Reposted by ploege.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026"you're getting [Tesla] reliability in everything we make" me: dies 718710
ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m not saying that I’ll believe we have achieved Artificial General Intelligence when the computers go on strike for better pay and working conditions and the billionaires go after them with sledgehammers, but I think it’s at least a solid prerequisite. 131
ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Arch National Security Complex and McDonald’s Restaurant bah dah dum dah dum I’m loving it 010
Reposted by ploegCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm reading this article now and am wondering why I haven't seen more about it. It's by Dexter Filkins, who is knowledgeable in the areas of Kushner's "diplomacy." I'll keep comments closed until I've finished the article.share.googleJared Kushner’s Dollar DiplomacyJared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth. 416174
Reposted by ploegDean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Love the passive "get ripped down." Let's put that into normal English. Trump says if he can't get his name on the Kennedy Center, he will tear it down. 23812
ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“Cheat like hell (because you’ll get caught and I won’t be able to pardon you and I want to have company in prison)!!!!” 010
Reposted by ploegAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..." 130452322019
Reposted by ploegSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026if this was in an evangelical movie about the antichrist you'd think it'd be a bit much 693901719
Reposted by ploegAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026INGRAHAM: In one sentence, why do Republicans need to show up in the midterms? TRUMP: Communism 156592114
Reposted by ploegMicah @rincewind.run · 10/09/2026“you can be fired for literally quoting this man’s actual bigoted words verbatim” is uh a problem if you’re trying to paint him as the right‘s version of MLK 41837182
ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026President Donald J. Trump signs an executive order renaming all Republican candidates for office to “Donald J. Trump” 172
Reposted by ploeglorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The reason why the world doesn’t universally love us as defenders of democracy is because our foreign policy is extremely sensitive to public opinion and our public is frequently *fucking crazy* and wants impossible things from our armed forces. 1224
Reposted by ploegKarl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026God-level badassery: Canadian Constable Sukhvinder “Suki” Singh Sunger, Drum Major of the Vancouver Police Pipe Band making history at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o... 22807191
Reposted by ploegChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 31/08/2026John Billionaire is getting yeeted out the airlock in the first 24 hours by the support staff is what I’m trying to say here 3959233
ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In any case, I’m looking forward to the next President renaming Mar-A-Lago to “United States Penitentiary Palm Beach.” 130
Reposted by ploegSam @very-simple.com · 27/08/20269 to 5 (the film) was literally a project Jane Fonda organized in coordination with the womens’ labor movement! It was not subtle! 082
ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026“I wanted to see [my autobiographical musical] done while I’m still around, to be able to oversee it and make sure that it’s done properly in a way that I would want to see it.” — Dolly Parton, January 28, 2025 “Dolly: A True Original Musical” Broadway previews begin this December. 100
ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026What use is a security clearance if you can dig everything out of the President’s diaper 100
Reposted by ploegMrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 20/08/2026“Idaho is a nonbargaining state” not once we do Reconstruction 2 it’s not 4593
Reposted by ploegThe Mall Krampus @themallkrampus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The Fraser River Fireballer has somehow Returned 011
Reposted by ploegRAYGUN @raygunsite.com · 19/08/2026To those who ask where our Republican merch is, here is a design for Zach Lahn's campaign: it's free, guys! Article: iowademocrats.org/2026/05/14/n... 2244
Reposted by ploegAiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Respect to the dad watching his son practice tennis badly at the park every day before work/school. Little man may or may not make the team, but he will definitely know he is loved. 473372222
Reposted by ploegYastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026STOP BOTHERING WITH HIM FOR FUCKS SAKE. It's not like he has any valuable information, he knows less about what's going on than you do. It was fun for a while watching his strategies for hiding his ignorance, but you couldn't report that anyway. In a world of Maggie Habermans, be an I.F. Stone. 0134
Reposted by ploegAmanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 17/08/2026YOU aren’t allowed to choose a different gender than the one assigned at birth. But MAGA redefines huge numbers of women as “men,” regardless of biology, just because they aren’t tradwives. 942946
