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Erin O'Brien

@erincle.bsky.social

Just a human being peering out at the world from Northeast Ohio

created January 28, 2025

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

Beyond pathetic.

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2/9/2025, 1:51:00 PM | 3992 1402 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I should add that I am no where near convinced he will succeed.

2/9/2025, 5:34:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

Man, I feel this. šŸ™šŸ½šŸ˜­

1/9/2025, 11:33:24 PM | 7391 2467 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

He's going to announce his "department of war." He'll likely send Hegseth out there to do it, or Vance.

2/9/2025, 1:22:25 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is here to destroy America. ^^^ I've been saying that for nearly ten years. Here's my 2025 update: Trump is here to destroy the world.

2/9/2025, 1:01:34 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

I'm posting this in the unlikely case any of my three followers are actually NYT Connections players: Friends, they are just effing with us now.

2/9/2025, 12:41:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I understand him completely.

2/9/2025, 12:27:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Why are you surprised? You're dealing with a person who uses his golf course as a cemetery. Why wouldn't he throw a bag of (???) out the window of his house?

ivana trumps grave
2/9/2025, 12:03:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

no shit, sherlock

2/9/2025, 11:51:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Just terrific, Grant.

1/9/2025, 7:17:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

The hub and I found the perfect spot at Edgewater Beach. Now we’re just waiting on the Thunderbirds from the Cleveland Air Show!

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1/9/2025, 7:14:22 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t even know the entire story, yet I hope this turns into a scandal and the CEO resigns.

1/9/2025, 6:04:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

I would like to see Modi and Putin make out.

1/9/2025, 3:48:39 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

In their mid- to late-m80s, both my mom and aunt can tell you about the horrors of polio and how they eagerly lined up and waited for hours for the vaccine.

1/9/2025, 1:56:06 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Try again, Bill. He wants to say this regardless of what any professionals cough up: "I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK." AND "I finally got them to admit vaccines are a disaster." ~~~~~ This way, he can use whichever assertion fits the situation.

1/9/2025, 1:28:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

He is also executive producer and star of this darling reality TV show to which we're all being treated.

1/9/2025, 12:53:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Best. Post. Ever.

1/9/2025, 12:47:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

In addition to the cruelty, this is an attack on our food supply. They. Are. Trying. To. Kill. Us.

1/9/2025, 12:25:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

It's all about fear.

1/9/2025, 12:22:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

The radical Right is terrified* of climate change and its entire agenda is about culling the human population to assure their own access to resources. *whether they know it or not

1/9/2025, 12:20:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I could not love this more.

31/8/2025, 6:49:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I saw this live. It was so stunning, but rest assured Raddatz quickly moved along and later spent lots and lots and lots more time deriding Governor Wes Moore's military service. Utterly revolting, all of it.

31/8/2025, 4:27:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Raddatz was an embarrassment today.

31/8/2025, 4:20:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

Greetings Bluesky friends. Behold my mysterious (and very old) singing bowl. If anyone anywhere can tell me what language the symbols circling its exterior represent, I'd sure appreciate it.

unidentified markings on a metal bowl unidentified markings on a metal bowl Large metal bowl on table
31/8/2025, 4:19:15 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

"weird editorial choice" So that's what they're calling it these days ...

31/8/2025, 3:46:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

The progression of reacting to Trump's 2nd term: 1. Hope legislators will contain him. (hahaha) 2. Hold onto hope for the courts. (um ... ) 3. Look to other countries to defy him. (sigh) 4. Oh well, let's just wait for him to croak.

31/8/2025, 12:31:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, I'll tell ya, George! I'm a sixty-year-old woman and I'm so goddamn sick and tired of people telling me I need to be skinny or body positive or what-the-fuck-ever that I'm ready to SCREAM

31/8/2025, 11:22:26 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Didn't watch the whole thing, but what's not to love about a cheesy made-for-tv horror trilogy!

31/8/2025, 11:17:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm in.

