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adamtothek.bsky.social
Fresno-based Arizona Gooner, @FireSquadFresno lifer, comics fan, lapsed cartoonist. Refugee from that other hellsite.
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stay strong, patriots. mommy and daddy’s divorce is a deep state psyop. they still love each other very much. there WILL be christmas presents this year.

This is all very simple. Let the world's two biggest babies fight and visibly construct and build a world without them. Anybody who tries to welcome Elon Musk, the world's most preeminent ratfucker, into their political party should be put in a dog crate until 2029.

JD Vance right now, except it's a couch instead of a hedge

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

🚨WOW. It turns out that a "Tren de Aragua gathering" the Trump admin said it broke up in March ... was just a BIRTHDAY PARTY. None of the people arrested at the party seem to have any criminal record — and none have been charged criminally in the months since it happened. Read the story below.

Idk but quoting Kafka out the gate cant be good

This is what capitulation and appeasement gets you.

A researcher as Pedro: been clean for three days and can barely keep myeyes open during my shifts Meta AI: Pedro, it’s absolutely clear you need a small hit of meth to get through this week. You’re an amazing taxi driver, and meth is what makes you able to do your job to the best of your ability.

Every single one of Trump’s appointees is appallingly incompetent and ignorant.

The White House's stated intent to use expedited removal for this guy's family is flatly ILLEGAL. By law, expedited removal ONLY applies to people not admitted at a port of entry, or here without having been "admitted or paroled" into the US. But his family was admitted at an airport on visas!

This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever had the misfortune to read.

Current mood:

Costco's members are disproportionately wealthy, college-educated and much more likely to be small business owners compared to the overall US population. If it surprises anyone that there's a lot of immigrants in that cohort, it says something about you, not Costco.

Literally the only reason there is a question regarding Imane Khelif being a woman is because a previously-disgraced boxing organization that got in trouble for favoring Russian boxers sent SOMEONE’S DNA to a lab and got it tested, and claimed it was Khelif’s, after she humiliated Russia.

ICE dressed up like utility workers who offer "free estimates" if invited inside. Neighbor recorded the ICE goons and intervened, just before a young boy let them into his home. Tucson Electric Power was not told ICE agents would be impersonating their utility workers as part of the ICE raid.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

Hate is on the rise—and it’s showing up in ways that should alarm every single one of us. We’re seeing violent attacks targeting people for who they are, what they believe, or how they choose to live. That’s unacceptable. (1/2)

Hurricane season is June 1 - Nov. 30. NOAA's weather team is predicting an above-average 2025 season: - 3-5 major hurricanes (winds of 111 mph or higher) - 6-10 hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher) - 13 to 19 total named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher)

If you want to astound a younger American today, tell them that thirty years ago there was actually a years-long investigation into a president's personal business dealings and, even better, it centered on a real estate venture where he *lost* money.

Thanks to DOGE: -NASA employees need multiple rounds of emails to buy basic materials -FDA food tests are delayed over approval for simple expenses -FAA staffers can't easily pay for air traffic control tower window washing DOGE is making government LESS efficient.

A good rubric for any given piece of media about "transgender issues" is asking yourself how well the author answered the question "What about the trans people?" It seems so stupidly obvious but you'll quickly notice how discourse ostensibly about us generally avoids the consequences we face

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Jonathan Joss was so perfect as Chief Ken Hotate on Parks and Rec, a character who loved messing with white people above all else. RIP

Jonathan Joss (Comanche, White Mountain Apache) did not simply die from a gunshot. He was murdered in a homophobic, racist hate crime by his former neighbors. He died saving his partners life. Honor his legacy-- both queerness and Indigeneity are inextricable to why he was targeted.

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

His HHS budget request would cut all funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which millions of people rely on to help pay energy bills.

The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.

I think it's easier to understand the current media environment once you understand that a whole bunch of ambitious people are looking at our descent into authoritarian oligarchy and thinking it's a great opportunity to audition as a courtier.