Fetterman, Often Absent From Senate, Says He Has Been Shamed Into Returning

In which John Fetterman argues with inflamed self-righteousness that he's being bullied into doing parts of the job that he thinks are dumb. Like...showing up to vote. And serving on Senatorial committees. And meeting with constituents. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.

What non fiction book has influenced your worldview the most? 473 ₴ 81 © 416. Eleanor @oleander0.bsky.social • 11m Sorry. I read too many books to pick one. bjkeefe.bsky.social@bjkeefe.bsky.social 3m Say more than one. Or say, "well, this is one of them". Eleanor @oleander0.bsky.social Oh thanks for putting words in my mouth. This was in lieu of calling out the implications of the question.

bluesky is so funny

The gerontocracy has consequences, episode one million and three.

Israel's ousted Shin Bet head confirms: War benefits Netanyahu ***

Israel’s ousted Shin Bet head makes clear that “the war's continuation, on multiple fronts, was for Netanyahu's personal benefit. He is actually worried about a hostage deal that would return all 59 hostages held by Hamas, since this could bring down his…coalition.”

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

no trans woman ever took my nintendo

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the burger-flipper, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

I'd read a long essay not only on this phenomenon but why the Democratic Party and the press seem determined to ignore it.

Calling the guy on the inner tube behind me a piece of shit at the start of the lazy river has really poisoned the vibe for the last 45 minutes

This is why I keep saying progressives: leftists should be invading these town halls not to disrupt but to talk to the republicans who get it and try and bring them out of the fever dream into the light. We have a massive opportunity right now to remake the country in our image and many will follow.

$100 invested in the S&P 500 on Oct 27, 2022, when the Twitter acquisition closed, is worth $142 today. $100 kept in Vichy Twitter just paid off at $73. Almost exactly a 50% loss vs an index fund for his co-investors but Musk gets ever wealthier! Funny how that works out!

So we’ve got two competing schools of what the Democratic Party should do next. One of them is hosting the largest political rallies in history in places like New Hampshire and Arizona, and the other one just got $120 million from Silicon Valley and is on a book tour.

Fine

The Guardian with an even harsher take

“I don’t give a FUCK what he did in his personal life, I care about what Draculas policies as mayor would be”

JUDGE: Who was the head of DOGE before Amy Gleason? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I can’t answer that, I don’t know. JUDGE: I mean, that seems like a knowable fact, doesn’t it? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I’m sure it is knowable; I just don’t know it. I’m very conscious of being accurate with the court…I just can’t make a representation. JUDGE: Have you asked anyone? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I have not asked…actually, strike that. I have asked previously, and I was not able to get answer. JUDGE: Are you saying there was an administrator before Ms. Gleason? Or that there was nobody until this new person [Gleason] was put in? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I’m not saying either, because I don’t know.

NEW: During a 3-hour preliminary injunction hearing in a suit alleging that Elon Musk wields unprecedented power in violation of the Appointments Clause, a federal judge grew frustrated with government counsel's inability to answer questions about DOGE’s chain of command and Musk's role.

Start jailing these people. They're clearly lying to the court.

Again, Jews were less than 1% of the German population in 1933.

After-action report on this morning's protest at Tesla in Devon, PA:

- About 60 attendees.

- Age range 20s to 80s, but skewed older.

- One of the crowd had a sign inviting motorists to honk if they hate Musk. So the event was a honkfest.

- We were across […]

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Last week about a dozen, this week 60. Keep it going!

Mark Zuckerberg in a hoodie.

Trayvon Martin in a hoodie.

Just look at how we view hoodies. On Mark Zuckerberg, the hoodie is a symbol of whiz kid meritocracy breaking norms and developing the New Economy. On people like Trayvon Martin, the hoodie is sometimes seen as proof of criminality. Again, it's about the bodies beneath the clothes.

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

If you read all four KISS autobiographies it's like Rashomon for idiots.

Forcing the fed to cut rates makes this seem like a feature not a bug for tech and the rest of the shitcoin cinematic universe

I take back everything I said about NYT

Bill Maher declares China 'the new Islam' accidentally revealing he considers both words to be slurs and then shits himself uncontrollably and is now dead

China 'the new Islam'