Rick Apocalypse
@rickapocalypse25.bsky.social
Vocalist for Kaitak. #DGG
Guys like Buckley's Chance are the male version of Coquette Catholic girls, using catholicism only as an aesthetic.
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Guys like Buckley's Chance are the male version of Coquette Catholic girls, using catholicism only as an aesthetic.
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Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
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The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.
Nearly 2 million Americans on unemployment, highest since pandemic era
Continuing unemployment claims jumped to 1.97 million in late July, according to a Labor Department report, highlighting a weakening labor market.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.
Did anyone read the article?
"he continued, again reiterating his belief that those questions 'should be handled by communities and by sports leagues, not politicians.'"
He is not even talking about banning trans women in sports. This outrage feels astroturfed.
"he continued, again reiterating his belief that those questions 'should be handled by communities and by sports leagues, not politicians.'"
He is not even talking about banning trans women in sports. This outrage feels astroturfed.
Yeah, I'm never voting for Buttigieg even if he's the nominee. This is a bright line for me. You cave on trans issues and lend credence to bigots, it's over. I'm not letting the Dems go down the path of Labour.
www.them.us/story/pete-b...
www.them.us/story/pete-b...
Pete Buttigieg Doubles Down on Comments About the “Fairness” of Trans People in Sports
“I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."
www.them.us
August 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Did anyone read the article?
"he continued, again reiterating his belief that those questions 'should be handled by communities and by sports leagues, not politicians.'"
He is not even talking about banning trans women in sports. This outrage feels astroturfed.
"he continued, again reiterating his belief that those questions 'should be handled by communities and by sports leagues, not politicians.'"
He is not even talking about banning trans women in sports. This outrage feels astroturfed.
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The US is starting to look more and more like an elected monarchy.
The president is immune from anything he does while in office, he has absolute authority over gov agencies, and he can ignore the courts. Which means he can ignore the law and therefore Congress.
What is the name of this? A king.
The president is immune from anything he does while in office, he has absolute authority over gov agencies, and he can ignore the courts. Which means he can ignore the law and therefore Congress.
What is the name of this? A king.
May 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The US is starting to look more and more like an elected monarchy.
The president is immune from anything he does while in office, he has absolute authority over gov agencies, and he can ignore the courts. Which means he can ignore the law and therefore Congress.
What is the name of this? A king.
The president is immune from anything he does while in office, he has absolute authority over gov agencies, and he can ignore the courts. Which means he can ignore the law and therefore Congress.
What is the name of this? A king.
Fucking ridiculous. The Supreme Court now allows the president to fire the heads of independent agencies that regulate corporations. Just not the chairman of the Fed though, because that would be catastrophic for the economy. Most bad faith court ever.
"The theory ginned up by the GOP justices to bless their expansive vision of presidential power has some real shortcomings. Taken for all its worth, it could allow POTUS to blow up the economy by firing the Fed chair. So they had to announce an absurd exception to it." — @leahlitman.bsky.social
Law for lawlessness
The Supreme Court's Trump v. Wilcox ruling reveals its own outlawry while enabling the administration's.
www.publicnotice.co
May 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Fucking ridiculous. The Supreme Court now allows the president to fire the heads of independent agencies that regulate corporations. Just not the chairman of the Fed though, because that would be catastrophic for the economy. Most bad faith court ever.
I was initially supportive of Israel at the start of the war. But what they are doing to Gaza is sick.
But when I talk to pro palestine people here, they seem to think the attacks on Oct 7 were justified, or even good. Is that how pro palestine people feel?
#palestine #israel #gaza #genocide
But when I talk to pro palestine people here, they seem to think the attacks on Oct 7 were justified, or even good. Is that how pro palestine people feel?
#palestine #israel #gaza #genocide
May 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I was initially supportive of Israel at the start of the war. But what they are doing to Gaza is sick.
But when I talk to pro palestine people here, they seem to think the attacks on Oct 7 were justified, or even good. Is that how pro palestine people feel?
