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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 50 days ago • 1093 comments

An absolutely STUNNING number of gorgeous women with no bio and no posts want to follow me on BlueSky. Where were all these gals when I was 18?

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

A lovely delicate little thing!

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The barbarians are at the gate.

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submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

I hope that this is not construed as being either xenophobic or racist, but this is what you get when you staff an entire administration off of the Temu clearance rack. Bunch of moral defectives. Can we rehabilitate the word “deplorables”?

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Guess who wants this photo banned from the internet? Please like and repost! 😉😘

submitted 60 days ago • 784 comments

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

submitted 60 days ago • 297 comments

Congress should ask Pam Bondi during her confirmation hearings why she failed to bring statutory rape charges against Matt Gaetz.

submitted 62 days ago • 389 comments

In what perverse alternate universe is Matt Gaetz qualified for anything other than a lengthy prison sentence? And this is the guy that 45 wanted to be the highest law enforcement officer of the nation??? What upside down world am I living in? Beam me up!!!

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Please explain this to John Fetterman.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

We lost so much when we lost this fine human being. Miss him, and that’s a great idea! ❤️

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submitted 63 days ago • 10 comments

I wonder who Mump is nominating for Food Taster.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Is it possible that the Mumps have eaten JD, perhaps with a nice chianti? I bet that’s one chapter of Hillbilly Elegy he never saw coming.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

It may only be a naive indulgence in revisionist thinking, but I wonder if we will ever get back to the days when elected officials actually did their jobs without play acting the high drama of petulant self-important twits. Do your job or go home!

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Those of us who avoided polio and whooping cough in the 50s because of vaccines, and due to the vision of a group of leaders who weren’t goddamn idiots denying science - we feel genuinely sorry for the coming generation and the ills that are promised them. Buckle up!

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I’m trapped somewhere in the middle of disgust, incredulity and rage at the utterly blatant and unapologetic MEDIOCRITY of the incoming “administration”. It’s the Venn diagram from Hell. Credit to Bob Dylan: “it’s not dark yet, but it’s gettin’ there”.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking of mass deportation: in the late 60s/early 70s, my deeply radical older sister sported a button that stated “US out of North America!” She was immensely snarky and way ahead of her time. She would froth at the mouth were she alive today. I still have the button on my windowsill.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

It’s Wednesday, December 11, 2024. Upheaval in Syria, clown car in DC, billionaires interbreeding like demented rabbits, the promise of pardons for 1000+ convicted criminals, and I’m stuck on considering what a strange word “hippopotamus” is. I may need counseling.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Keep your hate outta the FAFO state 🤌🏼

submitted 75 days ago • 21 comments

For you Biblical scholars out there: what happens when you sow the wind? Asking for a friend…

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Let me see if I got this straight. The population of the US is around 335 million souls, and knucklehead won the election with 77,238,000 votes. Check my math, but 23% is not a mandate, and 23% should not determine my future, and the future of democracy in the US, or anywhere. Nope.

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

I wonder if the poor folks who enthusiastically voted for the Middle Ages then formed committees to try to outlaw the Renaissance. And then sat around grumping "Nah, we ain't havin' none of that Enlightenment shit either!" Gonna be a long four years.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I have not heard it mentioned anywhere, but is there, or is there planned to be a subscription plan to help support Bluesky? I keep hoping for some clarity about how and where to pit funds in the hands of those on the front lines. Feel free to respond if you have ideas.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, so I've weaned myself off of "legacy media", burned my tv in the back yard, never wanted to join Facebook, thought MySpace was dumb (even back then), can't abide talk radio, and wouldn't recognize a bot if it bit me on the ass. Am I reduced to reading Candide and "tending my own garden"? Sad.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder if the most effective form of resistance might be just to back off and let MAGA/2025 make things as horrendously awful as they possibly can. Logic, facts and reason don't seem to work; maybe having to own what they have broken would finally penetrate the fog. That's the way toddlers learn.

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

It’s time for the Dems to start working on Project 2029. We can always deny it later.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

John Cleese for the win

submitted 92 days ago • 225 comments

Muslims don’t recognize Jews as God's chosen people, Jews don’t recognize Jesus as the Messiah, Protestants don’t recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian world, and Evangelicals don’t recognize each other at Hooters.

submitted 91 days ago • 55 comments

Precisely that, nothing more and nothing less. Until it's clear who to fight and how best to fight, it's crucial to stay clearheaded, focused and committed. And drink more coffee.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

One of only two or three times I can remember my father crying was 61 years ago today. We were living in north Germany for the year, and an upstairs neighbor came to the door with the news that JFK had been shot. After his rousing speech at the Wall, he was a true national hero for their nation.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Having just read Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy's comments about preparing for dystopia, I have to remind myself that feeling good about being here, sharing for a brief moment the comforting vibe of Bluesky, in no way diminishes the looming imminent existential threat to us all. Stay vigilant!

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Any wagers on whether Gaetz will resume his seat in the House in January and risk expulsion after the ethics committee report eventually comes out, or take his licks and return to the playboy life in Florida? Being universally despised and ridiculed seems to have no effect on his decisions.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Wouldn't it be funny if Marco Rubio didn't get confirmed either? And, by the way, is there a technical term for when you run out of mediocrity to throw at the wall?

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky is not an echo chamber, it’s the next digital frontier of the resistance against fascism. We won’t cede ground anywhere, but we will build up our power and alliances everywhere.

submitted 95 days ago • 164 comments

If you were born in the 50s and grew up in the 60s, you may remember the strong and comforting feeling that Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid and David Brinkley, (and a few others), could be depended upon not to lead us astray, but rather would steadfastly point us toward what is real. What happened?

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

From the Raleigh, NC area after rain from Helene.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

I haven't read the news since 11/5. I have moved the daily posts from Joyce Vance, Robert Hubbell and Heather Cox Richardson to an email folder for savoring later, if I survive the next few weeks. I caught Covid. I ran out of coffee. Somehow, Bluesky has saved me from drowning in a muddy ditch.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Am I the only human here who has never, ever, not in 72 years, been on Twitter or X, and who started an account on Bluesky on the recommendation of Amanda Marcotte, who I don't even know, except as a voice on Salon? It's oddly satisfying, like taking off a tight shoe.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

I often think of leaving. Don't know where, don't know how. And then I remember my old man, by far the wisest man I'll ever know, saying that you lose both credibility and leverage from the outside looking in. So I guess I'll stay a while longer, and look for a bigger crowbar.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

I keep hearing some plaintive version of "maybe it won't be so bad". And I hear in my mind some version of that in every language since the beginning of time, as the invader emerged from the woods or the boats appeared on the horizon. Why is it that we humans always give evil the benefit of doubt?

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

For anyone needing a potent reminder of how we fit into the earth (at least as we recognize it in the present day), I highly recommend Halliday's vivid history of past extinctions. We're just passing through.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments