Steps away from the Capitol, victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender, on Wednesday demanded that all people who received sexual favors through Epstein be identified. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Philosopher. Buddhist. Consultant. Recovering capitalist building Bright Fires. Really just a guy in his Thoreau era, but with Wi-Fi. WI/MN
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Steps away from the Capitol, victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender, on Wednesday demanded that all people who received sexual favors through Epstein be identified. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Solar is no longer โalternative energy.โ It is the energy of the future. America risks remaining a petro-state, clinging to the past, instead of becoming an electro-state, embracing the future.
I used to read books like Lord of the Rings or watch movies like Star Wars and think the villains were unbelievable. And of course, now watching the tech oligarchs (who could not spend all their money if they tried) destroy civilization for power, Iโm like, guess I was wrong. People are that awful.
love to be on a dying planet with finite resources while living in a political economy dedicated single-mindedly to infinite, perpetual growth
A comfortable life used to be the American Dream. Not being a financial mogul. Not fighting for the top spot on the food chain. Working to get your share of the pie with the whip cream on top. Grabbing enough food to fill your plate, but leaving plenty on the table for others. Letโs do that again.
Regardless of your feelings about Burning Man, this is an amazing story. ๐ฏ
Whatever is in the Epstein files must be pretty bad, because the President seems extremely stressed by its content. ๐ค Tomorrow morning, we push for the release of the unredacted Epstein files, and the impeachment of this criminal president. Join us.
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These are fighting words.
my father-in-law is a โI know a guyโ Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because itโs not about โwinningโ a deal, itโs about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
I want to believe.
Over 80% casualty rate in Gaza means for every 1 combatant killed, four civilians lose their lives. And you and I are funding it. End arms to Israel. Embargo if they continue. Regulate AIPAC. Negotiate a two-state solution. Stop supporting genocide.
โWhen senators went home, if they voted the wrong way, they were getting angry outreach from their constituents about โWhy would you have tried to continue sending bombs to Israel?โโ interc.pt/47PQNDW
No reasons eh? No logical arguments? Just say it's stupid like a 6 year old and call it a day? YOU'RE TOO FUCKING DUMB FOR THIS JOB!!
New Quinnipiac Poll โ 50% of voters say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Includes *77%* of Democrats, 51% of Independents, and 20% of Republicans. 60% of voters oppose sending more military aid to Israel. Includes 75% of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 37% of Republicans.
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me โ not time or political circumstance โ from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
As Trump continues his authoritarian power grab by militarizing cities, your voice is critical. Contact your local leaders to demand protection of local autonomy and democratic rights. indivisible.org/camp...
I agree 1000000%
Who's the author? These people have names (and addresses).
You going to write a letter? Tell us "it's their government"? You fight SO HARD, we can hardly believe it! ๐
Why is that all you're going to say? I guess ChatGPT can't read Bluesky and you'd have to cut/paste everything, which is tedious. What do YOU know about power "Jack Hopkins"? It sounds like you're just talking up Russian abilities and telling us it's hopeless. Russia won everybody! Give up! ๐ค
Oh, you don't approve of my half assed Bluesky account? ๐ Sock puppet? Urging others to act? Most of what I do here is urge my congressional representative to go fuck himself. What do you "do" here Unavoter?
We should celebrate James Dobson's death like the Ewoks celebrated the destruction of the death star
... Then there's nothing to be done. Moscow has all the power and there's no counter punch. We should all just give up and accept Trump's regime. That sounds stupid to me.
Whoah whoah, you left all the ChatGPT tells in that piece. It's obvious. Are you even real? ๐ค And to the AI that wrote that, did you forget you're talking about a guy in charge of the US military, FBI, etc at the time? If he can be intimidated that way with no defense/retaliation options...
It isnโt normal for a president to repeatedly threaten the use of military force against American citizens. Treating the National Guard as a political pawn disrespects those who serve and undermines public trust in our military.
