The first half of August 2025 (August 1–15): It started with Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics so he can cook the books on the U.S. economy, and naming a January 6er from the Heritage Society as the new head. Then he paved over the Rose Garden and named increasingly incompetent people to important posts in DOJ and the Smithsonian.
RFK Jr decided he was pro-cancer, canceling funding for mRNA vaccines, among other bad things at HHS. Trump continued extoring universities and businesses, ICE continued to ramp up its attacks on people in California particularly. Hegseth went to bat for the Confederacy, praised a pastor who thinks women shouldn't vote, and cheated trans soldiers of their retirements.
And then Trump made up a crime wave in Washington D.C. and sent in the National Guard and federal cops. (Did you hear about the guy who threw a sandwich at one of the illegal federal enforcers? I don't think it made national news.)
Everything below the line is quoted from the attributed account, and is in reverse chronological order except some of the more timeless images, which I move up or down for better visual balance.
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Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic: Dad is full of loud passions and intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is larger than life, a force of nature, something akin to the weather. And just like the weather, you don't criticize it. Partly that's because criticism brings violence, but also just because ... why criticize the weather? It has no agency, it doesn't make choice, it just IS. But all that fear and hurt and trauma have to go somewhere. So they go to a) self-loathing, which partly explains why "hurt people hurt people," and b) anger at mom. Mom, unlike dad, is a human, a reasonable being, making choices, and therefore is responsible for how things happen.... Anyway, if you're familiar with the dynamic, it is impossible not to notice the way it is playing out on the national stage, with Republicans the daddy party and Democrats the mommy party.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Such a stark contrast:
Kate from Kharkiv
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha and Lauren Berlant and Ralph Ellison and Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures and languages exist.
Weird how all the shit RFK Jr is against is medicine and all the shit he’s ok with is like asbestos and shit like that
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
Pretty much every societal problem — from crime to anti-immigrant sentiment to transphobia to the “male loneliness epidemic” — is downstream of a government that simply does not give a shit about making life better, easier, and more affordable for its citizens, regardless of which party is in power
Stella @antlervel.vet
@thehighsign.bsky.social
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
Santiago Mayer
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social
By accepting Putin and Netanyahu with open arms and threatening the ICC if it goes after either, Donald Trump has essentially fractured international law making the world much more dangerous for everyone. In the absence of justice only tyranny and malice exists.
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social
I once had a client a local prosecutor called a "career criminal." Tbh, client had multiple arrests. For stealing food. Because otherwise they wouldn't eat at all. Because they couldn't get a job because of previously being arrested for stealing food. A society has the criminals it creates.
Sheryl Weikal @leftistlawyer.com
Greetings from the terra cotta cat and rabbit sculpted onto Folwell Hall at the University of Minnesota:
snackerü
Do people understand fascism starts by seeing some as less worthy than others?
J. Mijin Cha
We have the money for universal healthcare, they just decided to spend it on tanks attacking American cities instead. Remember that the next time they ask anyone left of center “how will you pay for it?”
Oliver Willis
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating the utilities that were behind the big brush fires ... because he thinks their DEI policies might be to blame. These fucking people are beyond parody.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Is it called breaking news because everything is broken.
Present & Correct
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats:
Seth Cotlar
Someone please explain to me why people who don’t live in major cities and generally hate the idea of major cities and people who live in major cities are suddenly so concerned about crime in major cities?
Cody @nestingpuffin.bsky.social
They think black people get free shit from the Democrats to do crimes, basically.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social
How has America ended up in a place where the government is determining what the Smithsonian writes on its display cards as ‘facts’? Why are Americans not up in arms about this? The criticism is remarkably lax.
The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social
I once talked about my low teacher salary on Twitter. A Missouri lawmaker responded to my tweet saying, "Quit. No one owes you anything."
Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social
Washington Post: "The Pentagon is considering assembling a "Military Reaction Force" to be deployed anywhere in America to combat unrest." This is authoritarianism, full stop.
Mark Bechtel @markymark757.bsky.social
This is not an image the car companies want you to see. Streets not just thoroughfares for vehicles but are vital social spaces for people and communities:
Sundance
January 6th, 2021, actual rioters beat a cop with a flag pole and crush another in a door as he screams in agony. Today, man throws a sandwich, gets a felony charge. Don't bother trying to make it make sense, there is no universe in which it does.
kurisu7885
[The sandwich thrower] was caught, released on his own recognizance and the judge lowered the charges, then they came up with more charges and sent [20] guys to arrest him. Which is just a whole new universe of desperate and pathetic.
Brandon Bird
"Dunn [the sandwich thrower]’s attorney says he tried to turn himself in, but instead, 20 officers came to his home to arrest him." Just think about that for a minute.
Greg Pak
Hoagie assault guy, if convicted, will be punished more strongly than J6 folks who beat police officers with poles and other objects and are now walking free (and probably joining CBP)
Asha Rangappa
If you think it’s problematic that Homeland Security sent ICE to intimidate Governor Newsom during this press conference. Just wait until Trump applies the $30 billion allocated in the Big Ugly Bill to expand ICE. And sends out these thugs to “maintain order” during the midterm elections
Adam Cohen @axidentaliberal.bsky.social
Jon Cooper
It is increasingly clear that the majority of federal law enforcement officers do little or no real work, hence having the time and resources to do what they've been doing under Trump. Whole agencies need to be zeroed out, with employees sued to pay back salaries and benefits wrongly obtained.
Max Kennerly
The same Republicans and conservatives who have spent the past few days insisting we don’t mention Jan 6th because ‘it was four years ago!’ have also spent the past few weeks obsessing over the *2016* election and indicting Obama for treason.
