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First time on Bluesky since Election Day - I was on a full media blackout for a month or so, and am still limiting news access due to wanting to save my mental health! I apologize to all the people who responded to my posts for disappearing; thanks for the likes and follows.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This morning I realized that if Harris wins, there is absolutely going to be a legacy Supreme Court pundit who writes a take that’s like, John Roberts Kept Trump on the Ballot Because He Had Faith That the American People Would Reject Him, and I’m gonna lose my shit

submitted 120 days ago • 41 comments

Aussies don't hold punches

submitted 121 days ago • 123 comments

It’s a very big and very weird tent, but I’ll take it: LeBron James, Bad Bunny, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Liz and Dick Cheney and Angela Davis endorse Kamala Harris.

submitted 122 days ago • 26 comments

wow and you’re telling me she did this without threatening to hang mike pence?

submitted 124 days ago • 21 comments

So you're not voting or voting 3rd party - to protest genocide? Thanks to Trump (Bibi's bestie, but I guess that's too much for your middling brain to process), women are dying RIGHT HERE in America, you ignorant, privileged, selfish child. And more will. Are they your sacrifice? Let blocking begin.

submitted 126 days ago • 10 comments

Everyone gets the difference between (1) political opponents comparing a politician to Hitler, and (2) top national security officials who were appointed by and worked closely with a president comparing him to Hitler. But some who want it and can't defend it on the merits try pretending otherwise.

submitted 128 days ago • 7 comments

bluesky is like a retirement home for internet veterans

submitted 128 days ago • 372 comments

The haters said there was no way I could get through this election with my sanity intact. And they were absolutely right, honestly great call by the haters.

submitted 130 days ago • 6 comments

This post rhymes with Letter From Birmingham Jail yes indeed

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

I say this all the time: the only useful framework to analyze white people’s self-perception of racism: 1) Racists are Bad People 2) I am a Good Person 3) Good People cannot be Bad People, therefore: 4) I cannot be a Racist, QED

submitted 130 days ago • 28 comments

It’s remarkable how, contra to The Narrative, NYC is significantly safer than basically everywhere

submitted 134 days ago • 100 comments

It’s so funny and noticeable how only left leaning spaces get called “echo chambers.” Only left wing people get told we need to learn to see other people’s perspectives and understand their motivations. Do conservatives want to be understood, or do they want to dominate conversations?

submitted 135 days ago • 15 comments

Donald John Trump, Sr.'s policies and Supreme Court Justices actively dismantled the food safety inspection apparatus and now we deal with goddam food recalls literally every week and some people out here want to RE-ELECT that man? I mean come the fuck on. www.cbsnews.com/news/treehou...

submitted 135 days ago • 42 comments

I don't think that most younger people realize what a monumental, unthinkable thing Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala is. There is literally no other Republican more hard core than Cheney and the fact he did this should tell you the danger we are facing. It's shocking and should be a wake up call.

submitted 137 days ago • 24 comments

Essential “stares in Hispanic” coursework.

submitted 136 days ago • 10 comments

By the way, I hope all the people who were yelling “THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE ABLE TO STOP AND PUNISH FALSE SPEECH, IT’S SIMPLE” will read this, but realistically, they won’t.

submitted 136 days ago • 14 comments

one underrated difference between this trump run and his previous two is that the sense that he is having any fun whatsoever is almost nonexistent this time around

submitted 137 days ago • 67 comments

Angela Davis and Dick Cheney are voting for the same person.

submitted 138 days ago • 28 comments

If you're feeling anxious about the election, it's because the stakes are very high, and the historical inflection point is getting closer. It's not because the odds have worsened. If you feel like they have, the main factor is your social media feed, not anything concrete. I strongly second this👇

submitted 139 days ago • 13 comments

There is something special going on around the country. I love the way that people are taking this campaign, because it’s their campaign, into their own hands. The creativity is incredible.

submitted 139 days ago • 6 comments

This is incredible. Worth a click just to marvel at the combination of chutzpah & wit. Elon Musk wishes his petition payment game were half this good. And the self-abnegation by folk who didn’t vote last time is so in-on-the-joke.

submitted 144 days ago • 2 comments

Tapping the sign every fucking day

submitted 142 days ago • 5 comments

Musk is an Ayn Rand villain who imagines he is an Ayn Rand hero, which is a kind of perfect storm of douchebaggery.

submitted 144 days ago • 10 comments

Republican mayor Mike Coffman on Trump's rally today in his city of Aurora, Colorado (via Ben Siegel, ABC)

submitted 142 days ago • 24 comments

The people who recognized Trump’s fascism in 2016 were ruthlessly mocked with shit like “everything I don’t like is fascism” and now he’s literally vowing an immigrant Holocaust.

submitted 142 days ago • 36 comments

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submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

A+

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

You try to curse in a text and autocorrect changes “fuck” to “duck” After a few years autocorrect no longer makes that change because it has learned your tendencies Then one day autocorrect is so confident it knows you that you end up texting your niece that you went to the park and fed the fucks

submitted 146 days ago • 22 comments

Wishing everyone celebrating in NW Ohio and across the country a Happy #NationalPierogiDay!

submitted 146 days ago • 15 comments

share this far and wide

submitted 146 days ago • 11 comments

The grievance of the insincere is always more convincing than the pleas of the marginalized, because it costs them nothing.

submitted 147 days ago • 7 comments

Trump 2024 is like if 9/11 were a Presidential candidate, and its message was “9/11 was great, actually” and “Weren’t you better off during 9/11?” and “What everyone wants is another 9/11”

submitted 150 days ago • 8 comments

I keep coming back to this. Trump was absolutely not rejecting his defeat. He was rejecting the very idea voters should be allowed to defeat him.

submitted 151 days ago • 12 comments