Chris Rimple
@chrisrimple.bsky.social
Husband, pet parent, musician, politics junkie, atheist, public speaker, and retired IT exec. Hard-core progressive - acknowledge my privileges and support BLM, LGBTQIA+, and BIPOC. Ex-Team USA and adventure seeker. Learn more at http://chrisrimple.com
@espn.com Why is the Canucks-Islanders NHL game not available (live) on ESPN+ right now? It's the only reason I have a subscription to your service, and I don't live in a blackout area. This is NOT the first time it's happened.
December 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
@espn.com Why is the Canucks-Islanders NHL game not available (live) on ESPN+ right now? It's the only reason I have a subscription to your service, and I don't live in a blackout area. This is NOT the first time it's happened.
Jon Stewart reminds us that (1) if everything is an emergency, nothing is an emergency, and (2) "norms" are not laws, the GOP has been ignoring them since Gingrich, and the Dems should change the rules if we don't like them. Filibuster, anyone?
February 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Jon Stewart reminds us that (1) if everything is an emergency, nothing is an emergency, and (2) "norms" are not laws, the GOP has been ignoring them since Gingrich, and the Dems should change the rules if we don't like them. Filibuster, anyone?
Lucas Kunce explains why the US government should not, and cannot, ever be run like a business. Keep this link handy for your friends who think that what Musk is doing is a good idea.
February 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Lucas Kunce explains why the US government should not, and cannot, ever be run like a business. Keep this link handy for your friends who think that what Musk is doing is a good idea.
@justicedemocrats.com @jayapal.house.gov Take the "centrist" title? American majority AGREES with your positions - GOP is "extreme right", Dems are "center-right", and YOU are "center". Don't let them brand you "liberal/progressive" - it's only "progressive" because USA is behind other nations.
February 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
@justicedemocrats.com @jayapal.house.gov Take the "centrist" title? American majority AGREES with your positions - GOP is "extreme right", Dems are "center-right", and YOU are "center". Don't let them brand you "liberal/progressive" - it's only "progressive" because USA is behind other nations.
Krugman explains that, yes, it IS a coup. From the inside.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe
Autogolpe
What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos
paulkrugman.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Krugman explains that, yes, it IS a coup. From the inside.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe
Trump learned well from Cheney's example with the Iraq War and Halliburton - "Rebuild Gaza" means "give billions of US taxpayers' dollars to companies owned by Trump's friends". It's ALWAYS about the grift.
February 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Trump learned well from Cheney's example with the Iraq War and Halliburton - "Rebuild Gaza" means "give billions of US taxpayers' dollars to companies owned by Trump's friends". It's ALWAYS about the grift.
@wadems.org Sharing a great idea I saw on @bsky.app: Blue states should boycott red states and their products in solidarity with Canada and Mexico. No travel, no purchases, etc. WA Dems could go further and direct all purchases to be of Canadian and Mexican products, rather than American.
February 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
@wadems.org Sharing a great idea I saw on @bsky.app: Blue states should boycott red states and their products in solidarity with Canada and Mexico. No travel, no purchases, etc. WA Dems could go further and direct all purchases to be of Canadian and Mexican products, rather than American.
Outraged that Trump let Musk access sensitive personal data? Remember that (1) the Prez can declassify anything at any time and (2) the Prez controls federal law enforcement (FBI, DOJ, etc.). "They should be stopped/arrested" only works when the cops are independent from the perpetrators.
February 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Outraged that Trump let Musk access sensitive personal data? Remember that (1) the Prez can declassify anything at any time and (2) the Prez controls federal law enforcement (FBI, DOJ, etc.). "They should be stopped/arrested" only works when the cops are independent from the perpetrators.
(2/2) @davidhogg.bsky.social @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social I want to see you push pre-Reagan tax rates, corp monopoly breakups, punishment for white collar crimes, gun control, and other Dem values for which nothing's been done since 1980.
Love younger leadership – need the same in Congress!
Love younger leadership – need the same in Congress!
February 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
(2/2) @davidhogg.bsky.social @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social I want to see you push pre-Reagan tax rates, corp monopoly breakups, punishment for white collar crimes, gun control, and other Dem values for which nothing's been done since 1980.
Love younger leadership – need the same in Congress!
Love younger leadership – need the same in Congress!
(1/2) @davidhogg.bsky.social @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social Lifelong Dem, donor, and GenXer that has lost faith. Want my support back? Drop big money donors and Wall Street, then correct the income inequality we’ve seen since the 1970s, which killed the middle class and is responsible for Trumpism.
