Department of Angela

The best defense of Platner that anyone's been able to offer is basically, "look, he has terrible judgment and lies occasionally."

One party welcoming Nazis is quite enough. We don’t need two.

i think the most believable scenario is that platner knew it was nazi shit at the time, but thought it didn't matter because *he* wasn't a nazi, and the croatian tattooer didn't give a shit because he assumed platner knew it was nazi shit, because it was displayed with a bunch of other nazi flash.

Trump will call this fake and defend Putin. Watch.

Yuge.

DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

Julie K Brown: FBI releases interviews with woman who alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor... "A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."

Coast Guard rescue swimmer dies from injuries after answering distress call at sea Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Jaggers, an aviation survival technician, died from injuries sustained during a helicopter rescue operation.

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Jaggers, an aviation survival technician, died from injuries sustained during a helicopter rescue operation.

this is what's so insulting about the obama bros or yglesias or grim claiming that this is just normal working class rough guy culture, it's not! i've had more wage jobs than all these dudes combined and have more tattoos than all of them combined, and i've only *ever* seen this on out-and-out nazis

Can only imagine being a Republican congresscritter and just watching the White House cut attack ad after attack ad for your opponent's election campaign

In other words, they’re not going to surrender, much less unconditionally. Trump will just announced that they have, when the mood strikes him.

🎯🎯

The red "wasted" visual in the White House video game graphic is just beyond vile. This involves real human beings. They know civilians are being killed. They're reveling in it.

Today’s contributive effort to not letting covid win. #stronk

Use your words.

I feel the need to make sure you know that I’m not making fun of it; I genuinely like it, and it put a smile on my face. Carry on. :)

do you buy anything that contains plastic

YOUR MOM’S A LITTLE BIT FRIDAY.

It looks like an old-timey UFO on a stick. I like it. :D

I was thinking yesterday that, if all of this gets Real Bad, our solar/EV setup is not only a load off our mind, but may allow us to be a help to friends and neighbors too.

The White House position is that it is no big deal that Putin is helping Iran try to kill US soldiers.

Always remember rule #1. Putin can do no wrong in Trump’s eyes.

Wonder why that is?

It’s not dissimilar to the largely MAGA assumption that a lack of immediate consequences means they can just keep Getting Away With Stuff.

I suspect it has something to do with how instant gratification has become something of a cultural norm.

I wish there was a term for this belief widespread on Bluesky that because nothing is happening this exact instant that means the entire world will just passively sit around and wait for death.

I truly love it when people are able to name (and well!) concepts that I’ve been struggling to put into adequate words. ❤️ bsky.app/profile/ange...

like i said this when the US attacked venezuela. we are hurdling back into an extremely violent world, one which hasn't really existed since the 1700s and which nobody since hitler has really tried to enact. and it's entirely on trump's hands

Yeah, it's real. Just checked it.

I do think purveyors of misinformation are much *more* culpable than parents who might be, on their own account, total whiftbrains. But parents need to approach these questions commensurate to their level of responsibility for getting it wrong. In English: stop fucking around, you have a kid.

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

I drove an ‘82 Ford Bronco back in the day. You have my sympathies.

I’m, uh, not sorry right now that my car plugs into the wall.

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"