Don’t look at me! I voted for Joe Exotic.
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I see some claims that churches weren't closed during COVID, and that's BS. Blatantly false. Yes they were. The point: 1) Religious service in America is not close to politically uniform 2) All sorts of things were restricted, not partisan coded 3) Public health leaders recommendations were uniform
Goods chance the answer here is the same things that keeps coming up: The grand injustice, the society-shaken grievance, is "I posted on social media and got some negative replies, some of which were kinda harsh, and that made me feel bad."
It's mostly "the biggest victim of COVID was me" combined with "I can't get mad at a virus, it doesn't react in a way that gives me emotional satisfaction." Obviously COVID policy wasn't perfect. But to think it was political persecution, and pretend Trump wasn't president then, is really something.
Question: What "liberal-coded institutions" were kept open during COVID while churches—for sake of argument, pretend they're all conservative—were closed? Universities closed, Hollywood shut down production, unions met on Zoom, progressives avoided indoor gatherings. So... which institutions?
Like schools having litter boxes for furries. Jesus, people are so gullible…
Important to remember that during COVID a lot of people primarily experienced the world online and so when you hear them resurrecting their gripes it’s actually just them getting mad again about the things they saw *on social media*
It’s a great album. “When It’s Love” brings a tsunami of nostalgia and “Cabo Wabo” has a great chorus.
he looks great!
Everytime a conservative brings up “protecting children” when demonzing LGBTQIA+ people, think of this. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
@queensryche.bsky.social Did you guys ever figure out how this lazy slop ever got uploaded to your Spotify channel?
Not Even Anthrax is Safe from Spotify’s A.I. Slop Problem www.metalsucks.net/2025/09/01/n...
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Thanks for the heads up.
Polish millionaire CEO steals from a child. This is a perfect encapsulation of how the rich view the rest of us. www.newsweek.com/us-open-tenn...
Elon needs to be “remigrated” back where he came from.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
big policy win for them. Congratulations. I feel safer already, kidnap all the people taking care of the elderly next
I just blocked him. It’s evident by now that he’s just a disruptive troll. There’s nothing further to be gained from interacting with him.
The laughing emojis that you’re putting after your reply that show nothing to support your claim just tells me that you’re a disruptive troll. You cannot substantiate your claims because substance doesn’t matter. You’re just trolling.
We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.
Gary Hard
It’s looks like Egg Foo Die Young.
TMDWU
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, a Hideo Kojima game, released 10 years ago today
Trump is “affirmative action” for white men.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
The equivalent of “thoughts and prayers” really.
Their “action” and “solution” is going to be demonizing trans people and then making it easier to buy firearms, you should pray that while they’re in power they do nothing
Anne Schuchat, former Principal Deputy Director of the CDC, says she's worried about vaccine access, as experienced leaders leave the agency in protest.
Congress absolutely has a constitutional check on the Executive branch. While the states can fight back, so can Congress if it so chooses; eg, removal from office. Unfortunately, we have far too many right wing extremists and pro-status quo types that renders Congress inept and impotent.
Robert Mueller has Parkinson’s disease, his family said, and will not be able to comply with a request that he testify before Congress
@thekavernacle.bsky.social talking about Brian Tyler Cohen and David PACman back in October 2024. youtu.be/lG5wWC5M5Ws?...
Brian Tyler Cohen or David Pakman hoped we wouldn’t ask or push.
Fascisms 30 Under 30 coverboy Patrick O’Hanlon.
Yeah. The whole “rendering aid” part seems like an unnecessary detail. So now it has me wondering lol
Extremely weird statement.
My "I was rendering assistance to a definitely real domestic violence victim before I was Meet Joe Blacked" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
Rudy Giuliani suffered severe injuries in a car accident last night, according to his spokesperson
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
Trump says Chicago is an undesirable ‘hellhole,’ but tourists and transplants keep coming - @thetriibe.com
I'll straight up shop at a convention center and convene at a shopping center. I really don't give a shit anymore.
Answer: Islamophobia.
wild how the biggest predictor of job security right now seems to be if your job is just being a huge piece of shit
CNN: Trump says he’ll sign executive order requiring voter ID with “no exceptions”. Secretaries of State who understand that he doesn’t have the authority:
Just lie and say you have a condition. The fucking pharmacy ain’t going to check.
Be wary of anyone who confidently asserts that Trump is going to die from his health issues within a year or whatever (eg, someone who claims to be a physical therapist). They’re selling hope. Your attention is currency. This goes for anyone who platforms them.
And ppl like PACman feed off our hopes and desire to have our biases validated.
and if you can avoid it, don’t get complex ptsd from people and things that continue to pop up in news cycles over a decade after the fact because boy howdy it is hell on your adrenal system and tummy
so please for the love of god, stay curious. look into shit before repeating or deeply internalizing it. don’t let ChatGPT or influencers do your thinking for you and form your own opinions after reviewing the actual facts as free from editorializing as you can get.
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social even talked about MAGA being the progeny of GG in her latest exposé including PACman.
