Julius Volz

This is so accurate youtu.be/9k95gNVmJCY

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

Zelenskyy: "If the United States supports Putin, it's unbelievable, it's a tragedy. It's a historic mistake. If United States officially takes the side of Russia, of course we will not prevail and we will not be able to stand."

Had to check that, and it's true: nymag.com/intelligence... He posted, “Or we could buy him a ticket on Pinochet Air for a free helicopter ride back.” For reference, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_f... (Though technically, "Pinochet Air" dropped bodies of people who had already been killed)

Whenever I read US recipes, I'm thankful that at least they didn't invent their own time units. Like, "Bake the granola for 15 spans while stirring it every 3 spurts".

The velocity's vertical on slide 45 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNp...

Schmitt: Did you attend a concert wearing an anti-Trump shirt? Smith: I wore a “No Kings” shirt. It used to be a bipartisan American sentiment.

Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.

Google has already updated 🤯 (this is a joke)

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

Trump's approvals across the board keep falling

If I could sum up why I’m not a Republican in one quote…

Man lernt nie aus...

Saying this *precisely* as everyone is warning gas prices are just about to skyrocket is deeply insane

the thing that stands out to me is less the Dem spread than the fact that the GOP seems stuck in the low 40s. if that holds, and if undecideds/double-haters break for Democratic candidates in the final stretch, you are looking at a total collapse for the congressional GOP

This sounds like what America needs after Trump youtu.be/9DwLHS76T7s

Safe to say the people of Kentucky are not being represented properly

Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

🙋‍♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it

VICTORY: Trump's mail ballot interference rule is blocked in FULL A fed. judge ruled USPS never had the power to rewrite how America votes, weeks out from the midterms @democracydefendersfund.org & @campaignlegal.org brought this case for LULAC, ASA, SFI, Madison WI & Travis County TX👇 -TN

“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

It’s amazing (extremely negative) how U.S. diplomacy is focused on getting the aggressor a win, trying to find some way to secure gains for Russia that the Russian military has failed — for over 4.5 years and counting! — to achieve on the battlefield. What an awful, consequential, damaging change.

Good analysis by @gilduran.com on @chrislhayes.bsky.social about how much of the SV tech elite evolved from outwardly supporting progressive/liberal democratic values to becoming staunch supporters of authoritarianism and increasingly neo-nazi viewpoints. www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpU...

OLD: "Trust in god but tie your camel" NEW: "Trust that AGI is going to make money obsolete in a few years, but also make sure to work and save up for your retirement"

A historic night for European spaceflight. Huge congratulations to Daniel Metzler and the entire Isar aerospace team on reaching orbit with Spectrum 🚀 from continental Europe. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

The ability of billionaires to influence our politics has destroyed our democracy. So much for one person one vote. They are buying elections. We need a constitutional amendment to rid ourselves of the poison of Buckley v Valeo and Citizens United. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

seriously why isn’t “every republican president destroys the economy” the most ubiquitous phrase in american politics?!?!

Meanwhile

don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA

oh no

The precedent here, that the president can simply level federal buildings at will without judicial interference, will come in handy on January 21st, 2029.

Ossoff should give a bunch more speeches, bc this shit is wack.

This is really big. Getting this going is the key to unlocking all sorts of useful things in the Atmosphere... This can take ATproto from "cool idea" to "hey this powers a better internet"

As an approximate rule, I assume that most things that appear in YouTube creators' ads reads are a scam, and apparently that rule was right once again for Ground News. youtu.be/CqE-SrgvTh4

Yesss Republicans, do alert more people to the existence of Jon Ossoff...

If Bluesky wants to overcome the phenomenon of politicians posting long-form content on X and then only posting a screenshot of their X post on Bluesky, we need long-form posts here finally please.

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

Took a brief motorcycle detour in Czechia today to see Trosky Castle from Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Now if I ever play the game, I'll already know my way around the area.

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.