"I must not be subjected to unpleasantness; also, thanks for the sinecure"
Biding my time 'til I unplug Peter Thiel's cryochamber.
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"I must not be subjected to unpleasantness; also, thanks for the sinecure"
Here it comes.
💯 That exercise, in that position, might work for people who are biomechanically perfect. But we're talking 25% or less of the population.,
Hooooooly Shiiiiit! "the plane’s pilot took the decision to land the plane manually using analogue maps"
You know she imagines she's De Niro in "Cape Fear"
LOL what relentlessly evil 🤡s. Did they ever file?
Are there any Civil War era polls for comparison?
Oops wrong site. The circlejerk is over there (stormfront/X) --->
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
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The Brexit referendum campaign and the Trump 2015 campaign were literally joined at the hip.
I assumed. You're good.
"only 76 children" I loathe this trash-heap bigot administration with a molten intensity. Full scorching contempt to the 83% of white evangelical Christians who rationalize this.
And, it shouldn't go unnoted that Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who has done her job at all hours today over a holiday weekend, was one of the final Biden appointees confirmed to the bench. Each one of those lame-duck confirmations very much matter.
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
This was incredible, important lawyering from National Immigration Law Center (@nilc.org) over the past 24 hours. Here's their case page: www.nilc.org/litigation/l... Here was the statement from Efrén Olivares, NILC VP of litigation, from earlier today regarding the TRO:
And Senator! And she was freakin' VPOTUS, ffs!
They were flagrantly targeted.
Black women have Every F**king Right to be outraged.
Blue states should team up on purchasing, protocols, distribution
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
And they infantilize women. No one wins that game; everyone is stunted.
Part of your larger point I think is that for some reason conservative men think men should get all "benefits" of immaturity (lack of accountability, wish fulfillment) while women should bear all costs of girlhood (lack of autonomy, limits of authority) so this maturity/gender ground *is* the fight
Black women and latinas especially, but even yoga moms in California getting up in ICE's face. The woman in that video came prepared, and I'm taking notes.
The greatest "bye, b1tch" I've seen in a long time. Women have been so brave against these goons and I'm so proud of them!
Friend, I think you have confused the notion of "masculinity" with the concept of "maturity"
The mental image of Trump and Netanyahu slobbering over resort development plans and a big cash payout... I felt less nauseous on chemo.
One thing still missing from the Make America Healthy Again agenda: Affordable access to health coverage and care.
Some important “What to expect when we’re electing” messaging from the Brennan Center. Election fraud lies are integrated into the administration’s strategies of election interference going into 2026. What we need to be aware of… and what we can do:
"Conservatives" in Congress love it. He's doing the death panel work they crave AND shielding them from all the political heat. They get to relax and trade derp coin all day. As long as they don't go full Ernst ("We're all gonna die!" [smiling]), they're safe, fat & happy.
Appreciate it! I unsubscribed during Trump's first campaign. Don't regret it, but I do mourn the loss of what used to be an excellent news outlet.
"principled conservatives all went NeverTrump, by Jan. 6 at the latest." Yes. And you can count them on your fingers.
No amount of masculinity, bravery, skill or sacrifice will ever earn the respect of fascism. Firefighters, cops, and soldiers have all been thrown under the bus.
i think about the “do not split” principle from hong kong often
Insufficient, but a decent stop-gap.
TIL of this absolute hero:
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Comparing the "urgency" of this bullshit ICE stunt to the urgency of that firefighting team's mission says it all.
If this is the state of the science, we're in trouble. It requires way more compassionate attention and nuanced judgment than I think most parents can deliver. Chin Rodger is an outlier (she really tried!). For every parent like her, there's a Crumbley.
On the one hand, I hate to see anyone even dignify their bullshit with a response. On the other, this is the lethal smackdown I knew had to exist, and I appreciate the chart.
So painfully accurate. I'll just cling to that final panel.
Yeah. The waiting time is offensive to me. I come to it from the context of "green card slaves" in IT. Only The Worst People™️ benefit from this degree of intentional gov't dysfunction.
About one of the Washington firefighters illegally detained by Trump's goons (details about the fire, too, so you can compare the legitimacy of the taxpayer-funded ICE stunt to the legitimacy of this man's firefighting mission):
Federalist Society, Heritage Society, and Leonard Leo all wrap themselves in the magical infinite justification cloak of "Christianity." Oligarchs like Thiel have recently joined this hyper-corrupt morally nihilist metastasis of faith.
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lulz "Most of those who voted for Trump are like me. Although we would definitely have preferred a different candidate, we voted for capitalism over socialism." www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...
What proportion of the military voted Trump? Any guesses? Can we extrapolate from how veterans vote? www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Consider Charlottesville.
Kristol has the insider advantage. He was one of the architects of the death star.
The Freedumb™️ demographic has succeeded in outlawing hopscotch.
But hey, at least we don't have an intelligent woman Senator in the White House. I guess it makes it all worthwhile. Enjoy, fellas!
That meme is way too relatable
Verbal portrait of my ex in-laws. Especially: the narcissist patriarch who cheats at games with young children in order to "triumph." Our culture seems fine-tuned, in ways I don't understand, to produce such rancidly failed adults.
