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@blandphilosophy.bsky.social

Proud progressive. Virginian. DC sports fan.

created July 1, 2023

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Profile picture mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) reposted

the reason the mainstream media holds up a fake version of the trump administration that's making good faith efforts to address crime or boost manufacturing or whatever is because telling the truth about how people like loomer have power there would be toxically damaging to trump

3/9/2025, 6:54:28 PM | 242 51 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah seeing Chip Roy wave AOC up to the podium is uh

3/9/2025, 5:56:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.

3/9/2025, 5:42:14 PM | 12022 2810 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alexandra Petri (@petridishes.bsky.social) reposted

shortened this (grim, awful) headline for you

BREAKING: Florida will work to eliminate all child [vaccine mandates crossed out] in the state, officials say
3/9/2025, 5:22:09 PM | 425 79 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

We all have the same job in mind guys

3/9/2025, 5:16:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

these people are fucking morons and the mainstream “lets just hear them out” bull shit is going to get so many people killed

3/9/2025, 5:10:54 PM | 430 86 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

3/9/2025, 4:39:55 PM | 7973 2664 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Truly bizarre men

3/9/2025, 4:43:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Personally I think it's because they just lied about it

3/9/2025, 3:34:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social)

Well I work in an office building near the WH and damn near had a heart attack because of that fucking fly over. Are you kidding?

3/9/2025, 3:33:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

I just assume Pirro is too drunk at all times to have intent.

3/9/2025, 3:05:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks!

3/9/2025, 2:55:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social)

It is fucking wild that the GOP leadership is, for the most part, shamelessly protecting child sex predators.

3/9/2025, 2:53:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

What's the data source?

3/9/2025, 2:09:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, agreed. I think he's wrong but if she was 10 years younger I'd be all in.

3/9/2025, 2:08:41 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish I wasn't afraid of Pritzker hunting me and everyone else down in 4 years but, alas, I am.

3/9/2025, 2:07:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

This looks awesome

3/9/2025, 2:06:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) reposted

It’s insane that “Free Palestine” gets treated as antisemitism, but “America is not a universal nation” is not. I’ll tell you what: as an American Jew, I feel much more threatened by White Christian nationalism than I do by Palestinian liberation.

3/9/2025, 3:26:17 AM | 565 106 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

It's like someone handed him a Nirvana album on the way in to Seattle and he didn't totally get it

3/9/2025, 2:21:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

For sure, but that was after they spent a while struggling with the consequences of doing it (and in that case it was a violent despot). Man that show truly was a work of fiction.

3/9/2025, 2:20:05 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

It's about as healthy as that yes

3/9/2025, 2:02:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

There was a season long arc in the West Wing about how this type of act was so morally depraved that it would end the Bartlett presidency

3/9/2025, 2:01:45 AM | 57 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

That is a very good question.

3/9/2025, 1:58:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

You mean the guy getting divorced on Biblical grounds

3/9/2025, 12:49:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted

we’re about to see a second wave of teen reddit atheism the world has never seen before

2/9/2025, 9:21:39 PM | 8023 1122 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

3/9/2025, 12:15:24 AM | 9590 2041 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

2/9/2025, 11:00:06 PM | 4003 1361 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted

40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.

2/9/2025, 11:20:05 PM | 6107 1767 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

You bootlickers.

2/9/2025, 11:11:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted

"They were born to be criminals." Jesus. Trump is talking about Americans this way. And let's be clear - he's talking about Black and brown people in Blue cities.

2/9/2025, 7:15:02 PM | 1115 308 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social)

So is anyone going to explain what the fuck happened this weekend or

2/9/2025, 7:06:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

They really can't help themselves lol

2/9/2025, 6:32:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Materialist Gnostic (@walmsley.bsky.social) reposted

the tech right is cool because they'll say "we must build the future and make the US the most innovative country in the world" and also "women should stop getting educated some time in high school so they fuck more"

2/9/2025, 6:02:22 PM | 475 86 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

He didn't last time. That was all on Schumer.

2/9/2025, 5:41:47 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm still laughing at Darren Rizzi (of course, ST coach) sticking the entire Saints team in a freezer to practice for "weather conditions" against Green Bay.

2/9/2025, 4:18:11 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social)

It's wild watching everyone get radicalized by this administration (myself included). But yeah, turns out most shit's broken.

2/9/2025, 3:57:39 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Let's fuck up the 11th Circuit for good measure

2/9/2025, 3:49:44 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

We're about to find out if it's possible for a reanimated corpse to speak

2/9/2025, 3:17:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

You know he hated every part of this lol

2/9/2025, 3:16:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

We're gonna get another Big Short

2/9/2025, 3:13:12 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep. It’s a lot easier to “moderate” people out of existence when you already don’t think any of them really exist.

2/9/2025, 2:46:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably saved some fire for the 9th Circuit in there, understandably so.

2/9/2025, 2:43:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Well this is dumber than all the other possibilities

2/9/2025, 2:42:16 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

It's funny that they never considered some of us would simply stop using microblogging websites if a viable alternative to Twitter didn't exist.

2/9/2025, 2:41:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

I mostly want to goad legacy media into caring

2/9/2025, 3:56:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm so happy

2/9/2025, 3:51:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

lmao

2/9/2025, 3:48:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah it's a super gross relationship

2/9/2025, 3:04:50 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online) reposted

Jesus Christ

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2/9/2025, 2:31:22 AM | 2831 507 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Nailed it.