31/8/2025, 11:13:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Dear future generations: When we were living under the Trump regime, you'd get so angry that you'd be TYPING IN ALL CAPS BEFORE YOUR FIRST SIP OF COFFEE ON A SUNDAY MORNING ~~~~ That's what it was like, kiddies. That's exactly what it was like.

31/8/2025, 11:11:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

WHY DO I HAVE TO TOLERATE MY PRESIDENT BEHAVING LIKE A FUCKING LUNATIC

31/8/2025, 11:08:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I feel sick

31/8/2025, 1:11:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

JD Vance: ā€œTrump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.ā€ { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }

30/8/2025, 5:15:36 PM | 4351 1512 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly the inspiration I needed right now, Satan. Thank you.

30/8/2025, 5:12:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael de Adder (@deadder.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 1:12:34 PM | 6599 1867 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

A golf course, I tell ya! A GOLF COURSE!

30/8/2025, 11:35:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

We are living through a staggering historical period. Future generations will wonder what it was like to live through it. Well, we’re finding out right now. We are the reference generation for this, friends, the eye-witnesses—whether we like it or not.

30/8/2025, 2:09:33 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

And when you take a picture of it and post it on social, it lasts looooong after someone sprays over Krypto!

29/8/2025, 3:11:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I could not love this more!

29/8/2025, 3:08:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

same!!!

29/8/2025, 3:08:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe he's got a group of underlings tasked with brainstorming for cruel new ideas everyday.

29/8/2025, 11:45:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

America, once the land of unlimited opportunity is now best symbolized by a golden toilet. I am going to cry.

28/8/2025, 9:13:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Outstanding!

28/8/2025, 9:06:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

28/8/2025, 6:32:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

This is by no means a criticism, but how strange is it that we are all looking to countries other than our own to fix America’s problems. A cry for help indeed.

28/8/2025, 3:45:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I can promise you HIS tariffs just went up.

28/8/2025, 3:14:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

Even though I’m sipping coffee in the passenger seat of my hub’s perfectly comfortable vehicle as we travel along a well maintained highway, things feel like they’re very very dire. #AmericanLife

28/8/2025, 3:11:28 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice post. Thank you for this.

28/8/2025, 2:46:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted

The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.

27/8/2025, 10:07:42 AM | 7392 2361 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

JFC

28/8/2025, 2:38:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) reposted

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares
28/8/2025, 10:24:15 AM | 10172 4402 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Which is why you would make a better president than the one we have right now.

28/8/2025, 1:39:23 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

The concession stands would only sell shitty lukewarm coffee and stale saltines.

27/8/2025, 2:35:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

ā€œAmerica went to war with itself and both sides lost.ā€ —Said someone at some point in the future

27/8/2025, 2:33:43 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

New band name: The Dismal Dems

27/8/2025, 2:00:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

wow

27/8/2025, 1:50:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed he does.

27/8/2025, 1:17:59 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you, Mr. Kinzinger, for this important information.

26/8/2025, 10:26:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

The world may soon be ruled by Lex Luthor and Ernst Stavro Blofeld and That Is Not Hyperbole.

26/8/2025, 9:51:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

The world is not looking at Trump thinking: How can he do that? The world is looking at all of us thinking: How can you let him?

26/8/2025, 6:37:45 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

We. Are. Here.

26/8/2025, 4:14:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

hahaha!! I love following you, Fred.

26/8/2025, 3:19:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

JFC, Derf, I am so sorry.

26/8/2025, 1:21:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted

THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.

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26/8/2025, 3:19:06 AM | 13822 4139 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Can you imagine millions upon millions of people FROM AROUND THE GLOBE wishing you were dead? It has got to impact your existence on some cosmic level.

26/8/2025, 12:42:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I love this post.

26/8/2025, 12:30:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

no way!

