jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly true.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly true.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
I think Bob Reich may be Bernie's cousin.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Beautiful.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Amen. Money OUT of elections - right now!
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Cute, but at what price? This is an exotic animal kept in a cage.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Dude said to leave him alone.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Moving the depository accounts around. _Somebody_ looked at the numbers. Very standard gangland profit-sharing.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Not really analysis; just a grumpy staff writer whining in print. Should be marked 'Commentary'.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, I hope not before Bill Clinton decides to do the right thing and share what he knows, saw, took part in and regrets, of course. His life will be over, sure, but the whole world will hail him.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Was not the easiest mini, except for this one
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
The toast landed jam side up.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Take a walk. Breathe. Let negative thoughts walk thru your mind and keep going. Stay in the fight. We need you.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
kind of has an AI flavor
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
breakdown is one word, thus emphasizing what it means
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social)
Anyone else? I received a letter last week from the IRS informing me that I was "one of 525,000 [oddly round number] current or retired federal employees who are noncompliant with respect to their tax obligations as of April 30, 2025." It goes on to scold me. I have the canceled check, DOGE dogs.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
AND, thanks to Reagan, we have at least 3 generations of folks not comfortable reading bc of the gutting of early childhood education. These guys knew _exactly_ what they were doing.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly,they appear to have firearms as well as badges.Not a question of "if" and we all know it. IMO They've been played. For years. Reagan gutted early childhood ed. hence 4 generations of folks uncomfortable reading. Even if we started now, it might take that long again. Ah, live history.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
That is an otter baby, yes?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
The Old Testament is full of strict rules that evolved from the need to keep a large group of people in line. The Sermon on the Mount "updates" the 10 Cs almost line for line. People who follow the OT are not, by definition, followers of Jesus.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh-kay. Blink if you need help.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Can't be a diva, only male peacocks do this. Just a typical insecure entity looking to get lucky.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Wish her luck and fresh essential oils when getting treated for a medical problem.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
It is breathtaking and heartbraking at the same time.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social)
Sunday's 'Doonesbury' includes a link to the list of words the current executive office has banned from gov sites. Where you get a 404. Anyone know anything?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
I read the news today, oh boy
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
To those asking, it was MTG who used the word "garbage"
The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted
“I was really hoping to be able to hang out with all my awesome friends at the Department of Defense today, but there was only one seat left, and they told me they were saving it for someone else.” said Pete Hegseth theonion.com/unpopul...
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Please take your desperate attempts someplace else. As the great poet said, "Respect yourself".
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
The true neaning of 'Easter'
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
It was a tough one, I'll admit.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe you erred?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Some very disturbed stuff done very well
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Did you mean genres or am I just too %$#@$ old to get it?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Please, where/when was this?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
If I _never_ see or hear the name again, fine.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe the most repellant action taken, so far. To use a mother's grief in such a callous and vile way. Whew. Never say, "This is the worst", bc they aren't finished - yet.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Pretty sure the word 'blonde' should have been within quotation marks.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Insh'allah
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, that oath thing. Someday, schools will be named after them.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Sadly necessary
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
What makes you convinced in that person's existence?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
I read the headline too fast. I thought it said 'Lewis Black talks back to God'. Haha. He would too.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
What are the Vegas numbers on this occuring? Asking for a friend.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
And inclue 30 grams of protein, 12 of fibre.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Who lit his lamp?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Explain the capitulation, please
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
I am sorry you didn't get it. He accomplished this: he got you to post that your heart is broken. Walk away from despair, friend. Hope lives.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
That is terrible. Never do that again.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Pretty sure he's "the minder."
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
OMG. His cheese has completely slipped off his cracker.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
And we love you back, Sky Daddy.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
This is brilliant. Thank you so much for the effort and thoughtfulness that went into it.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Despicable.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
And, it led all the national news this morning. Oh, wait.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social)
This is true.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Right arm, sister!
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
I dug this up the other. Highly recommend ""How the World Made the West" 4K years of empires rising and falling. And so it goes.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Please describe "standing up"?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Please buy from an independent bookstore. Check out bookshop.org
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
This is the most astonishingly ignorant thing I have ever heard. This guy knows nothing about what he insists on talking about. If I was a nicer person, I'd be embarassed for him.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Predates punk by a couple of generations, but still important and valid.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Inspiring. Gracias, Senhora.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social)
My sign. Someone else's Confederate soldier. Winchester, Va. Outside Ben Cline's office. There were @ 150 of us, but no Ben.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
The average Neanderthal knew the uses and differences of hundreds of lithic varieties, how to make a fire and tan the hides of animals. You have, inadvertently, I am sure, insulted them.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly, pretty much all of this started under Roosevelt. Have you seen the movie, 'Amsterdam'? It is all laid out there.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
The Darkness you speak of is here.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
If you click the heart, does that mean you _love_ it?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
As my mother would say, Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social)
Words I never, in my life, I expected to say: Tip o' the hat to Josh Hawley and Susan Collins for pushing back on the Mcaid cuts.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Belongs to Bezos now. Maybe it could be an underpaid warehouse worker w no health insurance.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for your service. Please take Pelosi and Schumer with you.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
At last.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Smart? Freaking brilliant AND unafraid. The (almost) only political leader who has been talking about working class problems since EVER.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Gosh.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Amen. If only those who will be paying with their lives - literally- could/would read.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
She is an Episcopalian. I literally LIVE for the day of women bishops in the Roman Catholic church. [Tip o' the hat to Conclave.] IYKYK
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Photoshop so obvious it looks like I did it.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Where is the slice of pie?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Remember when Barry Goldwater was the scariest person?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Huge shout-out to my sister-in-heart, Ann, for being there and representing ALL OF US. I wish I lived closer.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Sakamoto Days. Check it out.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks. This is helpful. "Moderate" might need some firming up, but I do appreciate learning.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually, the "hydrocucks" are correct. It is science, not politics.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
So absolutely true.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe he is this time, but he isnt the first to say it, and he was pretty much in complete left field during the election. Running on fumes. We need new voices.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
It is horrifying and yet fascinati g to see a struggle betw the "OT" (more aptly called the Goatherder's Guide to the Galaxy" and the "NT" which tries to teach compassion and tolerance.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Because you can't spell?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
I would like to see if the NYT uses the words"deranged" or "patently false" or "who will tell him"? in discussing this, but im on a total blackout so i wont. When will the Emperor be exposed?
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Reagan gutted early childhood education. Your number represents 3 generations of people nervous about words. Without the words they cannot describe what they are so angry about.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm so afraid they DO know.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
It truly is unbelievable.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, you know, if they can find them and if not the community-run handout stores may have some and theycan get some clean socks too for the pulling. Damn ash and smoke everywhere.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, don't challenge them.
jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent
From what Ive seen; specifically requested by President Carter in his extensive plans. Both song and performers.