Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Sarge: Whoβs gonna stop me?
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Sarge: Whoβs gonna stop me?
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
"It must be the chemtrails!" said Toad. bsky.app/profile/frog...
Chris Terry-Enescu (@cjterry.bsky.social) reposted
A lesson for us all on why you should not promise the impossible to the terminally insane
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
To dream the impossible dream To right the unrightable wrong To be better far than you are To try when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
New organs wonβt silence the groans of a 150-year-old man getting up off the couch.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
CNN has made significant headway toward their goal of weakening our centuries-old democracy β pushing the boundaries of what is to count as "journalism".
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Conmen/women can sense an easy mark.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Fun fact: The Quaker Oats man is not William Penn. Inside the company, he is known as Larry. (AI)
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Reminds me: Years ago my 2 year old pooped on the floor and blamed it on the dog.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
My iPad wallpaper
Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) reposted
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Am I being disbarred for lying?
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Fact check: sorta, kinda true and sorta, kinda false. True because it aligns with trumpβs style, and false because trump probably used mafia language, "Itβd be a shame ifβ¦" www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
I see that Chris Wright did his own research.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
The, Don. The!
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
They booed Santa Claus in Philly, for Christβs sake.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
A shot across the bow
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
"I didnβt know!" theyβll say.
CajunBlueAZ βοΈπΊπΈ πΊπ¦ (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted
π¨Who makes money off of human detentions? Core Civic and GEO Group 1/2
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Sorry, but this is so depressing. RFK Jr. is a mass murderer.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
I was lucky enough to see that live in 1968.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Were they ordered to do this or volunteer? They should have made the Trump admin force the issue.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Theyβre all eugenicists, like the Nazis.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social)
Weβve got Space Command wearing camouflage uniforms for doing space stuff and National Guard wearing high-visibility vests over camouflage uniforms to pick up trash. What a country!
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Who cares what people think β just state the facts.
Right Wing Watch (@rightwingwatch.bsky.social) reposted
Days after declaring that women are nothing but "a bunch of holes," Elijah Schaffer proudly announced that his Rift TV network now has its own credentialed White House correspondent.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
The DHS, Dept. of Defense, and the CDC are to be merged into one big beautiful department named the Department of Death.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
You can still smell the fear in that headline. Or maybe itβs the underlying sympathy.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social)
Collins: My dear, sweet Maine!
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
"As of today, the official language of the United States will be Swedish."
Dean Baker (@deanbaker13.bsky.social) reposted
In the cheap fun category: Trump posted this morning that he had raised $8 trillion, or $65,000 per household, from import taxes (tariffs) so far this year. Every Republican in Congress can be asked if they agree with Trump's numbers.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe heβll announce his own brand AR-15s
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump announcement: Iβm not dead yet. Vance: * thunk *
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Most if not all know itβs just wish-casting. For fun.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
Back when Donald was a failure in real estate, he was famous for not paying his contractors. He would come up with fictional fault in their work as an excuse not to pay them. Now, this unscrupulous cretin is short-changing the National Guard. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe heβs just merely, but not sincerely, dead.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Baby, take off your coat...real slow Baby, take off your shoes...here, I'll take your shoes Baby, take off your dress Yes, yes, yes You can leave your hat on You can leave your hat on You can leave your hat on
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "Mr President, I invite you see your big beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor because you are really the transformational president of the American worker...." How is this real?
Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social) reposted
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
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
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
On a whim we took our dinosaur-loving 5 year old to see Jurassic Park (it had just come out and we didnβt know anything about it). Big mistake.
Dan Vergano (@danvergano.bsky.social) reposted
EPA Fires βDissentβ Statement Signers The EPA fired agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-... as Labor Day weekend started.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Critics say?
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social)
Just got a Trump email with the subject Ted Nugent Goes CRAZY Over New Trump Rifle. Too soon, perhaps?
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
I got a pinball machine, the old fashioned kind for gambling, with no flippers. I had it on a dolly to take down to the basement and it quickly dragged me down the basement stairs, putting a big hole in the wall. Be careful!
