Josh Rooney

The Trump administration is filled with small minded men with black hearts. Their careless stupidity is on display with their “beautiful” tariffs.

If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.

RIP Mr. Hackman. You were a legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

Brand new Songs From The Truck over on the Patreon.

GET THE MMR VAX FOR CRYING OUT LOUD www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

We need a Labor Secretary who will be a champion of working families. We need a Labor Secretary who will raise the minimum wage and vigorously defend workers' right to bargain collectively. We need a Labor Secretary who has the courage to stand up to an anti-worker POTUS.

Rep. Derek Tran, an Army veteran and former employment lawyer who represents parts of Orange County, introduced a bill to reinstate veterans fired from federal government under Trump.

I told you all @jeffbezos was feral. He’s now killed the Graham/Bradlee legacy of justice, the First Amendment and basic humanity in a vomitous spew of nonsense, testosterone fueled (and HGH) double talk that is more than a little pathetic and utterly shameless.

Investors had been widely expected to reject the proposal during the company’s annual shareholders meeting — in alignment with Apple’s recommendation — despite rising tensions around corporate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Also on what planet does it make sense to give tax cuts to the wealthiest among us while cutting Medicaid? Only one full of beastly black-hearts. Remember- that’s someone’s vulnerable mother, sister or daughter they are denying healthcare to so billionaires can have another house.

This is interesting, like a car crash. Having a romantic relationship with an AI chat bot is healthy and a deep departure from reality. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

The top health care companies in America spent 95% of their profits to make their CEOs & stockholders obscenely rich. How many Americans would be alive today if those companies spent $2.6 trillion on disease prevention and primary care, instead of stock buybacks and dividends?

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

Someone, who used to know better, told me today that it’s patriotic to support the president even if you don’t always agree. This is the excuse being used by many to explain their acquiescence. Actually, this is what a patriot is: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

USAID is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk wrote on Sunday in a social media post that many aid workers saw as confirmation the agency would soon be absorbed into the State Department and that some viewed as a potential threat to their personal safety. “Time for it to die.” THIS HAS TO STOP.

Just because it is in plain sight does not mean it is not what it is: A hostile takeover of the U.S. government by an unelected and unfettered power monger. Believe what you see, do not see what you believe.

This is a coup edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

I don’t think @laloalcaraz.bsky.social gets any sleep, especially in the last month! If you don’t follow him, do yourself a favor and do it. #chicanocartoonist, #resist

44,000 protested against the AfD and fascism in Stuttgart yesterday.

There is something deeply upsetting to the fact that the richest man in the world has declared that it is “time to die” for the richest country in the world’s international aid program. I am so sad and disgusted about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

Egg prices are so high because the chickens are too woke. DEI strikes again. #trump #numbnuts

Does anybody still drink wine coolers? Definitely NOT asking for a friend. #seagramsgoldenwineciers #bartlesandjaymes #brucewillis #delicious

@sanders.senate.gov thank you for exposing this clown for the deeply unwell man that he is. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Literally what demons look like in human form in D&D #dungeonsanddragons #demons #tiamat

This is a train wreck. Its going to do major damage to daily life in the US: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

That’s…not coffee

TDE from the tech bros — Bring it on.

Once again

I’m not a fan of Gov. Scott or how he’s handled this SecEd in our state. That said, having reading this article, this seems like a good idea depending on how it’s implemented to fix Ed funding in VT. www.sevendaysvt.com/news/school-...

The speed with which companies are abandoning DEI is a clue about how shallow their commitment to it ever was.

Not sure how the math works here- 19 folks spilt 3mil in a year when key services were cut. If they split it equally, it’s $157k plus each. As a BONUS. But let’s not tax the rich… vtdigger.org/2025/01/23/u...

If you need any more convincing that corporate America goes where the wind blows, I’ll leave this here: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

at this point you have to ask, what evidence is that the hegseth *isn’t* abusive to the women in his life, or even any woman who crosses his path www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

Let's agree there definitely are some immigrants whose deportation should be highly prioritized.

So listened to this guy. I’m glad that @nytimes.com gave him an interview so we could examine for ourselves what a disjointed, half baked, fascist in sheep’s clothing he is. I hope he goes back to dark corner of the internet he emerged from. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...

I’m not sad about Tik Tok going out.

Breaking news: David Lynch, the surrealist filmmaker who bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche with an unsettling blend of melodrama, whimsy and nightmarish horror, has died. He was 78.

President Biden moved to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution, declaring that the measure to prohibit sex-based discrimination had cleared the necessary hurdles to go into effect

one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.

Billie Eilish and Finneas, Joni Mitchell, Lady Gaga, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Katy Perry, Green Day and Jelly Roll will be part of the lineup for FireAid, the first fund-raising mega-event to support fire relief efforts in the Los Angeles era.

I'm sorry but the Dems are ridiculously bad at their Hegspeth questions. IMO, if you want to prove someone is incompetent, you ask them the hardest strategic questions they will have to know to succeed at the job

i am watching clips from the hegseth hearings and it is a goddamn insult to this country that this chucklefuck was even nominated

Remember that the witnesses to and victims of Hegseth’s misconduct were not anonymous, but offered to meet in person with Republican senators (anything but anonymous) who offered zero meetings, and now call these real people anonymous.

open! network! users don't have to rebuild their following all over again each time they switch to a different app, so platforms can't lock them in developers can bootstrap new social apps off an existing social graph of 27M+ people win-win 🤝

The evidence in the case of Donald Trump illegally seeking to cling to power after losing the 2020 election would have been sufficient to convict him, had his 2024 win not made it impossible for the prosecution to continue, Jack Smith, the special counsel, said in a final report. nyti.ms/4aeAn7t