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Brianna Chesser

@chessercat.bsky.social

Not the character of the day 🫶 ā€œThat’s a matter between me and my grammarianā€

created August 12, 2023

1,236 followers 1,002 following 13,336 posts

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Profile picture Anna Gifty (@itsafronomics.bsky.social) reposted

If you're a reporter and you wants to talk about WHY 319,000 Black women left the labor force in five months, do not hesitate to reach out to. (Spoiler: The why is #TheDoubleTax) Send an email info@annagifty.com and cc Taylor Thee Publicist at taywilliams@penguinrandomhouse.com! #econsky #blacksky

1/9/2025, 11:10:03 PM | 63 24 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture J. C. Cantwell 🌻 (@segfaultvicta.bsky.social) reposted

just had the most cursed beer i've ever had in my life it tasted like fucking goddamned hair conditioner, there was sediment at the bottom of the can coconut should not be an ingredient in beer and people keep making coconut an ingredient in beer and it should be Illegal Food Crimes to do that

1/9/2025, 11:12:32 PM | 35 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

This was after I’d sent an email without the order number, and I was like ā€œI don’t want to deal with a chatbot, I already filled out the form, I’m in the app, so here’s the credit card charge, you could’ve put it there.ā€ I feel pretty vindicated. Or I will until $275 worth of groceries show up.

2/9/2025, 8:41:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

OMFG

Contact Us = Chat with Imperfect Foods Me: I need to cancel order #(scribbled out) Stupid AI chatbot whose name should be rooty the rutabaga, not rufus or whatever it was: We'd love to help you with that request. To keep your account and personal information secure, we'll need you to login to your account before we take action. To do this, go to your Account Home page and start another chat, we'll take it from there! 1:24 AM| me: I am literally in the app Stupid AI chatbot : … Chat sessions are powered and recorded by Imperfect Foods and our vendors. By chatting, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.
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Profile picture Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) reposted

You know what I think is a a sign something is seriously wrong? No leaks. I can’t imagine White House preventing any leaks unless they’ve tightly restricted those who are around Trump Who’s CiC right now? Can Trump perform his job as well as he could 2 wks ago? Is it worse than Lloyd Austin?

1/9/2025, 11:00:31 PM | 91 30 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

Oh JFC bless whoever invented the block feature

This is Justin save my number. Where did you walk to that fast? Do you live inside the apartments in this building? 8m ago Missed call
2/9/2025, 3:58:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Congratulations, and long may you reign

1/9/2025, 11:13:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, and when my dad was an actual male model giving blue steel on literally Miami Beach, he had less product in his hair

A black and white photo of my dad in his late teens or early twenties and a young blonde woman the same age under a large beach umbrella. Gentle waves of the Atlantic Ocean are in the background. She’s laying on her stomach in a dark one-piece bathing suit, leaning on her elbows, and he’s seated behind her in shorts or a bathing suit and a casual short-sleeve collared shirt with a tropical print. They’re both smiling. I have no idea what they’re modeling, I know it’s from his portfolio. . Gavin Newsom and Kimberly Guilfoyle sprawled across the floor in Ann Getty's drawing room for a weird magazine spread in 2004, when he was mayor, she was sane, and they were married. And the story was in Harper’s Bazaar, which in hindsight makes sense because I cropped fashion editorial information out of the other photo, in addition to the headline and Kimberly Guilfoyle. But I could have sworn it was Vanity Fair, oh well. .
1/9/2025, 10:22:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

Extremely mixed feelings, for the obvious reasons, and also because Gavin irl looks like my dad, something I didn’t even realize until a friend asked, in earnest, why I had a framed photo of him in my apartment. It was my dad’s dean’s list photo from 1957. Now he’s aging like him, it’s wild!

1/9/2025, 10:03:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

I didn’t hit democratic transitions until upper division honors level courses in my major, and I’m realizing that maybe that’s not great. People should have an idea about what makes a democracy successful. Hint: it’s not violence.

1/9/2025, 9:35:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pleasebury Doughboy ✨ (@plsburydoughboy.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

OK but what we did aren't coups, they were nonviolent revolutions. This is voice of the people calling for ouster. We were inspired by Gandhi & MLK and ourselves partly inspired Eastern Europe's color revolutions

1/9/2025, 9:30:10 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for saying this! It can’t be said enough! Nonviolent democratic transitions are the most effective and successful, despite being a seemingly less dramatic slow burn. A lot of people don’t realize this, and *want* violence, which results in autocracy & ethnic cleansing. It’s so frustrating!

