Chris B
@burchris.bsky.social
Wrote a few horror movies with names like HALLOW'S END and CANNIBAL TABOO (if you've seen either all the way through, I'm sorry).
Humans good, fascism bad, fuck ICE, free Palestine. Cat lover.
If you follow me and smell like a bot, I will block you.
Humans good, fascism bad, fuck ICE, free Palestine. Cat lover.
If you follow me and smell like a bot, I will block you.
If our best institutional defense against the Republicans is the Democrats, we're fucked.
January 30, 2026 at 2:21 AM
If our best institutional defense against the Republicans is the Democrats, we're fucked.
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when you see unsnatched defeat in the jaws of defeat
January 30, 2026 at 2:09 AM
when you see unsnatched defeat in the jaws of defeat
Gavin Newsom dickriders are the funniest people.
What makes Paul F. Tompkins such a skilled bluesky poster is that he's able to virtue signal progressive bona fides AND enable fascism through false equivocation
January 30, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Gavin Newsom dickriders are the funniest people.
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Don’t you have five dozen eggs to eat or something
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Don’t you have five dozen eggs to eat or something
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Between me and the democratic governor who DOESN’T think ICE should be abolished, who would you say is enabling fascism more
What makes Paul F. Tompkins such a skilled bluesky poster is that he's able to virtue signal progressive bona fides AND enable fascism through false equivocation
January 30, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Between me and the democratic governor who DOESN’T think ICE should be abolished, who would you say is enabling fascism more
MELANIA's not going to make its money back, nor was that ever the intention. The money that Netflix spent wasn't a budget; it was a bribe.
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 AM
MELANIA's not going to make its money back, nor was that ever the intention. The money that Netflix spent wasn't a budget; it was a bribe.
I'm so exhausted, man, I just want to go home and lie down. (Wait. I already am home, in bed. Is there any way I can do this HARDER? It's been quite a day.)
January 30, 2026 at 1:33 AM
I'm so exhausted, man, I just want to go home and lie down. (Wait. I already am home, in bed. Is there any way I can do this HARDER? It's been quite a day.)
The classic Justice Society of America (the OGs; not any legacy version of the team). I can't narrow it down to one member.
January 30, 2026 at 1:27 AM
The classic Justice Society of America (the OGs; not any legacy version of the team). I can't narrow it down to one member.
Schumer and Jeffries can't be trusted to lead the Democrats. They aren't just weak or cowardly; they are compromised. They are the goddamn poster boys for "controlled opposition" (Google it). They have got to. fucking GO.
January 30, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Schumer and Jeffries can't be trusted to lead the Democrats. They aren't just weak or cowardly; they are compromised. They are the goddamn poster boys for "controlled opposition" (Google it). They have got to. fucking GO.
I want to see a Melania documentary directed by Errol Morris, or Michael Moore, or the guy who made SHERMAN’S MARCH.
January 30, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I want to see a Melania documentary directed by Errol Morris, or Michael Moore, or the guy who made SHERMAN’S MARCH.
I’m at the doctor’s still and while they haven’t yet figured out the source of what’s ailing me, my heart checks out A-okay. Woo-hoo!
January 29, 2026 at 10:18 PM
I’m at the doctor’s still and while they haven’t yet figured out the source of what’s ailing me, my heart checks out A-okay. Woo-hoo!
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The "must remain in seats for entirety of film" is hilarious!🤣
January 29, 2026 at 7:16 PM
The "must remain in seats for entirety of film" is hilarious!🤣
Someone in Van Nuys has perfectly captured my own feelings about the right.
January 29, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Someone in Van Nuys has perfectly captured my own feelings about the right.
I regaled Snowball with the “I Don’t Wanna Go!” song but he still made me head out for my medical appointment. And in a shirt covered with cat hair. He is merciless.
January 29, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I regaled Snowball with the “I Don’t Wanna Go!” song but he still made me head out for my medical appointment. And in a shirt covered with cat hair. He is merciless.
"Unaffordability" is a hell of a policy to publicly embrace.
Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
January 29, 2026 at 6:23 PM
"Unaffordability" is a hell of a policy to publicly embrace.
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January 29, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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The IDF is suddenly accepting the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers because they know as well as everyone else now that it’s a massive undercount.
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The IDF is suddenly accepting the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers because they know as well as everyone else now that it’s a massive undercount.
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Yes yes yes this whole thread.
tl;dr means testing sucks and wastes tons of money and makes people's lives more miserable and government should stop being in the business of judging if someone is worthy and just help them because they're a human being.
tl;dr means testing sucks and wastes tons of money and makes people's lives more miserable and government should stop being in the business of judging if someone is worthy and just help them because they're a human being.
New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Yes yes yes this whole thread.
tl;dr means testing sucks and wastes tons of money and makes people's lives more miserable and government should stop being in the business of judging if someone is worthy and just help them because they're a human being.
tl;dr means testing sucks and wastes tons of money and makes people's lives more miserable and government should stop being in the business of judging if someone is worthy and just help them because they're a human being.
Snowball's in a mood because I'm not walking him this morning. I'm heading out for a doctor's appointment later, and I just don't have the energy to do both.
January 29, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Snowball's in a mood because I'm not walking him this morning. I'm heading out for a doctor's appointment later, and I just don't have the energy to do both.
The last time I remember Obama working his ass off in a presidential campaign was when he helped kneecap a Bernie nomination in 2020.
...did Obama really "work his ass off" in the last three elections? i don't remember that
January 29, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The last time I remember Obama working his ass off in a presidential campaign was when he helped kneecap a Bernie nomination in 2020.
PERSON ON THE STREET: I'm hungry for something like bread, but tough to chew and not particularly good-tasting.
INVENTOR OF THE BAGEL: Boy, is it your lucky day.
INVENTOR OF THE BAGEL: Boy, is it your lucky day.
January 29, 2026 at 4:30 PM
PERSON ON THE STREET: I'm hungry for something like bread, but tough to chew and not particularly good-tasting.
INVENTOR OF THE BAGEL: Boy, is it your lucky day.
INVENTOR OF THE BAGEL: Boy, is it your lucky day.
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Harris lost because six million Biden voters looked at her platform and said "no thanks", a tough pill to swallow for the liberal scolds currently blaming it on the anti-Genocide left
January 29, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Harris lost because six million Biden voters looked at her platform and said "no thanks", a tough pill to swallow for the liberal scolds currently blaming it on the anti-Genocide left
Um… why is the Daily Show having pea-brained right-winger Whitney Cummings host segments?
(Also, don't even jokingly give credibility to the horrifying idea that Newsom or Booker are “good enough.")
(Also, don't even jokingly give credibility to the horrifying idea that Newsom or Booker are “good enough.")
Whitney Cummings Wants Dems to Lower Their Expectations for 2028 Candidates | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Um… why is the Daily Show having pea-brained right-winger Whitney Cummings host segments?
(Also, don't even jokingly give credibility to the horrifying idea that Newsom or Booker are “good enough.")
(Also, don't even jokingly give credibility to the horrifying idea that Newsom or Booker are “good enough.")
The Bill Clinton crowd has spent nearly 40 years normalizing the bullshit idea that the only way to defeat the right is to appeal to the right, and that the only way to do that is by moving to the right.
January 29, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The Bill Clinton crowd has spent nearly 40 years normalizing the bullshit idea that the only way to defeat the right is to appeal to the right, and that the only way to do that is by moving to the right.