InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My response to you was how did your capitulation strategy work for abortion and proceeded from there. It is a complicated process and the constant Dem response of belittling people begging for help has been a losing strategy for 50 years. The standard Dem response should change. 100
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Did you miss where I said I vote for every national dem. I work in bail reform, feed unsheltered people and try to fill in the cracks of the broken welfare system that the Dems have gleefully torn up. I do not know how anyone thinks voting is an adequate response to the US today 100
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Also, I have voted for every national democratic candidate in every election since. Held my nose for all of them, except Obama the first time. I still get the "Shut up! Republicans are worse all the time. You will eat this shit sandwich and be grateful." I am not the one who needs to change tactics 110
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I had my first (minor)paid campaign position in 1988. A red state Senate race. He had polling to determine how to be pro choice. He became pro life. Lost by the largest margin in the history of the state. I learned a lesson from that and left Dem politics. Dems still seem to struggle with it. 130
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Abortion is POPULAR! It was a winning issue as proven by all the successful constitutional amendments since Roe was overturned. Instead, the Ds never grew a spine. They caved, over and over on everything. Unions, healthcare, civil rights, working class issues, constant war. Women are dying today 120
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The democratic messaging on abortion was exactly the same. Hyde Amendment, waiting periods, parental permission, medical licensing issues. Dems defended these things as reasonable restrictions. We were told to not be single issue voters and the Dems are a Big Tent. Shut up and vote D! Rs are worse! 120
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Feel that way about reproductive rights too? 100
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026How did that work out for us on abortion? 130
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026How did you discuss abortion in the 90s? Were you fighting policies like No Medicaid funding for abortions or Parental Permission, Waiting Periods? Or did you tell us repeatedly, "Republicans are worse!" Either way, Republicans got their wish and women are dying. 0100
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I wish I had done this on abortion in the 90s. Could not have been a much worse result. 001
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026How did this strategy work out with abortion? My entire life the Dems told me to shut up. Roe will save us. Parental permission, waiting periods, partial birth abortion bans are legit! You are selfish to want reproductive autonomy! Shut up! 091
Reposted by InterestingWalrusMychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026You are not a burden, you are enough. Friends help friends. “Friends would rather see you messy and alive than not here at all.” 💚 16693102
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Higher education, doing its usual bang up job. 000
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 20/01/2026The Police Johnny Cash David Byrne Cowboy Mouth Barenaked Ladies 020
Reposted by InterestingWalrusNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Opinion | While the end of NATO would be tragic, it's a price that must be paid so I can win my next Republican primary. 653858
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I am already living as if we are moving toward fascism. I am old, so I am engaging in a lot of wishful thinking, so I am setting up so I can cash out when I retire. I have a very short list of countries I may be able to move to. In addition, I am focusing on building a local network of ppl to help 000
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 10/01/2026In other words, people would notice if you disappeared, lost your job for trumped up reasons. No one would notice that about me or others who do not lead public lives 0100
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 10/01/2026I am older w/ no real money. I feed my neighbors, build community & support the people I can. I have to watch what I say to keep my public sector job. Ppl of color and the poorer ppl are in much more peril. You may not have to watch out, but people with less do. 1250
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 10/01/2026The Dollop is a leftist comedy history podcast I highly recommend 020
Reposted by InterestingWalrusBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Personally offended by how bad Bama is at running the ball. Unclean. Vile. Borderline heretical. 1843227
Reposted by InterestingWalrusKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Score one for “fuck you, make me” 764416640
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 16/12/2025I am super old and crime was astronomically higher in the 70s. It has been getting steadily lower. I still walked to school or rode the bus, even to less economically advantaged schools. 020
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Yes, calling privileged behavior out means that our parents did not love us. /s 360
Reposted by InterestingWalrusShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/07/2025what's a traditional food of your people/culture that everyone else seems to love that you absolutely cannot stand? for me it is vada pav. Vada is incredible, pav is fantastic, in combination they cancel each other out and become a black hole of anti-taste 993128466
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Yes, but the office worker is less likely to have an arm cut off or get a concussion. 000
Reposted by InterestingWalrusCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/03/2025A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸 293180845393
Reposted by InterestingWalrusChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/02/2025I expect universities to resist the Trump administration about as much as I expect universities to stand against apartheid, genocide, and the military-industrial complex: not at all. 17874156
Reposted by InterestingWalrusJoe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Like 8000 different groups are doing a shitton of small but important work to resist right now and it is far more useful for you to get plugged in with one of them than it is to wonder aloud where the protests are 362243466
Reposted by InterestingWalrusBryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Are you not entertained? 122547
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Melty butter on an unfrosted strawberry is amazing! 240
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 15/12/2024That is what the other site is. Porn bots, trolls and bitcoin enthusiasts. As long as you do not insult the powerful, you are welcome there 010
Reposted by InterestingWalrusRyan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 06/12/2024The final* episode of Who Killed College Football is now out for everyone, and it turns out the murderer was Dame Maggie Smith!!! *For now, I fully expect we will revisit this storyopen.spotify.comEpilogue: The Case File That Won't Stay ClosedWho Killed College Football? · Episode 81569
Reposted by InterestingWalrusRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I’ve developed a little mantra over the course of a spectacular college football season that’s been brilliant in spite of—and occasionally because of—the millions of changes in the sport. They Can’t Make This Suck. We get to decide what matters. open.substack.com/pub/rodgersh...open.substack.comThey can't make college football suckA mantra for a sport that keeps changing—but keeps making magic. 1237388
Reposted by InterestingWalrusJane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Also, fuck you dude, sports are good and getting to enjoy them without people screaming that you’re a DEI hire here because of evil Jews is nice 663351195
Reposted by InterestingWalrusI'm Dirt Mother Fucker @aynrandy.boontavista.com · 12/11/2024the reality of things right now is that the institutions which are meant to protect us are doing nothing, while a group called something like "Da Cum Goblinz" raises eye watering amounts of money for direct action 1935901001
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Agreed, fantastic way to spend a half hourish on Sundays 100
Reposted by InterestingWalrusHolly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 05/11/2024A prescription for sleep, tonight & tomorrow: I care very much who wins this thing, but my operating mandate when the sun comes up on Wednesday doesn't change. There's only one (1) major power dynamic in this country that skews against me, which puts me on the second-to-last metaphorical train. 11413
InterestingWalrus @interestingwalrus.bsky.social · 30/12/2023Are you familiar with the demographic composition of Georgia? It is 50% other. The 50% white people gerrymander and pass laws to stop the people of color from voting. States like Missouri, Iowa and Kansas are beholden to their 80%+ white majority. The deeper south have hope because they are less wte 000