Mehdi Hasan
"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
Radley Balko
Turns out President Shitforbrains has shit for brains, if only someone could have foreseen it
Tom Tomorrow
A rare species of Thunbergia mysorensis (Indian clock vine) at botanical garden:
dozo-yoroshiku.bsky.social
People are being very obvious about using the phrase "feeling unsafe" in place of "being super racist" lately
Ian Boudreau
Was just prepping one of my student groups for a performance this afternoon, and suggested that anyone who tends to get nervous for concerts should grab a banana at lunch. My first violinist, puzzled: "Like, just to hold onto? Or...?"
Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social
Amazing how many of our current villains have similar origin stories: Someone criticized them or failed to give them the respect / status to which they felt entitled. Naturally, this left them with no choice but to destroy the offending institution/s, possibly the whole country.
Heidi Kitrosser
A few months ago I was at a college library that was selling off all its books ... seemed like a bad dream, now it seems like a premonition
Chris Steller
Just an honest labor statistician collecting the data, crunching the numbers, and reporting them fairly, and definitely not an extremist ideologue with an axe to grind, unshackled from respect for the law or political norms:
Justin Wolfers
What’s happening now in DC is even more intrusive and oppressive than the circumstances that made the colonists revolt but nobody knows that because we are terrible at teaching history
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com
We haven’t expanded the size of the House since before the baby boom. 42 senators represent states with a combined population smaller than that of California’s.
Philip Bump
When I become Mayor of St Paul I will reduce the tax burden on all residents by cancelling roads.
Minnesota_Toz
Americans are being conditioned to think of crime as an urban issue. Ask why. Alabama's murder rate is far higher than New York City's. Urban crime is not worse than rural crime. It's just more visible. In cities everything is more visible. So be careful what you blame city leaders for.
Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social
there's a real conversation to be had about what does and does constitute safety but if you're using the moment of a Trumpist crackdown on a city denied congressional representation to say you're scared of certain neighborhoods then you're a dupe and a mark at best and a quiet fascist at worst.
Kelsey Atherton
Good morning Bluesky!
CerberusXt
there is 'crime' – the real observable phenomena out in the world of various anti-social behaviors – and there is 'crime,' the vague scary mental image that people have that only loosely tracks with the external phenomena and is also heavily influenced by media diet, various psycho-social hangups, etc.
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social
Trump's BLS pick EJ Antoni has said that Social Security, America's greatest anti-poverty program, is a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be sunset. Reminder that BLS data is what determines annual cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security benefits. This is a five-alarm fire.
Robert Reich
In line with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's pet point about how a society cannot function if there are no consequences for openly lying, I don’t think it can function when there are zero consequences of any kind for constantly being wrong about everything when you have a big platform.
Ed Burmila
History will look upon the lost interregnum as an era when the hard work of preventing a return of Trump to power after the violent failed coup was seen as already done, and that every action to secure democracy was treated by the administration as unwarranted provocation rather than vital medicine
Kelsey Atherton
Lisa Gerrish
Reading about the former model with zero experience in historiography or the arts who will now curate, among others, the National Museum of African-American History and Culture and the National Museum of the American Indian
Gillian Branstetter
Conservative affirmative action is wild. They just let anyone do any job no matter their qualifications, so long as they’re loyal.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Don't put in the newspaper that she is a history buff. The review of the Smithsonian museums for "improper ideology" is being led by a 35-year old lawyer who has no experience or credentials in history or museum studies. But one supporter says she is an avid "fan of history."
Stephen West
in the same way that a rat is an avid fan of your pantry
Some of the Fish, Most of the Problems @stealmyposts.bsky.social
Is there a more fascist term than "improper ideology?"
silvergrl.bsky.social
My question is will they just store the removed artifacts and exhibits or actually destroy them?
Scozie @scozie83.bsky.social
You know, I’m not surprised that the people who have been bringing us “alternative facts” for like a decade now are planning to share fake jobs numbers and tariffs numbers and Smithsonian museum exhibits but it does scare the shit out of me how much they’re intent on destroying our shared reality
Kat Tenbarge
SDDPHOTO
I would trade all of the AI offerings for the return of a really good RSS reader (and more sites with RSS feeds)
Bill Childs
New research: Darkly painted cars cause heat islands: "Dark-colored vehicles made the air around them 3.8°C hotter compared to the nearby asphalt road." (Darker cars are also more likely to be in crashes.
David Zipper
A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments — in times of relative calm — become normalized in American political culture.
Rolling Stone
I’d love to hear every fascist pressed to explain what “improper ideology” means. An actual definition of what they believe is improper and why, and why that information deserves to be purged and censored.
SJ Worrier
These people can't really believe this drivel, it must just be a grift. Then again, that means the people they're grifting believe it
@thatpinktig.bsky.social
It helps to view the 2010s as a battle to determine how we adapt to a world where neoliberalism has created an escalating catastrophe. It ended in a crushing win for horrifying reactionaries over progressives. Our current government is supposed to be the consolidation phase of that decisive victory.
flyingrodent
The thing about 'act as if your house is on fire' is that you can get out of your house. It's more like our boat's on fire. Or indeed our spaceship
Dr Charlie Gardner
Every time I drive past this warehouse on I-94 in Dayton, I like to imagine that it's full of guillotines:
Eric Prindle
I used to work for a police department that actually had some foot beats — and NOBODY walks around in groups like [the four and six man patrols currently being used in D.C.]. It reduces your coverage and wastes resources — they'd be more effective as five pairs in different places than one mob. Geez...
BornToBark
It depends on what you’re trying to do. If you want to intimidate civilians, the best way is to form large roving bands of armed militarized forces.
Caffeine @caffeine.fellas.army
“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers." –Vital Knowledge
Carl Quintanilla
"Roughly 90 percent of fires are started by humans, and while discarded cigarettes and careless campfires can spark wildfires, blazes that begin near roads are often caused by cars." huh.
