Great thread. FWIW not a single student ever found out my party affiliation until one party decided it didn't necessarily believe in democracy anymore.

You ever just read the news and think Metal Gear Solid 4 was too *subtle* in how it critiqued the modern world?

Please keep writing about Nurul Amin Shah Alam. They killed this man. It's a system wide problem that resulted in his death. Every step of the way it was a travesty of justice. This is how immigration law intersects with criminal law. ICE and CBP. Read this and ask why do we fund this? Why?

fuckin' hate reruns

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

The biggest effect I see from people still spending time on X—which many deny or don't even notice—is how it shifts their perception of what's normal. Such as: Actively anti-trans is speaking like a normal person Objecting to Nazi symbols turns off the working class Epstein knew a bunch of Jews etc

The year is 2046: A group of masked TrumpCorp officials shoot protestors at the health casino. A reporter from FreePressWithCBS asks Don Jr's VP for life JD Vance about the shooting: "Unfortunately, this, is a problem we inherited from the Biden administration"

“I’m pissed,” Shapiro said. “And I’m not going to allow this to happen.” That is the baseline level of ire/anger any Democrat needs in public in 2026.

Be cool if we just didn't live in a system where "I'm cool with the smooth-brained President" is what determines your Criminal Justice system outcomes.

LOOK AT THE TWERK PERFECTION 🍑😂

Yes, please keep trotting out one of the most unlikable dinguses in human history to tell people in swing states that he's going to yoink their federal funding. This is an excellent strategy. Proceed.

Hillary Clinton just posted her opening statement to the Comer Committee which she is testifying before today. It's part of the Save Donald from Epstein Investigation. The committee has essentially taken over the town of Chappaqua for the purpose. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Latin sentence structure helped me in my Japanese studies 1,000%

This is how white nationalism undermines very basic thinking. I interned in a state Medicaid/Medicare audit unit. The idea that states do not do this already is absurd and is only justified if you are incensed that non-white people receive equal benefits that they are entitled to under the law.

This fucker has kayfabed his own reality for himself and only himself

All the times the GOP cried wolf that their entire health care plan was more complex than “don’t get sick or injured.”

God we are so fucking back

If the Trump administration needs help bringing them all back, I’ve got receipts. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all...

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

I don’t like to get ahead of myself because of course I hope they get washed in the midterms but I am not looking forward to watching the opposition party attempt to solve our current problems by exploring every option except the ones that involve consequences

"Don't put liars on the air" is something even BBC News is falling short on right now, platforming Monica De La Cruz who has nothing to offer but the oddest speech pattern imaginable and "but President Biden" with zero pushback. Are there no real interviewers left on planet earth?

Greatest scandal in American history: bsky.app/profile/cnn....

Zero dignity opposition party. You can be there yelling or you can be absent but there is no honor in this nonsense civility show. I swear they'd attend their own executions politely

I didn't watch shit. I played Yakuza 3 for an hour and am now going to mainline Impact Players tag team matches.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

This is undoubtedly the most divisive State of the Union speech in my lifetime. I'll leave to the historians to tell us if there has ever been one more divisive or as divisive. And to the fact checkers to keep up with the lies. As Trump likes to say, like nothing anyone has seen before.

when someone asks you to watch the state of the union

I completely understand why people are angry about this, but consider that it *really is true* that the media is wired to make it about Dems, or at least both-sides it. The press would *love* to have anything to cover other than "an 80yo dementia patient ranted for hours."

people voted for him and then 10 minutes after he took office the swing voters all went “oh right, this guy’s a piece of shit”. idiot fucking country

Casting my first ballot for Nader/LaDuke and then sitting through 8 years of George W Bush is perhaps precisely why I view anyone with an "I'm sitting out" purity test mentality as deserving of mockery and scorn.

One of my old derby friends has gone full MAGA melt brain. Not just defending this admin (including Kash Patel doing his best Garrett Stubbs impression in the men's Olympic hockey locker room), but full use of AI for sourcing facebook comments. He's lost. Sad, but fucking embarrassing.

Don't think of it as Bitcoin crashing. Think of it as a giant sale on gift cards you can only use for crime.

just learned about "st louis style" bagels. what da fuck

I’d like to thank the USA Men’s Hockey team for reminding us that you can win a gold medal and still be a huge loser.

So you can get fired for being an empiricist

This is abundance, in practice. Nothing fancy, no grand ideological disputes, just ... get the fucking snow off the sidewalks in a reasonable amount of time.

Really looking forward to "you're wrong, fuck you, things are great" as a campaign message.

It's the Flavor It's the Flavor Life Saver It's the Flavor

Quite revealing on how much Republicans truly hate Trump, how much they agree with the criticism of Trump, how quickly they will employ those critiques against him, and how cowardly they are when they hesitate to do so.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

Finally watched "Down Cemetery Road" and Mick Herron's writing is grumpily unique, a little tropey, and definitely way too tidy/reliant on deus ex machina - but dang, I love it anyway. Fehinti Balogun's Amos and Adeel Akhtar's Malik are some of the best played characters I've seen on tv in ages.

No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

When snow is falling, you can Eat Something Stupid

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

24% of the current rain in Philadelphia were locals bawling when the camera cut to hit parents

I would like to replace our Secretary of Defense please 🇺🇸

Today: incompetence wins over evil