"trigger warning: everybody in this story fucking sucks." @jefftiedrich.bsky.social

The Gestapo have got high tech facial recognition tech. This won't end well.

Fewer items, and storebrand items – not namebrand.

Huge spike in Shein purchases by Republicans in 3...2...1...

"I don’t know who he is. ... I heard it was a Biden witch hunt,”

""I'd rather not have you ask the question," Trump said in a deleted portion of the interview." Well, okay then.

"...there appears to be a strong association between COVID-19 infections in pregnant women and higher rates of autism and other neurodevelopmental issues. It is literally the opposite of everything they have ever believed."

“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Why are these terrible things happening? …they're happening because Republicans want them to happen."

“Republican leaders blamed poor Americans for the Great Depression, saying they drained the economy because they refused to work hard enough.”

“It’s not just taking a hands-off approach and saying, ‘we won’t protect consumers,’ it’s saying, ‘we are going to actively harm you.’”

“If the republic were the Titanic…Congress would be the first-class passengers already in the lifeboats -- with their doctors aboard, their gold-tier coverage guaranteed, and the rest of the country left to drown in the frozen waters.”

Every time Trump gets his panties in a wad and raises tariffs, American's pay the price and our former reliable trading partners run into the waiting arms of China.

"...NBC News reported today that [ICE] rush to get new recruits onto the street has meant they have pushed into their training program more than 200 people who have disqualifying criminal backgrounds, fail drug testing, or don’t meet the academic or physical requirements." @hcrichardson.bsky.social

"There are currently no approved plans to rebuild, no permits, no signs of weatherproofing for a construction project begun just before winter, no indication that the history or the paintings or the artifacts in the East Wing were preserved. There is only the destruction of the People’s House."

"it must be fucking exhausting to be MAGA. every day you have to wake up and find some new outrage to be lose your mind over. ‘come on, you commies, that’s not how real men dance. real men dance like they’re jacking off two invisible giraffes.’"

"MAGA Republicans have abandoned the idea of politics, which is the process of engaging in debate and negotiation to attract support and win power. What is left when a system loses the give and take of politics is force." @hcrichardson.bsky.social

With Vought, Miller, Noem, Hegseth, Tя☭mp, et al, running the show this isn't the Republican future - this is the Republican now.

"Democrats are saying it’s illegal because it is illegal. The Antideficiency Act,... prohibits the government from spending money that Congress has not appropriated for that purpose, or agreeing to contracts that spend money Congress has not appropriated for that purpose."

During No Kings Day, as a threat.

People lost their livelihoods were harassed online, and received death threats for less offensive statements about Charlie Kirk. @boingboing.net

"The court’s immunity decision alone gave Trump the green light to do whatever he wanted and let everyone else pick up the pieces. Coupled with the misuse and abuse of the court’s emergency — or “shadow” — docket..."

Obama basically got the Nobel Peace Prize for not being George W. Bush, and the next Dem president is going to get a Nobel Peace Prize for not being Donald Trump. look, that's just the way it works. I don't make the rules

“In a late-night post … the president claimed that Joe Biden planted hundreds of agents in the crowd during the bloody siege on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021—despite the fact that Trump was the one in office at the time.” If Biden had done this, Republicans would be baying for blood.

"it’s Republicans —who control all three branches of government —keeping the government shuttered. and it’s Mike Johnson who has given the House an open-ended vacation, so that he can avoid swearing in Adelita Grijalva, whose 218th vote on the Massie discharge petition..." @jefftiedrich.bsky.social

"Even when packages aren’t destroyed, the fees that are being charged are often ridiculous. One Reddit user posted a screenshot showing they had an import fee of $769.32 on an order of $175 coming from the United Kingdom. Again, it’s all thanks to Trump."

"It’s not just that they are going after women and health workers for things that by all rights should be legal, but that they don’t mind violating the laws of other states or arresting people on incredibly flimsy evidence in the process of doing so." @wonkettemedia.bsky.social

Anti-fascist Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize instead of fascist Cheeto Mussolini.

There's only one thing more fragile than a conservative white man's ego - their sexuality.