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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 3h

Solid burn.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 4h

Ugh! I'm sorry you have to manage that pain.

Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 5h

There is also a Patreon that includes extra episodes and recaps of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. (2/2)

I Said No Gifts! | Patreon

A podcast.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 5h

Happy Birthday to the incomparable Bridger Winegar, host of the podcast "I Said No Gifts!" Bridger's sharp & hilarious & he's been a writer for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Jimmy Kimmel, Black Monday, & The Afterparty. The podcast is a dream & has been a safe haven from all the shit since 2020. (1/2)

I Said No Gifts! A comedy interview podcast with Bridger Winegar — EXACTLY RIGHT

On I Said No Gifts!, Bridger Winegar invites friends and people he’s secretly trying to destroy to join him for conversation and games in his backyard. His one request: No gifts! Naturally, every gues...

www.exactlyrightmedia.com

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 6h

Probably should’ve waited a day or two to release this.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 10h

Will it feature Carrie Underwood with a malfunctioning mic?

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10h

Turning Point USA announced it will host counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime show, called “The All American Halftime Show,” as MAGA critics have been enraged over the selection of Bad Bunny as the 2026 headliner.

MAGA rage over Bad Bunny at Super Bowl sparks an alternative show

Counterprogramming hosted by the group that Charlie Kirk founded spotlights the growing political polarization surrounding one of the biggest events of the year.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 10h

This also strikes me as another attack on sexual minorities (and sexual health overall) given the scientific evidence that demonstrates the protection circumcision provides against HIV and STI transmission.

Lancet Glob Health (2019) Apr;7(4):e436-e447.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 10h

A "powerful [reliance] argument against" taking away same-sex marriage, unlike the federal constitutional right to abortion.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Close. I am the Prince of Minnesota. But there is a lineage dispute because of the bloodshed of the Lutefisk Wars and a dark period of aristocratic inbreeding.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS once said I was "too depressing" to be on The View, so I get it.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

"Disgraced nun opposed to centralized government and who spends time--perhaps too much time--with children."

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

These are the type of Americans that make the nation great. Not some hypocritical narcissistic hate monger who can't do push ups (applies to so many!)

MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! Note: I too have been described as "independent," "grand," and "historic."

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

"Compares constitutional rights to Black Santa, kids in KKK outfits, and dogs."

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in 1881, Esther Lape was born. She led the effort to win Senate approval for U.S. participation in the Permanent Court of International Justice, which lost by 7 votes in 1935. She also fought the American Medical Association in mobilizing for universal health insurance. #WeTheMen

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

Troops in the state. Cops on my train. But there are also people with protests materials and bullhorns ready to make some constitutionally protected noise.

a woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt is asking what a week huh ?

ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a blue shirt is asking what a week huh ?

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

"Again, the medical community does know: AMA, APA, & other relevant experts have all condemned conversion therapy. But that doesn’t actually matter, because the Court is using an imaginary controversy to make conflicting inferences about states’ legislative authority."

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids

States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Finally, in many ways, listening to the arguments of the federal governments and Chiles/ADF have been their own forms of conversion therapy. So, when I am more lucid, I will hopefully return to this topic and provide a more cogent and analytical rant. (4/4)

Thank you for your time.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

health care is pretty rich in a nation that has & continues to underfund & recognize appropriate mental health services. We also have a president that says "tough it out" when it comes to PHYSICAL symptoms & RFK, Jr who is determined to hollow out rigorously tested Rx mental health treatments. (3/4)

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Second, and equally insulting, because there is (in my opinion) no actual harm here, and no factual record, we once again have sexual minorities analogized against dogs (although I love pitties) and terrorists. Third, the questioning of the standard of care and history and tradition of mental (2/4)

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Having just listened to the entirety of Chiles, I am incandescent with rage. First, to hear Justice Alito throw out Buck v. Bell to attack the known, documented harms of conversion therapy--when it is his ideological movement driving crackpot theories in science--is fucking insulting. (1/4)

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Love it. *This* is the type of quid pro quo the will make NORTH America great again.

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 2d

The only immigration problems the city of Chicago and state of Illinois are facing is the dangerous crisis of Canadian Geese along the running and biking trails.

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