Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I'm screenshotting this and sending it to him. It will make his day! Thank you! 000
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026@billcorbett.bsky.social Just left our youngest at St. Olaf College, 650ish miles from our home. Before we said a tearful goodbye we joked that maybe since he was in MN he would see the Rifftrax guys around. Then just now in the hotel, there was this. Lovely, but where are your branded toiletries? 110
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumGeorge Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot. 721130043586
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I wish there were a podcast where every episode profiles an institution whose reason for existing has ended, but instead of acknowledging that, the leadership hires a bunch of middle managers and consultants to help them pretend the problems they know to solve are the problems that need solving. 010
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumTexas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 11/05/2026TIL: John Oliver is only 2 years older than Steve Vladeck 0152
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Depluralize a movie but make it Latin. Bambus. 000
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 319120756917
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumJoaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother. 442116709
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I hate that we have one fewer Catherine O'Haras than the bare minimum we need. I hate that we have multiple supernumerary narcissistic sociopathic ignoramuses with power. I hate that those are both true simultaneously. 011
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 30/01/2026I'm so sad, so in order to cope, I'm narrating this as Ron and Sheila's heavenly reunion.media.tenor.coma group of people dancing on a stage with a cloud in the backgroundAlt: The cast of Red, White, and Blaine finish the song "Nothing Ever Happens on Mars." 000
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I'm impressed this song lets you relax. I'm mere months from being an empty nester; one kiddo is out in the world and one is a high school senior. While I love this song, I need several boxes of Kleenex in order to listen to it. 010
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Do you think, at the state and local level, a meaningful number of Democrats are dissuaded from running for office for the first time because it would put them under the scrutiny of the louder and more puritanical elements of the left? Or is that not really a factor? 010
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Well, I'm overcome with delight. Until now, my "Things Tom Nichols Has Said On Twitter And/Or Bluesky" mental folder had been entirely separated from the "Murdoch Mysteries" mental folder, with nary a cross-reference to connect them. Turns out you're basically a more well-adjusted Brackenreid. 000
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I've had three kids opt for the potato!! 😍😍😍 000
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.cbsnews.comPardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this weekA pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat. 12250511681
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Happy Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle! 000
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2025I'll try to remember to wish you a happy Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle in Oct. 6. 😊 000
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Not Orthodox but I recognize this as St. Thomas the Apostle. Were you named for him? 100
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 22/09/2025The UFW wishes our Jewish friends a sweet #RoshHashanah. The first institutional religious support for grape strikers came when boards of rabbis in big Eastern cities declared boycotted products non-Kosher. More @ ufw.org/roshhashanah 3510151
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumForeign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 22/09/2025Many genuine opponents of Putin’s regime could now be threatened by the Trump administration’s immigration policies, writes Christian Caryl.foreignpolicy.comAmerica Is No Longer a Safe Haven for the Russian OppositionICE is deporting asylum seekers into the arms of Putin’s secret police. 0147
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumCNN @cnn.com · 21/09/2025A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. cnn.it/4ndDYblcnn.itA US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNNWeeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio... 61938532
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I got carjacked by a dog once! It was a hot day in OK and the dog was loose in traffic. I pulled over to see if it had a tag, but then it jumped in my car and refused to leave. It was a big snarly dog. I had to have a firefighter get the dog out using the long pole with the hook on the end. 020
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 02/08/2025prescient (from 3 months ago) 451455284
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Here is a tomato I grew in my garden and sliced into this evening. The cultivar's name is Gin Fizz. And that is the extent of my comments on the matter. 020
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025I have a doctorate in theology and I diagnose Don Jr. as having a gravely disordered character and a critical deficit of basic human decency. 010
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025It accidentally just flirted with a Carolina chickadee so it's reminding itself of the subtle differences between the two species. 000
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025When do you think it will be clear when the severe weather will arrive in Tulsa? My nightmare is a school pickup line situation. My kid's school building is a century old. Trying to decide whether to just bring him home early. 110