I voted straight ticket. I vote in WI's spring elections and primaries. I volunteer as a poll monitor through Election Protection. That's all great, but now we need to do more, the bad guys are actively working to rig voting. We need to start punching, for real.
This is a shouting type situation. You should be shouting. We need more shouting.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
It's terrible this isn't a major political issue being discussed everywhere. The Dems should have this front and center in their platform. Will they? Of course not.
Where's the lie?
Dems had 4 years to inoculate us from everything happening now, and didn't. I'll never get over it.
What would red states do if a blue president sent guard to red cities to "fight crime"? They would militarize their own guard/police to arrest the "invading" troops all while screaming as loudly as they could from every platform. Why is this not even discussed amongst blue folk?
this country makes a lot more sense when you realize the ultimate goal for the democratic party is to stop the left from gaining power and ultimate goal for the republican party is to bring back slavery
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
I voted for Harris, in WI, so lower your damn voice when you speak to me. I did this under duress because Trump obviously sucks. If she'd have come out against the Israeli's committing genocide I believe she'd have won. ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
You think "the system" exists anymore? You think "rule of law" is still a thing? Fascinating. You must love the Jefferies and Scchumer approach. Perhaps you should write a strongly worded letter to the fascists, THAT'LL FIX 'EM!
I deeply resent having to defend John Bolton but โthe president sends his goons on a fishing expedition to raid anyone who criticizes himโ is in fact very alarming
Let's remember the presidential election is a while off and there's plenty to do in the short term. For now, Newsome is pretty much the only Dem throwing and landing punches on the bad guys. Let's support that. We must support fighting fire with fire.
THEN FIND A FUCKING CANDIDATE WHO CAN WIN! That means no genocide, no AIPAC. There are lots of great people who fit this description, pick one of those.
No AIPAC, no genocide. Sorry, that's not negotiable.
Stephen Miller has definitely been stuffed in a locker several times during his high school days.
I think it's important to understand that people who identify as conservatives have not, as a group, turned away as their party has gone to full mask-off fascism whatsoever, so we can see their true ideology and we can stop pretending to believe in the fake ideology they propounded to disguise it.
The GOP governors of South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee have all sent their states' National Guard troops to assist Trump's occupation of DC. All four of those states have cities with crime rates higher than DC. This was never about "fighting crime."
No 2nd Amendment group should ever be able to use the "tyrannical government" argument again without being called out, trolled, and ridiculed.
It's a surreal experience to find myself on the cover of Time Magazine but it's truly a reflection of what we have built together over these past ten months. Read the story: time.com/7308924/zohr... ...and sign up to canvass: zohranfornyc.com/canvasslaunch
Fuck yourself Chrissy, you're the problem.
You should write a letter (strongly worded) to Trump, THAT'LL SHOW 'EM!!
SHOCKING! I can't believe mandatory profit growth is fucking things up. So bizarre.
A Democratic candidate with Mamdani's platform and Newsome's (newfound) fire-with-fire strategy would LANDSLIDE in 2028. Will the DNC step up? Of course not. @democrats.org
Fascinating story by @tessowen.bsky.social on people trying to reconnect to their MAGA parents via book clubs. One woman promised to attend church if her ailing father reads 3 books. โIt would be good to know that when I go one day, Iโll see my daughter again,โ he says. www.wired.com/story/people...
Why did Biden and Garland let him walk? He should have been ARRESTED, TRIED, and sent to PRISON. Why is this party so consistently weak?
The people responsible for the fascist coup in our country have names and addresses.
What does Putin have on Trump? Is it related to Epstein? Will any legacy media organization or figure ask this question seriously? How is this not THE story right now?
I'm cheering on the first damn Democrat to actually throw a punch at the fascists. And I will keep cheering as long as he's punching. Presidential election? That's a long way off. Let's focus on the battles at hand.
A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasnโt much reporting on it. But Iโm not finished thinking about it! ๐งต An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 โblast-proofโ windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.
