TomRN

TomRN

@tomrn.bsky.social

Nurse. Patient (end-stage heart failure due to HOCM, heart transplant 5 Oct 2024; Crohn’s disease). Tired. Snarky one-liner to show I’m hip goes here. CLT area.

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Wanda Sykes thanks Ricky Gervais for not being there because it means she can accept the award on his behalf... and he's gonna thank God and the trans community (he won, she did) #GoldenGlobes

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On days like this I find it so hard to reconcile our human actions with the almost impossible odds that we exist at all. I wish we treasured and valued each other. I wish we realized there’s more than enough for everyone. That we belong to each other, we need each other. That we are all we have.

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Instead of their older mix of anti-labor Dixiecrats and northern liberals, Democrats have shifted significantly left in the last generation to fit comfortably in the same political family as socialist-oriented parties in Europe. /1 nathannewman.substack.com/p/the-democr...

nathannewman.substack.comThe Democratic Party is as Socialist as European Social Democratic PartiesDemocratic voters have shifted dramatically to the left in the last generation - and both federal policy and blue state governance reflects that

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The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.

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Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of two facts: 1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it. Read this out loud. Read it again. Then teach it to your kids.

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They don't even try and hide the graft here. Telecom companies give counties cuts of telephone and video call revenue. Jails then restrict in-person visits and price-gouge families reason.com/2024/03/22/l...

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It took decades of work by activists to implement this reform making phone calls with inmates more affordable for families. Trump's FCC is ignoring the law to let shitty prison telecom monopolies continue to rip people off.

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this is horrifying. we just learned the latest iteration of the Great Big Bill has a proviso requiring ALL pizzerias sell a pie with "hot honey". this will exacerbate an already terrible trend. disastrous news after the parliamentarian shot down the proviso mandating all menus call pepperoni "peps"

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In light of stripping Harvey Milk's name from a Navy ship, on this anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, & in the sad aftermath of the assassinations of Melissa Hortman, her husband, & her dog, I need to observe that Milk and Mayor Moscone were also assassinated by a white male conservative.

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LA PROTESTERS: How to annoy ICE, cops, Guardsmen & Marines “patrolling” the streets? Blast “IN THE NAVY”, follow & dance party around them with BIG Pride flags, glitter bomb them & shout “Happy Pride Month”. Believe me, the ridicule they’ll get will make them LOATHE being in LA. #NotJoking

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An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

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Replying to @acyn.bsky.social

I honestly don't understand how anyone could want to do anything other than raise the bottom. Ensure that everyone has healthcare, food, housing and education. Anything else is just inhuman IMO.

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Them: "Atheists can't understand the Bible. Only a Christian can truly discern it." Me: "Feels like God could've written a better book, then. I don't have to be a particular religion to understand a cookbook. Not sure why we would hold God to a lower standard than Betty Crocker.

Is this a *literal* “No True Scotsman?”

scottishdad.bsky.social@scottishdad.bsky.social

As a very proud Scots man I just want to say that he has no Scottish blood in that black heart. The Scottish are known around the world for their kindness and compassion and love a good party.

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Black Friday Small business Saturday Church wants its share Sunday Cyber Monday Swap meet Tuesday Estate sale Wednesday Flea market Thursday Yard sale Friday Walmart loading doc where Clarence will make cut you a deal Saturday

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Until the dopamine wears off, I will be telling you 80s Alternative Club songs you’ve been looking for and why you haven’t found them. First up: “All Roads Lead to You” by Red Flag. You couldn’t find it because you thought it was Depeche Mode.