The moral event horizon on guns. The 2nd Amendment now requires frequent blood sacrifice.
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The moral event horizon on guns. The 2nd Amendment now requires frequent blood sacrifice.
About claiming that any specific bad thing is a distraction rather than a bad thing that deserves to be fought.
ALL the things this regime is doing are bad. Tormenting this man. Military presence in cities. Little to no accountability for ICE goons. DOGE damage. Epstein file coverup Anti-DEI in favor of mediocre White men Picking a fight with Canada Sucking up to Putin Tariff chaos Plus lots more
Only the very best and worth reading books get banned by the fascists.
The soccer fans might decide it’s not worth running the gauntlet of xenophobes and fascist bullies.
The Senate could have stopped him with the 2nd impeachment. It was the easiest off ramp possible, and the cowards in the GOP declined it.
For example, a major contributing factor to our current toxic political climate is a widespread ignorance of our own history.
As some with a couple STEM degrees, imma calling bullshit here. If you want to be good citizen, a diet of just STEM is lacking some vital nutrients.
My preference is that nobody gerrymandered, especially in a year not ending in a “1”. But if I can’t have that, then go get ‘em CA. This poorly represented Texan is cheering you on.
Misspoke. That’s giving her grace that she does not deserve. I cannot comprehend facing the public in a position of trust and authority, and saying things that you most likely cannot back up.
WTF did this man ever do to deserve this level of persecution and bearing of false witness from the most powerful people in this country? The malice and the cruelty for cruelty’s sake disgust me so much.
@tpwky.bsky.social After listening to your episode about leeches, I was chatting with my dentist and mentioned it. Turns out that he had actually used leeches in the past! He said that when he first picked one out of the jar he could never tell which end was the head. Fun stuff!!
Bolton sucks but fascism sucks much, much more!!!
If there’s anyone who deserves to be unemployed, it’s a lot of pundits and political consultants. Piss poor work product there people l!
Will gold stripes protect the birds?
What a petty whiny titty baby he is- he’s still bitching about windwills near one of his golf courses, isn’t he? Denying people clean energy out of spite.
Cool story. I’m happy to see this lady thriving because of a union doing exactly what it should. Big business unchecked will devour everything and everybody.
Also give the prize based on an actual accomplishment, not potential. As funny as Trump being a whiny, jealous little bitch over Obama’s award is, Obama didn’t really earn one.
The American Christian Right is the world’s biggest pack of hypocrites.
Socialism for the wealthy, rugged individualism for everyone else.
When asked why he sided with FDR, Joe Kennedy Sr. said that he’d rather lose half his fortune to taxes than all of it to an angry mob. Too many people have yet to realize just how badly the Billionaires’ Benefits Bill is going to screw them over.
““The Street was looking for a fresh pair of eyes that might bring a solution to two years of stumbles” A 20 year insider seems to me to be as opposite as it gets to “a fresh pair of eyes”. Also failing to mention the boycott doesn’t inspire much confidence in his ability to see.
As is Alito.
I contrast this case with the way rich and obviously guilty people like Trump are able to play to system. While our justice system isn’t the worst in the world, it too often falls way short of the hype.
Eternity, autocorrect!!
I would pass on spending entirely with Trump or his cult.
The terrorists won on 9/11
TBH Obama never should have been given one on potential. But that’s still not as bad as the likes of Kissinger or Arafat getting one.
He’s a pathological liar, and his cheese is slipping off his cracker.
That’s just more of the “If Trump cured cancer, you’d still bash him” deflection nonsense. That will never happen, and him standing up to Putin is just as likely.
A shame that so many people don’t know what a total badass Ms Tubman was.
Should have budgeted better.
I would never ask anyone that question. It’s not my business.
What happened to American exceptionalism??
Tom Walz was onto something with observing how weird so many GOPers are.
Which would then mean that some scumbags (Epstein, Maxwell) groomed them. The grooming is coming from inside the house!
Has there even been anyone as wretchedly selfish as the tangerine toddler tyrant?
Just announce the revival of debtors’ prisons already. That is where this road leads.
I’m not a religious person, but I would categorize the deliberate wasting of food as a major sin.
The people in Gaza, Ukraine, etc. Would have a rebuttal to that:
Congress ought to claw back its power and prerogatives, yesterday
How many of these leaders were at the front of the line when the COVID vaccines were rolled out?
The mRNA vaccines decreased the odds of dying, and the odds of being hospitalized. That alone was worth it. In addition there is promising new research on using these vaccines as cancer therapy which will be hobbled at best. I had 6 mRNA vaxes and never got Covid, with is the best outcome.
Fixing up as in don’t rent to Black people?
Declining to fund this research is a functional ban on it. Any private funding won’t be anywhere enough to close the gap.
The decision on mRNA vaccines is absolutely criminal. This is a fantastic tool that enables a rapid response to a pandemic and it’s being broken out of pettiness, ignorance, and spite. America is squandering its edge in science. For the sake of humanity I hope the EU recovers this fumble.
High INT, but WIS is the dump stat. I feel bad for the kids who won’t measure up to these crazy high standards their parents are setting.
Needing a guarantor while Muslim? Or progressive? Cuomo is certainly doing an excellent job of demonstrating how out of touch he is with the experiences of most New Yorkers. I hope the voters give that the weight it merits.
Then there’s the sheer depth of all these elements- I learned quickly that I couldn’t follow it while working in the kitchen or doing some other task. It demanded (and warranted) 100% of my attention.
I’m only sorry that it wasn’t more than 2 seasons. The writing, the acting, the sets and costumes!! All superb. I want Mon Mothma’s wardrobe.