February 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
(1/2) @davidhogg.bsky.social @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social Lifelong Dem, donor, and GenXer that has lost faith. Want my support back? Drop big money donors and Wall Street, then correct the income inequality we’ve seen since the 1970s, which killed the middle class and is responsible for Trumpism.
@thebeat.msnbc.com Why normalize Geraldo Rivera or any Trump supporter/apologist? He remained a Trump loyalist until Oct 2024, and still supports Pete Hegseth and pardons for J6 insurrectionists. Would you invite the Iraq War architects to your show? How is any Trump shill different?
January 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
@thebeat.msnbc.com Why normalize Geraldo Rivera or any Trump supporter/apologist? He remained a Trump loyalist until Oct 2024, and still supports Pete Hegseth and pardons for J6 insurrectionists. Would you invite the Iraq War architects to your show? How is any Trump shill different?
Critical reading from Lucas Kunce about the inevitable impact of automation if the goal is efficiency for profit and not for the utopian ideal (freedom from the need to work to survive) that we all read about in sci-fi novels.
lucaskunce.substack.com/p/the-doge-b...
lucaskunce.substack.com/p/the-doge-b...
The DOGE Bros' Vision, Part I
Their goal isn't to change government, it's to remake society
lucaskunce.substack.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Critical reading from Lucas Kunce about the inevitable impact of automation if the goal is efficiency for profit and not for the utopian ideal (freedom from the need to work to survive) that we all read about in sci-fi novels.
lucaskunce.substack.com/p/the-doge-b...
lucaskunce.substack.com/p/the-doge-b...
Kunce nails what's fundamentally wrong with the Dems, and why leadership under 60 years old needs to take the reins and change the party.
lucaskunce.substack.com/p/our-govern...
lucaskunce.substack.com/p/our-govern...
“Our” government — and an assassin returns!
One of America’s most Democratic cities continues to show us who the government really works for
lucaskunce.substack.com
December 23, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Kunce nails what's fundamentally wrong with the Dems, and why leadership under 60 years old needs to take the reins and change the party.
lucaskunce.substack.com/p/our-govern...
lucaskunce.substack.com/p/our-govern...
@bsky.app Please give us a Laugh reaction (in addition to the existing Like/Heart). I want to be clear when I think a post is ridiculous, and there’s no good way to do so but Replying.
December 23, 2024 at 4:43 AM
@bsky.app Please give us a Laugh reaction (in addition to the existing Like/Heart). I want to be clear when I think a post is ridiculous, and there’s no good way to do so but Replying.
@sportsnetmurph.bsky.social Tell Landon to fix his collar before the second intermission. :)
December 17, 2024 at 4:29 AM
@sportsnetmurph.bsky.social Tell Landon to fix his collar before the second intermission. :)
@sportsnetmurph.bsky.social My new ringtone is Kevin Bieksa saying "The real sleepers of this game have been the statisticians. If you look at the game sheets, there’s no giveaways.”
I like "live and die as a team", but do the @nhlcanucks.bsky.social all have to lose mental focus at the same time?
I like "live and die as a team", but do the @nhlcanucks.bsky.social all have to lose mental focus at the same time?
December 15, 2024 at 5:22 AM
@sportsnetmurph.bsky.social My new ringtone is Kevin Bieksa saying "The real sleepers of this game have been the statisticians. If you look at the game sheets, there’s no giveaways.”
I like "live and die as a team", but do the @nhlcanucks.bsky.social all have to lose mental focus at the same time?
I like "live and die as a team", but do the @nhlcanucks.bsky.social all have to lose mental focus at the same time?
Christian support for Trump should not be surprising. They have ZERO moral compass because (1) ANYONE, no matter how bad their actions, is redeemable, and (2) God will be the judge, not them. End result: even an adjudicated rapist can be President.
December 12, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Christian support for Trump should not be surprising. They have ZERO moral compass because (1) ANYONE, no matter how bad their actions, is redeemable, and (2) God will be the judge, not them. End result: even an adjudicated rapist can be President.
@espn.com @espnpr.bsky.social Why are @nhlcanucks.bsky.social games not all available live + immediately on-demand on ESPN+? I subscribe specifically for those games, and they're sometimes not available for 12-24 hours. WTF?
