Harry Turtledove (@hntdove.bsky.social) reposted
They are the same kind of people who told Jews on their way "to the showers" their belongings would be waiting for them when they came back. That kind of people.
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view profile on Bluesky Harry Turtledove (@hntdove.bsky.social) reposted
They are the same kind of people who told Jews on their way "to the showers" their belongings would be waiting for them when they came back. That kind of people.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
Now the tariffs have brought in 'TRILLIONS'!
𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 (@infernatrixsophia.bsky.social) reposted
Still one of the wildest things about modern politics is how Neocons heard Trump has pretensions of being king and it has roused their Trotskyite blood feud against being ruled by an aristocrat.
Fred Wellman (@fpwellman.bsky.social) reposted
This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.
Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social) reposted
If you don’t believe that Trump’s authoritarianism can be defeated, look at how scared MAGA is of chalk:
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
It's time for Disney to remake The Black Hole! Oscar Isaac is the perfect Dr Hans Reinhardt!
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
And RFK Jr doesn't care if you, your children, your family, friends or neighbors die because, to him, that proves you weren't worthy (like him) to live. Meanwhile, he and his family are getting ALL the vaccines and all the extra care that money can buy.
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
The only reason Trump dropped out of sight is because situations that require a human response - like the murder of schoolchildren in a church - give him the ick. Given his status as a shooting “victim” himself he would sound even more cold & gross taking the “thoughts & prayers” route on this one.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
He looks puffy and swollen.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
At least a million dollars spent arresting 2 men who MAY have used sidewalk chalk to write on the base of a flag pole. We REALLY need to have a national conversation about how weak, useless, ineffective and wasteful this is.
Paul F. Tompkins (@pftompkins.bsky.social) reposted
At the very least it’s fun to think of this as a sort of tailgate party before the big event
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
I immediately thought the music would drown out his mad screams or confused wailings, but now I also don't place it below the VP and Cabinet to blast music to cover their conversations about him being gone from listening devices.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
I will bet one of the signs will be his inner circle dumping Trump-related stocks.
Claire Willett (@clairewillett.bsky.social) reposted
C’EST MOI RN
Becky Grambo 🍁 (@rebeccagrambo.bsky.social) reposted
This is amazing! The attention to detail is incredible!
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump sundowned hard and they are keeping him sedated in the Residence. He is decompensating and they can't have the world see that.
Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted
It doesn't work and you're spending millions of dollars forcing it on to your customer base who doesn't want it either. Why? Because you believed some idiot snake oil salesman and now you're too embarrassed to admit you were wrong? Seems like a part of the AI pitch is preying on CEO insecurities
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
Is this good? Is this bad? I can't tell.
Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans aren't running for office...their polls are dropping...their own base is mocking them and yelling at them at town halls... And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered. Ask yourselves why?
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted
A great point, and I fear we know why: they don't anticipate there will be elections going forward—or if there are, their outcome will be structurally predetermined. This administration doesn't appear to have any expectation that it will ever be hamstrung or out of power. Not in 2026, not in 2028.
adam mahoney (he/him) (@adamlmahoney.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
They are ginning up support to put us in concentration camps. First it was the immigrants . . . . After Trans it will be the rest of LGBQ+. Then they will dig into voting records and go after Democrats.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
He's the Judge! (slap!). He's the Prosecutor! (slap!)
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
Translation: "He needs to mind his own damn business!" <-- Dodging the question because the truth makes him look like horrible.
Stiggy Pop @hamiltonburger.bsky.social (@hamiltonburger.bsky.social) reposted
Just so we're all clear on what's actually important to these people.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
AI death panels created by the Republicans who lied about the ACA/Obamacare having death panels. It is ALWAYS projection.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
This is going to kill our parents and grandparents. Full Stop.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
Removing Fed autonomy and replacing it with Trump and his Yes-Men is going to be the world economy's 'Demon Core' moment.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
The history of the Demon Core: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_c...
