Tiffany Bridge
Shouting, swearing, DC, WordPress, lifting, other duties as assigned. 🏳️🌈🏴☠️
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeToday marks two months since the Senate unanimously passed my bill with Senator Collins to fix the D.C. budget time bomb set off by House Republicans. If they don't pass this bill, D.C. won't be able to use its OWN money to fund its OWN schools, public safety and more. They must act.
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- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeAs we wind down the andor posting i would like to note the beautiful symmetry of Nemik's manifesto boiling down to "i have friends everywhere" while the isb eats itself and the conference room gets emptier and emptier
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeIt is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'
- my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
- Reposted by Tiffany Bridgethe centrist “identity politics is bad” argument, sneering at leftists over pronouns - like we’re fixated on arcane academic concepts and you need a PhD in gender studies just to express an opinion - falls apart pretty fast when you reframe this as Normal Humans vs. Creeps Spying On Strangers Peeing
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeThe real masculinity crisis is that it took less than one generation for women to outcompete men in higher ed and home ownership once the legal barriers to both were both were removed and they are collectively losing their minds faced with the reality that they were never naturally superior.
- Trying to be less of a cave goblin so when I got to a point on my afghan project yesterday where I just Needed. More. Yarn. I called my Craft Friend to see if she wanted to come along for an impulsive craft store trip. “I just need to throw on some pants!” 10/10 for making errands into hang time.
- Reposted by Tiffany Bridge"today is the 20th anniversary of Leeroy Jenkins" ok. putting this here to cause mental damage to certain people
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- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeIf this open Nazi shit makes you feel safe, your soul is broken.
- A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeNobel Prize winning science.
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeI'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.
- Reposted by Tiffany Bridge“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
- Reposted by Tiffany Bridgethere's no stopping the Latin American meme machine
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeWhen JD Vance tried to claim Catholic teaching justifies MAGA policies, Pope Francis responded that Vance needs to meditate more on the Parable of the Good Samaritan. In this exchange, @mattpolprof.bsky.social is very good on Catholicism and MAGA cruelty: newrepublic.com/article/1950...
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeSome folks are just *so* so close to saying "we need to let men do whatever they want to women, otherwise they'll hold our whole society hostage," but they keep getting tongue-tied and it comes out as "male loneliness epidemic"
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- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeIt’s almost like Hydra is a metaphor for how movements like the Nazis and Confederates were “defeated” but then immediately assimilated into and took root in the existing power structures.
- The lifting is making my arms/neck bigger, the perimenopausal rage is making me hate poorly-fitting t-shirts, and my rotary cutter and cutting mat are making it possible to "fix" them by cutting out the necks and shortening the sleeves. I feel SO much better. And now I can show off my traps. 😜
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- I think it is *possible* that I have finally upgraded my deadlift form from "trash fire" to "acceptable and will not kill me."
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeThe radical right-wing legislature in Utah passed a bill that banned public schools and buildings from flying pride flags. But they are still allowed to fly city flags. So check out Salt Lake City’s newly adopted city flags.
- So my 11yo pulls out a SmarTrip card and explains to me that he signed himself up for a KidsRideFree card,then happened to arrive at a stop on his walk to school at the same time as the bus, so hopped on…
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeIn other words, the queers are so overwhelmingly fabulous that it drove straight people insane
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeI'm as sick of hearing about the masculinity crisis as I am hearing about AI, but it's long been my observation that trad wives, masculinity influencers & gender reveal parties are all on the same backlash continuum & they're all in response to the cultural dominance of queer people in this century
- And what’s going around the local group texts is worse. These fucking shameless thugs.
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeStrong rumor from credible source that ICE raids are coming to DC tomorrow.
- Today I squatted 225lbx5, which is two full plates! And the equivalent of a male giant panda.
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- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeI know everyone has moved on from the Abrego Garcia case but it's still important, and Trump has now accidentally opened up major new lines of inquiry by admitting that he could bring him back whenever he wants. Establishing who is advising Trump to defy SCOTUS is critical:
- Now that Trump has openly admitted he could bring back Abrego Garcia whenever he wants, his lawyer tells me he will use discovery to determine which officials are advising Trump to defy the Supreme Court. New piece from me with lots of fresh reporting on this case: newrepublic.com/article/1948...
