Walter Wiggum

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Not sure what the authors' counting methodology is, but I suspect @governor.pa.gov might disagree with their assertion that the assassination of Speaker Hortman is the "only ... right-wing-terrorist incident ... in the first six months of 2025."

"I can't believe it's not MU/TH/UR" was RIGHT THERE.

Slightly diminish a book The Dark 63/128ths

@petridishes.bsky.social is a national treasure. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Just checking--has anybody looked into how much it would cost to cover a giant hollow wooden horse in tacky gold leaf?

Seriously, not literally. No, wait. Literally, not seriously. No, wait. Neither seriously nor literally. No, wai

Don't put pictures of @booker.senate.gov , age 55, up next to pictures of Strom Racist Dixiecrat Shitstain Thurmond at age 976. Thurmond was ALSO 55 when he made his dirtbag racist filibuster speech, but wasn't half as cogent as Sen. Booker.

WITHHOLD UNANIMOUS CONSENT.

@booker.senate.gov Thank you. Sen. Schumer is right for once: America is hugely proud of you.

I certainly don't always agree with @booker.senate.gov , but this is an important and impressive feat.

ACC > SEC

when you are longing for an old vampire movie the feeling is called nosferalgia

"Crazy that they're just going on talk shows and repeating the lie when we have the texts" No, it's plainly not. They have NEVER ONCE suffered any lasting consequence for even the most blatant lies. This regime is founded on lies and continues to exist only by lying.

"What we were texting was CONFLICT plans, which is COMPLETELY different from the WAR on Venezuelan non-state actors."

Mr. Bouie has identified the fundamental problem with America.

Paul, Weiss can eat a fucking dick.

He meant he'd bring STOCK prices down on day one, y'all. #promisesmadepromiseskept

Ad inferos abite, o filii Carolinae, usque ad inferos abite

"Designated Survivor" S1E1 rewatch party tonight at my place!

Be careful who you listen to, you may end up dying of dysentery 🫣

@amandaknox.com continues to be an island of delight in a sea of... you know.

In addition to everything else, he's deeply wrong about, this shyster apparently thinks the felon's name is "Trumps."

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

It is the position of the administration that a post saying “Free Palestine” or talking about diversity should ruin your life, but a post calling to hate people from India should not. That’s their moral sensibility. Nazi scum.

Lol at all the "Trump will end the forever wars" chodes

So is it pronounced "doggy," "dodgy," "douche," "douchey," or "doughy"?

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a [gold-plated clown shoe] stamping on a human face—forever." —George Orwell, 1984

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If you're at a concert and the singer holds the mic out and makes you sing the lyrics you should get some of your money back

Calling it now: Trump is going to violate the Third Amendment.

But what if the real Substance was the friends we made along the way?

It's not a "plague of porn bots." It's sexually transmitted botulism.

"Evidence of insurrection: the Bloody Whig." I drew this in 2021-22 based on a WaPo photo of the statue of Pres. Taylor that some Trumpkin thug smeared with blood during the Jan 6 insurrection, and that was then covered in plastic to preserve evidence. Felt like an appropriate time to repost.

Is there somebody who enjoys quicktime buttonpress cutscene "gameplay"? Because if there is, that person is wrong.

occasional arting

RFK Jr should live his convictions. He needs to eat more raw bacteria, raw mold, and raw tapeworms.

technically after the first week of December it's a "manifestive"

We get some nice sunsets in DC sometimes.

Thank you, Mr. President and Secretary Blinken.

Anyone who'd agree to serve at the pleasure of Donald Trump is obviously deeply and irredeemably compromised, but many of them are going to be confirmed by his servile senators regardless. It's important to keep our focus on preventing the most dangerous ones from being confirmed.

Every single Trumpkin that comes to BlueSky to troll is only serving to increase BlueSky's active and total user counts (before getting immediately blocked), and every minute they spend posting here is a minute they're not eyeballing ads for the First Lady's competing service. BRING IT.

Haven't been drawing much lately, but I expect to need more distraction over these next four years again. Here's a Somerton Man sketch from earlier this year.