Tom Scocca

If I wanted to read thin-skinned and tedious people berating each other about Bluesky I’d just go to X dot Com

All I know about this situation is somebody named “Jay” has been clogging up my feed all weekend with Main Character clowning, feels like the mods could clean this up

See: embedded streamers and videographers in Portland bsky.app/profile/alex...

Oh, is the campaign of extralegal seizures, secret detention, government censorship, and violence by anonymous forces mostly targeting specific parts of the population, one after another, rather than the whole public all at once? I wonder if anyone ever wrote about anything like that before.

Yeah it's not like anybody's been grabbed off the streets by masked agents for publishing an op-ed or anything

Yeah I fly jet planes, here's my boarding pass to prove it

"Astronaut" in literally the same sense as Katy Perry

I read it as an even more vacant exclamation than "whoa," like halfway through the speaker spaced out and forgot they were vocalizing and just reverted to mouth-breathing

Oh did you not know that cops have been jacking up individual people and busting up individual apartments forever, why are you struck by federal agents busting up an entire apartment building top to bottom without warrants??

What possesses you to do a post like this

"What they face here every day is real prosecution"

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

One problem with the reinvention of American universities as giant investment funds is that the people in charge no longer understand that guys like this and Bill Ackman are mental and moral morons who need to be told to shove their money up their asses

Add to the list Pete Hegseth being the one who wants to turn the 82nd Airborne loose on U.S. citizens and hoping he can get the big guy to nod in a way that looks like approval bsky.app/profile/star...

Does the Polls Guy know there’s polling on how the public views each party’s role in the shutdown

Yeah, checks out

Was there some intermediate layer of discourse I missed out on or is the administration just straight-up saying that featuring a Puerto Rican performer is an insult to everything they stand for?

"It's entirely possible that this is just some toady trying to score brownie points." defector.com/treasury-dep...

When they go low, we go high. Higher and higher, turning and turning in the widening gyre

Every person in the chain of command from Trump to Hegseth down to whoever ultimately hit the button should go to jail for these murders.

It’s not good when US officials straight up lie about their murders

"In the absence of a lucid and engaged president, there's a free-for-all as to who gets to use those powers in his name" www.indignity.net/indignity-mo...

"Contrarian" is killing me, the whole premise of the Free Press is telling rich elderly and middle-aged men that they're right about everything

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

The original post was right, it’s literally just “logistics is gay”

I get the sentiment but there’s no central brain in the Trump administration and if there were one it wouldn’t talk to Pete Hegseth

Well if current trends continue $150 million in Paramount stock would be $48 million in 2031

access to the Fort Belvoir Commissary was a dang golden ticket for those who had it—Army families, veterans' widows, etc—when i lived in Alexandria VA in the 90s and it's funny to think of the DoD getting rid of that because Pete Hegseth thinks cashiers aren't deadly enough

I think it is a natural inclination, it's just that everything else in this country is set up to incline in the opposite direction

The ER is the one place where this country actually follows the obvious moral intuition that everyone has a right to medical care, classic Vance to pick the fight on that terrain