Trekker Ashe

Former writer for DieHard GameFan and Cinefessions, an IT wage slave, video game and film fan. Married to an awesome Turtle.

[Trekker Ashe @TrekkerAshe]

When you need one small piece of information but the person goes on for a full minute without breathing or giving it

[Jessica Malone Grider @mrs_g_rider]

English 👏🏾 teachers 👏🏾 and 👏🏾 librarians 👏🏾 tried 👏🏾 to 👏🏾 tell 👏🏾 y'all 👏🏾 this 👏🏾 would 👏🏾 happen.

[This Will Hold @This_Will_Hold]

ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN have left the building.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Do you all realize Trump has destroyed our rights? DHS can break down your door in the middle of the night, with no warrant, trash your apartment and all your belongings, zip tie you, zip tie your children and drag you all out into the street naked, throw you into a van, imprison you for as long as they feel like it with no lawyer, no calls, nothing. It doesn’t matter that you are a citizen. They act with near total impunity.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Remember when it was called TDS if you claimed that Trump would:

-deploy troops in cities
-implement project 2025
-pardon Jan 6th insurrectionists
-politicize the DoJ for revenge
-ruin trade policy with tariffs
-start wars
-not achieve peace in Ukraine
-be worse for Gaza
-give preferential access to the wealthy
-appoint under qualified loyalists
-break his promises on tech and finance policy

And yet here we are….

The idea that the media has a “left wing liberal bias” is nonsense.

They spent this last election cycle vilifying Harris’ claims about Trump - and yet they’ve all come true.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Trump Cuts Funding to 16 Blue States That Didn’t Vote for Him

I just want to remind everyone that Biden never sought political retribution for states that didn't vote for him. In fact, they overwhelmingly benefited from his policies.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Just so we’re clear: Trump can spend $6B on Netanyahu & $20B on Argentina & $5.9B on Musk’s SpaceX & $649M on National Guard deployment & $85M on golf outings - but he won’t spend a penny on protecting healthcare access or undoing Medicaid cuts for regular Americans.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

You’re being lied to again.

Illegal immigrants cannot receive the premium tax breaks in the ACA and Medicaid. Literally in the statute.

Vance knows this but is betting you don’t.

They want shutdown & want to avoid responsibility so they gaslight.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

For everyone saying this is an impeachable offense and worse than Watergate:

Of course it is. But that doesn’t matter in the slightest, because this GOP Congress has completely abdicated their duty and will never do anything to hold him accountable.

[Street Medic @RndmStreetMedic]

Just a reminder before the "big announcement."

Autism was differentiated from schizophrenia back in 1911. Tylenol was created in 1955.

Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes autism is entirely full of shit.

[Ned Price @nedprice]

On a single Saturday in September:

--Trump instructed his AG to go after specific political enemies.
--We learned that his DOJ ended an investigation into his border czar, who was caught on camera taking a $50k cash bribe.
--His Pentagon top brass threatened to expel journalists who report info not cleared by them.
--His WH spoke to a shady deal that will see TikTok in the hands of a consortium of GOP mega-donors.
--Trump threatened "bad things" if we don't re-take Bagram AFB.
--His most senior counterterrorism official is in a Twitter spat with Laura Loomer.

None of this is normal. All of it is so dangerous and corrosive to our democracy.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

They’re saying it out loud now.

[Ghost Host @TheGhostHost]

Timeline cleanse:

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

To be clear: It's not "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after comments about Charlie Kirk," it's "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after threats from Trump FCC chair"

The distinction matters here.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like. https://t.co/uts7JpJZzN

[Covie @covie_93]

Minutes after former President Jimmy Carter's death was announced Scott Jennings was on CNN calling him a "terrible president" with a "big ego". He wasn't fired. He never apologized.

After Paul Pelosi was attacked Fox News hosts joked about it on air. They weren't fired. They never apologized.

After Charlie Kirk was killed Matthew Dowd said on MSNBC that he was "divisive" adding, "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions." He was fired after apologizing.

Free speech only goes one way.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

🧵
Something folks are missing here: this raid wasn’t about “illegals taking American jobs.” It was about ICE storming the Hyundai–LG battery plant in Georgia, part of a $7.6B Metaplant project that isn’t even operational yet.

They dragged out more than 300 South Korean engineers and specialists. People flown in to help stand the place up so it could eventually employ thousands of Georgians/Americans.

This plant wasn’t scheduled to start running until late 2025 or early 2026. These workers weren’t taking jobs; they were building the factory that would create them.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

it should probably be a bigger story that most of the world has stopped shipping packages to the U.S. entirely because of Trump’s tariffs

[Adam @AdameMedia]

Nowhere near enough people are talking about this.

The music is about to stop.

[Thorne 🌸 @ExistentialEnso]

We're fairly close to being able to very effectively treat cancer with mRNA, and this will be a huge setback

To be blunt: people you care about will die of cancer because of this decision