Thin Blue Smoke
@allmyrivals.bsky.social
A lover of all things Pearl Jam, a watcher of sports, a connoisseur of smoked meats, a fixer of stuff, a builder of other stuff, and will never turn down good bourbon or single-malt.
"The patience for that" is essentially code for seeing DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIERS. So, I apologize if I don't have the patience.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 6mo agoTrump on Iran: "We could just take their oil. But you know, I'm not sure that the people in our country have the patience to do that, which is unfortunate. You know, they wanna see it end. If we stayed there, I'd prefer just to take the oil. We could do it so easily."
I scroll Bluesky until I get depressed. These days, it doesn't take much scrolling at all.
NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg. My report:
911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center
EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.
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The worst politicians in America are about to quote Martin Luther King Jr. You can’t quote “I have a dream” on MLK Day then legislate against that dream every other day of the year.
Does this happen to anybody else? It seems that these days I will, from time to time, read the news and just feel incredibly sad. Most days, I'm angry whenever I read the news. Sometimes, though, I just feel an incredible sense of sadness. Today's one of those days.
I think that, in the final analysis of tonight's results, the message is very clear. And that message is WE DON'T FUCKING LIKE WHAT YOU'RE FUCKING DOING, YOU ORANGE-HUED TWAT!
Republicans don’t need a single democratic vote to fund their regime. Here’s why. Please share widely.
I think I may have stumbled upon the real reason why Trump and RFK dislike acetaminophen.
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will “redact every Republican” from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats. He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security “to keep her mouth shut.”
Week 4 into Cymbalta with an increase in dosage already and the news still enrages me. My God, how am I going to get through this administration?!
The anti-Ossoff commercials are terrible. Taking the tack that Ossoff has never "had to worry while standing in a grocery store line," perhaps we wouldn't have that worry if our hand-me-down billionaire president wasn't driving up prices due to tariffs.
For people who've been looking for jobs recently, this job report is in no way surprising.
Christ almighty! I used to only have to worry about political ads every two years. Now, we're getting them all the time?! Jesus, Hulu, could you at least give me an option to opt out of all political ads, please?!
I'm doing all the things you do for the 4th. Smoking ribs, drinking beer, bought fireworks earlier, wearing my USS Arizona shirt. It's just feeling hollow. There's no soul left. So, I'm playing only music from minorites and Wilson Pickett's cover of "Hey Jude" is just hitting a spot at this moment.
I've lived through other times and presidential admins with whom I've disagreed with their rule of law. I even lived through Trump's 1st term. I am not so certain that at any point through those admins have I ever been so cynical or pessimistic as to the direction of our country than I am now. #sad
Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
Something something "bombing for peace" something something "fucking for virginity."
I find it wholly fascinating that the very thing I was told I should fear about one side 15 years ago is now actually being perpetrated by the other side and not a single person who issued those warnings about 'tyranny' are saying a fucking word. #silentcomplicity #notaqueensrychesong #weird
Just doubling down on the cultist behavior. The GOP is positively fucked once Trump is no longer because this behavior will be remembered.
Ashley Kuckelman@ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · last yr.If only we had more ass-kissing Trumpers to come up with stupid bills that waste time and taxpayer dollars… 🙄🥴😵💫 l.smartnews.com/p-lF856s0/27...
To all those who served, the President of the United States just wished everybody a "HAPPY" Memorial Day. "HAPPY?!" What a twit.
🚨WATCH — MARSHA BLACKBURN’S OFFICE ADMITS IT: “YES, IT WILL REDUCE MEDICAID BY $880 BILLION.” Blackburn’s office admits the Republican bill cuts Medicaid by almost $1 TRILLION (1 million Tennesseans depend on) Full @bookersquared.bsky.social video: www.instagram.com/reel/DJpV9KK...
Has anybody heard from the NRA lately? I mean literal decades of spouting about the perils of government tyranny and the moment tyranny shows up, they are strangely silent. Weird.
House Republicans are now targeting federal workers’ retirement benefits to help fund their massive tax cuts. Last week, the House Oversight Committee approved a plan to slash $50 billion from the retirement system over the next decade by changing
I’ve just gotta say… women who have done the work of keeping people safe make excellent policy makers. And they can sure cut through extremist bullshit. Love to see it. #MomSky
Frank Strong@frankstrong.bsky.social · last yr.You MUST watch this exchange from today’s Tx House debate on anti-library HB3225. “This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author. “Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social
🔥 Kimmel on @repstansbury.bsky.social gloriously trolling Marge for using a doctored photo to try to make a witness look bad