ESPECIALLY with how compromised so much of mainstream media is right now, don’t fall into the trap of thinking influencers are any better. They aren’t accountable to much, they’re a business, and they will exploit the parasocial connection they foster in their audience to stunt critical thinking
And as we continue to slide down into hell I’m still saying what I’ve been saying for a decade - what happened to me is a case study in how far right psychos can launder credibility of what boils down to white nationalism, and if we don’t know about these mechanisms they’re gonna keep on firing
I hate still talking about this bullshit today but I do this because this is literally how psycho fringe hate groups launder their credibility, this is who establishments like the DNC can buy and use, and this is a danger when it comes to viewing influencers as automatic journalists bc they say so
Because taking this position of “neutrality” and concern trolling about “journalistic ethics” (despite the review that I supposedly fucked someone for NEVER EXISTED) made him look like some “I’m not like other journalists” deep thinker for his hot takes and benefited the fringe lunatics both
Pakman was especially egregious because he did something for them that they couldn’t do - he granted these cretins credibility for people who didn’t have time to look too deeply. He worked overtime to make them look legitimate and that’s more damaging to me and the world than any death threat
God sorry for the rant it’s just that every time one of the turds who launched a career by fucking my life up floats to the top of the toilet bowl it’s so hard not to be furious at how many apologies I’m owed that I won’t get and don’t want because they change absolutely nothing about my situation.
@metalinjection.bsky.social @metalsucks.bsky.social @blabbermouthnet.bsky.social It looks like the same thing that happened to @queensryche.bsky.social a while ago is happening to Anthrax. A fake album was uploaded to their Spotify channel. ultimateclassicrock.com/queensryche-...
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
I wonder what the journalistic ethics of taking dark money to spew democrats talking points and agreeing never to disclose the connection are huh I mean he’s such a champion of journalistic ethics that I had to be sacrificed for them for the disproven allegation that I slept with a journalist right
“He was neutral” no he SAID he was neutral and oh so concerned with ethics in games journalism and I think after 10 years’ hindsight people can finally see that when I said he was BS and just a useful idiot for the far right to use in a culture war I wasn’t lying Dems picked a hell of a stooge tho
Uncritically inviting people like Milo Yiannopolis and the founder of 8chan to spew white nationalist propaganda and actively helping the far right indoctrinate children into white nationalism under the guise of “ethical journalism” is a hell of an opening act for taking dark money l m a o
David Pakman going from GamerGate “it’s about ethics in games journalism” moron to accepting dark money to spew DNC-approved talking points in his “journalism” is SO FUCKING FUNNY www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
Not all of it and states can and have successfully sued him. There’s no excuse for rolling over.
That’s my point. States are not obligated to pay him any mind when he declares stuff outside of his constitutional authority .
Nice try but that’s clearly Joe Biden
They should do this to Stephen Miller when It Happens
This is a distinct possibility. They were used to convince a lot of people that Trump won the 2020 election, for example.
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
how would this work, exactly? let's say jon ossof wins reelection next year. who forces the state of georgia to throw out the ballots? bsky.app/profile/jmb0...
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
there is nothing, for instance, that can trump can say or do that would force the colorado secretary of state to mandate voter ID or restrict mail-in voting
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
I think some of these folks online may either secretly want a dictatorship or could be part of some nefarious campaign to help it along.
"oh nothing matters because mr. trump won't let it matter" shut up
he'll send ICE to intimidate us. if i see an ICE agent at my polling place i'm going to walk right past him.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
And yet Congress allows it. I can stand on my porch and declare myself mayor of my town. The only difference between me being committed and actually being mayor is the willingness of others to play along or being too afraid to object.
Especially when the majority are venal and craven.
Yes, because we have venal and craven people in Congress.
They're going out of their way to obscure a clear issue.
It’s just sad and disturbing that legacy news organizations are helping to “well technically…” us into dictatorship.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
“Voluntary” relocation; ie, genocide.
Some real journalism into the state of New Orleans’ “protection” 20 years after the last protective system failed: thelensnola.org/2025/08/26/r...
Not to belabor the point but: I am not the weird one for being this mad at the Democratic Party and its leaders. Look at polls of your average rank and file Dem voters and how they feel about the party now. It is YOU who are out of touch if you’re asking why people are being mean to Dem politicians
This is America 🎶
The White House: “We have proof of life.” The proof of life:
Latest Gallup poll data reveal, once again, that the main obstacles to unions in the the US are broken labor laws and employer aggression Two-thirds of the US public approves of labor unions, but unions only represent about 11 percent of the workforce
Thinking about taking a dip at the beach over Labor Day weekend? Many beaches are advising against swimming due to fecal contamination levels
It's one of the most famous rock songs ever — Bohemian Rhapsody — and now, for the first time, it's been translated with Queen's blessing into Zulu.
Trump and the GOP are hellbent on killing our kids. Whether it’s no gun control or defunding pediatric brain cancer research/trials. Our kids deserve better than Trump and his feckless Republicans.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
I understand the knee jerk sentiment behind “they need to deploy the National Guard to red states“. But who do you think is going to get hurt by it: The Trump supporters in rural areas with their makeshift billboards on their acre and a half of property or more Black and brown people?
