Wes Payne - So Much For Subtlety
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I'm here to chew bubble gum and repost, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
If the headline is a question, the answer is either "No" or "Yes, but ... "
Euronews@euronews.com · yesterdayCould Tesla’s flying car send sales and shares soaring?
Traitor. Rapist. Bully. Liar. Coward. Trump.
ebisback.bsky.social@ebisback.bsky.social · 6h agoTraitor trump😡🖕🏼
This is really going to win over all the many voters who don't ever notice if their children are home for 3 or 4 days.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h agoTrump: "We have 5 states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy 3 or 4 days later. It's true. And teachers make a decision. 'Goodbye Timmy I love you so much, I'll see you later.' And you say, 'Where's my son? My son is in the hospital.' Can you imagine?"
There is such spirited competition for the title of Dumbest Sack of Hair in Congress. Ron Johnson (R-Bugtussle) has always been a top contender. Repeating Kremlin talking points verbatim is just gravy at this point.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h agoRon Johnson blames US for Putin invading Ukraine: "The way we treated Russia after we won the Cold War, how we pushed them. I'm not defending Putin, but we said we were not gonna move NATO one inch to the east. We brought it right to their doorstep basically. What did we think Putin was gonna do?"
Lacks imagination, you gotta sprinkle Obama on that shit to get the MAGA chuds really going
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h agowe're reaching conspiracy theory singularity as Ron Johnson accuses Hunter Biden of being involved in Ukrainian bioweapons labs
Okay, so ... 1. This sort of thing happens often enough that you need an expensive car with an expensive option as a contingency. 2. The operator will think to hit the Big Red Button in time. 3. No one will ever hit the Big Red Button by accident.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12h agois one of those situations “DAMMIT i’m in a michael bay movie again”
Republican politicians are *obsessed* with schoolchildren coming home a different gender because of pro-trans teachers, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS. But they are completely indifferent to schoolchildren not coming home *at all* because of guns, WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!
Trump hired someone completely over her head unvetted who lied repeatedly about her professional background for years. She was really bad at the job. Then his friend Hannity did a hit job to take her out. Trump fires her. Naturally, MAGA is blaming the media and Democrats.
Sure, it's shrunken and meager now, but give it some love and attention and it will grow into a more pleasing shape. ... I'm talking about the cactus! What are you talking about?
I remember when right wingers claimed Obama was trying to “nationalize” the police because he suggested some minimum standards and accountability. This administration thinks all cops exist to do its bidding, from hunting and harassing immigrants to spying on its critics.
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 22h agoNEW: Chicago-area cops took part in an undercover probe by ICE agents into Minneapolis mutual aid networks last spring, records obtained by WIRED show, including unspecified electronic surveillance, audio recordings, ALPR data by @awinston.bsky.social
New from me: For the Liberalism.org site, I wrote about the 30th anniversary of AEDPA, the worst criminal justice law passed in my lifetime. www.liberalism.org/p/how-the-an...
How the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Made a Bad Situation Worse
A little-known law closes off federal appeals, even for the admittedly innocent. That’s by design.
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If you cut a billion dollars for cancer research and pay a billion dollars for a ballroom that Congress didn’t fund, you have not, in fact, cut costs. So at least put some quotes around the phrase.
Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 22h agoEh, what cost cutting? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/b...
Yeah, it wasn't wrecked in a day, either.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 18h agoJD Vance on the economy: Rome wasn't built in a day.
Steven Cheung is like if Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum both accidentally wound up in the same telepod at the moment of activation and got Brundlefly'd.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h agoShe will always be remembered as one of the all-time greats.
That's a funny question to ask about people incapable of embarrassment or shame.
Xela Hart@xelahart.bsky.social · 24h ago
Pardon me if I don't take parenting advice from a kooky narcissist whose son is the second-worst person living in the US and who abandons his own children. Zip it, sister.
For fifteen years now, NYT has consistently failed to tells us who Elon Musk is and what his politics are. Indeed, a systematic review of their reporting shows that most of it is bogus or sane washing. It's not that hard to report his views accurately. NYT just doesn't want to do it.
Elon Musk Spends Heavily to Back Ken Paxton’s Senate Bid in Texas
The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
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Watch this discussion between @markjacob.bsky.social and NYT editor Patrick Healy where Jacob calls out the paper for this type of obfuscation and soft-peddling language, and Healy expressly defends it:
Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump
In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...
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Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 22h agoEh, what cost cutting? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/b...
"Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over men; rather, she is to remain quiet." 1 Timothy 2:11–12
It's almost like he thinks people are going to forget why we have it in the first place.
@billkittle.bsky.social · yesterday
I've the same reaction: "this is a joke, right?"
Cake or Death@johngcole.bsky.social · 2d agooh go fuck yourself for even writing that she's one of the elites some douchebags will be throwing millions at her and in ten years some shitty magazine will be pushing puff pieces about the resurrection of Elizabeth Holmes no we should not feel sorry for her www.thecut.com/article/you-...