Phillies and Lehigh University sports, banned book reader, avid baker, student of history, liberal Dem. Kindness matters.
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@timothysnyder.bsky.social : “…..resistance is patriotic. Everything that we do to oppose American authoritarianism we do not just in the name of defending freedom, but in the name of preserving America as such”. #DV1 #ProudBlue open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/l…
This is curious: a friend lives close to Bedminster and knows when Trump will be visiting because Ospreys fly overhead a day or two before. Ospreys flew over Thursday, but Trump never went to Bedminster this weekend.
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...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
It took cops three hours to finally go into the Pulse nightclub the night of the shooting. If you wander near a crosswalk in Florida with a piece of chalk right now you'll have four cops on you in under five seconds.🤷♂️
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They aren’t being milked. They aren’t being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
Children with brain cancer
Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.
Women in China are increasingly seeking out single-sex living spaces where they can ensure peace of mind and physical safety. Organisers insist that the women-only homes do not encourage antipathy towards men but rather guarantee the women a right to spaces of their own.
I realize it's been 5 years but how is it no one remembers the early days of the covid pandemic and how scared we were? I was waiting for medical doctors and epidemiologists to do their thing and save us. I welcomed the vaccine after I almost died. Does no one remember how bad it was?!
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
I’m picking up certain vibes on this site and all I can say is I certainly am thinkin’ and prayin’
ICE GESTAPO RAMPANT THIS Sheldon Washington Firefighters .... Repeat FIREFIGHTERS fighting wildfires Stopped and Detained by ICE Please call your Representatives 202 224-3121 ICE MUST BE INVESTIGATED
If Putin had ordered Trump to appoint to his administration the specific individuals who could do the greatest possible damage to the institutions they're asked to administrate, he'd have picked this lot w/o hesitation. Trump is on a deliberate, premeditated path to destroy this country. #ProudBlue
Don’t tell people how to run their social media accounts. I don’t know why this is so hard for people to figure out.
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Soulless shells of humanity. It’s one of the requirements to be ICE-light. Check your empathy at the door.
I believe this is what the kids call performative
The worst thing we had to worry about when I was in school was an unannounced fire drill.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Another day in America. The top trends on Bluesky this morning are about sports and TV shows. Everyone is horrified and shares thoughts and prayers for one day, and then goes on with their lives, knowing that another shooting will likely happen today.
Drugs? Video games? Transgenderism? Mental health? No, it's the guns.
"Covid vaccines are more dangerous than the entire scientific edifice claims and also this long list of sick and vulnerable people can still have one" is a hell of an argument
Thank God they got the shooter. I’m bracing myself for the victim details. Annunciation Catholic School educates pre-school thru 8. My heart hurts and I’m so tired of the fear that is chipping away at Americans’ freedom to learn, play, and just live our lives in safety. #MomSky
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they can’t win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering won’t work at this point.
I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains. Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
It’s always so easy to laugh at this, but it’s not funny. For 3hrs today, grown men & women all took turns getting down on their knees, fellating their dear leader. In front of the cameras. It’s sad. It’s gross. It’s North Korea. It shouldn’t happen here.
Here is the growing list of countries choosing to pause mail deliveries to the U.S. because of Trump's tariff chaos. Did anyone vote in 2024 to become the new Hermit Kingdom? Austria Australia Denmark France Germany India Italy Japan New Zealand Singapore Spain South Korea Sweden Thailand
COVID STRATUS VARIANT IS ROARING THROUGH CALIFORNIA WHILE JUNIOR FIDDLES We're waiting for the Food and Drug Administration to approve updated Covid vaccines and the agency has signaled that it will only approve them for high risk groups such as over-65s. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Gas where I live was $3.19 over the weekend and is $3.39 today.
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
My eyes just rolled so hard.
Here are the Lehigh Valley’s largest employers. Gonna be great for post-industrial economic development when all the hospitals, the school districts, local federal offices, & Lehigh & Lafayette have mass layoffs due to the dismantling of the entire federal government.
Do they not have relatives or friends to tell them how ridiculous they are? My siblings would let me know quickly if I was being a lick-spittle buffoon.
We've speculated about the many ways the Trump era could end, but I'm not sure "Jonestown style mass suicide of cult leader and his Cabinet" has gotten enough attention. I think these spineless weasels will do whatever he says.
The fact that the President of the United States is saying this is not ok. It will never be ok. This is not normal - and everyone in DC who is still harboring delusions that they can keep doing politics (and legislating) either in denial or pretending this is all normal - are enabling this.
Reminds me of the hilarious slogan of a Philly law firm that advertises at Citizens Bank Park: "Pray for peace, prepare for trial."
You have constituents that have always had to work multiple jobs just to keep a roof over their heads and to eat.
Um...does this reporter know that women are citizens and able to carry in states that allow it?
