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Imagining Banks deploying his considerable skills on regular righteous skewering of Elon and feeling such profoundly mixed giddiness and sadness. He should be here, damn it.

Two farmers looking at a tower. The one of the left Is pulling up on their bootstrap to no effect. The farmer on the right is using a pully system and people pulling on the rope to pull him up the tower.

Idiom Origin

“pull yourself up by your bootstraps”

This was originally *sarcasm* & meant to convey that the act was impossible.

A boot strap is a loop used to help put your boot on.

This 1921 cartoon from the “Nonpartisan Leader” showcases that you can’t pull upward on your boots to levitate.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.

If you were a visitor from a distant land and had to understand the purpose of the democratic party elite from only their actions not their words, what would you say their function is? I think this is an important question to understand our situation clearly.

Yeah, in any boat movie you really gotta have at least one guy emerge from a weird cave tryst and shout to the heavens that his pipes are clean

One big lesson from Mamdani's victory:
Don't be afraid of billionaires. Make billionaires afraid of you. Take them on, don't back down.

Billionaires from Musk on down used all their tricks and failed.

Democrats are trained to lust after billionaire money, but courage has tremendous value.

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

YouTube video by Howard Kremer Mayor Larry Vaughn

youtu.be/6EtQt6EBt7w?...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

Rude Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose. Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Screenshot from my timeline of back to back posts, one from Go Off Kings with a going live on Twitch notification saying “it’s time to fucking FARM.” followed immediately by @internethippo saying “In these unprecedented times please do not say “twitch stream” to me”

@internethippo.bsky.social @gooffkings.bsky.social

A male prehensile-tailed porcupine stands on rocks and a stream inside a zoo habitat.

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠

Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy.

📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

Armed US immigration agents drive off with toddler after arrest of father ‘Devastated’ family demands answers after two-year-old driven by armed agents from LA Home Depot parking lot

This just shocks the conscience:

“Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Hey @storesthepodcast.bsky.social the people want Patrick on Stores: The Podcast About Stores.

There are more of us than there are of them.

I am still not convinced Dick Cheney needs so-called “vital signs” to live & thrive, so I am urging caution & vigilance until we know for sure he is not coming back

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

For these people to have a Gatsby Party on the eve of an entire section of the American population, the lower decks of the social strata, to be starved to death… on purpose… these people are The Damned.

Movie poster for “The January Man,” Kevin Kline’s most famous and beloved role. Why, around the world, even now, people are beginning to dream of Him. Soon there will be a great becoming (in January a handful of people might remember and watch it)

While another man bides his time, waiting for his moment to strike

Only the Right can get away with this. It's worth sitting with why this is. Lots of blame to go around.

YouTube video by Scott Gairdner Happy Halloween From Michael McDonald

Happy Halloween! youtu.be/Go1jQRb3TSc?...

andrew cuomo looking terrifying

a close up of andrew cuomo looking terrifying

a true halloween fright

(📸 by adam gray www.instagram.com/agrayphot0?i...)

this is insane.

www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

🫡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4s...

Hey, if you're planning on dressing up as an ICE agent for Halloween because scaring vulnerable people is funny to you, there is still time for you to change your mind about the worst fucking idea you've ever had.