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wreckedego.bsky.social
Politics, culture, and whatever other detritus is in my brain. https://open.substack.com/pub/wreckedego?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=bmfv
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If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

Effectively eliminating Medicaid would be catastrophic in a myriad of ways that many people are blissfully unaware of because they don’t how deeply Medicaid is woven into our society. If you care about public health, jobs, hospitals, the economy, or just people being alive: Call your reps.

Hello, in case you were wondering about this: because false positives are so common and prostate cancers tend to grow very slowly, doctors do not usually recommend prostate cancer screening for men over 70.

No but really this is true

Despicable. A crime against humanity.

i like how roberts even looks a bit like tim robinson in the hot dog sketch www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Me on hour 14 of dragging Republican Medicaid cuts for filth and giving them no end in sight

Convincing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the blue fluid from bus toilets is a wave-disrupting proton immunity elixir. He signs up for a $1200 monthly subscription for a two-ounce vial. "You have to rub it on your gums," I tell him. "Of course," he answers. It sounds like sneakers in a running dryer.

Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you

I believe this graffiti is in reference to Resident Evil games with tank controls. You can’t change my mind.

I love how Ross Douthat's new column basically amounts to "well, I like the Latin rite, so the Pope should cater to my preferences." Religion is about togetherness. It is not about satisfying one's personal interest. Dude needs to read more Vatican II

There is a type of bald that is genetically evil, Stephen Miller, Billy Corgan, and a type of bald that is honorable, Jason Statham, me. Many such cases.

Stephen Miller is a sick little freak

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Oh god I just realized some people who once would have written charmingly imperfect wedding vows are now just using ChatGPT instead. Can’t stress enough how much I hate it here

Saeed is really a delight. You should catch him whenever he has a public reading. Just a great human

If someone said “Saeed, it’s important to be respectful” and I interpreted that message as an indictment… well, you’d be right to be concerned about me and for me.

"Basic Instinct" (1992)

The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. If you're a vet at risk of foreclosure, we want to hear your story.

OMG I FIGURED IT OUT UNLIKABLE? SOCIOPATHIC? PETULANT? WHINY? STEPHEN MILLER IS GROWN-UP CAILLOU

I have a lot of nephews and while 90% of our time has been spent throwing them into various bodies of water or me asking uh do you like …music? The times I decide to be serious uncle is two things: do not get in a car with a drunk driver and do not ever put your hands on a girl. After that I’m spent

I can’t believe we’re doing this again.

just listened to a chunk of this interview and in addition to radiating hitler particles this keeperman guy is a dumbass with mommy issues (many such cases)

Also, for the record, Death Stranding is pretty fucking awesome and it did hit me hard emotionally. Probably Kojima's most personal game, and it has aged like fine wine through the pandemic

I will never stop appreciating the shit out of Hideo Kojima. Metal Gear and its antiwar politics probably kept me from being a chud in my adolescence

I think it is really important for people to tell each other to continue to get vaccinated for COVID while we still can on a regular basis nbd but if you have the chance at even protection that falls off after the virus continues to mutate it is better than nothing

i realize the title is a bit counterintuitive but the answer is that you cannot as an individual guarantee your food is safe. we can, as a collective, push back HARD on dismantling food safety regulations, and put pressure on an unpopular administration to keep our food from killing us.

Americans really do grossly underestimate what a difference “walking everywhere” makes when they travel like yeah the walking is the reason you lost weight while eating bread in Italy, it’s not because Italian bread is imbued with magical nonna sprinkles that give it fewer calories

Mild Spoiler: it's a testament to the quality of writing in Andor that one of the best and easily the most relatable scene in all of Star Wars is a fascist collapsing onto his bed in a panic attack because his mom won't stop being mean to him

Anyone who's going to Slotkin's office to speak to her staff in the next week or two DM me

This is political malpractice what the everloving fuck

this thing zack is quoting here is completely deranged

sure. fine. that's nice. that's not a scalable solution and it condemns a lot of people to death. we are a collective and a society and it is our right to have safe nonpoisonous food. and we should fight for it.

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

What I find to be incredibly heartening is all of the support he received from his community made a huge difference. The fact that people were putting their names to petitions and testimonies to his character made a huge difference. Gives me a lot of hope

Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday (1943)

Grats Canada

A lot of you non-journalists probably wouldn’t understand this, but among the 75,017,613 people who voted for Kamala Harris, not a single one of them will speak on the record to reporters. They also don’t eat at diners.

Is it bad to have the secretary of HHS believe if you have a health condition you probably deserve it and maybe should die?

Time to dust off the best screenshot from a campaign ad ever:

Harrowing stuff from @cnewman.bsky.social, lawyer for Abrego Garcia family: In his talks with civil society in El Salvador, they tell him: "You've gotta stop Trump. You still have checks and balances in your country. We don’t anymore." On the pod, he's so good: newrepublic.com/article/1944...

Nobody has gotten a more thorough hearing than the Silicon Valley freaks have! The standards of what you need to know or how clearly you need to think have been completely suspended for them! Intellectual affirmative action for dopes who know less about the world than a bright ninth-grader does.

Heavy hitting show this week with Bryan Stevenson @eji.org on Trump’s attack on museums and “improper ideology” www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

I am not religious, but this seems to reflect the Jesus I was taught about and I’m not sure how people who claim to be Christian believe otherwise.