The US is transforming into a 1930s-style autocracy, says billionaire Ray Dalio www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/b...
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The US is transforming into a 1930s-style autocracy, says billionaire Ray Dalio www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/b...
For someone steeped in social/political research Nate Silver would do better to define his terms. What specific policies are exclusively Left, Progressive, etc.? Being new to Bluesky I’m in the “fresh eyes” period and the “culture warrior ” Left is barely a thing & most here just burn GOP straw men.
Elections have consequences, even for #guitar players and audiophiles.
Giuliani Injured As Karma Decides To Get Off Its Lazy Ass.
House Music House Hunters curiously hosted by Hugh Laurie as Dr. House and Ian Hunter.* *This half-assed response only cost you the time to read it and this footnote. Paying customers get my good stuff.
CNN confirms that the pilots landed the plane using paper maps. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
Bea Arthur was a Marine in WWII. DoD deleted her page, along with Jackie Robinson + other DEI content. This isn’t just a website glitch. It’s a troubling trend: selectively erasing history. Only public pressure forced its return, along with Jackie Robinson’s page.👇
What is going on here?
We are apparently headed to war with Venezuela… And, there is no one home at the White House … And, there is no situation war room set up. What gives folks? Is the White House on “AI war auto-pilot?”
REMEMBER: Wearing white supremacy after Labor Day is unfashionable.
RFK Jr. is the Phineas Gage of politics. Discuss.
It just wasn’t in the stars for him.
Like spotting Bigfoot, but it’s Tiny Hands.
That man child is a Chalupa Supreme short of a SUPREME LUXE BOX.
Live: Chicago prepares for invasion.
🚨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
#BookWorm Read more - you need a current USA library card, Libbylife.com has ebooks and audiobooks. Hoopla has ebooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, and music. hoopladigital.com
Hey Mark- Told one of my chiropractic patients about Cost Plus Drugs last week and your mission after he complained a skin cancer medicine was going to cost him $1700- He found it on your website for under $20- for real. Best project ever. @costplusdrugs.com
Instead of fishing and foraging for berries like all other bears, Paul had wisely been investing the money he took from people he had mauled.
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BERMAN: End EV credit- underwater. Boost Medicaid work requirements- underwater. Increase border wall spending- underwater. Increase detention center spending- underwater. End solar, wind incentives- underwater. Reduce SNAP benefits- underwater JOHNSON: I'm not buying it. Polls can be manipulated
This has to do with state laws that — in some states — explicitly forbid pharmacists to administer vaccines that haven't been recommended by the CDC's vaccine advisory panel. Legal experts said the liability concerns are real, given the government's actions/inaction.
RFK blaming SSRIs for mass shootings because they want kids to die from suicide before they get shot
To be fair Mr. Trump’s covering his discolored right hand might an attempt to cover a less threatening medical condition; genital warts from jerking off ghosts.
Powerful words! Stephen Miller just called the Democratic Party “the enemy.” This isn’t just rhetoric, it’s the language that destroys our constitutional democratic republic. Once one party is cast as illegitimate, elections become meaningless. This is how democracies die. Take this seriously.👇
Isn’t that sumptin’?
Stochastic terrorism was coined in 2010, but in practice didn’t seem perfected until after 2016 for some reason. 🧐
Walmart, ICE, and the Senator Who Almost Said It. Sen. Ben Ray Luján nearly calls Walmart out after ICE turns a shopping trip into a violent arrest in Albuquerque. migrantinsider.com/p/walmart-ic...
"The pursuit of immediate pleasure is, in fact, a flight from freedom.” —Erich Fromm
“My Uncle Terwilliger on the Art of Eating Popovers," the 30 second commencement speech Dr. Seuss gave at Lake Forest College in 1977. He was there to receive an honorary degree and did not plan a speech. He wrote this just prior to delivering it and given his message it is rather clever.
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Could this administration get away with uniformly saying DEI causes autism even though the coining of the diagnosis predates coining of DEI? DEI coined in the 2010s, Autism 1911. Are we there yet?
Dorothy, we’re not in Kansas, we’re through the looking glass with Alice.
Worst Abbey Road recreation tribute yet:
A postcard video from Kyiv. Just a small reminder of how beautiful this city is.
Correction, his formal title is The hEarl of Sandwich. 😁
Heroin and narcissism cause RFK Jr-ism.
The fact that all major news sources in the United States have daily lead stories like "Experts weigh in on the most delicious ice cream" and not "Democracy is dead" is one of the greatest derelictions in duty in the history of the country.
“Let them eat ice cream” or “Ice cream and circuses”, I’m torn which is best fitting.
The Brahmins who run the New York Times are seriously out of touch
Conservatives now control federal research funding. The next step: actually manipulating research. A conservative law firm is demanding Brown retract research showing connections between anti-wind groups and the fossil fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
Rumor on the Street: Dear Leader will use JPow allowing Cook to work today as a pretense to fire JPow, too 👀 #EconSky
Today’s flashback: what kind of regime does this? What happened to: “No child will ever go hungry in a land of plenty?” www.cbsnews.com/news/usda-ca...
