Libbie Zorden
@libbyzorden.bsky.social
Old screaming liberal fighting lies, hypocrisy, and the MAGA idiocracy. Prescriptivist (Thanks, Chris!) Pardon my French
The results of last year's Wisconsin Supreme Court election support the hypothesis below.
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 11h agoYou could say Abdul El-Sayed won despite $64 million being spent against him… one may also wonder if he won *because* of it
In the right fishbowl, those entities can warp the whole narrative with what, to them, is just chump change.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h agoSomething that’s gotten way too little attention in the craziness of the WI gov race is that basically none of the D candidates have spent much on TV, but conservative SuperPac has spent millions boosting Hong. www.wpr.org/news/gop-ads...
Back in 2024, one of the more prominent Qanon touters- whose name escapes me- made repeated authoritative claims that 300,000 American children went missing every year without press coverage, yet the Trump campaign could only identify five American citizens murdered by undocumented immigrants.
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4h agoWhat if the Right's lurid claims were true? Malignant, deceptive forces are infiltrating every community, killing little old ladies and robbing children of their futures? And yet mainstream media mostly ignores the real cause? This is true--but it's fossil fuels.
Remember: The 2024 mid-term elections have a great chance of putting Dems in charge of Congress. MAGA/Russian bots have one goal between now and November: stir up anger and distrust among Dems, to prevent us from uniting and working in a cohesive front against MAGA.
Boomers vs. GenX vs. GenY vs. GenZ vs. Millenials. Blacks vs. LatinX vs. Jews vs. whites. Evangelicals vs. Catholics vs. Muslims. Far left vs. moderate left. Honest discussion is great; disunity and attacks are not. Our greatest strength is our common goal: protect democracy, evict MAGA.
The tutorial below is Big Time worth the 3 minutes it takes to listen. I approve of the cautious approach by our prospective 2028 candidates in bringing the filibuster and Court packing into the chat before the midterms, but only by leaning all the way in can the promises one needs to make be kept.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · yesterdayRepublicans win the White House, enact trickle-down tax cuts, and collapse the economy. Feel like we've been here before? Here's why it keeps happening.
A real show of American exceptionalism, if such a thing actually exists, would be getting back on track, catching up to those countries who are ahead of us on renewables and passing them. Also, remember that the true abundance of renewables militates towards world peace.
Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · last wk.Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...
Okay, I'm down with the quote below. However, this guy is the full-on poster child for becoming what you abhor. All the while, as he was droning on about Trump being a whiny little bitch, he was spending insane amounts of energy getting all purity-testy with the only party fighting for the people.
Grumpy-ish Brian🏴🇪🇺🇮🇪@brian770.bsky.social · yesterday
There is an inchoate fear in play with far too much of the populace that rebuking the big money corporate monopolists, who make it so hard to get ahead, might cause them to shut off whatever small t rickle is or isn't actually trickling down..
DL Hughley on Zohran Mamdani: “This Muslim is putting Christians to shame." "There is more to say for a man that lifts the poor, that feeds the hungry, that walks among the people, than powerful white men who consort with a pedophile. Who’s the more Christlike?”
Excellent piece here...
Rachel Bitecofer@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 2d ago🚨🧵The New Road to the White House: The old calendar tested whether you could win the party nomination. The new calendar tests whether you can win the presidency too Let’s do some learning’ 👇 open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Tap on the post below, and listen to the movie clip you'll find waiting there. It'll blow your mind.
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d agoI love this movie & think it’s riveting. My first year teaching @ Dartmouth I showed it in a creative nonfiction class to think about dialogue & conversation as action. I sat in front. At the end, I turned around and found only one student remaining, fast asleep.
An act of Congress is all it would take to return the $160 billion in tariff revenue to the pockets of the American consumers where it belongs- to be distributed via the same mechanism as covid stimulus payments and income tax refunds. Run on it, pass it, send it to Trump and dare him not to sign it
Ro Khanna@rokhanna.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Trump Administration is sending billions to Amazon, Apple, Walmart, and other big corporations to refund them for Trump’s tariffs. American households were estimated to lose over $1,000 to tariff price hikes. Here's an idea: refund working families before big business.