#palestine #israel #gaza #genocide
But when I talk to pro palestine people here, they seem to think the attacks on Oct 7 were justified, or even good. Is that how pro palestine people feel?
#palestine #israel #gaza #genocide
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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.
MAGA Maoism. Forget markets exist and fuck up the economy for the sake of ideology.
What's more funny is manufacturing will only come back if imports become more expensive, so consumers will buy american. But Trump doesn't want prices to rise and yet still expects manufacturing to come back anyway.
What's more funny is manufacturing will only come back if imports become more expensive, so consumers will buy american. But Trump doesn't want prices to rise and yet still expects manufacturing to come back anyway.
From Target to Walmart, retailers are fighting two battles at once: a financial battle to keep costs low in the face of new tariffs, and a political one to avoid the president's wrath.
Retailers feel pressure to eat the price increases from tariffs
From Target to Walmart, retailers are fighting two battles at once: a financial battle to keep costs low in the face of new tariffs, and a political one to avoid the president's wrath.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
MAGA Maoism. Forget markets exist and fuck up the economy for the sake of ideology.
What's more funny is manufacturing will only come back if imports become more expensive, so consumers will buy american. But Trump doesn't want prices to rise and yet still expects manufacturing to come back anyway.
What's more funny is manufacturing will only come back if imports become more expensive, so consumers will buy american. But Trump doesn't want prices to rise and yet still expects manufacturing to come back anyway.
Democrats have discovered cursing and I'm all here for it.
ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why.
SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes
SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes
May 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Democrats have discovered cursing and I'm all here for it.
Conservatives will believe anything to fit in.
Good God, vaccine hesitancy has gone from 12% to 26% among Republican parents in the last four years.
www.kff.org/health-infor...
www.kff.org/health-infor...
May 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Conservatives will believe anything to fit in.
What we need is not more news hosts or debate bros. We already have those and they deserve more support.
But what we desperately need is more normie creators who make non-political content, and every once in a while they mention politics. That's how Rogan started btw.
But what we desperately need is more normie creators who make non-political content, and every once in a while they mention politics. That's how Rogan started btw.
All the talk about a "liberal Rogan" got taken literally. Like we need just 1 guy who will be big online and save us.
It won't be one guy. The problem isn't just Rogan. It's the entire right-wing media with dozens of creators and millions of viewers who dominate everything.
It won't be one guy. The problem isn't just Rogan. It's the entire right-wing media with dozens of creators and millions of viewers who dominate everything.
May 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
What we need is not more news hosts or debate bros. We already have those and they deserve more support.
But what we desperately need is more normie creators who make non-political content, and every once in a while they mention politics. That's how Rogan started btw.
But what we desperately need is more normie creators who make non-political content, and every once in a while they mention politics. That's how Rogan started btw.
All the talk about a "liberal Rogan" got taken literally. Like we need just 1 guy who will be big online and save us.
It won't be one guy. The problem isn't just Rogan. It's the entire right-wing media with dozens of creators and millions of viewers who dominate everything.
It won't be one guy. The problem isn't just Rogan. It's the entire right-wing media with dozens of creators and millions of viewers who dominate everything.
May 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
All the talk about a "liberal Rogan" got taken literally. Like we need just 1 guy who will be big online and save us.
It won't be one guy. The problem isn't just Rogan. It's the entire right-wing media with dozens of creators and millions of viewers who dominate everything.
It won't be one guy. The problem isn't just Rogan. It's the entire right-wing media with dozens of creators and millions of viewers who dominate everything.
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New emails document how a top aide to Tulsi Gabbard ordered analysts to edit an assessment with the hope of insulating President Trump and Ms. Gabbard from being attacked for the administration’s claim that Venezuela’s government controls a criminal gang
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:19 AM
New emails document how a top aide to Tulsi Gabbard ordered analysts to edit an assessment with the hope of insulating President Trump and Ms. Gabbard from being attacked for the administration’s claim that Venezuela’s government controls a criminal gang
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
This is a band-aid solution. Why can't we just build shit anymore? Just build more housing damn it. This problem is global and endemic. Are we gonna wait 50 years of population decline to end the housing shortage?