1/9/2025, 9:31:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pleasebury Doughboy ✨ (@plsburydoughboy.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

It's sad to see you saying it like that 🄲 we did this in the Philippines twice in the past 41 years Nonviolent too

1/9/2025, 9:15:11 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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

I have increasing contempt for people who post "Dems keep saying (bad thing about Trump) but it doesn't seem to be working/no one cares :/" You are furthering the narrative that no one cares by posting this. You are not an outside observer to politics, you're one of the people who should care!

31/8/2025, 8:44:32 PM | 120 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

He didn’t say auto play emo music

1/9/2025, 9:25:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s great! A lot of people remain on facebook because of the ease of creating both public and private events (in addition to its wide user base).

1/9/2025, 9:24:50 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely

1/9/2025, 9:22:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fun (@funkelly.bsky.social) reposted

i love the unmistakable sound of a skateboard going down the street

1/9/2025, 9:04:40 PM | 341 61 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Butch Bucky approves

1/9/2025, 9:11:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Stuckey’s and Waffle House are confederate Applebees, and they both have better food. So does Cracker Barrel for that matter. The only thing Applebees has that the others don’t is a bar, making it more expensive Chuck E Cheese.

1/9/2025, 9:06:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jokeractual.bsky.social (@jokeractual.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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1/9/2025, 3:00:39 AM | 26 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

He has his own show on CNN. Unfortunate network, but the show is good. I don’t blame him for leaving one bit, he deserved the anchor spot—though I’m glad Josh Johnson is getting a day (should be all five), he’s hilarious. youtu.be/vi2MkdTiOmE?...

1/9/2025, 8:48:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture This Scientitian (@thisscientitian.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I would like to return America's heritage, preferably in its original packaging, for full store credit. I want a new heritage. Preferably something a bit spicier. Do you think the Bavarians would mind if we made lederhosen our heritage?

1/9/2025, 2:34:17 AM | 24 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Racecarlock (@racecarlock.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

America's heritage is corporate logos? That makes an extremely sad amount of sense.

1/9/2025, 2:18:01 AM | 66 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pete Arethas (@petea.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Mr. Franklin - what kind of business have you given us. A Cracker Barrel … if you can keep it.

1/9/2025, 2:15:39 AM | 43 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

They have

1/9/2025, 8:32:56 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

First they came for the Little Black Sambo’s logo, and I did not speak up, because I was not a racist Then they came for the Cracker Barrel logo, and I did not speak up, for I was not a cracker Then they came for the Stuckey’s pecan log roll, and there was no one left to speak up

1/9/2025, 8:32:02 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted

Make it stop

Cracker Barrel furor was about more than a logo. Stop erasing America's heritage. | Opinion
1/9/2025, 2:10:29 AM | 2327 170 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

Me: the perfect house does not exist Random rich guy:

1/9/2025, 8:25:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

wtf happened to that guy?

1/9/2025, 8:19:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) reposted

Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

how is that a possibly better solution than just putting it directly in a trash bag, where it won't hit a passerby or explode on the lower roof or lawn? throwing anything out a window is a major liability, even for a federal employee. and certainly for a homeowner or renter.

1/9/2025, 8:15:48 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Keep Rad (@keeprad.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I am honestly surprised the second floor of the White House was real I assumed it was a Disneyland Matterhorn situation where it was all force prospective and has a basketball court up there

1/9/2025, 7:39:15 PM | 38 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

correct

1/9/2025, 8:10:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Harbeck (@sesquiotic.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Let us hope for some Praguematic decisions here

1/9/2025, 7:19:56 PM | 180 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

he got up to the roof somehow…maybe a litter?

1/9/2025, 7:54:28 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s the head of his favorite caddie

1/9/2025, 7:50:38 PM | 25 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laminariales (@kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Damn it, look, I'm gonna be distracted by this and NO ONE can stop me.

1/9/2025, 7:05:59 PM | 75 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Ramsay (@robertramsay.org) reposted reply parent

Moments before...