The Fed was designed to be insulated from politics to maintain the stability and credibility of our financial system. The President is breaking the law, abusing his power, setting a dangerous precedent, and undermining our economy.
If any previous President tried to fire a member of the Fed he would have been impeached and removed from office in 72 hours.
If Trump were operating in the best interests of America's businesses, his move to fire Lisa Cook would cause stocks to shrug, or maybe rise. But they're saying: This is dangerous. This move serves Trump, but not America. Our economy is at risk when the President undermines the Fed.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Remember that most of the people in the National Guard want nothing to do with this and are, in fact, probably pretty pissed off that their governor ripped them away from their normal lives to do security theater miles away from home.
This is very clearly a staged photo.
Moskowitz on Vance's comments about Russia's war on Ukraine: "It's just adjective, verb, Joe Biden."
I'd like to see the receipts on this one.
"In fact, everyone I don't like is a disaster."
He never stands in the Oval Office. He makes everyone stand behind his throne.
My toddler grandson doesn't require this level of positive reinforcement.
Aside from anything else, it is a national emergency that the president of the United States has lost his mind.
This will indeed be news to the residents of DC who have been doing all these things for years without a problem. Add to the list of things Republicans are afraid of: wearing wristwatches.
"Student arrivals from India plummeted 46% while China posted a 26% decline." I'll point out that #India immigrants who came to #US to study and stayed have: - become CEOs of 16 Fortune 500 companies with $1 trillion in revenue - founded 72 startups worth $195 billion and employing 55,000 people
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Why would someone who was immediately transferred to a country club prison lie?
the Cuomo and Adams responses to Zohran’s scavenger hunt are the most “we’re going to lose this race by 30+” responses I’ve ever seen
There was an interesting question I saw from someone recently that was asking why there are no historians writing "for the other side." Essentially, why are there no "pro-Trump Heather Cox Richardsons?" The answer lies in our training.
been at the eric adams scavenger hunt all day. mostly we were in a crawlspace under a house in howard beach learning “how to out-hustle the rats.” not sure what this does for the campaign
📌NOTE: Ironic that Mamdani is connecting with voters Democrats need to win, but Democrats can't seem to stay the fuck out of his way.
Notice the makeup stain on the shirt cuff.
Donald Trump had classified docs in the shitter at his private club and his paying customers may have been using them to wipe their asses, so no, his administration does not have a good faith interest in the sanctity of sensitive government secrets
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
The FBI didn’t need a raid to get Bolton; they could’ve sent a subpoena. But they love the circus. The timing isn’t an accident. It’s meant to bury two headlines: Epstein files dropping and Trump’s horrific economy crushing Americans. This isn’t justice. It’s distraction theater. And we see it. 👀
Jesus Christ. He's wearing another stupid hat.
The craziest thing about this Cracker Barrel story is that Donald Trump was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for decades and publicly admitted to trafficking young women to him out of Maralago.
Male cheerleaders who live near a Cracker Barrel have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever...
All new grass, like the concrete he just poured over Jackie Kennedy’s rose garden?
That would include himself. He never eats at restaurants that aren’t at one of his crappy clubs.
“He’s an actor, not a river, Ma!”
Fatman and Robbin’
Someone is going to go as a giant chip bag stuffed with cash for Halloween aren’t they
JD talks like the homeless just appeared from nowhere. Wrong. They’re vets, sons, daughters, neighbors the system dropped. They didn’t choose the gutter. Politicians like him put them there, now they want to bury them. That’s not fixing homelessness, that's turning you back on them.
Are you sure it’s not mostly 90-year-old hippies?
What a tremendous body of work.
Sounds like your drunk uncle at the Thanksgiving table.
Tremendous crossover move right here:
I guess every time a company wants to rebrand will now be considered “woke.”
He executive produced “My Favorite Year,” which is a delightful film.
"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
Just a reminder as the distraction presidency is in full overdrive: according to very credible reporting, Trump is still in the files of Jeffrey Epstein, the leader of a child sex trafficking ring.
"Huzzah!", cried the handful of dudes who fill gas cans for their lawn mowers and leaf blowers.
I had to leave D.C. today because I heard a dangerous man was being let loose on the streets tonight.
Sometimes the sheer idiocy of this moment overwhelms me. The idea that our convicted felon POTUS who incited an attack on DC police then pardoned the attackers & who's the most corrupt official in US history is going on an "anti-crime" ride-along in a city w/falling crime rate is...(brain explodes)
Red states rely on the money from Blue states to function. This can all be over the second Democratic governors actually wield their power.
Teachers matter.
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
Someone ask her who built what she's standing in front of...
Oh, is Kevin McCarthy still here? I thought he had vanished.
If the streets of DC were truly dangerous, I doubt the Secret Service would allow him to play cop tonight.