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I know everyone says that social media is horrible these days... but then you watch a video like this and you realize how it can bring people together in amazing ways, all intermediated by the internet/social media. Yes, the video is long, but it's worth it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBeM...

Puppy was scared of the fireworks and went to his deaf dad for comfort. Seems like the dog could understand ASL. 🥰

Trump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.

It's ok to course correct. It's ok to make mistakes. It's even ok to make a mistake while you're correcting a previous mistake. But that 3rd one is probably a bit much

NEWS — A Republican candidate for Missouri state House has been charged with allegedly conspiring to plant cocaine and Adderall on his primary opponent. Thomas Ross won last month’s HD-161 GOP primary by 33 votes. Trump carried the Joplin-based district by 22 points in 2024.

NEW from LCRW: @wileycope.bsky.social breaks down who the hell the SoapGirls are & why they can't seem to understand that when you put someone in blackface and beat them for your music video nobody wants to book you. Featuring comment from @katmabu.bsky.social

The cats that make the sweetest, best pets tend to not have offpsring, and the cats that do breed are strays, so it seems like the selection pressure these days is in a direction away from domestication. Which explains in part why my cat is the way she is.

Major update: Canada suggests implementing tariffs on states Trump won. Canada is united as Mark Carney exposes infighting in the Trump Administration. Trump made 1,000 stock trades in June worth more than $78 million. Service member's father arrested by ICE while he was on the USS Lincoln.

i read this essay a couple months ago and thought "yeah that's right" but did not link it at the time, and now it's making the rounds again, so: yeah, this is (still) right

They're a pretty great company! www.drbronner.com/blogs/our-em...

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

A vastly underrated good quality in a person is their ability to apologize when they’re done something wrong. I know it’s hard to do, so I give credit to those who do it.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

It shouldn't need explaining that "vote blue no matter who" doesn't apply in a primary right?

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@bskyplays.bsky.social Low cunning is my favorite kind of cunning

Thank Goodness Hantavirus Is All Over And Everything Is Fine

This seems like a really good time to remind folks here in the U.S. to help Democrats win as many seats as possible this November. Pick a page, pick some candidates, donate today! Blue26.org #Hungary

Vance is realllllly trying to position himself as the sane one right now, for some reason

Our NIH/CDC director spoke at 2 presidential rallies, and though he continues to speak at right wing rallies, his name isn’t even mentioned in this paper. Only critics of the MAGA/MAHA agenda can be “political.” Only we have free will and agency.

For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today.... This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine. 🧵

The space rocket didn't blow up and the world's oldest tortoise didn't die so I say we all just agree today is a win

If you gaze long at the moon, the moon also gazes back at you. It looks right back at each and every one of you fuckers. And it's taking notes.

Writing process: (1) “I have the best argument in the world”; (2) start writing, think “oh no, this is a terrible argument, I’m going to lose”; (3) keep writing, think “this is pretty good, I think we have a good chance”; (4) proofread multiple times; (5) file; (6) find typo.

The god of bad luck doesn't require much- just for you to rail at your string of stupidly bad cards or die rolls or whatever. In return, he will make your friend's brain cancer treatable.

They really think Orwell’s 1984 is an instruction manual.

It's like they read a book about the Gilded Age and thought, wow, we should do all of this again -- tariffs and trade wars, massive corporate power, white supremacy and immigration fights, a creepy sex panic and, of course, unlimited acts of brazen corruption and graft.

man its so weird how appeasement doesn't work. fortunately there have been no historical examples of this that could have served as a guiding light to avoid it in the present

They had NO FUCKING CLUE Iran would strike Arab states. That's probably why they were unprepared for strikes on Kuwait (AKA, next door to Iran). They probably didn't think through what retaliation would mean for Bahrain. Maybe they don't even know where KSA's Shia pop is.

This machine kills fascists.

My least favorite type of reply guy is “Well, what did you expect?” I expected BETTER, Brian, you surrendering bag of Beige, you are not the spokesperson for Accepting Less

#Olympics #WinterOlympics #MilanoCortina2026 #IFigureSkating ⛸️ It takes a moment for Nakai Ami to process that she's won a medal - I think she saw the '9' next to the Free Skate - & she looks almost happier than Alysa Liu who wins Gold. Liu somehow manages to avoid turning on the waterworks...

one of the problems with budgeting services is that the most cost-effective way to run services is to budget a little bit too much (but not too *much* too much)

But elections aren't races. The point of an election isn't to determine which politician is "best" at winning elections, it's to find out who best represents the voters. And any system that demonstrably sometimes lumbers voters with a representative that doesn't represent them has failed.

It will very much be worth your time to read this.