Trump is going to learn the hard way the same lesson that Biden learned far too late: You can't tell people they're wrong and actually the economy *is* good -- if they don't feel it, the facts don't matter. (And in this case, the facts aren't really on Trump's side either.)
The thing is it would probably be a lot safer to snort coke off a toilet seat a few times than unfiltered air in a classroom everyday, but we’re not ready for that conversation
Congressional Republicans are going to deprive D.C. of $700 million in revenue and repeal a local program projected to reduce child poverty by 20 percent, solely to spite District residents and make us suffer. They’re also throwing our tax filing into utter chaos. This is a disaster.
Bad Bunny just created the most American halftime show ever.
that was more American than America
The amount of preparation and precision required to direct and stage that Super Bowl halftime is BEYOND BELIEF.
It feels like the arts (and every other creative sector of the economy) have basically been captured by the kinds of people who made every competitive video game unfun as a kid by figuring out the min-max meta and grinding it until everyone hated playing with them.
And now they’re all CEO’s.
Today is a GREAT day to support @51st.news, a worker-led nonprofit local news source for D.C. with top-notch staff including the amazing @maustermuhle.bsky.social
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Do we know who is going to primary Tom Suozzi yet?
I need people who were wrong about everything to actually look back and recognize that there was a reason they were wrong and maybe they need to update their understanding of the world.
Otherwise they don't really think they were wrong.
As someone who volunteers in local Democratic politics I want to once again remind the Bluesky community that the Democratic base is your friend, and LIGHT YEARS ahead of the national party leaders on literally every issue
i wonder if i’ll ever stop taking it personally that DC is never, ever mentioned in these sorts of roundups lol
flight path showing endless circling of a police helicopter
when we're finally getting justice we need to find out where the park police pilots live and fly low over their houses for hours
They’re opposed to preventative healthcare policy because they believe they’re an intervention in the natural eugenic hierarchy, framing this as an issue of “government overreach” while they’re literally banning healthcare for disfavored groups assists in that effort.
Extremely good for Wanda Sykes to accept Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globe on behalf of trans people
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?
How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here
It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
The way we need to market this shit is to do what conservatives did for the past 30 years and write books like “The ten forbidden truths you’re not allowed to say on politically correct tv” and then it’s just cities are mostly fine and it’s good to get a flu shot
What got us Trump was the GOP being a malevolent force for evil and the Democrats at every turn refusing to fire full blast at the right (including before Trump). It’s obviously not all on Harris but a cycle with Democrats assuming the left would just show up without any motivation is a big reason.
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
Vaccines cause adults
for instance: its been an hour since the treasury secretary said "nothing bad is happening" two weeks before a holiday when families will have higher costs, less to spend, and have probably been laid off. the democrats should be all over it. tweets denouncing it. releases mocking it. etc.
There have been at least 19 murders in D.C. since Trump deployed the National Guard here in August. One was the murder of a Guard soldier less than a week ago.
Glad I got to become disabled in a world that already had Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in it. I learned so much from her incredible writing & activism. May her memory be a blessing, & may we all continue her work.
Easiest way to do it? WEAR A MASK. Protect yourself & the vulnerable around you.
one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.
A thing that kills me about these posts is that when they believed there was a pandemic they ABSOLUTELY wanted others to take care of them. They railed against antimaskers and cheered for healthcare workers. And the second the threat to them, personally, lessened, they became diehard libertarians?
