I got twenty-four seconds into this and decided that since I don't smoke pot there's no way I could watch any more of it. This is like watching comedy die of autoerotic asphyxiation

Republicans in Congress don't seem to understand that half of Americans get their insurance through work. One company I know is doubling the deductibles. Others will raise the rates. Democratic party has a big opening here. @indivisibletucson.bsky.social @mendoza4az.bsky.social

so the reason why you [the government] want to be paying a lot of money [definitely not enough money] to make sure people dont go hungry [not that Not Hungry] is not the gentleness of your heart but because hungry people have a way of quickly making themselves unworkable for you [the government]

Please sir I am just a small soybean farmer and a common man

"GET SMART REPUBLICANS" If they could've got smart Republicans, you wouldn't be president and we wouldn't be in this mess, you sniveling lump of creosote.

Wife thought it'd be a good idea to get the 3yo a Richard Scarry book. Kid noticed every main character is a boy animal and keeps asking "what's his wife's name?", but Dick never gave them names--just "his wife." I think ‘Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World’ is going to make a discreet disappearance.

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….” 🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

Even the dead one would have been a better choice than Trump. (Fun fact: Tom once said that his preferred leader would be a philosopher-king.)

Women started fandom. Women started fanfic. Women started star Trek cons. Women invented beer, and the novel, while we're at it. Stop trying to erase women from spaces, you stupid, lazy, misogynistic fucks.

I don't wanna die famous because then politicians will cherrypick anything I said and twist it all six ways from Sunday to suit some bullshit regressive agenda.

This is what happens when you rebrand science as politics.

When just existing makes a white man wet his pants, you know there's a lot of things wrong with that white man.

ICE are now wearing gloves in addition to face masks and sunglasses? Looks to me like they know they're criminals. Recidivists, in fact.

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Cutting food programs is going to increase crime Cutting health insurance subsidies is going to increase crime The whole plots of Les Miserable and Breaking Bad

From the 1986 Academy Awards, an unusual high profile pairing of Kermit & Scooter. I assume Frank Oz was deep into LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS production, giving Richard Hunt an opportunity to shine here. The envelope business is the Muppets once again forging comedy from perceived limitations.

Sam's Club is part of Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart workers are among the largest recipients of SNAP in this country. Apparently, some Wal-Marts will help employees fill out SNAP applications as part of their HR paperwork. When people start going hungry on Nov 1 part of the reason is companies underpay them

When people glorify ‘Tough On Crime’ they are just saying that they are gleefully punitive & nothing more. Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need. Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.

The question isn't whether billionaires should exist, but whether civilization can survive these billionaires.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

All right, who told the Baby Boomers that they could just take their dogs anywhere they wanted to?

And not long after, the Electric Monk was invented...

Trump: [openly does crime] NYT: "Trump could violate a law by doing this" An unwealthy person: [openly does crime] NYT: "Alleged criminal apprehended"

Weird how Trump claimed the DoJ owed him $130 million, and that's the exact amount his "friend" donated to buy the loyalty of ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H pay the military during the coup ^H^H^H^H^H shutdown

little Trump: "Daddy, I'm hungry." big Trump, bringing machinery into the room: "No problem." little Trump: "What's that, Daddy?" big Trump: "A stomach pump. Lie down here." [scene deleted] big Trump: "Now, are you still hungry?" little Trump: "Yes, and-" big Trump: "Shut up. You're not. Fake news!"

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful - Donald Trump destroys them all.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful - Donald Trump destroys them all.

“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” ~ Jimmy Carter

So many in US legacy media are missing a potentially horrifying extension of this behaviour. If Trump can commit extra-judicial murders on the high seas in breach of international law, who will stop him committing extra-judicial murders in breach of domestic law? Certainly not SCOTUS.

Maybe the ICE recruits could use some help from their good neighbours to the north:

“Never forget. Never again.” #ConcentrationCamps #TrumpPutinCriminals ‘I have it in my blood & brain… I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions of the Holocaust. 1/3🧵 theconversation.com/i-have-it-in...

When a federal judge warns that Donald Trump is edging the U.S. toward militarized domestic policing, it’s not hyperbole — it’s a red-alert about the erosion of the rule of law.

Andrew Cuomo sounds more and more like Donald Trump every day. New Yorkers tried to warn the rest of the country about Trump back in 2016. They'll make the right choice.

This photo. @sfstandard.com #SFO sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/b...

House Doublespeaker Johnson doesn't know anything about facts when reporters mention them to him because his jellybean brain is full of fiction.

"The most transparent(ly corrupt) administration."

I’m honestly speechless. What possible reason could there be for this aside from intentionally terrorizing children?

This is now the second-longest government shutdown of any kind ever in the history of our country. The two longest shutdowns in US history both while Trump was in office. He is the common denominator. That needs to start being the headline.

Knew it!

“Anomie describes a state of normlessness when society's rules, values, and expectations lose their power to guide behavior, leaving individuals feeling adrift or disconnected.”

It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.

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I have six broken toenails and everything hurts, but I was able to do a good deed today so it all evens out.

This.

I should run for congress. I want to get paid to work 95 days a year and spend the rest of my time side-hustling podcasts and books. Dolla dolla bill, y'all.

😂 been busy packing and moving for a week so didn't have much time for social media. Then my wife tried to tag me in a post on Instagram and found that my Facebook account has been suspended. Why? Nobody knows. A suspension can be appealed. But I can't log in because my account has been suspended 🤣

Watch Trump call for something built very close to, but not interfering with, wink wink, the FDR memorial next.