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@tbayw.bsky.social

created February 3, 2024

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Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

In my blue state, when I returned to in-class teaching, the fact is, few students showed up.

1/9/2025, 9:52:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amos Posner (@amosposner.bsky.social) reposted

JD Vance asking to be invited into a city feels really on the nose after Sinners

28/8/2025, 8:23:15 PM | 1558 363 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture mrwilkening.bsky.social (@mrwilkening.bsky.social) reposted

Can't recommend the print edition of The Onion enough...

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28/8/2025, 12:06:40 AM | 3974 575 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Are they?

24/8/2025, 3:41:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Poor NPR, having to carry Trump's water, still.

15/8/2025, 3:16:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, nominating a winning Black president did give us Trump. We should really know better.

13/8/2025, 10:43:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Had Trump not informed us, we would not have known.

13/8/2025, 7:00:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JohnXuandou (@johnxuandou.bsky.social) reposted

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

13/8/2025, 6:06:20 AM | 18838 7333 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

We just would have gotten them both. I doubt there's a dimes difference between them and the right-wing clowns now on the SCOTUS anyway.

13/8/2025, 4:46:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Careful. You're treading perilously close to describing "The Best Years of Our Lives."

12/8/2025, 3:09:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Rodney Dangerfield:"I get no respect." Donald Trump: "I give no respect."

11/8/2025, 11:13:05 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

đź’Ż.

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4/8/2025, 5:20:54 PM | 22772 6991 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Karsh (@jkarsh.bsky.social) reposted

The other great thing about this clip is how clear it is that Powell doesn’t respect Trump in the slightest and has no intention of participating in any emperor’s new clothes nonsense. It’s weirdly refreshing since Trump surrounds himself with sycophants and our press largely humors them.

24/7/2025, 8:56:13 PM | 2192 405 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

She doesn't vote with him 100% of the time. What did she expect?

20/7/2025, 10:24:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

I was under the impression they were covered because it's cheaper for the taxpayer than paying their emergency room bills

14/7/2025, 9:30:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) reposted

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

10/7/2025, 6:39:07 PM | 8838 2440 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm guessing they're going to get yelled at.

10/7/2025, 1:38:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't leave out his successfully blackmailing CBS. Another win!

4/7/2025, 8:46:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh, no. Not at this point.

28/6/2025, 1:00:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted

Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California. ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.

23/6/2025, 5:13:34 PM | 14466 5038 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Demagougues promote violence from both sides.

15/6/2025, 11:22:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

“Rain in your parade” is meant as a compliment.

14/6/2025, 2:02:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Dems need to offer an alternative if they want to be heard and trusted.

11/6/2025, 1:59:31 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Not slave owning ones.

11/6/2025, 1:18:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) reposted

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.

8/6/2025, 3:15:46 PM | 2700 887 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, a writing coach called Embers sounds ominous.

4/6/2025, 2:35:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

No, but with so many injured pitchers our on our own staff, we can be thankful there's not one more.

2/6/2025, 9:10:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Who would have thought Communist officials would have such good grades.

1/6/2025, 1:35:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

That dude is totally devoid of any sense of self-awareness.

28/5/2025, 2:32:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted

U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating In Combat

20/5/2025, 5:00:29 PM | 4846 642 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Will they be led from their homes by gunpoint?

16/5/2025, 10:02:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

A similar trick was tried at the McCarthy-Army hearings.

12/5/2025, 1:11:00 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

That's certainly how I look at his administration.

6/5/2025, 5:28:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope they got paid for their vote.

6/5/2025, 5:22:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

I want to learn more about that quick healing ear.

5/5/2025, 8:32:14 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Questions like" "Why doesn't anyone else have these?"

1/5/2025, 2:32:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Just show us a confirmed gang member with one.

1/5/2025, 2:29:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) reposted

OK, another cat post. The connection here is that most media coverage of Trump IS the chase of laser dots on the carpet.

28/4/2025, 11:57:38 PM | 2394 431 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

They are far more interested in trying it in the court of public opinion than in the court of law.

26/4/2025, 6:25:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

He doesn't seem very competent.

20/4/2025, 10:19:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

We’re honestly on a fast timeline to exactly this.

A cartoon by Cori6 compares two scenarios. The top panel, labeled
20/4/2025, 6:01:27 PM | 15414 4314 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed. Point being, it wasn't voter error.

16/4/2025, 9:27:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, she did help inspire the Buffalo mass shooter with her Great Replacement talk.

16/4/2025, 9:26:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alex Blechman (@alexblechman.bsky.social) reposted

Tech Guy: Birth rates are dropping. Humanity is in peril. There is only one solution Everyone: Free maternity care? Universal pre-k? Child tax credits? Tech Guy: I must personally impregnate as many people as possible

18/5/2023, 3:38:55 AM | 936 193 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow.bsky.social) reposted

10/4/2025, 4:04:05 PM | 453 108 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

"May" be worthwhile does not inspire confidence.

10/4/2025, 3:33:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

The better looking Musk.

8/4/2025, 2:42:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

This should be the state's responsibilty.

5/4/2025, 12:50:43 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Incredible. They take months to make a decision and give 15 days for other people to correct the state's error.

4/4/2025, 5:49:25 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, yeah, you get to be a lawless cop.

4/4/2025, 2:03:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Bad pop songs, I can tolerate, even enjoy having on to wince at for a while. But patriotic songs? I can't stand them.

