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Whale Chowder
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Expat American in Spain. Liberal. If you don't know me, don't bother me.
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whalechowder.bsky.social
Your tax dollars at work! ICE violently detains a blind man for crossing a line on the sidewalk.
Do you feel safer now?
www.koin.com/news/portlan...
www.koin.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome
September 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
whalechowder.bsky.social
I don't think Charlie Kirk deserved to be shot to death. I also won't mourn him because he was an in-your-face shit stirrer who held abhorrent beliefs. 1/2
September 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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libraonfire.bsky.social
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Every “good thing” in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill has a catch:

– Tip tax break? Expires in 3 years

– Child tax credit? Sunsets in 2028

– SALT relief? Temporary band-aid
But tax cuts for billionaires? Forever.

This isn’t policy

it’s a con. 🧾🎭

#BigBeautifulScam

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July 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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pinkjimiphoton.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
whalechowder.bsky.social
Just thought I'd mention that I have something Elon and FOTUS will never have:

Enough.
June 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
whalechowder.bsky.social
How is it that a high school freshman is more mature than too many "adults"?
alexkirshner.com Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
May 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
April 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Really not good

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...
Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence
The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
whalechowder.bsky.social
Wondering how they got their tariff numbers? It's even stupider than you thought.
archive.ph/ZunFj
Reciprocal tariffs: you won’t believe how they came up with the numbers
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April 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
whalechowder.bsky.social
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stacy (@stacycay) on X
We’ve done this mass tariff thing 3 times in American history. 1828, 1930, 2025. All spaced about 100 years apart because everyone who remembers the last one needs to be dead for the next one to happen. The last two caused a depression. I hope this one makes us rich tho.
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April 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
whalechowder.bsky.social
Summarizes quite neatly what a whiny bitch Elon is.
jefftiedrich.bsky.social Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · Mar 30
from today's post about the Space Nazi's
whiny woe-is-me pity party —
thanks for reading!
link to the whole enchilada is here: bit.ly/4jaDOiI
(longer excerpt in the alt text)
imagine what you could do if you had more money than god. one way to play it would be to fuck off and never be heard from again, and quietly enjoy a world of limitless possibilities. on the other hand, think of all the good you could do as a humanitarian. you could fund programs to end hunger, or cure disease. want to be remembered forever? build libraries, universities and hospitals, and slap your name on them, so your legacy lives on after you’re gone. or — if none of that shit is for you — you could just be some broken-inside asshole who never stops whining about being insufficiently worshiped. “I mean, you have Tim Walz, who’s a huge jerk, you know, running around on stage with the Tesla stock price, where the stock price had gone in half. and he was overjoyed. what an evil thing to do. what a creep. what a jerk. like, who derives joy from that?” who wants to tell him? dude. all of us. we’re all deriving joy from that. we’re all sitting here watching Tesla’s stock price plummet like Wile E. Coyote off the end of the cliff — and that shit is fucking hilarious.
March 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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cathygellis.bsky.social
"Aligned with" is a phrase that would eat every possible expressed view the government would like to go after.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Mar 10
DHS cites Trump’s executive orders and then makes the absolutely meaningless statement that “Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization,” as a justification for the arrest.
Homeland Security v @DHSgov Follow On March 9, 2025, in support of President Trump's executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism, and in coordination with the Department of State, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student. Khalil led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. ICE and the Department of State are committed to enforcing President Trump's executive orders and to protecting U.S. national security. 9:29 PM • 3/9/25 • 228K Views
March 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
whalechowder.bsky.social
Whenever I notice this I see a Xenomorph in a skirt.
March 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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milesklee.bsky.social
Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.
Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research
President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.
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March 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
whalechowder.bsky.social
It would be wrong to send email to hr@opm.gov mocking Elon's demand for 5 bullets describing your accomplishments this week. Don't do anything like this:
February 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
This is extraordinarily dangerous. Tomorrow, the legacy media will ask Republican officials about this. Those officials will lie and obfuscate. And the legacy media will move on.

That is part of the crisis we face.
February 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
whalechowder.bsky.social
This is "negotiation" in the age of Trump. For NATO and Ukraine, a shit sandwich. For Russia, everything.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
US should not have made concessions to Russia over Ukraine, German minister says
Defence ministers criticise Trump’s approach to ending war resting on Kyiv forfeiting territory and Nato membership
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
whalechowder.bsky.social
Headline says it all:

This Press Release From the CFPB Union Is Just ... *Chef's Kiss* www.wonkette.com/p/this-press...

CFPB works for *you*. Trump, Musk and their gang of tiny tots is aiming to kill it.
This Press Release From the CFPB Union Is Just ... *Chef's Kiss*
CFPB Union members welcome our newest colleagues and look forward to the smell of Axe Body Spray in our elevators.
www.wonkette.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
whalechowder.bsky.social
Oh look, Trump is lying again. No love for Politico but this is the pattern.
February 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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wonkette.bsky.social
I didn't know USAID did *any* of this. You should really read it. It's all so important and so good.

www.wonkette.com/p/killing-us...

Anyway, Trump just fired 10,000 people at the agency. Fewer than 300 remain.
Killing USAID Will *Also* Hurt People Affected By Climate Change. Convenient Twofer!
Turns out Americans DO care about foreign aid, so there's that.
www.wonkette.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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karlykingsley.bsky.social
🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
USAID
February 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
whalechowder.bsky.social
If you're not aware, Timothy Snyder is one of the clearest voices calling out our slide into Tyranny.
February 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
How about “No taxation without representation?“ The Musk regime is claiming the right to take our money without heeding the laws made by our elected representatives.
willbunch.bsky.social Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Feb 4
OK, "Reclaim the Treasury Payment System" isn't a great rallying cry for getting the masses out in the streets. But if you're in the media and not writing about Musk's ongoing coup and not screaming, "Fire!," then you are doing it wrong

Here's my howl. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Musk/Trump coup will not be televised | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, why Dems can’t ignore the Chappell Roan vote.
www.inquirer.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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wonkettemedia.bsky.social
An FBI purge? My, this fascism is happening fast!
www.wonkette.com/p/fbi-purge-...
FBI Purge VERY BAD. That's It, That's The Headline.
My, this fascism is happening very fast!
www.wonkette.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM