And also very much a product of our times. Everyone is motivated by “clout.” A drastic change from society motivated by higher values.
13.03.2025 11:44
👍 1
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
And also very much a product of our times. Everyone is motivated by “clout.” A drastic change from society motivated by higher values.
It’s very Trumpian. Everything has become a reality competition, and Bari is the bloodthirsty mascot.
Have know Tommy for years, and a nicer guy you will not meet
Not my home but I know my way around.
Walking home from school, my eleven-year-old asked a classmate what she likes to do in her spare time.
“Study for the SATs”
Does even one prominent elected Republican have a conscience?
"America has no king" seems like a good theme to rally around
The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
Out: Vaccines.
In: Brain worms.
Well done, America.
Don’t forget that the new HHS secretary has speculated that COVID was deliberately engineered to spare Jews and Chinese people!
That they will overplay their hand lead to colossal, embarrassing, alienating missteps is a given. Let us keep fighting for what’s right in order to pick up the pieces when this error is over.
Cc @melrobbins.bsky.social
Let Them.
More than any prior political movement, including Trump 2016, they want to destroy our spirits. They want to rob our peace. That is a HUGE part of the game plan. Not just to “win,” but to defeat.
This week I spiraled into despair over the all-of-it that is this country. No more. It’s what they want. We can’t let it happen.
Like a lot of people, I’m doing what I have to do, as I am not confused that the work that must be done is shared work, but damn! I just to want to read my books!
We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
Leonard Bernstein’s MASS, which was a paean to peace and harmony and interfaith culture, was commissioned to inaugurate the Kennedy Center in 1971. I know what I’m playing tonight to mark its (essential) end.
You know who's actually meeting this moment well?
McSweeney's. They've been on absolute fire.
Rolling back civil rights for minorities is something this admin is pretty loud about wanting to do but they wouldn’t mind disenfranchising women either.
I promise you. PROMISE YOU, that in four years nobody among us will ever admit to supporting Trump in mixed company.
“Big Balls” good Lord America
Agree
got the supervillain finger tent down pat. all he needs now is a fluffy white cat in his lap.
Are the optics of Musk holding court in the Oval Office while Trump sits quietly in the corner of the frame supposed to persuade us that Trump is in charge
Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.
In the Oval Office with King Abdullah of Jordan, President Trump said “the weakest people are bullies.”
In honor of #snl50, I present the very random piece of ephemera I happen to own.
I’d like to believe it’s changed, but as a parent of a tween, conformity seems even worse now
Yup! Fortunately it was a “nice” older boy who told me as an act of charity and not some shitty buzzcut of a kid who taunted me while knocking my incorrectly-held Houghton Mifflins from my hands.