Tired, but ready

He’s gonna call Elon next and give him $8 for a blue check 😂😂😂

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One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

“The #Resistance Didn't Save Us from Trump. It's Time to Build Something Real” Scathing and much-needed piece, for Zeteo, from Jared Yates Sexton (@jysexton.bsky.social) Read/share/subscribe:

No, he's not joining because thousands of people would dunk on him, like if Sisyphus were a basketball hoop

The police report about Hegseth says he blocked the door, took the victim's phone, and ejaculated on her. She told a nurse that she may have been drugged. This was 2017. As editor of his college paper, he published an article about how sex with an unconscious woman is not rape.

“Bluesky is billionaire proof”, said CEO Jay Graber. Best line ever.

I got blocked for this reply because I dared to ask more from leader Hakeem Jeffries. Just insane, we’re so cooked dawg Blue MAGA refuses to demand more from this feckless party!

Harassment, racism, and engagement farming are not “a difference of opinion.” Had a chance to talk about BlueSky on Pablo’s pod—and why the echo chamber argument mischaracterizes what’s actually going on. 📺: youtu.be/DFBlec2Exrw?...

Last night, 19 Senators voted to end illegal arms sales to Israel. We stood up to AIPAC, the Democratic Senate leadership, and the Biden administration. We must continue going forward to end illegal arms sales and hold Netanyahu accountable for his war crimes.

#BlueSky is billionaire proof! “The billionaire proof is in the way everything is designed, and so if someone bought or if the Bluesky company went down, everything is open source," - @jay.bsky.team

For starters left-leaning people couldn’t live in a bubble even if we wanted to because we live in an inescapably, violently conservative society. And second of all I don’t think a website that’s become an online Nazi rally really broadens anyone’s horizons

Hawk 2A bear arms on that thang

Front page of Friday’s Irish News (Belfast) on the issuance of arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.

People will laugh at this but Dems should learn the right lesson from this - communicating your wins is sometimes more important than actually delivering anything. Biden is the all time GOAT of being a piss poor communicator, and that cost Dems dearly this election

Temporary programs that expired in 2 years!

Private health insurance expenses increased 61.6% per person between 2008 and 2022, more than 20% faster than expenses for Medicare enrollees. If we're going to make cuts, let's eliminate the corporate middleman and make #MedicareForAll

Mimicry is the highest form of flattery techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/a...

Nancy Mace when she meets a new colleague

despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible

Sarah McBride, I think if you just let the Republicans have the Sudetenland they'll be satisfied and will leave you alone so you can get back to your important work of securing additional funding for Delaware airport renovations that will allow you to send more bombs to Gaza or whatever.

Elon Musk, literally :

Why did the “salute” remind me of Darvin Ham? My brain is cooked

Who…is Cormac McCarthy? Do I need to know?

In an elaborate wedding in India by the way, let’s not forget that part!

Reminder that there is a law that allows the President to bomb The Hague in case a US politician is ever indicted there….no I am not kidding!

It’s difficult to overstate what a huge deal this is. Perhaps, dare we hope, justice is finally coming for the people of Gaza. A first, historic step.

BREAKING: Arrest warrants issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and deceased Hamas commander Mohammed Deif by the International Criminal Court. Full Story (updating with reaction).

Bluesky has passed 21M users.

Hey everyone, I think now is as good a time as any to announce my new job as the official pen provider of the Denver Nuggets! Hoping for some great feedback and positivity since this is obviously huge for me 🙏

Important note for reporters covering the GOP's effort to ban trans women from bathrooms on Capitol Hill: while Sarah McBride and Nancy Mace both have private bathrooms in their offices, the trans people who are not elected officials who have to work there every day do not.

Time to break up the Sixers

Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.

Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

Rs when they lose elections: let’s run it back exactly the same Dems when they lose elections: which marginalized community can we execute en mass for “bipartisanship”?

Sneezed a bit too hard and pulled a muscle on my shoulder/back. Why does the Lord give the toughest problems to his most loyal followers….

Linda McMahon for Education secretary. Both she and her husband, Vince, are being sued for ignoring sexual abuse in the WWE organization. Seems sexual assault experience is a big plus for a 47 cabinet pick.

There are more cis people than there are trans people. If right wing weirdos are demanding they have to be the arbiters of who should be allowed in a bathroom based on who they think is "female" enough than there's going to be even more abuse directed towards all women

It’s so important for everyone to rally behind trans people right now—even if the Congressional bathroom issue is the stupidest farce of all time. This is very literally the “first they came for” dynamic. They’re coming for trans people first. You better fucking believe we’re all next.

How do we convince Democrats that picking fights is good politics? Nancy Mace went from ostensible LGBTQ supporter to maximum TERF because that revved up their base. Does anyone in Dem leadership have the balls to fight like hell to protect the little rights we have left?

How do we enforce this? I propose that I should be the one to personally squeeze every boob on the Capitol to validate their authenticity!

Jeffrey Epstein could have played a role in Trump's new government cabinet if Trump hadn't killed him.