screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

The man who introduced obligatory vaccinations to the US Army was George Washington.

This week credible stories have broken or events have occurred that in any other administration would have led to the firing of the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Labor and the FBI Director. Possibly also to the resignation of the VP.

Why is Karoline slurring -- is her upper lip so puffy that she can't articulate, or is her soft palate allergic to lying?

For many years people have avoided fucking corpses. Jeffrey Dahmer is taking a different approach.

It's not a trial, and the newspapers are reporting the presence of evidence and the actions Swalwell took when the presence of said evidence was reported.

The historic Iranian palaces caught up in US-Israeli strikes World Heritage sites including Tehran’s Golestan Palace were damaged in bombings

The US and Israel have an unexplained penchant for destroying Iran's protected historical sites. The damage corresponds to their cowboy rhetoric which defies any respect for the "woke" rules of international law, so it must be intentional. www.ft.com/content/ae28...

note how the badly underfunded government program constantly in the crosshairs of ideologically driven and bribed hatchet men did what Elon and Jeff Bezos could only fucking dream of doing

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

A "wartime" poster that says: "Using Generative AI? You're Prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead! Don't surrender your creativity to the Tech Billionaires' control!"

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment.

Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here:

www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

BUTTIGIEG: The strait was open before they started this

KERNEN: They were close to having 11 nuclear weapons!

BUTTIGIEG: We had other ways of dealing with them

KERNEN: Like what? Obama's way?

BUTTIGIEG: That worked

KERNEN: That didn't work!

BUTTIGIEG: Did they get a nuclear weapon under Obama?

a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face Alt: a close up of a gollum from the lord of the rings with a very angry look on his face

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:

Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

@johnlarsonct.bsky.social introduced 13 articles of impeachment against DJT yesterday.

Democrats are TRYING to impeach him

RIGHT NOW

but

REPUBLICANS ARE NOT ACTING.

That's where the blame goes.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.”

Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I
and
Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

I'll pay you support the site. Is there a buy BSky a coffee feature?

Axios: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's pledge of "no quarter, no mercy for our enemies" violates a bright‑line ban in the laws of war, legal experts say. March 15, 2026

Now that at least one U.S. air crew member is alive on the ground in Iran, it's worth revisiting Pete Hegseth's commitment to "no quarter, no mercy for our enemies."

This is the scenario he was warned about.

We do not, in fact, count Fetterman.

Chaco Canyon is sacred. As the Trump Admin rushes to push through oil and gas leasing in the greater Chaco Landscape—they announced yesterday that they will give only ONE WEEK for public comment on removing protections for this sacred place. Make your voice heard! NO to drilling in Chaco Canyon! ⬇️

I was there for the Ft. Hood shooting, this is a bad idea for way more reasons than just that.

USAID, now US Forest Service. They keep demolishing institutions that were deeply problematic, but nowhere near as awful as their erasure. I think this is big, bad news, the real news of the day, not that nothing-to-see-here speech.

Why does this tweet make me spit-choke my laughter every. damn. time.

That was LiveJournal - but close!!

Miette!!

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

NEW: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.

Excellent point ( although I think it's biased toward women ducking into men's bathrooms when the line is 10 people deep.)

The throughline here is propping up Trump. Before: he’ll be fine, regular, nothing to worry about. After: well, things are going kinda bad, so here’s how everyone else can cope with what’s happening