1/9/2025, 7:02:55 PM | 84 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tiger Killy šŸ…šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø (@liliana.transsexual.gay) reposted reply parent

1/9/2025, 6:59:26 PM | 576 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

The orange makeup could be covering up blue skin. And he does always use sun protection, I am just saying…

1/9/2025, 7:42:39 PM | 29 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

It’s gotta be Melania, right?

1/9/2025, 7:38:18 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Glad to see it’s dying too

1/9/2025, 7:34:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NoName999 (@noname999.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Whether it's Michelle Obama promoting eating healthier as a pet proejct or RFK Jr promoting drinking raw, unpasturized milk as a policy maker, both sides are trying to control America's eating habits.

1/9/2025, 5:24:22 PM | 45 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s the type of preventable disease. As an American, I planned to die of heart disease, not polio or bubonic plague.

1/9/2025, 6:40:53 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ll reserve judgment until Republicans freak out when Kennedy suggests kids eat some vegetables and get some light exercise through playing

1/9/2025, 6:37:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Michelle by a mile, and without chemical assistance, ironically

1/9/2025, 6:34:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s Move! To walk into the ocean.

1/9/2025, 6:32:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Stephen Robinson (@playtyperguy.com) reposted reply parent

Democrats aren’t ā€œpandering or parsing languageā€ if they don’t say ā€œpro-life,ā€ ā€œpartial birth abortion,ā€ ā€œschool choiceā€ or ā€œdeath tax,ā€ either.

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Profile picture Stephen Robinson (@playtyperguy.com) reposted

Liberal snottiness has not exactly helped us win many elections, but in this case, the smugness is especially misplaced because ā€œright to workā€ is not an objective term. It is right-wing framing deliberately intended to minimize its true intent.

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Profile picture Cheryl Lynn Eaton (@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social) reposted

Cuomo could NEVER!

1/9/2025, 5:43:10 PM | 101 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST (@chathamharrison.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Even among the most illiterate anti-medical fanatics, the contrast between concern for men's health & concern for women's health is striking

1/9/2025, 5:43:36 PM | 44 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Theo (@theokane.bsky.social) reposted

People: There are only 2 sexes. Fungus scientists: The Schizophyllum fungus has 23,000 sexes.

1/9/2025, 5:43:36 PM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) reposted

Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now

1/9/2025, 5:06:18 PM | 2495 610 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

Does America have too many guns? No, it's the [dead] children who are wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

1/9/2025, 5:45:10 PM | 7 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

Could’ve bought a lot of books with that money. Or prepared for climate change. Improved the air in schools. Saved the Everglades and coral reefs. Voters should be infuriated!

1/9/2025, 10:33:22 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Emerson (@danemers.bsky.social) reposted

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.

29/8/2025, 5:33:34 PM | 7072 2289 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Southern Violet (@southernviolet.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Why are people more concerned about the 4 trans shooters than the fact we have had 4K mass shootings in seven years?!

29/8/2025, 11:15:46 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

** Scott Baio

1/9/2025, 10:16:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

Conclusive proof thoughts and prayers don’t work: he’s fine.

30/8/2025, 4:09:18 PM | 4100 532 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

They’ve even stopped posting AI pics of him with 8-pack abs riding a tiger on the moon. 😭

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes he’s bad at everything except conning people

1/9/2025, 10:09:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

Fatality.

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

And like enslaved people and their descendants never got

1/9/2025, 10:06:55 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture RandomWhiteGuy (@thereelrandom.bsky.social) reposted

Brilliant

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Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

He obviously knows where he’s going.

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

šŸ‘‡šŸ‘‡

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Profile picture Capt.Ed (@capt-ed.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Q: What do you call a single crow? A: attempted murder

1/9/2025, 4:13:28 AM | 81 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tynaqua (@tynaqua.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

looks like a murder of jim crows to me

1/9/2025, 3:50:38 AM | 110 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m just ending an entire day of these type of brain farts šŸ’ØšŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social)

It’s two o’clock in the morning and I just realized that tapeworms are worms. I took AP zoology šŸ¤¦šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!

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Profile picture NVlife (@nvlife.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

There was always about 10 or so hanging out near my workplace in FL. I once got a photo of a buzzard, a feral cat, a duck and a raccoon hanging out, on a sidewalk near workplace. Bizarre.

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Profile picture OceanSolitudeME (@oceansolitudeme.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?

