Joe Thoma IV

@joe-thoma-iv.bsky.social

Up the Villa always and forever. Heat, Reds, Steelers, Sabres, tOSU. Don't read the NYT! Support Democrats that fight!

I knew it! It was only a matter of time before I started hearing THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIVES! Every election cannot be the most important election of my life. At some point, Democrats need to run good people and not for profit campaigns. The future of democracy is on them, not me.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · last wk.

Right now, everyone faces a hard binary choice between authoritarianism and democracy. If you don’t think it’s a binary choice and that because of your issue or issues that both sides are the same, then you’re part of the problem.

Just would like to say to whoever is listening. I don't care what the people on Twitter are saying about the Odyssey. That's why I'm here. To not care what those people are saying about literally everything.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

I’m thrilled that Toronto, Victoria and Vancouver have issued proclamations declaring tomorrow, July 8 — my birthday — Child Honouring Day! best present ever. please visit Raffi Foundation .org to learn about Child Honouring and its 9 principles. let’s celebrate! 🐳 #ChildHonouring #belugagrads

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Maybe an entire generation of people who have lived through the Great Recession, COVID, and two Trump presidencies is distrustful of capitalism and leaders telling them not to rock the boat. And I don’t just mean Gen Z. Signed, A Late GenXer who is tired of this shit

June 19, 1988: CBS' Pat O'Brien with a pair of Detroit Pistons "shoe reports" during Game 6 of the NBA Finals. —Adrian Dantley's orthotic insole was mailed to him the day before ... by the man who'd stolen it after Game 5 —John Salley is playing with $6 in cash inside his shoes

I am intensely fascinated by the twin currently occurring phenomena of this, and the pushback on new data centers for AI. Two things the public hates, two things that draw enormous resources, two things that are facing enormous resistance. Good.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.