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Chris O'Rourke

@chrisorourke.bsky.social

49 year old scifi and IT geek, married to amazing wife, dad, & cat owner. I take pictures of food, my family & snark about drumlines, drumcorps, and working in healthcare tech and marching music education.

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Of course the takeaway of Kristi Noem is how South Park portrayed her looks rather than making any mention of her portrayal as a dog shooting psychopath.

Republicans always cry about the superficial to distract from their psychopathy.

She murdered a puppy and bragged about it as a good thing.

08.08.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

One of the few things I'm absolutely sure of is that there's nothing wrong with being trans. We're just a type of person. We deserve equality because all people deserve equality.

07.08.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2479    πŸ” 458    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 20

Oregon needs a law requiring that 'settlements with no admittance of fault' only stops the civil suit. We also need to stop this preposterous 'civil suits' from AGs.

08.08.2025 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing how retail pay is worse than ever, customer satisfaction is worse than ever, and the only successful retail organizations are those that DIDN'T get bought by private equity.

Workers and customers ALWAYS lose when private equity shows up.

They're vultures picking orgs clean.

07.08.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Politicians who claim to 'support our troops' while voting against Veterans constantly should be liable for false advertising.

07.08.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ludicrous to put "with a long tradition of impactful reporting led by seasoned journalists committed to accuracy, integrity, and public trust" on the #Paramount press release without adding the 'we failed to uphold entirely where trump is concerned'.

CBS News *used* to be trusted.

07.08.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Prof. Wurman has found another place where a dissenting interpretation favors absolute government power and disfavors immigrants, wow what a weird coincidence, he sure is concerned about academic discourse, thanks to all the profs here telling me to take him very seriously

07.08.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 724    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 4

If school superintendents want better students they need to learn to say 'no' and 'shut up' to parents making spurious ignorant demands.

The ass kissing of bad customers in retail shops that ran rampant in the 90s led to those parents thinking they can say/do whatever.

Teach them that's wrong af.

07.08.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is always so weird how many software orgs started discords for their apps.

I get it for games and complicated tools but some of the apps are just..odd.

07.08.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think journalists should continually ask RFK jr. to explain mRNA vaccines and then who bribed him to attack mrna vaccines.

Only the entire media apparatus is not allowed to ask real questions and keeps pretending that Emperor Trump is fully clothed along with his retinue of crony crooks.

07.08.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You do not under any circumstances have to hand it to transphobes.

Eat shit, Pete.

Everybody who loves this man better start working now to get his ass on board with trans liberation because I’m not voting for this fucking milquetoast bullshit.

It’s on y’all now. You love him? You train him.

07.08.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1086    πŸ” 241    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 7

100% of Bondi's history shows her to be a crooked, dishonest, fraudulent litigator with zero decency, ethics, or morals.

07.08.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump administration says teenagers can now be ICE agents ICE is offering incentives including signing bonuses of up to $50,000, student loan forgiveness and extensive overtime opportunities.

Trump has greenlit the Hitler Youth. I mean Trump Ice Teenage division:

www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

06.08.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you still think the stock market reflects a company's valuation I'd suggest noticing that $TSLA is still way overvalued and so is OpenAI.

Both are seeing massive drops in customer satisfaction and cancelled orders/subscriptions. Yet the stock value is still going up.

It's a carnival game.

06.08.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are no members of the Republican party in Federal office who aren't violating their oaths of office.

100% of the Republican party stands in opposition to the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the American way.

Unchecked cronyism and greed aren't part of the Constitution.

06.08.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If your habit is shit talking the people trying to fight while not fighting yourself? Hush.

You can trashtalk if you participate in fighting fascism. If you're waiting for fascism to be defeated and just negging those fighting? Just put the red hat on my guy. You're doing the work for fascists.

06.08.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I note you're attacking leftists, making demands they act, identify the issues they face and seem to be taking no action yourself.

Leftists =/= democrats. That'd be the progressive democrats.

No one elected you the armchair general. If you can snark you can help.

06.08.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website.

Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with:

- Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Congresses ability to control tariffs.

See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.

06.08.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 9044    πŸ” 5548    πŸ’¬ 1367    πŸ“Œ 996
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Miss United States Files Restraining Order Against GOP Rep. Cory Mills Lindsey Langston reported the Florida Republican to law enforcement for harassment last month.

Rep. Cory Mills is a complete personal trainwreck. Yikes.

06.08.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2076    πŸ” 589    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 67

Apple to recategorize existing domestic investment commitments as new investment.

06.08.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

05.08.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 18081    πŸ” 6783    πŸ’¬ 558    πŸ“Œ 289

The Vice President, head of FBI, head of DOJ, and Trump's private fixer who met with Ghislaine Maxwell are having a special private dinner to come up with an Epstein strategy.

That's a criminal conspiracy to protect their boss.

This is the TEMU version of the Russian mafia.

06.08.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Friendly reminder that we spent the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s invading nations that tried to shut down entire political parties with egregious gerrymandering and threats of arrest and imprisonment.

Today's GOP are the despotic tyrant dictatorships of yesteryear.

05.08.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Has anyone told Jim Acosta that it's not actually a race to be the new Geraldo Rivera right? Journalism is not remotely what he does.

05.08.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Casar as CNN presses him about running against Doggett: "We aren't accepting these illegal maps. We're not going to just stand by and be pit against one another... this fight is about something much bigger than the horserace... it's about voters being able to choose their member of Congress"

04.08.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9834    πŸ” 2253    πŸ’¬ 195    πŸ“Œ 87

There are living survivors of school shootings you could interview, and it would really be their words and thoughts instead of completely made up.

04.08.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3554    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is just embarrassing.

04.08.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6274    πŸ” 1329    πŸ’¬ 266    πŸ“Œ 85
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Hochul: "This is a war. We are at war. And that's why the gloves are off and I say, bring it on."

04.08.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 20071    πŸ” 4738    πŸ’¬ 731    πŸ“Œ 429

β€œWe are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" - Republican architect of Project 2025.

The entire Democratic party needs to acknowledge those words and take action like Gov. Hochul.

04.08.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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