Social media is like a school fight, where the posters circle around each other while the lurkers and commenters surround them screaming "Fight! Fight!"
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Social media is like a school fight, where the posters circle around each other while the lurkers and commenters surround them screaming "Fight! Fight!"
So there's a 1% chance they do M4A, or better yet full single payer, vs 0%? That won't get me off the couch to campaign for them, or maybe even to vote for them, though I'll do it one more time this year in my home state of VA. To me insurers have forfeited their right to be involved in health care
* Don Quixote reference
The last time someone tilted at wind turbines the turbines won arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I expect those pee reviewed doctors were collectively paid $2.7M or so to make that statement
Oh. I misread that as "pee reviewed doctors"
A few months ago we took home a big bag of something from a food rescue that had a $68 price tag on it
Affordable housing and the subway are pretty woke
Chump literally has to wear it on his forehead
Hot dog!
Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719. Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469. Textbook corporate greed.
May I point out that corporate overlords don't do M4A either?
Today should have been Arman Momand’s first day back at school. Instead, he’s detained at the Farmville Detention Center by ICE and faces deportation back to the Taliban-led country his family had to flee after his father assisted the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08.... Vance lies, no one likes him, he pals around with a drunk and a Nazi
I would say, "Welcome to the left!"
Trump looks worse and worse, more doddering, more confused
And Laura Loomer's too
I have little sympathy for right wingers who complain about amplifying hoaxes.
Indeed she has.
Right move. Wrong reason. Wrong process. wtop.com/washington-c...
It's quite easy for someone like this to misunderstand who an Asian American and an African American are www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump admin officials are acting as they are because they (a) are evil but more importantly (b) are convinced they will never be held accountable for their actions. (B) was the lesson of the war on terror and Obama’s refusal to prosecute the rampant criminality of the Bush admin
The Chump Admin: Law and Disorder. CHUNK CHUNK
I think a 15 point margin in the VA governor's race (with 12-13 point wins in statewide down ballot races) and a 10 point national margin in the 2026 midterms are realistic. If those aren't met election manipulation is probable
Bread necklace
As the Barbara Kruger exhibit at the Guggenheim in Bilbao quotes: those that make you believe absurdities make you commit atrocities
Yep
I don't think Collins knows what she's talking about. Neither does Chump. It's the wishful thinking version of PR
It's not Alligator Alcatraz. It's Alligator Auschwitz
Everyone's an American
White supremacy is White noise
Chump is anti science
Indeed they shouldn't. Especially when one can't ID them
Fuck that Scottish MP. He wouldn't know a waste of money that bit him in the arse
Brooke Collins loves Great Depressions
Good
Sean Duffy hasn't been to NYC
This is what Milton Friedman would call neighborhood effects www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AOC for president. Or Elizabeth Warren. Or if they won't run Zohran Mamdani
Trump is an ally of Erdogan and Aliyev, the violent dictators of Turkey and Azerbaijan. He enjoys their shady hotel deal bribes, in return he supports their pipelines used by Chevron and BP to launder Russian oil and gas. The Trump-aligned Heritage Foundation is the most pro-Turkish thinktank in DC.
Tom Cotton doesn't know what communism is
Why the fuck was Chump suing a pollster anyway thehill.com/regulation/c...
I used to tell my "colleagues" in the Breitbart comment section they didn't know what socialism is. They never responded with anything that suggested otherwise
It's Republicans who keep running private equity people (see Mitt Romney, Glenn Youngkin). www.nbcnews.com/politics/eco...
Thanks for the Mamdani endorsement, Laura!
Hegseth is a PR guy. PR is not concerned with accuracy
Grok is a crok
Congressman? bsky.app/profile/meid...
Don't believe what Chump says about this
Chris Rufo is an Osama bin Laden style terrorist
These guys look like white supremacists
They've got enough money to throw us into another war, but not enough money to fund the suicide prevention hotline. Very "pro-life." Very "pro-family." So "GREAT."
A routine explosion
For 2 years I pointed out to my "colleagues" on the Breitbart comment section that most immigrants at the US Mexico border, especially from Latin America, are Christians. Made no difference
In Jersey City right now, perhaps. Not always
Keep standing up to these thugs. We cannot back down when they are violating the rights of people
He's excellent at being a cat
Exactly! The only criterion for something like this should be a comet in the sky. (The preceding was of course written in sarcasm font; no letters or punctuation marks were intentionally damaged in the making of this post)
This assumes that Republicans once cared about deficits and the debt, which they never did. All they've ever cared about is low taxes, especially for the rich
Matt Walsh, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson are actually right on this one; they too oppose US action in Iran. Arguably the Iraq War during GW Bush led to Trump today
Reminder to my beloved NYC: If you participated in today’s #NoKingsProtest, but turn around and vote for Andrew Cuomo for mayor, you’re voting for everything you just spent all day protesting. Zohran is the choice. Don’t screw this up. #DontRankCuomo #YouDontMessWithTheZohran #NYCMayor #NoKings
political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics
People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse
The fact is nearly no one wants what Trump is selling
He looks excellent at being a cat
Groan. That hit a sharp note
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
Trump is just another politician, sticking his middle finger up at us to see which way the wind's blowing
1. That's not much 2. For what?
Mike Johnson: Rural crime wave
Rural crime wave
Low bar
If so, may I punch someone in the face?
Yep
I want to punch someone in the face
They're not the only ones. Any intelligent high school student I have, I tell them if they can pass a German fluency test and get accepted to a German university, they get free college. My colleague contradicted me today on the fluency test bit
When is it strategic to punch someone in the face? In Virginia it has been this case
When do I get to punch someone in the face?
So I don't get to punch someone in the face. Excellent!
LA's was already on fire last year; no complaints from Chump about that
One of the tanks will probably end up crashing into Qatari Air Force One while it's undergoing refurbishing/debugging/bugging
Rural crime wave
Karen Hao on using AI this way: bsky.app/profile/demo...
"Photo was taken in 1938 and the woman was picketing for higher wages working for a tobacco company, in Richmond Virginia. The more things change, the more they stay the same..."
Single payer now
Single payer now
More governance from the guy at the end of the bar on his fifth shot of tequila: www.democracynow.org/2025/6/5/tru...
A tolerant society must not tolerate intolerance or that society ultimately becomes intolerant. "Paradox of Tolerance" - Karl Popper
He won't do the full job, but I hope so
Before long those won't be reelection passes; they'll be passes that instruct their holders to update their resumes, quickly
He probably thinks there's a wabbit season. No! Wait! It's duck season! m.youtube.com/watch?v=17oc...
You can't make this up. From Wikipedia: David Richardson was raised in Waterford, Michigan. He graduated from Harding University, a private Christian university with stringent ties to the Churches of Christ, with a degree in biology