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social
"Stop publishing the employment data because we don't like the answers economists give" and "subject the Smithsonian to searching ideological censorship because we don't like the answers historians give" all on the same day.
Jacob T. Levy
I guess I don't have a problem with folks who prefer to live in the suburbs (I sort of live in one now), but I do have a problem with folks who conflate their discomfort with "crime."
Peter Flax
There are three Truth and Reconciliation commissions the United States needs to undertake before this nation ever has a chance to heal:
1) the original genocide of Native Americans
2) the sabotage of Reconstruction
3) the unwillingness to hold the Republican Party responsible for January 6th
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social
NEVER FORGET — when the National Guard WASN’T called, and that he lied when he said he couldn’t:
VoteVets
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.
Moira Donegan
I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy
Maggie Astor
Also: if you love your country — your actual country, not some airbrushed fantasy — you will want to know about ALL its past, good and bad. If you insist on only allowing the good parts to be discussed, you are demonstrating that you do not love your country, as it is, which has flaws.
hilzoy
I'll say it a thousand times — any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history." It is propaganda, pure and simple.
Kevin M. Kruse
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene — Mike Pence did — and later pardoned the perpetrators.
Peter Baker
Dazzling 2,000 year-old Roman bowl made of translucent amber-coloured glass. Fabulous example of the skill of ancient glassmakers! British Museum, photo by me:
Alison Fisk
We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this bowl of sunshine timeline cleanse.
Sister Golden Bear
"'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
Carl T. Bergstrom
The UK government wants to deregulate nuclear safety rules. The complaint is regulators have a “culture of risk aversion.” Personally, I like my nuclear regulators to be risk averse. "Economic growth" shouldn't be their job. Nuclear accidents damage land and sea for generations
Doug Parr
It’s so weird that this isn’t what people voted for, except they did.
Annaliisa Vilppu
i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
So sick of hearing about white people’s “feelings.” Our whole country is being wrecked based on feelings.
BlueSoulGA @simsink.bsky.social
i really think the only reason we haven't created new states — which was a common political tactic in the 19th century, see nevada and the dakotas — is that 50 is a round number
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.
Kevin M. Kruse
Whilst the police in London arrest blind pensioners in wheelchairs for being anti-genocide, in Portsmouth the leader of UKIP makes a nazi salute at an anti migrant demo and the police do nothing. Welcome to Britain 2025:
Tony Brewster @tonybdogs.bsky.social
"it's misogynistic and homophobic to say astrology is stupid" no, it's misogynistic and homophobic to assert that you can't criticize pseudoscience because you think women and queers need a metaphysical security blanket
Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social
Fascinating how some parents push certain college majors so hard on their kids for “job security” when it seems like the main thing that matters is having good luck with the year you graduate. (I was a child in ‘08 so yes this is my first time witnessing this)
Anu Li @panikadoc.bsky.social
My personal opinion is that everyone should be alarmist about everything the conservative movement is saying and planning and attempting right now. Be extremely alarmist about fascism. Be very alarmed about White Christian Nationalism. It is an absolutely appropriate reaction.
@spacelawshitpost.me
We're down to 250 National Guard troops in LA two months after 5000 were deployed in June. Nothing has changed in Los Angeles during that time.
Steven Santos
The New Yorker puts a number on it — $3.4 billion. That’s how much Trump and his family have profited from his presidency, estimates David Kirkpatrick.
Zach Everson
once you create distrust in the BLS and the economic data, everything gets fucked. Hiring some crackpot from the Heritage Foundation to undermine our economy will result in the USD no longer being the reserve currency. We are so stupid.
Kirsten @kmschubring.bsky.social
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
Bill Amend
“capital put under armed occupation because regime henchman named Big Balls got the absolute piss beaten out of him by a child” would probably get cut from a Zucker brothers movie script
ryan cooper
An earlier post about the occupation of Washington, D.C., with some of the BlueSky posts from its earliest days.
If our representatives will be arrested for acting on behalf of our interests then we don’t have actual representation
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com
I don't think most people understand how our brains have adjusted to the high speeds of driving. What once felt fast feels normal. And thus anything slower feels like unacceptable impediment. It isn't just better insulation and shocks (although it helps - my '84 Volvo *told you* when you hit 60 mph)
Dr. Tara Goddard
More journalists murdered in Gaza than in WW2: Vietnam : Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
wallydad.bsky.social
This is the wealthiest nation in history. Instead of making sure everyone has food, shelter, & healthcare, WE ARE FLYING A CHILD RAPIST WHO WE PAY TO HIS GOLF COURSE WITH A COTERIE OF BODYGUARDS WHO WE ALSO PAY. And we let him take bribes.
A Republic If You Can Keep It
If there’s no love, no compassion, you have the wrong Bible of Believers:
authentic4evr.bsky.social
A trans service member forced out at 15–18 years instead of retiring at 20 could lose:
• $1M+ in lifetime pension payments
• $450K–$750K in medical coverage value
• Tens of thousands more in other benefits
…in exchange for a one-time severance worth under $120K.
Mickey Kuhns
If you’re worried about the young people today and their mental health crisis, it’s comforting to spend 5 minutes on Nextdoor. The old people are SO much crazier!
Ken Jennings
One thing I've not seen mentioned in redistricting discourse is the fact that California has built so little housing over the last two decades, we're on track to lose ~ 4 seats in the house anyway. People really don't appreciate how deeply NIMBYs have fucked the United States.
Matthew Lewis @mateosfo.bsky.social
Not to mention, sprawl creates fascists. Who’s more likely to be aggrieved and vengeful? The guy who walks to the store and has a drink at the bar and chats with people, or the guy who sits in traffic all day and views other people as obstacles in his way?
Tom Bellino
A peony called Karl Rosenfield from Gamble Garden. From a visit in May. Trivia: The peony 'Karl Rosenfield' is named after the father of its breeder, John F. Rosenfield, who introduced it in 1908:
Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social
All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.
