OIF Marine veteran that just wants love, peace and happiness from here on out. Mildly obsessed with my dog Freya, because she is the best puppers ever.
Off the charts Trump family corruption. Kushner got Billions of foreign funds, while spearheading foreign policy.
And the Hunter Biden hunters are silent. @MarshaBlackburn
Prepping for the Billy Strings Halloween concert next week. Just realized how filters make people look sooo different. Original (right) versus “hero” filter (left). Pretty dramatic. I love the ripple it added to the flag. Also, it changed the loss in my eyes to determination. *sigh* Jacket fits!
Cookies with Raisins
Cookies bring joy,
A fat kid’s delight.
You’ve had a bad day?
Warm cookies make right.
The anticipation,
Warm-baked deliverance.
But something is off,
A cruel dalliance.
Why create something with love,
Then hide the deceit?
A cookie with raisins?
The baker needs beat.
I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted
I’m Irish, I did a poem.
Title: Open a Window
They say a door closes and a window opens
Why is life a house
Maybe we need a new floor plan
Perhaps we plant some trees
Live with the Bigfeet
We lost the plot
We are all so educated
The aura of our self importance is stifling
Somebody open a window
And never has there been all of the institutions, that are specifically charged with checking his power, beholden to an oath to the Constitution, willing to deliberately ignore that oath in the defense of an obvious criminal. A simple following of the money tells us why. We are completely betrayed.
In 2024, trans folks, a segment of the population. that accounts for less than 1%, was the target of more than 70% of the GOP’s adds. Just ask why. Hate & emotional appeal worked, and so they are going right back to it. We need to stop pretending our populace is smart and change the narrative.
AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"
Also, the billionaires funding this tech aren’t using it to better society. They are using it to replace the very white collar workers who made them billionaires. Rather than crediting them and rewardimg them for making them wealthy, they seek to replace them for further wealth.
AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"
This vile man, convicted of multiple felonies, accused of horrific rapes and crimes, hated by multiple members of his family, saying this. I hate him, the people that enable him, and the society that created him, but I still believe we can and must be better, but we must end the disinformation.
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
When people ask me what dissociative drugs like Ketamine do? I point to Musk. He truly lives his life detached from his actions like he isn’t responsible for them. I hope to see that rectified in the future.
Literally accusing people, without evidence, of being affiliated with terrorists because of their names, is all the GOP has and it is beyond disgusting and pathetic.
I know America. I know that, in America, we believe in a country big enough for all of us.
So, JD Vance, don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me. You don't know a damn thing about America.
I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted
Democrats need to be ready to hold hearings and inquiries into the assault that Musk, Zuckerberg and other tech bros are making against democratic institutions at home and abroad.
I would like to see the end of the term "vaccine skeptic," to be replaced by "reality denier."
These so-called skeptics are actually the most gullible rubes on the planet when it comes to conspiracy nonsense and tech-bro slop; the only thing that makes them skeptical is peer-reviewed evidence.
Open window
They say a door closes and a window opens
Why is life a house
Maybe we need a new floor plan
Perhaps we plant some trees
Live with the Bigfeet
We lost the plot
We are all so educated
The aura of our self importance is stifling
Somebody open a window
I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted
🔥 “You voted to cover up the evidence even though you knew 14-year-old girls had been raped because Donald Trump told you to.”
Sen. @ossoff.bsky.social savages Mike Collins to his face on the debate stage
Have you ever spent an inordinate amount of time wondering if you are irreparably broken, only to ultimately come to the conclusion that being so is actually the most obvious and poetic outcome? Then you might be Irish.
I was drunk last weekend. We were laughing at a guy who asked who would last longer, Katie Zacharia or this banana. A Kalshi commercial came on. We hate that Kalshi exists, but with the drinks and us knowing she would not last a Scaramucci, bets were made. Today, we made money. Deleting Kalshi now.
It isn’t that I hate everyone that voted for Trump, I just know based on that fact I have nothing in common with them, either intellectually or morally, so I do my best to avoid them for my own mental well being. Plus, anyone who supports Trump at this point can’t be reasoned with using facts.
I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted
Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
@reuters.com 🇺🇦
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
The next book: BIRDING WITH CHUCK. We went out to the swamps & saw a lot of critters! We will share pics soonish
Also if you are in Ottawa you should come see @chuckwendig.bsky.social and me and all the other writer peeps at Can-Con at the Brookstreet Hotel this weekend—vendors room is open to all
Breaking news: The Department of Justice is suing the top election officials in California and Los Angeles County, claiming they were planning to count ballots from more than 20,000 alleged noncitizens in next month’s midterm elections.
New in PN: Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization
"With early voting underway, Omar got agents at her door at 6am, when her 14-year-old was inside, over a theory cooked up on an anonymous message board. Republicans never objected to weaponizing the DOJ. They just wanted custody of the weapon."
“But we would eat Kraft Dinner, and you would eat Kraft Dinner, and everybody I ever bumped into for the rest of my life would eat Kraft Dinner, but we'd have it catered (that's right).
We'd have it catered by fancy French people with white shirts.” Barenaked Ladies 3:17-20
Richard, a Georgia truck driver and three-time Trump voter, has finally caught on. He says he’s voting for Ossoff after Trump’s war sent diesel costs soaring.
“It pisses me off. We just want someone in office who’ll stand up for us.”
I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted
Fox News spent four years diagnosing Biden from the angle of his left shoelace. Trump turns into a peeled nectarine and suddenly everyone’s a privacy advocate.
Brian Kilmeade is not putting up with Rachel Campos-Duffy’s propaganda.
“It would be the biggest mistake of his administration to work with Russia. That is the modern Hitler of our generation.”
I, am the Dan, In The Box (Pirate Edition) reposted
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation.
I will not be silenced.