@pumpkin2021.bsky.social
Retired healthcare software entrepreneur, animal lover, lifelong progressive Democrat, and experienced sourdough baker.
Why is Cornyn getting kudos for his “gentlemanly” support for Paxton? Good grief. Paxton is a criminal and a jerk. But Cornyn is a good loyal Republican so that means his support for Paxton is celebrated? Yikes.
May 31, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Why is Cornyn getting kudos for his “gentlemanly” support for Paxton? Good grief. Paxton is a criminal and a jerk. But Cornyn is a good loyal Republican so that means his support for Paxton is celebrated? Yikes.
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Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end.
Speak your truth, fight and believe.
Speak your truth, fight and believe.
May 14, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end.
Speak your truth, fight and believe.
Speak your truth, fight and believe.
Could not be more perfect. We are in Naples and last night at the restaurant register the tv suddenly started playing “Jesus Christ Superstar “ while showing trump as pope, trump with Meloni and so forth. The woman at the register looked at me and said “Anti! Anti!” To make sure I understood.
TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo:
“weak on crime”
“terrible for foreign policy”
“catering to the Radical Left”
“owes his position to me”
“sit down and mind your own business”
POPE LEO, unbothered:
“We are called to love.”
“weak on crime”
“terrible for foreign policy”
“catering to the Radical Left”
“owes his position to me”
“sit down and mind your own business”
POPE LEO, unbothered:
“We are called to love.”
April 16, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Could not be more perfect. We are in Naples and last night at the restaurant register the tv suddenly started playing “Jesus Christ Superstar “ while showing trump as pope, trump with Meloni and so forth. The woman at the register looked at me and said “Anti! Anti!” To make sure I understood.
Leaving the doggies and our beloved town for a month in Europe. Here’s hoping people are as sympathetic as they were the last time we left the country. Sigh. Tired of apologizing for our country.
April 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Leaving the doggies and our beloved town for a month in Europe. Here’s hoping people are as sympathetic as they were the last time we left the country. Sigh. Tired of apologizing for our country.
We keep an old dog toy in the yard because…
March 4, 2026 at 5:47 PM
We keep an old dog toy in the yard because…
Amen. How have we not progressed beyond this concept of the magical man?
What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.
February 15, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Amen. How have we not progressed beyond this concept of the magical man?
Yes yes yes
Appreciate the talk about banning ICE masks in shutdown negotiations.
But the non-negotiable should be congressional oversight of ICE detention facilities. Full access, no appointments, no permission slips.
No compromise.
But the non-negotiable should be congressional oversight of ICE detention facilities. Full access, no appointments, no permission slips.
No compromise.
February 15, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Yes yes yes
Agree wholeheartedly.
I'm going to go absolutely ape shit if DHS receives funding without masks being banned. It will be a betrayal of the base so great I don't think it'll ever fucking heal. I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF IT TAKES UNTIL 2028. DO NOT FUCKING CAVE. Here's hoping for the best.
February 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Agree wholeheartedly.
February 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I think this needs to sink in. Every one of the cabinet members and unqualified idiots in the administration is LAZY. They don’t want to spend time on the actual job. Boring! Like the republicans who don’t want to slog the through writing legislation. Too much work, people! No mystery.
February 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM
I think this needs to sink in. Every one of the cabinet members and unqualified idiots in the administration is LAZY. They don’t want to spend time on the actual job. Boring! Like the republicans who don’t want to slog the through writing legislation. Too much work, people! No mystery.
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👀Now that ICE/DHS are planning to buy ‘mega’ warehouse detention centers across the US to house human beings you might want to listen to this gentleman’s history lesson that he delivered at a city council meeting in AZ. Congress needs to have hearings on this like yesterday.
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
👀Now that ICE/DHS are planning to buy ‘mega’ warehouse detention centers across the US to house human beings you might want to listen to this gentleman’s history lesson that he delivered at a city council meeting in AZ. Congress needs to have hearings on this like yesterday.
It is almost impossible to believe until…oh, yeah…
Zero self-awareness or critical thinking skills.
January 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
It is almost impossible to believe until…oh, yeah…
Correct. It is farcical.
Everything that never happens is always two weeks away.
January 27, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Correct. It is farcical.
I love Michael Hobbes.
One of the defining features of our political era is straightforward conservatives pretending to be ideologically complex.
Instead of absorbing this baldly obvious fact, this entire magazine is dedicated to repeating their own lie about themselves.
Instead of absorbing this baldly obvious fact, this entire magazine is dedicated to repeating their own lie about themselves.
This man's entire job is to classify one-dimensional right-wing movements as far too complicated to place on the ideological spectrum.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 19, 2026 at 4:32 PM
I love Michael Hobbes.
Yes. I have lost count of the white male friends and acquaintances who have tried to convince me they are disadvantaged because of DEI. Good grief. Thank you Michael for posting this. Data. It’s handy for understanding the world.
Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Yes. I have lost count of the white male friends and acquaintances who have tried to convince me they are disadvantaged because of DEI. Good grief. Thank you Michael for posting this. Data. It’s handy for understanding the world.
Kara nails it.
This kind of performative nonsense will not last one day in lady prison.
December 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Kara nails it.
Will is the best. Thank goodness there are still ways to laugh at the right wing. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Meet the Ambitious, Duplicitous, Semi-Fictitious MAGA Upstart Driving Trump World Nuts
Plus: Tim Pool becomes persona non grata at TPUSA party.
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Will is the best. Thank goodness there are still ways to laugh at the right wing. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
So tired of attacks on these programs.
November 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
So tired of attacks on these programs.
Worth every second
💯
Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Worth every second
Direct and to the point.
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Direct and to the point.
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Bless this beautiful soul, with her huge bag of breakfast sandwiches for her neighbors in need.🥰
Look out for each other.
Via @beauty2thestreetz (IG)
Look out for each other.
Via @beauty2thestreetz (IG)
September 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM