Exsibilation

Will consistently has the dumbest and most obtuse people on Bluesky replying to very good and reasonable posts. It's quite a phenomenon, and I don't know how he stands it without blocking them all.

Questionable sources aside, one can reasonably conclude that child prostitution was the kompromat that kept Graham in the Trump camp. I guess Grand Old Pedophile party theory remains unbeaten.

"Normal Ohioans are horrified and sick of the madness" Yeah, well, maybe normal Ohioans should stop voting blindly for slime machine Republicans. It's incredible this paper could write this article without mentioning the words "Republican", "Trump", "Musk", "Ramaswamy", or really anything useful.

Whatever happens next, there is an alternate universe where FISU renders Musk to Kiev for trial.

It is good that this level of mask-off is being done out in the open, and right before the election.

Musk is making it way too easy to make a national security argument to take Starlink away from him.

Not exactly. Trump makes the final decision, so Musk is technically correct. But what Musk doesn't say is that (1) he thought of the idea in the first place, and (2) the final decision was obviously in their mutual pro-Putin interest. Prosecute them both.

I want to point out that if we hadn't as a society decided to memory hole COVID and pretend it was just another cold, we wouldn't have opened the door to these pro-infection narratives becoming mainstream in our society. But it was necessary for the back-to-normal pretense.

I want to see the press make this a Big Deal, and hound every Republican about this until something is done. Also, prosecutions down the chain of command but clearly that won't happen until later.

Russia is literally the One True Decoder Ring to Trump's two presidencies.

This will be entertaining if/when it happens. Many many Rs have been distancing themselves from him and if there's one thing he notices and dislikes it's that! He's going to try to punish that behavior if it's the last thing he does, and I'm here for it. <popcorn>

Not only will Trump be the greatest environmental president of all time, but he will also be the one who brings bipartisan agreement on making the US immigration system sane and humane.

SpaceX must be expropriated. It cannot remain in enemy hands. And Musk and Trump are traitors. They must be tried and punished accordingly. I do not say this lightly.

Only the good ones die young. RIP @helenbranswell.bsky.social

In fairness, this ad captures the DSA vibe fairly precisely.

This is a Glonzo Democrats should ride hard in this election. And probably in the next one as well.

Wild that the Houthis can hit Riyadh like that. Puts things in perspective around the US failure to provide protection, and puts the Middle East in an interesting place regarding aggression, retaliation and mutually assured destruction. These countries have fragile intrastructure.

I will never understand Utah Mormons aligning with Republicans. The Republican party is captured by fundamentalist Evangelicals as their voting base, and Opus Dei freaks in leadership. None of these factions think LDS are even Christian, and would sign an extermination order if they could.

I'm honestly kind of surprised Russia has diesel to export, considering they need it for the war effort. I imagine like with everything Trump-Russia, Trump is lying here and what he's promising won't happen, but something else will be gifted to Putin instead. Maybe an end to other sanctions?

I could get behind this as a great way to set the tone for undoing everything Trump did even where the law is grey.

You have to laugh (sadly) at Microsoft trying to inject facts into what is obviously not a fact-based discussion. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

Man, some leftists are really not OK. I can't believe this has to be said, but there are some subtle differences between "Nazis" and "Jews" even if you think the Israeli state is committing Nazi-like actions.

Kind of wild that the US looks to be thermostatically swinging hard against fascism in 2026, while elsewhere Germany, Brazil, France, and Spain are like ... huh, I wish we we had a guy like that Trump guy running our countries...

Best to proceed with caution of course, but I can't say I've seen numbers like this ... ever. Also, this may be informative for those who keep telling us that moving to the center to get Republican votes never works. Not that I love the triangulation, but sometimes it's what you have to do.

It is wild that while one could have objectively looked at this stuff (especially early on) and been like "well, it's ugly as hell but sort of the war you'd expect with a guerrilla group on their home turf" Israeli leaders never miss an opportunity to tell us nope, they're actually ethnic cleansing.

Inject it into my veins, but cautiously.

If he decides he wants to, Don Jr will dogwalk JD and Little Marco in the 2028 Republican presidential primary on name recognition alone. The Republican base is profoundly stupid. It won't even be close.

These guys are so steeped in Russian propaganda, they believe all sorts of things that are... just not true.

Another good lesson in ... just because someone says what you're really thinking doesn't mean (a) they're a good person, (b) they have your interests at heart, or (c) they should be elected to higher office.

This talking point is hilarious because objectively the Iran War has *significantly* worsened many aspects of our national security without improving *any*.

Ah yes, the biggest problem with passing bills with a house majority, 51 senators, and a Republican president will be Schumer and Jeffries. We totally understand how government works!

It will be a mystery to historians forever that Donald Trump, obsessed with popularity and legacy, with absolute control of his party, chose to be the president for the 27% of the population instead of just doing popular things that people would like. The bar was really low!

I love that we're already in leftist civics cluelesness terrain and we haven't even won the election. Aaron here has the patience of a saint, and we're all going to need that in 2027-2028.

Chat: misleads you You: wtf Chat: you've discovered the hard truth

Not to mention a lot of their gotcha was ... "look at the scary black people on this poster".

I mean, sure, it's totally obvious.

This fucking supreme court... 6-3 as always. "Under a series of often-secret agreements, the Trump administration has deported some 25,000 people to more than two dozen countries, from Liberia to Guyana." Fucking hell. apnews.com/article/supr...

This is also almost exactly MAGA's reasoning for destroying everything. Except MAGA aren't so overt about it.

It's wild that we basically knew this was happening at the time, but it's been allowed to continue for > 15 years until any of this ended up in a legal document. Malaga were defenestrated for much less. Aside: PSG did more or less the same thing, likely still doing it.