The reality is, all these fake MAGA tough guys from Trump on down are just whiny crybabies and perpetual victims.
Andrew Maurins (he/they)
@andrewmaurins.bsky.social
Library assistant. Elder millennial. Nevadan. Neurospicy. Devourer of Books. Married to my best friend. MSTie. Wolf Pack fan. Beer geek. Occasionally anti-social, but always anti-fascist. All views expressed are either my own or properly attributed.
El- Sayed: "Here‘s the thing about it – no matter who you are, how you love, how you pray, how you identify, it just should not be this hard... Shouldn‘t be this hard to keep our money here. Spend it on roads and bridges here, build our schools here, provide healthcare here. Shouldn‘t be this hard"
The flu has come early to the Pacific Northwest this year. In King County, six people — all of them adults — have already died in this wave of the flu, and that number will rise as more deaths get investigated and counted.
The flu is already in Washington state. Experts say, get your shot, ‘like right now’
The flu has come early to the Pacific Northwest this year. In King County, six people — all of them adults — have already died in this wave of the flu, and that number will rise as more deaths get investigated and counted.
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“If you take out the eight top posts, this [narrative] didn’t happen. Nobody would be talking about this.”
WNBA transgender athlete discourse exposed as manufactured outrage, according to report
Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham engulfed the WNBA in transgender discourse. A new report suggests the online panic was manufactured.
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some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "They want to cut your children. It's unbelievable what they do. Your son leaves as Jimmy and comes home in three days as Janet, and they don't even ask you. They can take your child out of school and do whatever the hell they want. Minnesota is one of those states."
I'll just point out once more: the Republican case to voters, today and for the last 50 years or so, relies on lies & falsehoods. If you could snap your fingers and force everyone to speak only the truth, Republicans would never win a national majority again. The lies are central & load-bearing.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "They want to cut your children. It's unbelievable what they do. Your son leaves as Jimmy and comes home in three days as Janet, and they don't even ask you. They can take your child out of school and do whatever the hell they want. Minnesota is one of those states."
If you can't see a direct line from frat culture to ICE, DOGE and the gleeful violation of consent in various tech, sport & finance circles, I don't know what to tell you.
Imagine being a man in 2026, and your big, once-in-a-generation fight is that women won’t date you, immigrants are more skilled than you, and Netflix race-swapped your favourite cartoon character.
For a long time, being able to graduate from college debt-free was one of the things I was most grateful for. Nowadays, not getting into gambling is increasingly rising up the list.
Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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"whoa that question about who won the 2020 election caught me totally by surprise who came up with that one?"
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
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If you’re a Dem running for federal office, and you want my vote, publicly stating your intent to round up and prosecute every last one of these DOGE human trash heaps would be a *highly effective* way to acquire it.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d agoExcerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
One of the worst parts of being a creator, especially a trans one, is watching disinformation about you spread from bad actors to other folks like a bad game of telephone so you see people literally judge you on shit you never said/did or is completely opposite to the point you were making.
In other words, what Trump is doing threatens exactly the sort of tyranny that basically *everyone* associated with the Founding tried to prevent by giving Congress the power of the purse. Even if you're not an originalist (I'm not), you should care about this, because the threat is serious today.
“Too corrupt for the second Trump administration” is one helluva distinction.
The Guilfoyle scandals finally caught up with her
The US ambassador to Greece has now been asked to resign, is under congressional investigation, and may be sued for defamation.
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And that’s not including the truly batshit ones who occasionally make it through, like Marx in Colorado. Weed out all of the “RINO’s” you claim to hate, and the only people who end up making it through the primaries are wading even deeper into the crazy pool.
Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 3d agoIt's really remarkable how in race after race, Republicans are saddled with the worst candidates imaginable - Paxton, Whatley, Husted, Rogers, Marshall, Moody, M. Collins, Graham... Some of them may win, but my god what a collection of losers, crooks, and dumbasses
There’s this weird political tic (and everyone from centrist Dems to progressives to people on the far left do it) where people desperately want fascists and neo-nazis to turn into good guys, and will preemptively attempt to rehabilitate fascists who haven’t changed at all.
Alisha Grauso (She/Her)@alishagrauso.bsky.social · 4d agoHoly shit, am I tired of the people who clap like seals whenever fascist Marjorie Taylor Greene pretends to give a shit about doing the right thing.
Flippo’s campaign finances are about as authentic as his bona fides as a Nevadan.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4d agoA person listed as a major donor to David Flippo’s campaign told Mother Jones they have not donated anything to Flippo, let alone the thousands of dollars attributed to them. It suggests “very serious campaign finance violations,” according to the Campaign Legal Center’s Brendan Fischer.
Virtue signaling is good*, actually, because it signals an endorsement of virtues. Given the tremendous right-wing effort to signal and perform vice (televised executions, racist politicized raids, denigration of empathy, etc.) turns out we cannot actually take "lip service to virtue" for granted.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 4d agoYes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.
sending the goon squad after Ilhan Omar is Trump asserting that he can turn the machinery of the state against any Black woman he wants, no matter how apparently powerful or respected, and her white colleagues won't do shit about it.
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
The thing about Gillis's monologue isn't just that it's misogynistic; it's that it's misogynistic in the most unoriginal, dated, cringe-ily 1982 would-be Andrew Dice Clay way. Like, wow slut shaming women in workout clothes, where'd you dig that fossil up
the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 4d agothey had SNL on mute at a bar Mads and i were in and during Gillis’ monologue she was like “you can just SEE him not being funny”
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
It's still a struggle to get people to envision the struggle for trans rights in terms of bodily autonomy, in terms of sex being a mutable characteristic that we have a right to alter without intervention or censure. It was a perfect wedge issue because cis people's discomfort went unchallenged.
We’re literally at the Public Executions by Firing Squad stage of Fascism and the news media is just like, “Interesting, this is extraordinary and unprecedented 🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷”
it remains funny to me that people believe in things like the Illuminati and the Freemasons and whatnot when it is so obvious the world is run by the drunkest C-student frat boys who could legacy their way into the ancestral mid-tier business schools where they spawn
The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com · 7d agoThe FBI wants to hire the Ultimate Fighting Championship to train its special agents under a one-year deal that would bypass the competitive bidding process typically used for federal contracts, according to federal records.