Emotional Chimp

Who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club fees, his $200,000 credit card debt, and his $1.2 million mortgage, and bought a Supreme Court Justice?

[Dan Licata @danlicatasucks]

"what's da deal with guys named Drake & grooming? Drake rapper, Drake Bell... hey you would think my name was Drake Seinfeld cuz i actually did that shit too!! lol"

[B.A.R.S @BarsNC_]

I should’ve did a PPP loan. Absolutely nobody is in jail.

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

Who do y’all think keeps it from getting changed?

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

This is wild: “From 2014 to 2018, records show Ballmer reported a total of $700 million in losses from his ownership of the Clippers, almost certainly composed mainly of paper losses from amortization.”

The story notes that the Clippers were profitable as recently as 2017.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

The LAPD confiscated a guy's fireworks, blew them all up so dangerously in a residential area that it injured 17 people and damaged homes, and the only person going to court right now is the guy they took them from.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

last summer we saw the largest multi-racial working class uprising in US history against the prison-industrial complex. then democrats won the presidency, house and senate, and are now pushing more funding for cops. the democratic party really is the graveyard of social movements

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Dream Crushed Over Trivial Bullshit Represents Nation Better Than Gold Medal Ever Could https://t.co/Eqd0kSuPMg

[Seth Rogen @Sethrogen]

The notion that weed is a problematic “drug” is rooted in racism. It’s insane that Team USA would disqualify one of this country’s most talented athletes over thinking that’s rooted in hatred. It’s something they should be ashamed of. Also if weed made you fast, I’d be FloJo.

[Sha’Carri Richardson @itsshacarri]

I am human

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

We’re way past the point of talking about what’s “reasonable.” Power lines are melting in the heat in Portland. Billionaires are paying no taxes and going to space. Buildings and bridges are collapsing. The only reasonable thing to do is change everything.

[Emily Galvin-Almanza @GalvinAlmanza]

They're not

[Nick Buy My Book Mamatas 🤼‍♂️🏴🧭 @NMamatas]

But what if it were in fact young adult novels that traffic in cliché and are bad, and that enjoyment of THOSE books reflected poorly on their readers?

What then, Twitter?

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Why do you think the media doesn’t run hysterical “crime” headlines every day about the “wave” or "surge" of wage theft by bosses ($137 million theft per day), cancerous illegal pollution by corporations, or deaths from illegal evictions by cops/landlords?

[⭐ amy o'connor ⭐ @amyohconnor]

Every Hollywood film announcement now is like, “Olivia Wilde To Direct Lunchables Movie; Promises It Will Be ‘Diverse and Inclusive’”

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

First of all, I’m taller than her

[Emotional Chimp @EngelsInAmerica]

@nytimes NY Times is just publishing whatever corporate dreck their Vanguard Corp. overlords tell them to. "We need more articles about how quitting predatory employers is bad."

[Nicolas Gonzalez (nicosgonzalez.bsky.social) @NicoSGonzalez]

"You don't need a union because we're a family here."