Yeah, he finally came around to admitting he heard something lol. It's just his instinct to immediately lie.
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Yeah, he finally came around to admitting he heard something lol. It's just his instinct to immediately lie.
Trump claims he didn't know people were talking on social media about how he might be dead lol
Dude, just say trans, we don't have all day.
The Party's demand for an awful insider's coronation became part of the quadrennial ritual years ago. It's embarrassing that progressives haven't coalesced into a third party yet. The Dems stopped running honest primaries after Obama's 2008 upset win over Clinton, and there's no going back.
happy fake Labor Day we do in September to alienate Americans from the global proletariat
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Dennis was a huge merchandising hit for Ketcham, boosted even further by a TV sitcom based on the strip, which aired right before the Ed Sullivan Show for four seasons. I imagine the merchandise rights are where Ketcham made a lot of his money.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
One of my biggest 🤯 moments in cognitive psychology was when I learned that our brains and bodies don’t really know the difference between good change and bad change. It’s all just stress. That framing really made a difference in how I regulate. As you said, it’s still big (stressful) feelings.
The worst officer I ever served under is, nearly thirty years later, still overcompensating in the funniest way possible for the fact that he barely met the Army's height requirements www.huffpost.com/entry/anthon...
guys he's fine, they just released this video of him
It would be fucking hilarious if everyone celebrated his death while he was still alive to see them do it.
when he does finally go i will demand not just the death certificate but the long form death certificate
german universities were once at the forefront of science before the nazis destroyed them to eliminate the "jew science" that would lead to the atomic bomb; the nazis eugenic beliefs were based in several ways on weird, occult, medieval beliefs fascism rhymes and adapts. america's is not unique
OK, hear me out...A LORD OF THE RINGS remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
I still look to that memory for hope that today's fascists aren't immune to failing so badly that their base turns on them.
A lot of my younger friends understandably don't remember how George Bush was shaping up to be another Gerald Ford until 9/11, and then he was impossible to criticize, and then Katrina came and there was no saving him. There was no pretending that the emperor had any clothes.
The world when it finally happens.
i can't believe President Donald Trump converted to Islam by reciting the Shahada minutes before dying of ligma and was replaced with a brainwashed clone by the dark brandon deep state, but that's the crazy world we live in for you
New Hampshire's Republican political leaning is the result of a long snowball effect, with people moving there from elsewhere in New England. The lack of a progressive social safety net (compared to the rest of the region) means low taxes (compared to the rest of the region).
This adult person's having a perfectly normal day, fantasizing out loud on social media about a trans minor giving them an excuse to commit assault
You asked me to confirm Trump sightings Went through all pool reports. This is the last activity involving second party that confirmed that this occurred. “On background from a WH Official: Can confirm the President has spoken with Governor Walz. Wed, 12:32pm ET”
You're all being ridiculous but by all means do not stop. If the posts get to a high enough pitch, they'll drag him out for a public appearance where they have to hide all the tubes sticking out of him
they say we all float down here, and we float very strongly, and a lot of people are saying we float at levels that have never been seen before
Regrettably, in this case, spiro's testosterone-blocking effects also help with heart and blood pressure disorders
i don’t like the idea of the president missing. he could be anywhere. i am suddenly aware how little i appreciated opening my shower curtain knowing the president would not be standing there
It is easier to imagine the president's death than to imagine Chuck Schumer effective
This is what I mean when I say "it's happening"
Such is the news cycle that I didn't even know the president was missing lmao.
my wife just got back from her book club of mostly offline people and i can report that the rumor has broken containment
New Hampshire is the Florida of New England.
used to be when White House press pool we haven’t seen and weren’t told where POTUS is, he’d be on a secret flight to some far off war zone to visit the troops… but that can’t be it now since the troops are deployed right out on the White House sidewalk
I’m sorry but people trying to collectively believe a death into being like Tinkerbelle is what “Death Note” should’ve been.
So many netizens tonight seem to be indulging in the kind of hopeful flights of fancy typically reserved for kids on Xmas Eve. It’s all silly, of course. But seeing the joy it brings warms the heart. We haven’t lost the capacity to dream.
"who was Dril, granny?"
when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones
Look, regardless of whether or not it's actually happening, it's your duty to force them to observe your joy at the mere thought of it
I would simply choose not to live my life in such a way that millions of people fondly daydream about my eventual death
Anyone who can see the last few days of coverage from Minneapolis out of right wing media can see the Trump administration and red states are pretty clearly going to investigate HRT and gender-affirming care. Expect investigations from HHS and DOJ.