K. Thor Jensen
Absolutely unhinged that a therapist in MN can't do a zoom session with a person in ND without jumping through a bunch of licensing hoops but AI can provide mental health services anywhere but Illinois, apparently
Naomi Kritzer
Few things make people more angry than when you remind them that the speed limit is an upper limit and even applies to "the fast lane."
held steady
When e-bike/e-scooter rentals descended upon cities, politicians argued for speed governors on safety grounds, and in a number of cases forced companies to install them. That may have been the right call! But it highlights the obvious absurdity of allowing cars in cities without them.
David Watkins @djw172.bsky.social
Matcha cattè:
Present & Correct
"Any tasks having to do with letters specifically is a bad test because the neural network doesn't actually ever see the letters." Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the GPT?
Benjamin Dreyer
i feel like doing the nazi salute and posting it online should ruin your entire life and shouldn’t be celebrated
Stovey
Extremely grim that the only big clean tech money is specifically going to the companies that are explicitly dedicating themselves to meeting data centre expansion rather than cutting down on fossil fuels. This is what a climate-dismissive clean tech community gets you:
Ketan Joshi
really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social
In 2008, Obama got hammered for *listening* to a pastor who criticized America. In 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is *praising* a pastor who wants to repeal women’s right to vote—and no one in the GOP cares.
Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com
The New York Times uses the word “maximalist” because it’s afraid to use the word “dictatorship":
Mark Jacob
MAHA terrorist dumped two mags into the CDC building because he thought the covid vaccine made him ill
Brandon Friedman
It says everything that Republicans are working harder to arrest Texas Democrats than anyone on the Epstein list.
Larry Krasner @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social
There is no nice, gentle way to say, “okay so a nation is, in effect, a currency, a military, and resource allocation. If you break all of those, you do not…have a country.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom
When people talk about the Earth is dying. They are actually incorrect in the immediate sense. The Earth will be fine. We are the ones dying. If humans disappeared tomorrow, the Earth would be just fine for another 5 billion years or so. What we should be saying is we are killing ourselves.
Ebony Noor @darlingebony.bsky.social
The astonishing thing about Watergate, in contrast to today, is how the President was actually shamed into leaving office. Imagine that: shame. It sounds like a freaking fairy tale.
Patrick Chovanec
One thing I find striking about the gender breakdown is that the cities disproportionately favored by women tend to be the ones that right-wing media depicts as deadly war zones, too dangerous to visit for even the manliest warfighters.
Ned Resnikoff
How much better transit could we get for one overpass? How many kilometers of AAA infrastructure. How many missing sidewalks could we fill in? Such a waste of money to encourage driving.
Heather M @heathermmmmmm.bsky.social
it’s basically trite to note at this point but if this were any other president, and certainly a democrat, spending a ton of money to gild the white house would be a legit scandal:
jamelle @jamellebouie.net
They savaged Obama for asking for "fancy mustard" at a restaurant once, while Trump covered the Oval Office in tacky gold shit, bulldozed the Rose Garden so he can pretend he's at his shitty golf club, and vowed to tear down the East Wing to put up a $200,000,000 ballroom.
Kevin M. Kruse
Harris had the gall to buy a pan.
Yee @thisisyee.bsky.social
There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social
I just don't see how women's rights are improved by having to carry a birth certificate around in case they want to use a toilet.
David Whitley
"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.
Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this:
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)
Back in the ’70s Anita Bryant thought cis gay men like Pete Buttigieg (and me) shouldn’t be allowed to teach in schools because we would “recruit” children into homosexuality. Tens of millions of Americans agreed with her. I guess that was a concern that needed to be taken seriously too.
Uncle K
Figure out your principles and defend them. Mine are:
1) bodily autonomy for all
2) fuck off you Nazi piece of shit
Covers a lot of bases anyway.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
“I love making women upset” is a really underestimated motivation of modern conservatism
Sky Marchini
The psychosexual angst of right-wing men in the workplace, specifically, is so expansive that it'd take a PhD thesis or 12 to explore in sufficient depth, but it can effectively be summarized as "my only source of professional fulfillment is depriving my female colleagues of theirs."
PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social
We took the slow road from San Francisco to Portland for TypeCon. There are many sign pics to share, but my favorite thing of all is probably this guy:
Stephen Coles @stewf.com
I used to think something had gone terribly wrong with post-Soviet Russia, because it was misapplying capitalism by adding in direct force, coercion and gangsterism. That does seem quite charmingly naive at this point.
flyingrodent
it does remain enraging that we had a perfectly decent social media platform — not without its faults! but is anything? — which helped sustain the careers of tons of creatives and one guy, LITERALLY THIS ONE GUY, decided to ruin it for all of us
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
This is the central problem we face though: a tiny minority of incredibly rich people are now (have always been?) capable of ruining pretty much everything (and I mean *everything*) at a whim. We ought to do something about that before it really is too late (perhaps it already is).
Alom Shaha
While much of the outrage over the rising number of immigration detention facilities is focused on Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,” Georgia is quietly working on building the largest ICE facility in the country.
Capital B
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
Dave Vetter
The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.
Hamilton Nolan
3 foot long mountain dew fish lure my beloved:
rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social
Although I made it work for me as best I could, I still think the switch from pensions to 401ks was one of the worst things that ever happened to average employees.
Jimmy Malone @malonespeaking.bsky.social
We’re going back to quotas on Black students in elite universities.
Will Jones
There has always been a wariness about an official residence, to the point that the Executive Mansion was chosen as its official name rather than, say, "Presidential Palace." For the whole of the 19th century, it was effectively open to any member of the public who knocked on the door. Literally.
Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social
The man who is taking Medgar Evers' name off a Navy vessel says he is proud of "our (Confederate) history" and is demanding that statue be restored. Our country has been captured by white supremacists. The mere notion of a better future for all in 2020 radicalized them and Americans let it happen.
Ashton Pittman
The people who are so ready to call others "communists" institute one of the hallmarks of the Soviet Communist regime: political officers.
Cheryl Rofer
Let the judgement begin:
Anne Billson
One thing I think about a lot lately is how more than a million people died in this country from Covid and we had no public mourning and just capitalist demands to get back to work and shopping and it’s no wonder everyone forgot that Trump KILLED PEOPLE with how badly he botched the response.
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
We use nearly 40M acres of cornfields to grow ethanol. Nearly 40M acres of solar farms (with some batteries) could easily power the country, even if we all drove EVs and used AI.
Michael Grunwald
Full on authoritarianism on every front in Texas:
- Stealing five seats to help Trump rig midterms
- Threatening to arrest/expel democratically elected reps opposing election rigging
- Weaponizing federal law enforcement to illegally target elected reps
- SCOTUS preparing to kill Voting Rights Act
Ari Berman
There are actual problems with the vaccine injury-compensation system, but the notion that RFK Jr actually wants to address them seems preposterous. My guess: he wants to let vaxx-autism people get their mitts on it, soak the program into bankruptcy, and use that to derail other vaxx efforts.
Charles C. Mann
And now the census:
David Wessel
We will soon discover that there are only 38.8 million US citizens in the country. Oddly enough, that's the exact number of registered Republicans.
Bryan @sleepyneutrons.bsky.social
I used to think Republicans are uninterested in making people’s lives better, but now I think they’re actively trying to kill people.
David Ho
Sometimes I think about how we live closer to the time Cleopatra lived than Cleopatra lived to the time the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.
Leah McElrath
The two leading causes of death for children in the U.S. are cars and guns, by far. It should probably be a bigger story that Republicans are actively pushing policies that make both of these problems worse.
Sam @samd.bsky.social
If you’re wondering what US Congressional representatives are doing while on recess, many of them are in Israel with Netanyahu.
Leah McElrath
Confederate statue discourse coming back is a reminder to melt the statue down when you get the chance
Nick Brumfield
For all that Black people are told to get over slavery (colonialism, etc.) white people have clearly not healed from not having a violently enforced system of social deference and cheap/free labor.
Winifred "Goody" Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app
NY Times headline writers strike again. The term isn't "transforming," it's "eviscerating":
Peter Gleick
I think we should be honest that the *Greatest Generation* people [who were white] fought fascism ABROAD while they overwhelmingly supported fascism AT HOME. And frankly, those chickens have come home to roost now.
Prisonculture
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential [mRNA vaccines] and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
George Pearkes
it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer
Micah @rincewind.run
Justifications for using AI nearly always boil down to a manager thinking "How do I make this process that I've never done and don't understand more cost-efficient? Ah, here's a thing I've never used and don't understand that looks like it'll do the trick!" But you'd think the American Historical Association would know better.
James Harbeck @sesquiotic.bsky.social
Listen to people when they tell you this — the United States Government under Trump isn’t “becoming fascist, authoritarian and corrupt.” It’s already those things. The Trump Government is fascist, authoritarian and corrupt. The fact that it’s going to keep getting worse doesn’t mean that isn’t true.
Brent Toderian
Punishing universities for something they can’t meaningfully control doesn’t seem to me like good policy. Encouraging universities to discriminate systematically against students from poorer and more unstable countries doesn’t seem to me like a good outcome.
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social
Nobel Prize-winning science being cancelled by a vaccine denier.
David Ho
It’s #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay. To celebrate here’s an Ancient Greek clay aryballos (perfume flask) in the shape of a little owl! Dated c. 640 BC. The Louvre, Paris, photo by me:
Alison Fisk
22 research projects on mRNA vaccines obliterated by the brainworm in chief. “'I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,' said Mike Osterholm, a [U. of MN] expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations."
J. Offir, PhD
Jane Jacobs understands teenage play: "outdoor activity […] entails more loitering with others, sizing people up, flirting, talking, pushing, shoving and horseplay. Adolescents are always being criticized for this kind of loitering, but they can hardly grow up without it.”
Susannah Walker
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
Daniel José Older
Common pattern when interpreting public input:
In a neighborhood of 10K+ people.
3 people complain about a bike lane = Most residents are against the bike lane
50 people say they want the bike lane = Cyclists are loud, they don't represent everyone
OB Cycler
One of the favorite local news stories in places with real winter involves drivers complaining about road construction projects in May-October. What the news won’t say:
1. More cars on roads, more driving, and heavier cars increase road maintenance need
2. May-Oct is the only time for construction
Alessandro Rigolon
I would pay-per-view for a tv show of Trump picking lettuce / cleaning hotel rooms / mowing lawns / roofing. It would need to be a full 8 hour day's worth, not just a 10 min photo op.
C M Bell @carolbell.bsky.social
AAA estimates the average cost of owning a car is $12,297 a year, and recommends drivers spend no more than 10 percent of their income on car costs. This means you should make $120K to afford the average cost. Median *household* income in the US is $77K. The math just doesn't work.
A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social
Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name:
Hagai Palevsky @dialhforhagai.bsky.social
If Joe Biden had told a cable show that non-whites were made for farm labor and insisted his approval rating was in the 70s and then climbed onto the roof of the fucking White House…
Kevin M. Kruse
Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this. Definition of terms:
“these people” = Latino migrants
“Inner city people” = Black people
“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery and sharecropping
Sherrilyn Ifill
"Bike routes should be off the arterials and on side roads where it's safer to ride, but also we shouldn't give more people the option to live on those safer roads." Also - "All new carless residents should be forced to live on arterials but we shouldn't put bike lanes on those arterials, no way."
