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I think you deserve to be happy and to love whoever you want to love.
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Harborcoat
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Just check out the oodles of stories on wealthy towns making it to the Little League World Series.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
You’ll get better results if you scream “but they’ll never take our FREEEEDOOMm!” Before you let loose.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
24 hour news
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social)
I kinda hate these videos because sure these people are pissed… but these people won’t fucking vote differently next time. They’ll leave this meeting… go home… digest a steady diet of new misinformation over the next few years… and half of them will still vote for the guy they’re booing in the end.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Had a Dubai chocolate latte at the local cafe. As the kids say… “it slapped and I bodied it”
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
And when I say “friends” I mean “stomach”
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
“Trust the village idiot” Is peak MAGA
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Please tell me that he slipped on ice.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Waiting for Timothy McVeigh’s funeral honors in 3…. 2…. 1….
Scarheart Thrymson (@thrymson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
If the GOP was any more full of shit, RFK Jr. would be taking his grandchildren swimming in it.
Dan Emerson (@danemers.bsky.social) reposted
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Back Mamdani now.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m sure it turned a profit for a few connected cronies.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
👆
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
Don’t look away
Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Laura takes her coffee with Whitewashing with a double shot of extra white.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Data never fits their narrative.
The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) reposted
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
No one can clutch their pearls with mock surprise and exasperation as fast as Susan “Voted-For-That-Calamity” Collins.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social)
Connecticut Politics- Electing a Republican Governor (e.g. like upstarts Tooker or Stewart) is basically fast-tracking the US militia into Democrat-run cities like Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven, etc. This needs to be repeated early and often. (Do they think our police work?) @ctdems.bsky.social
Lina Morgan (@alinaisyou.bsky.social) reposted
In the 2017 parlance: nothing but respect for MY president.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
We should do this with every multi billion dollar company… or… even crazier… just make rich people pay taxes.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Term limits for Congress.
Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted
"But what good have all these anti-hero narratives done for us? We’ve been entertained, sure, but it also feels pretty obvious that they’ve normalized an American masculinity that is selfish, abusive, nihilistic, and ultimately self-destructive."
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social)
@thehill.com is toady journalism.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Back handed compliments exist for a reason. “You are the best authoritarian President I’ve ever seen!” Boom. Complimented.
Mista Kotta 💙 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 (@mistakotta.bsky.social) reposted
I must have missed all the Law and Order SVU episodes where they didn't interview the victims and just asked the criminals what happened.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social)
Bigger stronger guys playing worse baseball. One day the stat era will end because stats were built initially on talent & the ability to execute. But in the MLB I see more lack of fundamentals than ever. Rays-Marlins game has pros that (1) can’t see a bunt down and (2) can’t run bases. Geez
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social)
Goodness gracious… Halloween is going to be frosty this year!
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Great job. See MAGA… a little communism isn’t so bad… now let’s try a little socialism so people get educated and don’t die when they get sick and don’t lose their house when they get sick.
Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) reposted
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Southern states without ice deployments will start petitioning for venue changes.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social)
This guy is wiggitty-wack.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
… and they love love love representative democracies so long as the representing is done by a white minority with unpopular opinions.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Who is this Kevin McCarthy guy again? He looks vaguely familiar. Was he on America’s Got Hasbeens?
Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
“We should really focus on hope and progress… Now here’s 10 reasons why women and minorities shouldn’t vote.”- Republicans in general
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social)
Republicans totally believe in representative democracies so long as the representatives are white and conservative.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Gain staging and mixing is what’s up!
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Class action lawsuit… coming to theater near you!
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Gotten weaken our national security fast so we can be attacked so Trump can declare a war and then martial law and then postpone elections.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
“We paid $8 million a year for your state university’s football coach so when he eventually runs for the Senate please remember that we blue states gave him his start.”
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
“Tomorrow we eat ROADKILL!!!” #winners
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Never travel to Connecticut. For some stupid reason we have many left exits on highways. Worst. Planning. Ever.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
(Taken from another thread… artist unknown to me … but it’s amazing)
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
… and doesn’t eliminating mail-in voting stop our military members from voting while deployed?
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s so obvious that the plan is to start a war before the end of his term then declare martial law to postpone the election. So obvious.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
This just in… head of CDC fired for putting out facts.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Gee… I wonder if there’s gonna be a red carpet?
