Y’all I think we are in a bad recession. McDonald’s is so desperate for us to spend money that I just saw Ronald McDonald in a commercial. They retired the character in 2016 around the time of the killer clowns rumors.
(He/Him) Trying to be more of an accomplice than an ally. Battling ignorance on the daily. Left of Bernie. Words mean things.
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Y’all I think we are in a bad recession. McDonald’s is so desperate for us to spend money that I just saw Ronald McDonald in a commercial. They retired the character in 2016 around the time of the killer clowns rumors.
You know all those slasher-horror movies where they go in the haunted house or down the basement? And you scream, "OMG, how TF could they be so dumb!?" Yeah, well – that's America right now, with RFK jr as the head of HHS, including the CDC, NIH, etc. No good endings. Insane AF.
If the man was really healthy and writing his own posts we would have seen at least half a dozen attacking the people who are cheering for his death. He doesn’t defend without attacking, EVER. These posts are not him.
Sark is going full Sark in this game at Ohio State. Went for it twice on fourth a short inside 10 and got stuffed both times.🤡
Someone on TikTok described Texas as “Howdy Arabia”, I will be using this term for the rest of my life.
Bare minimum for a conversation: Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, GOT.
Bare minimum for a conversation: Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Hurt, Capaldi, Whitaker, Gatwa.
Statistically speaking both Obama and Biden had successfully deported more migrants at this point of their terms than the current resident of the White House.
One simple issue as to why Dept of Ed did not help is distribution of discretionary funding from fed gov. On avg, fed spending for education is 5-7%. A simple expansion of 1-2% would have allowed for supplemental support for Chicago. Does that answer your question?
I don’t believe I mentioned wanting you or not. You entered a discussion by posting. Thank you for clarifying that you are insecure about your ability to engage in a discussion of real issues.
In addition please help me understand what investigative powers these federal troops have to prevent future murders.
Please provide documentation of how many of those homicides happened in Georgetown or the National Mall which are the locations mentioned in my original post. Your attempt at shifting the dialogue is a bit transparent. Happy to engage with legitimate discussion of the issue I raised.
They could never handle walking that beat.🤡
Excellent point
The federal troops patrolling areas of DC where little to no actual crime happens (the Mall, Georgetown) is deliberate. This tactic is designed to signal to BIPOC individuals to stay away from those spaces.
One upside to the Mad King’s takeover of a city: from this moment forward I will always be able to call the virulent 2nd Amendment defenders cowards. Been told my whole life they would show up and fight to defend against tyranny. Where are they? 🤔
A truly great comedy full of fun actors creating memorable characters that 15 years ago would have been a massive network hit.
There will be a time when this research is started up again. The research will inevitably lead to cures. From the day this research is cancelled to the day that first life is saved, all the lost lives in between will be Kennedy’s legacy.
The more I learn about the tech world, the more I'm convinced these are some of the dumbest fucking people around.
The whole point is to get as many big contracts as possible while the lunatic is in charge. Only an idiot would sign off on this plan, luckily for the contractors we have an idiot for a President.
Today’s distraction is an announcement for plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon. This would require the transport of tens of thousands of tons of cargo. For context, Apollo 11 carried approx. 16 tons of weight. There is no chance this actually happens but billions will be spent.
The fact that Harvard is seriously contemplating bribing a pedophile with $500 million while dismantling everything it previously stood for is seriously depressing. Every single one of our institutions are failing us.
Yes! Crazy!
AND ANOTHER THING: I do not know a single liberal, Dem, or progressive who has has any issue punting Bill Clinton into space. We don't like him. He's partially responsible for the shit we're in. No one out here is carrying water for that asshole.
I remember having a conversation about that warning with @johndevore.bsky.social in the mid 90s. Based on the outcome of that conversation I believe it was the right move by the government
Bill being in the files should not be surprising. In 2009 after Obama won, Vanity Fair (or similar magazine) wrote an expose of how big money donors fled from Hillary in 2008 because they knew Bill had been using Epstein’s plane. Investigate each and everyone of the people that are on list.
Good as time as any to dust off this one.
Watching women’s Euro semifinal and based on how vicious these players are being to each other I’m starting to suspect that France and Germany might not like each other for some reason.
