Not a Rake
@briantalbotts.bsky.social
They/them/she/her
trans rights are human rights!
I'm free from the Bird app
Htown Till I drown
Hook'em
trans rights are human rights!
I'm free from the Bird app
Htown Till I drown
Hook'em
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HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
HAITI ARE INTO THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP IN HALF A CENTURY ❤️
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We need your help! But let me explain why:
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We need your help! But let me explain why:
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Win every election forever IS the answer. That’s what democracy means. There is no grand finale and swelling music and they all lived happily ever after. You dig this thing out at the coal face, every day. The alternative is not Utopia, the alternative is dictatorship. Or chaos.
I fucking hate the way social media has embraced the “win every election forever can’t be the answer” straw man. Yes, we need structural change. Yes, it’s hard. Yes, it will continue to be hard and require work. Every time I see this it feels like people lusting for an easy forever answer.
November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Win every election forever IS the answer. That’s what democracy means. There is no grand finale and swelling music and they all lived happily ever after. You dig this thing out at the coal face, every day. The alternative is not Utopia, the alternative is dictatorship. Or chaos.
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i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying
@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I apologize for the voice mails kirby smart makes me want to punch several walls hook rm
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I apologize for the voice mails kirby smart makes me want to punch several walls hook rm
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Unfortunately, they are still the Knicks, and appealing to the Vicar of Christ is still not going to be enough to win a title.
Spike Lee gifts Pope Leo XIV a New York Knicks shirt, during world of cinema event at the Vatican #AssociatedPress
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Spike Lee gifts Pope Leo XIV a New York Knicks shirt, during world of cinema event at the Vatican
twp.ai
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Unfortunately, they are still the Knicks, and appealing to the Vicar of Christ is still not going to be enough to win a title.
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A Dem senator had one (1) flight canceled and decided to give into Republican demands and re-open the government. That's exactly what happened.
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A Dem senator had one (1) flight canceled and decided to give into Republican demands and re-open the government. That's exactly what happened.
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Omar Cooper Jr.'s insane touchdown catch to put Indiana ahead 27-24 over Penn State may have been what finally broke Gus Johnson.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Omar Cooper Jr.'s insane touchdown catch to put Indiana ahead 27-24 over Penn State may have been what finally broke Gus Johnson.
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full Gus Johnson ascension here, he's hit escape velocity and someone needs to get the net
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
full Gus Johnson ascension here, he's hit escape velocity and someone needs to get the net
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He’s been waiting for a good game all year bro lol
Gus Johnson is gonna pop a blood vessel calling this game
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
He’s been waiting for a good game all year bro lol
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"Genocide Joe" was coined in early 2022 because a court ruled that Joe Biden could not enact the mask mandate that he put in place when he took office.
I think at some point we're going to have to have a reckoning on how the memefication of "genocide" and "genocidaire" as extremely bad and harmful for pretty much everyone except Trump.
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"Genocide Joe" was coined in early 2022 because a court ruled that Joe Biden could not enact the mask mandate that he put in place when he took office.
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it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans
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this guy is 100% correct and american political christianity is all a disgusting heresy
Reverend David Black has a Bible open and is preaching to the police now, inviting them to join him in standing with the persecuted inside the detention center.
"Which side do you think Jesus wanted his followers to be on?"
"Which side do you think Jesus wanted his followers to be on?"
November 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
this guy is 100% correct and american political christianity is all a disgusting heresy
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Spends a kajillion dollars on a QB he doesn't trust to complete a couple of passes in 25 seconds (with a timeout).
We've entered the Mario Cristobal Game Management Hour
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Spends a kajillion dollars on a QB he doesn't trust to complete a couple of passes in 25 seconds (with a timeout).
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"If I can, a hearty hello to everyone watching on YouTube TV. We don't need you to send an email or make a phone call, just hang out. You might like it." - TNT's Adam Lefkoe 🔥💀
November 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"If I can, a hearty hello to everyone watching on YouTube TV. We don't need you to send an email or make a phone call, just hang out. You might like it." - TNT's Adam Lefkoe 🔥💀
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Just to give an example: it was the Obama WH that functionally deported MF DOOM, and the Biden campaign using DOOM’s music was always a real gross move. We have not been led by left-wing open borders Dems.
Can I also just say, again, that the Biden admin under no circumstances committed to “left-wing” migration policy, in any way, shape, or form. I want Douthat to articulate what specific policies he thinks are included in that, because I think he seriously misunderstands the policies at issue.
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
November 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just to give an example: it was the Obama WH that functionally deported MF DOOM, and the Biden campaign using DOOM’s music was always a real gross move. We have not been led by left-wing open borders Dems.
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I do wonder how many votes Cuomo lost by being so openly racist that it angered people who were looking for an excuse to back him because the number is not zero
Al Sharpton introducing Mamdani, w/ mentioning Cuomo by name says, "it's saturday before election day only one candidate showed up," goes onto rail "the ugly islamophobia," in the final days of the race, "if you can't get a vote on your record, don't play us against each other."
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I do wonder how many votes Cuomo lost by being so openly racist that it angered people who were looking for an excuse to back him because the number is not zero
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
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The usage of Abraham Lincoln iconography during this time period is so interesting
Here, he's equated to Sun Yat-sen. Meanwhile in 1938, the CPUSA thought so highly of him that they made that absolutely huge art deco bas relief of him as a backdrop for their rally
Here, he's equated to Sun Yat-sen. Meanwhile in 1938, the CPUSA thought so highly of him that they made that absolutely huge art deco bas relief of him as a backdrop for their rally
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The usage of Abraham Lincoln iconography during this time period is so interesting
Here, he's equated to Sun Yat-sen. Meanwhile in 1938, the CPUSA thought so highly of him that they made that absolutely huge art deco bas relief of him as a backdrop for their rally
Here, he's equated to Sun Yat-sen. Meanwhile in 1938, the CPUSA thought so highly of him that they made that absolutely huge art deco bas relief of him as a backdrop for their rally
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The Washington Post with a story about how remaking an institution to appeal to the pro-Trump right doesn't help the bottom line.
EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover
Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Washington Post with a story about how remaking an institution to appeal to the pro-Trump right doesn't help the bottom line.
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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Remember during oral argument on the presidential immunity case when conservative justices scoffed at and mocked the hypothetical that a president with immunity could just start killing whoever he wanted and there was nothing that could be done if he has immunity?
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Remember during oral argument on the presidential immunity case when conservative justices scoffed at and mocked the hypothetical that a president with immunity could just start killing whoever he wanted and there was nothing that could be done if he has immunity?
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one of the original sins of the Second American Republic is that Jeff Davis did not hang from a sour apple tree
I think the counterfactual where we get Radical Reconstruction is "Hamlin is not replaced on the ticket." That's "mass state suicide, drawing freedmen states, shooting or hanging a large number of Confederate insurgents" time.
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
one of the original sins of the Second American Republic is that Jeff Davis did not hang from a sour apple tree
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POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet
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Holy shit
WATCH: #Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on who will 'not' be selecting the next coach of #LSUfootball #lagov #lalege #LouisianaFirstNews
October 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Holy shit