Was @LittleAngus on the T; Northern Alta California, between Sacramento and Oakland; he/him; married; old. Sarcasm in the defense of liberty is no vice.
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A significant thing here: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on migration, tells @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/c...
yeah, I’d go mad with power. like, if I were Jay, I’d make the devs hide my Yglesias follower tag.
I know we like the em-dash but let’s talk about the semi-colon
audiobooks with author interviews or excerpts of future books at the end are evil monstrous things* *because I love the book and it says there's an hour left and it lies goddamnit
fbi puts another one in the books. closing the case the way most crime is solved: someone calls and tells them who did it.
To echo a post I saw months ago, now would be an amazing time for one of the most popular musicians currently going to make an absolute banger about jury nullification and get it in regular rotation for the next 8 to 12 months.
Idea: A kaiju movie, but instead of wanting to destroy us, it finds us absolutely adorable. And that's so much worse for humanity. Ever see a cat's reaction when you pick it up during naptime? Watch your pet hamster freak out on you when you take it out of its dwelling? That, but for people.
Day two of no reporters inquiring about a stroke.
so it's woke to believe pedophilia is wrong
You know what else is political violence? Rounding up people based on the color of their skin and heritage
Watch the wall to wall coverage end now that the call is coming from inside the house. Alas. Onward.
Charlie Kirk was the Jesus/MLK/JFK for incels without college degrees.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed an executive order which permits pharmacists and other medical personnel to administer vaccines recommended by state officials, no prior prescription needed. The order also requires insurance companies to cover the vaccines.
Something we can hopefully all agree on:
I feel a lot of normies who don’t follow right-wing insanity honestly have no clue how extreme and repugnant Charlie Kirk’s views actually were, and so are swallowing wholesale the egregiously whitewashed version of him the media is presenting.
So she's actually kind of stupid?
Lol
Let's give this a try!
Melissa and Mark Hortman’s assassination did not get this level of coverage from the BBC. Not even close. Insane
If it's appropriate to honor shooting victims by having a moment of silence at American sporting events, then there should be a moment of silence at every American sporting event every single day.
The one obvious thing is the shooter was raised steeped in gun culture and nobody on the news seems to want to have that conversation.
Uvalde somehow didn't convince the NY Times that "something is seriously wrong in this nation," but Charlie Kirk's murder is a bridge too far. Shooting school children they've completely normalized, but Kirk's death violated, "basic, common-sense, need-not-be-debated American" values.
This is even dumber now that we know he went to college for one semester then dropped out.
So you’re saying ONLY Democrats oppose fascism? You’re admitting that Republicans support fascism? That doesn’t sound like a winning argument for Republicans to be making.
Lmfao
Lol somebody today proposed giving speeches in bulletproof glass boxes instead of trying any form for gun control I love america
If you struggle with cooking meals at home because of , I highly recommend Costco's various bags of frozen vegetables, the 10-pack of chicken soup, frozen fruit and greek yogurt for smoothies, and the $5 rotisserie chicken. These are the main things keeping me alive right now
The reason Charlie Kirk is being lionized by so many journalists is simple: he was very good at cultivating journalists and it seems a lot of journalists don't seem to understand the concept of being cultivated as a pet reporter in exchange for scoops or leads. They think he was their friend.
t shirt is short for tyrannosaurus shirt
in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”
Fun fact: I've never had COVID. Also, I haven't had a cold in at least four years. People might call me paranoid with all the masking and handwashing and stuff, but it's sure been nice to be actually healthy on the weeks I don't have chemo.
What centrist libs can't seem to internalize is that the US contains a large, longstanding, well-funded political movement that *wants political violence and authoritarianism*. It does not need to be provoked in any way in order to pursue those goals.
Another thing: the people lining up to say “but he was nice to *me*” are to a person white guys in powerful positions. I got news for you: he did not respect your ideas, he respected your power and enjoyed proximity to it. Of course he was nice to you.
Watching a stripper dressed as gritty slap her ass with a full sized soft pretzel has given me SUCH a craving for a soft pretzel but you can’t get soft pretzels at 11pm, it’s just not available.
Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there
Reaching ratios that mathematicians hadn’t considered possible
DON'T DRINK IT, JOAN!
Fun fact: When I worked at The Seattle Times, the publisher mandated that we buy our own subscription. We had to show proof of purchase to the editor's admin. Instead of subscribing, I looked the admin in the eye and said "You know how much I make." She mercifully checked me off without receipt.
LET THEIR MOTHERS AND NEIGHBOURS KNOW
Lisa Cook declared in financial forms that her Atlanta property would be used as a “vacation home” and not her primary residence, according to documents obtained by NBC News that appear to contradict the Trump administration’s allegations of mortgage fraud.
oh god this is real not a parody
We’re about to find out whether the corporate media knows that groypers are right-wing.