In early 2024, as oil prices finally threatened to fall below the magic $80/barrel mark, OPEC+ made two last attempts to decrease supply and raise the price but were blunted by Biden's timely releases from the SOR. Thus we were nicely set up on the path to sub $3 gas and, combined with 1/2
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3d agoSame time wildfire is breaking records in Spain, France, England, and right after poison air levels broke records across North America
Things are starting to get kind of purity-testy around here lately. Come on people- don't eat your own young.
bjkeefe@bjkeefe.bsky.social · 3d agoIt's not like this is a reason not to vote for @amyklobuchar.com, *given her opponent*, but still. Yuck. Another reason to dislike @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social, too. I remember learning about this group from @jeffsharlet.bsky.social eons ago. Sad that they are still around and still have clout.
Rep. Jamie Raskin: "Welcome back to this week’s episode of Who Wants to Be a MAGA Millionaire?! It’s America’s favorite game show where President Trump’s pardoned insurrectionists and private militia compete to win your tax dollars"
The Iranians are far more sophisticated players of the great game than they are generally given credit for.
Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 4d agoWhat the Iranian attack confirms is that Trump is no longer capable of operating in the real world when it dissents from the Trump as God Emperor narrative. He can't process information that dissents from the narrative. Thus he cannot lead or protect us; and we are in danger bsky.app/profile/did:...
The numbers cited in the post below implicate a per bed annual cost of $81,000. The average annual cost of a prison bed in a maximum security State Prison is about $35,000 — including their Wiccan shrines and Native American sweat tents. Alligator Alcatraz cost close to $150,000 per bed per year.
Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4d agoWhile Americans struggle to afford utilities, healthcare, childcare, housing, and groceries, ICE is spending nearly $14.43 million a day to detain 65,000 people
Stay forever young with H. Dumpty mobility scooters😂🤣
Remember - one of Trump's great superpowers is being on both sides of every issue simultaneously, thereby cementing his positions as both winner and loser/victim no matter what the hell happens.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 5d ago90 minutes apart.
I'm loving this bit below. When the vibes that the tribes mentioned below are putting out don't match up with their actual definitions, then all bets are off at head for the hills.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 5d agoNara Smith is now claiming she’s “not a tradwife” in a recent podcast appearance. This is a linguistic game that all kinds of people play! Sovereign citizens for instance began claiming there’a “no such thing” as a sovereign citizen as soon as the general public became more familiar with the idea.
The Minnesota water system hack is precisely the type of vulnerability that Trump's policies exacerbate.
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is a serious issue, even though Trump is attempting to turn it into a political game by blaming Minnesota. Cyberattacks targeting municipal water and wastewater systems have now been reported in at least seven states this week.
Trump's Medicaid work requirements are putting even terminally ill patients through bureaucratic nightmares to keep their health insurance — all to fund even more tax cuts for the wealthy.
This is really well said. Trump is the primary saboteur of everything that a rational American would want. He is the Enemy Within.
@maplepoutine.bsky.social · 5d agoNo president has done more to intentionally harm the US citizens than Trump. In every domain of living he has made things worse: mortgages, food, heating, medical care, gasoline
It's imperative that we kill the filibuster immediately upon winning the senate in 2026. We need to flip five seats to deny him the opportunity to be the deciding vote. Fortunately, I believe that will happen.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6d agoSomeone—ABSOLUTELY ANYONE!!!—else.
Trump consigned a half a million innocent Americans to die by drowning in the fluids of their own lungs- gasping for air- just to keep his "number" down.
enrich12@enrich12.bsky.social · 5d agoAmericans have a SHORT memory. 😡 #Covid #Trump #Fauci
Invocation of the neighbor feeling "drove" — and BINGO! I've got bingo!
Silence Nogood@godslove2u.bsky.social · 5d agoThey are splintering so bad in the GOP they had to go back to 2020 , pick on a doctor to attempt to be relevant. FFS. GOP is dying and this is the hallmark, the Rand Paul show . Petformative Nuisance . No wonder his neighbor felt so