Andy Bader

cat eating noodles very seriously

“you can’t ignore your problems forever” i can actually

just saw 2 firefighters sitting next to eachother on the front bumper of a moving firetruck kicking and swinging their feet

Killing someone with a bayonet probably feels incredible. It’s too bad life is so precious, mostly.

The big problem with the politics of "just do what polls say is already popular" is that most people don't have strongly-held opinions about most issues. When pollsters ask, they answer. But they're often taking elite cues, not expressing deep passions.

Leaders can lead people to different stances.

why are we doing age verification? we're all 38

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.

Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.

Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

This is the only meme you need.

An Oral-B login screen.

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal.

the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.

Screenshot from The New Yorker: One morning a few weeks ago, I met de Blasio at his regular coffee shop in Park Slope. He had just come from the gym—the same one that he’d insisted on commuting to every morning from Gracie Mansion, no matter how much grief the press gave him for it—and was wearing sweats. He held forth among his fellow-patrons with a spirit of magnanimous, possibly unreciprocated camaraderie, greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar “How you doing, brother?” and ordering his breakfast (scrambled egg whites, cheddar, ham, and tomato on multigrain toast) as “mi sandwich especial.” These days, de Blasio most often makes the news for his love life or for such momentous moves as dyeing his salt-and-pepper crewcut. But he’s sensed a bit of de Blasio nostalgia creeping into town. “Since I left office, the No. 1 thing that people come up to me on the street and talk about is pre-K,” he told me, lacing his iced espresso with a heavy pour of simple syrup. “The No. 2 thing that people talk about is that Onion headline.” He quoted it for me, savoring every word: “Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit, huh?”

bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"I've been banned from Tinder, Hinge, Bumble....Seeking, uh seeking arrangements"

Dying Congressman to Lead Watchdog Committee The gerontocracy wins again

I caught a lot of criticism when I reported this back in December

The great thing about a good (human) friend is that they don't have time for 'endless conversations'. At times, they tell you to shut up, that you're full of shit, to stop complaining, or don't respond at all so you can deduce it. This bot won't do that. Not every wish needs to be a reality.

Panthers receivers struggled in gotta have it situations last year. Enter Tetairoa McMillan, who had the 2nd most conversions in college football and zero drops on 3rd down.

On the pod @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I discussed Carolina’s draft.

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In the span of 3 hours, 60 Minutes publicly called out Paramount Plus for fucking with their editorial content to appease the Trump admin on air, and then Nathan Fielder called them Nazis for capitulating with israel to "Silence jewish voices"

Imagine working the Paramount Plus PR this AM lol

Amazing.

Booker wraps up a record breaking speech about fighting back, then feckless Schumer agrees to unanimous consent for Whitaker confirmation speeches.

You can't make this shit up.

They're calling it the highest-commitment April Fools joke in political history.

"they're gonna make us look bad"

go fucking make them look bad. they're fascists. how hard can this be.

democrats i swear to god if you back away from a fight where you have the moral high ground against a political opponent with tanking approval numbers that the entire country is mad at right now, i swear to GOD yall i freaking swear

Even though his Reagan prank arguably went too far, I still think it’s rude of SNL to not bring back original cast member John Hinckley Jr. for the 50th anniversary

I, a foreigner who was not signed up to any political SMS or email lists, was still getting caught in the blast radius of the all-out comms war that the korean dems were waging. the messaging was everywhere and it was well-timed and savvy. almost like... they were politicians... who wanted to win

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

this stuff isn't rocket surgery. you get out there and raise hell

And those voters it’s fun to laugh at have children who DID NOT elect a bloated conman.