Can people let younger folk in their life know that THESE TIMES ARE NOT NORMAL ?? Sending in TROOPS to a city is not NORMAL!! I'm so afraid we are going to have gens growing up thinking this is just business as usual.
I held this post up to the light.
๐ฝ๏ธ WATCH: Student Kenneth Santizo captured ICE and FBI officers stopping a family on their way to church in the Boston suburbs. Agents broke the window, forced Daniel Flores-Martinez to his knees and slammed him to the ground while his children and his wife, a U.S. citizen, sobbed in the car.
Your Daddy got DOG WALKED! ๐๐๐๐ He can't even walk in a straight line on the red carpet he rolled out. What a pathetic, orange failure.
You sound like you're begging for mercy because your fragile lil ego can't take a single speck of criticism. This is why you can't interact freely with any group of your constituents. This is why you can't debate anyone. This is why you block so many people. To sum up, you're a pussy.
Look at your boss clapping for his boss after rolling out a literal red carpet. Donny gave him a ride too, and let him speak first and IN RUSSIAN! Kissed his ass the entire time. If Obama or Biden had done this you'd tweet about it 5642 times. Resign you drunk puppet.
Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin
CEOs and "Business Leaders" aren't very good at making things better. They just lead people to make line go up. "Leadership" as a concept has been bastardized beyond recognition by the LinkedIn crowd. Office politics and profit chasing don't inspire or solve any big problems.
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. Thatโs $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Fascism isn't coming, it's here. It's depressing as fuck but we still have to fight it
Remember that time in Milwaukee when you falsely accused a 110 pound girl of assault? How hard were you struggling that day?
@laura.direct for Congress!!
Would love an economist to measure the point at which youโd be richer if you lived in a social democracy like Finland or Denmark. My guess is the number is ~ $50 milllion net worth. In other words if you have less than that and are still supporting capitalism, youโre on the wrong team.
How many people in the West have heard the testimony shared by American doctor Mike Perlmutter about 2 children whose hands were bound before they were buried alive by the IDF? Does that not deserve an nyt piece? What more needs to happen?
Someone please explain $324 trillion in debt to me like I'm 8 years old.
@therealdvo.bsky.social <---- Pretends to fight for vets
Where's the farm bill dumbass? Aside from drinking and yelling out embarrassing shit on social media, what do you actually do? Are you proud of yourself? I'm seriously asking.
Why was that a big win you stupid asshole? Can you take ANY issue facing your district seriously? All you have is harassment and whining. You don't deserve your job.
Ok DC its your turn now. Show em how it's done. Sending you all love from Portland
Why do we allow CEOs to take 7 and 8 figure bonuses when their employees don't have dental insurance or are receiving SNAP benefits? How is that something we tolerate as a society? How is that remotely ethical?
What are you going to do about it?
What do you mean by "better"? You're saying you'll fight for Universal Healthcare, right? You and the Dems will make that a priority?
When you don't draw a line at genocide, it's really tough to draw a line anywhere else.
Basic human needs should never be allowed to be provided for profit. Water, electricity, healthcare, education, housing, and even food (yes food) must all be non-profit. This seems like a basic concept to me.
This is so pure and true, seriously.
For a supposedly elite tier of soldier, you sure do bitch and whine a lot while offering zero leadership or solutions.
Be honest Duurrrick, you have zero grasp of American history, political science, economics, or anything related to your job. You're just Trump's drunkest puppet (except maybe Hegseth). You have nothing to offer, so shut the fuck up about FDR.
Once again you don't seem to know anything about the political spectrum.
Screaming at everyone and flipping a table won't win you a debate Duuuurick.
Left: Western-funded horror so history-echoing we sign Never Again treaties Right: Western-funded horror so history-echoing that we continue to aid and abet while arresting anyone who opposes
ChatGPT 5 drops tomorrow, August 6th! Nobody reads this, but I'm excited anyway.
Itโs at the national courts, not the ICC or ICJ, where Palestinians have the best chance to see justice.
