Tom

Tom

@belikegumby.bsky.social

Blue Dot dad of two boys in a Red Sea. Penn State grad. I play the tuba and enjoy hiking and painting. I enjoy the Grateful Dead and Billy Joel.

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It's amazing how much better you feel when you get a good night's sleep. I didn't get a great night's sleep but I got a pretty good night's sleep. Went to bed around 9:30. Woke up a little before 5:00. Which was about 7 and 1/2 hours of sleep which is about two and a half more than I normally get.

What people need to do is have a group of about 10 people. Just start laughing at his face. You think you're smart? Lol lol lol.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

Donald Trump saying Barack Obama isn't a smart guy will be in heavy contention for 2026's Least Self-Aware Remark.

Does Trump actually believe this? Or is he just saying this as wishcasting? Part of me thinks he honestly believes that he's that delusional

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Q: What are you hearing is the top issue for voters? Trump: I’m hearing we turned the whole thing around.

Man someone asked me why don't you do something on a weekend? Go away or something? Well I have a kid in high school marching band and high school cross country plus a kid in college marching band. Basically everyday I'm doing something.

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I don’t think the young people (ie if you’re under 25 you don’t really remember Obama) realize just how electric a speaker he is

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

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The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

As we get closer to this election which will totally remove Republicans from power in congress, Trump is becoming more and more unhinged. Calling muslims Jihadists, and threatening to sue states for certifying elections when republicans lose.

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He’s doing whatever he can to try to sabotage this election. He is America’s enemy.👇

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska's Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses.

Everytime I hear him speak, I am reminded that he IS the POTUS. Is this how we want politicians speaking, let alone POTUS? Shit, we're supposed to show the office respect by standing when he enters and calling him Mr. President. Tell me we don't really have kings.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump blasts a woman reporter at ABC who he says is "not a particularly attractive person"

Republicans have nothing but racism. Just racism.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

I don’t really understand what Trump believes he’ll gain from his incessant authoritarian targeting of Minneapolis, minority groups who live in Minneapolis, and now Minneapolis’s congressional rep, but I wish he’d stop.

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Trump’s goal is to intimidate me and get me to back down. That’s not going to happen. I will not be silenced, and I will not stop fighting for my constituents.

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Trump's affordability message: "Did you ever see a pile of a million dollars in hundred dollar bills? It's big!"

For all the bluster about how "great" Gen X is. Turns out my generation is actually the worst generation.

Tim O’Brien@timobrien.bsky.social

In the most recent New York Times/Siena University poll of likely midterm voters, 70 percent of young voters identified as Democrats or leaned that way. That’s 15 points higher than the last poll before the 2024 election. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/u...

I don't want to hear conservatives talk about their concern for "men in women's sports". It's not about that. When they mock someone who was raped and takes the side of the enabler of that. It was never about concern for the women. It was bigotry.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance smears Amy Acton: "I happen to think that the people of Ohio see through that fraudulent activity for exactly what it is. Somebody said alcohol. You can say it. I can't."

The thing is this. Republicans generally hate women more than anything. They despise women, and generally are okay with them dying due to no healthcare and are especially okay with them being assaulted. they are okay with rape.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨 VILE: Vivek Ramaswamy’s new attack ad against Amy Acton features her estranged mother, who stayed married to the man who sexually abused her daughter at age 12, even after his arrest. Now even conservatives are calling the ad disgusting. The horrifying story behind Vivek’s attack:

dO yOuR oWn rEsEaRcH!!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Minnesota Republican state Sen. Bill Lieske: "We were trying to have a chickenpox party. We had some kids that we know that had chickenpox, and I was trying to get my kids there, because the chickenpox vaccine is close to an mRNA vaccine ... do the research yourself."

My take on Susie Wiles being out as Chief of Staff. This signals Trump is going to instigate widespread violence, perhaps martial law to try to stop democrats from taking the house and senate. He'll use "voter fraud" and "communism" as the reason. People will see right through it, and won't abide.

I think he's right. After democrats trounce Republicans he needs a war time consigliere, and Susie is not it. Bloodshed is coming.

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social

My take on the supposedly sudden internal battle over the future of Susie Wiles in the White House: none of this is organic or tied to what reports are saying. Trump knows he needs a chief of staff who will help him launch a civil war sometime post-midterms, and he believes Wiles isn't that person.

a Zacharia is half a Scaramucci Pass it on

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social

actually, not even half! her first day on the job was monday so she lasted…less than 5 full days a scaramucci is 11 days

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And this ain’t “Republicans” jumping at the first damn opportunity to vote. This is the RESISTANCE. This is the resistance crawling bare naked across broken glass for a mile to jump at the first damn opportunity to vote. Blue tsunami coming.👇

Of course cops are there to dutifully continue the assault. They will always side with tyranny. '

Sammy the Bruce@sammydubuc.bsky.social

Some dude punching a lady in the face is the most MAGA you can be.

Working on my son's FAFSA. Recent "Big Beautiful Bill" Chagnes are making it likely he'll recieve less federal help, plus they changed rules making it harder for us to get loans to pay for it. Making college harder to afford. Why must they do everything to make it harder on us? Why not easier?

"USA USA" All I hear is "Odyole Rules"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird

There will always be the deplorable scum who still support this criminal rapist, probable child predator. All because they hate black people.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird

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Trump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible. Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

The term for what Donald is doing is Stochastic Terrorism

Amee Vanderpool@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social

Nothing to see here, folks, just the President of the United States trying to incite violence and riots in the State of Minnesota exactly like he did with the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Sidebar: this is totally illegal for anyone else.

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I oppose capital punishment. Always have. So “how” you kill someone is irrelevant to me. But PUBLICLY executing someone? Publicly? That’s gross, cruel, and un-American. It’s something little, would be “men” with major self esteem issues would do. Disgusting.👇

Donald Trump is a virulent racist.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

When Democrats retake the presidency. The first act should be before to inauguration day isnover is firing everyone hire between 2025 and 2029.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

The ICE Air Operations official handbook allows minors as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. We don’t know this girl/young woman’s age, but if she is over 18, it probably isn’t by much. I don’t know how those flight “guards” sleep at night.

I told my local state rep who bragged about his speech at a pro life rally in Harrisburg. He is only pro life when it is an unboarn white child. The rest can go the fuck away, ammiright?

darren32359.bsky.social@darren32359.bsky.social

I just blocked the Washington Post from emailing me. I clicked on a link to read a story, they said was free, but it wouldn't let me read without purchasing a membership (after saying it was free). So I unsubscribed and blocked them. Liars

So let me get this straight. Hornell University expelled people who protested the genocide in the West Bank. But bunch of men who gang raped a woman get to write an essay?

Republicans only like to "remember history" when it comes to keeping statues of slave owners. When we people who study history or patterns saw this sort of thing is a precursosr to a coup or something, we are told we are crazy.

Gina@cissybgood67.bsky.social

They are, of course, plotting another coup. We have to be ready.

This. 100% This. Never mind the probably countless people who have been put to death wrongly over the years. This should hever happen.

Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social

Today I wrote about the botched execution of Christina Pike and how the death penalty must end, in all situations, with absolutely no exceptions. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...