Emily Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
@michaelaudie.bsky.social
Record collector. Positive cynic. Sometime photographer. I eat movies and drink pop culture. Cat person. Ex music snob. Like what brings you joy, it's often in short supply. ONCE. Exhausted, daily. I can drive a stick. www.youtube.com/@Michael_Audie
Yeah, I'm totally over-reacting to think these folks would happily throw people in camps.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h agoSen. Jim Banks refers to American citizens as "the babies of invaders" and compares them to Nazi spies and terrorists
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/mili...
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 21h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Rollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."
My neighbor who loves work was laid off a few months ago and is visiting food shelves now after being cut off from food assistance while seeking a new job. He’s also taking in a boarder and doing odd jobs for pay. Feels very Depression era.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."
we are talking about covid because their base is pissed and telling pollsters they won’t show up and the racism dial is already turned as far as it can go but they think maybe there’s a little blood to be squeezed still from the fauci stone. that’s it. that’s the only reason we are doing this.
🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)
The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.
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No one consented to this war, which means this is a robbery.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19h agoBrown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas
The adage is, don't kick a guy when he's down. But in the case of the newly departed Washpost Opinions editor, we can make an exception. Including this @sulliview.bsky.social column. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/fare-thee-...
Fare thee well, Adam O'Neal
At the command of Jeff Bezos, he wrecked the Washington Post opinion section but at least he's out
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Looks like another Republican is about to get kicked out of Congress for predatory or violent behavior toward women. No not Max Miller, the other one. No not Matt Gaetz, the other one. No not Paul Gosar, the oth www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
House panel seeks censure of Rep. Chuck Edwards over conduct toward female staff
Attorneys for the North Carolina Republican, who has denied wrongdoing, accused the Ethics Committee of reaching a rushed judgment and called its recommendation “extraordinarily harsh.”
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After 20 years of legal practice while watching increase Republican lawlessness, my view is less abstract legal theorizing and more carving into a rock "if a proſecutour bringeth a cauſe without merit, then ſhall he ſerue the ſelfe-ſame ſentence which he ſought for the falſely accuſed."
Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 4d agoI worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.
You'll definitely get purged but legendary respect for whichever Troop® emails Hegseth the JCPOA.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d agoPENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
Any journalist who asks the next democratic president about how they plan to unite the country and you know at least one of them will, should be immediately thrown out of the room, srsly.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
Just continued trajectory of the GOP. 2008 was Palin, 2009-2010 was the tea party, McConnell obstruction, & Southern realignment. 2012 Romney nearly lost the nomination. Why in 2015 I said Trump could win the nomination, & why I think the GOP could become an almost entirely rural & Southern party
TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com · 4d ago“We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.” The next generation of young conservatives - those who will be seeking office before long - are insane, true believer extremists. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Stephen NOSFERATU Miller Spoke These Words July 27th 2026,On Fox Noise Sean Hannity Show,And Jasmine Crockett Responded......
Democrats are strongly favored to take the House, while the Senate tilts Democratic in this new election forecast for the 2026 congressional midterms. It puts Democrats at above even odds to take control of BOTH chambers.
Democrats strongly favored to take the House, Senate tilts Democratic in our new election forecast (crosspost)
Our brand-new election forecast for the 2026 congressional midterms puts Democrats at above even odds to take control of both chambers
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Dr. Annie Andrews, running to be the first pediatrician senator, has a word or two for RFK Jr.
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
There IS, in fact, a good faith concern, which I keep saying over and over: If out trans kids were participating at the same rate as cis girls, we would see 30-90 THOUSAND out trans kids playing high school sports. The good faith concern is the hostile environment that exiles 99.5% of them.
Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6d agoThere is no good faith concern. None. There are only people who never gave a shit about trans women in sports being manipulated into thinking there are good faith concerns and then normal people. You can't have good faith concerns about a few dozen people playing fucking sports. Shut up and stop it
chopping it up with the transphobes before the Fire-Fever game on Friday really hammered this home: they want to endlessly "debate" abstract gender concepts because they have absolutely no way to implement any kind of sports-gender policy that doesn't require a whole lot of child genital inspection
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
In addition to transphobia, this is likely about creating a registry of cis girls in sports and then tracking if sports has an impact on their future fertility (remember, Heritage Foundation wants to eliminate most sports for women due to unscientific concerns about negative impact on fertility)
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Shameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | David Ellison: In Defense of the Paramount-Warner Deal
The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of CNN
nytimes.com
Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
