Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry.
Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.
By @alexcuadros.bsky.social
it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.
in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.
A merman lifting chalice with a horn shell rim
Part 247 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
A nautilus shell and silver-gilt cup made in 1585-1586 CE
this one is funny because i guess "working class" people don't live in richmond or norfolk or suffolk or albemarle or manassas? bsky.app/profile/coll...
Ohio GOP governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has investments with a venture capital firm that's backed every one of the defense company Anduril's funding rounds. Anduril is receiving more than $830 million in state incentives to build a production facility ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/21/v...
tbf oregon tossed her on her ass, too, that’s why trump hired her
Visited a nearby college last week and I noticed they had an entire green area roped off. When I approached it I heard angry shrieking, and then saw the “killdeer nesting” sign, with the angry killdeer standing next to it. I literally squealed in delight.
Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"
Evergreen
key thing we learned from Virginia campaign
Republicans are freaked the fuck out about accountability
Not just Trump, all of them - including their billionaires, like Thiel
They fear what's coming when Dems win - and Dems need to be ruthless about it
woke 2: posting alt-text as regular-text
"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"
yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up
Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.
If there are folks who would like to design a couple of "FUND OUR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES" posters, holler at me at niapoetry@gmail.com and please tell me your rate for this. Poster size would be 11 by 17 landscape size.
I need to print some posters for a forthcoming event.
#ImpeachRFKJr. Because he continues to be openly genocidal.
RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵
If I die, throw my body on the HHS steps, video him pulling one of his dead animal stunts, and put him in prison for desecrating a corpse.
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If you called her "the goat," I think you'd get one of the most withering staredowns in history. But the truth is the truth. Happy 94th to Elaine May. Long may she reign!
alt text is great, even when images are working
without googling, how many of you think swordfish use that sword of theirs to stab prey
OK sorry gaiz, I lied, they actually use it to pick locks on fish traps
answer is they don't, they use it to slash victims, clue's on the tin, its called a swordfish not a spearfish
screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."
I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -
POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad
VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??
POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there
They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls.
CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded
CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing
Virginia is for haters (laudatory)
most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters
these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators
Reading material for the afterlife 🤓
Don't do that to service workers.
Make them work at the Heritage Foundation alongside Stephen Miller for the next 8 decades.
THAT'S RIGHT REPUBLICANS
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals