Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

Granted a US gov’t shutdown won’t occur until after midnight tonight. But in effect the MAGAts have essentially neutered the gov’t already.

Lots of focus on votes. Meaningless at this point. No one wants to admit that what we once had is gone. And it’s not coming back.

Things ain’t normal.

Things ain’t going back to whatever you thought normal was.

Stop trying to find normal again.

Work the what is. Not the what was.

#politics #USPol

what doesn't kill you... mutates and tries again.

#nature #biology #optimism #optimization #saturday #funny #notFunny #WeAreAllGoingToDie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLHdbGZtkj8
if a picture is a thousand words, a moving picture is..?

Idk how I missed the video, but it’s pretty …compelling. Not that I need to be compelled, but it might move someone?

GOPers only care if they get paid, not other federal employees.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/09/republicans-care-if-they-get-paid-not?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=79882

"When you see the word 'polarizing,' beware. It’s a red flag, these days, for false equivalence. It can be way to avoid identifying what’s really going on with a Republican party that has gone off the rails."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#polarization ##BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #media

https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-nbc-reporter-got-praise-for-persistence

#Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress

#ClimateCrisis and the rapid evolution of the insect have helped drive up malaria deaths and brought dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to places that never had to worry about them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/health/mosquitoes-malaria-disease-climate-change.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Blame both the GOP's craziest and their flaccid leader but also every other Republican who could join with the Senate to put the extremists in their place and actually govern. They are all guilty.

Neat, wildlife photographers day at the Aquarium of the Pacific on Sunday night! #wildlife #photography #aquarium #LongBeach https://laist.com/news/los-angeles-activities/calling-all-photographers-bring-your-camera-and-shoot-to-your-hearts-delight-at-the-aquarium-of-the-pacific

respect levels are 53% and falling

(53%) ■■■■■□□□□□

(not that we can really cough up first & last months rent, deposit, pet deposit, application fee, origination fee, "media and credit enhancement fee" and all manner of other sundry & sleazy yet legal fees anyway)

▶️ ☠️ RE: Elon Musk, ever-creeping fascism & general, all pervasive fear...
https://beige.party/@GrimmReality/111152013088736590

This little guy is clearly running illegal SQUIRREL software on CAT hardware, but I'm still sharing it for #caturday.

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour #funny #squirrel

SomeBODY is off to their forever home today. Or possibly eternal rest. 🧛‍♂️ #puppets #puppetbuilding #halloween #nosferatu

Look at the cute little puppy! (learned this morning "Koinu" means puppy in Japanese, ha ha). #tropical #cyclone #14W #TropicalStormKoinu

Vladimir Putin calls for 130,000 new recruits for Russian military https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/09/30/recruits-military-Ukraine/3921696076336/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Painted for the Halloween candy dish

On The Brink Of Government Shutdown, Senate Set For Rare Saturday Session https://www.huffpost.com/entry/government-shutdown-brink-the-senate-tries-to-approve-funding-senate_n_65181a4be4b0c91b801758b3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

On Sep 30, 1919: Hundreds of Black People Killed in Elaine, Arkansas, Massacre http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/sep/30

"Every defendant charged with racketeering in Georgia is, of course, a member of the Republican Party, which until recently, at least, was known as the party of law and order. Since the multiple indictments of Donald Trump, however, the Republican Party has taken a sudden pro-crime turn, with many Republicans, including Trump himself, calling for the defunding and dissolution of the Department of Justice and the FBI."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Republicans #LawandOrder

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/hows-that-whole-law-and-order-thing

REMINDER to CORPORATE MEDIA: This government shutdown was because last week Trump DEMANDED the shutdown to defund the federal criminal prosecutions of him. That is 100% why MAGA is causing this. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-demands-republicans-shut-government-defund-criminal-prosecutions-rcna111365