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Sean Patrick O’Brien
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Chat, is this hope?
August 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Dear Journalists,

STOP CALLING IT “DOGE.” You are legitimizing a nonentity. Just call it “Elon Musk and his six college bros.” A bit wordy and clunky, I know, but DOGE is not an actual thing.
February 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
How is started: “I’m not voting for Kamala because Biden wasn’t strong enough in fighting against imperialism and genocide in Gaza.”

How it’s going: “Sure, Trump supports the genocide and is going to use our tax dollars and troops to imperially annex Gaza, but at least I said both sides are bad.”
February 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
“Would you like to talk about it?”

Me:
February 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Being an optimistic realist these days is wiiiild. It’s like, “Yeah! I mean, I’m sure we’ll get through this; there have been worse times; but, like, societies have fallen before, and they kinda looked like this… so… yeah… We’ll see! Just brace yourself for the worst… But yeah! Remember to breathe!”
February 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Jan 20: Trump fired the FAA director.

Jan 21: Trump froze all new hirings of air traffic controllers.

Jan 22: Trump disbanded the federal aviation safety aduvisory committee.

Jan 27: Trump froze federal spending.

Jan 28: Trump demanded a shrink to the size of the workforce.

Jan 29: …
January 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We clearly needed a mom to watch over us after Grandpa Joe, and instead we got our weird rapey uncle bully again.
January 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The United States kinda feels like three kids in a trench coat rn
January 31, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Blaming this tragedy on “DEI” or the previous administration is exactly what you’d expect from a loser like Trump.

Say it with me: Trump is an incompetent loser, and it’s costing us the lives of American soldiers, innocent civilians, and foreign nationals.
January 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Reposted by Sean Patrick O’Brien
only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Guts Key Aviation Safety Committee, Fires Heads Of TSA, Coast Guard
The committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.
www.huffpost.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:11 AM
“Yes, the President appointed Sean Duffy as head of Transportation because of his experience on *checks notes* MTV’s Road Rules… so… yeah… transportation.”
January 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’m sorry, the Transportation Secretary is WHO?!! I guess this really is what happens when people stop being polite.
January 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I feel freer and feral on this app compared to Fuckerberg’s and I dig it.
January 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Sure, eggs remain expensive, but at least I now have to change what I call mountains and gulfs.
January 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The “Law” amirite?
January 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Trump was impeached the first time in his first term for illegally withholding congressionally appointed funding for a foreign government.

Republicans said he learned his lesson.

Technically they were correct. This time he’s merely withholding money from the American people.
January 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Dear The News:

If “experts say” something is *illegal* then you can just say it’s illegal.
January 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We should be viewing the new cabinet through the lens of Compromat—i.e., they will do the King’s bidding, lest they be shamed by the revelations of their past.
January 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Evergreen post:

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!
January 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Historian’s Devolution.
January 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Look, if the Federal Government doesn’t want to pool funding, this Californian is perfectly fine with pumping our tax dollars directly back into our own state. The rest of y’all can take care of yourselves.
January 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Any word on those egg prices?
January 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Smells like… victory? 😖
January 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I’m being SO productive today!

jk, i’m fucking spiraling
January 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
But I thought they were just

« ^*({“jOkInG”})*^ »
January 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM