Tommy

@zucko.bsky.social

I tried to teach you how to handle comics in the sixth grade, but oh, no, you wanted to play little league instead.

people will be like "well homeschooling worked great for me" and like sure, ok, I don't doubt it, but religious conservatives are raising swarms of children who can't read and don't know what the sun is and I think we may need to return to a seatbelt-mandate-style solution to this issue

How dare this elderly, little-known public health bureaucrat be privately bemused by suddenly becoming one of the most famous people in the world, wailed the politician who'd throw his own mother in front of a bus for a 2-minute cable news hit.

The social cost for being a Republican should be exactly the same as the social cost for belonging to the KKK or the Nazi Party. It should carry exactly the same moral judgment and social penalty. It’s the same thing.

the media in this country treats bigotry coming from a place of fear as a valid public position. eventually this leads you to the ludicrous place where “the muslim mayor of new york city shouldn’t attend the 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11” is treated as newsworthy opinion

"This guy, I think, is just an in-your-face type of guy that — for lack of a better word — enjoys this kind of controversy.
I'm just not in favor of him being around, so if he didn't come, I'd say great, we would go. But if he's going to come, I would venture to say a lot of people might not go," said Hughes, who is now retired and lives on Long Island.
The grieving father said he disagrees with Mamdani's politics and expressed anger toward the mayor. "Just the thought of him there rubs me the wrong way," he said.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

Twenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc

a rube sees the glass as half full; a charlatan deems it half empty. a wise man asks what's in there and why you didn't fill it.

most of american politics is just right wingers flagrantly violating the law, liberals pointing and saying "that's illegal!" and then nobody actually doing anything to enforce the laws because it would expend political capital they'd rather use to get invited to fancy dinners with pedophiles

I've started looking into whether it's possible to become a monk. I have no interest in any type of religion. I just want to be left alone in a quiet space for a long time.

if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!