Reposted by LaffRiotRick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Should Not Even Be Necessary To Ask This Question….. 32790362215
Reposted by LaffRiotGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 03/05/2025The CRAZY thing nobody is talking about too is that nothing is ever gonna be cheap again. If corporations see that we’ll pay these elevated prices, they have no reason to not make those prices their baseline 632111472266
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Argos is having sleepovers with Mike while we’re in England. He seems comfy while Mike is giving side eye. 020
Reposted by LaffRiotJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social. 186130433887
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Landed in London at noon yesterday from California. Hire car got us the Broadway in the Cotswolds 3 hours later. Had a light dinner and some wine. Crashed. Full Engine breakfast this morning. Ready to go! 010
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025When do you think that the reason Yambo and his minions have stalled so hard to bring Abrego Garcia back is because he was killed in that prison in El Salvador? Don’t you suppose Yambo has greater power over Nayib Bukele than Bukele than vice versa? 🤔 020
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025"We have a deeply stupid government . . . But also, we have the government we deserve. The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it." Jonathan Last via The Bulwark. (If you haven’t read The Bulwark, you’re missing out.) 050
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025As on point today as it was during WWII: Midway through this terrible period, the imprisoned Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci is said to have remarked, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Now are the monsters of OUR time, eh Donold? 040
Reposted by LaffRiotEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/04/202530 years ago a professor explained tariffs to me as “economic sanctions a country puts on itself” and that stuck with me. 4554251128
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Thurmond was 57 at the time of his fillibuster, was allowed a bathroom break and Goldwater stepped in to allow him a second one (not sure about that - conflicting stories). Cory Booker is 55, 2 years younger than Thurmond was at the time. See a difference? Amazing what hate does to age one. 041
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 01/04/2025And the guy on the right criticized Zelensky for not wearing a suit??? 000
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o... God bless Keker, Van Nest & Peters. Now, let’s see if any lawyers or law firms take up the challenge.nytimes.comOpinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump (Gift Article)The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court. 032
Reposted by LaffRiotJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/03/2025This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.propublica.orgThe CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for VaccinationsThe move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines. 30759592933
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Even though I knew he was gay, I had the worst fan crush on Richard Chamberlain as a teenager. RIP, Richard! apnews.com/article/rich...apnews.comRichard Chamberlain, TV actor who starred in 'Dr. Kildare,' dies at 90Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series “Dr. Kildare” who found a second career as “king of the miniseries,” has died at age 90. 011
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I swear, I’m in California and I get up every morning, and as my browser cranks up, I’m thinking, “What part of democracy and the Constitution has he destroyed today.” Reading a few obituaries would perk me right up, though. 020
Reposted by LaffRiotMolly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 29/03/2025The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering. 9373175210144
Reposted by LaffRiotWill Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president. Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from. 782198267420
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Remember this? Jeff Daniels' character in The Newsroom. It’s more appropriate now than it was then. I weep for what we’ve become. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJh9...youtube.comCan You Say Why America is the Greatest Country in the World?YouTube video by Christopher L Webster 010
Reposted by LaffRiotDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Members of the Yemen Signal chat—including NatSec Advisor Michael Waltz and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles—left their Venmo accounts exposed, linking them to politicians, doctors, tailors, lobbyists, and each other. Experts say it a digital op-sec disaster. w/ @timmarchman.bsky.socialwired.comMike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List PublicA WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it. 16041171399
Reposted by LaffRiotGeorge Wilson @georgewilson1912.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I find it ironic that the Trump Administration finds himself in a catch-22 situation if they want to pursue the reporter they need to declare that the information was classified and he released it but if they do that that means that they're responsible for a security leak by Pete Hegseth & Waltz 291
Reposted by LaffRiotSean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 25/03/2025Only two things get you sacked: 1. Explicitly or implicitly criticising Trump; and 2. Proving more popular than Trump. That's it. 45310
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025This is how much Yambo and his administration care about operational security: "We don't care what the media says," a Trump adviser said. "We can easily handle what would kill any other administration. This will blow over." Sadly, I think he’s right. 000
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 23/03/2025“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” Angela Monet The Rs were deaf when we were dancing. But they knew they didn’t like what we were doing. 000
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 23/03/2025My husband got into craft cocktails some time ago. A favorite is a Manhattan. He’s always made it with rye whiskey which are ALL American products. He’s now buying this. That’s how p*ssed he is at how we treat our friends and allies. 021
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Just checked here www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Nota... And Bea Arthur is still missing.arlingtoncemetery.mil 011
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 23/03/2025So, I texted my lawyer husband, “I strongly suspect that, were you to represent someone Yambo had in his crosshairs and you were threatened with retaliation, you’d give Yambo a hearty “Fuck you!” and proceed full steam ahead.” 1/ 100
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I used to be proud to be an American. No longer. Going to England in may and I’ll swear I’m Canadian. Don’t want to have to explain our current government every 5 minutes like I did the last time Yambo was in office. 010
Reposted by LaffRiot BigBlueWaveUSA2026® ….. 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦🦋🏳️🌈 @bigbluewaveusa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Just in case anyone actually thinks Tяump has anything resembling a point on the “trade deficit” with Canada and/or his insane #TrumpTariffs… he has never in his life understood the definition of “per capita” ⬇️ 613672
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 14/03/2025“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.” John Locke I sincerely hope Perkins Coie mops the floor with Bondi’s DOJ. So far, the DOJ seems to be having trouble getting their lawyers step up and sign reply briefs. Wonder why… 020
Reposted by LaffRiotjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/03/2025“we have to be able to commit war crimes to win wars” is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and — well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass 1248384889256
LaffRiot @laffriot.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Roadrunners are generally skittish around humans, but this guy was next to our table on the patio in San Jose del Cabo. Sat there for most of the time we had drinks. 010
Reposted by LaffRiotTee Vixen Sutton @vixenbite.bsky.social · 11/03/2025For your entertainment….. 31875263
Reposted by LaffRiot California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Be like Rosemary…👇 300163163383
Reposted by LaffRiotAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/03/2025Auchincloss: "Zelenskyy flew to Washington, but he walked into the Kremlin." 428218255030
Reposted by LaffRiotScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 08/03/2025“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” The Late Great Rep. John Lewis More here:dworkinsubstack.comGood News For Us, Horrible News For TrumpOnward. 351234353