mamdani received more first-round votes (432,305) than Andrew Cuomo received total votes after ranked choice voting (428,530). That means more people ranked Zohran first than ranked Cuomo anywhere on their ballot (without ranking Zohran above him).
Peter Sterne

Eric Adams, 2021: 1% win, "Mandate" / New Face of Democratic Party
Donald Trump, 2024: 1.5% win, "Mandate" / Free Range to entirely remake America
Mamdani, 2025: 14% win / "lot of questions and concerns"
Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com

Watch carefully now as the GOP buy one republican senator after another with very special narrow cutouts just for them in  order to get their vote. Everyone has a price and we'll get to see exactly what it takes to buy these senators.
Peter Gleick (a few days before the final vote)

Oil companies know greenhouse gases are real, insurance companies know they’re real, scientists know they’re real, but Republicans either refuse to believe it or are doing the bidding of the oil companies. Either way, this is stupid and destructive.
Elliot Blake

the fuck is up with republicans and their utter lack of empathy for actual fuckin death
darth™️

Wars are underway. Humanitarian disasters are transpiring around the globe. Trade conflicts are unresolved. Millions of Americans are on the verge of losing their health coverage. And he’s selling perfume.
David Corn

it’s wild to me that the culture war breaks this way. Which is more macho:
1) get around under the power of your own manly muscles in a machine you can easily build and fix
2) carted around in a luxury armchair stapled to a room sized machine that runs on dinosaur juice and bottomless tax dollars
Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social

This proposal to cut the funding of NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) to zero is shocking to us, but what's even more shocking is that my NOAA colleague, who runs a very large group at one of the OAR laboratories, didn't even know about this document when I sent it to him.
David Ho

The last time anyone freaked out this hard over a word they didn’t understand, a woman told Pete Hesgeth “no”:


Jesse Duquette

Over the past decade, the world’s richest 1% have increased their wealth by at least $33.9 trillion, according to a new analysis from the global anti-poverty group Oxfam International.
Bruno J. Navarro

Seeing a lot of racist pinkwashing bullshit about Muslims and homosexuality and it’s a good time to share how I was on the gay marriage beat for a decade and racist gays never believed me when I shared how US Muslims favored equal LGBT rights (52%) over Christian evangelicals (34%)!
Steven W. Thrasher @thrasherxy.bsky.social

When Trump depicts America as an unending nightmare of crime and carnage, he’s not only trying to trigger a cortisol rush among his followers; he’s also creating a narrative of despair.
PTJ @tjp922.bsky.social

Sometimes I think about how Japan is the same size as California but has 3x the population without a housing crisis
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com

I feel trapped between people who are terrified to use LLMs, and people who are terrified not to. Can we please bring back boredom and indifference when it comes to overhyped new tech?
Annalee Newitz

I’m all about work requirements…for Congress. Most of these people don’t do shit.
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

New arrival!


Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social

The fascists are openly telling you there will never be free or fair elections again. If they go ahead with this plan to disappear their political rivals you no longer can go on pretending that we have any other choice but to fight the war being waged against us.
Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social

POLITICIAN: “[lie] [nonsense] [lie] [nonsense] [lie] [nonsense] [lie] [nonsense]”
POLITICIAN: “I’m not running for reelection.”
POLITICIAN: “[truth] [facts] [truth] [facts] [truth] [facts]”
Mrs. Betty Bowers

the pivot from “we’re not cutting medicaid” to “come on look at these lazy bastards” sure was speedy
shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social

Chris Murphy: "The only people that matter to Republicans right now are corporate CEOs and billionaires. Everybody else doesn't matter. If you don't belong to Mar-a-Lago, you aren't a human being according to this version of the Republican Party. And that is deeply sad."
Aaron Rupar

Heat wave after heat wave and Republicans want to cripple the power grid
Brendon Slotterback

"Repeatedly accuse your opponents of doing something they are not doing, so that when you take power and actually do it, the worst you'll face is 'both sides do it' handwringing." It's a low, shitty, dishonest strategy, but it works, again and again and again.
David Roberts @volts.wtf

How's 2025 been treating you so far? #pareidolia:


Making Chips @enceladusty.bsky.social

I seem to recall MAGA complaining a lot about weaponizing government institutions against political opponents. I guess they’re over that now.
jmattlock.bsky.social

The Senate’s version of OBBBA hits poor families even harder than the initial version passed by the House — now the poorest Americans will lose 2.9% of their income while the richest gain 2.2%
Steve Rattner

Opinion | If Democrats cannot stop Trump from defunding life-saving medical trials, they will have blood on their hands.
NY Times Pitchbot

Realized I have charging cords spread around my house like my parents had ashtrays
David Brauer

Rick Scott is pushing an amendment to Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill that would slash $313 billion more from Medicaid, a safety-net program his hospital company was accused of scamming.
Rolling Stone

This has been so mystifying to me. Grades don't even matter outside a couple of very specific use cases (when's the last time someone in a job interview asked you to explain a B- on your transcript?). So it's just practice; it's like they made a robot that runs sloppy free throw drills for you
KG Hutchins @songsforhorses.com


Annie & Joe

People will choose cycling if they feel safe riding. It's not complicated.
Tom Flood

The Trump administration is dropping charges against ms-13 gang leaders after the gang leaders agreed to use their power as gang leaders to support Nayib Bukele politically in El Salvador.
Pat Dennis

i don't know when people decided you should get applauded for being a troll
Atrios @eschatonblog.com

Possibly when a troll became president
Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news

In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.
David Corn

Remember how we obsessively heard about how Real Folkz were Suffering From Inflation™️ and struggling to make ends meet under Biden? We simply are not getting anything like that tone or volume of negative coverage about living standards about Trump’s policies.
Mark Copelovitch

Of course [billionaires] didn't get rich by accident. They got rich by acting like amoral psychopaths. They hoarded wealth, abused employees, underpaid wages, engaged in every shady business practice they could get away with, and generally were a blight on humanity.
darkphoenyx27.bsky.social

You see, the reasoning is that if you take money away from rich people they will not work. If you take money away from poor people they'll be more productive. Maybe they can take all the money from the rich so that they'll be incentivized to work harder.
BungalowBILL

Yeah yeah yeah propaganda can be powerful, but it's not mind control. People have agency, they have options, they have choices. It's not hard to find differing points of view. Choosing not to even look is still a choice.
The Alternate Historian

Imagine being so fragile that inclusion feels like a threat, but authoritarianism — just another Sunday:


Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com

ICE ultimately isn't for deporting illegals. ICE is ultimately going to be used as Trump's praetorian guard. If cowardly Republicans pass this bill, Trump will have his personal army. This bill makes ICE bigger than the Marine Corps. Call your representatives.
Rep Richard Dangler

Republicans want to tax people for NOT destroying the planet. They are imposing taxes on clean energy. And the jerks wonder why people don't want to have kids.
Dean Baker

And actually, I'll go one further. Trump's Republicans fight against registering their guns in a national database because it might be abused and exploited by an unlawful government for mass confiscation of guns. What the fuck do you think they will do with a National Citizenship Registry?
Working The Issue @claytonabernathy.bsky.social

80% of Americans believe that the US would be better off if more Americans worked in factories. But only 26% of Americans think THEY would be better off if they worked in factories; 72% said they would NOT be better off if they worked in a factory. See the problem?
Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social

Too bad Kristi Noem has federal law enforcement focus on arresting gardeners and food truck operators so they can't go after the guy shooting at firefighters in Idaho
Dean Baker