West Seattle Bike Blog
Thinking that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are awful because of awful things he and they’ve done for a long time, doesn’t make you antisemitic. Hating Jewish people in general because they’re Jewish definitely does make you antisemitic. Is that generally agreed on?
Brent Toderian
Sexual abuse is not a bug of religious fundamentalism, it's a feature.
David Roberts @volts.wtf
Today, Secretary Duffy said he wouldn't fund high-speed rail projects due to them "not having the means to go the distance." Hours later, he announced plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.
Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com
When I was in the USA I got the very strong impression that if someone like me said "mixed" where "black" was available this would be considered deliberate anti solidarity. And, more than that, kidding myself — I just code phenomenologically as black in the situations that matters.
lastpositivist.bsky.social
Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet.
Brent Toderian
One of my favorite Phoenix photos:
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
It’s not just about election years and candidates. It’s about giving people the tools they need to recognize what is and what is not a reliable source of information. A big problem throughout the pandemic was that contrarian doctors allied with right-wing dark money groups got platformed everywhere. But there was almost never a disclaimer that those voices were representing pro-business organizations that wanted to reopen the country for their own financial reasons. So they were basically framed as the other side of a nonexistent debate rather than representatives of major corporate interests.
Walker Bragman
Imagine we all drove EVs and then someone came along and proposed an ICE vehicle…
Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD
Imagine everybody took mass transit and then you heard about a new invention called private automobiles that could take you from one place to another but would kill more than a million people each year.
Ken Caldeira
If you took a billionaire's money away, they would just earn it back again. Cream rises to the top. I'm so confident about this, I think we should prove it by taking all the billionaires' money away.
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social
It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
Larry Glickman
Right-wingers are so insecure and covetousness that after they gathered public goods, land, economy and education for themselves they wanted the one thing we had: the story of oppression. They want this more than anything else becaus of the powerful narrative and culture we created from it.
Sherrilyn Ifill
the argument that AI in the context of art is “just a tool” completely elides the fact that the point of art is to participate in the fucking process of making it
mattie lubchansky
I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.
Marc Elias
They are erecting Confederate monuments in D.C. because D.C. is under Confederate occupation
Ned Resnikoff
Lioness rhyton from Knossos Palace, Crete. Fabulous example of Minoan stone carving skills during the Bronze Age 3,500 years ago! Photo by me:
Alison Fisk
One thing environmentalists have perhaps failed to communicate is that we need people to stop using fossil fuels, stop driving huge SUVs, stop destroying ecologies, etc, not because they’re against “abundance,” but rather the reverse! They want future people to have access to the earth’s bounty.
Yonah Freemark
kathy hochul correctly reading the political moment and going hard on Fuck Republicans was not on my political bingo card but I'm not mad about it
Micah @rincewind.run
Solar is not the Whole Foods of energy—nice but pricey. It's the Costco of power—cheap, on the shelf, available in bulk
Bill McKibben
Protest is an essential condition of decarbonisation. Without it, the planet is cooked.
George Monbiot
Three hundred constitutional scholars signed an open letter to signal their alarm over Trump's latest illegal efforts. We also spoke with three Trump voters in diners around the country who said this is exactly what they voted for.
Judah Grunstein
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social
The
US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment,
resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000
fewer American jobs.
Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy
The problem with the horse-race coverage of Trump II is that, across the board, he is destroying nonzero sum arrangements: rule of law, institutions, collective goods, trade relationships, alliances. So what the media portrays as a win for Trump is usually a net loss for everyone, including the US.
Judah Grunstein
Nicola @nicolataylor.bsky.social
Five out of four statisticians don't think it's possible to lower drug prices by more than 100%, and the other three statisticians were fired by Donald Trump.
Brian Sapient
The word gaslighting gets thrown around a lot these days, but I gotta say that the neo-Nazi party claiming to be so concerned about antisemitism that they have to destroy American higher education is a profoundly weird experience.
Max Berger
If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death
James Medlock
“Visibility hovered around or below 1 km in Fort McMurray, Alberta for most of the day Sunday, with the airport reporting exceptionally low visibility of just 200 metres at 5:00 p.m. local time.” The AQI hit 2242: 10x higher than the “hazardous” level.
Dr. Jeff Masters
this is what sprawl and big ass truck abundance leads to, folks.
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social
A lot of car trips would be replaced if drivers across our region had easy access to high-quality shared electric bikes at reasonable prices. Federal money is available for it. Whatcha thinking,
@marymm.bsky.social
Red states generate 70% of the wind power in the US.
David Ho
“Sidewalks are car infrastructure.” I have always lived in the United States so this is hard to accept but it’s true:
Jehiah
surely abundant fossil fuel-powered AI data centers guzzling billions of gallons of water so people can keep driving big ass trucks on expanded highways to new suburbs on federal lands — will find a solution to reverse this
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social
Whether it's conservatives assassinating State Senators in Minnesota or liberals refusing to sell Alan Dershowitz pierogis in Martha's Vineyard, both sides have taken incivility to an extreme.
NY Times Pitchbot
Speaking of guns, since the ostensible justification for having them in the US (standing up to government tyranny) is clearly bullshit, it seems the only reason for having them is to commit mass murder, shoot schoolchildren, kill hapless animals, commit suicide, or keep people from taking your guns.
David Ho
Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.
Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social
Palestinians are not allowed to have SEEDS.
Mara @mauratwit.bsky.social
Trump likes to push the lie that wind turbines cause cancer, but the only way that would happen is if you grounded them down to a powder and snorted it, probably; kind of like inhaling air pollution from burning fossil fuels.
David Ho
Wow, this 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian paint box still contains original pigments! Looks similar to a modern-day set! An inscription tells us it belonged to Amenemope, Vizier during the reign of Amenhotep II. Photo by Cleveland Museum of Art:
Alison Fisk
NEWS: An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. Trump seems to be using "invasion" agitprop to recreate the national trauma that reigned after 9/11, to hyper-militarize the homeland. As one scholar tells me, this "could create a kind of domestic ‘Forever War,’ but one that is uniquely dangerous."