2/9/2025, 2:20:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus Christ

2/9/2025, 2:20:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Bill destroying his legacy has been something

2/9/2025, 1:46:37 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted

the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It

2/9/2025, 1:13:11 AM | 5352 729 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social)

Thank you, @nadler.house.gov, for being a strong, unapologetic Democrat in an era of weak ones, and recognizing when it was time for a generational change.

2/9/2025, 12:58:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

There's a lot of straight up sexual harassment in this show

1/9/2025, 10:50:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 10:40:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Alright the Bones episode with Booth just destroying a teenage boy over teenage pregnancy seemed a little unnecessary

1/9/2025, 10:29:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

This one's not bad

1/9/2025, 10:10:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Well it apparently turns a specific type of wealthy white pundit into one

1/9/2025, 9:59:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, some animal rescues can sue you for breach of contract if you fail to vaccinate and try to take back your dog. They'll also likely list you on the do not adopt list.

1/9/2025, 9:58:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

One of my favorite spectator sports in college was watching particularly bad student drivers try to parallel park in the city for the first time.

1/9/2025, 9:55:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

I specifically hate Joe Lieberman for this reason alone and so should everyone else

1/9/2025, 9:52:46 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is going to be so much worse when all the details come out.

1/9/2025, 8:41:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social)

Wow. The RFK attacks drew blood.

1/9/2025, 6:36:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

That judge and her clerks are heros. Truly impressive work.

1/9/2025, 4:43:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

For all the shit Biden got, he was in good health for most of his presidency.

1/9/2025, 4:40:35 PM | 130 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

No spray tan even

1/9/2025, 4:40:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

My biggest fear is that Labour doesn't get completely destroyed in the next election and Democrats think this somehow worked. Or worse, Democrats think the problem is they didn't out flank Reform hard enough.

1/9/2025, 4:35:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social)

Mainstream press likes Trump far too much to push him out over something as minor as "being incapacitated"

1/9/2025, 4:21:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture egg price watcher (@bluser12.bsky.social) reposted

Interesting thread here where Adam presents evidence that Trump has been having mini-strokes x.com/adamscochran...

@adamscochran X.com 1/31 I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes. AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke this week.
1/9/2025, 2:45:46 PM | 172 63 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Starbuck is such a shit stain and he really deserves some actual consequences for being such an insufferable waste of oxygen

1/9/2025, 6:22:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) reposted

This is the kind of thing you post at 6:54 if you might be dead.

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1/9/2025, 2:01:44 AM | 3736 392 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nathan Goldwag (@goldwagnathan.bsky.social) reposted

At some point you have to just admit that the reason this endless farrago of hatred and filth from the intelligentsia of the modern Right doesn't inspire rejection from the media, commentariat, or political elite writ large is that they don't consider it particularly bad.

1/9/2025, 2:56:38 AM | 822 146 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social)

I appreciated that a significant portion of the plot of Bones is "Bones is hot" or "Booth is hot"

1/9/2025, 2:43:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I actually really liked Skyfall ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1/9/2025, 2:40:12 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Gonna have a generation of truly horrific first date banter

31/8/2025, 11:56:46 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Trying to imagine what my judge would have done to counsel that did that to him and uh I'm not sure they make it out of the courtroom with all of their fingers attached

31/8/2025, 11:44:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice. Those are tough to come by but so necessary.

31/8/2025, 11:41:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Why aren't these people working

31/8/2025, 11:41:02 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Man it would be a real shame if he voted for the law enabling this.

31/8/2025, 11:40:30 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

God I felt this in my bones. Which hurt, perpetually.

31/8/2025, 11:37:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

That's truly insane. These Nazis are really trying to resegregate the country.

31/8/2025, 11:33:28 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Well hold on did you read the Guliani press release

31/8/2025, 11:21:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.

31/8/2025, 7:08:22 PM | 5535 1484 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Ahahahahaa

31/8/2025, 10:33:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

You have a vision board don't you

31/8/2025, 10:06:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh man how did that not click for me

31/8/2025, 9:58:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah Democrats should ruthlessly persecute legacy media. This is exasperating.

31/8/2025, 9:32:08 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack Tripper (@chadstanton.blacksky.app) reposted

People will repeatedly refuse to recognize the importance of anti-Blackness to the current moment despite being given every signal of its importance.

31/8/2025, 9:24:14 PM | 412 89 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) reposted

If this country ever returns to sanity, a whole bunch of people should be disbarred, at a minimum

31/8/2025, 9:10:43 PM | 255 57 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn. What heroes - that's absolutely insane.

31/8/2025, 9:12:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Sacha following through on it would be something else lol

31/8/2025, 8:59:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

It really does sound like a C-plot from a late season 30 Rock episode

31/8/2025, 8:54:11 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Lmao

31/8/2025, 8:53:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I mean he wouldn't be alive if the events described actually happened

31/8/2025, 8:38:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted

does Drew Ensign go home to his wife every night and say “hi honey, I had a great day lying to the court so that the US government could murder children”? I mean how exactly do you even begin to live with yourself

31/8/2025, 7:52:38 PM | 918 130 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

What the fuck is this

31/8/2025, 8:03:54 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture airplane ian (he/him) (@airplaneian.com) reposted

trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be

31/8/2025, 6:05:20 PM | 4996 874 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Both things can be true!

31/8/2025, 7:47:36 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KR (@blandphilosophy.bsky.social) reply parent

Well he's a germaphobe so I get that one

31/8/2025, 7:30:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view