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A liberal atheist living in Texas, and not having any of it. I like the Guardians, Arsenal. I post about politics and beer, maybe games and books and music and other stuff I find enjoyable. He/Him
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Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.

Why? Because Republicans like this refused to stop him at every turn.

The feds are disappearin' people now, T. We got the expertise, maybe we can win a government contract or some shit. Finally go legit.

November: "i will fix it on day one" March: "lol enjoy your recession idiots"

BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”

four votes for “the president is a king and the framers created a monarchy”

After reading this I’m sure this court would rule 5-4 on if Trump could run for a third term. And I couldn’t tell you which way it would go.

Historian here the north won the war but the south won the peace after violently overthrowing Reconstruction. The U.S. may have won the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union but Putin is winning now that Trump and the GOP are his lapdogs.

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy. Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.

Zelenskyy stood in front of literally all of Congress and said thank you multiple times in Dec 2022. Vance may have missed it, as he wasn't sworn in as a senator until a week or two later, although technically that means Zelenskyy has been fighting this war longer than Vance has been a politician.

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

This is a very good thread on what happens when you stop thinking of trans people as an "issue."

Louder for the people in th… just all the people

[P] "Just *one* death? Hell, I killed 83 in Samoa. Call me when we hit those numbers."

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

RIP Roberta Flack www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

Pretty much it

The richest man in the world is not building libraries. He is not feeding hungry people. He is not working on public health programs. He is working on robbing a very stupid country where he decided to settle when he saw how easy it would be.

Rereading Feed by Mira Grant (pen name of @seananmcguire.bsky.social), and this line towards the beginning stuck out, given the political climate: "There was a war on, and the ones whose responsibility it was to inform us wouldn't even admit that we were fighting it."

The Trump crime family is doing so many things that will inevitably lead to mass murder. It’s just a matter of time now.

Really not enjoying that Nazi salutes are now common at Republican rallies. Seems like a very very bad omen.

Just a little rant today: please stop telling me to be nice to the Nazi sympathizers once they claim to stop sympathizing skepchick.org/2025/02/no-i...

Si vous pensez que l’extrême-droite et le fascistes ne sont pas encore au pouvoir alors qu’on n’a jamais autant vu des représentants politiques faire des signes nazis à la tribune devant les caméras en deux mois qu’en 85 ans, c’est que vous êtes soit naïf, soit dans le déni, soit complice.

It’s Vance’s fking religion that tells men they’re broken. No one, and I mean NO ONE ever told a man it was wrong to have a few beers with friends. For fuck’s sake

Telling people to ask an algorithm questions instead of just asking other people sounds really stupid until you notice that the idea is to make employees whole livelihood dependent on machines owned by the boss instead of on each other's skills

For the record, right now, congestion pricing is very much alive. All that happened is the first step in what may be a long process to decide the matter. So the King can go fuck himself with his scepter.

If you want to know why I stopped giving money to NPR.

These are the people who claim liberals are snowflakes with no sense of humor. www.salon.com/2025/02/17/t...

This is what ALL Democrats should be doing.

I hope that if Dems ever take back the white house, they have the political will to just put the government back together through executive power and not depend on congress to restore it.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.