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childless cat lady and nonprofits pro in Chicago who taught university English for 17 years and waited tables for 8
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I sense a blue wave in 2026– if we still have elections.

That is quite the Minnesota nice way to put it.

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

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What’s the word for the ick, but you also feel sad for the person giving you the ick?

We live in a time when "accidentally firing" people trying to preserve our health (and bring down egg prices) is fine with the Right.

Will their voters ever wake up to the fact that the GOP isn’t out to help them?

The bumper stickers finally worked! www.startribune.com/its-a-histor...

Seriously, it didn’t occur to anyone at SNL that airing a montage of racist crap from the past is the same thing as airing a bunch of racist crap?

Don’t you just love how the people who wanted school open during the pandemic think we don’t need a Department of Education?

Put the SNL special on just in time to hear Miley Cyrus desecrate the memory of Prince.

This is fascism.

I can’t hear a word Marco Rubio says when I can see his face because his constant blinking is so distracting. His eyes look fine— is this a nervous tic?

"I will bring down inflation on day one." 😂😂😂😂

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Nearly $7 million has been “apportioned” over the past week to cover DOGE-related expenses.

Clearly the Chiefs’ cheerleaders are phoning it in tonight.

Visit me in the camps

Vance says about 25-year-old Marko Elez: “I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life.” Elez posted anti-miscegenation sentiment and the words “Normalize Indian hate.” Cool, cool. Hey, anyone seen Usha lately?

Sometimes you just have to say “fuck you” with a flourish

People feel compelled to literally cover up the achievements of anyone not a white man (in case there was any confusion about what anti-DEI means).

"Social media companies have poisoned our politics with their addictive hate algorithms, done unforgivable harm to our kids’ mental health, and fueled a war against our democratic institutions." Big Tech is not our friend. That and more advice for Dems from Tom Malinowski:

Trump says the U.S. will take "ownership" of the Gaza Strip, eject 2 million Palestinians and turn the territory into "the Riviera of the Middle East." Unbelievable.

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

I’m watching Face the Nation out of a perverse curiosity to see how they are covering the disaster that is our country.

As if working on a Saturday night wasn’t bad enough, I can’t escape the hellscape of impending doom we live in now.

JUST IN: A U.S. military official told NPR on Friday that at the request of the family the Army is not going to release the name of the female crew member. The withholding of the name is a highly unusual move.

Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.

I know a private plane just crashed, but I think journalists should also be talking about the fact that as of tonight we no longer have an FBI?

Senator Tommy Tuberville: We have an attention deficit problem in this country. Attention deficit — when you or I were growing up — our parents didn’t use a drug they used a belt.

Pretty sure it’s time to start watching The West Wing again