Erin E. Worrel 🍁
@erinerex.bsky.social
Vampire Slayer in training, graduate of Costco Law School
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OK everyone this is really simple - Nazis bad. The end.
Well I've never died from unsafe food or know anybody who has, checkmate libs! No one ever died from lack of safety regulations!
Yet another element of safety and public health that many Americans take completely for granted, and worse, do not understand *why* we have the level of safety we do
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Well I've never died from unsafe food or know anybody who has, checkmate libs! No one ever died from lack of safety regulations!
They do not. A whole lot of invisible systems that America took for granted are now piles of ash. Great job voters, thank you so much.
I've lived in countries that lack the food safety protections we have in the US, and I think a lot of Americans don't really understand just how frequent injuries and deaths from dangerous food are in places that lack even our own (absolutely imperfect) standards.
A second Trump administration, empowered by the Supreme Court's strike-down of Chevron, would absolutely translate into "even worse American food safety standards."
The GOP hates the regulatory state, and that includes the regulators that try to keep chicken from killing you.
The GOP hates the regulatory state, and that includes the regulators that try to keep chicken from killing you.
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
They do not. A whole lot of invisible systems that America took for granted are now piles of ash. Great job voters, thank you so much.
Elections have consequences. Voters wanted Republicans to control the federal government so here we are. There is no magic button. There are no good options, only bad and worse. What was the endgame here? What was the alternative?
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Elections have consequences. Voters wanted Republicans to control the federal government so here we are. There is no magic button. There are no good options, only bad and worse. What was the endgame here? What was the alternative?
Well maybe voters shouldn't have handed the federal government to reactionary nihilists but once again, only Dems have agency.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Well maybe voters shouldn't have handed the federal government to reactionary nihilists but once again, only Dems have agency.
It's everyone, everywhere. Not just the Bluesky left. It's legacy press, beltway way press, pundits, local press, everyone. Only Dems have agency.
Yeah this flowchart is how Bluesky left (and by extension social media left) acts when the Dems do ANYTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's everyone, everywhere. Not just the Bluesky left. It's legacy press, beltway way press, pundits, local press, everyone. Only Dems have agency.
Yes but millions of voters, mostly white ones, choose this in every election, year after year
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Yes but millions of voters, mostly white ones, choose this in every election, year after year
Unironically this for the median Trump voter
My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Unironically this for the median Trump voter
Too few people realize that our public health apparatus has been decimated and what could be taken for granted is no longer. Everyone is about to find out the hard way that a functioning state is Good Actually
a public health sector that will not have much federal regulatory capacity (or any capacity whatsoever approaching what we had) for at least a generation or more.
compared to everything else going wrong, is the juice worth the squeeze? i really, really doubt it now, sadly
compared to everything else going wrong, is the juice worth the squeeze? i really, really doubt it now, sadly
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Too few people realize that our public health apparatus has been decimated and what could be taken for granted is no longer. Everyone is about to find out the hard way that a functioning state is Good Actually
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these assholes made a payment processing website or “invented” 2 day shipping or made Hot or Not 2 and so we gave them all our money and put them in charge of tech?
make it make sense…these guys are “right place right time” and nothing more to it than that and now they have all our money
make it make sense…these guys are “right place right time” and nothing more to it than that and now they have all our money
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
these assholes made a payment processing website or “invented” 2 day shipping or made Hot or Not 2 and so we gave them all our money and put them in charge of tech?
make it make sense…these guys are “right place right time” and nothing more to it than that and now they have all our money
make it make sense…these guys are “right place right time” and nothing more to it than that and now they have all our money
Elections have consequences. No, that doesn't mean that I think anyone deserves to suffer; only that the people who voters handed the federal government to said they would do this.
abcnews.go.com/US/insane-ac...
abcnews.go.com/US/insane-ac...
'It's insane': ACA policyholders say soaring health insurance premiums are jeopardizing lives
Colorado mom Astrid Storey, a thyroid cancer patient with an autoimmune disorder, was recently notified of a jump in her monthly premiums under the Affordable Care Act.
abcnews.go.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Elections have consequences. No, that doesn't mean that I think anyone deserves to suffer; only that the people who voters handed the federal government to said they would do this.
abcnews.go.com/US/insane-ac...
abcnews.go.com/US/insane-ac...
Thank you so much voters
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Thank you so much voters
I will vote for anyone who vows to aggressively investigate and prosecute Musk.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I will vote for anyone who vows to aggressively investigate and prosecute Musk.
Shoutout to everyone who just had to vote for Trump for "the economy"
🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Shoutout to everyone who just had to vote for Trump for "the economy"
Well yes but blowing people up is just so much more fun! /s
What really saves lives is access to treatment, test strips, overdose reversal drugs, and people who can make a living caring for others in their community.
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Well yes but blowing people up is just so much more fun! /s
Wait, Mamdani was born in 1991 which makes him unquestionably a millennial. I've seen "Gen Z mayor" and what?? Not even close. The brain-rotted TikTok generation does not get to claim him!
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Wait, Mamdani was born in 1991 which makes him unquestionably a millennial. I've seen "Gen Z mayor" and what?? Not even close. The brain-rotted TikTok generation does not get to claim him!
Same thing for climate, vaccines, pandemic preparedness, etc. Thank you so much voters. Glad to see you have buyers remorse but the damage has been done. Oh, and the lives destroyed by the immigration policies and mass firings of civil servants.
All of the scientific research that has been destroyed won't be just magically restored. The dead kids from the destruction of USAID can't be resurrected. The broken trust between our once-strong alliances won't be easily rebuilt. We will feel the consequences of 2024 for the rest of my lifetime.
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Same thing for climate, vaccines, pandemic preparedness, etc. Thank you so much voters. Glad to see you have buyers remorse but the damage has been done. Oh, and the lives destroyed by the immigration policies and mass firings of civil servants.
A hollow victory. The destruction in the past 10 months will take decades to fix, if it can be fixed at all. And you can't bring back the dead.
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A hollow victory. The destruction in the past 10 months will take decades to fix, if it can be fixed at all. And you can't bring back the dead.
This is the way
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is the way
Right wing reactionaries are OBSESSED with this. Along this same line, I swear they want low income people to wear burlap sacks.
but there's always a moral panic that some poor person somewhere is spending their snap benefits in ways that allow them to get too much enjoyment out of life.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Right wing reactionaries are OBSESSED with this. Along this same line, I swear they want low income people to wear burlap sacks.
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So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
Propaganda works. Americans think that Republicans are better for the economy, even though all available evidence from the past 40 years shows the exact opposite. And yet.
Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Propaganda works. Americans think that Republicans are better for the economy, even though all available evidence from the past 40 years shows the exact opposite. And yet.
Exactly. I don't think anyone has more contempt for the American electorate than I do.
"The American electorate has become substantially dumber and more evil" is the basic truth no one wants to grapple with
November 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Exactly. I don't think anyone has more contempt for the American electorate than I do.