Because someone was denying you water?
I recall several years later when “The Two Towers” was released some people spouting nonsense about how the name was disrespectful and should have been changed.
This Texan would approve.
Too many emboldened assholes this country right now.
It is a good thing that there are poor people camping in the streets in the richest nation in human history? Nope. But making homelessness a crime is the most expensive and least effective manner of dealing with the problem. Makes me think too many people in gov’t aren’t serious about helping.
If it’s good, why should how old it is be a DQ?
That DS9 episode about the Bell Riots looks to be only a few years off.
The Jesuits are honest concerning science and I respect them for that. Some of my friends are alumni or faculty at Jesuit run schools, and they teach science correctly.
…if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.” Attributed to commenter Davis X. Machina
Stupidity AND spite: “The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod,…
It certainly is so much easier to separate the asshole artist from the art when said asshole has been dead for so many decades. Wagner is easily in my top 5 favorite classical composers, but what a putrid excuse for man he was. I sympathize with people who like Ye or R Kelly, for example
I like both, but Mozart gets major bonus points because his music lays so well on the clarinet.
Welcome to the 11th circle of Hell
Warning, puppies are hurt: m.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...
Hard to think of any trump-lackey who deserves this ridicule more than the puppy shooter. She revels in cruelty.
Surrounding yourself with yes-men and bootlickers never helps in the long run.
The real TDS is all the baseless presumptions the Mango Mussolini gives a damn about the working class, is honest, is a newly-minted baby Christian, is qualified for the job, isn’t in cognitive free fall, or cares about anything other than himself.
Yeah, no moral differences between sending aid to flood victims or staffing concentration camps. Given the crappy job market, it’s not so easy to quit on principle.
People like Chip Roy, the phony deficit hawk, are even worse. He was successfully treated for cancer, but he voted for the Billionaires’ benefits bill. Typical “I got mine, screw you!” RW hypocrite.
Thiel defiling Tolkien is the poison cherry on the shit sundae.
The only sane solution is to ban all these vile shenanigans at the federal level- no partisan map drawing, no redistricting except in years ending in “1”.
I hate, Hate,HATE gerrymandering. But I hate off season extracurricular gerrymandering even more than regular gerrymandering. I also hate the hypocritical expectation that the GOP is free to cheat but the Dems can’t play tit for tat most of all.
Much respect for those who tell bullies to kick rocks.
Private prisons should be abolished. My opinion on private healthcare isn’t favorable either.
I hate these stories. Houston has dangerously good food and losing any iconic restaurant is sad.
The Dems can’t quit their big donors. I’d be happy to see a number of them fall in next year’s primaries. It’s long past time for consequences for failing to deliver for the 99%.
I so want their stupidity to blow up in their faces. When the people who keep your city running can no longer afford to live in that city, you have a major problem. Mr. Mamdani has charisma and political savvy, but “it’s the economy, stupid!” He’s proposing solutions, and the voters like that.
I completely reject any “culture of life” build upon the foundation of the oppression of women.
“Why is this man allowed to do all of this?” Because people fall for culture war bullshit.
Can’t argue with the fact that the US had done some very shady foreign policy shit, and the people who were fine with all that played a major role in inflicting Mango Mussolini on all of us.
I have my grocery price spreadsheet from last Nov. I’m trying to wait until this Nov to fill in the updated prices.
I would gladly buy that commenter a beer (or any other favored beverage).
These appeasers should go look up the old Greek myth about Erysichthon for a pertinent lesson.
Ceding power to someone as bad as trump is by definition, exceptionally stupid and also cowardly.
Tom DeLay did this back in 2003. That may have been the first off-season (not the year after the census) gerrymandering. Any meaningful redistricting reform needs to include a ban on this sort of cheating. Once every ten years, in a year ending in “1”, as in the year after the census only.
Rep Jolanda Jones will probably give you some good material.
Where does the buck stop, Mick? Surrounding yourself with yes-men is dumb, and trump is responsible for that. Also authoritarians tend to favor yes-men.
Talk is cheap Marge. You voted for the Billionaires’ benefits bill didn’t you? That going to shaft the working class you suddenly claim to care about.
Asshole is a protected class? Who knew?
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
What a clueless arrogant ass O’Leary is. He doesn’t give a damn about the victims. No one who actually cared would presume to know what they wanted, especially if you had never spoken to them.
How many of those I-didn’t-know people have been closing their eyes and plugging their ears for the past 10 years? While the media has failed us, this info has been out there.
I found the Garfield strip blah. I stopped reading the comics much after Calvin & Hobbs was retired, because not much compares. But I don’t blame Watterson for quitting on top, on his terms.
Having visited the Budwiser brewery in St Louis, I will say that I was impressed by the sheer enormity of their brewing operations. One vessel roughy the size of my house for aging beer is impressive, so hundreds of them did amaze me. But my beer preference is from Houston’s small breweries.
The only reason I’ve even heard of her is the RW outrage machine. The commercial is in poor taste, but like the people Charlotte has been talking to, I got whale shark sized fish to fry ahead of that particular minnow.
I always wanted to do a field trip to collect these flies: hawaiianforest.com/wp/hawaiian-...
Do only the males have fancy wings? I’ve looked at so many flies under the microscope, and there’s beauty in even the less fancy ones.
This guy is what some are calling a philosopher????????
“ 17 inches in 24 hours………is an underestimate, given that Houston has experienced five storms since 1995 that exceeded even that new 100-year rainfall amount. By 100-year event we really mean 6-year event, on average.
Broken clocks being right once or twice a day doesn’t mean that they’ve been repaired.