Amy Rush is on Bluesky

Lover of craft beer, improv comedy, puppetry, dogs and black, brown and trans lives. Instagram: rushamy Creator of @DepictOMat

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Dear Media:

Matt Gaetz didn’t have sex with a minor.

Matt Gaetz statutorily RAPED a minor.

Signed,
America.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Sarah McBride is the first transgender member of Congress. In response to her election, Republican Nancy Mace introduced a bill targeting her and what bathroom she uses.

It’s straight up bigotry and bullying. I support Rep.-elect McBride and I hope you do too.

[Ally Sammarco @Ally_Sammarco]

Yep

[Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen]

I can promise you from personal experience that the most frequent targets of gender harassment in women's bathrooms in the era of bathroom bans will be cis women who do not look stereotypically feminine in some way.

[Natasha Rothwell @natasharothwell]

.@realDonaldTrump you are trash.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Tell me more about how you’re deeply concerned that men are transitioning just to prey on women in bathrooms but you’re not concerned at all about the men who are preying on women out in the open and becoming elected officials.

[Natasha Rothwell @natasharothwell]

.@realDonaldTrump you are trash.

[Natasha Rothwell @natasharothwell]

.@realDonaldTrump you are trash.

[Amy Rush is on Bluesky @rushamy]

My favorite Star Wars character to win a battle is Leia
@Namecheap #NCStarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou

Leia, having not only the Satine's Lament blaster, also has a female brain & we know that women can use their brains to outsmart & manipulate almost anyone, especially these guys!

[Tim Kaine @timkaine]

March 2020 was famously a great time for everyone.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Amy Rush is on Bluesky @rushamy]

We'll miss you!

[melissa block @NPRmelissablock]

A 🧵, 38 years in the making. Today is my last day @NPR after, yep, nearly four decades. It's impossible to sum up what these years have meant, but indulge me as I share some stories that have been among the most memorable for me… 1/

[Amy Rush is on Bluesky @rushamy]

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[Amy Rush is on Bluesky @rushamy]

@AskLyft I tried to add my wife's phone number to a family account- she already has a Lyft account- and it said no and contact support, but this issue isn't in the help literature. Help?!

[Amy Rush is on Bluesky @rushamy]

Hey @ChipotleTweets Please teach your Memphis store to at least apologize for a wait when an online order is 30 min late and I'm in a group of others staring at people moseying around & telling me they just got there & can't check on the status of my order. Trying my patience.

[The Road Jess Travelled @JessPected]

Whenever people wonder how women end up/stay in abusive relationships, look at how our culture constantly sympathizes with men & pushes women to ignore boundaries & abuse to stay. Even women's own friends & family.

Reminder: DV rates increase during sporting events.

[Amy Rush is on Bluesky @rushamy]

@erdoland Why not? It'll make her day.

[Amy Rush is on Bluesky @rushamy]

Thanks @SouthwestAir for not only giving my wife and me 50k in points which we will gladly use but for promptly reimbursing us for the less than $500 we spent on a rental car & 2 hotels to drive home. Didn't nitpick about gas or food. Oh, and the $ for the missed flights!
💛❤️💙

[Amy Rush is on Bluesky @rushamy]

@NimitaParekh @SouthwestAir They did. 🤷 As you should understand, it takes a hot minute to do so.