She was made from all the leftovers... and she turned out to be gorgeous! 😊 #cat #catday #bluesky
Good morning!
Sure. Give this guy a Nobel Peace Prize. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
#Epstein follow the money too:
More Corruption discovered! #iceout #notofascism
Gather ‘round the fire children and I’ll tell you tales of old like the Realistic adventures of Radio Shack.
Stand, they will try to make you crawl And they know what you're sayin' makes sense at all Stand, don't you know that you are free Well, at least in your mind if you want to be Everybody Stand, stand - Sly Stone
This is interesting then it goes somewhere, watch to the end.
Overwhelm the energy vampires:
Is it possible to shove trump and rahm emanuel into a Tupperware container, shake it up, and watch them fight?
⚠️ #Recall Alert: For the second time this week, the FDA is warning consumers not to eat five additional brands of frozen shrimp due to possible radioactive contamination substance: Cesium-137, or Cs-137.
Clarity of thought:
My home is now marked safe for retribution searches:
Stephen Miller in DC about protestors of the federal takeover in DC: "“We’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old,” And here’s the Stephen Miller Band, with much younger hippies. harryshearer.com/le-shows/jul...
Yep, if there’s an America death certificate Garland will be cited as a contributing factor.
@bix.bsky.social @inunfunky5.bsky.social Report: Trump has bought more than $100m in bonds in office, disclosure shows Trump’s investments include Meta, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and T-Mobile, according to filing. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...
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In a historical context the American experiment is a tossed coin spinning and in need of our kicking it in the trajectory of democracy as the founders envisioned.
However realistically or cynically you anticipated the present, shall we say “situation”, do you ever stand back objectively observing just how fucked up things are? We may thread the needle and attempt something akin to “normalcy, but damn!
Such a relief. Judge rules that Alligator Alcatraz must close in 60 days. No new detainees.👇 www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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@bix.bsky.social in case you need to vomit: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
I’m not making a dirty bomb from Walmart’s radioactive shrimp, but if I were I’d leave the tails on for maximum effect.
Walmart shrimp with a half-life of approximately 30.17 years.
Greetings from Kyiv! My routine. warcoffee after the workout. Later, I’ll visit an art exhibition and send a letter about bread in Ukraine. Perhaps, it’s my answer to the questions how I cope here.
Epstein keeps erupting like a herpes and the administration has to ramp up the propaganda and distractions to maintain support.
Do watch.
With all the tacky faux gold the White House is turning into Tzar-a-Lago.
Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.
With barbecued ribs and jive? I’m in!
There’s a 50th anniversary edition of Deep Purple Made in Japan out; a great live album.
Kharkiv right now. Moscovia bombs sleeping families. 4 victims including kids. Don’t tell me about peace that Putin wants. Do not dare.
Assault with a Deli Weapon
Fearing repercussions from the Trump administration Subway cancels a BOTO* promotion. * Buy One, Throw One.
Hey gang, remember Signalgate? In ye olde’ America that would still be a scandal until someone left to “spend more time with their family” or was fired. Relatedly, is there a Trump scandal tracker website?
In this timeline our Chauncey Gardiner is a malignant narcissist.
Oh Alexia and Amazon can do it, why the account holders too? 😁
Answer: ⬆️⬆️⬆️ Question: What is a statement no one in 1970 would understand?
I guess if someone wanted to, they could call the Owatonna Buffalo Wild Wings to ask if their staff are trained in chasing people into bathrooms to harass them. Also unrelated, here is the number for the Buffalo Wild Wings in Owatonna: (507) 455-2700
@chaykak.bsky.social here’s a well crafted love letter about Counter Social: world.hey.com/corlin/a-sev...
@chaykak.bsky.social a good example of a non-commodified social media platform w/o advertising is Counter Social. It’s free to use and subscription supported. One can engage w/the community at large or privately. Trollish behavior is not accepted and the admin is highly responsive TOS violations.
There are many potential destinations without an extradition treaty with the United States. While all things Epstein are damaging to MAGA perceptions of Trump, Dems messaging the connections between how they feel about their freedoms and wages being stolen by the Republicans enabling Trump.
Due process is for ALL people.
God has posted. What are you waiting for?
My democracy falling and Mondays always bring me down.
An over reaction to getting your Big Balls hit:
WSJ: “.. capitalism in America is starting to look like China.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
Get out of the White House now. Bunch of hypocrites praying for a tyrant. There’s a reason we have an Establishment Clause of the First Amendment which prevents the govt from establishing a state religion or endorsing any particular religion. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
I like my harbingers extra doomy
Auto-reply email of the year. 🏆 FDA official resigning in spectacular fashion #badass #dropthemic #goals 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DNG3MdWyto...
Putin gets a meeting with the "pres of the US" [sic] on US soil... BECAUSE he's under indictment by the world court for war crimes..like kidnapping children. So 2 criminals involved w child trafficking are having a powwow to dictate the fate of a country that was illegally invaded by Russia Swell.
Those were the days eh?