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
Allied nations will be in the hallways outside the room and are going to get a dose based on how insulated they will make themselves. Anyone who is smart is hedging, insulating and just plain moving their finances outside of US influence.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
Removing the FED's autonomy and replacing it with Donald Trump and his Yes-Men will truly be the world economy's 'Demon Core' moment. The US will be stuck in the room and everyone should now be calculating their level of exposure to know how soon after they are going to lose everything (die).
Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) reposted
Same, for the love of Pete. Saaaaaaaame
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
Dollars to donuts he is going to do to the same to Biden and Obama.
Hesse 👒 [bæddelstar galactica] (@thatdoll.online) reposted reply parent
Reddit really has a way of unweaving a human soul and laying it bare before God
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) reposted
Ashli Babbitt was an enemy of multiracial democracy. She stood on the same moral footing as the “redeemers” who sabotaged Reconstruction. And she is being celebrated by this administration for precisely that reason. That is where we are.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted
demanding a do-over military parade because your birthday military parade was a huge flop is the kind of thing that the undead corpse of george washington would smash through his coffin and murder you with his bare hands for, if he could
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Should ask Joey if that interview with ICE is why he’s not been in America for months.
Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted
Christian Nationalism is a farce.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
Where are all the 'Government surveillance' and ' Mark of the Beast' people? They should be SCREAMING at this. Government-mandated health tracking devices you are required to wear everyday?
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
He is going to ban vaccines for all children and women of childbearing age. Women will have to provide a doctor's note that they have gone through menopause to start getting vaccinated again.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
You would think national and international businesses would have someone on staff that could have warned them that Donald Trump would seek to rake control and ownership of them. And that the companies would then take action to fight back, together. But, no. They turned out to be weak and dumb.
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) reposted
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
This is going to start happening to doctors in Emergency and Operating rooms, leaving patients to die.
Constantine (@ajaxsinger.bsky.social) reposted
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
Their quotas are more important than life and property that could be lost without those wildfire firefighters. How do you expect them to get that fat bounty/bonus? /s
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
I am right there with you! I am legit organizing my worldly belongings into 'What to take if I have to leave suddenly and 'What to take if it is an orderly retreat'. 'What can be left behind or trashed' and 'What can I sell to increase my money supply'.
Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted
I was not kidding
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
Seems . . . problematic.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
RFK Jr is basing this off the TSA scanner photos he spent 10 minutes looking at. It's not a microscope, CT Scan or MRI machine, Robert. You can't use it for diagnosis.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
I guarantee this raggedy man has never seen a mitochondria and would struggle to describe what it is.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted
The incredible thing about the Pod Save America guys is their utter inability to read the room The transphobia bit is going to completely alienate the people most likely to listen to their shows and buy their merch and they will never quite be dick enough to win the other folks over
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course its fake, just like he is.
Confusing Fall Warbler (@plumicorns.bsky.social) reposted
You could express your masculinity this way, or you could be like my father, a genuine military veteran who instead owns a copy of every Conan the Barbarian comic
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
I am convinced RFK Jr makes sure he gets ALL the vaccines while working to prevent access to the rest of us. Everything about him is a lie. He is a grifter through and through that has a serious eugenics fetish to compensate for his own moral weakness.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
Looks more and more like Vichy D.C. everyday.
Corey Frayer (@csfrayer.bsky.social) reposted
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
think-about-it.bsky.social (@think-about-it.bsky.social) reposted
This is incredibly disheartening. These ICE representatives are rude ignorant personal who are blocking little children and their escorts. Curiously make a line and stand on one side of sidewalk. Pedo-Party President is a fool and the devil in the flesh. May he burn in HELL!
Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief (@katie.bzky.team) reposted
there's an interesting divide on social media between people who post because they like posting and people who post because they are trying to earn money as on occasion you'll see the latter very upset at the former for any popularity which they feel is taking away opportunity and success from them.
