andycrain.bsky.social
@andycrain.bsky.social
Restaurant owner. Aspiring amateur historian. Flaming liberal. Packer, Nuggets, Badger, Bucks fan.
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Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!
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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
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Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
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It also means (@lollardfish.bsky.social has ably written about this) that you as a parent are forced to concentrate on and narrate your child's difficulties just to get them what they need, which is damaging to your child and your relationship with them.
I Shouldn’t Have to Dehumanize My Son to Get Him Support
Instead of focusing on the challenges facing disabled people, we should emphasize goals.
www.thenation.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It also means (@lollardfish.bsky.social has ably written about this) that you as a parent are forced to concentrate on and narrate your child's difficulties just to get them what they need, which is damaging to your child and your relationship with them.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
The podcast Behind the Bastards has a really good new episode on Peter Thiel's sermons on the Antichrist. Peter has clearly done too much hallucinogenic tea.
A small clarification to @iwriteok.bsky.social: The New Testament was written in Greek. A few Aramaic words are are used, and one sentence.
A small clarification to @iwriteok.bsky.social: The New Testament was written in Greek. A few Aramaic words are are used, and one sentence.
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The podcast Behind the Bastards has a really good new episode on Peter Thiel's sermons on the Antichrist. Peter has clearly done too much hallucinogenic tea.
A small clarification to @iwriteok.bsky.social: The New Testament was written in Greek. A few Aramaic words are are used, and one sentence.
A small clarification to @iwriteok.bsky.social: The New Testament was written in Greek. A few Aramaic words are are used, and one sentence.
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Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.
October 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.
So, the government will freaking buy beef to lower prices, but it can't just lower tariffs to achieve the same thing?
apnews.com/article/beef...;
apnews.com/article/beef...;
Trump suggests US will buy Argentine beef to bring down prices for American consumers
President Donald Trump says the United States could purchase Argentinian beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers.
apnews.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
So, the government will freaking buy beef to lower prices, but it can't just lower tariffs to achieve the same thing?
apnews.com/article/beef...;
apnews.com/article/beef...;
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#Pinks #ProudBlue
If you need someone to blame, look in the mirror! This is in his own words - weak as he says!
#ThisIsTrumpsShutDown
If you need someone to blame, look in the mirror! This is in his own words - weak as he says!
#ThisIsTrumpsShutDown
October 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
#Pinks #ProudBlue
If you need someone to blame, look in the mirror! This is in his own words - weak as he says!
#ThisIsTrumpsShutDown
If you need someone to blame, look in the mirror! This is in his own words - weak as he says!
#ThisIsTrumpsShutDown
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Someone has gone through and actually run the numbers on molestation crimes against children.
The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican.
67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans.
www.whoismakingnews.com
The politicians who commit these crimes are overwhelmingly Republican.
67% of politicians convicted between February 10, 2023 and May 23, 2024 nationwide were Republicans.
www.whoismakingnews.com
June 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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READ. THE. SUBHEAD.
May 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
READ. THE. SUBHEAD.
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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
May 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.
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No need to ask, he’s a Smoot operator.
April 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
No need to ask, he’s a Smoot operator.
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If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
March 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
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"Have you said thank you even once?"
March 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Have you said thank you even once?"
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every major streaming service should be $10. they have all gotten too greedy and must be destroyed
January 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
every major streaming service should be $10. they have all gotten too greedy and must be destroyed
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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hundreds of Syrian army personnel chanted "The Syrian people are one", after they defected and refused to point their weapons at the people of #Suwayda, who returned the favor by welcoming them, providing them with food, and not harming them.
December 7, 2024 at 2:27 PM
hundreds of Syrian army personnel chanted "The Syrian people are one", after they defected and refused to point their weapons at the people of #Suwayda, who returned the favor by welcoming them, providing them with food, and not harming them.
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The Twitter vs. Bluesky argument often centres around politics but for me this is way more important.
De-prioritizing links, "link in bio" BS, and all the other ways Twitter, FB, IG, TikTok, etc., try to wall off their platforms is so antithetical to the idea of an open and connected internet.
De-prioritizing links, "link in bio" BS, and all the other ways Twitter, FB, IG, TikTok, etc., try to wall off their platforms is so antithetical to the idea of an open and connected internet.
November 25, 2024 at 6:01 PM
The Twitter vs. Bluesky argument often centres around politics but for me this is way more important.
De-prioritizing links, "link in bio" BS, and all the other ways Twitter, FB, IG, TikTok, etc., try to wall off their platforms is so antithetical to the idea of an open and connected internet.
De-prioritizing links, "link in bio" BS, and all the other ways Twitter, FB, IG, TikTok, etc., try to wall off their platforms is so antithetical to the idea of an open and connected internet.
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Post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.
November 27, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.
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🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )
November 24, 2024 at 11:08 PM
🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )
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New book on democratic backsliding finds that it's been misunderstood: "Backsliding is less a result of democracies failing to deliver than of democracies failing to constrain the predatory political ambitions and methods of certain elected leaders."
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...
Misunderstanding Democratic Backsliding | Journal of Democracy
If democracies did a better job “delivering” for their citizens, so the thinking goes, people would not be so ready to embrace antidemocratic alternatives. Not so. This conventional wisdom about…
www.journalofdemocracy.org
November 24, 2024 at 8:22 PM
New book on democratic backsliding finds that it's been misunderstood: "Backsliding is less a result of democracies failing to deliver than of democracies failing to constrain the predatory political ambitions and methods of certain elected leaders."
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...
www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...