Tommy Boy
@slownomaguy.bsky.social
Wine lover, cat dad, curmudgeon. If you sit at a poker table and can't figure out who's the sucker... It's you. The "Golden Years" are a myth, so live for today.
I/me
I/me
Madness. They've turned the clock back to the 50's. When Salk created the first polio vaccine in 1955, he gave it away, for free. He considered it a moral imperative, and never thought to profit from it. He was hailed as a hero. I wonder what kind of reception he would get now.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Madness. They've turned the clock back to the 50's. When Salk created the first polio vaccine in 1955, he gave it away, for free. He considered it a moral imperative, and never thought to profit from it. He was hailed as a hero. I wonder what kind of reception he would get now.
Sorry Mike, regardless of what it's based on, it's still an opinion.
When a judge renders a decision based on the facts, they call it a ruling.
When a jury does the same thing, they call it a verdict.
And when SCOTUS renders a decision based on the facts, they call it... an opinion!
When a judge renders a decision based on the facts, they call it a ruling.
When a jury does the same thing, they call it a verdict.
And when SCOTUS renders a decision based on the facts, they call it... an opinion!
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Sorry Mike, regardless of what it's based on, it's still an opinion.
When a judge renders a decision based on the facts, they call it a ruling.
When a jury does the same thing, they call it a verdict.
And when SCOTUS renders a decision based on the facts, they call it... an opinion!
When a judge renders a decision based on the facts, they call it a ruling.
When a jury does the same thing, they call it a verdict.
And when SCOTUS renders a decision based on the facts, they call it... an opinion!
"I've been waiting here for so long
And all this time that passed me by
It doesn't seem to matter now
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say"
And all this time that passed me by
It doesn't seem to matter now
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say"
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"I've been waiting here for so long
And all this time that passed me by
It doesn't seem to matter now
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say"
And all this time that passed me by
It doesn't seem to matter now
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say"
Sorry Ed, but if a statement like this was necessary, it’s 100% what Trump wants to do.
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Sorry Ed, but if a statement like this was necessary, it’s 100% what Trump wants to do.
What the actual fuck?!
If a swastika or a noose isn't a symbol of hate, what on earth is?
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What the actual fuck?!
Donald and his lackey miss out on the event of the season.
Trump and Vance not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral, but all four living former vice presidents attending | CNN Politics
Past presidents and politicians of both parties will gather Thursday in Washington, DC, for former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral — sending off a key figure of pre-MAGA Republican politics.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Donald and his lackey miss out on the event of the season.
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At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
At the moment, the official voice of the US government is a rancid mixture of trolling, cruelty, propaganda, and crass jokes about the human suffering they’re creating.
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Not so sure the White House is going to be too happy with this ratio over at the other place
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Not so sure the White House is going to be too happy with this ratio over at the other place
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Fucking Democrats. Once again, they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Fucking Democrats. Once again, they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Only a despot starves his people for political gain. #Trump is a monster, pure evil, barely human.
The pause allows, for now, the president to keep using hungry Americans as a political weapon.
Trump's war on the hungry continues with Supreme Court win
The pause allows, for now, the president to keep using hungry Americans as a political weapon.
www.motherjones.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Only a despot starves his people for political gain. #Trump is a monster, pure evil, barely human.
I heard some on the right say this was Photoshopped. But I’ve also seen the video, and it looks even worse. If ever there was a metaphor for #Trump and his administration’s total lack of regard for America and Americans, this is it.
The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.
25/47
25/47
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I heard some on the right say this was Photoshopped. But I’ve also seen the video, and it looks even worse. If ever there was a metaphor for #Trump and his administration’s total lack of regard for America and Americans, this is it.
Maybe, but having a “come to Jesus” epiphany while still collaborating with the Devil is bullshit.
Good tweet-length summary from a conservative talk show host.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Maybe, but having a “come to Jesus” epiphany while still collaborating with the Devil is bullshit.
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Amid horrendously long lines at food banks around the country, the president is willing to let Americans go hungry.