Carl T. Bergstrom (@carlbergstrom.com) reposted
You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
call634-5789 (@call634-5789.bsky.social) reposted
If burning a flag gets you one year in jail….what does beating up cops with a flag get you?
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
No one matters to these fuckhead ICE agents. Only their NUMBERS matter.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
They used the Yellow Dancer/Lancer Cyclone toy from Genesis Climber Mospeada/Robotech: New Generation for Cy-Kill?
rom 💽 (@cdromarts.bsky.social) reposted
Ai abomination in the wild LMFAOOO
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
I'm sure they are happy about being paid shit to pick up trash rather than working their real job back home as their bills pile up.
Rodger Sherman (@rodger.bsky.social) reposted
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
I swear I've gone to this haunted house.
Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) reposted
Most Americans genuinely believe there's some grand overarching force that stops illegal things from happening. That's the truth. We think there's a Boss who says "I won't allow this" and are genuinely surprised when an illegal or unfair thing happens anyway.
Barbara Castellano (@barbcast60.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
One million taxpayer dollars a day for garbage pick up! What a farce!
Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) reposted
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
If this was the 80s, the Satanic Panic abuse would have been real and it would have been from AI companies.
🔩Joan (@screwedjoan.bsky.social) reposted
remember like five days ago when it was revealed that facebook has specifically set parameters for its ai to have sensual encounters with children and then no politicians or major media outlets wanted a followup
Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted
I have worked in big tech for fifteen years and I do not even work directly on security stuff and I simply cannot overemphasize how much you Do Not Do This we have security standards for a reason
amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) reposted
Just some of the National Guard milling around Metro Center in DC.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
They are going to try and take children away. To camps. To 'cure' them.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social) reply parent
I will bet they will say the reason for autism is DEI and the LGBTQ.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reposted
I just can’t believe people don’t all tell him to fuck off
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
👀 Just watch: That 'something' is going to do some HEAVY fucking lifting soon.
Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted
Horseface admits Trump’s regime is the most corrupt in history but she doesn’t care as long as the wall is built. She really cares about our country. 🙄🫠
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted
From the New Republic, May 16, 2024. Everyone was warned but those warnings went unheeded. archive.ph/E6qwI
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
That the country isn't out in the streets when we have news chyrons like this fucking breaks my heart.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
Another DC spitting arrest. This time at the zoo. This time by the FBI. THE FUCKING FBI! And this time, they are refusing to release her after a judge ruled her to be released. Soon, spectators at football games will be arrested for not standing for the National Anthem.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
There was a time that talk like this from an old man would have resulted in a mental health evaluation followed by placement in a memory care facility.
Coach Finstock (@coachfinstock.bsky.social) reposted
ChatGPT not only helped the kid with the planning but it also helped him correct the mistakes he made the first time so he'd get it right when he tried again.
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) reposted
Jeff Lazarus (@jlazarus.bsky.social) reposted
Yeah, this is bad. This is really, really bad. Like, five-alarm fire bad.
BLTSoftTaco 🏳️⚧️ (@bltsofttaco.bsky.social)
FELONY charges for spitting on National Guard members.
Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted
I think you've got a little conflict between numbers 2 and 3 there, buddy
Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social) reposted
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted
Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.
Grudgie the Whale (@grudgie.bsky.social) reposted
Republican fascist abuse of power REQUIRES lying about their opponents otherwise it just looks like they hate America.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
New in PN: Trump's red state army threatens America's cities "What this latest executive order purports to do is to allow Trump to send red state guard members into blue states, shattering the entire concept of state sovereignty."
Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 (@liz.sheshed.rocks) reposted
It is clear the Federal Government under Trump has begun a war with every blue state. We are no longer united.
Kevin Elliott (@kjephd.bsky.social) reposted
And the way to explain it, sadly, is that political principles are entirely pretextual among a certain kind of political actor. When what's driving someone's politics is a categorical rejection of the legitimacy of the other side's right to rule, any hypocrisy or abuse of principle is justified