Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 49mIt bothers me that on many media websites, after I've waded through menus, disabled my ad-blocker (often repeatedly), dismissed (until later) the offer to keep me up-to-date, and signed up for a "free" account, that when I finally get to the story, I find out that my free article limit was zero. 021
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 10hI Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (1967) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Neuromancer (1984) A Fire Upon the Deep (1993) Prey (2002) Some fiction to read while awaiting the singularity and death of the human race. Oh, also: Anthropic IPO Prospectus (2026) 060
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 15hMany people did not know United States has a "d" in it. Well mostly these dumb-"with a b"-shits that signed this. 192
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Please buy our stock so we can create the Torment Nexus.ft.comAnthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectusLong-awaited S-1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue 1111
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If their family is food-insecure, housing-insecure, healthcare-insecure, job-insecure, and/or transportation-insecure, but they think a higher priority should be placed on their own sexual insecurity because gay and trans people scare them, they are bad parents, bad Christians, bad humans. 051
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Melania is a true Trump, trying to use the cost and time-suck of the court system to silence her critics. Terrifying for people like JoJo who are just exercising their 1st Amendment rights when there's a DoJ that does the Trump's bidding. Worst First Lady ever. "Be Best", my ass. 063
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026After the Dems delivered a "thumpin'" to W and the GOP in the 2006 mid-terms bloodbath, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld figuratively fell on his sword and resigned. I think, if the same thing happens in this cycle, Secretary of Testosterone Pete Hegseth should do the same, but literally. 171
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026They've had 10 years to distance themselves from this incompetent madman. Four weeks of rebellion isn't going to erase a decade of knuckling under and kissing the ring.usatoday.comRepublicans jump ship as Trump's anchor weighs heavy on partyRepublican midterm candidates are increasingly breaking from President Trump, whose approval rating is at a record low five weeks from the election. 070
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There saying it statistically impossible for there to be healthy people in the United States? Maybe in some states. 051
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Every day on BlueSky people post these lovely pictures of the sunrises in Russia. Every. Day. 063
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Rogers' campaign plans to knock on (6M) to (8M) doors by Election Day" There are a little over 8 million people of voting age in Michigan. Many are couples or have voting age dependents in the house. ~4.7M Housing units in MI. There aren't 6M doors to knock on unless you hit a door 2 or 3 times.jpost.comGOP tests anti-socialist pitch in Michigan amid voter apathy fears | The Jerusalem PostIn Michigan’s tight Senate race, GOP canvassers are knocking on millions of doors to brand Democrats as radicals and turn out low-propensity voters amid an enthusiasm gap. 020
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In order to fight communism, Trump has: held a state dinner for the world's leading communist, called off war games because he likes the leader of another communist country, made business agreements with a different communist country, and held up arm sales that would fight communism. He's a Commie.dailykos.comFOX NEWS ANTI-COMMIES Join Trump at State Dinner Honoring Communist China’s President XiThe 2026 midterm election is expected to reap the rewards of a massive Blue Wave of victories by Democrats over Republicans struggling to crawl out from under the rubble that their Dear Leader… 011
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I'll agree to this if we can also rename Texas to America's Wrinkled Nutsack. 031
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Now that the Overton Window is open with Trump madvisors floating martial law, let's make sure we're all on the same page here. It's not spelled "marshall" law, which would be the law practiced by Thurgood Marshall or passed to put in place the Marshall Plan. Not "marshal" either. That's "Gunsmoke."themirror.comDonald Trump's advisers 'urge him to declare martial law' amid latest grim pollAccording to reports, President Donald Trump's advisers are urging him to declare Martial Law before the midterm elections as the Republicans find themselves in an increasingly desperate situation. 030
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Xi always looks like the cat that ate the canary. Trump always looks like the canary. 050
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The working term of a Representative is about 1.5 years. They're seated in early January and by the next June they are fully involved in their re-elections, getting ready to leave, or under indictment. I don't care if you're deep blue, pink, or red, we need to give all the Dems 18 months to start🔽cnn.comWhy the 2026 election could be the worst midterm for the GOP this century | CNN PoliticsThe Republican Party’s two worst midterm elections in the 21st Century were in 2006 and 2018. In the former, an unpopular Middle Eastern war cost George W. Bush dearly. In 2018, voters balked at the u... 140
