Retired gay man living in Mexico. Married. Got a dog. Lifelong Democrat. Hell, I voted for McGovern.
@Pittthewelder @StrappoHughes you shame carrots, sirrah!
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/right-wing-billionaires-and-the-gop-4c9?r=2bfht3&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post — here’s a big incentive to live in a blue state. It seems a good public educational system is a Democratic project.
It’s good to know there’s a constitutional mechanism to deny Trump the right to run, much less be re-elected. The trials cannot be dragged out.
https://open.substack.com/pub/oliverwillis/p/we-just-have-to-give-up-on-some-people?r=2bfht3&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post — Oliver Willis, I’m glad someone else is admitting the fruitlessness of converting those on the right to a better course.
https://open.substack.com/pub/maxburns/p/how-the-gop-primed-its-voters-for?r=2bb6sb&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post —- the list of MAGA actions and threatened violence is forcefully compiled. Anyone who dismisses the danger the country’s in isn’t using their eyes and ears and awareness of history.
I’m not quite sure how to react to this piece. It’s all highly plausible, and it would explain so much. But I can’t dodge the feeling that it’s a fever dream of conspiracy.
Duvan Tomas Perez, killed working in a poultry plant.
Michael Schuls, killed working at a logging company.
Will Hampton, killed working at a landfill.
This is why child labor laws exist. Companies can't be allowed to turn to kids when adults refuse to work for poverty wages. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teen-poultry-factory-child-worker-deaths_n_64b7ecbce4b0ad7b75f67af7
@realTuckFrumper stupid and deranged
#BBC [World] X sign removed at Twitter HQ after neighbours complain https://w.st/6Sd7l
@nedhamson he couldn’t spring for more lights?
I hope SF bites his leg, hard.
@GottaLaff he should ask Jared for a loan.
@JeremyNewberger Twitter bounced me over a year ago. I’m often on FB entertaining my fellow geriatrics. Maybe you should do Substack. I waste a lot of my time there. You’d kill.
CASEY DESANTIS: (at rally) Who want to meet my husband? Who wants to meet our next POTUS? Are you ready? Should I bring him out?
[Reaches into purse with two pinchy fingers and lifts Ron DeSantis out, before jamming him back in.]
CASEY DESANTIS: He's not ready yet. He will be!
@JeremyNewberger I like a man with charm. Looks like a Skakel. Not well-favored in several ways.
@JeremyNewberger “You’re the best, Jerry, the best.”
@dougjballoon for a moment I thought you’d written WWIII.
@BBC brilliant comedian. Inventive and sly. I’m deeply saddened by his death.
#BBC [World] Paul Reubens: Pee-wee Herman actor dies age 70 https://w.st/CYzf1