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Parks by me are showing signs of drought
Bluesky’s gonna make me take the “we don’t know if its conscious” side of this debate isn’t it
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
Unprecedented corruption - 1500x what Hunter Biden made from his paintings and going directly to the president.
There was a kidnapping by me this weekend. Like, woman literally grabbed off the street by someone she knew and taken. She was, fortunately, rescued by police before any harm could come to her. Guess how the story is being covered, or the types of post we’re seeing on social media?
“Men shall only try to hit parlays or pussy” - ancient proverb
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
A mere one year ago, this was The Central Issue Of Our Political Age. It's not even news in today's papers.
I think it's very possible that internally, a lot of left-of-center "immigration moderates" have accepted defeat on the issue of immigration--they believe that the public cannot be persuaded to view immigration as anything other than a threat to be managed.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
wow
Compare the murky, indeterminate data on school closures to the stark, decisive findings on vaccine hesitancy. Republican policies and rhetoric killed hundreds of thousands of people! We don’t need to bolster this fake narrative. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
“It’s just the flu, who cares” (10m dead Americans later)
wondering how we'd handle a h5 pandemic
My dad turns 80 this year and is in dogshit health, I remember scrubbing down everything with bleach on the back porch
The utility company came and installed a pole to wire the trucks into the grid because they realized nobody was claiming the bodies because the next of kin was hospitalized/dead too.
And I either get “it wasn’t that bad” from the minimalists or the “actually the same level of death & destruction is happening right now” from the maximalists
I feel like losing my mind every time we do another round of Covid discourse because I live in Bergen county NJ, I saw the freezer trucks full of dead people with my own two eyes
Obviously it’s the Epstein files?
School closures inconvenience me (40yr old main character of the universe that now has to deal with the kids I hate), dead people in a freezer truck so not
my version takes “good girl”
why doesn’t he have a neck
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.
He is doped out of his gourd
I literally just sent a memo where I said it was inconsistent that the administration was trying to punish India for it purchase as a Russian oil, but not Europe or China.
The fact that Hungarian is a crazy difficult language to learn with a small population of speakers really does limit how much attention outsiders pay to what is going on inside Hungary.
Honestly Trump being too old & sick to talk to reporters serves my purposes almost as well as him kicking it. "What if Trump was president & it wasn't any fun" is a pretty good summary of why the press hated COVID & I am very happy to bring that back
thinking about Nixon again
Meanwhile, over on twitter dot com
NEW from me at The Dispatch. Imagine if a president could just eliminate border spending on a whim. Or gut defense, Medicaid or veterans spending. Even defund SCOTUS after a decision, or end SocSec in blue districts. This is the power Trump seeks with impoundment. 🧵 thedispatch.com/article/trum...
This joke got me thinking: what are some other famous Plazas
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
WHITE HOUSE AIDE: we need a distraction from the president being dead OTHER WHITE HOUSE AIDE: let’s kill Rudy
Next Democratic president needs to send tanks rolling through the perfectly manicured lawns of The Villages. Gotta keep our senior citizens safe, after all.
they’re transparently gleeful about the performative occupation of American cities
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
UPDATE: In its latest status report, DOJ says that three of the five migrant children discussed in his previous status report have now been returned to ORR custody. Drew Ensign says that he'll file another status report tomorrow when the two remaining children are in ORR custody.
Her birth year starts with a two! It starts with a two!!!
When Trump dies in office, and I am very convinced at this point that is a “when” question, not an “if” question, there is gonna be a ton of bullshit that the scheming viziers will put out claiming he signed - which, like, lool good luck Vance
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
I’m so glad I was offline for the last 36hr
Taylor Lorenz is getting defended for boosting a Nazi by an awful lot of covid conscious accounts, so yeah, looks like she's become the entry point for introducing that crowd into the fash pipeline.
I have never seen a federal judge this pissed off.
