I think about the tech toadies all the time. I think about how quickly they shed their nerd-guy-you-can-trust personas and embraced the toxicity of maga, trump, and even the Tate brothers. I say more than taxes.
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I think about the tech toadies all the time. I think about how quickly they shed their nerd-guy-you-can-trust personas and embraced the toxicity of maga, trump, and even the Tate brothers. I say more than taxes.
I think people are rooting for leaders who are actively pushing back. I don’t mind a few f-bombs in words or actions from Dem leaders. I think it’s what we need right now.
In the world I remember, this would absolutely be true but the way people cave to his petty demands makes me wonder if he has a chance. With Trump, I no longer say never. But if he ever gets the prize, it will no longer be legitimate.
This video from a clinic escort in North Carolina absolutely made my day—and I think you’ll feel the same. We need more of this energy in the world: www.tiktok.com/@rsimon113/v...
This is a subskeet of at least 20 people who responded to this post with "we're already in fascism why would you say otherwise" I don't think this is an important thing to fight about but clearly a lot of people do so I'm going to explain my reasoning
A walled city and a royal guard.
Someone needs to tell him, those gaping holes don’t get filled by buying and bullying.
Was Scott Jennings always so far right?
UPDATE: Pete Hegseth was standing right there the entire time and not a single reporter in the White House press corps asked about him promoting the idea of women losing the right to vote. Unbelievable stuff.
"There’s no fix. There’s no solution. There’s just all of us, here together, rallying around each other, staying engaged, and using our leverage opportunistically. Helping where we can. Saving who we can. Making good trouble." Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-mak...
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I’m always drawn to those neon signs! New #poetry by Travis Stephens. tangledlocksjournal.com/2025/08/09/t... #poetrylovers #writingCommunity
“Virtually everyone agrees that people are becoming ruder,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. But though you may not be able to fix the broader trends in society, you can—and should—be polite for your own sake.
When I say don’t mess with Texas women, I’m talking about State Rep. Jolanda Jones.
Oh yeah! :)
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America will treat some random tik tok account stupidly complaining about Sydney Sweeney as "The Left" but will treat horrific things said, done and endorsed by Donald Trump who is *check notes* The President as "Trump Derangement Syndrome"
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Josh Johnson on the Epstein files… Genius.
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Trump is that old uncle that throws shade 1950s style and stands too close
Fact checking is fun!
Honestly did not realize Bill O'Reilly was still alive, and now I'd like to report his murder.
True! It’s a damned if you get the procedure, damned if you don’t.
🔥 Rosie O’Donnell, an American, responds to Trump threatening to revoke her citizenship — showing he is coming for anyone who opposes him eventually: “You are everything that is wrong with 🇺🇸… King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan. I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”
The fetus heart stopped and I decided to wait for nature to take its course. Money, grief and a whole bunch of issues were a part of my decision. As much as it was a wanted pregnancy, there was never a thought to preserve the tissue. I could be facing charges if that miscarriage happened today.
She’s a troll. She misrepresents the research. Maybe her outrage should be that unscrupulous landlords and merchants exploited women survivors to pay for shelter and food.
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Bunch of dangerous weirdos.
By slashing billions from food assistance while expanding harsh work rules, Republicans are deliberately targeting women—especially single mothers—who rely on SNAP to keep their families fed.
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Cursive was dropped from most schools after Common Core in 2010—but now states like California, Iowa, and Oklahoma are bringing it back. Why? Research links it to stronger reading, spelling and storytelling. theconversation.com/can-learning...
Bullshit. His age, growing up in NY, he knew. President Donald Trump says he didn’t know the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders. apnews.com/article/trum...
9 million US women (of reproductive age) now live 200+ miles from the nearest abortion clinic. When they need an abortion, they’re forced to navigate not just highways & airports, but also: how to miss work without losing their jobs; who will watch their children; how they'll afford to travel?
It’s so important to Trump to “prove” he’s a criminal.
MAGA 🩷s trolling.
Tell your story.
people don't appreciate how few people outside of MAGA think of Trump as some kind of alpha male
Domestic racially motivated violent extremism perpetrated white supremacists is the number one terror threat in the U.S. and it’s not even close. That’s not an opinion. www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Here is the Minnesota shooter giving a sermon in Congo, blasting American churches for not taking a stronger anti-abortion stance. He says, “God is going to raise up apostles and prophets in America to correct his church.”
Just before the end, was the beginning of the end. We went through the motions, drove our cars to work, bought groceries, educated our children. Violence was seeping into the edges of some people’s lives and drowning others. We felt the dread but didn’t know how prophetic it was.
The Trump administration is violent.
When will this reality-tv televangelical-hell end?
Wishing this was a deep fake.
Thanks, MAGA. You’ve sent us down a path of endarkenment, which in the past has led to famine, war, and the collapse of countries that were once major powers.
If Trump will do this supporters (marks), imagine what he has in store for the rest of us.
