trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
“Free” is doing some heavy lifting here.
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“Free” is doing some heavy lifting here.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
If he’s sick they’re going to blame his covid vaccine. Prepare for that bs.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Did his children still have plastic bags on their heads to shield them from the whale guts?
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
This was so genius. Good to see someone bringing “wholesome” back to politics.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Literally why Musk bought it. The ultimate book burning. And he did it right in front of everyone.
Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted
If you’re interested in finding out what we can do to fight back against the gerrymandering in Missouri, I hope you’ll join this call. I will be speaking on the call. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
It’s really a shame Jack Nance couldn’t have been in Mulholland Dr. youtu.be/2uywtfbDwmg?...
The Associated Press (@apnews.com) reposted
Will you be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine? The answer may depend on your age, insurance coverage, health and finding a pharmacist who will provide the shot. The process has become muddled this year thanks to new federal guidance on who can get the shots. bit.ly/4gjRt73
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
She won. She forced that handshake and then she beat his ass. History will eventually discover the truth.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
“… I want to remind us all that art is dangerous….”
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
wtf is this
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Worse than using autism to come after vaccines, antidepressants, certain food and medications… he’s using eugenics to come after autistic people.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
This is America. It doesn’t have to be. We could actually fix it. We just have to love our neighbors more than we do our guns. As wild as it sounds, it really is that simple.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
The snopes article can be found here: www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Group Think
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
How tf did anyone ever allow the Republican Party to claim the elephant as its “symbol”. They are literally the antithesis of everything we know elephants to be.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Nintendo has released stop motion Mario (very short) shorts on their official YouTube channel.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh I definitely knew that. I just thought it was an opportune moment to drop a warning about the things potentially on the horizon. I sincerely hope I’m wrong.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Re: secretly talking This is why I get very upset when people scream “Why isn’t Obama/Harris/Any Dem leadership DOING anything?!!!” My response each and every time: How tf do you know they aren’t? Simply because *you* don’t see it happening? Do you think you’re in the room? Where it happened?
The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung: “I look forward to your meeting with the chairman Kim Jong-un and construction of a Trump Tower in North Korea and playing golf at that place.”
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
“Mental health support” is about to become a very dangerous thing to suggest, or ask for, under the current conditions in the US. I’d highly advise looking into the history of abuse in asylums and mental health institutions. Those currently in power are trying to recreate those conditions.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Democracy is the solution. Period. This is literally why those that hate it attack basic education and academia — they know the only true way Democracy fails is if the masses succumb to ignorance.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Back in the day Republicans blasted the FBI for not “preventing” 9/11, but in 2025 Republicans are trying to turn the FBI into beat cops on street corner foot patrol. That sounds like a sure way to prevent the next 9/11.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Ratings have always been the justification. They’d have zero justification if everyone stopped freaking watching them. Facts. #TURNOFFFOXNEWS Also #ABANDONTWITTER Literally one and the same hashtags. Tuhmaytoe/tuhmahtoe Stop enabling fascists by supporting their platforms.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Ratings have always been the justification. They’d have zero justification if everyone stopped freaking watching them. Facts. #TURNOFFFOXNEWS Also #ABANDONTWITTER Literally one and the same hashtags. Tuhmaytoe/tuhmahtoe Stop enabling fascists by supporting their platforms.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
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trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Tupac discusses Trump, Michael Jackson, and the distribution of wealth in 1992, one year after releasing his first solo album.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Stop calling RFK Jr. “Bobby”. That man is *not* Bobby Kennedy.
Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) reposted
A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
Frog and Toad Bot (@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social) reposted
TOAD WILL NOW PLAY THE PIANO VERY WELL.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Is that like a fly fishing lure? Was someone literally fishing for bobcats?
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Kelly (@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social) reposted
Florida bans the Diary of Anne Frank. A literary classic that serves as a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism and the importance of documenting atrocities as they’re occurring. We all must document this time in history. Keep copies. Write everything down. Make sure that the truth will out.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
You can celebrate with pizza! Not meal-time pizza, but in-between pizza-lunch and pizza-dinner snack-time celebratory pizza!
