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as st. olga of kiev once said, the birds coming home to roost are real fuckers
bicycle rider, reader, writer, data nerd, unrepentant urbanist and cynical optimist
bicycle rider, reader, writer, data nerd, unrepentant urbanist and cynical optimist
Trump implemented a garbage economic plan in the most chaotic way possible, branded it as 1000% his own, and when it went bad he refused to admit that he fucked up and clung to "EVERYTHING'S FINE, SHUT UP" as his economic message.
Since it's his fault, it's time for him to blame everyone else.
Since it's his fault, it's time for him to blame everyone else.
RealClear journalist also says White House and cabinet officials bracing for massive personnel shakeup soon because of the economy
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Trump implemented a garbage economic plan in the most chaotic way possible, branded it as 1000% his own, and when it went bad he refused to admit that he fucked up and clung to "EVERYTHING'S FINE, SHUT UP" as his economic message.
Since it's his fault, it's time for him to blame everyone else.
Since it's his fault, it's time for him to blame everyone else.
There it is, folks, the cherry on top of this insane day. I think I need to sleep before the universe comes up with anything else.
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
There it is, folks, the cherry on top of this insane day. I think I need to sleep before the universe comes up with anything else.
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All glory to the Hypnopope
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
All glory to the Hypnopope
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It took years, but I have come to accept that Garak is my favorite fictional character of all time and I no longer carry any guilt about this fact
Basically anytime there’s a win in the Dominion War storyline of Deep Space Nine or just anytime when Garak gets sassy.
November 22, 2025 at 5:48 AM
It took years, but I have come to accept that Garak is my favorite fictional character of all time and I no longer carry any guilt about this fact
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So MTG ran for office promising to fight a shadowy cabal of Democratic sexual predators, but then quit because she didn't want to fight a shadowy cabal of Republican sexual predators, got it.
Marjorie Taylor Greene in her resignation announcement:
"Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for."
"Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for."
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene just announced she will be resigning from Congress — with her last day being January 5, 2026
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
So MTG ran for office promising to fight a shadowy cabal of Democratic sexual predators, but then quit because she didn't want to fight a shadowy cabal of Republican sexual predators, got it.
Okay I agree with her on NOTHING AT ALL and she has done politics like playing the heel in a pro-wrestling match, and I literally never want to hear about her ever again.
Props where props are due for hanging strong on the Epstein files, but on the whole... go home, Margeen.
Props where props are due for hanging strong on the Epstein files, but on the whole... go home, Margeen.
Marge Greene announces she is resigning from Congress, that she doesn’t want to go through a brutal primary against a Trump backed opponent, and says Trump has treated her like a battered wife and has been hateful to her and is trying to destroy her.
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Okay I agree with her on NOTHING AT ALL and she has done politics like playing the heel in a pro-wrestling match, and I literally never want to hear about her ever again.
Props where props are due for hanging strong on the Epstein files, but on the whole... go home, Margeen.
Props where props are due for hanging strong on the Epstein files, but on the whole... go home, Margeen.
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"I don't think* ANYONE** thought*** he meant that literally."
* [full stop]
** [except for everyone who did, but whatever]
*** [also full stop]
Translation: "I refuse to take responsibility for the part I played / continue to play, and I demand you join me in pretending that it never happened."
* [full stop]
** [except for everyone who did, but whatever]
*** [also full stop]
Translation: "I refuse to take responsibility for the part I played / continue to play, and I demand you join me in pretending that it never happened."
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"I don't think* ANYONE** thought*** he meant that literally."
* [full stop]
** [except for everyone who did, but whatever]
*** [also full stop]
Translation: "I refuse to take responsibility for the part I played / continue to play, and I demand you join me in pretending that it never happened."
* [full stop]
** [except for everyone who did, but whatever]
*** [also full stop]
Translation: "I refuse to take responsibility for the part I played / continue to play, and I demand you join me in pretending that it never happened."
I swear, I really swear, I spent twenty years of my life trying to learn to be kinder to people about any dumbassery they commit, and then there was Trump, and MAGA, and now this administration's ton of swaggering simpletons.
Experience and expertise are still REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS, it turns out.
Experience and expertise are still REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS, it turns out.
Judge Just Blew a Gaping Hole in the Comey Prosecution
The extent of the prosecutorial and investigative misconduct in the James Comey...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I swear, I really swear, I spent twenty years of my life trying to learn to be kinder to people about any dumbassery they commit, and then there was Trump, and MAGA, and now this administration's ton of swaggering simpletons.
Experience and expertise are still REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS, it turns out.
Experience and expertise are still REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS, it turns out.