Crockett: That’s why they hired everybody from Fox because all they’re trying to do is put on a show.. I want us to refocus our attention on the American people and stop demonizing every person that ends up in ICE custody… *Applause* Van Drew: *bangs gavel*
Just listened to the Hur interview tape and I’m utterly appalled at all the incoherent and crazy things Biden said about Revolutionary War airports, injecting bleach, people eating cats and dogs, Hannibal Lecter, and Arnold Palmer’s penis. Simply unbelievable that he ran for president again.
Trolls gotta troll. No enough decent people on x anymore I guess.
Is this who we are? newschannel9.com/news/local/f...
Resistence is NOT futile
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100 days of spaghetti noodle spines and sticky sweet flattery.
Sadly, I could see that! 🤣
This seems personal. Wondering if the man is a thousand petty grievances was rejected by Harvard?
Swalwell says the House Judiciary republicans just voted to allow Trump to deport US Citizens. From IG:
Notice Trump doesn’t talk about stabilizing the economy, he talks about convincing people and reinforcing their feelings of being screwed over by the rest of the world.
The madness of Trump. You can see the internal struggle of his interviewers (PR team) trying to selectively ignore the ignorant and crazy things he says.
When Caitlin Flanagan learned that Mahmoud Khalil had been arrested, “every siren in my body screamed. Down to the marrow of my bones, I am an American. And we don't do this.”
Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States
Hegseth will be done when Trump thinks too many people are laughing at him. (Remembering Shaun Spicer)
Does anyone believe that anyone in the Trump administration has interactions with small business owners?
I think of so many parents who need to hear this rebuke of rfk jrs dehumanizing lies about autism. The bigoted statements are the precursor to dangerous policy. We see it in every group that they try to “other.” If we don’t let anyone break us up and put in little boxes, we can fight united.
Truth be told, Elon receives more money than he pays out in taxes. But it isn’t autism that makes him a grifter. Just like Elon isn’t “that kind” of an immigrant, he probably doesn’t consider himself “that kind” of a person on the spectrum.
As someone who has seen the creativity, industry and brilliance of people diagnosed with autism, RFKjrs comments are ignorant and inaccurate.
Who is Eugene in ‘The Last of Us’? Mystery character explained.
Doge not saving you money
Imagine this economic chaos had happened under biden.
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"The catch is that in order to get attention, you have to be terrible. You have to lie or embrace evil. In the attention economy there is enormous demand for civic blasphemy. What’s hard is getting attention for messages about truth, or virtue, or love."
Imagine playing with people’s lives like this. American workers and their families mean nothing to the Trump administration.
When a fetus dies, it’s heartbreaking. ❤️🩹 laws that prevent medical care are emotionally cruel.
Sun breaks through the clouds.
According to @hunterw.bsky.social, Cory Booker is now cutting into the Senate's schedule for today, meaning it's not just a performance, it's an actual act of obstruction and resistance. This is the kind of leadership we need!
“Oh poor me. I have Billion$ but not quite so many right now. Mean Tim Walz cares more for children’s cancer research and seniors than me.” 😭😢
Is this just our new normal? Women being arrested if a cop doesn’t like how they miscarried, and lawmakers debating whether to put us to death before breaking for fucking lunch? Has everyone lost their minds?
Get it and glad @charlotteclymer.bsky.social is spelling it out.
I have been trying to explain to students why “jokes” about different groups aren’t funny. We are making some headway and building empathy I could have a sit down with adults in government and on social media if it’s helpful.
By royal decree…
Is this who we are? Never mind, don’t answer that. 🇺🇸😳 www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...
Folks, our nonviolent movement is inspiring new people to step up every week. Keep making your actions fun! Keep welcoming new friends! Keep the energy high! Together, we are going to win. #teslatakedown
Popped over and it’s like she signed in for maga pr. Yikes!
The acting is perfect!
Reality tv and informercials.
Isn’t that convenient
“For decades, the US was the champion of western values. The America of Trump, Vance and Musk has left them behind.” Another jaw-dropping data analysis by the Financial Times shows why MAGA is quite literally out of the liberal democratic world on.ft.com/4iqh3qA
Imagine hugging a sex trafficker with such warmth. Zuck just radiates love in his video.
International Women’s Day in 2025 finds progress under threat. Here's where the fight stands today.
What Trump, Vance, Putin, and musk have done to the people of Ukraine is deplorable.
Sometimes I think it’s must be so hard to be a token woman in MAGA.
What so mean? Those writers and editors are just honing their propaganda skills for their future in state sanctioned communications.
DOGE now shutting down volcano monitoring stations in Alaska and Hawaii as examples of big government overreach www.notus.org/health-scien...
House Republicans have passed almost a billion dollar in cuts to Medicaid. Medicaid expansion under Obamacare brought 20 million working Americans healthcare and not only are Republicans taking it away, they continue to lie to your face about doing it.
Speech? Or loosely strung together propaganda bites designed to enthrall his supporters?
please don’t fire me President Musk