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 17/05/2025The fact that Fountain Park and The Ville got hit, and especially the tower collapse and death at Centennial Christian, is just so unfair and heartbreaking. So many churches would have been empty on a Friday afternoon but not them. They were feeding the hungry. 010
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumPhil @philiptejon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025We were never supposed to have this much access to stupid people’s thoughts 722642530
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025(Background: I'm in my late 40s and I'm in law school trying to start a new career and it's really hard and I'm spending Mother's Day studying for finals.) Y'all, my 17yo made me a handmade GAVEL for Mother's Day! He made it himself on a lathe!! 😭😍 120
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumAmadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 10/05/2025The use of "worse than 9/11" for events or situations in which not a single soul has died is a weird Republican hyperbole tic that really tells us how their minds work. Mike Kelly (PA-16) used that line on the day that birth control became available without a co-pay under the ACA. It's unhinged. 0174
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre 547271396205
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025This was my friend in the carpool pickup yesterday. Recently fledged, completely charming. (Btw at first I misread "lukelukeluke" as though it rhymed with ukulele so if you ever need a nickname...) 000
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025I'm so sorry! I hope you feel better very soon! 020
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2025Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books. 669145234839
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumAndy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 28/04/2025NEW:Trump’s DC attorney nominee Ed Martin is apologizing, saying he didn’t know about the alleged Nazi sympathizer views of a Capitol rioter he repeatedly praised. But audio saved by CNN’s KFile shows Martin discussed those views on his podcast — undercutting his claims. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...cnn.com‘A great friend’: Audio undercuts Trump US attorney nominee’s disavowal of alleged Nazi sympathizer | CNN PoliticsEd Martin, the Trump-appointed interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia and nominee to serve in the role permanently, says he now regrets praising a Capitol rioter who is an alleged Nazi sympa... 962619860
Reposted by Custard Pie Appreciation ConsortiumTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 28/04/2025The President of the United States can hand out clearances like candy if he chooses to do so. Things like this are legal because no one ever thought about the possibility of a POTUS being a completely irresponsible person. 441012134
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Oh good!! I'm glad you found the energy to make a GoFundMe because I would like to chip in! 010
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 28/04/2025We were advised that now would be the right time to get a new car, and that's how I learned that there are apparently people who buy new cars! 110
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 28/04/2025And maybe that's good, that there are such immediate and swift aggregated consequences for saying things in ways one shouldn't say things? But it does sometimes feel that it cedes all the discourse to people who are perfectly happy to be offensive because they don't care about anyone's opprobrium. 000
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 28/04/2025And the threat of that cumulative effect is enough to make me and I expect others just not say much online anymore because we know ourselves well enough to expect that we will sometimes say stupid things even when we're trying to behave decently. 100
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Anyway, I still think about that, because yeah, I was wrong, it was an inconsiderate mistake, and I should not have said it. At the same time, real-time reactions of large groups have a cumulative effect that can feel so punitive, even when most of the individual replies have a legitimate point. 100
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I'm not a public figure and I'm sure if I had been it would have been much worse. Some of my very online friends told me that I deserved it and didn't have a right to feel like that reaction was a bit much. 100
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Once on Twitter I replied to an author I admired greatly. In the process I stupidly included a spoiler to a TV show she watched. This was pointed out to me in ways that made very unflattering and untrue assumptions about my motivations. I apologized, aghast, but the author blocked me. I 100
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I do think that as seats have shrunk and we've been squeezed together beyond what's comfortable, people's needs for what shreds of comfort are left -- whether that's the warmth of conversation or the safety of solitude -- become more acute. 020
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Interesting. I'm happy to chat too but I haven't noticed a change. People engage me differently now as a middle aged mom than they did as a young person but I encounter as many chatters as I used to. Maybe bc. I'm usually flying for pleasure and I'm not on a coast or at a hub? 110
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Is there a concise summary somewhere of the reasons many people dislike Angela Nagle so intensely? I found some of the discussion on Reddit and elsewhere but even there it felt like I was jumping into the middle of a conversation I had missed the beginning of. 000
Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium @smoricebrubaker.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Happy Easter! I'm cooking what's become a tradition thanks to your grandmother and the magic of the internet. (Also tradition to yank your chain by saying that instead of powder I used fresh, instead of lamb I used beefaroni, and instead of cooking dinner I got a certification in HR.) 070
