Royko

Royko

@mrroyko.bsky.social

Longtime internet random. I'll never be a Rob DeNiro, for me Joe Pesci is fine.

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Replying to @kenjennings.bsky.social

I have a blue check, it's just real faint. If you're cool enough you can see it.

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oh my god the source of the phishing email oh my god

Bobby Silverman@robertsilverman.bsky.social

If you're a connoisseur of on-brand James Dolan pettiness, grudge-settling, and ham-fisted dumbassery, have I got the article for you www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

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The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

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hmmmm...not sure one person giving half a billion dollars to one party is a great sign of a healthy political system just not quite on board with that

I also have to reiterate, the thing that got Elon and Trump to visibly and actively stymie the Ukrainian war effort was Ukraine blowing up a Russian bot farm. That tracks.

Me: It's going to be a real lift to convince corporation-worshipping Americans the importance of nationalizing SpaceX/Starlink... Elon: I'm throttling Ukraine's military communications!! Me: ...uh, nevermind, I guess.

Like, we couldn't have come up with a more convincing example of the danger of him owning vital communication networks or space launch capabilities.

Short of him getting a monocle, a hairless cat, and building a death ray on the moon, he couldn't have better established himself as a Bond villain.

Royko 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.

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Isn't it against DOJ policy to be doing this so close to an election?

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.

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This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."

That is not to suggest that there are not some very smart onions. Some are quite remarkable. But the garden variety, if you will, onion is still smarter than our current President (OCP)

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Sheeran had plenty of options. He could have told Kraft ‘no, this is a freedom of speech issue’. He could have said ‘I have solidarity with my fellow musicians, so if you want him out, I’m out too’. He chose neither of those.

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Replying to @anamariecox.com

A security unvetted, verifiable lunatic whom no one seems to like or trust is controlling access to, serving as a voice of, and constantly in the ear of the most powerful man in the world, a mentally unstable 80 year-old whose brains are leaking out of his ears. What’s there to worry about?

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I hadn't seen what he said leading up to the radioactive "travel with Natalie" line. It was even more innocuous than I thought! And when you see the context, you see why republicans fixated on it. Because the rest was FAR more damaging.

Bill Madden@maddenifico.bsky.social

Jon Ossoff, speaking truth to the loathsome piece of shit and his incompetent sycophants.

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Brah, the leg warehouse is empty here

VirusSucks.com@virussucks.com

Canada should sue the US for reversing climate change initiatives and the resulting damage to Canada. What if Canada threatened to cut oil supply to the US, due to uncontrolled climate change?

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this is the kind of shit that needs to break Senate Collegiality you simply cannot be friends and exchange grandkid pictures with people who turn around and go on national television to lie about how you only won because you cheated

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Tuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."

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#ProudBlue #Defend If you haven’t watched “Glory” do it now. It’s about the 54th Mass. Volunteer Infantry in 1863 - the first all Black unit in the Civil War. The Zinn Education Project calls it “the most powerful and historically accurate movie” about the Civil War. Hard to watch, but we should.

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the last 25 minutes or so of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER are magnificent. the highest tier of hollywood action filmmaking.

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These are sailors who have already been quantified on every conceivable metric and approved by a promotion board This is pure sex discrimination. It's axiomatic for Hegseth that women aren't worthy so if they get superior scores, it must have been because of DEI.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”