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Lauren Sanchez reinforcing the maxim, "You can't buy good taste, but you can always buy bigger and bigger breasts". Unless those are filled with helium, she's heading for a world of back injuries. 230
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026May I offer a tagline to our northern friends? "Take a dump on Trump." Keep those elbows up, neighbor. 111
Reposted by Ace Combs Art𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026This belongs in the Smithsonian. 406103592924
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and three other Republican senators used the Xi visit to press the Trump administration to move ahead with aid and arms sales to Taiwan." Mitch "Peace Sign" McConnell "used the visit"? I won't believe it until I hear it from the Turtle's mouth.abcnews.comTrump is giving China's Xi a warm welcome. But criticism is loud on Capitol HillChinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington is getting a much chillier reception on Capitol Hill than at the White House 150
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fear. That's the reason. They're scared of something worse than Trump. Of spending the next decade in the wilderness. Not moral clarity, not unshaken belief, not conservative principles. Fear.time.comWhy More Republicans Are Breaking With Trump on IranA growing number of GOP candidates and lawmakers are pushing for an end to the President's Iran war, while polls show Republican voters' support for the conflict dropping. 052
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Oh, come on. He's practically transparent already. If he took off his shirt, you could see his organs.change.orgSign the PetitionDemand transparency from Senator Mitch McConnell 070
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Global diplomats have realized Trump has reached a desperate and befuddled stage where they can say, "Here's your cake, Grampa" and hand him a veggie burger with 6 of his meds hidden in it.yahoo.comMark Meadows to Newsmax: Greenland Deal 'Snuck Up on All of Us'Mark Meadows to Newsmax: Greenland Deal 'Snuck Up on All of Us' 261
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Well, it's a start.youtube.comTrump gives inaudible speech after TV networks suspend pool coverageYouTube video by POLITICO 250
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We all know that sometime soon Trump will be boarding planes only if there's an escalator to the door. Steps are becoming non-negotiable.youtube.comUN Assures Trump That Escalators 'Should Not Stop' At General Assembly | Phil CrowtherYouTube video by Times Radio 351
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026So Farage wants to hijack Tom Homan? Yes, please. Here's what you do, you put $50K in a takeout bag...theguardian.comFarage says he wants to ‘hijack’ Trump’s ICE czar to help secure UK borderReform leader also tells US event Europe should have ‘more sensible view’ of president’s administration 052
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When you're losing the fascists...newsweek.comTrump's Approval Rating Changes Among Most Conservative Americans 062
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Google is putting non-existent fantasy elements in Google Maps now. Lake America, Gulf of America, US Triumphal Arch, Florida. Absolutely insane. 171
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026America is now Up-sell Nation. Nearly everything online is pay-walled by subscription, or wading through pop-up menus, or badvertising shit, or cookies. And at least one network, NBC, which is granted its broadcast rights by the American taxpayer now has a subscriber news tier. How is this legal? 153
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When this is all over, when it ends, when these jerks pack their bags, I say we turn the whole lot of them over to the ICC and let the Hague dispose of them.thestar.comUN-backed experts find US may have committed war crimes in Iran, and other Mideast developmentsUnited Nations-backed human rights experts said on Thursday there are “reasonable grounds” to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran on the first day of 2207
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I wonder if the GOP realizes that by calling him Talafreako, they are actually providing a useful mnemonic for remembering how his name is pronounced? Thanks, Rethuglicans. 082
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If the stock market's a national barometer of business, it should price in an inevitability like the Fed rate hike. Instead it was humming along and then dropped 600 points after the Fed announcement. It's the madness of crowds. It's irrational exuberance. The market's in a mass state of denial.marketwatch.comFed rate hike fails to calm troubled markets as Dow falls 600 points. Expect more sharp swings in stocks and bonds.Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has sent investors a message: When it comes to tamping down inflation, he means business. 094
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If you added up all the neuroses, anti-social behavior, paranoia, drug use, delusions, and psychoses in the psych ward at Bellevue Hospital, you'd have a pretty good idea of the typical mental state of Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman, et al. These patients shouldn't be running this asylum. 070
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Also note: other than the photographer being there, no other people are present because we are learning from the IG report that many bases were basically abandoned early in the war. 021
