Oh, so guns *do* kill people? Gotcha.
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Oh, so guns *do* kill people? Gotcha.
News flash: no one with even an ounce of self-respect is buying into another fake fight. You burned that bridge to a cinder. www.bbc.com/sport/boxing...
For example . . .
I reiterate -- I simply cannot understand how these malignant narcissists keep doing that; refusing to admit what they've said when video is readily available anytime, anywhere, all over the planet.
If that's unnecessary roughness, you might as well shut down the league. #CowboysEagles #NFL #TNF
Only someone who avoided the draft would want to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
This ⬆️
WNBA:
"Lagos remains truly humbling; big enough to dwarf any ego." Africa Is Not A Country By #DipoFaloyin This book is already making me want to visit #Lagos already, and I'm only 17 pages in.
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
States with Republican Governors tend to have higher homicide rates than Democrat-led states. In fact, cities with 13 of the top 20 homicide rates in the U.S. are in Republican-led states, including 8 of the top 10. These states also tend to have lax gun laws and high rates of gun ownership.
All of this was basically said during COVID but what they're asserting is the right to kill other people, not just themselves. They want the freedom to get sick AND the freedom to participate in society without limitations, where they can make other people sick. If you don't like it *you* get out
Oh. Okay. So #RandPaul would also agree then that legal residents - or even undocumented immigrants - should not be disappeared off the streets, off their job sites, out of court-appointed hearings, or torn from their kids' arms without due process. You'd agree with all of that, right, Rand?
Never been a fan to begin with. Give me #culinarytravel shows any and every time.
The child molester in the Oval just pointed the guilty arrow at himself with this flyover. Thanks for doing their job for them, Donald.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Any of this sound like "freedom" to you? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Got a new one for you, @tizzyent.bsky.social.
True story
Can you imagine Republicans even 20 years ago just blindly whoop-whooping the prospect of destroying the proud legacy of Roosevelt's national park system? That's the cult of personality we're dealing with, emphasis on "cult."
“Some might describe this campaign as ethnic cleansing, not genocide. But there is a link between the crimes. When an ethnic group has nowhere to go and is constantly displaced from one so-called safe zone to another, relentlessly bombed and starved, ethnic cleansing can morph into genocide.”
Incredible work
Okay, timeline cleanse. Post an image from your summer that confers peace
Damn right. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/b...
Portugal is just saying what we all know and see‼️ #TrumpIsARussianAsset
YOU'RE the embarrassment, Bessent.
From the top, I'd love to know how rebranding the #CrackerBarrel logo has anything to do eith "lubruhls" or what they've defined as "woke" ideology in the first place. Idiots. gazette.com/news/local/k...
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Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
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"We didn't do enough" You could not have stated the obvious more if you tried. As of today, August 28, 317 Gazans have starved to death, 121 of them children. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...
Deputy Director Alejandro Sanchez @wadol.bsky.social and anyone else involved in the department's cover-up must be fired and charged. www.king5.com/article/news...
Shameless. They bitch and moan about homelessness, but when it comes to solutions, they're really only about obfuscation and excuses. Create the problem to pretend to solve the problem, and the hamster wheel continues.
The weakest, most pathetic, self-contemptuous simps I have ever even heard of. How you can lay down on front of this waste of human filth is beyond any decent person. www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
Precisely right. Hitler's Willing Executioners by David Jonah Goldhagen explains how German society was embedded with anti-Semitism in the late 19th century into the 20th. Just like today's conservatives, German society went along with much of what the Reich was carrying out, believing the lies.
This quote belongs on page one of every legal brief filed against this administration.
Love it while ya got it. #SummerInSeattle
If it wasn't clear before, it really should be now. These are enemies, not political opposition.
Valid points. We have the worst president in history, and it sure fucking shows.
Yet still disappointingly that high. WTF, America.
Trump Rapes Kids, Taxes the Poor and Middle Class, and MAGAts Applaud. Nothing Short of Deporting All Traitor MAGAts Will Save This Country
Except you win those election say not being picky about semantics and micro-grievances, in which we just so happen to specialize.
Tomorrow in the New York Times: Was Ghislaine Maxwell Credible When She Said That Donald Trump Never Did Anything Wrong? We Asked Woody Allen
And yet they're licking Trump's boots and celebrating the fact his government just nationalized INTEL.
Hope he sues anyone and everyone responsible into infinity.
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
I thought Chicago was great when I visited, too. People were really nice.
Children's cancer charities, no less.
So let me get this straight: he's not working for peace to save countless lives in Ukraine. He's doing it for himself to "get to heaven."
Constitutionally illegal to begin with. I cannot comprehend the reality that any of this has been able to go as far as it has. So many need to be prosecuted and imprisoned for what they've done.
Love Detroit. Is it still making its way back, slowly but surely? I see Michigan Central Station is gleaming new again.