29/3/2025, 10:48:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lisa Pizza (@lisapizza.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

My hatred for that song made this one of my favorite MST3K moments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBeK...

29/3/2025, 9:37:11 PM | 70 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/3/2025, 12:06:43 AM | 96 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kampf mit Kette (@kampfmitkette.bsky.social) reposted

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24/3/2025, 7:29:36 PM | 28946 5737 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Baltimore all the way.

24/3/2025, 3:47:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

"The law says the deportation is illegal, but some experts say 'not so fast.'"

9/3/2025, 11:52:39 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Strawman argument.

6/3/2025, 1:20:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

He was lynched because the governor commuted his death sentence, and the governor had to leave the state. An amazing story.

6/3/2025, 1:19:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Philip Bump (@pbump.com) reposted reply parent

Two billion years later, here's my takeaway.

I guess my takeaway from the speech was: What was the point? Trump has always liked the trappings of the presidency. He likes the mandated respect. He likes the plane and the house. He likes
5/3/2025, 4:00:00 AM | 259 54 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

My understanding is that Ukraine was not invited to the negotiating table.

4/3/2025, 1:53:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s right. Turn him off.

28/2/2025, 4:36:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

On his phone reading praise.

28/2/2025, 2:14:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Wish Harris had said this.

27/2/2025, 1:39:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

#Emails2DOGE

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23/2/2025, 1:09:57 AM | 8674 1984 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

No one should oblige him.

23/2/2025, 3:00:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems like if you're arguing one isn't trying to re-segregate something, you've pretty much already lost.

22/2/2025, 4:12:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, duh! What took them so long?

19/2/2025, 12:42:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online) reposted

If you’re in line to sack Patrick Mahomes, STAY IN LINE

10/2/2025, 1:53:29 AM | 11610 1683 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/1/2025, 12:16:40 AM | 1101 265 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

The flaw in Vance's circle of obligation (and old man Le Pen said much the same thing) is, where do you stand when someone inside your circle is repressing those outside it?

31/1/2025, 12:48:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, right now, my family needs a new roof on the house.

31/1/2025, 12:36:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Vet_Grandma AKA Madam Defarge (@madamedefarge2a.bsky.social) reposted

The newly unveiled Republican Party icon!

30/1/2025, 6:28:57 PM | 1 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Bor-ing.

30/1/2025, 2:22:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Following our new abstinence only policy which should be very successful.

28/1/2025, 9:34:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted

It's far down the list of issues. But it's telling that Press Secy comes to presser unable to answer whether the admin has just cancelled health insurance for more than 70 million Americans. Ooops.

28/1/2025, 6:49:59 PM | 879 226 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elad Nehorai (@eladn.bsky.social) reposted

Repeat after me: He doesn't think Nazi cosplay is funny. He thinks being funny will allow him to be a Nazi openly. This is an example of why. They don't take it seriously. Musk has spent YEARS not "cosplaying" but interacting with and working with Neo-Nazis. This trivializes and erases that fact.

24/1/2025, 11:25:35 PM | 682 141 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Onion (@theonion.com) reposted

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying theonion.com/rising-...

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying
23/1/2025, 7:00:15 PM | 15340 2233 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed. It is something Democratic leaders should have been doing for years.

23/1/2025, 5:48:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Doesn't make sense.

22/1/2025, 7:25:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

In other words, they're not getting paid.

10/1/2025, 3:40:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Very sad news. He owned David Ortez.

8/1/2025, 2:20:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

That settles it. If the Os don't sign Corbin Burnes, I'm done.

24/12/2024, 2:51:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Your joke is in shockingly poor taste.

17/12/2024, 11:42:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

How about we at least move the clocks forward an hour on Friday afternoon instead of Saturday night?

15/12/2024, 2:58:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

I had to quit a paid teaching job with a provisional license to pay to teach.

13/12/2024, 4:01:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture xpostfactoid (@xpostfactoid.bsky.social) reposted

Trump re the ACA: "I gave them the money to do it -- fix it, make it work." Well, um, a little...here's CBO on cutting off direct payments to insurers for Cost Sharing Reduction: 1/

8/12/2024, 3:57:27 PM | 15 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rebecca Solnit (@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

from Orwell's Rose

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2/12/2024, 2:56:31 PM | 228 59 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.” ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

2/12/2024, 11:29:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Agreed. I read it twice.

1/12/2024, 1:44:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) reposted

🎯🎯🎯

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26/11/2024, 3:29:31 PM | 13520 2167 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

The Thanksgiving episode of The Bear is quite memorable.

25/11/2024, 3:58:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Doonsebury did some pretty hilarious takes on his wordsmithing.

24/11/2024, 5:06:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

That's a rather identity politicky attitude.

23/11/2024, 3:26:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture scha·den·freu·de (@blisterpearl.bsky.social) reposted

Brilliant observation by @maxkennerly.bsky.social to a whole pot-full of parboiled frogs.

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21/11/2024, 1:37:19 AM | 6482 1448 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Yet, for 200 years they could use the bathroom of their choice. What changed?

20/11/2024, 11:16:49 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Like we’re just getting to know him.

18/11/2024, 10:22:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

President Kennedy's Tour of Dallas Cut Short

17/10/2024, 1:54:28 AM | 784 86 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted

Ford’s Theatre night ends in theatrics

17/10/2024, 1:52:58 AM | 68 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture tbayw.bsky.social (@tbayw.bsky.social) reply parent

Not unlike Social Security.

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