butterflygirl24 (@butterflygirl24.bsky.social) reposted
Mainstream Media isn’t reporting about the children who have died that ICE Gestapo snatched! #iceout #arrestnoem #arresttrump
butterflygirl24 (@butterflygirl24.bsky.social) reposted
Mainstream Media isn’t reporting about the children who have died that ICE Gestapo snatched! #iceout #arrestnoem #arresttrump
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
It must give the MAGA regime fits to be told what to do by somebody named Sparkle Sooknanan, until they realize that their daddies on SCOTUS will make things all better eventually.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
50%? More like a million bajillion percent. All in the name of "national emergency". We import far more Mateus Rose from Portugal than expert there.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
"cheap and hideous" is on-brand, at least
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Vance is probably scared of Miller, but Miller isn't a front man and MAGA and whatever's left on the mainstream GOP just aren't going to rally behind Vance like they do Trump
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Why do you mention the race of the deceased and the police officer (not "guard") who shot her?
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Why do I suspect Urban Dictionary has a definition for "glazing"?
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
A really, really pointless and boring post
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
But it's so banal. I know he's mentally altered and all, but why would he go to the trouble?
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Get that man a journal
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Surprised the admin hasn't already bigfooted Penn Law to force them to bring her back.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Must be judge-specific. I've seen plenty of EDPa opinions with footnotes
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
No. They either think he's an ill-informed, impulsive PITA or an ill-informed, impulsive patsy
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump doesn't do anything for anybody but himself. Our nation is just along for the ride
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Go Wahawks! Wouldn't take much to swing that seat Blue.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Was Ed Martin hanging around outside Greenland wearing a trenchcoat?
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
With non-vehicular border crossings by undocumented people basically down to nothing, would be interested in learning whether there has been any noticeable dent in availability of fentanyl. My money is on "nah", confirming that the whole anti-immigrant project is just an exercise in bigotry
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
We're all witnessing that experiment in real time. In all seriousness, I don't want to stigmatize victims of addiction. He's just an asshole drunk with undeserved power
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
When I was still on FB, I followed a "Grammar Police" page. Those guys were no fun at all. Too focused on stuff like misspellings on signs by non-native English speakers rather than real challenging stuff. That phrase always made me think of somebody whose breath smelled like worms, or minnows.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
If it's a choice between playing ball or shutting the government down, who knows?
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
What’s embarrassing about showing that we are (finally) upholding the rule of law?
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
You mean crawling through a padded culvert and stepping over a 30 inch barrier? They probably have a buffet table at the finish line
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Apologies for the pedantry. This is just one of those things for me
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Especially not without both houses under the control of one party, with veto-proof majorities. It's fine to make all these grandiose proposals, but what a Dem-controlled House could do is capitalize on the debt ceiling extensions. Rescind the shocking amount of funds appropriated to ICE, to start.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
For a fleeting moment, all things were posssible
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
"Bated" is the short form of the verb "abate"
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
It was just him and Cruz for a long time, and Cruz wasn't really close. I remember wondering which would be worse. I was so naive
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
It's like how I never drank Bud or Bud Light because they're crap but then I publicly drank a Bud Light to show allyship when AB Inbev was taking heat for using a Trans influencer for marketing but AB Inbev bailed on the aforesaid Trans influencer so I happily went back to not using their products
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Occam's razor: That golf can't play itself
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Snoop really introduced her to new audience segments and gave her a somewhat "edgy" persona late in her career, so she owes him something for that. Don't know whether the political ideology of her traditional fan base necessarily tracks one way or the other.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Those donations are in such odd increments. Did she just ask ChatGPT how to whack up $22K, sort of like how Trump came up with all of those incomprehensible tariff percentages on "Liberation Day"
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Question is whether this is good or bad news for flipping her seat blue. Can the GOP possibly put up somebody even more noxious?
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair, somebody wearing Hawkeye gold is also flipping him off in that pic.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
A blot on one of the greatest cities in the world, where 70% of the voters reject him.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
I just laugh at the multi-level stupidity of painting the U.S. side of the border fence black
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
OTOH, DOJ has limited capacity to defend these lawsuits because so many competent lawyers have resigned or been fired. Waiting for Trump to press the capitulating Biglaw firms into service
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Still rooting for the other guy to croak first, but RFKJR is a close second
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Good. Force those GOP Reps/Senators in tight races double down on their support for all his fucked up shenanigans right before the election.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
This is his Great White Whale. Spoiler alert: Things didn’t go well for anybody in the fictional version
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
None. He will not acknowledge his utter humiliation
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
MFers. We're having a wet hot COVID winter thanks to RFKJR
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
What percentage of the electorate realizes that when the lawyers are bailing out, noisily, that's a bad sign?
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Did the exact same thing. Didn't figure it out till I heard part of Ryan's interview on Fresh Air after Sinners was released
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Hope she steps up and tells all
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
That is so fucking funny
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
I share you visualizations. I know we're getting battered around quite a bit, but I'm not a defeatist
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
I admire your confidence that there will be libraries.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Cool cool cool. But didn't that historic cycle typically take centuries and end with one despot replacing another?