26/8/2025, 12:24:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

HOW IN THE EVER-LOVIN-FUCK IS THIS HAPPENING

25/8/2025, 9:27:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Is there anything more compelling than watching the CNBC talking heads trying to navigate this clown show? They all got their Mr. Dream Date as POTUS and now none of them can own up to their colossal mistake. JFC ...

25/8/2025, 6:20:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, we know.

25/8/2025, 6:18:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

That sure seems to be the case; Americans are going to have very strong opinions about subjugation when it knocks on their door. I also keep thinking of Trump's big bad military parade. It turned out to be a bunch of completely affable military sorts waving and walking/riding down the street.

25/8/2025, 6:16:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Did he agree or was he coerced? I honestly have no idea.

25/8/2025, 6:07:12 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Lawyer UP everyone!!

25/8/2025, 6:06:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

The question now is: Will Americans heed their dictator?

25/8/2025, 5:38:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

How long will we tolerate this ridiculous shtick?

25/8/2025, 5:31:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

Is this clip: "How to Grovel Before your Dictator," a training video by Pete Hegseth for recruits, or a quick test run for the new animatronic Kristi Noem? Maybe both.

25/8/2025, 3:53:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Every. Single. Thing. About. This. Clip. Is. Awful.

25/8/2025, 3:49:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

A hopeful message for a dismal Monday morning here in Trump's awful reign.

25/8/2025, 1:53:25 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

He is utterly incapable of understand the concept of government or nonprofit.

25/8/2025, 1:42:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

: ) Thank you, Betty Ann.

25/8/2025, 12:42:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Wonderful. Thanks for posting.

25/8/2025, 12:40:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

If you paid me one million dollars, I would not be able to tell you what his quote means.

25/8/2025, 12:18:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

This lying method wherein our MAGA friends just change details to suit their narrative is positively darling. It is not a mistake or goof or gaffe. It is on purpose and it is a low-grade way to spread disinformation, part of the "flood the zone with shit" process.

25/8/2025, 12:14:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course now I want both!

25/8/2025, 1:35:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

Groovy!

25/8/2025, 1:34:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

Where the hell is my ELDERLY WHITE HIPPIE t-shirt? Where's my ERIN WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING hat? Effing eff.

24/8/2025, 4:35:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

He looked like the Corpse in Chief.

24/8/2025, 4:32:54 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Wondering today whether John Bolton wishes he’d testified against Trump in that first impeachment.

23/8/2025, 8:17:23 PM | 8229 1226 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

GET ME GEORGE CONWAY

24/8/2025, 11:36:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

ugh

24/8/2025, 12:39:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

The only pertinent question, however, is … who will stop them?

23/8/2025, 6:40:39 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

Summit County Sheriff tent at Akron pride. I am in love.

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23/8/2025, 4:36:48 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

SMUCKERS is here at Akron Pride in full force. They are handing out goodies to everyone. I’m a mean old straight Hungarian broad and I’ll never buy another brand of jelly as long as I live.

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23/8/2025, 4:08:05 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

Finally, an honest headline.

Politico: Texas GOP passes the House gerrymander Trump asked for
23/8/2025, 2:29:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

So many people don't understand that this is one of the few counterpunches that land with Trump. When it does, it puts him off balance and makes him vulnerable to falling. GO GAVIN GO!

23/8/2025, 1:48:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Letters from A Psychotherapist (@jemoyer.bsky.social) reposted

23/8/2025, 9:31:07 AM | 14 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

ā€œAt no point was I less than 4 feet from a federal agent. And yet, my wallet disappeared and was immediately used at a liquor store.ā€ I feel for Leah Vredenbregt, but this is making me laugh just the same.

23/8/2025, 1:45:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social) reply parent

I promise you Intel's lawyers are in a room figuring out how to assert CITIZENS UNITED and CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE into the proceedings. JFC

23/8/2025, 1:05:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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23/8/2025, 12:53:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erin O'Brien (@erincle.bsky.social)

Um ... if Citizen's United decreed that CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, how can the government shake down Mr. Intel for 10 percent of it's value?

23/8/2025, 12:51:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view