A. Catherine Conner

A. Catherine Conner

@kittyconner.bsky.social

Indianapolis | Suburban Chicago Midwest is best. I'm sure your hometown is super nice though. Swimming Pools & Ginger Ale & Novels

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Theory: Trump is all four of the Wonka child losers Dahl wrote them to represent What's Wrong With the Kids these Days: Post-War Edition™️. And Trump is what happens when those self/TV/junk food-obsessed kids with zero impulse control grow up, but never mature. Today in this essay I will

Truly, he's the worst of Baby Boom children and parenting. What happens when Eddie Haskell grows up. The living embodiment of Highlight Magazine's Goofus. The final boss of the I, Me, Mine generation.

Every accusation is a confession.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The Radical Left Democrats are going CRAZY with Fake Polls. They’re putting them out at levels never seen before. They’re called, 'Demoralization Operations,' where they try to demoralize Republicans so that they don’t go out and vote — But the actual Polls are tremendous"

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Aside from this being elitist and condescending, it feels misogynistic. Women primarily read smut, so this feels like a man finding yet another way to invalidate something that women enjoy and trying to put qualifiers on it that he finds acceptable. In short, loser behavior.

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It's a choice when the Commander in Chief suggests deployed service members are either whiners or liars to not make that a front page headline.

This is crazy-making. Like, makes you question reality. This AI account is a series of lies. Digital trash fiction, pretending to be real. It has never held a bowl or a lemon but spews overwrought MFA candidate prose about the beauty of each. It's disturbing. Bad tech wearing an art disguise.

Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social

Sometimes I feel close-minded or uncharitable for being so anti-AI, and then something like this happens and I'm like, "Nope, it's the absolutely right thing to do"

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In my lifetime I don’t think anything has made me want to give up on this broken country like the mass shared delusion about something that happened just a few years ago. So many brains are just completely gone and they’re not coming back.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tuberville: "I'll be the governor of Alabama and I promise you we will find out if there's a possibility that we can bring him to Alabama to put him in front of a court and a jury to see if we can put this guy in prison. He killed millions of people, folks."

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Why don’t they report on the condemnations, too? This is when the media doesn’t report the news and instead does some sort of “decency” thing, as if we’re still in an age of decency.

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Call me a cynic, it I’m starting to get the sense Trump isn’t really sure what he’s doing on Iran.

The elected Dems too. "Oh, Mamdani candidates won a popular vote. Time to move to the center, it's obviously what the voters really want. This was just a cry for help. They don't actually want anyone to our left, that's scary and unamerican." Haven't done shit in 18 months, but now, they fight. 🙄

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

It’s not just the elected leaders. I think blue maga has more fire for fighting democratic socialism than they do for fighting the GOP

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Cult.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Sen. Tuberville: "I trust President Trump. I trust Vice President Vance. We don't need to listen to anybody up here on Capitol Hill. Let's trust these two."

Err, so here's $300b for your troubles? Sorry about that whole mess. 'Specially The Bomb bit. Can't keep Granddad off the socials, no matter how Susie tries. Mind keeping the details entre nous? Having a spot of bother at home and we've already dropped a load of cash on this stuff. 'Preciate you!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

O'DONNELL: Why not allow the world to see whatever this deal is you signed with Iran? JD VANCE: So, there is frankly some diplomatic protocols that I don't fully understand

The feed is bad again today. Cartoonishly so. We have: Real estate nepo baby as DNI--senator shrugs. Celebrated journalist fired. White House does more unethical $$ tomfoolery. AI drives more human layoffs. Dog rescuing bigot jerks in TN. Trump(s) immune from IRS. And the ACARSdrama wasn't drama.

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Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Sheri Biggs on South Carolina: "Right now, we have one congressman that's Democrat. I think a 7 and 0 map would definitely reflect our values. We should have only Americans voting in our elections."

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The DNC has the names/emails/phone numbers of all their supporters, but they don't even send 1 informational pamphlet on countering GOP fascism, protecting immigrants during ICE raids, surviving a recession, helping people with disabilities during hard times, ways to counter wartime propaganda, etc.

Such nerds (complimentary)

Philip Bump@pbump.com

Question for space people: My son asked, if an ocean were suddenly to be teleported to space, whether the fish would survive. I think yes, since there would still be oxygen in the water (at least until the water froze or boiled?). Is that right?

Minor proposal: we should all start using the 'Trump's _______' naming convention to differentiate between properly run agencies and the ravaged post-Project2025 departments. Trump's EPA, TCDC, TCMS, TNPS, TDOI, TWIC, etc etc. He wants to be king? Make him own every bit of it.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

A carcinogenic gas is used to sterilize medical equipment. After communities near these facilities fought for tougher regulation, Trump's EPA is rolling it back.

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Replying to @cheriepriest.com

So let's not hassle women for participating in one-on-one social situations. For that matter, don't carry water for shitty people of any gender. Believe me, they don't need the help. (13)

Huh. Turns out my mother's loudest mantra really does fit any situation — Love, work, geopolitical conflict, presidents, whatever. A man is NOT a plan.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Tho obvious, it's worth noting that a naval blockade is not an obvious solution to restoring the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf. There may be a logic but not a straightforward one. They say hope is not a plan. No plan is also not a plan. Improvising as you go has uncertain and chaotic results.

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sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

How many other ways does this need to be said? Not getting to be governor isn't criminal punishment. Reasonable people have decided (as they should!) to believe women. His cascade of boohoo consequences stems from his alleged behavior. Not folks getting access to and responding to ALL the info.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

a criminal conviction isn’t required to say someone does not have the moral character to run for office and i don’t understand why this needs to be said over and over and over again.

Same. Don't know him. Been totally fine NOT knowing. Been able to escape the endless related discourse without checking his Wikipedia once. So why start today? It's Friday, it's spring, and the world is going to hell. Let's not stress shotgun his entire bio in one hit NOW.

Comfortably Boo@numb.comfortab.ly

Please don't make me learn who Hasan Piker is.

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Replying to @anamariecox.com

I can get, haha, kind of unhinged about this. But "centrism" is as blind an ideology as any party membership can be. Fetishizing "neither left nor right" means you look past what might be genuinely good solutions just because they're associated with one or the other. This is pundit brain shit.

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Replying to @katelynburns.com

as a catholic we're not particularly proud of those times but my heritage is not a costume