STEMthebleeding
@stemthebleeding.bsky.social
Medically-retired Marine. Biochemist and Mathematician.
Here for the science and the snark, in varying degrees of each.
Here for the science and the snark, in varying degrees of each.
I think people have this idea that impeachment works like a discharge petition. Get 218 votes in favor, and they get their hearings in the house.
And it doesn't. The only thing they could do is force Johnson to send it to Jim Jordan, who would promptly ignore it.
Just like he's ignoring these.
And it doesn't. The only thing they could do is force Johnson to send it to Jim Jordan, who would promptly ignore it.
Just like he's ignoring these.
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I think people have this idea that impeachment works like a discharge petition. Get 218 votes in favor, and they get their hearings in the house.
And it doesn't. The only thing they could do is force Johnson to send it to Jim Jordan, who would promptly ignore it.
Just like he's ignoring these.
And it doesn't. The only thing they could do is force Johnson to send it to Jim Jordan, who would promptly ignore it.
Just like he's ignoring these.
Except the reality is that Schumer tried to save something that voters threw away.
The chance to save the subsidies was by voting for Harris who campaigned on renewing them.
In 2024.
Schumer at this point is just trying to save the antivaxers from the complications of getting COVID.
The chance to save the subsidies was by voting for Harris who campaigned on renewing them.
In 2024.
Schumer at this point is just trying to save the antivaxers from the complications of getting COVID.
The big, glaring, obvious difference this meme ignores is that Mamdani stood his ground and offered no concessions, and Trump praised him.
Schumer sold-out the Democrats and their supporters on key issues, while Trump turned him into a punchline.
But, sure...🙄
Schumer sold-out the Democrats and their supporters on key issues, while Trump turned him into a punchline.
But, sure...🙄
Blueskyism
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Except the reality is that Schumer tried to save something that voters threw away.
The chance to save the subsidies was by voting for Harris who campaigned on renewing them.
In 2024.
Schumer at this point is just trying to save the antivaxers from the complications of getting COVID.
The chance to save the subsidies was by voting for Harris who campaigned on renewing them.
In 2024.
Schumer at this point is just trying to save the antivaxers from the complications of getting COVID.
Largely because Harris dared to suggest taxing the rich.
If you actually want taxes to go up on the rich like you claim, you're going to have to accept that they're going to lie about your candidate, lie about the consequences of such actions, and extort you by raising prices to stop it.
If you actually want taxes to go up on the rich like you claim, you're going to have to accept that they're going to lie about your candidate, lie about the consequences of such actions, and extort you by raising prices to stop it.
The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Largely because Harris dared to suggest taxing the rich.
If you actually want taxes to go up on the rich like you claim, you're going to have to accept that they're going to lie about your candidate, lie about the consequences of such actions, and extort you by raising prices to stop it.
If you actually want taxes to go up on the rich like you claim, you're going to have to accept that they're going to lie about your candidate, lie about the consequences of such actions, and extort you by raising prices to stop it.
I would've told you his 18-29 poll numbers must be awful and he's going to use Mamdani to try to rehabilitate that image.
Which is exactly what happened.
Which is exactly what happened.
Imagine if someone a few weeks ago told you that Trump would call Marjorie Taylor Greene a “traitor” and drive her out of the House AND praise Mamdani as a guy who will do a good job as mayor. What would you have said to that?
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I would've told you his 18-29 poll numbers must be awful and he's going to use Mamdani to try to rehabilitate that image.
Which is exactly what happened.
Which is exactly what happened.
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
Members of DOGE who did all the dirty work that gave Trump plausible deniability.
You are here.
You are here.
November 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Members of DOGE who did all the dirty work that gave Trump plausible deniability.
You are here.
You are here.
So basically a bunch of anti woke bigwigs bought enough shares to control the Target board - and killed it.
Meanwhile Cosco's shareholders voted 98% in favor of DEI - and its thriving.
A key issue with public companies is that who the shareholders are matters just as much as who the CEO is.
Meanwhile Cosco's shareholders voted 98% in favor of DEI - and its thriving.
A key issue with public companies is that who the shareholders are matters just as much as who the CEO is.
truly impressive how much Target’s success relied on Woke
turns out that’s all that really differentiated it from its competitors and when it gave customers a reason to go elsewhere they had no reason to come back
turns out that’s all that really differentiated it from its competitors and when it gave customers a reason to go elsewhere they had no reason to come back
Target makes bold changes to keep customers from fleeing stores
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
So basically a bunch of anti woke bigwigs bought enough shares to control the Target board - and killed it.