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Gosh this is funny
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
I was just saying something to my wife I'd never otherwise say out loud, or even think out loud, which is that I wish Swift and Kelce well, because they both seem to be decent people who may as well have a happy, lifelong marriage. OTOH, some marriages just have doom written all over them.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Sucks. RFKJr wants to pull the MRNA vaccines and it's going to be easier for him to close the spigot at VA and federal facilities first. I'm thinking about asking Walgreens what the Covid jab costs sans any insurance and just get it done
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
No fucking way this can be real. Somebody in the Evil Empire had to have realized the optics of humiliating our service members like this, especially service members who have civilian lives to get back to. The 64% of vets who voted for Trump should be having second thoughts by now
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
The Butler PA shooting happened on camera and nobody knows what happened, except that there was a lot of blood for no apparent tissue damage (I’m not a conspiracy theorist, BTW. Just noting the apparent disconnect
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
That first thing is at least 65% likely to happen in ‘26. The second is unrealistic for the targeted victims but it is on the rest of us, who have currency as voters and donors and loudmouths and agitators, to push back
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Those IVs in the right hand aren’t for funsies The accelerating pace of his recklessness may signal he knows he’s on his way out and he’s in a hurry to leave his indelible mark on all of us. Fortunately, there is no heir apparent with the capability to sustain his reign of BS.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Elle King, singer of Exes and Ohs.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Nope.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
He holds the patent
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
But it’s reversed. Miller calling the shots and Trump the complicit figurehead lackey
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
“Wearing watches again”: Shameless pitch to 90 year old hippies
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Jury nullification is a real thing. Ask Emmett Till's murderers.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Dumbshit doesn't know networks aren't licensed by FCC. Broadcast stations are. Networks are limited on the number of stations they can own.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Former Trump "insiders" who are willing to talk shit about him are in short supply and are therefore coin of the realm for the non-fox political shows. Christie is pretty guarded, though. I rewatched Christie's appearance on This Week and couldn't see what got Trump so bent out of shape.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Is Christie an even less sympathetic target for political persecution than Bolton? I'll say no, because Christie didn't have a chance to help nail Trump in the first impeachment and beg off. He is a first class prick, though
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Hard to believe he would reveal such vulnerability to anybody. Maybe the Evangelical hangers-on he's installed in the Department of Faith (or whatever it is), Paradoxically, they'd be most likely to divulge a juicy tidbit like that shared in confidence. Or, it's Vance trying to hasten Trump's exit
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Would renal failure explain IVs in his right hand? If he knows he's on the way out, it could explain why his actions have been even more chaotic and reckless than they have in the past. He's in a hurry to really make his indelible mark.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Would gladly see Vance serve out what's left of Trump's term. It would all fall apart. GOP lackeys wouldn't fear him and rivals for the '28 nom would actively challenge him. Would assure House goes Dem in '26 and throw sand in GOP's gears for WH in '28
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I know lots of Villanova alums, spanning several generations. None fit the "purity" mold by any stretch of the imagination
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Going to the top would double the price from $500M to $1B. In a seriousness, agree this to staged. They're probably going to spray that MFing fence
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Where's her high-viz vest?
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
It makes the chips seem more exotic and edgy. I've never been so proud.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
He'll take a page from his hero's paybook and activate the FL National Guard to stand at the crosswalks doing nothing
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
True. But she also interviewed Vance, which is also platforming propaganda. For good or for ill, we have to depend on viewers exercising critical thinking
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Having Lavrov immediately follow Vance highlights just how bad Vance is at communicating BS. Lavrov does it with aplomb
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Shooting through a closed door and killing two people wearing ballistic vests would require a great deal of skill or a great deal of luck
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
DGAF about Roger Clemens but now I know he definitely doesn't belong in the HOF
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
21st Century Muzak
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
He's so weak. The man who wants to be House Speaker should not only be dialed into the efforts to squeeze more House seats in Blue states, he should be leading the charge. OTOH, he may be hedging re NY to avoid admitting there are state-specific hurdles to redistricting in advance of the midterms.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Gerrymander or no, Lawler has to go
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
To be fair, amidst the firehose of BS Vance was spewing, the obvious fact that WWII wasn't resolved via negotiation is among the least important to push back against from the standpoint of current relevance. She could have pinned him down on the "concessions" Putin is willing to make, for example
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Community service is generally imposed in lieu of incarceration for minor crimes, not in lieu of fines. Usually, it involves picking up trash in parks and along highways with a crew of fellow convicts, but the well-represented wealthy often swing special cushy deals.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
I liove this energy. OTOH, I'm bummed when I awaken each morning to learn he didn't die overnight
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
That could fit on a baseball cap, I think
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder which cabinet member would be most suited for a canine-shooting project...
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Can't believe cops would want traffic stops to turn confrontational
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Waiting for the lame attempt to mock Newsom, like Dwight Schrute trying to mock Jim Halpert
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Vancespeak: Speaking like you think you're smarter than any of your listeners
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
So says the most inauthentic person in public life
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
That's too much to ask for, but soon there should be a grave to piss on
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
He's the perfect test case for political persecutions because he is disliked across the political spectrum. They'll see how things shake out before going hard after the real targets.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
No.
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
This is actually good recruiting for ICE. Proves there's no such thing as bottom of the barrel
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Same contractor that's getting $500M to paint the US side of the border fence black
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Getting there bit by bit
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Kickbacks, of course
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
It gives me joy to believe the collaborators are dreading the uncertainty of their post-Trump futures
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably declare a national emergency and have the National Guard occupy the stadiums
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Still gonna piss a lot of people off, which is something, at least
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
Nixon was evil, but, unlike Trump, he was competent. He would have done much more damage if he had a Fox News and a supine Congress to back him up
danharrington.bsky.social (@danharrington.bsky.social) reply parent
But he said beautiful black women are begging for him to take over Chicago by military force