The Spanish government ordered Airbnb to remove nearly 66,000 listings from its platform, widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a housing crisis that has become among the worst in Europe.
Spain Orders Airbnb to Take Down 66,000 Rental Listings
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This is a band-aid solution. Why can't we just build shit anymore? Just build more housing damn it. This problem is global and endemic. Are we gonna wait 50 years of population decline to end the housing shortage?
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Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.
May 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.
Beware of people on the left who only want to look good, not do good.
People who attack others for not being progressive enough, but don't want to vote, don't want to organize or build coalitions. They want to pat themselves on the back for being "progressive" while ignoring those in need.
#dgg
People who attack others for not being progressive enough, but don't want to vote, don't want to organize or build coalitions. They want to pat themselves on the back for being "progressive" while ignoring those in need.
#dgg
May 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Beware of people on the left who only want to look good, not do good.
People who attack others for not being progressive enough, but don't want to vote, don't want to organize or build coalitions. They want to pat themselves on the back for being "progressive" while ignoring those in need.
#dgg
People who attack others for not being progressive enough, but don't want to vote, don't want to organize or build coalitions. They want to pat themselves on the back for being "progressive" while ignoring those in need.
#dgg
"President Lincoln executed habeas corpus".
"executed"
They are implementing newspeak to say habeas corpus is the opposite of what it is.
In the same hearing she said habeas corpus is the constitutional right of the president to remove people from the country.
"executed"
They are implementing newspeak to say habeas corpus is the opposite of what it is.
In the same hearing she said habeas corpus is the constitutional right of the president to remove people from the country.
KIM: Do you know what section of the Constitution the suspension clause of habeas corpus is in?
NOEM: I do not. Nope.
KIM: Do you know which article is it in?
NOEM: I do not, sir.
NOEM: I do not. Nope.
KIM: Do you know which article is it in?
NOEM: I do not, sir.
May 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"President Lincoln executed habeas corpus".
"executed"
They are implementing newspeak to say habeas corpus is the opposite of what it is.
In the same hearing she said habeas corpus is the constitutional right of the president to remove people from the country.
"executed"
They are implementing newspeak to say habeas corpus is the opposite of what it is.
In the same hearing she said habeas corpus is the constitutional right of the president to remove people from the country.
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The Secretary of Homeland Security can’t answer a basic legal question.
May 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Secretary of Homeland Security can’t answer a basic legal question.
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
May 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
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It's an absolutely bizarre bill only criminalizes porn if you purchase it from a creator themselves. Studio content and pre-recorded content are exempted.
As with all "Nordic model" legislation, it actually takes away independence and agency and requires sex workers to work through third-parties.
As with all "Nordic model" legislation, it actually takes away independence and agency and requires sex workers to work through third-parties.
May 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It's an absolutely bizarre bill only criminalizes porn if you purchase it from a creator themselves. Studio content and pre-recorded content are exempted.
As with all "Nordic model" legislation, it actually takes away independence and agency and requires sex workers to work through third-parties.
As with all "Nordic model" legislation, it actually takes away independence and agency and requires sex workers to work through third-parties.
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Starting to think that bombarding people with content designed to make them ill-informed, angry, and antisocial for hours upon hours a day has been a real disaster for society and possibly not one we can come back from in our lifetimes
May 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Starting to think that bombarding people with content designed to make them ill-informed, angry, and antisocial for hours upon hours a day has been a real disaster for society and possibly not one we can come back from in our lifetimes
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“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”
Does Kristi Noem even know what habeas corpus is?
The Homeland Security secretary's word salad raised even more questions about the administration's assault on fundamental rights.
www.motherjones.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”