Fiona and Rowan's dad, basically. Spider guy, Lefty Dem, pragmatic progressive. Win elections with the majority you have, not the majority you wish you had.https://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml76qxfoxc2zHi, spider expert here! Kyle Rittenhouse was bitten by a Brown Recluse (loxosceles reclusa). Unlike widow bites, recluse bites don't affect the nervous system. Instead, they are a cytotoxic venom, destroying local tissues at the site of the bite.. So how bad could this get? Well... https://www.rawstory.com/kyle-rittenhouse-hospitalized-after-venomous-spider-bite/06 May 2026 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml76qxfoxc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml76dzymus2zbut but but he was OUR despotic mass murderer [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml76dzymus2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml737s4vfs2zWhen spouse and I had our first kid in 2021, we had never heard of the vitamin K shot, so we asked what it was and why and of course said yes. Second kid came in June of 2025, and we told the nurses to do all the things before they were outlawed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml737s4vfs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml722i2gzs2zDo these guys not understand that every time they open their mouths and say something like this, they are handing defense teams everything they need to get the cases dismissed? Are they that stupid? [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml722i2gzs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml6srqw6rk2yThis by @michaelkapp.com is a must-read, and what happened yesterday confirms it. Dems just defended a swing seat in the MI state Senate. Harris won the district by 1. We won it by 20 yesterday. Meanwhile, Republicans spent millions to oust their own incumbents in Indiana. Who would you rather be? [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6srqw6rk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml6sb6afrs2zThis guy does realize that high credit card spending is a sign of economic strain, right, because it means that people who might not otherwise want to use credit are finding themselves with no other choice? [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6sb6afrs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml6qxp3jus2zObama has this a little wrong in my view. It's not the vocabulary you use. It's whether you sound like everything you say was put through a six-month gauntlet of swing voter focus groups to remove anything that sounded remotely human from it. 1/2 [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6qxp3jus2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml6qb3vzkk2zThis is something I've actually been on about since drone strikes became a kind of obsession among anti-war folks with the advent of Predators, MQ9s and the like. Why does it matter if it's a drone as opposed to a manned aircraft? The outcome is the same. It's the policy, not the platform. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 12:46 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6qb3vzkk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml4jm6dfus2zI have CPTSD/anxiety/depression and the six years since I was clinically diagnosed and on Sertraline have been six years in which I was able to start a business, have children, and finally have some mental stability without feeling gnawed at by ghosts so RFK Jr can fuck allllll the way off [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4jm6dfus2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml4clqdnjk2z600,000 people, maybe half a million kids, who would still be alive if Harris had been president. Unfortunately, since Ukraine I have become broadly accustomed to how only certain kinds of mass death done by certain select actors qualify for outrage among major sections of the US left. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4clqdnjk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml4cf44adc2zThis is incredible. Elon gave everything he had to elect Trump, who destroyed the EV transition, and he eliminated two of his four (excluding the deathdumpster) EV lines in order to start building humanoid robot servants. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4cf44adc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml2lsadsvs2zPeople like Greenwald, Scahill and Grim saw Trump's rejection of American values- and rules-based multilateralism as an endorsement of their campist worldview as opposed to what it really was: a rejection of values and rules altogether in pursuit of lawless hyper-realist imperialist plunder.04 May 2026 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2lsadsvs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3ml2l4glyoc2zCongrats to everyone from Ryan Grim to Glenn Greenwald and beyond who convinced themselves that the morally bereft rapacious plunderer of people and resources was going to be the anti-war, anti-empire guy just to screw over liberals. Nice job. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2l4glyoc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3mkzqftdd7c2zOkay and what would they do that they are not already doing? Russia has lost the initiative when it comes to "oh yeah? well then we're gonna" threats. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzqftdd7c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3mkxat5ikq22zWe had maybe one chance under Biden's transformative automotive agenda to create policy that would allow American car companies to compete against China, and Trump threw that all away for the sake of oil and gender, ensuring a global Chinese automotive century [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 May 2026 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxat5ikq22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3mkvuaomdis2vI'm a parent of a four year old and a 10 month old @bencollins.bsky.social and you have zero right to read me for filth like this https://theonion.com/i-am-the-god-of-your-children-i-am-the-final-parent/03 May 2026 00:04 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvuaomdis2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3mkvfvsquyk2kPlatner is hugely problematic in a lot of ways, but the reason he forced the DCCC pick out of the race is because he talks like this. 100 percent of this rings exactly true. Now if we could have this without all the gross stuff it would be ideal. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvfvsquyk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3mkt43d42ys2mHe is literally bragging about passing a dementia screening and describing in no uncertain terms that he was taking a dementia screening [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 21:46 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkt43d42ys2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3mksskgzigs2mThis is among the most badass shit you will see this year. It's also a lesson in how warfighting requires creativity and innovation, as opposed to a) the American strategy of dumping trillions into high-tech weapons, or b) the Russian strategy of just simply not caring about human life [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksskgzigs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3mks6vz4z3s2m"liberals" by and large don't think the problem is partisan polarization. Senior elected Democratic leaders say the problem is polarization because decades of swing voter focus groups have told them that's what swing voters want to hear, so that's what they say. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mks6vz4z3s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3mkrahjuc722mWhat the fuck anti-war and anti-corporate instincts did these jokers ever think Trump had? He never had those. Trump was always a bloodthirsty corrupt maniac. They convinced themselves he did to have an excuse to attack Dems, and that's all, end of story. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 03:59 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrahjuc722mhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3mkradjfq4c2mMan, if you're the Oilers, don't you have to get rid of Bouchard at a certain point? The guy botches so many defensive plays leading to breakaways and odd-man rushes that he's a liability in spite of his goal-scoring on the power play.01 May 2026 03:57 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkradjfq4c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/danteatkins.bsky.social/post/3mkqts26qe226I'm sorry what01 May 2026 00:12 +0000at://did:plc:dbup7eyc4m3mgjxm57pojdvu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqts26qe226