Toby Laek

@tobylaek.bsky.social

Father, husband, son, 90s hip hop head, admiral of the yacht rock express, film fanatic, Buckeyes/Browns/Columbus Crew fan, food additive designer of the year

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov: “Here’s what’s gonna happen tonight — the world’s most famous sore loser will deliver a primetime presidential sour grapes 🍇 address to pursue his 6yo grievances about the 2020 election while his war spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise.”

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.

If you supported a 10 year old American child with brain cancer, on her way to medical treatment, being deported because her parents are undocumented (but have no criminal records), then you’re a horrific person and I’m not sure how you sleep at night.

Parents deported to Mexico while seeking brain cancer treatment for young American daughter | CNN

The undocumented parents of a 10-year-old US citizen whose family was removed to Mexico say they are desperately seeking a way for either of them to return to the US with the girl so she can continue ...

cnn.com

Stopped by my parents house to wrap Christmas presents for the kids and they were flipping back and forth between the scholars’ bowl and the Steve Wilkos show. Got intellectual whiplash.