Reposted by Delirious QuipsThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 18hThe courts that forced Biden to retain this Trump policy are complicit here and this should be more ammunition to reform them root and branch. 318355
Reposted by Delirious QuipsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" 509151243375
Reposted by Delirious QuipsJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 21hJon Ossoff is going for 2 up 60 2793148
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 17hCalifornia hasn't executed anyone since Schwarzenegger was in office. New York abolished it in 2004. New Mexico in 2009. The blue state record on this is pretty clear 1191
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 17hIf we had a liberal majority on SCOTUS any time in the last 40 years, there would not be a death penalty in this country. Read between the lines on every lib dissent since Gregg, and you know which way liberal jurisprudence was leaning on this 1301
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 17hSo when I was in law school, I spent a lot of time working for capital habeas attorneys. The general consensus among them was that, had Clinton won, they'd all be out of a job within a decade. 1221
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 17hThe only economic measure that I think you can fairly say has been made significantly worse is housing cost. But even on healthcare costs, which have ballooned, you have to measure that against insurance coverage gains. 120
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 17hParticularly true given that criminals are, in economic terms, likely to have very high discount rates on future costs and to view risk more favorably than the norm. 030
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Problem then is that our boy would almost certainly throw away that treaty within the next few years. He couldn't help himself. 030
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My absolute crank opinion is that Napoleon could have pulled it off. Win Waterloo before Blucher arrives, defeat him the next day, then defeat the other armies in detail as they invade. It wasn't a likely outcome, but it was possible, and then he negotiates a new treaty 140
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I really do think Thiel is... well, not demonically possessed, exactly, but influenced directly by Satan. 060
Reposted by Delirious QuipsJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I guess this is just sort of the logical endpoint of this administration’s commitment to fulfilling their supporters’s desire to vicariously consume violence done to other people. 501452234
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm not trying to be mean but let's all remember that Drew did have a stroke 1101
Reposted by Delirious QuipsMike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Imagine gatekeeping who gets to play sports. It's games for children. It's playing with a toy ball out of doors. Go decide which children can play marbles or jacks, you genius. Push over someone running with a stick and hoop. You are a stupid person. 440695
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Thank God our nation's sportswriters are here to offer their strategy memos. 090
Reposted by Delirious QuipsMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 08/10/2026it's also so funny that he still can't keep track of whether it's supposed to be defense or war 3683
Reposted by Delirious QuipsPatrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Decline was a choice. 0386
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Tired of winning victories against Sherman outside Atlanta, the Confederacy has begun winning victories against him outside Columbia. 0170
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Look if we could do math we'd be tax attorneys and have much better hours. 050
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I know nothing about Bluey but my kid has apparently watched it. He'll ask me "What does Bluey say?" expecting an impression (which I'll do for Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, etc) and I'll just do Steve Irwin. 110
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Me: "Having a toddler is hard but this part of his life where I'm his favorite person in the world will only last so long. I'll read this book to him even though I need to clean up the kitchen and I worked 10 hours today." AI Dad: "Thank robot God! I can finally outsource my love." 120
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And they don't even have that 40% off any item anymore wtf 080
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I once had an argument Over There with an avowed leftist who said socialism definitely was not worker control of the means of production and then declined to give an alternative definition. 130
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Piker thinks socialism is Gucci shops in Shanghai. Vance thinks socialism is immigration and letting trans kids play sports. Who's to say, really? 110
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Really good article about how fucked up frats, just as organizations, are, as well as their resurgence after "Animal House." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... Rare piece of non dogshit from Flanagan, though maybe she was better a decade ago I dunnotheatlantic.comThe Dark Power of FraternitiesA yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame. 0120
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026But is he as corrupt as your replacement level GOP VP? 020
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026They performed the same general function as UK working men's clubs, and they began to die out at around the same time for presumably the same reasons. 060
Reposted by Delirious QuipsJennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Would rather have one hundred million accountants than one Elon Musk, but thank you. 21784
Reposted by Delirious QuipsJean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And people have the temerity to ask why women don’t report being raped. 16414
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not to put too fine a point on this but, you know, you can see this in multiple nations' recent political histories. 030
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Righteous anger might be the most disfiguring. You tell someone that they can be cruel AND just, and then they do not limit their cruelty. They think the cruelty is the justice. That's such a profound error that it perverts everything it touches. 140
Reposted by Delirious QuipsIsabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Hey, this is that “study” that was previously cancelled after outcry at how monstrously unethical it was. It’s sentencing the poorest kids on earth to die of completely preventable liver cancer for white antivaxxers’ curiosity. How a medical doctor could co-sign this atrocity is beyond me. 116276
Reposted by Delirious QuipsMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026People around Ken Paxton anytime he’s about to say something damaging to his campaign 481245550
Reposted by Delirious QuipsMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Apparently we just inherited the Athenian position in the Melian dialogue 11456
Reposted by Delirious QuipsMike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026FUCK I broke my 1500 day streak on my smart thermostat's daily jumble puzzle. The app is locking me out of adjusting my home temperature now because I'm out of gems. The word was SAVORY. 71375147
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The only clear reason to say that Braverman isn't English but King Charles is is that she's not white. It certainly can't be foreign ancestry, after all. 050
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Historically, English people have conceived of themselves as a nation made up of multiple underlying foundational peoples: Angles/Saxons/Jutes, of course, but then also some unquantified Britonnic substrate alongside miscellaneous other immigrants 130
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not clear what he meant by this, because of course "missile" could mean any projectile weapon and he could also have said "missal," meaning a Roman Catholic liturgical book. 020
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Begging my generation to stop being such whiners 010
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm sympathetic to people who want to be a part of a kid's life despite their parents' wishes. I mean, it must really suck to have grandchildren and then not get to be part of their lives for reasons that might be bad or false. But I can't imagine authorizing courts to get involved 000
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Well some of it is because they don't find 9/11 all that horrible either. 020
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Instructing our troops to watch "Samaritan Snare" so they understand how dumb our leadership is 030
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Laverne Cox, Hunter Schaefer, even Caitlin Jenner have more to do with this than any maximalist demands from activists, in the same way that the anti feminist backlash in the 80s had more to do with seeing women, generally, in positions of authority than it did Andrea Dworkin. 010
Delirious Quips @citizenquips.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don't think that the transphobes or even most people are really engaging with Trans activist movements or even descriptions of them. The moral panic is much more general than that, and I do think it relates primarily to visibility in society 110
