Alice Lastname
@useyourwords.bsky.social
Cat parent. Dog therapist. Human observer.
Pinned
Alice Lastname
@useyourwords.bsky.social
· Nov 10
And this is why we have a collective bargaining agreement with our employer.
Wit.
It's well worth watching, but I can't imagine wanting to repeat the experience especially now that my mom's in assisted living.
It's well worth watching, but I can't imagine wanting to repeat the experience especially now that my mom's in assisted living.
3. What is a movie that you will never rewatch?
December 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Wit.
It's well worth watching, but I can't imagine wanting to repeat the experience especially now that my mom's in assisted living.
It's well worth watching, but I can't imagine wanting to repeat the experience especially now that my mom's in assisted living.
Reposted by Alice Lastname
1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Pete Hegseth:Colin Jost::Sarah Palin:Tina Fey
SNL. LAST NIGHT
OPERATION KILL EVERYBODY
"I was so jacked up after the first strike I had to make an emergency call to my sponsor"
OPERATION KILL EVERYBODY
"I was so jacked up after the first strike I had to make an emergency call to my sponsor"
December 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Pete Hegseth:Colin Jost::Sarah Palin:Tina Fey
Reposted by Alice Lastname
Hands
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touching me, touchin' you
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touching me, touchin' you
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Hands
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touching me, touchin' you
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touching me, touchin' you
And this is why we have a collective bargaining agreement with our employer.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
And this is why we have a collective bargaining agreement with our employer.
So now federal employees will be even more protected than they were before, when it was already illegal to fire them without cause during a shutdown or threaten to withhold pay from them when they return to work?
If you truly believe that this vote wasn't a mistake, you are unfit for your position.
If you truly believe that this vote wasn't a mistake, you are unfit for your position.
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
So now federal employees will be even more protected than they were before, when it was already illegal to fire them without cause during a shutdown or threaten to withhold pay from them when they return to work?
If you truly believe that this vote wasn't a mistake, you are unfit for your position.
If you truly believe that this vote wasn't a mistake, you are unfit for your position.
Reposted by Alice Lastname
Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
Reposted by Alice Lastname
I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.
And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.
And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
Reposted by Alice Lastname
Today in terrifyingly chilling news…
This quote continues to rattle me to my core:
"So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them."
That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:
"So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them."
That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:
Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Today in terrifyingly chilling news…
Reposted by Alice Lastname
Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic:
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
August 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic:
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
Reposted by Alice Lastname
Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
Reposted by Alice Lastname
Amazing sign being held by a small child
October 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Amazing sign being held by a small child
Reposted by Alice Lastname
The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...
The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It
Going into 2026 and 2028 it’s time for — essential for —...
talkingpointsmemo.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The Corrupt Supreme Court Must Be Reformed: Dems Must Champion It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...
This is the way.
find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.
EXCLU: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will announce today he is cancelling a televised town hall with WABC News planned for Sept. 25 in the wake of the network suspending comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show last week.
www.amny.com/news/mamdani...
www.amny.com/news/mamdani...
September 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is the way.
Reposted by Alice Lastname
Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.
Reposted by Alice Lastname
This is, I think, one of the most frustrating things about the mandate to “reach across the aisle” & “engage in civil debate” these days. You are not obligated to offer validity to false, harmful narratives by engaging with them. You are not obligated to defend the bright-line boundaries of reality.
September 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This is, I think, one of the most frustrating things about the mandate to “reach across the aisle” & “engage in civil debate” these days. You are not obligated to offer validity to false, harmful narratives by engaging with them. You are not obligated to defend the bright-line boundaries of reality.
Reposted by Alice Lastname
liberalism exists because last time we tried to settle the question of "who are the real Christians" without liberalism the 30 Years War killed a third of everyone living in what is now Germany
September 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
liberalism exists because last time we tried to settle the question of "who are the real Christians" without liberalism the 30 Years War killed a third of everyone living in what is now Germany
Reposted by Alice Lastname
oh imagine that
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) backed off his claim that President Trump was an FBI informant in the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Johnson backs off claim that Trump was an ‘FBI informant’ in Epstein case
The statements from the speaker come as Democrats and a small number of Republicans are pushing for legislation to compel the release of more files on Jeffrey Epstein.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
oh imagine that
Reposted by Alice Lastname
"But SpaceX has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002 and has privately told investors that it may never have to pay any, according to internal company documents reviewed by The New York Times."
SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"But SpaceX has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002 and has privately told investors that it may never have to pay any, according to internal company documents reviewed by The New York Times."
lol
August 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
lol
This is a really good article which gets at something I've had cause to think about for some time now: what it means to be a federal employee when the elected officials in charge of your agency despise you, don't believe in your agency's mission, or a combination of both.
Earlier this year I published a post from an anonymous federal employee about why he was choosing to not accept the “fork in the road” offers to quit. But now… open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
The Forced Fork and the Choice to Stay
Hearing from federal government employees as they make sense of their future
open.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is a really good article which gets at something I've had cause to think about for some time now: what it means to be a federal employee when the elected officials in charge of your agency despise you, don't believe in your agency's mission, or a combination of both.
Reposted by Alice Lastname
I wish every Democrat would watch “The Fugitive”.
Harrison Ford is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He escapes a bus-train collision, steals an ambulance, and sets out to prove his innocence.
The lesson is this: NO ONE GETS MAD AT HIM FOR STEALING THE FUCKING AMBULANCE.
Harrison Ford is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He escapes a bus-train collision, steals an ambulance, and sets out to prove his innocence.
The lesson is this: NO ONE GETS MAD AT HIM FOR STEALING THE FUCKING AMBULANCE.
August 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I wish every Democrat would watch “The Fugitive”.
Harrison Ford is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He escapes a bus-train collision, steals an ambulance, and sets out to prove his innocence.
The lesson is this: NO ONE GETS MAD AT HIM FOR STEALING THE FUCKING AMBULANCE.
Harrison Ford is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He escapes a bus-train collision, steals an ambulance, and sets out to prove his innocence.
The lesson is this: NO ONE GETS MAD AT HIM FOR STEALING THE FUCKING AMBULANCE.
Reposted by Alice Lastname
Picking a perfect spot
July 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Picking a perfect spot