A Real Tough Kid

A Real Tough Kid

@romesick.bsky.social

Art lover. Expatriate Texan. Current “Ope Lemme Just Squeeze Past Ya”. Perpetually Romesick. THE. TTPD. Views are my own. She/her.

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El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

Every now and then on a Saturday morning, I am flipping channels and I catch part of The Pioneer Woman on Food Network. She's always saying something like "Can you IMAGINE a COWBOY eating a VEGETABLE?"

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Ted Turner: a reminder that our billionaires used to do cool things like yacht racing and trying to manage the baseball team they owned and starting various cable channels devoted to things like endless old movies and 24-hour news. The man was too busy to go fascist.

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Elderly Americans depend heavily on care work, and our entire care work sector depends heavily on the skills and labor of immigrants. When elderly Americans cannot get proper care, they are at risk of harm and even death. Regardless of their preferences about politicians or immigration policy.

NBER@nber.org

More immigration into the US raises the number of health care workers and saves the lives of older Americans, from David C. Grabowski, Jonathan Gruber, and Brian E. McGarry www.nber.org/papers/w34791

I'm convinced that someone could be completely covered in snow, up above their head, and they'd find a way to pop one hand out to post "This is nothing. You should have seen...."

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This dog was spotted politely waiting by a pizza truck. He doesn’t have to say what he wants. They already know his order. It is pizza. 13/10 (IG: lauren.bardini)

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I once saw a noxious campus preacher at Ohio State completely lose his composure when a guy wearing a tuxedo and a Yoda mask walked up and started staring at him. Same principle.

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My recent 18,000 word newsletter took me maybe 7 hours total between note taking, research and writing, and maybe 15 diet cokes, the human brain is truly remarkable

Dane is at Home.@monkeyminion.com

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better. I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.

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Trump deploys Federal agents across D.C. streets amid vow to crack down on crime. The facts contradict the pretext: Washington, D.C. has seen declining crime rates in recent years, violent crime hitting a *30-year low* in 2024, according to the U.S. Justice Department. www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...

npr.orgFederal agents spread out across D.C. streets amid Trump's vow to crack down on crimePresident Trump promised a weekend crackdown on Washington, D.C.'s homeless population and criminals. Trump activated federal agents to also be a show of force across the district.

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This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover

Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social

I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.

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This is Stevie. He is annoyed by pretty much everything that happens outside. As you can tell from his boofs, today is no exception. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)

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The Trump admin said the Everglades detention camp would be for the “worst of the worst.” Four men sent there so far have nothing on their record other than recent arrests for diving without a license, and were likely only arrested due to racial profiling, as Adam’s excerpt shows.

Adam Isacson@adamisacson.com

“It depends if you look Hispanic.” From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...