Wile E. Wonka
@wileewonka.bsky.social
aka Skyler. Full-time dad, part-time musician, all-time weirdo. He/him. Got no patience for bigots, grifters, snake-oil shills, and their enablers. Love a good hug, a bad pun, and beautiful tales about ugly things.
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okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
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Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
March 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
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if, ten years ago, your entire understanding of politics was that the right wing wanted to destroy everything because they were evil, you had a more accurate and more predictive analysis than functionally the entire American media and political apparatus
March 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
if, ten years ago, your entire understanding of politics was that the right wing wanted to destroy everything because they were evil, you had a more accurate and more predictive analysis than functionally the entire American media and political apparatus
Said as if things like Xitter, UnitedHealth, AirBnB, etc. make people's lives better than, oh, pandemic prevention or weather forecasting or national parks or school lunches or disability accommodations or travel safety or power infrastructure or...
When you're suddenly desperate to convince people it's a good thing you drove the economy into recession.
February 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Said as if things like Xitter, UnitedHealth, AirBnB, etc. make people's lives better than, oh, pandemic prevention or weather forecasting or national parks or school lunches or disability accommodations or travel safety or power infrastructure or...
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A race see which happens first: hurting so many people including their own voters that there’s a massive public backlash or dismantling democratic institutions to the point they can keep power despite public discontent.
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A race see which happens first: hurting so many people including their own voters that there’s a massive public backlash or dismantling democratic institutions to the point they can keep power despite public discontent.
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This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.
February 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.
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the simplest way to explain the last decade and a half is that GOP elites created an incredibly effective propaganda machine, it was way more powerful than they expected, and then they accidentally fried their own brains with it
GOP Rep. Buddy Carter wildly claims that DOGE found that the United States paid "$15 million for condoms for the Taliban," prompting a flabbergasted Boris Sanchez to wonder if he's conflating other false claims about Gaza.
Carter: "That's what they discovered! ... I am not [conflating things]"
Carter: "That's what they discovered! ... I am not [conflating things]"
February 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
the simplest way to explain the last decade and a half is that GOP elites created an incredibly effective propaganda machine, it was way more powerful than they expected, and then they accidentally fried their own brains with it
And to think, if more of us had bothered to vote, we'd be watching the first chapter of this vision for the country, instead of weeping at the frenzied brick-by-brick dismantling of the United States at the hands of deranged sadists.
democrats.org
January 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
And to think, if more of us had bothered to vote, we'd be watching the first chapter of this vision for the country, instead of weeping at the frenzied brick-by-brick dismantling of the United States at the hands of deranged sadists.
Don't be surprised if I use this BlueSky thing to randomly post random schtuff that makes me happy. We all need to share a little happy amidst all the doom, n'est-ce pas?
Anyway, here's what's satisfying my soul tonight. Marc Almond is just so gosh-darn _pretty_, and paired with Bronski Beat? Yum.
Anyway, here's what's satisfying my soul tonight. Marc Almond is just so gosh-darn _pretty_, and paired with Bronski Beat? Yum.
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January 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Don't be surprised if I use this BlueSky thing to randomly post random schtuff that makes me happy. We all need to share a little happy amidst all the doom, n'est-ce pas?
Anyway, here's what's satisfying my soul tonight. Marc Almond is just so gosh-darn _pretty_, and paired with Bronski Beat? Yum.
Anyway, here's what's satisfying my soul tonight. Marc Almond is just so gosh-darn _pretty_, and paired with Bronski Beat? Yum.
That ol' Serenity Prayer has its fans, but eh. I mean, maybe its heart is in the right place, but for me it's more like "I gotta keep what's outta my hands outta my hands for now, so I don't drop what's already in my hands."
And the wisdom to pick up the right things if they ever get empty.
And the wisdom to pick up the right things if they ever get empty.
January 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
That ol' Serenity Prayer has its fans, but eh. I mean, maybe its heart is in the right place, but for me it's more like "I gotta keep what's outta my hands outta my hands for now, so I don't drop what's already in my hands."
And the wisdom to pick up the right things if they ever get empty.
And the wisdom to pick up the right things if they ever get empty.
Hi there, I just figured I'd roll into town and see what's up. If I know you or like you, I'll follow you back!
Whenever you see a headline on some relatively obscure policy framed in terms of a 'blow to Democrats,' a good heuristic is just to assume bad policy got a green light
our lazy, consolidated press loves to call the dismantling of essential cornerstones of a functioning society (consumer protection, labor rights, whatever) a "blow to democrats," even if the policy shift harms everyone and the reforms have broad, bipartisan support
January 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Hi there, I just figured I'd roll into town and see what's up. If I know you or like you, I'll follow you back!