Hegseth is speaking at the Reagan Library tomorrow. Something to do with that?

. @annecaprara.bsky.social is correct here

It is time for Democrats to stop allowing the Republicans to pretend that it’s business as usual in congress. It’s not. 2/2

Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming A generational divide, seen in newer lawmakers’ impatience with bipartisanship and for colleagues who don’t understand new media, has emerged as one of the deepest rifts within the party.

This is exactly how I was feeling last night. Angry. We are not operating with what I would consider a functional government. It isn’t just about disagreement over issues. Congress is abdicating their responsibility as a fiscal check and balance to the Executive Branch. 1/2

Ok Los Angeles…anyone else noticed a significantly worse shift in traffic the last few weeks? Have I just had a run of bad traffic luck or has something changed?

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks:

"We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

That app is INVALUABLE. It went from something I'd not heard of to my most used app in about 12 hours.

Twitter is still better at letting me curate a feed that weeds all that out in a crisis. Maybe it's the volume of posting still happening over there but it has made this site relatively useless to me in a crisis. It's a bummer.

Honestly my biggest frustration has been the mass of politics and opinion mixed in to the fire news in any of the lists or hashtags I tried to use here. Just because they are opinions I agree with, doesn't make me want to read them when I'm just trying to find out where the evacuations are.

My takeaway from the last few days that Blysky isn't yet able to fill the Twitter void during a local crisis like the fires in LA. I kept trying to make it work for me that first day and then went back to X so I could actually stay on top of things? Were any of you more successful than I was?

It’s startling how quickly the spammy content took over. That was really the final nail for me.

Dipping my toe back in over here and finally trying to wean myself off of Twitter. I hung on way too long over there as a lurker, but I finally can't take it anymore.

Removing the block function from Twitter takes the conservative vision of free speech full circle from "I have a right to say it" to "no one should criticize what I say" to "you should be forced to hear me say it"

So this is where we go to talk about how mad we are about Twitter, right?