Wanda Maximoff (she/her)
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English teacher. My jokes rarely land. Vaccines work. Black Lives Matter. Abortion is healthcare. She/Her/Hers
Finally rewatching Clue in honor of the late great Tim Curry, and I do love the bit where everyone sniffs and checks their shoes because Wadsworth stepped in dog shit.
⚠️ NEWS: Iran’s IRGC Navy says it retaliated against U.S. strikes by targeting three tankers accused of using unauthorized routes and three additional U.S.-linked vessels, after U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz.
This is purely anecdotal, but I am not seeing Trump merch booths at this rural CT fair this year. In the past , they had a vendor with Trump’s’ mugshot and a “Never Surrender” emblazoned on the tees.
we're going to eventually learn child tbis are like leaded gasoline and paint in terms of effect on violence
Rude Law Dog@esghound.com · 19h agoone misconception about football is that you can minimize this through limiting big hits or changing tacking, but the fundamental mechanics of the game, especially at the time of snap when linemen engage each other, involves little head to head collisions that add up over a lifetime
one misconception about football is that you can minimize this through limiting big hits or changing tacking, but the fundamental mechanics of the game, especially at the time of snap when linemen engage each other, involves little head to head collisions that add up over a lifetime
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 19h agoWe are allowing 5 year old children to be enrolled in football even though we *know* that every 2.6 years of participation doubles the chances of contracting CTE. This is tantamount to child abuse. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
“The administration wrote to several grantees working on maternal health that while ‘maternal and infant health are important issues,’ their work ‘does not advance minority health with regards to OMH’s current priority areas.’” we don’t loathe these people enough.
NOTUS@notus.com · yesterdayHHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility
no need to "solve" chess. just secretly hire someone to play for you and claim those are your victories.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d agolol
mister president, sir, you're looking very healthy and well prepared for your 30 rallies in 30 days plan, i think you can do even more, you should try to do 45 or even 60
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump looked like an absolute wreck during his speech on Wednesday (Kevin Dietsch/Getty)
As I drove into work this morning, I saw a child crusher 6000 parked in the parent pickup lane with a decal that read “asshole.”
The Hustle Anne Hathaway
Alt: The Hustle Anne Hathaway
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BREAKING: Judge Talwani issues a preliminary injunction blocking USPS from implementing portions of its new mail ballot rule. In doing so, she also has dissolved the TRO that was previously in place — so any appeals will begin anew. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
MAGA: Our coalition is extremely unmotivated to vote so we will make it so that only the most white hot mad segment of the electorate makes it to the polls. I am a genius.
Another day in which House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are actively engaged in destroying the United States by refusing to hold the president accountable for his malfeasance in office.
Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 2d agoIf I'm reading this correctly, the President is threatening the Fed with tariffs.
Maybe the Robespierre larpers #onhere can stop celebrating this poor woman’s murder with such chortling glee: people.com/bank-of-amer...
Bank of America VP Killed in Times Square Was a New Mom on First Day Back from Maternity Leave
Erin Piacenti, 32, had just returned to Bank of America after maternity leave when she was fatally stabbed in Times Square. The new mom had welcomed her first child, a baby daughter, five months earli...
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I dislike that the AI slop has lore.
Amelia Carhartt@theschwall.bsky.social · 2d ago*sigh* so RFK Jr. is pushing a meat and coleslaw diet on everyone in the administration based on a book by a dietician who is a never wipe your own ass guy and Rubio has gone on the record saying that he doesn't follow the diet because he enjoys pop tarts too much
For those catching up, 3 major state supreme court rulings this evening. 1. Missouri court blocked GOP's 2025 gerrymander & validated a veto referendum 2. Missouri court validated measure protecting direct democracy 3. Maryland court validated a Dem measure meant to pave the way for gerrymandering
Getting arrested on a contempt of court bench warrant related to divorce proceedings while you’re serving as an extra on a Christian film set is CRAZY work.
Joe Sonka 😐@joesonka.lpm.org · 2d agoBREAKING: Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested by Bourbon County Sheriff's Office
I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 am. I wish they would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools. I wish they would fund healthcare like they fund forever wars in the Middle East.
Its so cool that we seem to be on track for an outgoing Republican president to leave his Democratic successor a wrecked economy and a MidEast war that needs to be wrapped up for the third time (in a row!) in my adult life
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3d agoFox: There's a possibility that the Iran war stretches into next year
Garcia: We are going to hold the Postmaster General and anyone at USPS, particularly those that are at the management level, that are implementing this, accountable for what we view as an illegal action by USPS.
JK Rowling being a bigot makes anything she does forfeit but I'm not going to lie she could be the biggest trans ally in the world and I would still think this is the most breathtakingly shameless and creatively barren endeavor I've seen in a long, long time.
Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 4d agothere was obviously no creative impetus to making a new Harry Potter but the extent to which they are not even trying to make this look different from the movies is kind of astonishing
without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
Putting Big Girl Panties On
Alt: Bridget Jones holding up a pair of granny panties
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ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 4d agowithout saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
Really good thread from Ivan, who knows Alaska politics, specifically encouraging folks not to read too much into Peltola's drubbing of Sullivan in the primary. In his LV screen, she only win by like just under 2%. Mary need rural and young voters to show up in force!
Ivan Moore@alaskasurvey.bsky.social · 4d ago...and both those groups drop down in their incidence between the RV and LV samples. The key for Peltola? Fire up the kids and get out the rural vote! So that's it, despite Peltola's absolute drubbing of Sullivan in the just-certified primary, we still anticipate a close race in November. 🧵FIN
A shooting at a Tucson gay bar that killed 2 is being investigated as a hate crime. The shooter was carrying a list of several LGBTQ-associated businesses in the area.
golden is retiring but i think the right approach for perez is just to freeze her out entirely. one thing to be ideologically “heterodox,” another thing entirely to be unpredictable and disloyal
I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d ago“The two centrists, Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), are known to rarely attend party caucus meetings or heed leadership's instructions on how to vote.”