A cashier at CVS just asked me if I’m a professional wrestler

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

Fascists cant be shamed. They arent committed to rules & institutions. When they overturn them there is no cognitive dissonance. A political strategy aimed at calling them out wont stop them, because the problem is not that they're inconsistent.

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

(FT) - Lufthansa has cancelled 20,000 flights between May and October to save fuel, one of the largest cuts by global airlines as jet fuel prices double following the Iran war.

@financialtimes.com $JETS
www.ft.com/content/bd0e...

RFK Jr no longer disguising his MAHA movement for what it really is: eugenics

Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended, on Domestic Petroleum Production, Refining, and Logistics Capacity MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY SUBJECT:       Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as

Several executive orders this evening invoking the Defense Production Act so Trump can directly financially support US oil/gas/petroleum/coal production, which is a great signal about how poorly this war is going economically and how little they planned for this
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in jail on the orders of President Donald J. Trump

When the murder rates spike don't ask why...

the hitlerian victims of communism foundation on twitter: USSR pin awarded to farmers for "Mastery of Cannabis Breeding". Are these your "Marxist" values??

happy 4/20

love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

"We had a ceasefire before October 7th".

No, honey. You had no ceasefire since Zionism was invented, and you'll never have peace until Zionism is abolished.

#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Praising JK Rowling when asked a question on trans rights is akin to praising Anita Bryant when asked a question gay rights. No money to Stonewall. No Stonewall at Pride. They are already experiencing a funding crisis, and this chairwoman appointment should be their last. Traitors.

The Jerusalem Cross is a symbol of the Crusades. Disingenuous people argue it’s “just a representation of Christianity and not bigoted”

But we all fucking know the Crusades was about massacring anyone that wasn’t Christian.

Pete Hegseth has a HUGE one tattooed on his chest

It’s a symbol of hate.

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.

Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.

And then there's this...

Defund the hostile domestic troops who wage war against the civilian population of the United States.

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

Time is a flat circle

There’s been a lot of reporting on why US-Iran negotiations have fallen flat.

But the overarching reason is that neither the US and Israel are acting in good faith, whether it’s blowing up and seizing Iranian cargo ships or failing to abide by a ceasefire, they only have themselves to blame.

@bencollins.bsky.social will you be changing your name to John Onion?

I think the biggest problem with police today is how right-wing they are. They are more and more so each day. Every example of ICE or CBP brutality cements their support. Call a murdered women a bitch, the rank-and-file cheer.

For those of you blessedly free of knowing what "force majeure" is - Kuwait is declaring its oil contracts unfulfillable within agreed timescales (without liability) due to events beyond its control.

Basically, despite the Strait being "open" the Strait is blocked so they can't get their oil out.

The moment Biden got elected, the Dem institutional complex was like "Welp, thank goodness all that nonsense is now behind us and over forever and will never be a problem ever again. No need to worry about it or make sure it doesn't happen in the future."

Over half of Americans don’t have passports.

China eyes near-total electrification of freight trucks to cut emissions China’s push to electrify heavy trucks could slash road oil demand by half, driven by cost, scale, and energy security.

I keep getting told goods move by diesel truck

Not China which is shifting to 100% electric trucking

interestingengineering.com/transportati...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

All I drink is generic Coke all day. Sometimes, I drink fake Mountain Dew.

I am fine with this as long as I tell myself there are worse addictions, and there are.

my recession indicator is that it’s acceptable to talk publicly about loving diet coke again

fridge cigarettes