Hu-I mean, Large if true
Look at the lineup. Charlie Kirk. Andy Ngo. Jack Posobiec. Matt Walsh. All pushing the same Reichstag Fire message that the public is in urgent danger because transgender people have been tolerated too far and for too long. If you're transgender, in America, and can afford to leave, it's time.
All bigotries follow similar thought patterns to conspiracy theories. It’s not a surprise that they typically coexist in the same people. Logical fallacy, misinterpreted statistics, oversimplified complexity, choosing unreliable sources. Lazy thinkers.
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
Congress felt the need to do a televised stunt presentation of evidence before the nation to try to shame the Department of Justice out of its stupor. Now I wonder if the history books will even record that.
As David disccuses in the episode there is a long, LONG history of the Democrats doing this shit on everything from civil rights in the 60's to the original North Carolina bathroom bill Moreover, ICE must be destroyed bsky.app/profile/cool...
It's a very short step to telling prisoners that this is how they will pay for their imprisonment.
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
This was me every time Tata showed up on CNN as a panel member (he was my battalion commander when he was a Lieutenant Colonel.)
if i lived in berlin right now lets be honest i could see myself getting horny and bragging about that shit on bluesky to see how smoking hot of an american babe to green card marry i could pull. maybe their lives are more interesting than mine since they LIVE IN BERLIN
honestly like... where ARE all the problematic canadian dudes scoring the internet for american babes? (of whatever gender might apply, depending on the particular case at question). A CANADIAN THREE IS AN LA TEN LETS BE HONEST RIGHT NOW CMON BOYS EH
More on the theory that the Minnesota shooter's similarity to previous violent crimes by members of O9A and its offshoots (The author misgenders the shooter. It's not my handiwork.)
Long thread on O9A and its violent offshoots
The O9A has had a shitty reputation even among Satanists for decades now. They're basically nihilists and neo-nazis who co-opt satanist imagery in order to be more theatrical than other nihilists and neo-nazis.
This is the video that finally broke me. I’m not even mad at the Democrats anymore. I don’t feel anything seeing this. It’s like getting mad at a woodland creature that doesn’t know any better. The squirrels aren’t going to help us beat fascism. They’re irrelevant to the fight in front of us.
You know what I'm really good at? Being second. Being the assistant. Being support. Being backstage. This is where I thrive. I wonder how many of y'all are the same... Comment here if you're an expert backup, a number one number two. Let's celebrate us. #SpreadLove
I get so much satisfaction from this that it's enough to make me believe that this is the role my soul chose before I was born, and that the life I've had was training to fulfill that role. It doesn't matter if it's literally true. It's poetically true. The words capture and convey the feeling.
I'm the listener in my personal and professional relationships, and the advisor, and the cheerleader who delights in others successes. Helping someone find their way, or lending some of my strength until they can get there on their own, satisfies me so deeply.
It’s really funny to see Americans use the threat of fascism and eugenics to try to coerce people to support ghouls like Newsom when sweeping homeless encampments IS in fact a manifestation of eugenics. You’re not against fascism, you just think Trump’s version is tacky.
Proof that every can has a screw-off top if you're not a coward
This is certainly a part of it. Also, a fear of nuclear war the likes of which hasn't been experienced by anyone who came of age after Gorbachev. Also, veterans of WWI, WWII, and Vietnam coming home fucked up for generations, with Gen X being the first to grow up understanding what PTSD is
Whomst among us hasn't had those moments where the fear of being less than perfectly understood overrides any sense of shame
the richest man in the world buying a presidential election, getting run out of the administration for being a weird diva, then pivoting to jerking it to anime cartoons full time is somehow more Roman than anything that ever happened in Rome
The simple fact that the Democrats are a party who look at military occupations of our nation's capital and major cities and think "I must find out how this is polling" before they speak out against it is WHY they are a party that cannot respond to the current moment and will be despised by history.
