Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
What are the consequences though? Pritzker already knows what's coming - why not rattle the cage?
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What are the consequences though? Pritzker already knows what's coming - why not rattle the cage?
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Sowing leaker mania inside the White House.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Entertain the possibility that he doesn't actually have Intel but is just sowing paranoia.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Guy is an absolute mensch. One of the nicest people you could ever meet.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
DAMN: "Skechers years"
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Fox guest spot pending.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
(LITERALLY twenty minutes ago I drove past there and there is a guy standing on the corner with a sign saying "Shitty Service Department")
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
IT'S CRAZY THAT I KNOW THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE OWNER OF PREMIER VOLVO IN OVERLAND PARK KS WOULD DO BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE I USED TO GET MY CAR SERVICED AND THEY SUCK!
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
William Gibson warned us.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Literally my only superpower.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Marshall was an OB/GYN, not a dentist. Now he's just a fluffer.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Intern, PLEASE tell your boss how stupid this looks. He thinks it's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," but it's really "Old Man Yells [Into The] Cloud." If he remains unconvinced, quit and save yourself.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
More of a Powerade guy huh
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
He could bathe in caviar now.
LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) reposted
A 5th grader explains that his schoolmate shielded him. That friend is now in the hospital after taking a bullet while shielding his classmate. They are only 10 years old.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social)
Spoiler alert: the former.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
My God, it's full of *****
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Big time Gorka vibes.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
"It will be celebrated."
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
This guy has strong opinions about age of consent laws
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
You've got to be fucking kidding.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
I would've said Real ID until now.
John Leavitt (@leavittalone.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Once again, under the current US mode of production everything eventually becomes a bank or a real estate company
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Then we get Vance, who is somehow worse.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
IRS!
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
(never) More please
Gabby HC has another book out (@scriblit.bsky.social) reposted
Inky raven in the study by the doorframe Who watches over me Make a little birdhouse in my grief Not to represent my depression Say 'Nevermore' when I ask you questions Make a little birdhouse in my grief
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Similarly blown away, lol these many years later. I literally read his tweet ANNOUNCING WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO, then he did it and the entire world lapped it up. My dad brought over an article of his about BLM!
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
And she still rules! It takes nothing away from her!
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh God... I'm gonna be the bubble-burster. Jerry Harrison played that on the record. With a synth.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Caulfield would work for DOGE
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Pen posting! I'm like a moth to a flame. Diving down the pens for sketching rabbit hole. Two TWSBIs, a Sailor fude, and a Tachikawa...
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social)
Go Fash, No Cash.
Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted
some thoughts on Newsom: 1. the reason I am desperate for Literally Anyone Else to be the standard bearer is specifically his stance on trans rights - he's been bad on other issues, like homelessness, but I really worry he'll lead the Dems towards Labour if he's the guy in charge
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social)
HOW ARE WE LOSING TO THESE MORONS
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
That's not Trump's claim though - he maintains that Black mayors hold the leash too tight.
Colin Spacetwinks (@spacetwinks.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
it keeps pulsing in my head that the greatest weapons the republicans have on elected democrats is not any sort of totally made up propaganda and media cycles attacking them, it is "if you wanted to stop us, you would have to work late"
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
my latest is on the president’s abuse of emergency powers and his psychological and practical interest in crisis government. gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
KC: "You have my brisket!"
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a Bosendorfer...
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Thiel is a fucking dunce. HOW has he managed to convince people that he's smart?
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't need a syllabus
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Hasn't been my experience, but I take your point. There's some risk to consider.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Alternate take: follow your two-drink max rule, but stay for the convos with your bosses after they've been "overserved".
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Saladino is Liver King's business partner, if I remember correctly.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Missed the last Lawrence show - which venue this time?
Andrea Pitzer (@andreapitzer.bsky.social) reposted
So many of you wrote asking for a primer on how to push back against ICE's presence where you live! So this week's Tuesday post skips the usual history lesson. Instead, I talked to Oliver Merino of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, who offered a lot of specifics on how to take action near you.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
This is a Silver Alert if it's anyone else
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Postal Inspectah Deck is ready for confirmation
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Rap Shadow Cabinet wen
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Eh, I wouldn't go THAT far... but my people did me proud here.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
1a., 1b.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
The Round Trip of Shame
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Dolphin-dick availability will be covered in the next round of deregulation, I'm sure
Democracy Now! (@democracynow.org) reposted
Palestinian American Student Sereen Haddad Wins Diploma Withheld by VCU over Peaceful Protests www.democracynow.org/2025/7/30/he...