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Profile picture George Conway šŸ‘ŠšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øšŸ”„ (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t think he can hold the cult together. He, Vought, and Thiel have negative charisma, and only look good when compared to Stephen Miller. No one’s going to a Nuremberg rally to watch JD Vance jiggle around to YMCA and an assortment of Broadway tunes.

1/9/2025, 9:36:59 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

I think of this every time I pass the razor aisle or shave my legs or pretty much all the time

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Profile picture Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted reply parent

Internet Archive! ia800805.us.archive.org/view_archive...

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Profile picture Scissors (@rningscissors.bsky.social) reposted

I think 182 year old research articles should be free I want to read about the man

RESEARCH ARTICLE • Volume 39, Issue 1001, P221- 222, November 05, 1842 A MAN WITH THREE TESTICLES. F. Macann
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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Those ears are so precious!

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Profile picture Juniper Bear and the Couch Potatoes (@juniperbear.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

My sweet (smelling) baby.

Franklin, post bath, wrapped in a towel and cradled in the bath giver's arms.
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Profile picture Juniper Bear and the Couch Potatoes (@juniperbear.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Therefore, we can now bless your timeline with bath time Franklin photos.

A soapy Franklin with water dripping off of his head. Franklin, still in the sink. Most of the soap is gone now and the fun times are almost over.
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Profile picture Juniper Bear and the Couch Potatoes (@juniperbear.bsky.social) reposted

A very lucky Franklin got a bath today, to cool off in the hot weather and also to smell better.

An old pup soaped up in the sink.
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Profile picture Ted McCoy šŸ–– (@tedmccoy.bsky.social) reposted

Having her bath

A little Corgi puppy pops over the side of a bathtub The same puppy wrapped up in a towel and soaking wet
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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Dawwwwwwwwwwwww

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

And the director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about how they had nothing to do with it www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Nixon proposed an employer mandate, and Ted Kennedy blocked it, wanting single payer btw It’s heartbreaking knowing what we know now šŸ’”šŸ’”šŸ’” and obviously Kennedy is right youtu.be/eBFJ7vv8vDU?...

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

trade publications for health care reporters have explained the difference between the ACA, the Heritage outline (and its author is now at Brookings because he’s not completely insane) healthjournalism.org/blog/2017/02...

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Forbes calls the idea ā€˜malarkey,’ and points out that neither Heritage nor Republicans invented managed competition www.forbes.com/sites/johngo...

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Super inconvenient, then. Sorry that you’d rather bash Obama than admit that you’re wrong ĀÆ\_(惄)_/ĀÆ prospect.org/power/no-oba...

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

I saw several arrests over 5 to 7 years, but I don’t think I ever saw a weapon drawn. Thankfully.

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s what I thought from what you were describing. And I know people are terrible at this time of year without budget cuts, so thank you for what you do! I love our parks, they’re a treasure!

31/8/2025, 10:22:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

And it’s actually somewhat a different kind of bad behavior, but a lot of the time it’s still the same assholes everywhere, if that makes sense. Some behavior will be specific, but mostly it’s people being dumb, entitled, rude, drunk, on drugs, starting fires, letting kids/dogs run around, sucking.

31/8/2025, 10:20:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

And depending on the park, visitors can and will be belligerent jerks, especially at this time of year, or whatever the busy season is, and especially at the busiest parks, like Yellowstone, and parks in or near cities, like Yosemite, Joshua Tree, and where I’ve worked.

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Parks with a lot of visitors have law enforcement rangers who carry a sidearm (and possibly a shotgun in their vehicle, usually for wildlife). They issue warnings & tickets to people who are doing something stupid/illegal they’ve already been told not to by other staff or that’s super dangerous.

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Most US National Park rangers and US Forest Service employees are unarmed and responsible for educating visitors about wildlife, geology, and/or history in the park as well as fire prevention, trail restoration, fire & rescue, and park management. (my own experience, not speaking for @snarkranger)

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Profile picture Brianna Chesser (@chessercat.bsky.social) reply parent

Teachers and nurses do this on a daily basis, too. Anyone who has worked in retail or service has been threatened or intimidated, and at gas stations or liquor stores, it may be expected. Cleaners in offices and hotels are assaulted at higher rates than we know, because often they aren’t citizens.

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Profile picture Bob (@bobisjim.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I'm not talking about a fundamental rethinking of law enforcement. I'm talking about making their lives easier by making it so they don't have to respond to all the bs they do now

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