- The end credits of Thunderbolts* has a David Brooks joke that is SO FUNNY and I do not understand how, in the theater in Washington, D.C., @tombridge.com and I were the only ones laughing.
- The last episode of Dying for Sex is 35 minutes long and I think I cried for 34 of them. I cannot emphasize enough that I am not a crier.
- Reposted by Tiffany Bridgeany excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
- Without saying Mrs. Doubtfire, fav Robin Williams film? (This one is criminally underrated IMO)
- THE POINT. OF THE FDA. IS THAT PROFESSIONAL EXPERTS DO THE RESEARCH. AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERTS REVIEW THE RESEARCH. SO I DO NOT HAVE TO BE AN EXPERT IN SOMEONE ELSE'S JOB AS WELL AS MY OWN. YOU SHIT-FOR-BRAINS, STEROID-ADDLED, OVER-BRONZED FUCKING WEIRDO FREAK.
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeAbolish ICE It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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- Since we’re apparently making wild self-nominations for Pope today, I’m throwing my hat in the ring. My papal name will be Nicholas because, if selected by the College of Cardinals, I will immediately institute a program of heretic-slapping, starting with the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
- My 11yo is chagrined to know that I am still like an eighth of an inch taller than him, but I am focused on continuing to stay ahead of being able to lift him.
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeMultiple articles have been written about Bluesky being a dangerous echo chamber while the world’s richest and influential men are having their brains cooked in increasingly extremist group chats
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So basically, there was a Signal chat with tech folks and some Harpers Letter writers, and the Harpers folk were chased out when Andreessen realized they would not go along with censorship. But the tech guys stuck with Chris Rufo. www.semafor.com/article/04/2... - Reposted by Tiffany Bridgewhen i say that there was a venture capitalist conspiracy against american democracy i cannot express how literal i am being
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeIt’s easy to be cynical about public opinion, but scholars of authoritarianism are pretty clear that there’s a serious difference in what an autocrat polling at 80% and what one polling at 40% can do. Not obeying in advance includes not surrendering to specious narratives of omnipotence.
- Parenting a tween is: buying tickets for the re-release of Dogma and mentally re-hashing it to see if this is going to be Baby’s First Kevin Smith Movie. (Lol no, not right now)
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeIf you can’t see at least a shred of humor in Trump slowly realizing what it means to deal with someone who always negotiates in bad faith, renegs on everything, and preys on his counterparties’ delusions of a durable relationship built on mutual respect, I don’t know what to tell you.
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeReminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.
- ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeThe loss of Virginia Guiffre really hurts. Sometimes survivors ultimately don’t survive, and so many people forget or never even realize how much harder trauma makes absolutely everything, including healing from other physical trauma and all the emotional wounds that always heal so slow.
- The Senegalese food truck doesn't have dibi goat today and I am BEREFT. (still gonna get the dibi chicken and lamb w/ jollof, tho)
- Reposted by Tiffany Bridgethe only approach to trump that has ever made sense was “slow him down as much as possible while rallying public support to your cause” and while most politicians, pundits, and big law partners don’t get this, some do, and lawyers in particular have the tools to act on that understanding
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- Reposted by Tiffany Bridgethese fuckers being able to destroy everything is not a foregone conclusion
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- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeThis is really really scary and bad www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- BUT MAKE SURE YOU HAVE LOTS OF BABIES, LADIES
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeOh my god this is insane - I’m struggling to find a comparison but it’s something like “the Navy cancelled all submarines”
- Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...
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- Read the replies too. 😂😂😂
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeAs a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeThey did a ctrl + f and decided to kill Opus DEI
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- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeBreaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: ckuck@immigration.net and dclaffey@immigration.net youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4
- Reposted by Tiffany BridgeA strong reminder of Pope Francis’ commitment to lifting up the voices of migrants, even beyond the moments that made the biggest headlines. I.e., there are tidbits in this Pope Francis obit I was genuinely unaware of.
- My obituary of Pope Francis, a real one, looks back at his 2015 visit to the White House — and the three miracles I witnessed that day. migrantinsider.com/p/the-day-po...
- After my alarm goes off, it takes me a few minutes to actually wake up and open my eyes. This morning, @tombridge.com was waiting for that moment, so he could be the one to tell me JD Vance killed the Pope.
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