A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!
trust me, if they were offering policies people actually wanted to vote for they could talk about them anywhere on the range from wokest college proffesor ever to barely-literate ape-man and it wouldnt matter a bit
how the democrats talk is under the microscope as the only thing that could possibly move the needle because them changing their policies is apparently unthinkable
Enshitification of PC gaming continues thanks to @logitech.bsky.social and @discord.com. There's no way an application that provides support for a gaming peripheral needs access to my Discord. And shame on Discord for allowing it to even ask. EVERY TIME I open discord. #uninstalled
this week in american despotism: we can no longer buy things from other countries and fed independence is over unless the supreme court decides to step in (lol, lmao) it’s monday
In solidarity with Kevin Sorbo and Scott Baio stating they are refusing any acting jobs in California, I hereby refuse to play defense for the Colorado Avalanche in the upcoming season! I will also not be pitching for the Rockies this year... HOLD THE LINE, BOYS!👍
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
and the ultimate end result is you get a lot of gay children who figured out they were gay anyway without their parents' help but got more traumatized on the way there and now bond with one another over the fact that their emotionally immature parents should not have had children
The irony of being a native Texan, taught all your life how badass Texas was for sticking it to the Mexicans, only to find out that Illinois has more bravery in its smallest deep-dish pizza restaurant than Texas has in the whole government.
LMAO they blocked me for this bsky.app/profile/dani...
The burden is on Newsom to prove that he's offering a life raft.
I've always just assumed that "USian" dates back to when Twitter had a limit of 140 characters per post.
I think the most gruesome thing I've learned is that class solidarity exists but only between oppressors and people not immediately and directly affected by their most recent axis of oppression
The pictures were of women swimming in their one-size-is-supposed-to-fit-all gear
I remember seeing a conspiracy theory that Guard was using child soldiers make the rounds on Twitter because civilians don't know the height requirements or the size of the old M16 rifle
TIL the whole "brain doesn't develop until 25" thing is a myth. 25 is just *when the study stopped* And now it's being used to justify porn bans and HRT denial of care
This is the drug that is a 100% effective treatment for HIV. this is the one you've been seeing in the news. I would LOVE to see an in-depth discussion of exactly what "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors" are keeping them from essentially carrying a cure to a deadly disease.
NEW — A DC National Guard member spotted carrying an M17 pistol, as The Handbasket first reported they would. (Photo shared with me by @publius24.bsky.social)
Non-Black folks are not seeing the coming economic/employment calamity coming for them. They're hearing about the large numbers of Black women leaving the workforce, but they think somehow they will be spared. That's magical thinking.
For those of us in the US this game is painfully apparent. When a tribunal is eventually held to investigate the current abuse in the US government, the Supreme Court majority of six who support the rapist trump should be a primary target. 🧪
Part of how we got into this mess is that for decades purportedly center left politicians all over the world have been allowed to get away with using the threat of the far right to openly, brazenly blackmail their own voting bases while calling themselves fair and sensible.
Excellent thread. I'll just add that there's a long history of blaming liberals for reactionary political dynamics that were cultivated by coordinated political campaigns by the far right. There is no law of nature that produces "backlash politics." It's politics (and propaganda) that produces it.
Carcinisation but it's every wealthy family's lineage eventually narrowing to Elon Musk
The synchronicity of Cuomo doing yet another TV spot talking about how dangerous the subway just before Mamdani goes, "Let's all ride public transport together and celebrate our love for this wonderful city we live in."
any halfway decent journalist should ask Newsom "why is 19 too young to receive lifesaving medical treatment but not too young to date you"
People, both in journalism and writing more generally need to stop normalizing the language of autocracy and fascism and really think about how language is used to rewrite social and cultural systems. language becomes an avenue to change the physical and social geography of the future
I *promise* if you do not pay attention to the use of language, entrenched interests will close down your options until you don't even realise the possibilities you have lost. There is a reason rhetoric is an important political tool, and has been since we learned to talk to each other.
“We need to appeal to the swing voters of Pennsylvania and the Midwest! That’s why we will launder California and New York* politicians as an inevitability.” (*Some notable exclusions may apply.) -Democratic consultants, probably.
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
i think it's useful once in awhile to reset your expectations around the kind of political media you consume, lest you be led astray by it, which is to say that nearly every headline story on politico this sunday morning could easily be a front page, headline story on fox news.
I have a website: ajfidalgo.com I have a (quiet, cozy) personal Discord server: discord.gg/gM4FwhpPa9 I made a Discord server template to help indie AD creators make their own servers: discord.gg/hnN3RHJYQe
Damsel's absence from my collection of reaction images for text messages was the rudest of oversights, in retrospect, but this perfect screenshot is definitely going into the folder as a remedy
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
Some of these folks are entirely incapable of even imagining the world could be better. I do think that's the biggest ideological divide between the actual left wing and most liberals. Liberals wholly believe history is over and this is as good as it gets. If I believed that, I would kill myself.
It's not the trolley problem. Transgender and homeless people aren't tied to one track, and the rest of the nation isn't tied to the other. I'm not making BlueMAGA choose between my welfare and the nation's. They just hate us, and here's their opportunity to throw us out of the tent.