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hannahwheel.bsky.social
@hannahwheel.bsky.social
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hannahwheel.bsky.social
yeah 👀 www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf
Screenshot of article text: But as I read the order, which says a lot more than a typical “administrative stay” from the Court, Jackson was stuck between a rock and a hard place—given the incredibly compressed timing that was created by the circumstances of the case. In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn’t, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control timing of the Supreme Court’s (forthcoming) review—and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have. In other words, it’s a compromise—one with which not everyone will agree, but which strikes me as eminently defensible under these unique (and, let’s be clear, maddening and entirely f-ing avoidable) circumstances.
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
grateful for this comic relief from her outrageous insistence Biden was fit for another term
Screenshot of interview transcript cropped to show: ISAAC CHOTINER: I'm not sure what you're saying. KARINE JEAN PIERRE: No, no, no. Wait a minute. You are… Screenshot of interview transcript, cropped to show: ISAAC CHOTINER: Is this a matter of how you treat someone, or a matter of putting the country first? KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Treating… Screenshot of interview transcript, cropped to show: ISAAC CHOTINER: But it should have happened, or shouldn't have happened? KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I don't think… Screenshot of interview transcript, cropped to show: ISAAC CHOTINER: Sorry, I'm not trying to be dense. I'm a little unclear about what this has to do with Democratic leaders and many Democrats in the country thinking that Joe Biden was going to lose to Donald Trump which was what the polls all showed —and therefore thinking that he should be replaced. KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: O.K., wait a minute. Hold on a second. Nobody knows anything. Nobody…
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
Screenshot of a tweet by @skintinty showing Nicole Kidman screaming into the abyss saying “i don’t want a CAREER I just want a spacious apartment in the same city as my friends”
October 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
When a Dem says “no one is bothered by that thing Trump is doing” but Republican members of Congress are like “we are definitely getting calls from people bothered it” that should tell you how wildly out of touch the Dem is. How absolutely dogshit their political judgment
Screenshot of tweet by @frankthorp on October 23,2025 saying: Sen MURKOWSKI tells @burgessev and me "the optics are not good" on the east wing being demolished to build a ballroom. "I'm certainly hearing about it from Alaskans who are saying, what did we--when did we decide that we needed a bigger ballroom?" she said.
October 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
that the cops said her costume was “obscene” while Trump is out here pumping out AI videos of himself crowned as a king & pouring literal feces all over peaceful protesters (to name just one example) really speaks volumes
Two photographs side by side; on left, a woman stands inside an inflatable penis & balls costume (color looks tan) holding a sign saying “No Dick Tator” with a crown crossed out. On right, 3 cops are pinning her (inside the costume still) to the ground face down on some grass by a road.
October 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
ahhhaha current status of the pumpkin 😱🫠
Screen grab of the ShutdownReport.com “Live at Rotting Pumpkin HQ” livestream of a rotting pumpkin with a running clock and signs counting: 16 DAYS UNTIL PREMIUMS DOUBLE NATIONWIDE - Will this pumpkin rot away before Congress ends the healthcare crisis? 🎃Name me in the chat!
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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@thisplaceishuge.bsky.social this is art
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
that Republicans see this & are literally saying meh, that’s a DECEMBER 31ST ISSUE and MAYBE we could have a ~vote~ 🙃 about cutting off the subsidies for at least SOME ppl, after they sPRINTED to hand billionaires PERMANENT tax cuts using magic free math by gutting Medicaid & Medicare in July… !!
Screenshot of bullet from article saying: On average, premiums for roughly 22 million ACA enrollees will more than double without a subsidy extension, per KFF.
October 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
Screenshot of tweet by @sreekyshooter: RFK Jr: [sounding like a fork in a garbage disposal] and that's when the Worm told me to decapitate the whale Olivia Nuzzi: [slowly playing with her engagement ring] wow :)
October 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
don bacon says Dems "say they want ‘guardrails’ but no specifics"

false - they're laid out explicitly in Dems' CR www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Screenshot of factsheet text: (The Democratic CR) Protects Congress's power of the purse and prevents Trump from stealing from communities. • Extends the availability of funds that have been improperly frozen by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and would otherwise expire on September 30, including amounts in Trump's illegal "pocket rescission" and lifesaving NIH research funding. • Prevents Republicans from unilaterally rescinding or reneging on any bipartisan funding agreements passed by Congress for fiscal year 2026 and beyond. Restores funding for public radio and TV stations Republicans cut. •Establishes an inspector general for OMB. •Prohibits the White House from implementing program reductions or eliminations requested in the President's fiscal year 2026 budget during the continuing resolution. • Reverses illegal actions by the White House that resulted in $2.9 billion in emergency fiscal year 2025 funding not being spent. The House Republican continuing resolution does not include any of these safeguards.
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
“Think of me like Jesus. Would you want YOUR son working next to FAT people? Would you?? 🫵
This is the NEW #WarDepartmentGoldenRule 😌“
Screenshot of war.gov: “He is no more important than your son, all precious souls made in the image and likeness of God. Every parent deserves to know that their son or their daughter that joins our ranks is entering exactly the kind of unit that the secretary of war would want his son to join. Think of it as the Golden Rule test. Jesus said do unto others that which you would have done unto yourself. It's the ultimate simplifying test of truth. The new War Department golden rule is this: do unto your unit as you would have done unto your own child's unit. Would you want him serving with fat or unfit or under trained troops or”
October 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
getting to the fun part I see… “I acknowledge your service - sure. But a lot of you don’t deserve to be here & im so brave to tell you that. If you’re a good soldier you’ll do what I say”
Screenshot of war.gov: “You made a choice to serve when others did not, and I commend you. You are truly the best of America. But this does not mean, and this goes for all of us, that our path to this auditorium on this day was a straight line, or that the conditions of the formations we lead are where we want them to be. You love your country and we love this uniform, which is why we must do better.”