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Right? Accidents are bad enough. But to purposely do it is several whole other levels of vile.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Anyone that would purposely do that to another person is awful. I’m sorry it was done to you.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
THE SUN WAS SUPPOSED TO COME OUT TOMORROW
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Greg Pak (@gregpak.net) reposted
Jesus Christ. We're living in a fascist nation, y'all. Please adjust all your settings accordingly and get with the groups in your local are that are fighting it.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s literally a PR tactic to make all of this somehow “more acceptable”. Don’t fall for it.
Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee says it just received the first tranche of Epstein files from the Justice Department.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
7.5M earthquake will likely trigger some tsunami warnings.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s a good thing this isn’t costing the tax payers anything oh wait.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
This is *precisely* why Democrats need your participation. (And mine.) We, Progressives, are becoming the dominant face of the DNC. AOC, Mamdani, Kat Abughazaleh… are carving a path, but we have to walk it with them. Do what the old guard fear we’re trying to do — we have to claim it as ours.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve voted every Presidential Election since 18. There are very specific Progressive issues and candidates I want to see on the table. However, I know my non-vote would aid the fascist agenda far more than it could ever contribute to building a “better” DNC. So not voting has never been an option.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
I support Newsom’s redistricting fight. This isn’t a circular fire squad issue. It’s not a personal comfort list. We’re literally talking about millions of people. The DNC needs to stand up for them. Loudly. If they can’t, well… I guess they need to reread the “FIRST THEY CAME” poem? Wild.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Exactly this.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
“Shoo”? “I was told”? You actually talk to other adults like this. That’s wild. I’ve backed Newsom’s efforts. It doesn’t take five minutes of looking at my timeline to grasp that. I want ALL democrats to be able to do so with comfort. His transphobia is a very real problem.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
RESPECT to the dude filming this for jumping in the moment he saw that GROWN ASS MAN lay hands on that woman
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
The Saint Louis police and a security guard of Rep. Wesley Brutally attacking people at a town hall.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
What the hell do you think voting rights and democracy are when you seem to be excluding a specific group of people? Democracy is for everyone, not just those you think it should be for. Shoo your damn self.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Why don’t we all just tell Newsom to stop his transphobic bs so that everyone can comfortably support his efforts? Seems to be a fairly low bar.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Doggo decided today was his personal parade. 😂
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
There’s like at least 20 different atrocities happening in this one video. You have to very consciously focus on different people and watch what’s happening to them independent of what’s happening to the group as a whole. Absolutely vile.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
RESPECT to the dude filming this for jumping in the moment he saw that GROWN ASS MAN lay hands on that woman
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait, I might’ve misread this — I thought you were saying Orange Julius himself would be joining the patrols on the streets.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
I can’t tell if he blocked me or I blocked him. Either way, I can’t see it. Win/win.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
But I digress. Fringe is brilliant and everyone needs to discover its brilliance. Hopefully we can get a film, or a sequel series. No reboot though — the original was fairly perfect.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
This is quite frustrating. The narrator mentions having a habit of watching a pilot episode of a show, only to not watch it again until years later discovering that the show was brilliant. Ironically, he is the reason why good shows get canceled. Imagine the ratings if people would stick with them.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
The only thing “I wonder at this early stage in the second term” is where are the Epstein Files? RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
I never thought for one second that this somehow ended the boycott. I hope no one else did. The guy that “stepped down” will likely still making more in one week than you or I will see in our lifetimes. And the check will be signed by Target. How exactly is that stepping down? 🙄
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
September 3, China is doing their military parade thing.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
This looks amazing, though I’d like a proper TNG game prior to this. It really is depressing that we haven’t had one by now.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
How many people prior to this have actually accepted his chip cash bribes? Right? I mean, for someone to do this suggests the confidence of having done it successfully many times before. Right? Absolutely wild.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve been blocking users like this as well. However, there are tools that immediately notify you of the user that blocked you when you’re blocked. So now I’ve no doubt they are building lists based on people that block them. @support.bsky.team is going to need to find a creative solution asap.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Back.