Meanwhile Cosco's shareholders voted 98% in favor of DEI - and its thriving.
A key issue with public companies is that who the shareholders are matters just as much as who the CEO is.
Meanwhile Cosco's shareholders voted 98% in favor of DEI - and its thriving.
A key issue with public companies is that who the shareholders are matters just as much as who the CEO is.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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By comparison, the casualty radius of a mk84 2000 lb bomb is 400 meters.
That theoretically puts the casualty radius of this at 1200 meters.
Or 3/4 of a mile.
That's not including the shrapnel radius, which is much higher.
Absolutely NO (legal) reason to drop this in a population center.
That theoretically puts the casualty radius of this at 1200 meters.
Or 3/4 of a mile.
That's not including the shrapnel radius, which is much higher.
Absolutely NO (legal) reason to drop this in a population center.
Russian aviation again just dropped a FAB-3000 — a three-ton ultra-heavy glide bomb capable of leveling entire city blocks — directly on a residential area in Myrnohrad, Ukraine.
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
By comparison, the casualty radius of a mk84 2000 lb bomb is 400 meters.
That theoretically puts the casualty radius of this at 1200 meters.
Or 3/4 of a mile.
That's not including the shrapnel radius, which is much higher.
Absolutely NO (legal) reason to drop this in a population center.
That theoretically puts the casualty radius of this at 1200 meters.
Or 3/4 of a mile.
That's not including the shrapnel radius, which is much higher.
Absolutely NO (legal) reason to drop this in a population center.
Folks, can we please stop catastrophizing everything before we first verify if it actually works how the anonymous influencers who get paid for clicks tell us that's how it works?
Because usually, it's not.
Your blood pressure will thank you.
Because usually, it's not.
Your blood pressure will thank you.
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Folks, can we please stop catastrophizing everything before we first verify if it actually works how the anonymous influencers who get paid for clicks tell us that's how it works?
Because usually, it's not.
Your blood pressure will thank you.
Because usually, it's not.
Your blood pressure will thank you.
Inconvenient reminder:
Congress has to vote to stop weapons shipments.
That is all.
Congress has to vote to stop weapons shipments.
That is all.
Are people going to protest Ernst and other republicans or just ignore it because it's Black Folks?
Senate Republican Joni Ernst blocked an attempt to pass a bill aimed at using U.S.’s leverage to bring an end to the genocide in Sudan by suspending arms shipments to the United Arab Emirates.
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Inconvenient reminder:
Congress has to vote to stop weapons shipments.
That is all.
Congress has to vote to stop weapons shipments.
That is all.
Also, he was ineffective.
The CEO doesn't set prices or make rules in a publicly owned company.
The board in conjunction with their shareholders do.
So killing a CEO does nothing except replace them with one who passes on the costs of increased private security to policy holders.
The CEO doesn't set prices or make rules in a publicly owned company.
The board in conjunction with their shareholders do.
So killing a CEO does nothing except replace them with one who passes on the costs of increased private security to policy holders.
Luigi Mangione was a disturbed asshole with incoherent politics who murdered someone on the street in cold blood, and if he looked like Clint Howard instead of kind of fuckable nobody would care.
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Also, he was ineffective.
The CEO doesn't set prices or make rules in a publicly owned company.
The board in conjunction with their shareholders do.
So killing a CEO does nothing except replace them with one who passes on the costs of increased private security to policy holders.
The CEO doesn't set prices or make rules in a publicly owned company.
The board in conjunction with their shareholders do.
So killing a CEO does nothing except replace them with one who passes on the costs of increased private security to policy holders.
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It doesn't have to be this way. Democrats have been ready to vote to extend ACA credits for months.
Republicans haven't been interested - and now millions will see huge price increases.
Cancel the cuts, lower the costs, protect health care.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
Republicans haven't been interested - and now millions will see huge price increases.
Cancel the cuts, lower the costs, protect health care.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It doesn't have to be this way. Democrats have been ready to vote to extend ACA credits for months.
Republicans haven't been interested - and now millions will see huge price increases.
Cancel the cuts, lower the costs, protect health care.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
Republicans haven't been interested - and now millions will see huge price increases.
Cancel the cuts, lower the costs, protect health care.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
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Slotkin: I’m not going to be dissuaded from standing up for the Constitution just because he threatens us. I’m not going to let him intimidate us out of speaking our minds.
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Slotkin: I’m not going to be dissuaded from standing up for the Constitution just because he threatens us. I’m not going to let him intimidate us out of speaking our minds.
