Shawn Tiemann

I gotta do it again... I will not be stopped:

When he says “hit it, Joe”, I don’t think first time viewers are going to be prepared for just how hard Joe hits it.

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.

Genuinely good news here

During the civil rights movement, SNCC trained college students on how not to engage when people were spitting on them and throwing food in their faces: non-engagement was itself a speech tactic to demonstrate the unworthiness of someone’s else speech.

I’ve been using this block list for years and I had no idea there was an influx of chuds until a columnist I follow mentioned it. It’s pretty great.

Don’t give them your time or energy. Block and move on.

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The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Marty has become desensitized to clue goblin snacks lmao

Can’t move past how much our information environment is shaped by people who don’t believe in anything.

Reporters e-fuck politicians. Editors write headlines that cover sizzle, not substance. Adults with object permanence cover events as if objective reality doesn’t exist.

Nothing matters.

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents. “I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.” During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley. “They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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My niece had sequined mace on her keychain tonight and I was like… what if I just blast myself with this? No. No no no. Not that.

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach.

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

ICE 0 - Frog 1

I will repost every portland frog joke

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”

My assumption is that these ghouls always sucked but put on a nice veneer because they assumed that is where the country was going and now they feel empowered to rip the mask off.

Or they’ve all been cooked by the twitter algo and racist group texts.

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FYI @clueless.bsky.social

Big things happening on DS9

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Opinion | Government shutdowns wouldn’t happen if they caused more pain Democratic leaders play a dangerous game as Trump threatens not to pay furloughed federal workers.

This editorial from @washingtonpost.com is disappointing because it is sloppy and misleading---if not factually wrong. As a piece by the Editorial Board (the voice of the paper), it threatens Washington Post's credibility and integrity. 1/15

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

It’s not supposed to do that

Everything I have learned about [insert name of far-right US media pundit], I have learned entirely against my will.

Avery Brooks is such a gifted actor too