This is LITERALLY a direct quote from Otto ("don't call me stupid!") in A Fish Called Wanda.

"I voted for Trump because I wanted him to oppress the gays, not me!" I know we need to have a big tent to welcome back those who regret their vote, but it's difficult to have any empathy for someone who is this misinformed and hateful.

Anyone else have trouble sleeping because your dreams are too mentally active - full of made-up legal problems, arguments with people, and stress about obligations that don’t exist? Any advice? #lawsky

I profoundly wish these people were still capable of feeling shame.

This is the right response. Separately - Why does ICE even have service weapons? They are not trained law enforcement officers in any sense. This was murder and people need to be arrested.

Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ. I will fight anyone who tries to "both sides" this administration.

Well, I guess the Trump Admin will get some experience running nationalized universal healthcare.

Well, that’s a huge bucket of cold water on anyone maintaining hope that this year would be any less of an unmitigated clusterfuck than 2025. #Venezuela

This administration’s bigotry is exceeded only by its abject stupidity.

What the fuck is Nate talking about?

Just when I think I can no longer be shocked by this administration, Dan Bovino goes on Newsmax in full-out Nazi cosplay.

This is the funniest point/counterpoint I’ve seen in a long time.

Intrusive thought of the day: What must it be like to have a life where people are just happy to see you?

This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad

Introduce yourself with artists you've seen multiple times: Jonatha Brooke (6) Barenaked Ladies (5) Ben Folds (4) Moxy Früvous (4) Indigo Girls (4) Billy Joel (4) Lots of 2’s - Elton John, TMBG, Ani DiFranco, Sting, OK Go, Susan Werner, Stevie Nicks, Rufus Wainwright, Brandi Carlile, Nickel Creek

Why oh why would Microsoft Word change the default so that footnotes aren’t included in word count unless you click a box? Thought I was done and now have another 1400 words to cut. #lawsky

Dershowitz isn’t the big fish I care about, but regardless, this is what we in the legal profession call “very bad.”

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Is this in question? The entire existence of ICE can be attributed to Cheney’s influence over GWB after 9/11 that led to the creation of DHS.

Never pass up a history lesson from Derek Guy. When Republicans talk about bringing back coal jobs, they want to benefit the bosses, not the workers.

I'm having flashbacks to 2002, when many of us were saying "Homeland Security? I'm not sure that's a great idea..."

Un-fucking-believable.

What five pieces of media (books, TV, movies, music, etc.) were most responsible for forming your personality? Not your favorites per se, but the ones that most influenced who you are now. (I know @deaconblues1979.bsky.social will have a good answer to this one.)

Is @merkley.senate.gov doing what @booker.senate.gov did and we’re only paying a small amount of attention????? Also, Merkley has been training for something for the past three months and he said it was a race to save the Senate but now I’m wondering if it was for this

Hello from Baltimore the hellhole! #nokings

hey girl… @anyuse.bsky.social @1dgrn.bsky.social @deaconblues1979.bsky.social

Live your life in such a way that millions of people are not disappointed to learn that you are neither dead nor incapacitated.

@ariellaelm.bsky.social is doing amazing work cataloging Democratic efforts to fight what is going on. So before you say Democrats aren’t doing anything/enough, read this whole thread and then follow her.

This news may have broken me.

Indeed, let us join them. @anyuse.bsky.social @1dgrn.bsky.social

Not a drag queen; not a trans person.

Furthest I’ve been: N: Aarhus, Denmark E: Dresden, Germany S: St. Maarten W: Muir Woods, California

Ahem.

The party of “merit” has confirmed someone whose only prior experience is being a local county judge and district attorney and who hasn’t practiced in a courtroom in 20 years. My only consolation is that she will hate having to work for a living for a fraction of what she made at Fox.

And yet they complain that the Postal Service and the NIH don’t turn a profit.

Didn’t he literally JUST criticize Powell for the Fed building renovations? I know we can’t expect consistency but come on.

Aside from the fact that this is infuriating because Vought doesn’t know a damn thing about what NIH does, but also I just discovered that Vought is *younger* than me. Evil really ages you.

This really stupid thing is that Garrett and Allegheny County, where the floods were, is Trump Country. Gov. Moore should go out there and explain exactly what their hero thinks of them.

When I was in middle school, I created a text-based baseball computer game in BASIC (yes I was a nerd). But there was something wrong with the programming that I could never solve - the game would cycle through like 9 strikes before it ever called a batter out. This is what AI reminds me of.

I received an answering machine from Ray Bradbury. In the late 90s, I wrote him a letter seeking the rights to compose an opera of Fahrenheit 451. Rather than write back, he called me personally and politely turned me down over the phone. I saved that message for years.

Every single one of these stories needs to be hung around the necks of those in power.

My 8-year-old self’s #Letterboxd Top 4 #filmsky

Aside from the obvious, this is such a bizarre statement because it's not how football teams operate. Winning teams obsessively review playbacks and drill the players to figure out how they can improve for the next game. It's not about blame - it's about how not to make the same mistakes next time.

Holy shit

This is my United States of Whatever.

Ok, top five favorite books - go! Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton The Secret History - Donna Tartt A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams (could only add 4 photos) Man that was hard! #booksky