Wild how poorly they’re handling this, like they could just post a generic photo, instead they’re pouring fuel on the fire
The shrill insistence that we, the Americans whose tax dollars pay these freaks' salaries, are not only not allowed to know who is carrying guns on our supposed behalf, but that we are a danger to society for asking -- this is one of MAGA's most disgusting claims. Unmask every ICE gunman.
average atproto base32 identifier:
>this data is weekly I’m crashing out
At some point you have to just admit that the reason this endless farrago of hatred and filth from the intelligentsia of the modern Right doesn't inspire rejection from the media, commentariat, or political elite writ large is that they don't consider it particularly bad.
getting ads for the concept of a straight bathhouse
Whether or not these people are actual foreign agents is almost irrelevant. Their actions are observationally equivalent to & indistinguishable from the actions actual foreign agents would be taking. The consequences of our total Article I constitutional crisis, right here:
SAP called DRUNKEN CLAM
If Donald Trump were healthy, and if liberals were speculating on his health and suggesting he was ill or worse, then the Donald Trump we all know would be more than happy to loudly and publicly refute them, rub it in their faces, mock them, and use it for his favorite purpose: keening self-pity.
The seemingly endless ability for humans to invent new forms of reactionary exclusivist identities does not sit well with my cosmopolitan liberal principles
Chestertons fence etc
To be clear, I’m not saying that this uniformly exists, anywhere, and police forces certainly cancel/do commit arbitrary violence, but the idea, compared to what we had before, is pretty damn sound
“publicly funded police forces enforcing rules made by an elected legislature are a progressive reform” sounds insane but is just basically true
Retvrn to Tradition (cattle thievery and murder by me and my cousins in response to your family’s alleged crimes)
I’ve tried googling to figure out what Lisa Cook’s sorority defending her on the mortgage fraud allegations has to do with any judge recusing from a case. Doesn’t seem to be any connection, as far as I can tell.
By the time DOJ files this status report, Judge Sooknanan will have been awake for nearly 20 hours.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
This is what happens when you obliterate the presumption of regularity. Endless homework assignments because the court can't trust the government to follow orders in good faith.
“I was tortured!!” yeah dude you’re a secret agent that’s kinda an occupational hazard
The thing that gets me about the Craig era is - and I say this as someone who likes the films - that there is no coherent motivation to the villains besides Le Chiffre. What the fuck was going on in Quantum, or Skyfall?
You have got to be kidding me
(public) *police* as a concept is a new(ish). paramilitaries keeping public order ie you dont get to form a gang and murder merchants or nobles is a very very very old concept and masters *policing* their property ie fathers policing their children and wives, is ancient
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
President Donald Trump dispelled brewing concerns over his health by hitting the links with a football coach who fell from grace over leaked emails containing racist, sexist, and homophobic language.
If white people in Mississippi voted like the median white people in the USA, it would be a solid blue state
NEWS Robert Mueller Has Parkinson’s Disease. The former special counsel, who led the Russia investigation during President Trump’s first term, has had difficulty speaking in recent months and will not be able to comply with a request that he testify before Congress. Full Story: nyti.ms/4g7ABjM
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
Why do they have Kirk in bisexual lighting
“A family history of melanoma” isn’t real and it can’t hurt me (yes I know i should wear sunscreen, I forgor)
It's useful to think of Trump's political style as a form of "fan service," which is distinct from the "constituent service" we used to associate with the role of elected officials. I took this picture in March of *2022* at a Republican event in Salem, Oregon. That flag seemed bonkers at the time.
"Good afternoon, sky I hope his email finds you well. [horny shit] Sincerely, OOMF
it is the internet, after all
you all know that if i was actually trying to use this site as a horny site i'd have more than my email in bio and DMs off right? that seems to be a bit of a hangup
ok but that's funny af
oh there's no context i am just deranged
(coughs) my brand is queer
it's honestly not clear. i personally have had a longstanding view that rural gdp is actually underreported because the party cadres just don't care
that's what muting the thread is for
BONK
NEVER RETREAT NEVER DELETE
.... did you think i was gonna post vid
you know i'm right
i cannot believe, given my posts about politics, about china, about gun control, about ai, about any other number of topics, that my "sex is fun" tweet is the most controversial. I've got oomfs hitting me with "DELETE THIS"
they're supportive even in dark times?
At Vegas getting nice and sloshed. Please nothing big happen this weekend.
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You may need to know this for mass shooter situations but also knowing this could save someone you love from suicide. Someone else said it in the comments, but wanted to talk about it for people in areas who don’t get mass shooters like we do in the US.
Our line would’ve looked like china’s and theres no reason it can’t again
PRY THE PHONE FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS
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