Greg Sargent
There’s no evidence that offshore wind kills whales. But you know what does kill whales? Commercial fishing kills at least 300,000 whales and dolphins every year.
David Ho
‘The invention of the cotton gin by the Yale graduate Eli Whitney facilitated slavery’s westward expansion, which generated vast wealth for planters, merchants and domestic slave traders.’
London Review of Books
The American Dream of owning a huge house and big car is so deeply embedded in the psyche that I have no idea how we accelerate the counter narrative for denser city living. But my hunch is that it's probably inspiring storytelling from folks that truly believe cities make us happier and healthier.
bryanformhals.com
Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison. He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.
ProPublica
“Canada, one of the U.S.’s largest trading partners, was not able to reach a deal with the White House, who instead raised tariffs on some Canadian goods.” This should say that the lying, bullying US President was unable to strong-arm Canada into agreeing to a bad deal & so Americans will pay more.
Brent Toderian
We need, as a society, to recognize that the dream of everyone having a castle in the suburbs is actively harming us — environmentally, politically, and psychologically. People should be *embarrassed* to admit they own a 3,000 square foot single-family home with a three car garage. It’s gross.
Nissa Mitchell
We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans. Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.
Mrs. Betty Bowers
The Rose Garden at the White House is now just a big swath of white paving stones circled by drains shaped like American flags and with a presidential seal at each corner.
Leah McElrath
reminds me of those grey floor home remodels:
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social
I know it’s a small thing in relation to the rest of the destruction he’s causing, but it’s such a perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing to the common good on a large scale. There’s just something chilling about it. At every level, fascism is ugly and life-destroying.
Leah McElrath
For all their talk about "nature," fascists hate the implicit femininity of anything soft, the messiness and vulnerability of living, growing, changing things. It reminds them of their own vulnerability, and mortality. On some level, they are quite literally afraid of flowers.
Gwen Snyder
Paving over the Rose Garden and taking over the Kennedy Center (and vowing to slap Melania’s name on the Opera House) are just gratuitous acts of spite intended to inflict pain on the people he hates. The cruelty is always the point with that SOB.
Al Cappuccino
Too much "we're cooked" and not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"
left at london
My dad taught me most of what I know about politics, yet I didn’t believe him when he said that the anti-abortion movement was just a stalking horse for white supremacist eugenics. Ok Dad you’re right, I’m sorry
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com
Can we start saying "the current so-called US government" because I'm not sure this is a real government anymore.
quick13
Ebikes and cargo eBikes need 10–14 Wh/mi, about 1/30 of EVs. Swap EVs for eBikes, and we can get 9,000x the miles/acre. Protected bike lane networks + eBikes are the ultimate de carbonization solution for suburbs (with transit for dense cities, EVs for rural areas)
Actual PhD Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social
NEW: The Smithsonian says it will restore Trump's two impeachments to the museum's Presidency Exhibit "in the coming weeks."
Kyle Griffin
No one gave a shit if a gay man was lonely navigating a homophobic society. No one gave a shit if a woman was lonely in an abusive marriage. No one ever gave a shit if the Black kid in a white school was lonely. But we all need to care about straight white men being lonely. Miss me with this bs.
Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social
1967 U.S. Forest Service poster stamp set:
Manda Maude @bettesays.bsky.social
Masked ICE agents hauled workers out of a pizza place in my Massachusetts town today. Do I feel safer? No, the opposite. Do I feel wealthier? Not a bit. Do I feel that justice is being served? No, not that, either. I’m mostly infuriated by armed, masked men roaming around and grabbing people.
Derek Lowe
Paul Ingrassia — a 30-year-old former right-wing blogger and newly minted lawyer who was admitted to the bar in 2024 — is Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia has called Jack Smith a “disgusting man,” accused him of “election interference,” and said he should be jailed.
Anna Bower
Did you say “admitted to the bar in 2024?” The DEI of it all. This is insane.
Sherrilyn Ifill
The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:
— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election
Bonus:
— he thinks Republicans should welcome Nick Fuentes
— he thinks the descendants of slaves owe reparations to the descendants of slave owners
Radley Balko
My crank theory of art and politics is that the flagship character of the Marvel Cinematic Universe being Iron Man at that particular point in time really did inadvertently boost Elon Musk’s image in the minds of millions in meaningful ways. If they had lead with Thor or some shit history probably turns out different. We beamed “Genius Tech business guy held back by whining govt bureaucrats” into millions of people’s heads in high-def at the worst possible time.
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social
There are people who are fantasizing about the next Dem administration doing its own version of retribution but setting everything else aside Republican administrations have a well established track record of leaving behind messes so colossally big that the new Dem president doesn’t even have time to be vindictive towards his predecessor
Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
Few people actually read and STUDY Black women intellectual's work or take it seriously. I believe if they did, their work would be much better. The conversations about love, relationships, ABUNDANCE etc... are all theorized in Black feminist scholarship.
Prisonculture
The truth is whatever Dear Leader says:
Republicans Against Trumpism
"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social. My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social
Increasingly I think neofeudalism vs capitalism is a better lens for understanding what’s going on in contemporary politics than capitalism vs socialism. Capitalists as a class want reliable economic data. They want predictable and impartial courts. Landed gentry don’t want or care about those things.
William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social
Israel keeps getting it both ways. "Oh we are a secular democracy not an ethno state, but you can't criticize us cause we are also Judaism incarnate and any criticism of us means you hate Judaism." What is actual antisemitism is to make a state synonymous with a global people to excuse evil
Gnome Pickles
Health and happiness: walking combines the best of both worlds for older people (and all)
• Our muscles, heart, lungs and balance systems respond really well to being used.
