RoBat out of Hellême

@rbelleme.bsky.social

A roaring hellmouth

everytime i push the button i hear someone scream in another room. but they took my phone and there’s not even like an iPad in here or anything. so, you know. button time

there is a kind of collective suicidal exhaustion in the 70+ crowd as though the unspoken wish is to beat the end of civilization by being entombed alive with their family and possessions to all die together, the friction of living finally at an end, suburban pharoahood culminated

Politico@politico.com · 19h ago

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.

This is a great thread about Ilhan Omar but I wanted to highlight this one because so many people do not realize that constituent services are part of what your elected folks are supposed to be doing, and it's rare that they'll go out of their way to bring it to your attention.

little john@littlejohn.bsky.social · 3d ago

She once had billboards up around the district with her office's phone number and a list of examples of things they help individual constituents with. This is awesome on multiple levels.

Well this was prescient. I'm again seeing trans people harassed for criticizing anti-trans Dems with "you wouldn't vote for a 'lesser evil' to stop Hitler becoming president!!!" In 1932 a lot of people did vote for a "lesser evil" to stop exactly that. He promptly put Hitler in power.

David Forbes@davidforbes.bsky.social · last wk.

* Social democrats and liberals largely did vote for geriatric conservative general Hindenburg as the "lesser evil" to prevent Hitler winning the presidency in 1932. Hindenburg won. He then appointed Hitler chancellor and repeatedly signed off on every measure the nazis needed to seize power.

Give this pussy the heave ho. It's about punishing the Nazis. Can't do anything else until that happens. We can't have a functioning society until that day. BTW this agenda is for white people who haven't been terrorized by ICE or sent to a concentration camp and only care about gas prices.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 5d ago

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who is in line to become House speaker if the party wins power, said Democrats will be united "right out of the gate" on reinstating ACA tax breaks, reversing Medicaid cuts, holding votes against the Iran war and undoing the president's tariff regime https://to.pbs.org/4B3jZ6E

I know we're past the heyday of babying cast iron skillets but one of the many benefits of cooking in iron and carbon steel vessels is that the food does pick up some of the iron if it's an acidic sauce or soup or whatever, which is excellent for combatting anemia!

everyone is making pretty bold anecdotal claims about the Yandex DC going out resulting in less right wing content, but all the actual data I’ve seen has been saying it hasn’t moved the needle at all. I would be very skeptical of these claims; they will almost certainly turn out to be totally false.

Most of what we see is the result of the bipartisan creation of the Law Enforcement Baronial Class. Police dictate how budgets and resources are used. They dictate policy. They decide the law. They ignore popular will. It is anti-democratic.