Chris Bailey

I was thinking similarly the other day. He’s a collection of all of our worst impulses and none of our best. It’d be remarkable if it weren’t so awful.

Glad to hear it! (pun intended)

Every day of the week, he does something racist or misogynistic enough that it would get me fired from my job so fast that my head would spin. What an embarrassment.

I see you, secret frog! 🐸

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

"See you on the inside, Eight!"

You can tell that he wants to see the good in people, and his default setting is to work together with everyone for a better tomorrow. The problem is that the good you believe can be found in all people? Sometimes it's just not there.

Every day, it seems like things are getting worse. And you know they CAN get better — and they SHOULD. But they DON’T. It defies common sense and common decency, yet it just keeps going on.

I begin to ask myself not WHEN things will turn around but IF. It should never have gotten this far.

When will it be enough for you, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? When will you be moved? You should be standing in the streets of Minneapolis. You should be shouting from the rooftops. What a pathetic pair of cowards.

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Just one of those average days where you check every now and then to see if we’re at war with Europe or not.

A weather report for South Bend on January 20, 2026 that shows 0° temperature.

Someone took all our degrees. Rude.

A person wearing slippers sits in a recliner with a Kodak photo scanner in his lap — the screen shows a similar view of a pair of slippered feet in a photo taken over 20 years ago.

Spent the afternoon sitting in my recliner while using a Kodak Slide N Scan to convert 20-year old negatives to digital. No, this isn’t a live feed… it’s history repeating itself.

If you open with “because you didn’t give me the peace prize”, then it’s clear you were never eligible in the first place.

and it will just go on like this until we're all huddled over trash barrel files grumbling and wondering where we went wrong

I still hope that we'll have a valid election this year. If so, maybe this ship turns itself around. But the likelihood of that outcome seems to be waning. Today, it feels more like we're narrowing down to only two possible futures: the end of democracy, or a second civil war.

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis.

Say bad things are bad.

I think it's time to take the quotes off of Kavanaugh Stop.

Capitalize it; make it a term that we use constantly in immigration discourse.

Let Kavanaugh carry this around till he dies, and then let's put it in his obit.

I still watch that montage at the end of the last episode every once in a while. Never fails to move me.

This is funny but it was even funnier when I first misread “orcas” as “orcs”.

Just finished a full rewatch of “Elementary” — he guest starred in s5e13 as Jack Brunelle, a father desperate to find justice for his late son. One of his many great performances. 👏🏻

A screenshot from Apple Health app showing average number of exercise minutes over a 4-week period — for the first three weeks, the average is 33 minutes but for the most recent week, the average is only 6 minutes.

Apple's Health app is trying to make me feel guilty about taking a vacation. Sorry, but not sorry.

Didn't watch it.
It's always lies.
Moving on.

I have watched zero footage of this speech — and yet I’m guessing this would have been a more accurate headline.

Rob Reiner portraying a congressman in an episode of "30 Rock" — closed captions read "Peas and carrots, rhubarb, rhubarb" which are words that actors will say when they are in the background of a shot because it makes it look like they are having actual conversations.

I know he had an amazing career but the only thing I can think of is his cameo in "30 Rock" as a congressman murmuring simulated crowd noise. Why is this what comes to mind? No idea. But the scene gives me a smile every time I see it.

He made Earth a better planet, and I'll miss him.

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

It wasn’t even close.

Indiana GOP showing more sack than most of our Dem Senators and Reps. I hate that I have to look for bravery in the GOP but here we are. For all you peckers who keep saying "be mad at the Republicans, not Dems" I say fuck you because here we are.

Safety. Regulations. Are. Written. In. Blood.

Step aside Spotify Wrapped, the most important annual ranking just dropped: the toilet paper sustainability scorecard