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social)
youtu.be/W_svsNc6seE
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Don’t step on the foul lines on your way to the field! It’s bad luck! 😂
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Really got hung up on the “etc”. Really interested in how one puts an etc right after “celery up ass”. I mean am I supposed to know the other actions in that group automatically? Is this a Buffalo wings thing?… is one supposed to know carrot sticks and blue cheese dressing are implied to follow?
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
These same people got pardons once for 1/6… I suspect even if they’re charged one day they’ll just get them again eventually.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
But he does have a Ph.D. in “Boot-Licker Studies”
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Not just harass… but straight up assault. It has forever tainted even local law enforcement which was already on pretty fucking shakey ground. You can’t claim it’s just a few bad examples when there’s an entire fucking corrupt army of bad actors and their “local” chaperones
John Shirley (@johnshirley2024.bsky.social) reposted
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah… it ends up being an actual faculty retreat 2 minutes after the slide where the dean introduces the staff of enrollment management and 1 minute after they tells us our numbers are down & what are WE gonna do about it… I’ll be faculty retreating back to my office to prep teaching & research. 😂
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
“IS THIS TABLE REGULATION SIZE OR WHAT?!?”
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Having US servicemen on hands and knees rolling out a red carpet for a dictator who put out bounties on American servicemen serving overseas is so peak MAGA.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
“I was here 10 years ago… right before the first time I got fired from my county police job for excessive force and neglect. The last time I was here was three years ago after I got fired from my third policing job for (checks notes)… excessive force and neglect.”
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social)
Throwback to a game earlier this season. This fan goes hard.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
At least the hot dogs are good at Citi
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
But then those establishment Democrats will be poorer. Not poor poor. But just, you know, poor-er. Those corporate donors expect the status quo to be protected.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Classic.
Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) reposted
Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.
keyser soze (@keysersoze2024.bsky.social) reposted
FIFA should pull all of the 2026 World Cup matches scheduled to be played on US soil & reassign them to venues in Canada. That includes the World Cup final scheduled to be played at the Meadowlands. This is not a country suited to host an international event now & won’t be until 2029.
Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted
An unarmed veteran was attacked from behind, sustaining injuries and being dragged into a Portland ice building.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
You can’t assert the former without the latter also being true.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president? Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.bsky.social) reposted
The ICE agents stalking Newsom and the occupation of DC confirm what I said a few weeks ago: Congress just funded an Emerging Coup.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
But you know the ole saying from Trump VPs… “If you hang around the orange dope, then eventually he’ll call for rope”
LOLGOP (@thefarce.org) reposted
In 20 years, the GOP has gone from invading foreign countries pretending to spread democracy to invading America to make sure democracy stops happening here. So at least they're more honest now.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Football and basketball coaches are by far the highest paid state employees in most states and very few athletic programs break even. Search “USA Today NCAA Finance Database” After the Yale dude does that… then let’s talk! 😂 sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Two things: Every disciple needs to communicate so learning how to write properly for your field is a must. If you want to fix American Higher Ed then the first thing you need to do is dismantle the government subsidized athletic industry within it. It costs millions outside the classroom.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
These fucking people. Where is their humanity?
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Why in the fuck would anyone pay taxes in those districts?
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
So in the dark they’ll look like cat eyes if you look at them just right.
Jen Bendery (@jbendery.bsky.social) reposted
Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
Such an underrated awesome band. Their song “eaten by the monster of love” from the movie valley girl made me a fan a long time ago.
Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) reposted
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Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted
Piers Morgan: "Do you think the [GHF] is a force for good in Gaza?" Me: "No, it is a force for evil. That is not a word I use lightly. But what we have seen is evil...people coming for food, starved by Israel & they are then shot at, killed. 100s of them. It is the most evil thing I have seen..."
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
Well, Cuomo asked for a fight. He got it.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
The SEC once considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. But under President Reagan, stock buybacks were made legal. Now, instead of investing profits into people, corporations use stock buybacks (at record levels) to line the pockets of wealthy shareholders.
Mark Hertling (@markhertling.bsky.social) reposted
For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq. “If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.” National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC. A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
13th (Pelvic) Floor Elevators
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
She’s just gross.
Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) reposted
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
📽️〰️Rusty 〰️ (@rustybalzak.bsky.social) reply parent
A gaggle of bozos