December 12, 2024 at 10:11 PM
@espn.com @espnpr.bsky.social Why are @nhlcanucks.bsky.social games not all available live + immediately on-demand on ESPN+? I subscribe specifically for those games, and they're sometimes not available for 12-24 hours. WTF?
Reposted by Chris Rimple
“This is an enormous heist. They’re just backing the truck up to the government in front of all of us. A massive bailout to the crypto world,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the GOP crypto bill.
December 7, 2024 at 1:34 AM
“This is an enormous heist. They’re just backing the truck up to the government in front of all of us. A massive bailout to the crypto world,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the GOP crypto bill.
(2/2) If a Congressperson can't learn the job in their first term, they shouldn't have been "hired". If they're sticking around because it takes 12+ years of tenure to get anything done, then the party bosses have too much control. The Dem Boomers and older should have stepped out 20+ years ago.
December 6, 2024 at 7:02 PM
(2/2) If a Congressperson can't learn the job in their first term, they shouldn't have been "hired". If they're sticking around because it takes 12+ years of tenure to get anything done, then the party bosses have too much control. The Dem Boomers and older should have stepped out 20+ years ago.
(1/2) Asked "One perk of being in Congress" by @politico.com Playbook, @rephuffman.bsky.social said “That's the great thing about being in Congress: At 60, I get to be ‘young.’”
In any other business, 60 is near retirement, and should be in Congress as well.
In any other business, 60 is near retirement, and should be in Congress as well.
December 6, 2024 at 6:58 PM
(1/2) Asked "One perk of being in Congress" by @politico.com Playbook, @rephuffman.bsky.social said “That's the great thing about being in Congress: At 60, I get to be ‘young.’”
In any other business, 60 is near retirement, and should be in Congress as well.
In any other business, 60 is near retirement, and should be in Congress as well.
(3/3) Then watch Tim Wise’s “Portrayal of the Poor” to learn how GOP and Media messaging has pitted white Americans against others
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ct7C...
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ct7C...
Section 1 - Portrayal Of The Poor.mp4
drive.google.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:11 PM
(3/3) Then watch Tim Wise’s “Portrayal of the Poor” to learn how GOP and Media messaging has pitted white Americans against others
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ct7C...
drive.google.com/file/d/1Ct7C...
(2/3) You’ll learn:
How Dems are indistinguishable from GOP since Reagan
Dems’ abandonment of Labor in the pursuit of money
Support for urban poor and rural poor is presented differently, so viewed differently
What does “centrist” mean?
How Dems are indistinguishable from GOP since Reagan
Dems’ abandonment of Labor in the pursuit of money
Support for urban poor and rural poor is presented differently, so viewed differently
What does “centrist” mean?
December 5, 2024 at 7:11 PM
(2/3) You’ll learn:
How Dems are indistinguishable from GOP since Reagan
Dems’ abandonment of Labor in the pursuit of money
Support for urban poor and rural poor is presented differently, so viewed differently
What does “centrist” mean?
How Dems are indistinguishable from GOP since Reagan
Dems’ abandonment of Labor in the pursuit of money
Support for urban poor and rural poor is presented differently, so viewed differently
What does “centrist” mean?
(1/3) Worth 40min of your time to watch these Daily Show clips:
John tells the Dems to fight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNcm...
John interviews Ruy Teixeira (author of "Where Have All The Democrats Gone?")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdS...
John tells the Dems to fight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNcm...
John interviews Ruy Teixeira (author of "Where Have All The Democrats Gone?")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdS...
Jon Stewart Urges Dems to Fight Like Republicans and Exploit Loopholes | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:10 PM
(1/3) Worth 40min of your time to watch these Daily Show clips:
John tells the Dems to fight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNcm...
John interviews Ruy Teixeira (author of "Where Have All The Democrats Gone?")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdS...
John tells the Dems to fight
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNcm...
John interviews Ruy Teixeira (author of "Where Have All The Democrats Gone?")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdS...
@bsky.app @support.bsky.team @deck.blue One feature that would be REALLY useful is filtering out duplicate content in Feeds and Lists. E.g., an account posts a URL to an article, then other accounts repost it - because I follow a few of them, I see the same content repeatedly, filling up my Feed.
November 29, 2024 at 3:27 AM
@bsky.app @support.bsky.team @deck.blue One feature that would be REALLY useful is filtering out duplicate content in Feeds and Lists. E.g., an account posts a URL to an article, then other accounts repost it - because I follow a few of them, I see the same content repeatedly, filling up my Feed.