@dougbuchacek
Dad. Husband. Brother. Son. Friend. Running. Mountain Biking. RPCV. Former Russianist. Public Educator. I still wear that jean jacket. Durham, NC, USA I wrote a book: https://www.amazon.com/St-Petersburg-Blues-Douglas-Buchacek/dp/1667125699
republicans have literally made everything worse and harder and more terrible over the course of my entire life and somehow* they keep coming back to power bc of our feckless corporate press and a weak willed opposition 😒
*sob
James Franco being executed by hanging. "First time?" he asks, as though he's been hanged before.
hey gen z welcome to republican governance
Even he didn’t watch Kid Rock.
I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.
Donald Trump is a racist.
I saw a critique of Springsteen's new song, it being too earnest and cringe, and if I could just take a second to introduce you to the entire Bruce Springsteen catalogue we could settle this in a heartbeat.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
the simple truth remains that republicans are a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
It takes a long time to not watch the video!
Omg where’s his wedding ring!
It’ll be Biden’s fault?
Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII.
One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.
The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
I wrote a book about serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Russia: www.amazon.com/St-Petersbur...
I needed a rug cleaned in Tulsa, so I handed the thing off to a local specialist who escaped Communist Hungary on foot in 1969, crossing the Yugoslav border to Trieste. After a year in a refugee camp, he flew to NY. Had $20 to his name. You’ve never met a more grateful American.
So that’s the new excuse!
American: “I’m paying more at the grocery store.”
Trump: “No you’re not.”
American: “I mean…I am. I have the receipt right here.”
Trump: “Prices are WAY down.”
American: “They’re just…not.”
Trump: “Are too!”
American: “…”
Trump: “…”
American: “…”
Trump: “I’ve ended 22 wars!”
the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates
Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.
People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029?
THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.
Cool. That will make it all the more fun when it gets knocked the fuck down.
Updating my LEGO White House
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
It’ll be ready in two weeks.