Bubbles the Vampire
@bubblesvampire.bsky.social
Recovering university history prof now corporate sell out, miniatures/war gamer, duplicate bridge player, traveler, music lover, cheese fanatic, OG Pooligan.
@stevescully.bsky.social in your conversation with Rep. Mike Kelly about the debt, he talked mostly about expenses and never once mentioned how devastating the Trump tax cuts have been in terms of driving the debt. You offered a follow-up but you missed an opportunity to ask about those tax cuts.
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
On this day in 1967 the Detroit Riots or Rebellion happened. When the dust settled 5 days later, 43 people lay dead, close to 1,200 were wounded, 7,200 people were arrested, and 2,000 buildings were destroyed. The Feds sent in elements of the 82nd and 101st airborne to aid in restoring order.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy, 13 March 1962
Another failure of the American healthcare/insurance system. Imagine being treated for cancer at Ohio State and then Humana pulls out of that system... 26,000 patients will be impacted. Stupid system. Humana insurance network terminating agreement with Ohio State share.google/YKEFbhqdIosJ...
Humana insurance network terminating agreement with Ohio State
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, The James Cancer Center and Ohio State-affiliated physicians will be out of Humana’s insurance network Oct. 1 after th…
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JUST FILED: GOP's Trump-adoration legislation is collapsing into obscurity Including these ====> open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...
He died as he lived: ignoring good advice and treating healthcare like some kind of fucking joke.
Raw Story@rawstory.com · 3w agoSen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) jokingly shrugged off advice that he seek immediate medical attention in the moments before his death Saturday night, according to a new Axios report.
No one is happier that hostilities between Iran and the United States have reignited than Cuba... Unless, of course, it's the Israeli government.
Someone brought a dog to fireworks. . . . 😳 Wtf?!? The poor thing was not coping well. 😕
@stevescully.bsky.social On David Urban's comments on why only 29% of Ds feel proud of the US. If Urban's measuring stick is that the US is better than Yemen, bless his heart. I can't believe someone so smart could be that clueless. In a convo with a D I'm sure he'd get tired of saying, yeah but...
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
Man! I spent COUNTLESS hours at this game! I'd completely forgotten about it. Good times. 😊
JB 🔜 TFest 2026@mondotikiman.bsky.social · last mo.I was raised on these streets.
More than 680 people have gotten sick since Urah's first outbreak began June 20, 2025 🤒 Unlike measles outbreaks in Texas, South Carolina and Arizona, the spread in Utah has been tough to contain to one region — infecting undervaccinated communities in nearly every county apnews.com/article/meas...
Utah marks a year of battling measles, with no clear end in sight
Utah has spent the past year fighting measles outbreaks in almost every county. And experts say there's no clear end in sight.
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@stevescully.bsky.social this segment with Peter Maer is so interesting! Thanks for having him on.
Wow! Iran left a thank you note in their locker room thanking LA for its hospitality during the World Cup. Be sure you read the last line: “May peace, respect, and friendship prevail among all nations.” (Source: Reuters)
Watching the Lawrence Welk Show in 2026 is flat out trippy. 😛
This is precisely how Rush got their break in America: youtu.be/ZCsoylxQw3c?...
RUSH's big Break: Story of Cleveland DJ playing Working Man as "Bathroom Song"
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Random trivia: the Talking Heads never had a #1 song. In fact, they only had one song crack the top 10 (Burning Down the House went to #9). Arguably their signature song "Once in a Lifetime" didn't even crack the top 100. 😮 I'm flummoxed. . . .
I didn't imagine it could look THIS bad. . . . If these are, indeed, the details of the MOU between the US and Iran, it looks like Trump surrendered *TO* Iran. 😬 Details of US-Iran deal revealed in 12-point plan — timeline for US withdrawal, $300B fund, Hormuz passage share.google/numnRc5WagRL...
Details of US-Iran deal revealed in 12-point plan — timeline for US withdrawal, $300B fund, Hormuz passage
Newly revealed details of the secretive US-Iran MOU lay out that it would extend the cease-fire to Lebanon, allow Iran to manage the Strait of Hormuz, temporarily waive Iranian oil sanctions and es…
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I had a hotdog at Costco for the first time in my life Saturday. Let me just say: It is NOT overhyped. So f'ing good! That hotdog AND a Diet Coke (free refills!) for $1.50?!? As David Letterman said, "I'll take all of that you got!" 😋
She's also indifferent to the source that satisfies her taste for blood 🩸
Yes!! Angie and I will be on the Stories From the States podcast tomorrow. Give it a listen!
