Carolyn Fiddler

Fleeing Texas was the only way Democrats could block Trump’s plan to rig the midterms “The Republican members have outsourced our democracy to Mar-a-Lago”

Re-gerrymandering a state to rig an election & then threatening to arrest and expel the members protesting that election rigging is pure authoritarianism

Texas Dems who fled state are fighting for very survival of American democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Cat in a Yoda bed

This is where she pouts

When the peppers come in and you're retired, you make a batch of salsa on a Friday I guess 😅

It's only the first batch of the season (and a smaller one at that), dad usually does three

BAH GAWD THAT'S @nicklutsko.bsky.social'S MUSIC
youtube.com/shorts/09Nan...

(it worked)

SALSA

Me: Rough week
Parents: We cheer you up
M: Not bloody likely but I appreciate the thought
P: Pfft we're your parents, we got this

With each accommodation this administration makes for Ghislaine Maxwell, it retraumatizes the victims and minimizes the harm she caused. And we're supposed to believe that these are the people who are super concerned with pedophelia and sex trafficking? Are MAGA supporters still buying this shit?

fry from futurama is making a funny face and says hmm ... ALT: fry from futurama is making a funny face and says hmm ...

Is it a nap if you do it at 7 p.m. or nah

fry from futurama is holding a bunch of money in his hand ALT: fry from futurama is holding a bunch of money in his hand

💯

I wanna go

Trump fires commissioner of labor statistics after weaker-than-expected jobs figures slam markets Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of being a political appointee who was manipulating jobs data.

Because Trump is busy persecuting immigrants, federal employees, and defying court orders, telling people to shut up about Epstein, pleading with Ghislaine not to talk, he’s too busy to care about the economy. Job numbers down. Inflation up. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/...

Guys is it biased to favor a shared sense of objective reality

i know this is quaint of me but the white house renovation is crazy illegal and actually really emblematic of how trump sees the presidency as belonging to him

a sign that says big brother is watching you is on the ground ALT: a sign that says big brother is watching you is on the ground

No one told them 1984 was a cautionary tale so they think it's a blueprint

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Trump fires data statistics chief after large revision to jobs report Trump orders firing of top government economist after release of large revisions to employment data

In my inbox from Sen. @markwarner.bsky.social: "The president is trying to cook the books ... to cover up the consequences of his failures. Firing the ump doesn’t change the score"

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

Like clockwork

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

My fellow Razorbacks went nuts over that shirt when I'd wear it back in college.
Wore it out, sadly -- it had the (now) retro font, so so good

Coincidentally, the man behind the slogan passed away a few weeks ago. @richmond.com had a great piece on him and the origin of the slogan (really wish RTD did gift links)
richmond.com/news/local/b...

virginia is for voters with a red heart in the middle ALT: virginia is for voters with a red heart in the middle

...and that's saying something, at least a third of my moves on any given day are probably Peak Commonwealth

a blue flag with a white circle with a man in a blue shirt on it ALT: a blue flag with a white circle with a man in a blue shirt on it

Found myself explaining the origin of the Virginia Is For Lovers tourism slogan (no, it has less than absolutely nothing to do with Loving v. Virginia) to an Oregonian yesterday (in my defense, she asked!) and this might have been my most Peak Commonwealth move in years

Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.

We have always been at war with Eastasia

Also today: www.npr.org/2025/07/31/g... Trump had him at the White House on St. Patrick’s Day.

Oral arguments are well under way, and while I am not a lawyer, the judges have very harshly questioned the Justice Department -- and its claims to broad presidential tariff powers under the law

...not that I needed another reason to get the vinyl of @nicklutsko.bsky.social's upcoming album, but his new song All On Red is SUCH a bop and the video is great
youtu.be/0yBrVztvfeU?...

This Tuckahoe home won a $1.26 billion contract for an ICE detention center. The owner isn't talking. The company’s website is dated and largely accessible only via login.

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

You can't convince me that this isn't a bit for another Borat sequel