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
Chicago Pope: still my very favorite real-life meme.
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Chicago Pope: still my very favorite real-life meme.
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it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
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Dear #RachelReeves: wealth taxes can work. Exhibit A: Massachusetts (see link). Why are you scrabbling around doing all the wrong things when you were elected to tackle wealth inequality? Something about your banking mates connections we don’t know? Please implement fairer taxes!
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Dear #RachelReeves: wealth taxes can work. Exhibit A: Massachusetts (see link). Why are you scrabbling around doing all the wrong things when you were elected to tackle wealth inequality? Something about your banking mates connections we don’t know? Please implement fairer taxes!
You know, an impartial observer might think it would be easier for ICE to prove all their claims about all the mean, mean people attacking them if only they'd wear body cameras like they've been told to.
On the other hand, that impartial observer would have to be an idiot.
On the other hand, that impartial observer would have to be an idiot.
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
You know, an impartial observer might think it would be easier for ICE to prove all their claims about all the mean, mean people attacking them if only they'd wear body cameras like they've been told to.
On the other hand, that impartial observer would have to be an idiot.
On the other hand, that impartial observer would have to be an idiot.
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🚨 With a 60-40 vote (the same breakdown as yesterday’s vote), the Senate has PASSED their negotiated federal budget deal.
The deal now goes to the House. Floor vote is expected on **WEDNESDAY**
Call your House Rep 🔥📞🔥
The deal now goes to the House. Floor vote is expected on **WEDNESDAY**
Call your House Rep 🔥📞🔥
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
🚨 With a 60-40 vote (the same breakdown as yesterday’s vote), the Senate has PASSED their negotiated federal budget deal.
The deal now goes to the House. Floor vote is expected on **WEDNESDAY**
Call your House Rep 🔥📞🔥
The deal now goes to the House. Floor vote is expected on **WEDNESDAY**
Call your House Rep 🔥📞🔥
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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if your constituents constantly have to talk you out of screwing them over you're BAD AT YOUR JOB
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
if your constituents constantly have to talk you out of screwing them over you're BAD AT YOUR JOB
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
I have not been this angry with my own party since 2004. Not only did they cave, but they did so after boasting about Tuesday and getting my hopes up that they understood the assignment to FIGHT.
Then they have the nerve to send THREE FUNDRAISING EMAILS today.
Jesus, Democrats. Read the damn room.
Then they have the nerve to send THREE FUNDRAISING EMAILS today.
Jesus, Democrats. Read the damn room.
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I have not been this angry with my own party since 2004. Not only did they cave, but they did so after boasting about Tuesday and getting my hopes up that they understood the assignment to FIGHT.
Then they have the nerve to send THREE FUNDRAISING EMAILS today.
Jesus, Democrats. Read the damn room.
Then they have the nerve to send THREE FUNDRAISING EMAILS today.
Jesus, Democrats. Read the damn room.
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Americans showed up in historic numbers last week and proved they're willing to back a party that stands up to Donald Trump.
We cannot have the leader of our party be a man that caves to Trump over and over again. It's long past time for Schumer step aside.
We cannot have the leader of our party be a man that caves to Trump over and over again. It's long past time for Schumer step aside.
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Americans showed up in historic numbers last week and proved they're willing to back a party that stands up to Donald Trump.
We cannot have the leader of our party be a man that caves to Trump over and over again. It's long past time for Schumer step aside.
We cannot have the leader of our party be a man that caves to Trump over and over again. It's long past time for Schumer step aside.
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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This is a good point, especially the second paragraph. If you want something to do with the Dem Senators who voted "no" and claim that this means they aren't at fault, demand that they prove it.
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is a good point, especially the second paragraph. If you want something to do with the Dem Senators who voted "no" and claim that this means they aren't at fault, demand that they prove it.
I'm utterly staggered that @durbin.senate.gov thinks anyone will believe him on this.
Coward. Collaborator.
Coward. Collaborator.
Opinion | Trump turned the military on U.S. cities. I will continue to hold him accountable.
Excessive militarized ICE raids and misuse of the military will not make Chicago safer, writes Sen. Dick Durbin.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I'm utterly staggered that @durbin.senate.gov thinks anyone will believe him on this.
Coward. Collaborator.
Coward. Collaborator.
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We need to make it clear to the Dem Senate that they cannot simply put the sword into the retirees and think we'll let those running next year off scot free.
Make em understand that they're all collectively responsible.
Make em understand that they're all collectively responsible.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We need to make it clear to the Dem Senate that they cannot simply put the sword into the retirees and think we'll let those running next year off scot free.
Make em understand that they're all collectively responsible.
Make em understand that they're all collectively responsible.