@aardis.bsky.social
Perfect burn.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation:
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Perfect burn.
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No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
Experience matters.
I'll admit that I occasionally watch Forged in Fire (a reality show where people make edged weapons under time pressure—don't judge 😄). One of the things I find particularly interesting is how the contestants continually make the same mistakes that brought down contestants in previous shows.
1/9
1/9
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Experience matters.
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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I stand with these veterans.
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I stand with these veterans.
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When LGBTQ+ youth are supported by their parents, that support can literally save lives.
Always show unconditional love and acceptance.
Always show unconditional love and acceptance.
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
When LGBTQ+ youth are supported by their parents, that support can literally save lives.
Always show unconditional love and acceptance.
Always show unconditional love and acceptance.
It's nights like these where I really wish I could call one of the pod save America guys without earning a restraining order.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
It's nights like these where I really wish I could call one of the pod save America guys without earning a restraining order.
Well that's not utterly terrifying.
In agreement with my friend @kkjetelina.bsky.social who writes today: "I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website."
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/cdc-false-...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Well that's not utterly terrifying.
Damn. They're good at this.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Damn. They're good at this.
So much this.
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
So much this.
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For 8 months, Abbott denied Houstonians representation in Congress by delaying a special election date after Sylvester Turner's passing.
His betrayal continues, now refusing to set a runoff date. Whether on rising healthcare premium costs or releasing the Epstein files, Texans deserve a voice.
His betrayal continues, now refusing to set a runoff date. Whether on rising healthcare premium costs or releasing the Epstein files, Texans deserve a voice.
Vacant Houston Congressional seat could play key role in Epstein vote
How fast Houston's vacant congressional seat gets filled could determine when the U.S. House votes on a bill to force the release of more files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
For 8 months, Abbott denied Houstonians representation in Congress by delaying a special election date after Sylvester Turner's passing.
His betrayal continues, now refusing to set a runoff date. Whether on rising healthcare premium costs or releasing the Epstein files, Texans deserve a voice.
His betrayal continues, now refusing to set a runoff date. Whether on rising healthcare premium costs or releasing the Epstein files, Texans deserve a voice.
Why isn't everybody remembering this shit? She's nuts. She's evil. There is no tent big enough where I won't yell in her face if she walks into it.
Stalking a 19-year-old David Hogg, who had just survived a school shooting, berating him, calling him names, and accusing him of being a liar isn't "toxic politics." It's being a crude, unhinged sociopath.
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Why isn't everybody remembering this shit? She's nuts. She's evil. There is no tent big enough where I won't yell in her face if she walks into it.
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Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
The Muslims have never tried to gang-save me.
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The Muslims have never tried to gang-save me.
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Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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If a D is ever elected POTUS, razing the Trump ballroom and restoring the White House to pre-Trump status is non-negotiable.
You have to tear down the physical manifestations of authoritarianism.
You have to tear down the physical manifestations of authoritarianism.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If a D is ever elected POTUS, razing the Trump ballroom and restoring the White House to pre-Trump status is non-negotiable.
You have to tear down the physical manifestations of authoritarianism.
You have to tear down the physical manifestations of authoritarianism.
Suburban white mom to the one MAGA guy that showed up at our no king's rally: "Awww, bless you're confused little heart"
October 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Suburban white mom to the one MAGA guy that showed up at our no king's rally: "Awww, bless you're confused little heart"
This is so dumb that my brain kept sliding off of it. I had to read it slowly, one word at a time, to even understand the English it was written in.
RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."
October 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is so dumb that my brain kept sliding off of it. I had to read it slowly, one word at a time, to even understand the English it was written in.
It kind of looks like Thune is controlling him like a hand puppet.
Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low"
Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.
Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.
October 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
It kind of looks like Thune is controlling him like a hand puppet.
I really thought he was about to tell the story of The Three Little Pigs but the Wolf is ANTIFA.
Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.
October 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I really thought he was about to tell the story of The Three Little Pigs but the Wolf is ANTIFA.
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I CALL BULLSHIT!
The MAGA/GOP most recently used the nuclear option in the Senate on September 11, 2025, to speed up the confirmation of presidential nominees. This rule change was enacted to allow for the bundled consideration of multiple nominees simultaneously with a simple majority vote.
The MAGA/GOP most recently used the nuclear option in the Senate on September 11, 2025, to speed up the confirmation of presidential nominees. This rule change was enacted to allow for the bundled consideration of multiple nominees simultaneously with a simple majority vote.
October 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I CALL BULLSHIT!
The MAGA/GOP most recently used the nuclear option in the Senate on September 11, 2025, to speed up the confirmation of presidential nominees. This rule change was enacted to allow for the bundled consideration of multiple nominees simultaneously with a simple majority vote.
The MAGA/GOP most recently used the nuclear option in the Senate on September 11, 2025, to speed up the confirmation of presidential nominees. This rule change was enacted to allow for the bundled consideration of multiple nominees simultaneously with a simple majority vote.
Somebody got some new polling numbers.
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Somebody got some new polling numbers.