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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 1h

It’s called algorithms.

Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody please explain this to me.

💙 Hatred wears a Red Hat ❤️‍🩹 @commonthrower.bsky.social · 2d

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dearie me 🙀Ok I’m caught not knowing every piece of TS lore. The shame! It sounded like yet another TS hater being petty. Which, yes, tends to trigger me into defense—unnecessary here. But I don’t accept the implied scorn just bc I don’t spend hours keeping up w/every Easter egg! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 2d

As a reminder…nowhere in the USA is sharia law in place or being proposed. Many right wing agendas and laws, however, line up quite perfectly with sharia law priorities.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

If this will make groceries, housing and electricity cheaper then I’m all for it.

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 2d

Emails are boring. Old documents are cool. No contest!

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa this insight tracks 🤯😳

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 2d

By Spain…inventors of THE SPANISH INQUISITION which (Monty Python notwithstanding) remains 500 years later a byword for unspeakable torture…

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 2d

Ask us how much we care what a guy thinks of TS

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 3d

But will a lesser known D be as strong?

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 3d

Again. Compared to the prospect of having ANY Republican in office?!?!

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 3d

Whoever it was. Not anyone’s finest moment but it PALES compared to the bigger issues at stake. She’s smart and tough, has taken apart republicans bullshit peddlers for years. Clutching pearls over one angry woman moment is asinine. BIGGER PICTURE, PEOPLE!

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 3d

Because swearing at a journalist is SO much more discrediting than BEING A REPUBLICAN

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 4d

Pedo protector? How about PEDO first and foremost
But I sure hope this is true, anyway

Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently she dedicated it to Trump?! wtf?!

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 6d

Why is Halligan still there when it’s been determined she’s not there legally?!

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 6d

I’m scared of the people behind this puppet: Miller, Vance, Vought (sp?), Theis…

Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 7d

Honest question how is this different from what they’ve all been saying/acting on presumption of, already?

Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 8d

Shouldn’t businesses be refusing to sell food to them the way they’re doing in Chicago??

Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 8d

Note it says of the people not of the citizens, not of the native born, THE PEOPLE.

Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 8d

Man with access to worlds best intelligence is getting his carefully tailored info from Steve “I love Nazis” Miller.

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 9d

(They meaning this fascist regime not the UN!)

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 9d

They also recently conveniently redefined a bunch of human rights do that some of the crap they do is no longer called a violation. Convenient.

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 9d

But why won’t the others rebel?????

Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 9d

When I get that reply it’s as if they know how awful it is but cannot acknowledge it’s happening and still follow the cult—they have to reject it.

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Alden O’Brien @aldenobrien.bsky.social · 9d

Wait. Just Oregon—why can’t we get a ruling saying no state’s NG can go to another state? Or do they normally sometimes do that? And why the hell is the Pres allowed to call them—the govs are supposed to (except notably for DC coughJan6cough)
/feeling dumb here, lost sense of wtf normal used to be