In case the sad trombone guy needs a reminder of what real fascism looks like
08.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@theblueape.bsky.social
Retired public defender. Cal Golden Bear. Fan of the baseball Giants and avid reader of the works of John Steinbeck. I like cats. I don’t like people who don’t.
In case the sad trombone guy needs a reminder of what real fascism looks like
08.10.2025 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Enough of this asshole. Newsom has disappointed on a couple of issues but to bandy the fascist label about like confetti at a New Year’s Eve party not only diminishes the word but guarantees the real fascists stay in power. These clout-chasing clowns are as much responsible Trump’s rise as anyone.
08.10.2025 15:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We’re way past of refusing to accept “some people are saying” answers. “Some legal analysts?” Which ones, Mike? WHICH “ANALYSTS??””
07.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.
06.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 13572 🔁 4895 💬 457 📌 526At this point anything short of responding with derisive laughter is a betrayal of basic journalistic principles
07.10.2025 12:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The best part of lousy sleep cycles caused by all the fucked up shit happening in America is waking up at 12:30 to read about all the fucked up shit happening on the other side of the Atlantic
07.10.2025 07:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Triumph of Death (flipped), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1562
07.10.2025 03:31 — 👍 2007 🔁 272 💬 19 📌 12Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.
07.10.2025 01:06 — 👍 1998 🔁 604 💬 32 📌 19The senators who confirmed this 1st grader’s refrigerator drawing need to have their names engraved in a future Smithsonian Museum wall of shame
07.10.2025 00:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m so conflicted, bc the Dodgers must always lose but I do love Philly teams being booed by their own fans
07.10.2025 00:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
06.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 13339 🔁 5875 💬 167 📌 104I mean, come ON!! 🤣
07.10.2025 00:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Will root against Blake Snell 4ever for holding out until the eve of spring training before signing w the Giants, predictably stinking up the 1st half of the season as a result, pitching well enough in the 2d half to pad his stats for free agency then taking himself out of the rotation at the end.
06.10.2025 23:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good thing Democratic leadership is laser-focused on “kitchen table issues.”
06.10.2025 23:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Goldfish. We are a nation of goldfish.
06.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen
06.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 2735 🔁 535 💬 170 📌 41Stanford. Huh. Figures
06.10.2025 04:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit
06.10.2025 03:04 — 👍 6341 🔁 891 💬 116 📌 27“There’s not much meat in these gym mats!”
06.10.2025 03:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bills Mafia suddenly checking all their phones for FBI wiretaps
06.10.2025 02:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There are owls hooting at each other as the October moon rises on my street.
06.10.2025 02:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0wizard frog is insane
04.10.2025 22:24 — 👍 12756 🔁 3569 💬 234 📌 1150I think of it as a feel-good Tarantino style revisionist portrayal in the tune of 1960’s sensibilities. And it was actually quite controversial at the time: Jewish Americans, for instance, were appalled at the Nazi regime being played for laughs, even if they were primarily shown as dummies.
05.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke
this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke
A really stirring opinion from Judge Karen Immergut (Boalt 87!) blocking Trump’s military assault on Portland, calling it, elegantly, “ untethered to facts.”
“Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates …goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the US.”
Been a while since we’ve seen a Sanchez turnover like this
04.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 726 🔁 118 💬 14 📌 6Ok how is it that no one is talking about Black Rabbit & how absolutely PERFECT Jude Law & Jason Bateman are as foils to each other?
04.10.2025 02:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Free Friday Prediction:
Summoning the entire command structure of the U.S. Armed Forces to personally witness SecDef & POTUS show their whole ass in front of an “Opening Scene of Patton” American flag backdrop will turn out to be a humongous self-own.
"We now know that it’s dangerous for the federal government to have significant law enforcement capabilities. We want to make the next would-be autocrat start from scratch when trying to build his secret police force." www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
04.10.2025 01:31 — 👍 419 🔁 90 💬 20 📌 6If you did you would actually get me out of my house, no mean feat I assure you
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