McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…
This was always my response to the people who said they wouldn’t vote Dem because “Dems don’t do anything.”
Even if that were true, doing absolutely nothing is infinitely better than actively making everything worse.
Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions.
If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.
Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money
The shawl is stunning
A woman (50s?) is inspecting some paintings with a very serious expression. Eventually, with a sigh, she says to her friend: "This doesn't arouse me."
Her friend hoots with laughter: "Can I have THAT on a T-shirt?!" (5)
A man (20s?) is proudly telling a friend about how good his tiny human (2?) is getting at swimming. He says: "What I do yeah, is we go to the pool every Sunday morning for an hour and she can kick like a champ now. Best bit of the week by far!"(4)
Two women (40s?) are walking through the markets, trying to remember the words to the theme from the movie Beaches. One keeps starting, then stopping, then starting. Then says: "I dunno how the verses go. Let's just do the chorus! It's all anyone remembers anyway!" (3)
🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Two small humans (6?) are standing in side-by-side phone booths, blowing raspberries and making "woo woooooo" ghost noises into the receivers.
Cackling with laughter and peeking out to exchange notes on extraterrestrial communication. (1)
It’s very nice of the human to put this chin rest here for me
During a live segment, Jim Jordan claimed Trump fulfilled his promise to avoid new wars. The host immediately played back-to-back clips of Trump advocating for strikes, leaving Jordan speechless.
#MAGA #Iran #Losers #FDT #War #Israel #ICEOUT #JimJordanEatsTampons #ArrestThePresident
Sorry to get political again on the silly Nintendo fangirl account but hey gang: when do we start really worrying about this shit. Are we there yet? Feels like we are there.
Breaking News A federal judge blocked the Justice Department's subpoenas of Jerome Powell, stymying its criminal investigation of him.
if the legislative branch won’t do its job, at least most of the judiciary is doing theirs
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
My dog just blasted by me with the plunger in her mouth. Fucked off upstairs. Should I be worried?
that’s how you know they’re scared. fuck em up @katmabu.bsky.social
Olwen(she/her) Pembroke Welsh Corgi
Olwen(she/her):"Broth was spilled on my head last night. I can't lick there!"
#corgi #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky
Got high and spent the last hour deciding between ice cream and cheese for dinner. Still thinking about it
He didn’t really believe me so I wrote dog on a piece of paper and had him sound it out. I said, that’s reading, you can read. He was so excited. He knew I just handed him permission to use this magic thing they call reading.
Then I asked him if he knew his letters and he said yes. Then I asked him if he knew the sounds the letters make. He was unsure if he did. We went through some and I found he he did know the sounds. So then I told him he actually could read and he just needed to practice a bit.
📚 I just had run next door to help my neighbor with her home daycare while she took care of a little pet emergency. One the kids really wanted to show me a picture he colored mostly because he wrote a few words on it. I asked him if he knew how to read yet and he said no.
Glock pistol used in deadly shooting at Old Dominion University was illegally sold to shooter, a convicted felon under probation, by a man federal ATF agents knew was selling guns illegally. He previously received a "warning letter" & had to write an apology.
It's time to enforce our gun laws
This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
Greenland’s like “soooo… we off the hook or what?”
"there will be more of the language of surveillance disguised as research; of politics and history calculated to render the suffering of millions mute; arrogant pseudo-empirical language crafted to lock creative people into cages of inferiority and hopelessness"
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Like getting pregnant in the United States?
KILMEADE: Is it true you're telling your whole cabinet to wear the same shoes, these Florsheim shoes?
TRUMP: When they tell me they have a problem, I say, 'let me get you a pair of shoes.' It seems to work out well. Now they look all spiffy & nice. I never liked cabinet members walking in sneakers.
HE'S BEING SUED BY THEM!!! 🤣 bsky.app/profile/midd...
