I got in trouble for replying "that regret and $5 will get you a coffee, maybe more depending on what tariffs are up to"
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I don't know about MAGA-MAGA but I can say anecdotally the willfully low info voter family members who voted in the last 3 elections as though he was just a regular Republican are FINALLY THIS YEAR at the "I regret voting for him" in private convos stage.
Not public declaration. Just whispers.
they're like civil war reënactors but everyone thinks they're the north.
rdvark
After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.
It's peace talks day and the president is watching television.
Left, Fox & Friends, 6:40 a.m.
Right, Trump, 6:50 a.m.
Nightcrawler passed it to you
You pass it to Magik
*bamf*
Magik passes it to Nightcrawler
When we voted him out in 2020 it would have been really cool if the folks we voted in Did Something About Him instead of dragging their feet and letting it die between Garland and the Roberts Court. Go nuclear, pack the court. Something.
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
Now that the Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to refund companies what they paid in tariffs, yet there are still tariffs in place, what's the plan? Consumers continue to fork money over to corporations who will later get another refund?
New Cat Just Dropped
A breaking update from @timheidecker.bsky.social.
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe
He inspired one of my all time favorite Letterboxd reviews, by our pal @bransonreese.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/bren...
"We believe two things in this Hilton Head vacation house, pedestrians do not have the right of way and Michael Jordan is the greatest player of all time"
Naow you gotta read right to left, right to left I say.
I keep the manga pages numbered for, a, just such an occasion.
when that one girl trips and falls resolving a jam? that's a good time move
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was that kind of movie but aged like discount milk
leftists are my greatest adversary because they are destroying america destroying america or being rude to you online? being rude to me online
liberals on this microblogging website
Does it work to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" or is the stressed unstressed pattern off for Mark Zuck?
"Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses"
I feel like enough time has passed to officially put this in the “dad movie hall of fame. This is the sort of thing dads will happily watch on TNT for the next twenty years
a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure
While he's publishing a book called "I'm 40 years old and just starting a physics degree"
Yes, the fact that I'm attending the White House Correspondents Dinner might SEEM like a supine gesture of complete deference to the insane dullard who demands total obedience from the press, BUT that's until you see the secret message I have on my pocket square