Mike

at least toby keith is dead this time

I've made this point multiple times before but if Bluesky wants to grow, the things they need aren't opinion pundits but accounts that publish new information. That's breaking news reporters, politicians and stuff like official organization accounts that publish official statements.

great idea, awful execution by paramount

If your political opposition are Nazis and the bipartisanship is only one-way, then all you’re doing is collaborating with Nazis. Shouldn’t be a bragging point! You worms.

The Democratic Party establishment is worse than useless.

Pelosi and her generation of pro-corporate leaders keep crushing the left, while losing to fascists. Get out of the way.

Read in app 8 President-elect Donald Trump has communicated to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that he wants his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to become the Sunshine State's next senator - but it's far from clear that DeSantis will acquiesce and appoint her, people familiar with the matter said. Get the latest election news and results → Lara Trump's interest in replacing Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) — who is set to become secretary of state — complicates an already fraught relationship between Trump and DeSantis, who waged harsh campaigns against each other in the GOP presidential primary. DeSantis is tasked with filling Rubio's seat and could boost his standing with the president-elect by appointing Lara Trump, who announced this past week that she will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee. DeSantis is seriously considering Lara Trump and cares about the president-elect's view, according to one person familiar with his thinking who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private deliberations. But the person believes DeSantis is more likely to pick someone who has held public office in Florida and said other contenders include the state's attorney general, Ashley Moody, and former statehouse speaker Jose Oliva.

This deadpan Washington Post story reports on Trump’s blatantly corrupt effort to strongarm an appointment for his daughter in law—who has never held any public office—as a US Senator without a single acknowledgment that it might be some kind of impropriety. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

From X to Bluesky: why are people fleeing Elon Musk’s ‘digital town square’? Musk’s platform has lost 2.7 million active US users in two months, while its rival has gained 2.5 million

Interesting how everyone is noticing the huge BSKY surge. It's not just about numbers, it's about quality.

“We are leaving 600,000 followers on X for only 9,000 on Bluesky... in terms of values, we as a club have moral values"- Bundesliga club, Werder Bremen.

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Reminds me of how the Portland Police Bureau traffic division slowed enforcement way down to gain political leverage for more funding

bikeportland.org/2023/08/08/p...

Rainbow Laces is solely about making people feel welcome at football, in an industry that lags way behind society in LGBTQ+ representation

That’s it. A simple message of decency

And no one is forcing anyone to play in a wealthy league that has this value
t.co/a8gC9WZgJa

Killing of Brian Thompson Sets Off Fear Among Executives Already Worried About Safety (Gift Article) After Brian Thompson of UnitedHealthcare was killed in Manhattan, the phones at corporate security firms were “ringing off the hook.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

the clear sign that they just don’t see these kids as real people is the endless concern over hypotheticals and the indifference to the reality that actual children are more likely to kill themselves because of these bans

At this point I am running out of Legal Analyst ways to say that this man is a stupid and mendacious piece of shit

8 million turkeys will be thrown in the trash this Thanksgiving We don’t have to accept all that death and waste for a dry, flavorless bird no one likes.

Can't recommend this new essay by @mbolotnikova on Thanksgiving highly enough:

"We will collectively eat more than 40 million [factory-farmed] turkeys... And we will do it all even though turkey meat is widely considered flavorless and unpalatable." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Computer, show me the Biden Doctrine in one picture

'I can't pay my bills,' Rudy Giuliani says in courtroom outburst Rudy Giuliani was rebuked by a federal judge on Tuesday after the former New York City mayor interrupted a court hearing, pleading he could not pay his bills because two Georgia election workers to whom he owes $148 million have tied up his assets.

'I can't pay my bills,' Rudy Giuliani says in courtroom outburst

X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts "X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS."

Elon Musk's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both batshit crazy and also what you'd expect. It asserts that X owns every account, can do whatever it wants with them, and can inject itself into legal proceedings that have nothing to do with Twitter

www.404media.co/xs-objection...