Steven Manning

New here to Bluesky. Here's my take on the recent US election: Wer nicht hören will, muss fühlen. "If you won't listen, then you must feel." MAGA is going to be feeling a lot of pain very soon. I sure hope MAGAts enjoy paying $50 a pound for bacon soon. #Project2025 #Tariffs #MassDeportation

Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

This is who Dolly Parton was. ❤️ “My dad couldn’t read and write, so I wanted to do something to make him feel part of something special.” So she did. Dolly turned her love for her dad into the Imagination Library, putting more than 330 MILLION books into the hands of children.

I'm getting a case 😂

Tim Miller on people treating Marco Rubio as a top GOP presidential contender despite his failing record: “What record is Marco running on? The worst foreign policy since the Iraq War?”

This is LITERALLY how every other modern country in the world makes it work. #SinglePayerNow #MedicareForAll

He is so good at this

America First.

Who did this????😂😂😂😂😂😂

Wow 🤩 The Weather Channel posted this.

More of this, less of bombing other countries (From @acyn.bsky.social )

Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."

✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨

A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

#GimmePotatoesOrElse I won't be able to make it through the Super Bowl. #GoHawks

hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

This is BS. Illegal actions against Maduro and Venezuela are not okay, no matter how unpopular he is or how convenient it is politically, he just wants the resources. The Constitution doesn’t disappear when a president feels emboldened. Congress—not the executive—holds the power to authorize force.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

Good to see Dems who aren’t trapped in the “Reagan Crouch”. #ZohranMamdani #Zohran #NYC

Off to a good start

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

War-ravaged Portland

That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.

Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."

🚨 #DropkickMurphys play a montage of #DonaldTrump and his best friend #JeffreyEpstein during their song “First Class Loser” #WorldIsWise

This time last year a bunch of smarmy podbros were complaining that Biden was too old. Arrogant & inexperienced but high on their own supply they figured another Trump term would only increase their celebrity and TV hits.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

lol

"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

I guess you could say the people who thought Andrew Cuomo ran a better campaign than Zohran Mamdani were sequestered in echo chambers and out of touch with what people offline wanted out of a candidate

Further proof that the old Boomer Reagan Democrat thinking needs to go away forever. Heck, it needed to go away over 30 years ago. Stand up for what you believe in and stop triangulating with conservatives like it's still 1993. You WILL get out of that Reagan Crouch one way or another. #NYCVote

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

Andrew Cuomo gets publicly humiliated. Bill Clinton learns his endorsement is worth less than dogshit. What a great time to be a hater. A golden age.

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

Zohran’s results so far just show how tired Americans are of the status quo, how we need creative, people-first campaigning and governance, and why positive, progressive politics are the future. Hate to get ahead of myself before results are called but I’m so freakin happy right now.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

If ever you feel ignored or unappreciated, always remember, there are people working in BMW factories fitting indicators.