[ahem]
You think after he nailed it in just one shot he was like, “ah, damn, but the writing on the fourth bullet was the real funny one”
there's a korean guy and a somali guy outside my apartment loudly and enthusiastically hyping each other up about each other's cuisines. it's extremely endearing
I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…
Current mood... 🤷 One of The Oatmeal comics that were rejected by the New Yorker.
Fair.
It's not technically a "Civil War" when the enemy turns out to be yourself.
Autotune is not nearly as bad as "Seasons in the Sun" was.
The murders of Charlie Kirk and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman are part of a dangerous rise in political violence. We cannot accept this as the norm. We must do whatever we can to reduce the anger and hate that are consuming and destroying so much of the country.
Excerpt from my new Boston Globe cartoon, Boston bites back
just wait kid
Some people don't remember Top Twenty radio in the Seventies...
bill...dude...
They were actually pretty ridiculous under Hoover once WW2 was over.
True Story. 👇
I’m still trying to wrap my mind around Kavanaugh actually writing this, as if the Fourth Amendment only protects people who have not done anything illegal. This is so foundationally wrong that it’s hard to know where to start.
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
I mean I think the only barely subtext is that Robinson is LDS
part of what people are having trouble with imo is that people don’t identify with states to the same degree. “not from around here,” ok. “not american,” i get it. “it somehow would have been better if he was from colorado,” i know you’re the governor but
That man…there are no words. Remember when he wrote that while “I’ve been wrong for decades” mea culpa concluding with “but hey guys, now I know what to do, follow my plan!” He is the Platonic Ideal of the Mediocre White Man.
I mean, both men were murdered by racist white men
Ok PBS just let David Brooks say that his friends texted him “this is our George Floyd”
hey, hi, who is ‘our’?
People always cheer when I finally leave someplace too
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
I’ve been avoiding certain topics here, because I’m already on a block list called “drama,” but it’s important to stand up for what you believe. So, saltines are delicious. They remind me of staying home from school. They’re simple and comforting. Let me live my truth.
If you'll forgive me, here's a list why Musk is Mars obsessed... medium.com/@shawngoldwa...
PAY TO BREATHE
Weird how this is always go to Jupiter or live in the center of the earth but not “everyone has a good union job and healthcare”, like that’s the thing that is believing in unicorns
If any major news networks or other media outlets want to book me to discuss the absolute scourge that is the white on white violence plaguing our nation, please reach out to my representatives.
You can’t spell hatred without red hat.
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The last shred of attention I’m ever giving that man: The same people who spent years mocking George Floyd’s murder—and still do to this day—are mad people are mocking Charlie Kirk.
Tyler Robinson Was Practicing Web Browsing Exactly Right, By Ezra Klein
Let's be real: talking about the "debates" Charlie Kirk did like it was the noblest form of democratic praxis is ridiculous. It was performative trolling, just meant to make his opponents look bad. There was nothing deliberative or good-faith about it. Lots of people do the same thing. But come on.
He wants to be our Governor, folks. And he spends 6 months a year in Florida. #entitledbastard
FYI
Hi @darthbluesky.bsky.social just wanted to alert you to the news that I have a new puppy. Please meet Morag Spudlet Parker.
Live your life in such a way that if people directly quote you after your death, no one will accuse them of "speaking ill of the dead."
Pulte should resign
“Charlie Kirk hated me, Charlie Kirk said I should be deported from the US – but obviously what happened to him was horrific, and we all condemn it.” Mehdi Hasan, Zeteo's Editor-in-Chief, on the political violence present in the USA. #Newsnight
The key empty-headed fatuity to the Ezra Klein approach is that if you engage in a pantomime of "debate" by going places and taking questions, you're still "doing politics right" even if you are calling for people to be deported for speech or stoned for being gay. It's civic society cosplay.
"Charlie Kirk should have been murdered privately" girl what
news orgs really need to have people on staff who understand terminally online gamer culture, the amount of uninformed nonsense going on is breathtaking
A groundbreaking breakthrough that was only possible because the marsupial community at large came together and ripped Robert F Koala Jr to shreds.
Falsely accusing someone of a crime is canonical defamation, open and shut. Big bucks on the horizon?
Wait... This would suggest that trump and his goons lied about something, which I'm not sure I can believe
But AG Ken Paxton has three homes on his homestead exemption, and that’s fine while he runs for federal Senate.
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.
Really weird to see people try to portray Bluesky as a radical website when you’ll scroll past about 10 straight posts about how great spaghetti is
I am really learning that normal people know practically nothing at all about Groypers. I'll tell you, I have been wondering for YEARS how the Right has been able to get away with pretending they're the normal ones and we're all crazy. This is how.
this is more or less a conspiracy theory. it is parasite load and the fact that there are not websites anymore. there just more or less not any websites, and those that exist, exist solely to trick google into serving them to you.
The President of the United States said, on TV today, that the U.S. should have a justice system more like China's, with quick trials that happen the next day. And most of the media decided that wasn't news, because .... you know what he's like.
How You Like Me Now?... 
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