Trump sure seems eager to starve the poor
The president can't quite suppress his sinister goal of withholding benefits from hungry Americans, even as the White House insists otherwise.
www.motherjones.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Amid horrendously long lines at food banks around the country, the president is willing to let Americans go hungry.
Lying to the American public and needlessly costing the lives of 4,400 servicemen and women plus several hundred thousand Iraqi citizens, and condoning the torture of captured solders. Is that also part of the evolution of American conservatism?
Nicholas Lemann remembers Dick Cheney, whose life “makes for a good means of tracking the evolution of the Republican Party and American conservatism over the past half century.”
Dick Cheney’s Brand of Conservatism
For years before taking office, the former Vice-President appeared less dogmatic than he was.
www.newyorker.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Lying to the American public and needlessly costing the lives of 4,400 servicemen and women plus several hundred thousand Iraqi citizens, and condoning the torture of captured solders. Is that also part of the evolution of American conservatism?
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From The Archives:
Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library Opens In Pitch-Dark, Sulfurous Underground Cave https://theonion.com/dick-cheney-vice-presidential-library-opens-in-pitch-da-1819574915/
Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library Opens In Pitch-Dark, Sulfurous Underground Cave https://theonion.com/dick-cheney-vice-presidential-library-opens-in-pitch-da-1819574915/
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
From The Archives:
Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library Opens In Pitch-Dark, Sulfurous Underground Cave https://theonion.com/dick-cheney-vice-presidential-library-opens-in-pitch-da-1819574915/
Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library Opens In Pitch-Dark, Sulfurous Underground Cave https://theonion.com/dick-cheney-vice-presidential-library-opens-in-pitch-da-1819574915/
@newyorker.com Don't you dare glamorize or glorify this POS. The lies, distortions, and perversions he and Bush perpetuated on the country led to the deaths of nearly 5,000 American servicemen and women. He deserves condemnation, not honor.
Dick Cheney died today, at 84. In 2001, Nicholas Lemann profiled the former Vice-President, a man who played the political game so shrewdly that it obscured, to a remarkable extent, the ideological end to which he played it: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_tNk1r
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@newyorker.com Don't you dare glamorize or glorify this POS. The lies, distortions, and perversions he and Bush perpetuated on the country led to the deaths of nearly 5,000 American servicemen and women. He deserves condemnation, not honor.
Thanks for cleaning that up @davidcorn.bsky.social. So much clutter and ranting, it's easy to lose sight of his true intentions.
I will withhold food from millions of American families and cause many children to go hungry.
Thank you for you attention to this matter.
Thank you for you attention to this matter.
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thanks for cleaning that up @davidcorn.bsky.social. So much clutter and ranting, it's easy to lose sight of his true intentions.
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Just heard that Dick Cheney died and instantly thought of it this clip that introduced me to the comedy of @pattonoswalt.bsky.social ages and ages ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQS...
Patton Oswalt - The Dukes Of Hazzard.wmv
YouTube video by ExtremeHoward
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November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Just heard that Dick Cheney died and instantly thought of it this clip that introduced me to the comedy of @pattonoswalt.bsky.social ages and ages ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQS...
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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’
@stephenking.bsky.social most of us can only dream of being the topic of an Onion bit
(It is a bit, right?)
(It is a bit, right?)
Studios Enter Bidding War Over Napkin Stephen King Wrote ‘Ghoul’ On
Studios Enter Bidding War Over Napkin Stephen King Wrote ‘Ghoul’ On
LOS ANGELES—Anticipating the project could be the biggest horror hit of the decade, film studios were reportedly locked in a bidding war Friday over a napkin Stephen King had written the word “Ghoul” ...
theonion.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
@stephenking.bsky.social most of us can only dream of being the topic of an Onion bit
(It is a bit, right?)
(It is a bit, right?)
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After another night of parties at his Palm Beach country club followed by a second round of golf, Emperor Nero J. Trump Caligula will return to DC to resume work on his gilded $350 million ballroom.
November 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
After another night of parties at his Palm Beach country club followed by a second round of golf, Emperor Nero J. Trump Caligula will return to DC to resume work on his gilded $350 million ballroom.