Profile banner
Profile picture

rogue vagabond

@picaroon.bsky.social

created July 10, 2025

162 followers 60 following 375 posts

view profile on Bluesky

Posts

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-1....

2/9/2025, 1:01:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Guidelines were needed, mandates were a mistake.

1/9/2025, 11:55:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Guidelines were needed, mandates were a mistake.

1/9/2025, 11:45:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

#WasteFraudAbuse

1/9/2025, 11:09:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

blue maga blocked me :(

1/9/2025, 6:40:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

1) Babbling and talking down like this is a big part of the problem with Democrats 2) I didn't support forcing people then, and I don't now. It was a mistake.

1/9/2025, 6:32:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

COVID is still circulating and people are currently able to refuse masking and vaccines, do you think they should be forced to now?

1/9/2025, 6:09:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

COVID is still circulating and people are currently able to refuse masking and vaccines, do you think they should be forced to now?

1/9/2025, 6:07:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Covid is still here, mandates aren't.

1/9/2025, 5:37:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Covid is still here, mandates aren't.

1/9/2025, 5:37:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

All that really needs to be said is mandates were a mistake, because it takes away people's choices to make their own health care decisions, which is what RFK is doing now.

1/9/2025, 4:52:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't remember her making it harder for me to get a vaccine I want and have been able to easily get for the past few years.

1/9/2025, 1:54:05 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

He must be so jealous.

1/9/2025, 1:29:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NBC News (@nbcnews.com) reposted

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

1/9/2025, 12:20:20 PM | 735 352 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Hard to sell 86% of a 500 member leading international association as cherry picking.

1/9/2025, 1:12:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly.

1/9/2025, 12:58:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted

From layoffs to billion-dollar budget cuts and ideological battles over history itself, the National Park Service is facing one of the most turbulent moments in its 109-year history. This week on @revealnews.org:

31/8/2025, 6:10:28 PM | 284 111 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil.

31/8/2025, 6:09:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

#WasteFraudAbuse

31/8/2025, 5:09:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Axis of evil

31/8/2025, 3:46:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Inside Climate News (@insideclimatenews.org) reposted

The USDA is giving the public just three weeks to weigh in on a key step of its attempt to scrap the Roadless Rule, which protects almost 59 million acres of forest land from road construction and timber harvesting.

30/8/2025, 3:36:12 PM | 33 37 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Or he's not doing well but he had to prove he's not dead because people were saying he was.

30/8/2025, 4:14:15 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Is it normal for him to carry his clothes, on a hanger?

30/8/2025, 3:19:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, he's obviously not doing well, and is Vance better? idk

30/8/2025, 3:09:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Look what you made me do.

30/8/2025, 3:06:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

How @democrats.org are not throwing waste fraud and abuse back at them is beyond me.

30/8/2025, 3:01:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

These @democrats.org ?

30/8/2025, 2:55:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Obama moved the party right.

30/8/2025, 2:52:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

I've been in several places with closed off stalls and common sink areas. I prefer it.

30/8/2025, 2:41:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CNN (@cnn.com) reposted

Denver school officials pushed back against a US Education Department finding that its all-gender bathrooms violate Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination, accusing the Trump administration of using that law to promote an “anti-trans agenda.”

30/8/2025, 10:00:12 AM | 99 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CNN (@cnn.com) reposted

The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. https://cnn.it/4lS986O

image
30/8/2025, 10:30:06 AM | 413 270 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

#ChaosAgent

30/8/2025, 2:19:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

insideclimatenews.org/news/2005202...

30/8/2025, 2:17:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm sure Trump will get right on that.

30/8/2025, 2:06:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) reposted

President Trump's crusade against D.C.’s homelessness fails to solve some of its deepest struggles: There are not enough services, subsidies or beds to house the thousands of adults and children in the District without permanent housing. https://wapo.st/4mP0xTF

image image
30/8/2025, 1:00:25 PM | 104 42 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Please stop with everything is a distraction.

30/8/2025, 1:43:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

@democrats.org

29/8/2025, 8:55:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Love that we're all gonna die on loop is the nail in the coffin for her campaign.

29/8/2025, 7:12:16 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Thor Benson (@thorbenson.bsky.social) reposted

Memphis is the only American city that makes the list of the 10 most dangerous cities in the world. Chicago's not even in the top 25

29/8/2025, 1:39:35 PM | 343 103 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Chi...Shreveport

29/8/2025, 3:46:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

29/8/2025, 12:43:11 PM | 5723 2870 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

It's mind-boggling.

29/8/2025, 3:29:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil.

29/8/2025, 3:16:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

I'd actually prefer they don't waste money on pointless performative legislative actions and instead make noise, blaming Republicans, for free, in front of cameras and on social media. If you can't do it send out someone who can @democrats.org !

29/8/2025, 3:08:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

insideclimatenews.org/news/2005202...

29/8/2025, 2:58:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social)

insideclimatenews.org/news/2005202...

29/8/2025, 2:58:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

@democrats.org

29/8/2025, 1:56:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

I think Haberman makes more sense when you realize she is just like Trump, dead inside and forever vengeful that she was never truly accepted by the cool kids.

29/8/2025, 1:30:32 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Confederated States

29/8/2025, 3:51:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

he says

29/8/2025, 2:34:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

The @democrats.org ? Nah, they're playing dead because they think once again people will get tired of the Rs messing everything up and then they'll slide back into power and have bipartisanship with their friends!

