Reposted by FalconerAubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 06/07/2025I guess “White Party” was just too on the nose? 812137
Reposted by FalconerClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/06/2025the freakout is very specifically because many of those boxes would go to babies who are not white, and you have to understand American culture (including mainstream media) through that lens. white people will unhesitatingly screw over their own kids if it means also screwing over the nonwhite kids 291706421
Falconer @qfalconer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” ― Tom Lehrer. 000
Reposted by FalconerCake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 06/06/2025I want to make her saying "ooo the girls are fighting, aren't they?" a ringtone 0444
Falconer @qfalconer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. 100
Reposted by FalconerNoah Lugeons @noahlugeons.bsky.social · 10/04/2025As @jamellebouie.net puts it, "There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people." Any attempt to divine a strategy camouflages the madness. 1044074
Falconer @qfalconer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. —John Kenneth Galbraith 031
Reposted by FalconerAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor." 16538124525610
Reposted by FalconerHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/03/2025Gannett fires the Palm Beach Post ed page editor who ran this cartoon by Jeff Danziger. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/b... 819372
Falconer @qfalconer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Soaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperity theconversation.com/soaring-weal...theconversation.comSoaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperityThe wealthiest areas in the US are almost 7 times richer than the poorest regions, a disparity that has nearly doubled since 1960. 120
Reposted by FalconerRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Because making a black man president was actually as grievous a wound to the national pride of white America as Versailles was for the Germans 1133340