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Unitarian Universalist minister. Historian. Anti-fascist. 3rd Culture kid. Gamer, reader, gardener. Animal lover. Nature lover. Maker of gingerbread cathedrals. Trouble-maker.

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“Corrected” just as soon as we’re done “correcting” the missing text to meet with Mango Mussolini’s views.

06.08.2025 19:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And not letting SpaceX blow up a rocket laden with nuclear material over the Caribbean.

05.08.2025 21:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll admit, I am *mildly* curious about how he dodged answering that question.

05.08.2025 02:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe if they’re on stage together? You know, *physically*.

05.08.2025 00:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That is so fucking deranged it should be evidence of incompetence and dementia.

04.08.2025 19:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dewrang Chicken Madrasi

03.08.2025 04:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When has stupid ever been a bar to GOP policies?
Or to anything Trump wants to do?

03.08.2025 04:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good god, this really *is* the worst timeline, isn't it?

03.08.2025 04:15 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s very — disturbingly — green.
Pretty still, but...

03.08.2025 04:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Never ask about the average. It’s distorted by a few really high end cases.

ALWAYS demand the median.

Which I’m sure is even worse than 11k (and falling).

Also, this dynamic is a feature (not a bug) of late stage capitalism; stripping the last wealth from those creating it for the rentiers.

02.08.2025 18:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Political cartoon titled “South Park-a-Lago.” It depicts President Trump, Attorney General Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Blanche, and Ghislaine Maxwell standing in front of the White House discussing the Epstein Files.

Political cartoon titled “South Park-a-Lago.” It depicts President Trump, Attorney General Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Blanche, and Ghislaine Maxwell standing in front of the White House discussing the Epstein Files.

02.08.2025 17:24 — 👍 431    🔁 143    💬 20    📌 7

Well. What does Bibi do now to remain in a state of emergency, in power, and out of jail?

But that is hopeful.

01.08.2025 07:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome.

Love, Allison

30.07.2025 23:23 — 👍 37481    🔁 8893    💬 1421    📌 799

And what that says is that Dershowitz *knows* that he’d lose against the vendor in a heartbeat — that he doesn’t have any actual case.

01.08.2025 04:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Funniest part is that he’s not suing the vendor.

He’s just trying to intimidate the farmer’s market into creating a policy that deprives their vendors of their right not to decline to do business with someone.

Be prepared to lean on and support the organization behind the farmer’s market.

01.08.2025 04:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There’s not enough actual logic in that statement to blow your nose on.

Population loss, gain, or internal movement could justify changing district lines. We do that once a decade. TX just did (and gerrymandered like hell). Trump just wants more… political crime.

01.08.2025 02:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“In theory.”

But they are being drawn professionally using big data to ensure that they aren’t close to competitive.

And political theory is great… but this is in practice.

And with fascists in power, it’s for all the marbles. If they win the midterms, it’ll all be over (if it isn’t already).

01.08.2025 02:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yup.

Will actively buttonhole all my friends and family in CA to support and vote for that.

TrumpCo wants to have Texas bring a knife to a gunfight, well — ok then. Even the Great Liar can’t make 5-9 = good news for the GOP.

Besides, flushing Issa would be an unalloyed joy.

01.08.2025 02:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

UUs, you’ll want to block ‪@robinedgar59[.]bsky[.]social (Remove the [ ]s).

He’s up to his longstanding lies, obsessive nonsense, and harassment.

Don’t engage — it’s *always* been a mistake. Just block him.

01.08.2025 01:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Most of the media hasn’t learned not to just repeat 47’s self-fellating assessments of his, um… achievements.

25.07.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Those that don’t should be shivved.

24.07.2025 21:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not new.

24.07.2025 21:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kinda Trump-like in that.

21.07.2025 00:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas As more than a hundred fatalities have been confirmed in Texas flash...

NEW: Sec. Noem has now admits "last mile" disaster communications weren't up to par in the Texas catastrophe. But while bodies were still being recovered on Tuesday DHS canceled a $3 million grant focused on improving precisely those kinds of "last mile" comms. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-c...

10.07.2025 17:14 — 👍 7585    🔁 3824    💬 425    📌 278

One wonders how deep the damage to the American Fascist Party will be from a party appealing to Nazis.

08.07.2025 21:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a) phenomenally bad decision (so not surprising that the regime embraced it).
b) the IRS hasn’t been enforcing the longstanding ban in any noticeable way for decades. Faith communities that are politically conservative have been laughing at it for a long time.

08.07.2025 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And a living wage.

08.07.2025 16:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So no one would have to squeeze past them to get into a seat or to go use the toilet?

07.07.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It hurts, doesn't it?

I recently found myself quoting Rand Paul — approvingly — in public. And a seemingly sane comment from Ann Coulter.

Signs of the apocalypse.

07.07.2025 15:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So here’s the deal… — we need that joke anyway. It might help counter that giant sucking sound.

07.07.2025 15:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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