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Itβll be a hoot when Biden attends Trumpβs funeral.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
"this morning, thereβs not a single story on the homepage of the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, or CNN about Trumpβs health β but there is a story on the New York Post about how robust the presidentβs health surely is!" Trump may be dying, but the media is already dead.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
I doubt Trump has an ID (not to be confused with his massive id).
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
So the Russians are as stupid as Hegseth?
United Farm Workers (@ufw.bsky.social) reposted
Central Coast Farm workers wish you a happy #LaborDay Campesinos de la Costa Central les desean un feliz DΓa del Trabajo. #WeFeedYou #SoyEsencial
Evan Urquhart (@evanurquhart.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Trans people have been expelled from the military and punished and humiliated throughout. We're fighting in court to retain a right to accurate US Passports. Books mentioning us are banned in classrooms in much of the country. In FL, trans teachers are required by law to misgender themselves.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
With food coloring and mayo, you can make any Rothko sandwich. (Too bad about the mayo part.)
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
No need for arguing β just say no. www.google.com/url?sa=i&url...
Stephanie Kennedy (@wordswithsteph.bsky.social) reposted
The Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, Black pioneer pilots honored for their service during World War II. Also halted, teaching the history of Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, the female World War II pilots who were essential in ferrying warplanesβ¦
Atul Gawande (@agawande.bsky.social) reposted
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nationβs public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Everybody dance! www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3v4...
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
The question "How can they do that?" answers itself.
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
REASON: βTrump's tariff regime is making everything from American-made steel weights, imported yarn, and Amazon's "everyday essentials" more expensive while his immigration crackdown is causing worker shortages in key industries.β reason.com/2025/08/29/t...
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
So BlueSky can be a site for people who want to read and write. Radical!
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Technically true, but a D POTUS would never have a legislative and judicial branch as complicit as the Rs are now.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Gift link bsky.app/profile/seco...
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubioβs 2016 presidential campaignππ½
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
More evidence that Trump is incapacitated or dead.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
As usual, religion is the primary justification for hate.
Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) reposted
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isnβt white. *Do not* use the term βremigrationβ. Itβs an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Like anti-smoking ex-smokers and newly converted Catholics.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
I am perfectly happy here. You see only those you choose to follow. I follow history, philosophy, art, and independent media accounts, and have a policy of βblock first, question laterβ, not so much for content but for attitude.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Having an excessive amount of wealth could plausibly be having population-level effects on behaviour, including adverse political behaviour.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
The $218M was not "lost". It didnβt just vanish. Some people made a fortune.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
I watched the Scottish Detectorist on YouTube tonight. He found a ~4,000 year old bronze axe head, and had to lie down for 20 minutes to gain his composure. Heβs very knowledgeable about UK history. I recommend giving it a watch.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Martha Raddatz on 60Minutes asks the governor of Maryland, Wes Moore: "Why fight with the president?" Iβm not too optimistic about the media. bsky.app/profile/mark...
Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) reposted
University of Michiganβs consumer sentiment index was 74.0 in December, now 58.2 in August. Conference Boardβs consumer confidence index was 104.7, now 97.4. Government officials shouldnβt go on TV and blatantly lie like this.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
" Minor aliens" ugh
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope he got word of the billions of people cheering his possible death. πππ
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Raddatz would fit in well at a Trump cabinet meeting. Doesnβt she know how self-debasing her questions are?
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
This Navaho blanket sold for $1.5 million dollars. I wonder if itβs the same one thatβs in the movie. (The appraiser on Antiques Roadshow struggled to hold back tears while talking about it.)
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, itβs not criminals theyβre targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
The assistant Giuliani scammed and sexually assaulted said he popped viagra all day like they were tic tacs.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
That sounded like Biden to me.
Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Donβt go away mad, just go away.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Israel is bribing our reps with the foreign aid we send them.
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
What hath God wrought?
Dean Booth π¦π (@deanbooth.bsky.social) reply parent
Specialized knowledge? Nah, do your own research!π§ RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism