Brianna Liestman

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

Watching the GOP try to get around healthcare while I am literally in the process of (finally) getting it for my employees is...interesting. Let me tell you about catastrophic coverage from both an employer, a user, and a provider standpoint...

If a "clean CR" spikes my constituents’ health insurance premiums, it’s not clean. It’s dirty and puts the interests of the richest Americans ahead of Minnesota and I won’t vote for it.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Last year, Trump's people and some in the press made a whole hoopla about Biden supposedly calling Trump's supporters "garbage" (after someone at Trump's rally called Puerto Rico an island of garbage). But Trump posting a video of him dropping poop on protesters is just a Monday.

The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org

Remember how we just went through a multi-week newscycle where Democrats and liberals were lambasted for their "violent" political rhetoric, which included Fox hosts claiming that only one political party was demonizing their political opponents as evil? And how libs needs to lower the temperature?

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

I don’t care if em dashes make writing “look like AI,” you can pull them from my cold, dead hands — it’s my emotional support punctuation.

Screenshot of article excerpt: The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant. “I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.” ProPublica obtained a copy of the grant application and confirmed that those words were included.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Live your life in such a way that if people directly quote you after your death, no one will accuse them of "speaking ill of the dead."

Seeing the reactions of some people to Charlie Kirk’s assassination, who didn’t respond at all to the shooting of children at Mass, makes it painfully clear that a large portion of this country treats childhood gun deaths like an expected, “nothing special” kind of death. And I hate it.

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom

The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.

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CDC shooter believed COVID vaccine was harmful; union says misinformation put staff at risk A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, killing a police officer.
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RFK Jr is doing to the US what he did to Samoa:
“In the small island country of Samoa, lives have been forever altered by an outbreak of the disease in 2019 that caused at least 83 deaths & 1,867 hospitalisations, mostly of babies & young children. Thousands more fell sick” bsky.app/profile/aust...

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

Folks... I get the temptation to be glad Joe Rogan is speaking out against Trump, but friendly advice: take everything he says with a bucket of salt. He has the ethical commitments of a squirrel on cocaine. I don't think he even knows what he'll support tomorrow or next week. Just keep that in mind.

And here’s a deep dive by @sheinvestigates.bsky.social about what’s all at stake here.

Colbert has the highest ratings of any late night host.

"Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.

So, we're all pretty much agreed that CBS cancelled The Late Show because Mr. Colbert calls out Trump's bullshit, right?

Trump tells supporters not to 'waste time' on Epstein files. They're not happy President Trump is facing backlash from his supporters and opponents alike for how his administration has handled the release of evidence surrounding the death of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

President Trump is facing backlash from his supporters and opponents alike for how his administration has handled the release of evidence surrounding the death of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

That’s all I’ve got, it’s hard not to cast the entire Steele family as the actors in the 2005 version of Pride & Prejudice.

Pedro Pascal.

Blond Pedro Pascal is the right energy for Sir Huxley.

Wunmi Mosaku.

Wunmi Mosaku as Elle Equiano is the right choice. Or as Beatrice Steele, Diana Vane…if you can get Wunmi, she can excel in any of the roles.

Rupert Young.

Rupert Young would be a great Daniel.

Belinda Bromilow

If Belinda Bromilow isn’t cast as Miss Bolton, I will riot.

Rahul Kohli

Everyone will expect Dev Patel for Inspector Drake, but might I suggest @rahulkohli13.bsky.social? Extremely talented, very handsome, would pull off an eyepatch. He isn’t a heartthrob household name yet, and that wrong needs righting. Be the change you want to see in the world.

Beanie Feldstein and her wife.

I see a lot of Beanie Feldstein in Beatrice Steele! Not typically someone cast in a Regency heroine, as Beatrice should be.

A Terribly Nasty Business by Julia Seales

This thread is for Julia Seales: Now that I have finished reading A Terribly Nasty Business, here is my fancast for a screen adaptation:

I grew up in a family in Central Texas that lived paycheck to paycheck. We could barely afford rent and food for most of my childhood. We certainly couldn't afford to move.

I think many of you are completely detached from the reality faced by millions of families in this country.