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Kaerick

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Fight for the future you want for yourself and others. Proud Progressive. Comic book, SciFi, fantasy, & urban fantasy fan. Geek before it was cool.

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V. Murr @vmurr.bsky.social · 12h

This.

"Regardless of what you think about any individual person, food assistance should not be predicated on meeting your personal definition of deserving. People shouldn’t have to perform feats of social worth to get food; in our incredibly wealthy society, people should just get food."

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits.
I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger

The administration’s decision to fast-track a bunch of changes to food stamps—including new work requirements—is as stupid as it is cruel.

www.thenation.com

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 12h

The absolute bare minimum for the Democrats should be legislation holding SCOTUS to the same accountability as any other federal judge. Simply point to the perks Republican judges have gotten and the amount of jail time any other judge would be looking at.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 1d

The bumper sticker politics should simply be:

Motherfucking Consequences

Then, and this is the important part, actually follow thru with them. We tried "looking forward, not back" with Obama and Biden and that's how we got here, by the GOP learning there were no consequences for their actions.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 1d

If you like superhero stories where even a good amount of side characters evolve, I'll highly recommend Drew Hayes' Superpowereds: Year One thru Year Four. I'd read Corpies between Y3 & Y4. Great world building, multiple viewpoints, some unique powers, and multiple plotlines, some tied together.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 1d

The DC "Gods Walk Among Us" gets old, so it is good for Gunn to take the Marvel approach that everyone has flaws. Some of the best DC writing was about those very flaws.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 1d

Including memory-holing the deaths of people they knew. We still have no idea where all the PPE gear that they seized went. Remember state governments having secret connections with foreign states to sneak stuff in?

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 1d

The recent writing of Dane as a scientist that T'Challa and Tony Stark despise, and that the other Avengers only want to deal with when no other magic hero is available for a threat has sucked too. Write the Ebony Blade as a burden, as Dane struggling with sanity, but the rest is just poor writing.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 1d

Neither Cyclops or Wolverine actually love Jean, they love the idea of Jean they have put on a pedestal. The only X-Man that seems to truly love Jean as Jean is Ororo, but they would never have a romantic relationship.

Half the Logan team ups with other characters should have Laura instead.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 2d

Just because Paul Ryan's ACA alternative that will be here in the next few weeks was 12 years ago does not mean that it won't be here in the next 12 years in just a few weeks.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 2d

Taco Bell employs more people in the USA than the entire American coal industry.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 2d

Drive thru Wyoming for the last decade and you'll see a lot of giant windmills. It may be a bright red state, but they can see which way the power winds are blowing.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 2d

We're only 13 years from Paul Ryan's promised plan that would be any week now during the 2012 election.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 2d

Only if it is a Gobot, because they can be boats or planes or anything and Transformers are only cars and one pencil.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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fredolives.bsky.social @fredolives.bsky.social · 3d

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 3d

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." Great essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, they all prayed to the same golden calf they wanted to profit off of...

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, my orange cat took all the brain cells. He opens doors and I've seen him handle the neighborhood tomcat that wanted to fight him by suckering him into the back yard by slow running and yeowing at it, and then letting the dog chase the tomcat out.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 3d

Reason 5,397 of why SCOTUS should be held to the same standards as federal judges. Also why SCOTUS should be significantly expanded.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 4d

I’m about 20% into Lucky Loser (the Trump family crime bio) and yeah, you want to read it. JFC, these people.

Good evidence the Toddler in Chief was a lazy bully who got the family kicked out of a country club (And thus why military school).

Trump Pere scammed EVERYONE, but especially the US Gov.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 4d

Not just serve on juries, but be the one person in the room who demands evidence, rather than simply taking the prosecution and witnesses at their word.

Kaerick @kaerick.bsky.social · 4d

Pink Hawkwind Floyd

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