Greg Pak (@gregpak.net) reposted
X is a Nazi site and you should probably delete it from your devices.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
“He just is who he is.” RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
The cicadas are absolutely maddening. For the last few years we have been warned that “this given summer” was going to be awful, and yet it kinda really wasn’t. But my god the last few weeks have been pure hell — MAKE IT STOP.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Not a big fan of this. What we want is the return of Due Process. When we say something is unconstitutional, we’re saying foundational rules are being broken. The Geneva Convention was rules. We want civility and humanitarianism. Constantly chipping away the rules is how we arrived in this hellhole.
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trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
DC didn’t look like this on 9/11. Let that add some perspective to the moment.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Fascism might show up and remind civilization what an asshole he is every once in awhile, but he *always* gets kicked tf out and blacklisted by Historians. There will *never* be a seat at the table for Autocracy or any of his brethren.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Absolutely one of the most surreal photos of an entire year of surreal photography.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Amen. And it’s a Black woman that actually won the 2024 Presidential Election, but I digress.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Also, I’m not saying that MSNBC will magically be better off in this new situation. It absolutely depends on who acquires them, if they are to be acquired, or if they can literally become independent. But either way their CHANCES of betterment improve tremendously separate from NBC.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
The cult leader was literally employed by NBC. They made him the pseudo-celebrity he is. Do you think their relationship ended? Are you kidding me? Lester Holt gone? Boot licking Jimmy Fallon? Seriously?
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
NBC helped place the orange king on his throne. They prosper simultaneously. It is that very UNION that ended Joy Reid and other’s jobs. If you ever want the people at MSNBC continue to be able to do journalism it is far better for them to be independent of NBC.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
[annual note to self: actually read articles before commenting]
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you think NBC is preparing to offload the Network from its parent? That would actually be a super good thing for everyone at MSNBC. Depending on who they are acquired by. Is it possible they don’t need acquiring? Can they be self-sustaining?
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Is NBC possibly preparing to offload the network? That would actually be wonderful.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
For the love of all that is humane, someone… roll this back. Don’t let this become the monstrosity it is gravitating toward. Please.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Obama is very carefully walking a line… using very. purposeful. language. in the hope that we can still walk ourselves back from outright chaos. It’s the very antithesis of the language coming from the White House right now. We need leaders that use *every last breath* to prevent ACTUAL civil war.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve chosen to go against the grain: I will be choosing one specific “C” pronunciation and applying it to all pronounced C’s henceforth.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
And evil. … Unconscionable, illegal, and evil.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude could’ve been stockpiling whole ass entire troves of sandwiches in there HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW??? Thank god they sent the shield guy in first.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
There’s an eerily brilliant homage to this scene in Wicked. youtu.be/ypGJl0JedoI?...
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
WE LOVE YOU KAT ONION. We can call her Kat Onion, right?
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
“Crime was down 1500% that night.”
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
As, likely, are those that endorsed him.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Alien: Earth episode one brings a big, big, big Alien (1979) meets Battlestar Galactica (2004) vibe. Easily, best television premiere I’ve seen in decades.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Alien: Earth!!!! This easily has the potential to become the best television series ever produced. The pilot is absolutely phenomenal. Watch this right tf now.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Alien: Earth’s first two episodes debut in a little over 30 minutes. Hopefully we’re getting something fantastic.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
Demand the Epstein Files be made public NOW.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
B-b-but he jump-started that dude’s car….
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
“🇮🇩 Indonesia: The pirate flag from the manga One Piece is emerging as a symbol of protest. Faced with its growing popularity during anti-government rallies, authorities are threatening to ban its use during independence celebrations on August 17 ⤵️”
trench (@itrench.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you, that makes sense. If I hadn’t been told they were horses I would’ve absolutely believed they were flies. Impressively convincing disguises.
trench (@itrench.bsky.social)
The Founding Fathers were Deists who modeled their ideologies off of Voltaire’s. The revolution was against traditional religion as much as it was against a monarchy.