• You don’t have to train like an athlete. Enjoy.
• Exercise should be pleasure, not pain.
Positive news
Gil Penalosa
Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social
coming from a very traditional cultural background, I see dating as a place where consumer capitalist individualism has really failed. traditional communities see it as part of *everyone’s job* to help young people find a partner. from organising communal meals to straight-up ‘going to the matchmaker’
Naomi Alderman
That's Donald Trump, children. He's the man who killed Big Bird.
Tom Tomorrow
Firing the BLS commissioner is Trump's first clear dementia firing. He blamed her for downward revisions to jobs data after the election, the revisions were made more than two months BEFORE the election. But Republicans all have to pretend Trump makes sense
Dean Baker
Why do the jobs numbers get revised? Our markets and policymakers want data NOW but employer data dribbles in over months. 1st estimate is based on the 75% of employers who respond promptly. Updates occur as more data rolls in: 95% response rate by final revision
Prof Dynarski
The reason that ballroom is so big is because he's gonna host events that cost $50,000 per plate to attend.
Andrea Pitzer
They did it. They killed the Corporation for Public Broadcadting. They want us silent. They want us uninformed. The time to fight back is now. Support local community radio before its too late.
DJ TJ
Bike to the Grandview Theater. Or anywhere between Snelling and Fairview. It's some rough construction closures. Cars just tear public works up, forcing enormously expensive and business-destroying repairs, and then drivers have the temerity to complain about cyclists.
marymm.bsky.social
You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.
Prisonculture
Of the last 51 million jobs created, 50 million were created by Democratic Presidents:
Isaiah Martin
The reason MPR had staffed stations in Moorhead, St cloud, Duluth and Rochester is because CPB required their staffing in exchange for $$. No more CPB, so they're on borrowed time. I think MPR will start selling off frequencies to preachers.
Bob Collins @mylittlebloggie.bsky.social
one thing that keeps happening is Trump taking major steps which impose large, often asymmetric costs on American business, and American business doing fucking nothing in response
Michael Caley
Zohran Mamdani merely mentioning the possibility of such things happening] has drawn more attention than the real deal happening in DC
Jeremy Wallace
Maybe someone whose businesses have been found to have committed fraud, whose businesses were bankrupted 6-times, a felon shouldn't be leading the largest economy in the world?
Jackie Sloane
i'm guessing the only thing markets will hate more than bad jobs numbers is not being able to know if there are bad jobs numbers
Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social
“The Left” (whatever that means depends a LOT on the pen writing it) is not neglecting men, it’s just equating them with all others. Equality. That’s a less tempting offer than Dominance but hey, that’s having a moral core for you. If it was easy we’d have already won.
Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul
One of the hardest things I’ve grappled with over the past nine months or so is the death of “normal.” There’s no normal to go back to. There’s just *this* and whatever we make of what comes next
Holly @hollyhanna.bsky.social
Jon Cooper
Sometimes I think of how only two generations of us [Black people] were even allowed to attend these settler colonial ass universities in tiny, awkward handfuls, and how even that was too much
Kashana
If the hallmark of the Holocaust was the crude industrialization of murder, the hallmark of the Gaza genocide is the use of sophisticated computer technology for murder. AI technology and drones are being used to target and kill families, journalists, and physicians, among others. It is obscene.
Leah McElrath
I liked when Presidents could handle negative economic news without having a complete Queen of Hearts "off with their heads" meltdown. It ironically gave you more confidence that the economy wasn't about to fly completely off the rails.
Patrick Chovanec
Trump has "liberated" people right out of their jobs and financial stability.
CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org
In my heart, I believe that Kamala lost because she’s a Black woman. The campaign made some grievous errors, but a white male candidate would have survived. I think about that about once every hour these days. All of this hell visited on us, it’s because of that original sin. I think they stopped booking me for cable after the election because that’s all I would say. Yeah yeah young men moving right whatever should have gone on Rogan whatever I even believe in Tim Walz Unleashed as a potential game changer but… she’s a Black woman and we’re a bunch of racists. Oops.
Ana Marie Cox
WSJ (now a lefty newspaper) editorial board concludes with "the President isn't a king, and the Constitution doesn't let him command the trade tides."
Lars Vilhuber
When people talk about "legitimate concerns" about trans athletes I like to remind them that many sports-governing bodies had existing policies based on scientific/medical evidence that were working just fine until a bunch of bigots got mad and forced those organizations to reverse their policies. There are many real inequities that keep kids, especially girls, out of sports, and yet strangely we never hear the Save Women's Sports crowd talking about those. They're not running youth clinics, or gathering equipment donations, or doing anything to address really obvious barriers. Weird, huh?
Gravel Influencer
More similarities than differences between ICE and a violent gang
Doc McDoom
A recent poll shows that people in the United States suffer from mass delusion about crime. The results are alarming for Democrats. It should be a massive scandal for mainstream news, and it's a pillar of the authoritarian zeitgeist.
alec karakatsanis
Europeans even gave up their colonial empires to avoid giving colonial subjects the social rights of the new postwar welfare state
Laprofmme
The limits to [exponential] growth was published in 1972. We didn't quite follow the exponential increase in atmospheric CO₂, but got close! We've already completely altered the global climate.
Leon Simons
Important to note that what they mean by ebike injuries usually means being hit by a car while riding an ebike. Also, cars have killed 46 people in the county of Honolulu already in 2025. 46! Ebikes have killed no one.
David Ho
Fellas is it gay to not want to be on the wrong side of history
Carly Goodman
Ultimately the materiality of Trump 2 overrides so much of the mid-2010s
debate. The stakes of a women-led Ghostbusters already feels like a
trinket historians won't be able to get hold of when compared to
off-shore concentration camps with documented abuses.
Ben Litherland
I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com
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