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@lahwrites.bsky.social

Here we go again.

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So the closing message of this midterm election is just free-associated racism, then? About Minnesota Somalis and Michigan Muslims, at this rally...in Kansas?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."

Republicans only allow fake LAWYERS goddammit

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Abdul Mohammed Al-Sayed. A fake doctor, he's a fake doctor. By the way, if he was using those credentials as a Republican, he would've been run out of the country by now."

The fact that Eric Schmitt, a man who has CRUSADED to restrict transgender athletes in women's sports, got absolutely sonned because he forgot women's sports existed and only accounted for men's basketball games is somehow infuriatingly perfect.

No but they are actually villains though. You can just literally find any single quote at random from any of them and it's gonna be the most movie evil shit you've ever heard in your life.

“Make Germany great again” is the absolute fucking wildest thing this man has ever said and it will receive zero follow up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: “Wow! The Populist Party in Germany just had a really big night. They finally got tired of the absolutely horrible Immigration rules and regulations which have hurt Germany so badly. THEY ARE ON THE RISE, and not going to take it anymore! MGGA!!! President DJT”

If Democrats were smart, their next project when congress resumes would be loudly introducing a bill to restore funding to Dolly’s Imagination Library. Just a straight up down vote. Make the Republicans block Dolly. Now. And then never let it go.

You gotta be fucking shitting me

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Dem. appointees, #SCOTUS has *granted* the Trump administration’s request to freeze a district court injunction that had blocked the mail-in ballots executive order. But Trump’s EO remains blocked by a different injunction in a different case—at least for now:

Natalie Harp is a full-grown woman who is 35 years old, has a Masters Degree, and makes 6 figures working directly for the most powerful person in the history of the earth. Please resist the urge to fall into the "oh but she's just a wee baby" trap.

Good news, cis straight guys! You can apparently be adjudicated unsafe to be around girls and still just be around young girls all fucking day all the time even if you’re a big weird creep! So you don’t have to go become trans anymore I guess.

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: Despite being ruled “permanently ineligible” from coaching by SafeSport, a Texas girls volleyball coach has continued to run his club, posting hundreds of videos in which he works with players, supervises practices and is alone with teen girls. with @washingtonpost.com

For anyone who thinks the WH forced Melania out of cold storage for that weird handholding shit today, you’ve got it backward. Melania hates this shit and is waiting for him to go to that big gold-plated ballroom in the sky, but the one thing that will get her out of bed is embarrassment.

He can be a great big creepy weirdo all he wants, but she’s not doing Stormy 2.0. Not with an Amazon deal on the line. She demanded this. And these idiots went along, gave this story another day’s legs and helped her achieve the opposite of what she wanted to achieve, because they are all morons.

it's crazy weird that this president's only response to the affordability crisis, a career-ender for any other politician, is basically "what are you, poor? can't afford the gas, poor guy?"

Watching the worst people in the world hurt themselves badly with these things is going to be hilarious.

WBUR@wbur.org

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to give its officers high-tech gloves that deliver electric shocks to people they're trying to detain, according to plans posted by the Department of Homeland Security this week.

Cannot wait to rage bait my mother, who hates fireworks and also progressives, into rabidly defending fireworks.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

The only scandal CNN could dig up is that he doesn’t like fireworks? I’m embarrassed for whatever “journalist” had to have their name associated with this article. Both sides have scandals I guess. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Wait you’re telling me transphobia is often found in close proximity to misogyny and has deep roots in hatred of women? That can’t be right.

anniempeterson.bsky.social@anniempeterson.bsky.social

A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.

CBS news is assembling an impressive group of people who pretend to be disaffected liberals who have never had a liberal idea or said a liberal thing in their lives. When they finally get Fetterman and Bill Maher in the building we can close the door and reveal it was a rocket to the sun all along.

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It is truly a feat of ignorance to both not know anything about how cities work and ALSO to not know how small towns work.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Watching AI companies crabs-in-a-bucket themselves into irrelevance is better than like 60% of sports.

Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social

Based on my inbox, the number of AI companies that want to spend their money on buying credibility through “collaborations” with journalists’ feels... high!

Oh man the diaper baby is gonna LOSE IT. I found Ossoff impressive when I volunteered for him in 2020, he is INCREDIBLY good at this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

"He said 'Boy I hope I don't die before I get to see your ballroom and the big arch and whatever else you're gonna gold-plate, and also they should give you, Donald Trump, as much steak and ice cream as you want, because heart disease is fake news' so those were his last words"

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

A moving tribute.

One of those looney tunes bombs, but it's gold plated and you tell him it's an award. New plane, covered in gold. Too heavy, falls right out of the sky. Poisoned ketchup. Also coated in gold. Exploding golf balls (you guessed it, plated in gold). I have so many more of these. Just saying.

This is art. I love baseball so much.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social

This is the most hilarious little league home run I've ever seen, the Royals have outdone themselves

They're gonna show us the video of all the vandals and they're all gonna have six fingers and their knees will bend the wrong way and he's gonna be like "look they're vandals it says 'vandals' right here in times new roman on their face"

"Greenwater Services" is not as good as "Four Seasons Total Landscaping" but is on par with "Fraud Guarantee," 7/10 stars.

Listen. If we can definitely not fake a birth certificate for Obama (WINK) I feel like we could prove that Mayor Mamdani here was born in Arkansas or something.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Mayor Mamdani at the Knicks Ceremony: “We as the city are often forced to come together in the moments in tragedy, what a blessing it is to come together in a moment of joy.” Made me cry, because it’s true.

This dumb fuck has heard the term "treaty of Versailles," thought it sounded classy, and rolled it through, didn't he.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "It's signed. I signed it in Versailles. I just signed it."

The zoom out from them pouring 1-gallon bottles into one corner to the entire vast pool is funnier than 90% of sitcoms.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

New footage of workers dumping hydrogen peroxide into the algae-filled Reflecting Pool

If these guys just run out the clock and go home at midnight all "oh we couldn't finish the scaffolding" I don't think I can adequately describe the rage of a federal judge who has been (a) disobeyed and (b) dragged into work on a fucking Saturday. Somebody's getting a free weekend in a cell.

If this Kennedy center thing goes past midnight, the court should order the letters to be removed in a specific order for maximum screencappage. I humbly submit: HE DO A D UMP

I literally had to look twice to make sure this wasn't the onion.

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”

The Ellisons' plot with CBS was not to create another Fox News. They already have a Fox News. It was a public execution. Loud, bloody, in the middle of the street. A gift to Trump, who has the power to favor their REAL interests, the ones that count success in trillions, not billions.