October 2, 2025 at 3:31 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
“I’m the Secretary of WAR and I don’t have a tv show to speechify on anymore & I miss it 🤡 So I wrote this speech about all of you & ordered you here as a captive audience. Buckle up”
Screenshot of text on war.gov (Pete Hegseth’s speech to the generals) “America cannot do everything. The free world requires allies with real hard power, real military leadership and real military capabilities. The War Department is tackling and prioritizing all of these things, and I'll be giving a speech next month that'll showcase the speed, innovation and generational acquisition reforms we are undertaking urgently. Likewise, the nature of the threats we face in our hemisphere and in deterring China is another speech for another day coming soon. This speech today -- as I drink my coffee, this speech today is about people and it's about culture. The topic today is about the nature of ourselves, because no plan, no program, no reform, no formation will ultimately succeed unless we have the right people and the right culture at the War Department.”
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
incredible logic here
Screenshot of text on war.gov with the part in asterisks highlighted by the cursor: “And since waging war is so costly in blood and treasure, **we owe our republic a military that will win any war we choose** or any war that is thrust upon us.”
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
peter what does this mean
Screenshot of text on war.gov with the part in asterisks highlighted using the cursor: “Our number one job, of course, is to be strong so that we can prevent war in the first place. The president talks about it all the time. It's called peace through strength. And as history teaches us, **the only people who actually deserve peace** are those who are willing to wage war to defend it.”
October 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
same vibe 🤌
Screenshot of tweet from April 3, 2020 by @TomWalkerIsGood saying “the news is indistinguishable from shitposts. joe exotic has coronavirus? okay. in one day i take in more information than my ancestors did in a lifetime and none of it improves me”
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
"I'm heedful of the argument" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
Screenshot of dialogue from The Office: Dwight: Yes I shouted “fire!”. I shouted many things! I also shouted instructions on how to get out of the building, so you can imagine my frustration as safety officer when nobody would heed of what– heeded– Michael: Hed. Hedded Dwight: When no one hedded– Michael: Take hedded of. Dwight: N-no one would take hedded of my instructions. Michael: Heed. Heed. Dwight: So, you– Michael: Take heed of. Dwight: And, well, I don't see my co-workers– Michael: Take heed of. Dwight: Hee-heeding this right now. Lawyer: Wh–what?
September 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
Jonah Hill, labeled “the prime directive in every Star Trek episode ever” is shouting excitedly “Fuck me, right?”
September 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
Illustration shows a scorpion riding the back of a dying green frog in the water saying “Why did you sting me? I shall die and you will surely die as well," said the frog. "Libtard," said the scorpion. "Trump 2028."
September 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
pundits loOoOove to talk about Senate Republicans as if they matter while saying jack shit about the House & it's driving me up the wall. It doesn't fucking matter what Senate Republicans will agree to if it can't make it through the House
Screenshot of article text: If not a shutdown, what should Democrats do? Well, they could have standard negotiations in good faith, and then continue to call out Trump’s impoundments or other spending moves. So long as the Senate Republicans are willing to do that as we stumble toward the eventual omnibus, it’s probably the least-worst option. I’m not going to pretend it would be great, because the cloud of administration impoundments and other games would be looming over it, but it would likely proceed more or less as normal. It sounds like doing nothing, but right now, doing nothing is probably the best strategy. Trump is unpopular, the midterms are [cuts off]
September 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
timeline cleanse
Over a photo of a white stuffed animal cat staring blankly, text says “I am just so. And it’s getting really”
September 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
A red circle with a line through it is crossing through text saying “NO MORE THINGS HAPPENING! Society has progressed past the need for things to happen.”
September 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
"Conservatives have fought for decades for the right to refuse service to anyone" yeah lmao true

'we're the anti-civil rights & pro-discrimination party, Pam. you're MAGA-ing the wrong way'
Screenshot of a quote tweet by @MattWalshBlog, commenting on an @Acyn video quoting Pam Bondi saying "If you want to go and print posters with Charlie's picture for a vigil, you have to let them do that. We can prosecute you for that. We have right now our civil rights unit looking at that." Matt Walsh's quote tweet says: "Get rid of her. Today. This is insane. Conservatives have fought for decades for the right to refuse service to anyone. We won that fight. Now Pam Bondi wants to roll it all back for no reason. The employee who didn’t print the flyer was already fired by his employer. This stuff is being handled successfully through free speech and free markets. This is totally gratuitous and pointless. We need the AG focused on bringing down the left wing terror cells, not prosecuting Office Depot for God’s sake."
September 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
related
Screenshot of two tweets by @erikmbaker on October 9, 2023 saying: Something very sad and disturbing that I didn't quite appreciate is how many Americans are actively nostalgic for the moral clarity they feel they experienced in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 There's an intense bloodlust in our culture that is constantly looking for socially sanctioned outlet and greets it with relief
September 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
hannahwheel.bsky.social
perfect example of why it drives me nuts when people look to Bernie for leadership on the left. Shut the fuck up if you’re not telling Dems to fight
www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/p...
Screenshot of article text: Asked if the party would apply any lessons from March to this funding deadline, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who caucuses with the Democrats, told CNN it's "something we're talking about" but added it's "a little bit premature" with the deadline still three weeks away.
September 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM