Emergency back-up Pope
@cockrobin.bsky.social
Everybody want to be really good at something.
Not everybody wants to do what it takes to be really good at something.
Not everybody wants to do what it takes to be really good at something.
“After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.”
Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
www.levernews.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.”
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Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
This presidential perk needs to be abolished.
How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters
The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This presidential perk needs to be abolished.
"Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein confidante and convicted child sex trafficker, is being waited on “hand and foot” by the staff at her minimum security prison camp..."
Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’
In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell’s treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel.”
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein confidante and convicted child sex trafficker, is being waited on “hand and foot” by the staff at her minimum security prison camp..."
"last night, seven Senate Democrats (and one Independent) shit the bed royally, and then rolled around in the mess. they voted with Republicans to advance a bill to reopen the government.
here’s what they got in return for their acquiescence: jack shit. nothing. bupkis." @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
here’s what they got in return for their acquiescence: jack shit. nothing. bupkis." @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
what the hell, Senate Democrats?
you got played. how do you not see this?
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"last night, seven Senate Democrats (and one Independent) shit the bed royally, and then rolled around in the mess. they voted with Republicans to advance a bill to reopen the government.
here’s what they got in return for their acquiescence: jack shit. nothing. bupkis." @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
here’s what they got in return for their acquiescence: jack shit. nothing. bupkis." @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
"trigger warning: everybody in this story fucking sucks." @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
Republican conundrum: how much Nazi is the right amount of Nazi?
are they the baddies?
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"trigger warning: everybody in this story fucking sucks." @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
The Gestapo have got high tech facial recognition tech. This won't end well.
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for all Americans.
www.npr.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Gestapo have got high tech facial recognition tech. This won't end well.
Fewer items, and storebrand items – not namebrand.
Fact check: Cheaper Walmart Thanksgiving meal touted by Trump has fewer items than last year’s | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump keeps touting the fact that Walmart’s promotional Thanksgiving meal basket is cheaper this year than it was last year. But Trump hasn’t mentioned that this year’s basket is diff...
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Fewer items, and storebrand items – not namebrand.
Huge spike in Shein purchases by Republicans in 3...2...1...
France Threatens to Ban Shein Over Sale of ‘Childlike’ Sex Dolls
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Huge spike in Shein purchases by Republicans in 3...2...1...
"I don’t know who he is. ... I heard it was a Biden witch hunt,”
Trump on why he pardoned Binance CEO: “Are you ready? I don’t know who he is.”
Trump family business could benefit from pardon of crypto ex-con Changpeng Zhao.
arstechnica.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"I don’t know who he is. ... I heard it was a Biden witch hunt,”
""I'd rather not have you ask the question," Trump said in a deleted portion of the interview."
Well, okay then.
Well, okay then.
60 Minutes Edited Out Trump's Response to Questions About Crypto Corruption
gizmodo.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
""I'd rather not have you ask the question," Trump said in a deleted portion of the interview."
Well, okay then.
Well, okay then.
"...there appears to be a strong association between COVID-19 infections in pregnant women and higher rates of autism and other neurodevelopmental issues.
It is literally the opposite of everything they have ever believed."
It is literally the opposite of everything they have ever believed."
Sorry, RFK Jr.! Study Shows COVID In Pregnancy Associated With Higher Rates Of Autism
What will the anti-vaxxers do?!?
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"...there appears to be a strong association between COVID-19 infections in pregnant women and higher rates of autism and other neurodevelopmental issues.
It is literally the opposite of everything they have ever believed."
It is literally the opposite of everything they have ever believed."
“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social
November 1, 2025
Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Why are these terrible things happening? …they're happening because Republicans want them to happen."
Too Cruel Too Soon
How Republicans messed up on Project 2025
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October 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Why are these terrible things happening? …they're happening because Republicans want them to happen."
“Republican leaders blamed poor Americans for the Great Depression, saying they drained the economy because they refused to work hard enough.”
October 28, 2025
In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G.
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“Republican leaders blamed poor Americans for the Great Depression, saying they drained the economy because they refused to work hard enough.”
“It’s not just taking a hands-off approach and saying, ‘we won’t protect consumers,’ it’s saying, ‘we are going to actively harm you.’”
‘Trying to actively harm you’: Attorney warns Trump move could wreck credit for millions
An attorney specializing in consumer protection is sounding the alarm as the Trump administration prepares to enact a new policy that could tank credit ratings for millions of Americans.A total of 15 ...
www.rawstory.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“It’s not just taking a hands-off approach and saying, ‘we won’t protect consumers,’ it’s saying, ‘we are going to actively harm you.’”