Best birthday gift thanks to @nice-livvy.bsky.social ♥️

yes

The regressive policies exist due to majorities in those states supporting said regressive policies.

"we are all to blame for this" no im fine

They call me Sridhar "Positive Qualities" Ramesh, but it's like that thing where you nickname a fat person "Tiny".

Damn big raccoon

in hindsight we were able to close the book on american liberalism when the new york times changed their little front page christmas homily from 'today is christmas. remember the neediest' to 'remember to give back to your communities'

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

once again you think the president's mistress directing impossibly cruel policy would be a bigger story but it does not get much play outside of overtly liberal outlets

the idea that “DEI” is to blame for racist assumptions about the ability of nonwhite people and not actual racism is such a perfect example of racecraft www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

There is the actual Democratic Party, which for better or worse is a mostly ordinary liberal political party and then there is the “Democratic Party,” a synecdoche for everything that annoys you online.

Superman was the worst movie I’ve ever seen.

Cool livvy

There are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.

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if you count me and dustin, we had 81 people at our house yesterday. if you count layla the dog and morty our cat as people, it was 83! thanks everyone, my birthday gift was all of you meeting each other and the number of times i heard people exchange contact info.

The FDA is literally tasked with overseeing the safety of all food, drugs, medical devices, & cosmetics, as well as “preventing the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases.” They regulate our safety from cell phones, to sperm donation, to condoms, to domestic animals to lasers

you don't hold these people in enough contempt

I'm crying over something else. It's not about the Trump/Musk breakup. Shut up, that's just a coincidence.

This seems like it should be no-brainer legislation in all states. It also shows that we have the technological tools available to limit the speeds of all cars.

Sepsis is real shit

Watching The Ghost of You music video and @nice-livvy.bsky.social at the end of it just goes I'LL SAVE YOU BOYS and boots up War Thunder. 🤣🤣

As for many other things there is a German word for this, which is Führerprinzip.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Been in the hospital since Saturday, getting out today 💪💪💪

not liking bald guys makes you a pedophile btw

for the people in the driver's seat of the right wing cultural movement, an end to "DEI" always meant doing things like sending free money to a white lady who called a child the n word. sorry if you thought it was about a slightly annoying HR webinar you once had to watch or whatever.

we need to talk about the pathological culture of hate that millions of americans raise their children in

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

hot take but i do not think we should destroy the global economy so some people get to live out their industrial fetish

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

frankersteen

oops all calvinism

yeah, weird that the left wasn’t present at the Fourteen Words conference

orange man potentially antichrist

american traders need to stop letting their politically correct ideas getting in the way of market realities

big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"

i am like 80% serious when i say that woke is the only thing that kept this country together

Simultaneously an attack on free speech, higher education, and the international students who subsidize American students

Fell down the stairs. That shit hurted

Swing voters literally weren't sure which party supported abortion. They thought Trump didn't really mean it with the authoritarian stuff or wouldn't deport their friends. The idea that the problem is our failure to provide an EVEN MORE complicated case in our favor doesn't pass the smell test

virtually every major political event since had people arguing literally anything else to avoid that simple fact, and every one of those arguments has been demonstrated wrong over and over by the behavior of the right, and yet they still argue it