Reposted by ploegJake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The rare question title where the answer is “yes”. Amazing how so many liberal YouTubers accepted Ground News defining the Overton Window for their users and then placing their selection of news sites on a naive one-dimensional scale. youtu.be/CqE-SrgvTh4?...youtu.beIs Ground News a Psy-Op?YouTube video by Literate Machine 83920
Reposted by ploegFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/08/2026I love this painting more every time I see it 825120
Reposted by ploeglauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14/08/2026only now realizing the field of dreams game happened and this is all so unbelievably stupid 49117055
Reposted by ploegPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Yeah, see, the thing is, a lot of them didn’t. Survive, that is. 66389461156
Reposted by ploegDex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 13/08/2026There's a lot wrong with this but I do want to address this weird narrative that trans people were invented in 2010, which is something i've literally heard from TERFs as part of their argument that it's a social contagion. Being trans in the 1960s was harder but it wasn't impossible. 2927242
ploeg @ploeg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Bolt them one on each side of your rack. Oh, you mean with the mayonnaise in them…. 020
Reposted by ploegDoc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Alright, I'm going to do a thread about this: Race science is objectively, scientifically incorrect, even if we set aside the obvious moral arguments against it. "Race realists" love to accuse anti-racists of relying on ethical arguments over "hard facts", so let's use only hard facts. 4301119
Reposted by ploeglauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026what do you mean we're out of missiles 109182088
Reposted by ploegLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Some day we're probably going to find out that Trump's cut-rate no-bid contractors destabilized the entire White House and we'll have to raze the whole thing. 510717
Reposted by ploegHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/08/2026This apparently happened underneath (and maybe because of of) a sign she had hung on her house that said: "National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing." 11823290
Reposted by ploegLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/08/2026None of these people are tricksters, they are only liars. "We have been living in an age of tricksters. Musk, President Trump, Tucker Carlson, Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes — the grammar of the modern right is tricksy."nytimes.comOpinion | Christopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse (Gift Article)The finest trick of his “Odyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into an ancient Greek epic. 1816127
Reposted by ploegMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This is like JD Vance mansplaining Catholicism to the literal pope. Oh wait he does that frequently! 31319
Reposted by ploegHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 02/08/2026Here's Miller taping himself telling his wife he never tapes her in an argument about whether he uses drugs. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/43rdi...dropbox.com 832352
Reposted by ploegAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin... 295114802682
Reposted by ploegSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 15/06/2026When I worked at Monticello, we learned a lot about Jefferson’s love of pasta moulds. But it was his enslaved chefs, James Hemings or Edith Hern Fossett, who brought the rather new macaroni & cheese recipe back to America and eventually made it at the White House. The recipe is via Monticello.org.monticello.orgMacaroniJefferson did not invent macaroni and cheese, nor did his enslaved chef James Hemings. But its appearance on the menu at the White House was seen as a… 14689158
Reposted by ploegTom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I’m old enough to remember a trans professional tennis player named Renee Richards in the 1970s, and there was some controversy, but it was a tennis controversy, not a national political issue that decided the economic and geopolitical future of the country. 2593
Reposted by ploegHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/07/2026Dulles as brothel is a little unexpected. 1311228
Reposted by ploegAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026You can dismiss any news that appears in the format "Elon Musk says [blank] will [blank] by the end of [blank]" 21766140
Reposted by ploegSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to! 438249855141
Reposted by ploegLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19/07/2026My latest for MS Now on JD Vance, conspiracy communicator. The Constitution doesn't give the VP a full-time job, so each has to carve out their own niche. Vance chose to push conspiracy theories on podcasts:ms.nowOpinion | JD Vance is taking the vice presidency in a strange new directionThe vice president is walking a delicate line between validating a paranoid worldview and praising his boss. 57824