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The new editorial standards in reporting should be to replace inexact words with the proper phrases. For example: Homophobe➡️Gay-hater Transphobe➡️Trans-hater Islamophobe➡️Islam-hater Xenophobe➡️stupid prick More clarity like this would be helpful. 140
Reposted by Ace Combs ArtAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/09/2026BREAKING: The Supreme Court has DENIED Trump's bid to continue with his USPS vote by mail restrictions! HUGE WIN. 1715081853
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026American exceptionalism in action. Exceptionally loud. Exceptionally intrusive. Exceptionally self-absorbed. 041
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This how the American Dream ends. Not with a bang, but with a diaper.irishstar.comTrump's aide Natalie Harp hunches over as she grapples with humongous accessoryEarly on September 12, Donald Trump's aide Natalie Harp was spotted disembarking Air Force One after it landed at Dublin Airport at the start of his two-day visit to Ireland 110
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Trump has been messing with military engineering again. Apparently he's designed a new tank for the economy. 041
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I am reminded of this every 9/11 anniversary. In 2001, shortly after 9/11, as one of my duties as President of the Graphic Artists Guild (at the time UAW affiliated), I attended the Int'l Federation of Reprographic Rights Organizatons meeting in Capetown, SA. I decided to tour Robben Island, the⏬1/3 110
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026...aaand the inflation machine that is today's GOP keeps the hits coming. If Trump gets his "Trump Dividend", the US is going to make the Weimar Republic look like a stable economy.marketwatch.comTreasury yields surge after Bessent’s beefed-up buyback operation fails to calm marketThe Treasury market’s painful rout intensified Thursday, after an underwhelming auction of 30-year U.S. government debt and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s first beefed-up buyback operation. 040
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Producer Price Index, a key measure of inflation, is out this morning. It's in line with "expectations", which means there's a steady rise in inflation. The Dow seems to be using Trump's (non-existent) relationship to reality to take market temps, so watch the bond market. There may be blood.newsday.comWholesale prices moved higher last month in latest sign of stubborn inflationWholesale inflation picked up last month after cooling earlier this summer as higher oil and gas prices stemming from the Iran war are keeping costs elevated. 081
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026When you accidentally leave your rug at the cleaners.forbes.comTrump’s Hair Appears Suddenly Thinner In Latest Style MysteryPresident Donald Trump’s hair has seemingly gone through multiple changes in the last month or so, ranging in fullness and color. 120
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Trump-is-a-looza starts today. Hours and hours of must’nt-see TV. This is more like a real county fair than the Stalls on the Mall in DC this summer with a lot of has-beens performing their greatest hits.latimes.comColumn: 'Trumpapalooza' is a sad, unnecessary spectacle that achieves nothingPolitical conventions are one of the best examples — among way too many — of American institutional decay. 0114
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she will not be in attendance, citing a 'long standing practice of not going to conventions while she is in cycle.'" Since Collins runs in even years, she has been "in cycle" for only 2 presidential conventions since being elected, so just more BS from Collins.politico.comRepublicans aren’t exactly flocking to Trump’s midterm convention“I can't control what the president's going to say at the convention, but I can control where I'm at,” one battleground member said. 030
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026When I served as as National President of the Graphic Artists Guild (at the time a national local of the UAW), I had a chance to attend the annual conventions and participated in their lobbying efforts in DC a couple of times, and they were some of the most committed people I've ever met. UAW proud. 021
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The last time the far right was in power in Saxony . 23314
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026He thinks tariffs tax other countries, that ranchers want beef prices to go down, that people would love a "county fair" in DC in June, that the Fed should lower rates during rising inflation, that data centers are rural employment opportunities, that bond markets don't matter. No art. No deal. 051
Ace Combs Art @acecombsart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Truckload of crap from the murderer RFK Jr. is an invitation to violence against trans people everywhere. This sex-, heroin-, nicotine-, steroid-addicted brain-worm-infested sub-species of the Kennedy clan belongs nowhere near anything having to do with health or humans, things he know nothing abouttheguardian.com‘Nakedly political’: US attempts to link trans support to authoritarianism in new HHS reportHHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted 1164
Reposted by Ace Combs Art50501Voice @50501voice.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Defend Democracy packer list14! Share & Follow! go.bsky.app/2JmSDTG 7158