Profile avatar
skwina.bsky.social
Mom/wife, writer/nerd, Mets/Celtics.
24 posts 222 followers 224 following
Prolific Poster

THIS THIS THIS

It would not be the worst thing in the world if Bluesky became known as the social media site people just hung out at and enjoyed themselves with

Dear god let this man cook.

Things you want people to talk about when your approval rating is 39%.

WAPO: “.. ocean-container bookings from China to the U.S. are down by more than 60 percent .. “.. The consequence will be ‘empty shelves in U.S. stores in a few weeks and covid-like shortages for consumers ..’” @davidjlynch.bsky.social @jeffstein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Women and girls are literally under attack and the narrative that men and boys are struggling in comparison to them is part of that attack. Their “struggle” as it’s so often harped on is that women and girls aren’t just bending the knee to them in all spheres of life

Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

BECAUSE IT'S NOT ABOUT FIGHTING ANTISEMITISM....

Murray Osorio PLLC, counsel for Kilmar Abrego Garcia: "If the government believes there is a legitimate case to be made, it should present that case in a court of law … not on social media. But that cannot happen until Mr. Abrego Garcia is returned to the United States and given full due process."

These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other. This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.

theonion.com/historians-q...

Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is *a crime*. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

i have no doubt that senator van hollen was genuinely concerned for the safety and welfare of abrego garcia BUT ALSO this is what i'm talking about when i say POLITICAL AMBITION. van hollen may well make himself a household name and nationally recognized political figure with this move

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

theonion.com/show-me-wher...

There are so many ambitious Democratic lawmakers who apparently don't understand how fast their star would rise with tangible, direct actions. Before this week, Sen. Van Hollen was largely known only to Maryland voters and professional political circles. Now, the country knows his name. That fast.

Without due process, this could be you. It could be me. It could be any or all of us. It doesn’t matter who you voted for. Or the color of your skin. You must understand what is truly at stake here. All tyranny needs to thrive is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Welcome to the free thinker’s podcast, the last space where you can say anything in this woke culture. Please refrain from criticizing the President of the United States and the richest man in the world because those guys are my friends. Here’s six hours about how hard it is to be a cop.

1. He was in the U.S. legally. 2. A fed court ruled that he CANNOT be deported. 3. Trump defied the court & deported him to an El Salvador prison. 4. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Trump must bring him back to the U.S. 5. Trump said no. Are we a nation of laws or not? What say u America?

When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

The White House. The actual White House. This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.

Nobody is saying this. They have to conjure up imaginary libs to argue with since they can’t win a debate with real ones on this issue.

My son and daughter got social Security payments because their mother died at 35. Jen earned that money and the family needed that little extra boost each month having lost a breadwinner. These people trying to shame recipients are monstrous.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name. It is blatantly unconstitutional.

Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

So which Dem Senators are gonna betray us in the Screw American Voters Everywhere (SAVE) Act? The fact that we have beg any Dem in Congress not to vote for this is insane. They should be telling the GOP to fuck off on instinct. THIS would be the time for Cory Booker to filibuster for real.

Opinion | I like fascism. I also like my 401(k). I have never felt more politically homeless.

This remind you of anyone ? Or maybe millions of people ?

!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky please join me in the fight to save our libraries. EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.

this is just a level of sickness that i don’t think any society can come back from

Now do Trump.

The money is going to what now

Japanese and Chinese markets are down 8% and 10% respectively. Black Friday in 1929 was -11%. Tomorrow could easily be the worst crash in American history. The worst thing? It’s 100% intentional.

A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York. But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.

Ope.

Where is our humanity?

🤣🤣

15 more years of Juan Soto on the Mets

I have a hard time with the way we let Bill Clinton still be a thing.

Maybe voting for guy who was a complete disaster last time was a mistake?