Kim Scarborough 🇺🇦

I don't care for Greenwald at all, but he's not wrong here. I feel like Bluesky had a chance to become the new Twitter, but it took a wrong turn with its hysterical shunning of @jessesingal.com (and, to a lesser extent, of @brianna.bsky.social), thereby ensuring it would just become an echo chamber.

There's a term for people who are in favor of murdering their political opponents.

On the same topic:

This is creepy. And it's sad that so much of Bluesky approves of it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

One of the more depressing features of the past decade has been seeing how quickly and easily the right abandoned the genuinely good principles it once pretended to care about. Free trade; federalism; free speech. They jettissoned everything they had a point about & kept all the loathesome bits.

My (Chicago) congressman is a worthless mediocrity. Trump is about to commence a military occupation of the city, and here's his latest post:

All prohibitionism is the same. Once a brain has sunk into the delusion that it is possible to control others' behaviors and thoughts, and the moral imbecility that it is right and good to impose such controls on others who do not desire it, there is no bottom.

Thin-skinned academic snob says what?

We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.

Maybe it's just because I'm an American, but this strikes me as deeply creepy. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

Once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane.

Democratic socialists and other leftists often just cannot be persuaded that capitalism is not, in some way, the final boss of politics, even behind the fascists. But they're wrong, they've always been wrong. Fascism, reaction, these things don't rise out of capitalism, they're distinct.

Most overrated president: FDR Most underrated president: Jimmy Carter Best president: George Washington Worst president: You have to ask?

Many of the people who fall into the first category referenced here no longer even refer to themselves as libertarians, for what it’s worth, because the second category—and the Libertarian Party—have ruined the label.

Called it.

Been saying this for years. People are actually dying from lack of organs, all just because people think selling organs is "icky". www.cato.org/blog/legal-m...

"I'm willing to let my own kids die rather than admit I'm an ignoramus who believes the claims of idiots," said Slackjaw H. Yokel.

Unfortunately the bifurcation of everyone who used to be on Twitter into two separate platforms has made both websites way more likely to take the bait for shit that confirms whatever their priors are.

@giselelagace.bsky.social What happened to your website?

I'd support blue state–secession if I could get a guarantee that we'd retain the First and Fifth Amendments. (Second Amendment would be nice too, but I know that'd be lost.)

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

My general rule of thumb is that the odds of somebody being right is inversely proportional to their confidence.

The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is HR@opm.gov, so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

Never was an AOC fan but times have changed. I'll support anyone who opposes the coup.

No, they don't. They also don't realize that Trump is on the verge of ignoring court orders reversing his illegal actions.

If you made a list of all the unlawful, corrupt, and evil things Trump has done just since the start of his term, it would far outstrip in its venality the list of charges against King George in the Declaration of Independence.

Many people have the naive belief that the courts will stop Trump. Well, what if he just ignores their rulings? The judicial branch doesn't have its own police force. It depends on the executive to enforce its orders, and Trump is purging everyone in the DOJ who isn't loyal to him personally.

How long did it take Spain to recover from fascist rule? Asking for a friend.

#comicsdna

We have elected an absolute lunatic.

Yikes. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

I hate to say it, but I have to agree with this.

Dreamt I dialed a friend. A stranger answers: "This is Steve Smittelgluck." "Oh, sorry, I must have the wrong number," I say. "Oh really? Then why do you have 'Insult Steve Smittelgluck' on your to-do list?" I look at my hand-written list, and sure enough, there it is. Well, this is awkward.

Let's be more inclusive by excluding somebody

Weird there's a whole bowl game dedicated to celebrating crickets.

It’s so funny that half of Bluesky was like “yes we must kill all the CEOs and then dance in their blood” but Jesse Singal’s mere presence is what led to the dumb company actually having to be like “let’s discuss moderation”

I am currently on over 50 blocklists but this is the one that hurts the most bsky.app/profile/goos...

Just like the "fire in a crowded theater" cliche is used by people who are simply against free speech, the "paradox of tolerance" cliche is used by people who are actually just against tolerance.

Here's Luigi Mangione's notes on Angela Duckworth's "Grit" drive.google.com/file/d/18_mi...

I love this.