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@ericwais.bsky.social

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Reheated snowflake, bad take aficionado, all around sad sack. Very much not an expert on literally anything. Proceed accordingly.

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Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · Mar 29

"Persons being deported may be sent to countries other than their country of origin."

That is some deeply dystopian shit.

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Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 18m

Hold the phone, are you telling me our entire economy has been propped up by cheap undocumented foreign labor for decades? This feels like a scandal of the FIRST order. I wonder if anyone involved in real estate development and hospitality for the last 50 years would be involved in this at all.

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 1d

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

wapo.st

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 23m

Oh snap for real?

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 27m

Lol this is what your parents and grandparents are going to be fed on the nightly CBS News and 60 Minutes. This is the new baseline for "centrist" in this country

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 30m

They're not all winners

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 2h

It's literally Peter Thiel thinking some anime he watched is proof that the anrichrist is loose and requires us to purge democracy for the sake of the ruling class

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 2h

WHY IS A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE GOING ON THE FUCKING NEWS??? WHY AREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT THAT?

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 1d

I assumed it meant he could be pinch hit for like Roman Polanski in the right spot

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 1d

That is...the premise of the show. That is what has made it possible for the horrors that will occur

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Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 1d

I hope this game goes to 300 innings and competes with NFL kickoffs

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 2d

VFX is expensive but it's not nearly as expensive if your goal is for your film to actually look like a video game. It's a neat trick for a studio to make a big budget looking movie that actually costs much less because you're OK with it looking fake. No locations, all green screen production

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 2d

All of the Master and Commanders we were promised

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 2d

This guy walking up to you in a bar in North Carolina in a Duke quarter zip telling you his name is Memorable in a thick British accent

I would swallow my own tongue

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 2d

Name of the Year simply HAS to come back. How have we lost this as a society?

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 2d

Name of the Year simply HAS to come back. How have we lost this as a society?

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 3d

It's just how fucking gross these people are. I obviously disagree with your politics and think you're lame but why do you also have to be this god damn creepy?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 3d

Finding your friend's mutilated corpse and being VERY upset about it, but only for about 30 seconds

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 4d

Zamboni. No, the correct answer is Zamboni. Everyone is dressing up as a Zamboni this year. Every single person. Zamboni

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 4d

Look, fuck the Yankees forever, but why do you need to make your own success about the specific team you just beat? Feels like some bad karma for the next round

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4d

Blue Jays are blasting Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” during their celebration

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4d

Blue Jays are blasting Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” during their celebration

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Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 4d

This is going to keep escalating until there is a point where establishment democrats have no choice but to do something but we're just frogs slowly boiling now. The Schumer-Jeffries of the world couldn't shrug off a sitting democratic governor being arrested by federal authorities

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 4d

I obviously don't WANT it to happen because of horrifying dystopia and everything but dude you are the PRESIDENT. Put up or shut up already. You can't be a strongman if all you do is whine about how you can't do strongman stuff because of all the pesky laws

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 5d

Pete Hegseth pinning a Silver Star on one of these butterballs for pepper spraying a senior citizen running on repeat on CBS News.

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 6d

If nothing else, if we all get dragged to he'll along with these fascists, he should be THE MOST IMPEACHED PRESIDENT EVER. It doesn't matter if it doesn't stop him, you have to introduce articles EVERY SINGLE DAY

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 6d

They impeached him TWICE last time! I know it didn't result in anything but YOU ARE ABLE TO AT LEAST PUT IT IN THE RECORD

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 7d

The craziest part of That Thing You Do is that they had to write the entire movie, greenlight it, cast it, do preproduction, all just HOPING that the song they were able to come up with could actually stand up to being played 5000 times and IT DID

Certified Pre-Owned Lib @ericwais.bsky.social · 7d

Somehow the headline and subsequent explanation STILL doesn't do the entire story justice. Jesus fucking Christ...