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
ONE IN EIGHT! Holy shit.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
This post gave me aural flashbacks to my parents' CD collection. Now I'm gonna have Basia running through my head all day.
Harsha Walia (@harshawalia.bsky.social) reposted
Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social)
Of COURSE this chump had to disable replies - he's getting rightfully blowtorched. Quoting a disgraced former mayor's critique of the policing policy of a not-yet mayor regarding an event that happened on the current mayor's watch? Reverse Picasso.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social)
Literally all SA would have to do is dangle the idea of Trump Cape Town to get him to reverse
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Just word-replace "reform" with "pay to play" in any Republican statement and everything makes more sense.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
If more states allowed sales back to the grid, would this alleviate the imbalance? Even better: ability to donate excess to a low-income pool to help offset their power costs.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you accepted Baphomet as your wooly-legged savior?
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
That photo
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis (@kendrawrites.com) reposted
An Egyptian dude figured out that if you partially filled a plastic bottle with rice and other grains and threw it into the ocean from Egypt at the correct place given currents the bottles would wash ashore in Gaza within 96 hours so ordinary Egyptians are doing it and... it's worked?
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social)
Honestly I'd be too busy working up a mouthful of spit
David Waldman (@kagrox.bsky.social) reposted
Guys, I think it’s the whole Republican Party.
Elise Flynn (@eliseflynn.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... Each part lists Republicans busted for child porn, possession, distribution, trafficking, etc. *Best* follow ever is Beks at @antifaoperative.bsky.social who is amazingly still sane after posting links to arrests of cops, church leaders, MAGAs, etc. for same thing.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Hush
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
That or ollieing a shopping cart.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Red-faced grade-school soccer coach Ernest Borgnine looking motherfucker screaming some shit at me and I scream back "I'm trying my best goddammit!" My dad laughing his ass off on the sidelines...
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope it was agonizing.
Solomon (@solomonmissouri.bsky.social) reposted
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
From your lips to Jah's ears
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
"So far"
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
I've spent most of my professional life in open-plan offices. I've also spent that entire time trying to mitigate the distractions of working on an open-plan space.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Theatrical release
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Shitting oneself to death a week's ride from home to own the Saracens
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Like, a screenwriting team would call it trite
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Reading a book, being told to go outside and play, so I took the book on the trampoline and read while I jumped.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social)
Maybe two people will see this, but I'll ask it: Would one of the few "good" uses of AI be to digitally remove masks from and facially recognize ICE agents?
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social)
*shudder*
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
📌
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Not diagnosed yet (physical next month) but I've read a little about sonic treatments - any experience?
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social)
And the women of New York breathed a sigh of relief
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social)
Nice "14 Words" call-out in the middle
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Picnic at a park in LA when we noticed the Family Ties Cast vs. Crew softball game in progress. Got Michael J Fox's autograph. I was in 6th grade and towered over him. Tina Yothers snubbed me. Sadly, no Justine Bateman.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump would never stand for (lol) that tactic.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
That's a terrible acrostic
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
We're used to it.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Pit stop on the way to Orthodoxy
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
About to die in the pit, etc.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
"Gobshite" really is the platonic ideal insult
Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ (@aaronrosspowell.com) reposted
It's always interesting, in an inconsistently applied principles sense, when you come across people who simultaneously argue the answer to fights about curriculum in K-12 is only "School choice!," but then believe individual universities should be compelled to make their curriculum "more diverse."
Griff "Grza" Sombke (@grza.bsky.social) reposted
Jesus Christ... www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politic...
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Gonna steal "bladders of bias"
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
Every part of the state not located in Kansas City or St Louis hates Kansas City and St Louis, and will keep voting in these ghouls out of spite.
Chris Wagner (@chriswagner.bsky.social) reply parent
If I never hear the word elevated again it'll be too soon.