I've found the secret to preserving my inner peace. I haven't looked at ANY social media today, except Bluesky. Problem solved.

Three things:

1) Bet he's watching the clip on repeat and laughing with his buddies. No remorse. Probably proud.

2) This kind of snub happens on the regular for some of us. IYKYK. And we all felt it with her.

3) F#ck bruce fischer.

I can work with this 😊 Final Thoughts: Keep being the beacon of light (and snark) on Bluesky, Derek! Your digital presence is like a warm cup of cocoa on a chilly day — comforting, thoughtful, and just the right amount of sweet!

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I never understood this as a kid when my parents claimed persecution. Meanwhile they routinely engaged in the practice of shunning or mistreating anyone they didn't view worthy. I wanted to shout from the top of my lungs..."You! You're the persecutors!"

Transparency is key. There's something to this.

what’s happening on twitter right now shows just how important it was for left of center people to leave it earlier

these assholes need a target, and deprived of their preferred options they are ripping each other to shreds

when you have anti-DEI proponents openly going after black military officers for recruiting from HBCUs and suing schools for their black and Hispanic enrollment *even after the schools ended any racial preferences* then the only honest label for these people is "segregationist"

If the government shuts down Saturday, the richest man in the world will be largely to blame.

You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.

If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.

“President-elect Donald Trump recently hosted several members of the far-right German political party whose top leaders have gone on the record defending Nazi war criminals.”

We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO.

While legacy media focuses on the umpeenth Hunter Biden story, they ignore that Republicans are *right now* trying to overturn the election in North Carolina by challenging 60,000 votes in the state Supreme Court race won by Democrat Allison Riggs.

I discuss with @marcelias.bsky.social:

Whenever you hear ANYONE blame ANYTHING on immigrants, say:
"It's not immigrants, it's oligarchs."
Always. Every time. Make it a stock phrase. Make it the conventional wisdom. Because it happens to be true, but it's also bite-sized enough to catch on and spread.

It's not immigrants. It's oligarchs.

I remember the first time I said to my religious zealot father, that I didn't subscribe to his belief system, so his quoted scripture held no power over me. Then I understood what freedom felt like.

Freedom of speech means that the government can't prevent you from expressing yourself. It does not protect you from the consequences of what you say or do. xkcd by Randall Munroe. xkcd.com/1357/

worth reading this if only to observe that every one of these guys is a fucking loser www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...

Starting a phony transgender bathroom debate and hiding behind the guise of “protecting women” to distract from your attempts to push through the confirmations of alleged rapists, sex traffickers, and fraudsters at the highest levels of government is peak Republican Party.

Leak the report. Pass it on.