29/8/2025, 1:36:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) reposted

over the last week, several political scientists i trust have declared trump a dictator and that america is not a full functioning democracy anymore. see here: goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/where-we-a... donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author... i think making a list clarifies this:

28/8/2025, 2:14:17 PM | 567 251 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Does it address what @democrats.org are going to do about it?

28/8/2025, 5:02:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Why vote for roll over and play dead then business as usual?

28/8/2025, 4:51:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does anyone still think the Confederates are going to come to their senses and stop?

28/8/2025, 2:10:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

And actual consequences for the Confederates.

28/8/2025, 1:52:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Still pretty deviant and predatory.

28/8/2025, 6:13:12 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

@murray.senate.gov the Confederates aren't going to come to their senses and stop it and it's well past time @democrats.org face that reality.

28/8/2025, 3:05:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maggie Astor (@maggieastor.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Here's a gift link to my Covid vaccine explainer.

27/8/2025, 6:16:48 PM | 56 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

a fetish

28/8/2025, 1:44:29 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

@democrats.org

27/8/2025, 8:00:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eric Feigl-Ding (@drericding.bsky.social) reposted

📍FDA has approved new variant-adapted COVID vaccine formulation (Novavax too)— but now only for those age 65+ or those “higher risk”, which is vague. Still needs CDC’s clearance—but now controlled by RFK Jr’s new dubious ACIP vaccine committee. Gift🎁 🔗 wapo.st/45RvyPx

27/8/2025, 5:54:35 PM | 490 235 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

@democrats.org

27/8/2025, 5:38:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil.

27/8/2025, 5:36:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted

At least one-fifth of U.S. national parks have been significantly strained and understaffed because of steep cuts mandated by the Trump administration, according to internal government data obtained by The New York Times.

27/8/2025, 3:30:05 PM | 160 71 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

This is painful to watch. Felon Trump has the National Guard picking up trash in D.C. Because there isn’t enough crime to keep them busy?

27/8/2025, 2:55:28 AM | 4319 1604 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social) reposted

The US Attorney who declined to prosecute an Israeli government official arrested last month for underage solicitation has a colorful collection of deep-pocketed donors from past political campaigns, including one who fled a fraud case by going to... Israel. prospect.org/justice/2025...

27/8/2025, 2:04:14 PM | 399 182 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Agree @democrats.org

27/8/2025, 3:19:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Evil.

27/8/2025, 3:17:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Hero 🥖

27/8/2025, 3:12:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Because the government is stuck in the 1950s.

27/8/2025, 3:00:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Donald Trump is a psychopath @warren.senate.gov

27/8/2025, 6:26:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Why are they paying hosts so much money to just sit there expressionless?

27/8/2025, 1:47:49 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

"Biden wasn’t going to do this, so he couldn’t do this."

27/8/2025, 12:46:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

A veteran.

26/8/2025, 4:11:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

A veteran.

26/8/2025, 2:54:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is bad for business @democrats.org

26/8/2025, 2:49:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is bad for business @democrats.org

26/8/2025, 2:44:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Its hard to see this as enabling over complicit.

26/8/2025, 2:37:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Its hard to see this as enabling over complicit.

26/8/2025, 2:36:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Balls & Strikes (@ballsandstrikes.org) reposted

The lesson for Democrats of the last four years is that if you don't use power when you have it, your opponents will happily use it instead

26/8/2025, 11:45:10 AM | 826 189 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

It's past time. And sentences like this are part of the problem. @radiofreetom.bsky.social

26/8/2025, 1:34:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

@democrats.org

26/8/2025, 1:07:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

no

26/8/2025, 1:05:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder

26/8/2025, 1:42:13 AM | 11988 2401 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Or it was Project 2025's plan all along.

26/8/2025, 3:15:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Or it was Project 2025's plan all along.

26/8/2025, 3:14:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

And pursue justice.

26/8/2025, 12:51:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

legally dubious lol

26/8/2025, 12:38:41 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

To rule your fiefdom.

26/8/2025, 12:35:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

25/8/2025, 8:55:07 PM | 56270 17780 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:

25/8/2025, 10:09:42 PM | 1342 542 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

He didn't just invoke MLK's "arc of the moral universe" line. He added that the arc won't bend itself and people need to step up to make that change happen. Absolutely right. Pitch perfect.

25/8/2025, 10:20:56 PM | 2641 516 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Ministry of Peace was right there.

25/8/2025, 10:34:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

No pushback there, no fact check here.

25/8/2025, 7:22:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted

Trump's DC occupation in a nutshell: Deploy military vehicles designed for war zones, arrest weed smokers, sexually harass residents, and leave sex toys as calling cards.

25/8/2025, 6:31:02 PM | 299 165 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Human trafficking.

25/8/2025, 6:41:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

Human trafficking.

25/8/2025, 6:40:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rogue vagabond (@picaroon.bsky.social) reply parent

It's been 10 years.

25/8/2025, 3:04:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted

(Reuters) - U.S. consumers with the highest credit scores are starting to fall behind in debt repayments, credit scoring company VantageScore said in a report published on Monday, in a sign that Americans' financial health may be deteriorating more broadly. www.tradingview.com/news/reuters...

25/8/2025, 12:29:47 PM | 956 424 | View on Bluesky | view