Those who have #BannedBooks have never been on the right side of history.
Absolutely adore this woman.
I absolutely adore this woman. When I was out driving our farm tractors in the middle of nowhere central Washington, Teri Gross was always there, offsetting the ugly inhumanity of Limbaugh's disinformation and hubris. Hearing her voice was like a warm blanket every day.
These #TrumpGestapo goons are totally out of control.
Pretty sure it's safe to say the genocidal dictator said nothing of the sort, and Trump is more than delusional enough think anyone would actually believe him.
Don't allow anyone to gaslight you into believing the officials legislating and running these illegal internment camps aren't the villains. #AlligatorAlcatraz #TrumpBlackSites
People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.
Next step to the regular season continues tonight . . . #PreseasonFootball #GoHawks
Even Faux News admits the genocidal dictator took his simp over his knee and did what he wanted. Trump is the weakest - I can't even say "leader" - first chair(?) this nation has ever had.
For all we know, they were planning out how St. Petersburg's troll farm is going to infiltrate and corrupt the U.S. mid-terms.
No. They'll burn this country they claim to love so much to the ground before they admit they were too stupid to admit a conman, r*pist, grifter, money launderer, and lifelong fraud took them for the gullible fools they are.
And dumber. Which we are, and increasingly dense by the day.
Yeah, he's a little skittish about Moscow, considering what happened last time.
Lost all the respect a long time ago. Can't believe networks are still bringing him on.
Are these not the workings of a wanna-be dictator and authoritarian?
"Permitted" = whipped up through the spread and then celebration of conspiracy theories, the political momentum build atop those conspiracy theories, and then the strategic choices of a political movement that rewarded its base by sacrificing public health for its fantasies.
In other words, the inmates are running the asylum.
Newsom's meeting the moment, doing exactly what weak-knee'd Democrats in Congress should have been doing for months, if not years, ago: clown Trump 'til his 4th grade insecurity makes his head implode.
Don't ever tell me they're not #TrumpsGestapo.
Yes, of course. But there are many, many, many others who do remember and want to conveniently forget, and make others forget.
Frustrating about all of this is that everybody is treating this as though millions of people in New York and around the country didn't already know this years ago in the '90s and early '00s. They. were. best. pals. They never hid it. Why are people acting like this is a sudden revelation?
Deaf Leonard
Whatever angle you think Ms. Three-Toes is delivering from, send it back.
Just gotta say it: he's doing exactly what Putin said he would do, if he could. He's dismantling America and its influence from the inside. The Alaska summit is simply a progress report. www.cntraveler.com/story/us-lea...
Those tattoos on his arms are really starting to bleed through.
Incompetence, thy name is the U.S. Supreme Court.
The only way everyone wins is for the invaders, Russia, to go home with their tails between their legs.
If there is any one city I had to choose to return to before I die, #VeniceItaly is the one. www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/bo...
This Stephen is the best Stephen. #RFKJrIsGoingToKillPeople
Democrats left Texas to block Republicans' disgraceful redistricting power grab, a redistricting that weakens voters' rights. Republicans left DC to cover for their r*pist cult leader's horrific se*ual crimes against children. They are nowhere near the same. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
I have no doubt Hegseth is more than proud of the South's "culture." Perpetually trying to reframe their national disgrace since 1865, it was a culture of slavery, on which the South's societal structure was built. YOU DON'T HAVE SOUTHERN CULTURE AT ALL WITHOUT STANDING ON THE BACKS OF SLAVERY.
Translated: "Defense shooting of the German people." This phrase was used in the context of a 1944 Nazi propaganda poster inviting German civilians to join the Volkssturm, to arm themselves in defending their German homeland. Horrifying to hear from a U.S. government, not to mention treasonous.
Let's outlaw Jewish space lasers while we're at it.
What could possibly go wrong.
Cynicism is a weak person's imitation of intelligence and strength. Just in case you forgot why the U.S. has reached this precipice.
And all the taxpayer funds it's going to take to change it back someday.
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
Such a sad development. This Gen Xer grew up with Loni encompassing one of the first boxom blondes with supreme intelligence and a heart of gold on the show WKRP In Concinnati. She set a standard for women in comedy television. #RIPLoniAnderson www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/l...
“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
Who he thinks he looks like, and what he really looks like.
This is why Donald Trump -- by himself -- is a national security threat.
I watched the NewsHour for the first time in a long time. It was striking how deep and thoughtful and efficient their broadcast was. I came away much better informed in a non-political way than I do from watching any of the cable news networks. That’s why Trump wants to kill it.
You don't actually know what will or will not make a difference which is why it matters to try to do things.
Republicans will burn the world to a cinder to prove blanket deregulation works.
Bondi wouldn't be anywhere near government in any normal timeline. Compromised doesn't even begin . . .