Pretty good visual theater staging in front of the big US flag in Times Square.

Many many @pslweb.bsky.social protesters with signs.

you think you’re being more informed or bearing witness, but what you’re doing is just satiating a need to feel information flow

as a final note this is part of why i have such a burning hatred for gamblers right now. you have to assume from here on out that everything admin does will be subject to insider trading of some sort

they gave a guy with rapidly advancing cognitive decline and narcissistic personality disorder total legal immunity and access to the strongest military in the history of human kind, I’m not sure what else they expected

We don't talk about it, but once we learned that the most vulnerable were the elderly a whole lot of people decided the shutdowns and even masks weren't worth it. "They're gonna die soon anyway" was a subtext of a lot of the Covid discourse and a big reason so many people shrug off the 1M+ deaths.

Anyone comparing Trump in 2026 to Bush in the aftermath of 9/11 is unserious even by internet standards.

Too much of US politics is dominated by the (silly but powerful) warping force that “You might be president someday!” It’s not possible for Mamdani—and that opens up space for a political imagination inaccessible to most by the the new mayor and his constituents lithub.com/why-its-a-go...