spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Of course not and he was still better at his job than Hegseth. 000
Reposted by @spectacularsid.bsky.socialProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There is no faster way to lose the future than to turn away the people who will help build it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comUS proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate workProposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say 1120769
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026That's probably true but it's not the fault of democrats as a party. That's an American problem. For now, I'm just pleased to see some of these folks taking the gloves off and aggressively attacking bigots. 0130
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Yeah it's a long list but, with the two you've named, there are at least some successes that can be counted. Hegseth has done nothing positive and caused enormous damage in just about every way imaginable. 200
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Hegseth isn't just the worst Defense Secretary we've ever had, he's one of the worst people ever to have any job in government. Honestly, name any scoundrel over the past 250 years and Hegseth is probably worse. 241
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026People will criticize him for that but who cares? Calling these people out as the racist trash they are is long overdue. 000
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026He's not aware of the limits of his knowledge so he says a lot of stupid things in public and he doesn't strike me as the sort of person who can explain why great art is important. He just regurgitates the correct answer to get the grade. He has no depth. 000
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026For some reason these folks don't like showing their college transcripts. Apparently he ended up with about a 3.9, good enough for high honors. I suppose it's another reminder that good grades don't tell us everything about a person's character or decency. 000
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026He's smarter than the die hard maga crowd but he constantly offers opinions on areas in which he has zero expertise, like Catholic doctrine. This has helped him make history as the first American politician to be publicly corrected by not one but two Popes. Actual smart people don't do that. 110
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm sure it helped but there was his stint in the Marines and the usual undergrad record and test score. In the end, no Yale, no book. No book, no celebrity. 100
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Fair enough. I'm sure his hard luck story helped his application to law school. My point is, were it not for the connections he made there, the book may never have been published and we wouldn't have to deal with this guy. Those institutions produce so many Vances, Hegseths and other creeps. 200
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not to nitpick because I agree he's a liar, but Vance wrote the book while at Yale, with the encouragement of the greatly overrated Amy Chua. So thanks very much Yale for helping to launch the career of this moronic fraud. 271
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I would guess he thinks of them as elites. Vance is, above all, a jumped up pantry boy who was introduced to the class of movers and shakers by his wife who is most likely a complete snob herself. 130
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I suppose if you only allow people in with "elite specialized skills" you won't have that many immigrants. Which is if course exactly what these guys want. They live in a fantasy world that allows them to wallow in their racism and snobbery. 000
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Somewhere Dave Kingman us having a good laugh at this one. 120
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Xavier vs. Kansas State, March 25, 2010. One of Johnson's greatest days calling a game. 000
Reposted by @spectacularsid.bsky.socialChristopher Quinn @christopherquinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Eric Schmitt: "Did you or did you not sit on my porch last October with a wicked grin on your face, menacingly holding a lit candle, and then mysteriously disappear on November 1st?” Jack Smith: “That’s a Jack-o’-Lantern” 23687113
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Trump, being the gaping idiot he is, caused his own problems there. He could have just left Cornyn alone. Much of his life is a series of dumb impulsive mistakes. 2360
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The author of this screed is former IDF and the holder of three masters degrees. I'd love to know where he did all that coursework. 000
Reposted by @spectacularsid.bsky.socialMother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026In what promises to be the most consequential showdown over reproductive rights since the end of Roe v. Wade, three states with near-total abortion bans asked SCOTUS to strike down blue-state laws that have enabled tens of thousands of abortions every year across state lines.motherjones.comShield laws are working. Now red states want the Supreme Court to end them.The long-expected constitutional showdown over states' rights and abortion rights is here. 119854
Reposted by @spectacularsid.bsky.socialPaul A. @paul.ofthenorth.ca · 30/09/2026When Hegseth speaks, it reminds me of this Brain Candy scene. youtu.be/wVPn14A1msc?...youtu.beKids In The Hall - Drill Sergeant (Brain Candy)YouTube video by thejacksonshow 19114
Reposted by @spectacularsid.bsky.socialTurner Classic Movies @tcmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Get ready to SCREAM 😱 – as Creepy Cinema returns this October with @benmank77.bsky.social and the one and only Mario Cantone! It all starts tomorrow night at 8pm ET with QUEEN BEE ('55) followed by THE NANNY ('65). 1625
Reposted by @spectacularsid.bsky.socialShoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"You know I'm something of a Senator myself." 488961
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Benny Johnson is an idiot but he knows his job. Lie to the audience over and over. His paycheck depends on it. 000
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Somebody on his staff is probably clearing out their desk right about now. You can't make the boss look like an idiot. He's perfectly capable of doing that on his own. 020
Reposted by @spectacularsid.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty) 99295372447
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I saw a clip of Emanuel sitting in front of and audience and saying single payer or Medicare For All is "never gonna happen." I suppose that's true as long as we keep selecting candidates like Rahm Emanuel. He needs to quietly go far away. 0111
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026On the bright side, Laura Rutledge is at the game. 020
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I've seen quite a few ads on YouTube over the last couple of weeks. Democrats from all over the place and maybe two or three from local candidates. I think they're beginning to understand that's how it works now. 010
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fat Oddjob can only send obnoxious tweets 040
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yeah but he went to Oxford and has that posh accent. Clearly a serious thinker. Just ask Bari Weiss. 021
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Has anyone asked Bill Cassidy if he's located his balls for this one? 060
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'd like to hang on to what remains of my fine intellectual dexterity thank you very much. These people have got to be ruined in. 110
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Redford directed some great ones. Got to go watch this again. 030
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Never heard of this guy so I looked him up. Anti-vax, covid conspiracy theorist and election denier. The trifecta. 1300
Reposted by @spectacularsid.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm going to start a company called Wealth Extraction Services, LLC. At WES, we don't claim to provide a useful product or service. In fact, we skip that step entirely and simply use all available legal means to quickly and efficiently transfer funds from your bank account to ours. 915136
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I don't like to see any player get injured but my level of sympathy varies these days. So, speaking as a Lions fan, I wish Caleb Williams well. 160
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026He was never that bright but, now that age is taking its toll, he's pretty much stupid. 020
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026All of the progress that was made, bit by bit even before FDR, has always provoked a reaction. People have been chipping away at it for sixty odd years and they're finally destroying things at scale. 000
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He did a fair amount of television around that time. The Untouchables and The Naked City were a couple of others. He was really good even early on in his career. 010
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026That doesn't explain 11% support. It's important to you and I understand that so best of luck with the movement. 100
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And the results in 2024 were 'skewed' as well. Okay, if you say so. It takes a lot of skewing to end up with 11% 300
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026That's not what the results of the last referendum say. People voted. 100
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Growing up I saw quite a lot of Hockey Night In Canada and I think that's how their anthem became a favorite of mine. They also gave us The Friendly Giant which was great stuff. 120
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Fair enough but is that what a majority of people there want? 100
spectacularsid.bsky.social @spectacularsid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026He's rambling alright but he's not wrong to say that a lot of us would like to see statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico, added Court seats and filibuster reform. If anything he's wrong to assume democrats have the courage to do that stuff. 100
