It's very kind of them to carry such a valuable object in an extremely visible and distinct container. This will greatly increase the overall productivity of the mugger industry, now that they no longer have to rummage in pockets and backpacks.

THE GOOD THINGS CAN HAPPEN CAUCUS IS BACK, MOTHERFUCKERS

Ana has been doing important work documenting and fighting against online censorship issues. In a more just world, she'd be full time employed by a media outlet for her work. If you can spare any funds to send her way, please consider doing so.

(watching people at the zoo making fun of the dumb monkey who's throwing his own poop) You guys are only saying that because you disagree with the monkey politically. You have monkey derangement syndrome

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.

The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

YouTube video by TVMyCentury Russian Writer Shooting at Sarajevo

The video of him shooting a machine gun at civilians was entered as evidence in Radovan Karadzic's trial at the Hague.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkjP...

Eduard Limonov - Wikipedia

Yeah, it's amazing how few people have heard about / remember this.

Ever heard of this guy? He participated.

"Russian writer, poet, publicist, political dissident and politician." The wikipedia article doesn't seem to mention the war crimes tourism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_...

Between this, the permaban of Link, and the silent rollout of the “rude” moderating, BlueSky’s leaders seem intent on speedrunning the enshittification of the site

oh you don't have to just call your reps. It's 2025, nothing matters. I have John Thune on speed dial and I don't live in South Dakota. If they're going to make my life hell, I'm going to make their staffers life just a little bit more uncomfortable.

This is what I want to start emphazising more to our "leaders" in the United States Congress.

These people think they have a hard time now? Wait till people start putting basic facts together and realize what an obscenely gigantic role they are playing in protecting insurrectionists.

Let’s be clear: this is class warfare.

Tens of thousands of working-class Americans are going to die because of this “deal.”

Real people. Real deaths. For another tax break for the rich.

Those who voted for it — Republicans and Democrats — are on the side the 1%, fighting against the rest of us.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle

I'm absolutely boggled that my senators in CA voted for this! I will be calling them tomorrow, although it's pretty obvious they don't give a crap what their constituents think about anything.

Hey so if you see your senator in this list, could you please call them tomorrow and tell them that you’re mad because they voted to kill the entire hemp farm industry, including your buddy Derek in Oregon?

Thanks, buddy.

Sarah Kendzior • 4m I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free - I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

do NOT change your party affiliation. you're going to give up literally the one tool you have to push for change.

the USA doesn't have a viable 3rd party and will NEVER have one until some fundamental laws get changed, and you can't do that if you don't suborn one of the major political parties!

Here are the Senators who voted to criminalize hemp products: [with alt text included]

I fuckin knew it

You're right, it's my fault the elected Democratic senators folded. My anger at their lack of will to fight made them so sad that they lost their will to fight.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!

info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.

I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

Either New Hampshire has a big problem with lead in their water, or she's lying. My bet's on the latter.

Remember when Rudy Giuliani got run over by a car a few weeks ago and then said it happened because he was standing in the road helping a domestic violence victim?

What was the deal there

I agree, there are real dangers. And you guys are doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to fight them! So now we have to fight every one of you, to replace you with people who will actually be on our side in the "real fight". If you won't help, get the hell out of the way and let someone braver have your seat.

I don't block people for much but I got a hair trigger for the Dem defenders. I expect the Republicans to try and dismantle the country; that's their plan and they say it out loud. But I voted for the people who are supposed to oppose that plan and they're not doing that so why would I support them

we just spend 2026 doing a stalinist purge of the insurance industry

It's so cool that our two ballot options are Heidrich Himmler and Marshal Pétain, time to learn absolutely nothing from this

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I used to think fetterman was cool, but it might've given me a clue to his true nature if I'd known he once held a random black dude at gunpoint for the crime of 'jogging while black'