"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.

One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.

Political Compass with the vertical axis labeled "Operates in Good Faith" and "Operates in Bad Faith" while the horizontal axis is labeled "Can Read" and "Can't Read"

Bluesky Discourse Alignment Compass

bro we are being conquered by neo-confederate pedophile christian fascists dawg they are turning the cities into internal colonies for extraction

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns

Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

this runs counter to a lot of accepted wisdom on blue social media about how organizational mavericks are losers and social agreeability is a virtue

BREAKING on MS NOW:
 
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

it is insanely dishonest to characterize the reaction to the most corrupt pardons in american history as pro-police and pro-prison. fuck off

The CEO of Palantir.

I mean this is straight up white supremacy:

They want us to be appalled, because caring about rules of war and human lives and the law all mark us out as inferior to them in their sick worldview.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Of course Roberts issued a stay

Put yourself in SCOTUS's shoes. Your options are:

➡️ uphold the law, get ignored by Trump/Musk, and lose all your power in the public's mind

➡️ protect Trump, pretend there's a reason this is OK, and remain exalted after he's dead

They will pick Door #2 every time

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.

25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.

Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

It's not a fucking loss. The USPS is a SERVICE. That's what the service COST. That there was ever a time when it was self-sustaining is the anomaly. Fuck this stupid framing.

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.

“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

If i were single i’d ruin so many relationships do a little emotional distraction on the various antivax turds trying to ruin things at hhs

Something I have come to realize is that a lot of the people who tell you to “do something about it” in response to being upset about the collapse of eg American civil society are also the same people who get incredibly upset when they see someone doing something.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

when Michael Phelps was dominating US swimming there was endless coverage of all his genetic advantages. His wingspan, the way his body processed lactic acid, on and on and on. Nobody, not one person, floated the idea of kicking him out of the sport for genetic advantages

It’s purity politics over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

that post of joe rogan talking about 'whats more virginal than a computer' made me fully understand that their misogyny runs so deep that they really would *prefer* to kill their their wives and replace them with robots.

Bluesky Wrapped and it's how many times people replied, "Oh, and you're SURPRISED about this?!?!"

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the results are in for all of bluesky

Don't get me wrong I lost a lot of respect for a lot of people in 2024 but the people who I lost the most respect for is The People, and I gotta say, seeing the special election results makes me madder at them