Mike Selkirk, Amateur

Sometimes I’m just too fucking salty.

Ooof yes this.

you gotta imagine that people protesting with NO KINGS signs in London, a city that very famously does in fact have a king, makes a whole other bonus group of people very mad

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For posting AI generated videos of Himself flying a Plane full of Shite

If we ever do start having reparative amendments to the Constitution, I think they should all start with, “We can’t believe we have to say this . . . “

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My family escaped Ukraine from the pogroms and were lucky enough to escape to the US.

They took my family in — we had nothing and offered nothing, but a desire to get ahead and be free while being safe.

This is a country of immigrants, and we should be honoring that history.

A presidential address about political violence would have made sense in June following the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former Minnesota House speaker.

But, she wasn't a Republican.

Instead, tonight, we got this.

It's all so horrifying, and I don't really know what else to say.

I just want to say on behalf of Zohran Mamdani…

Fuck you to:
Bill Clinton
Hakeem Jeffries
Chuck Schumer
Jonathan Chait
Ritchie Torres
Matt Yglesias
Chaiya Raichik
Charlie Kirk
George Santos

Fuck you all completely.

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace.

And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

Reading about Joni Ernst like . . .

I always thought the “human batteries” aspect of the Matrix story was kinda contrived . . . I sit corrected.

This week has been a very long year.

“We’re the fastest growing human trafficking outfit ever. Just look at our numbers!”

Is the student driving, or rather being chauffeured? They tell ChatGPT where to go. And if they lack the tools to give clear instructions, the chauffeur might get lost.

Medicaid debate: Focus on "able-bodied" Medicaid recipients is aimed at scaling back Obamacare In the Medicaid debate now raging on Capitol Hill, there is a great deal of confusion about basic facts about the Medicaid population. Some of it stems from mischaracterization of those on Medicaid.

The persistent claim is that there are so-called "able-bodied" people on Medicaid, and that this is a mistake (they “should never have been on the program”), or worse, “fraud”.

This is a mischaracterization of the goals of the current Medicaid program
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Me: Here’s a well-reasoned argument about congestion pricing that has data and citations to back it up.

Some Idiot From Throggs Neck: My commute feels longer you are completely discredited.

This is a man at war with his own age.

Do these people even have a legal department?!? WTF?

I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

And these are the criminals who want to privatize Social Security . . .

The whole checks and balances thing, that’s clear to everybody now, right?

Aaaaaand that’s how we fight fascism, folks!

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

My mother-in-law is asking me about Bluesky.

It’s all over, guys.

Confession: I judge Android users. I’m sorry, I can’t help it. I’ve used Droid and iOS and I can’t even.