Khakie

As someone who lives in a place where when it hits 50 we bundle up, I’m in awe of the Minnesota protesters hitting the streets today.

I don't think I'll get a chance to watch the Superman movie for a while but I'm happy it's making all the worst people mad

he's an immigrant superhero created by two Jewish kids whose parents fled persecution, and his overriding concern is helping people

he absolutely should make them feel shitty

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

trump should just get out his sharpie and change the path of the storm

every single democratic leader
should vote against every single bill proposal and nomination and draw up articles of impeachment every single week. it’s what they would do

Yeah. This isn’t about pornography.

Project 2025 lays the plan out very clearly that step one is pornography, and step two is to define public displays of anything that looks LGBTQ as pornographic. Pornography is a trojan horse to criminalize queers.

"voters like his policies, so we should--"

no, they like his performative cruelty and idiocy and the permission he gives them to be cruel and dumb. you cannot co-opt these people, the movement must be crushed

I have reached the point that "please call your representatives" means that representatives and senators supposedly on my side are so completely the fuck out of touch they don't recognize good policy from bad and only care about getting along with Republicans.

And I get angry.

Something that bothers me about the crowd that insists we can just bring manufacturing jobs back to the US is that they assume these jobs are easy. I promise you if the average American was asked to do a garment workers’ job for one day, they would give up.

The Venn Diagram of people who chanted “lock her up” and the people who want to move on from Signalgate is a circle.

journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying.

like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.

So let’s be very clear about this - DOGE isn’t saving America money. It is now among the costliest domestic programs in our history; and certainly the most significant wealth destroying.

just a total sack of shit

Can’t get over how great this is.

People who say they don’t understand what we want Dems to do: do this. Make them sound as dumb as they are, attack, don’t use caveats or hedge, stand up for the people you say you protect, act fucking mad.

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Ok I want to make my skyline more quirky so I feel less stressed. What are some weird, funny, quirky, silly accounts that you like to follow here?

I’ll drop a few I like in comments

Brownie points go to everyone who shares accounts that use ALT in their images.

I would like to stop doomscrolling, so can we please have less doom

14 holes in one, slightly disappointing round but it got the job done

He needed to be free to go on a book tour next week. Fighting it would have been too much of a hassle. Time to disrupt every single stop on his tour.

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I’m not leaving the Dem party. I’ve been here for 33 years. If guys like Schumer wanna vote with republicans, THEY can leave the Dem party and join the GOP.

I hate to say ‘I told you so’ but… I told you so.

Seven years ago:

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

May their names forever go down in infamy

The only elections Democrats are losing tonight are their own eventual primaries.

I get the instinct to tell them to go to hell but in our two party system it’s much easier to take over one of the existing parties than it is to start from scratch.

I’d like to ask every single New Yorker who’s remotely left of center to get actively involved in your local Democratic Party chapter with the goal of driving Schumer, Gillibrand, Hochul, Adams, Cuomo and all the other dead wood into retirement.

It’s impossible to state how spineless, ineffectual, and dumb Schumer is as leader. Just reprehensible. AOC should announce she’s primarying him right now and she’d have enough donations by tomorrow for the rest of her career.

“But if you want to smear your feces on the Capitol walls, come on in!“

If Social Security is shut down, I want a complete refund with interest of every penny I contributed.

I can't get over the duplicity.
"HE'S DANGEROUS TO DEMOCRACY!!!"
... but smooth transfer of power
... cooperative transition team
... White House photo ops
... keep the cogs of government turning
. . . d e c o r u m

People notice.
It makes them disregard the real warnings as mere politicking.