It's a fascist's wet dream: an automated 24x7 fear-and-loathing inspiring lie machine.
It’s good that the courts are making clear that Trump’s destructive tariffs are illegal. These tariffs are crushing small businesses and costing regular people thousands of dollars for no good reason. Democrats will keep pushing to end these tariffs & restore economic sanity.
Trump support among white evangelical Christians polled at 83% earlier this year. _Higher_ than in 2016.
These are public employees who decided to leave rather than accept jobs where they actually did nothing. Remember that the next time they tell you that government employees are lazy and inefficient.
Insurance sadism is a policy choice.
Until subscribers unsubscribe, nothing will change. Money is the one true language. Your subscription dollars reward them for this behavior.
there's a very simple reason why conservative influencers source their blanks from abroad: pursuance of self-interest and profit maximization are considered virtues in their worldview. supporting US manufacturing would be like supporting welfare.
Yes, let's trust vengeful inbred misogynist disowned eugenicist Kennedy-Rasputins instead.
Yes it is. Malnutrition, just in time for flu season, and quite possibly seasonal vaccines shifted to an out-of-pocket expense.
That'll work great in my high-density city, with a 2-year waiting list for most pea patches. If I take "calorie-expended per calorie consumed" as a metric: it'll be more efficient to eat Trump voters.
Hearing a man with a southern accent yell "bye felicia" -- I woulda paid for that.
There are moments when I actually, physically hold my breath. Almost wish they would just get it over with and declare martial law, so I could do something meditative like make molotovs or practice my drone-with-payload skills.
Everyone in the US who thinks "I don't have to worry because i'm not an 'illegal alien'" needs to read this paragraph.
He was a $ supporter and likely member of the Adamsville Church of Christ ✔️
We are a diseased society.
He was the **chairman** of the local board of elections. Since he mentioned prayer, I'm going to guess he identifies as Christian ✔️
He's a "conservative"
Did he weigh in from burning man or nah?
"premature doomerism" wuuuuuuut www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...
🧀 Also: the used car salesman smirking "it's supply and demand, a free market" in a segment on Trump's near-obliteration of student visas. Rumeysa Öztürk (if she's still here) might have an opinion on that, but she sure as hell can't express it.
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Anyway, we may have to consider the possibility that Republican arguments calling Biden's modification of student loan payments a tyrannical usurpation of Congress were made in bad faith bsky.app/profile/reut...
"again, it's a question of identity" For me, it's a question of character. I never cut off any fundamentalist free-marketeers even tho I think they're slobbering dopes.
"one guardsman is a Medford cardiologist. There’s a one year wait to see a cardiologist there" 😮💨
Turns out the TN sheriff who inspired Walking Tall (and carried a big stick) murdered his wife. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...
Oklahoma GOP: "We're here to protect women! Drop the age of consent to 9 and eliminate laws against incest."
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
Don't you dare tar me with the gleefully destructive ignorance of the white Christian voting block. I'm here venting about them, 24x7, because their asinine reckless tribalism is increasingly _national policy_.
Immaculate conservative poster boy right there. Every time the political-religious right anoints a new "model of upstanding masculinity", the only question is whether spousal abuse/murder is in future tense or past tense (or both).
I’m not sure the “I’m voting for Great Depression-level tarrifs because prices are too high” marginal vote is going to work out www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/trum...
It's also cruel and corrupt.
Yep.. I'm **livid**. And they may have kidnapped an Oregon resident! www.opb.org/article/2025...
Every gd time: "He also serves as a deacon at his church, Southcrest Baptist in Lubbock"
2/2: That means our hard-working AmeriCorps volunteers can continue providing vital assistance to our communities—from staffing food banks and mentoring kids to helping prepare for disasters. Read more: www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-re...
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Nice cherry picking from a petulant ass who was very much the "intellectual" godfather of the Court's vomitous "originalist vibes but also POTUS uber alles" reactionary mash-up.
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
"the biggest losers will be individuals and medical care providers in rural areas" I'm not so sure. In Seattle, there's currently a 9-12 month wait to get established as a new patient with a PCP. That was BEFORE Trump funding cuts & state budget strains. Few will escape the demand > supply 💥.
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"Banksy inspired"
A whole 'nother issue is the raw # of these weapons already floating around the country. The only country I'm aware of that actually manage to handle this is Australia (successful gov't "buy-back" program, because Aussies don't share our collective death wish -- or at least they didn't back then)
Oh, you didn't tho
I didn't reduce her to her tits. SHE reduced herself to her tits in her campaign. Reading comprehension.
"Sinema had a JD, PhD, and 15-year legislative record" And yet she campaigned on her tits. We're probably not going to have a productive conversation on this topic. Yes, the individual matters. But populism is populism, and it never campaigns on wattage or math (it's one honest message).
The C40 initiative is precedent for that: 40 major (US & global) cities coordinating their efforts on climate change, inspired by do-nothingism at the national level.
Fair, and it's not an issue in my district. But I'd feel burned & wary if it was.