I was buying snacks at the Arclight Sherman Oaks with @johndevore.bsky.social and Slash was in line ahead of us and @johndevore.bsky.social did a fangirl dance behind him and Slash didn’t notice.
I was on a plane with the band Unwritten Law flying to Oklahoma and the turbulence was so bad we discussed how if we crashed they would get all the press and my kids would use it as a story to seem cool. “My dad died with Unwritten Law.”
Clint Black got me out of a shift at restaurant in Hollywood and then he told me to go buy a kite and fly it because it was such a nice day.
I peed next to @pftompkins.bsky.social at the Arclight Cinerama Dome once.
Let us all hope that eventually we get to see the one on one interview with his children as adults where they make it clear how much they hated being used this way. People who use their kids this way always forget that kids grow up, go to therapy, reflect, then tell the world.
Why did those items always go together? Did you ever see anyone actually sit at the desk and use it?
Is it just me or did the person who bought the grandfather clock kit almost always have a very heavy roll too desk as well?
Step One: meet for Reubens at Junior’s Step Two: ?
I have been known to think bold thoughts loudly.
the main qualification i’m looking for in congressional leadership is “hates elected republicans so much you want to send them all to prison but will settle for driving them entirely from power for a generation”
Gavin plays the role of tough guy well but when push comes to shove he will go right along with the status quo. He would hold the Dems to the right of B. Clinton. Yes, anyone looks smart compared to current guy but Gavin won’t make things better in any meaningful way.
Every single day since January 20 I have been forced to learn of more and more ways in which the people in power will be destroying lives years after the next group is elected.
@thorbenson.bsky.social is not the first to make this observation but they are 100% correct. These types of tragedies are only going to get worse. Bad weather forecasting puts millions at risk everyday. So many unnecessary deaths will follow. Those kids at that camp deserved better from us.
really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves
@jamellebouie.net made a video on TikTok about moral economy and how we view situations through that lens. The new bill shows through the measures to push students to private lenders that one side sees these people as a potential source of debt profit. The other side saw them as people to help.
Underreported fact about the fires that devastated the Pacific Palisades last year. The original fire that had died down was caused by fireworks. The intense wind event picked up embers and blew them along the coast. Anyway have fun with the videos of LA looking like a war zone tonight.
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
To add to the list of identifiers that @bareinthewoods.bsky.social posted: -any discussion of the homeless “problem” -“isn’t (insert non white neighborhood) dangerous? -use of the word welfare -Still wearing Let’s Go Brandon merch -citation of obviously false news like Kitty Litter in schools
The end of Interstellar is good. People need to get over themselves
They. Cannot. Be. Shamed. That requires empathy. You’re never going to guilt them into doing the right thing.
One of the downsides of being a golf coach is looking like I would agree with a typical MAGA person, so they speak freely in front of me. They will not be unhappy when immigrants die in cages in Florida. They are rooting for it, this is what they have wanted for a long time.
Before anyone is placed there it is Alligator Alcatraz, as soon as people start dying it will be known as Alligator Auschwitz.
So the party of free speech absolutism just cancelled the visas of Bob Vylan for (checks notes) speaking freely at a concert. #hypocrites
May anyone connected to this regime never eat saliva-free food again.
I just finished the War of Lost Hearts trilogy on my Kindle and I am so excited to order the hard copies for my reread. Thank you @carissabroadbent.bsky.social
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
Can we please start relating costs to something tangible like “how many children could be fed for a year?” Example: “the 2015 Falcon 9 explosion could have fed five million two hundred thousand children for a year” (based on world food programs claim of feeding a child for a year on $50
this is a good time to remember that conservatives only ever want to be in more left leaning spaces to get reactions out of people, if enough people block them they’ll get bored and leave
My memoir, 'Theatre Kids,' is one year old today. Yay, happy birthday, book! I've been asked over the past 12 months why I wrote this book, and my answer hasn't changed: "I needed something to clutch in my coffin." Buy a copy today! Link in bio!
One begins to wonder if putting the dumbest motherfucker ever to live in charge was a mistake.
Trump realizes people are turning on him, which means he will get more desperate, aggressive, extreme, and violent. These are all actions of a weak regime and weak man.
With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
It most certainly is!
A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name. This is your legacy!
Oscars: Hey, we know you didn’t watch any of the films from this year so here’s a completely unrelated tribute to James Bond. You like James Bond! Us at home: WTF?
In a couple of hours I have to walk into a classroom. I don’t know what to say to my students. How do I tell them that doing the right thing, being a good person, caring for others is important in our society? It very clearly is not.
This from Jill Filipovic sums it up for me: "In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America."
In a truly impressive strategic move the right has finally earned the much coveted Rogan endorsement after registration deadlines have passed in 43 states and almost 80 million votes have already been cast. Genius move!!😂🤡
Do people not realize that the point of a strike is to hurt management? Disruption is the goal. If management wants to avoid disruption, they should sit down at the table and bargain in good faith.
Selzer has the other pollsters scrambling. They know her model is better and exposes their as fraud, trying hard to distance themselves from the fact that it’s all been bullshit since July 21.
It’s the abortion bans, stupid
"I never expected they'd hang ME from a gibbet," sobs journalist who spent years sanewashing the Let's Hang Journalists From Gibbets Party.
lmaoooooo that’s right, brother
The saving grace has been how unbelievably stupid they have been!
I’ve posted a lot about all the very good reasons to vote against Donald Trump but at the core of it all for me is this: I have never hated anyone or anything the way I hate that motherfucker and I want to see him humiliated run through the damn tape
Pizzeria pretzel combos are an elite travel food but I never entertain the idea of buying them when I’m home. I wonder if 100% of their sales come from gas stations and airports.
Here is a happy thought for those of us anxious about the election. No matter what happens the bad guy will never be able to avenge his greatest grievance which is losing to Biden in 2020. You know it eats at him like Khan’s rage against Captain Kirk. #election2024
Allow me to use an old screencap from The Expanse to illustrate what “polls with a 1% response rate” means:
I have not traveled to all of the red states in last nine years but California Trumpers are definitely Trumpier than the ones in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona IMHO.
I’m still trying to figure out why Schindler’s List needed an extended pissing scene.
My political stance has been clearly established on other platforms and I know my students have found them. Just in case they find me here, I oppose any political system that treats women, LGBTQ, immigrants, BIPOC, as “others” or less than. I oppose systems of oppression. #wearenotgoingback
This is just unbelievably badass. @davejorgenson.bsky.social the Washington Post TikTok Guy, everyone 👏
Friendly reminder, as both Republicans and the Trump campaign try to weasel out of this: Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe was reading from a teleprompter. His “joke” about Puerto Rico plus all other racist remarks were vetted, approved & uploaded by Trump’s team in advance. In. Advance.
Fun fact, that racist “comedian” has a podcast called Kill Tony. The podcast is on Apple Podcasts which set their algorithm using reviews that anyone can write. #HinchcliffeIsRacist
One guiding principle I really wish people would consider on here: if someone does not ask for advice, do not give advice. If we are building a new culture here, that would be fucking rad.
MOOD:
The first time I read the Grapes of Wrath I was stunned that this was the actual ending. Weirdest ending in great literature.
Exactly right. An endorsement for Harris would’ve been met with yawns while this act of cowardice should set of alarms
Dear Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Zuck and the rest of the you: Sorry, more billions will not make your dick bigger. Nor will it make you more lovable. And you'll never ever have sex you're not paying for.
Not a Dodger or Yankee fan but I am the world’s greatest opp of MLB umpire Doug Eddings. How that imbecile got selected for the World Series is criminal! Worst active umpire. Legendarily obstinate and ridiculous strike zone interpretation. #WorldSeries #MLB #FireDougEddings
it's not just all the horrible things that will happen if Trump is elected president; it's finding out over and over that people are so much worse than you thought they were that beats you down
The Justice Department’s head of election crimes sent a warning letter to Elon Musk’s America PAC Monday, alerting it that it was a crime to knowingly offer anything of value to register to vote or vote, per reporting by Tom LoBianco
Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey jr are court side at the Lakers game just to see if Bronny gets to play with his dad. #Lakers #NBA #Legacy