Hey @hipcrimevocab.net , remember that discussion we had a few weeks ago about why I truly dislike strike style safeties and refuse to keep a round chambered in one I was carrying?
The officer was "heading for duty" Wednesday night when his "weapon discharged and he accidentally shot himself in the testicles" in the station's parking lot, records show.
Off-duty Chicago cop accidentally shoots himself in groin outside police station in Gresham
chicago.suntimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Hey @hipcrimevocab.net , remember that discussion we had a few weeks ago about why I truly dislike strike style safeties and refuse to keep a round chambered in one I was carrying?
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Jeffries: "What's extraordinary to me is that Mike Johnson doesn't even have the decency to distance himself from Donald Trump's death threats leveled at patriotic members of Congress. Even John Thune had the decency to distance himself from Trump's remarks. But Mike Johnson couldn't say a thing."
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Jeffries: "What's extraordinary to me is that Mike Johnson doesn't even have the decency to distance himself from Donald Trump's death threats leveled at patriotic members of Congress. Even John Thune had the decency to distance himself from Trump's remarks. But Mike Johnson couldn't say a thing."
My hot take is that the GOP is going to blame all of Trump's 2nd term authoritarianism and bigotry on Vance because it prevents them from having to admit they were conned.
"Trump wasn't like this with Pence as VP, so it must be Vance's fault!"
Because dear leader can never be wrong.
"Trump wasn't like this with Pence as VP, so it must be Vance's fault!"
Because dear leader can never be wrong.
i’ll just plant my flag here and folks can poke fun in 3 years. if they had any brains, they’d probably nominate kemp, but vance is gonna be the nominee for the reps in 28
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My hot take is that the GOP is going to blame all of Trump's 2nd term authoritarianism and bigotry on Vance because it prevents them from having to admit they were conned.
"Trump wasn't like this with Pence as VP, so it must be Vance's fault!"
Because dear leader can never be wrong.
"Trump wasn't like this with Pence as VP, so it must be Vance's fault!"
Because dear leader can never be wrong.
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Kaitlan Collins to Leavitt as she walks off: "Karoline, you misquoted Democrats in that video. That's actually not what they said."
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Kaitlan Collins to Leavitt as she walks off: "Karoline, you misquoted Democrats in that video. That's actually not what they said."
Reminder: During the Civil War slavery was illegal in the north.
Except in the Capital of Washington DC.
Because it was a port town. So slave trading was legal there.
Except in the Capital of Washington DC.
Because it was a port town. So slave trading was legal there.
So far, I've been pleased with Ken Burns' American Revolution series on PBS. I hoped it would tell the inclusive history of America and has done so in the first two episodes we've watched, and has touched on the hypocrisy of the quest for freedom while denying that to enslaved Black people and 1/
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reminder: During the Civil War slavery was illegal in the north.
Except in the Capital of Washington DC.
Because it was a port town. So slave trading was legal there.
Except in the Capital of Washington DC.
Because it was a port town. So slave trading was legal there.
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Schumer: "I've never seen a president who has gone this low. I've never seen a president who has done more to encourage political violence. I've asked the Capitol Police to give special protection to Slotkin and Kelly as well because you gotta worry after the president says these things."
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Schumer: "I've never seen a president who has gone this low. I've never seen a president who has done more to encourage political violence. I've asked the Capitol Police to give special protection to Slotkin and Kelly as well because you gotta worry after the president says these things."
*sigh* the Coast Guard was better when the Navy controlled it.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
*sigh* the Coast Guard was better when the Navy controlled it.
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Pelosi: "Trump is the worst president of the United States that American children have ever had in terms of their health, education, a clean, safe environment in which they can thrive - including safety from gun violence - the economic security of their families and a future that is fair and just."
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Pelosi: "Trump is the worst president of the United States that American children have ever had in terms of their health, education, a clean, safe environment in which they can thrive - including safety from gun violence - the economic security of their families and a future that is fair and just."
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Just so we’re ALL clear: the President of the United States made death threats toward sitting Democratic members of Congress.
But they’re always claiming Democrats are the dangerous ones, right?
(1/2)
But they’re always claiming Democrats are the dangerous ones, right?
(1/2)
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just so we’re ALL clear: the President of the United States made death threats toward sitting Democratic members of Congress.
But they’re always claiming Democrats are the dangerous ones, right?
(1/2)
But they’re always claiming Democrats are the dangerous ones, right?
(1/2)
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Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut.
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut.