Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
This is embarrassing...
just a boy, standing in front of a girl, asking her to slam in the back of my Dragula
84 followers 112 following 216 posts
view profile on Bluesky Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
This is embarrassing...
Today is also a day to remember Melissa Hortman and reject the skewed narrative that fools like Klein and opportunists like Newsom are helping build www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/u...
Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
No it hasn't. Ask the average person on the street and they'll have no idea who he was. But that's certainly the narrative the right is trying to set, and y'all are more than happy to oblige.
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh fuck this shit
Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
The fallout from the Trump administration's baffling decision to antagonize South Korea is going to be substantial. Per Evan Feigenbaum: "The US now at risk of losing Korean investment, which reached $76.7 billion in 2023." www.kedglobal.com/business-pol...
All of this is correct, though? Kirk was a bigot. He hated the marginalized. If it was you instead of him he would laugh. He was a terrible man.
the complaint is basically that unidentified people are reacting to Charlie Kirk dying like Charlie Kirk would
rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of
It's wild to see politicians decide that out of the dozens of murders that take place every day in the U.S. that they're going to speak out about this specific murder and not others. It's so performative.
this case was devised in a lab to reveal the hypocrisy of both the “free speech on campus” and the “cancel culture” grifters simultaneously
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure, as long as Duffman here agrees to be the test pilot on all future missions...
White Christian Taliban shit right here. Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)
The President of the United States just essentially declared a war on Chicago because — wait for it! — Black and Brown people live here. This is not normal. This is not okay. And we are going to fucking fight back.
Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, but he's a nazi cunt, so that's very much on brand. Why aren't you as journalists pushing back against that BS?
Still enraged by that Riley Gaines story, one in a line of in-soft-focus features of people who see harming others as a lucrative career. In the journalism world I stepped into 42 years ago, this would have been the headline and lede, not the 47th paragraph. The. 47th. Paragraph. I counted. 1/x
in a week of talk about ways to criminalize transness & TX’s finally successful passage of a trans bathroom ban (the 20th state with a trans bathroom ban), if you think of yourself as antifascist or an ally, you need to understand what every “we have to pick our battles” gets trans people closer to.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
"DC will have been under unlawful occupation by the criminal Trump regime for three and a half months..." fixed that for you.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
God, you people suck at your job.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Support Zohran or get the hell out of the way.
I hate every single politician and anti-vaxxer who created this culture. They have all been vaccinated but they want to children to suffer and die because they have so much hubris they think they can outwit science with raw milk & turmeric. A pox on their houses. May they be fucking haunted forever.
I genuinely hate Kennedy and the rest of the bigoted as shit MAGA freaks
I am telling you, this could and should become a murder investigation capable of really scaring the shit out of Trumpworld.
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
When it does happen, make sure your memes have alt text and your hashtags are pascal cased. I want to be able to like and share everything.
Live your life in such a way that, upon realizing that you are probably p seriously ill, millions of people are not torn between hoping you die as soon as a body can possibly shuffle off its mortal coil and hoping that you survive long enough to go to prison and die there.
Wow this is amazing. They're putting $5 million into canceling medical debt for families. And for every million the movie makes at the box office, another million in medical debt will get paid off!
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not challenging at all. One should simply not seek to profit by supporting genocide.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Still boggles the mind how Republicans can so vigorously claim they love America when they spend so much time and energy looking for ways to honor traitors
You cannot shout "I am a down-in-the-gutter, race-baiting shitpiece" any louder than this. You can try, but your voice will not carry any further than this twisted swine's wail.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Useless pigs harassing the real heroes...
TRUMP: *Signs order to put congressional Democrats in front of a firing squad" NYT: President Trump took the extraordinary step of moving to reduce number of Democratic votes in a legally dubious maneuver that could undermine the independence of the Congress.
What I'm looking for in the 2028 primary is someone who will put Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem in jail, and so far, that's Pritzker
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
basically, there doesn’t need to be actual evidence that democratic politicians use this language to try to appeal to voters because “everyone knows” that democrats use this language. but “democrat” here does not mean anyone formally associated with the party, it means any person coded as such
Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social. Notice the difference?
You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI. The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.
I hate that it’s come to this, but glad California is responding appropriately. Other states that are able to do so need to join in as well.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, he lives in a fascist and racist country, so I'll give you one guess as to why he was detained.
Can’t hard same any harder than I already am.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
"Don't play down crime," they say, while playing down fascism. Good lorde...
it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, so Mr. Charlie Fain is a fascist...
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
The fascist authoritarian cunt did what now???
A reminder that Dems went out of their way to NOT politicize their prosecutions of Trump. Garland dragged his feet. Biden kept his distance. And then they appointed a special counsel to look independent. All a waste of time. You can never appease the GOP. So why do Dems keep trying? ARGHGGHG.
The right-wing media is laying the groundwork for Trump to grant a pardon (to cover his own ass) by claiming Maxwell was a *victim* when she was an abuser who trafficked young girls. A morally bankrupt political movement.
These guys are describing a real thing but it’s not the thing they think it is: they’re actually describing the absolutely enormous right-wing media ecosystem’s ability to blow up huge cultural outrages out of absolutely nothing, milking them to radicalize young men into racial and gender extremism
It's time to hold ICE accountable. It's time to defund ICE. I said what I said.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
"Hey, lets aquire this brand and then make sure none of its current customers ever fuck with it in the future." Brilliant, promote this man immediately!
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
OK now everyone who has given Mamdani shit over something he never said has to publicly explain how this quote by a member of the Israeli government makes them feel www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-mi...
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
It's an effort to push the radical far-right narrative into every aspect of our lives. Do your damn jobs and call it what it is.
Yeah
“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.
This is the quote they're pretending to be mad about: “I mean, ‘Superman’ is the story of America. An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.”
But it's OK to be a nazi on substack
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Bunch of fucking losers, can't stand to see a Democrat that actually wants to get things done.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope all the bad things in life happen to them and nobody else but them.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Protect them from what, being dumb cunts?
The level of bald-faced, open racism that we are now seeing is simply gobsmacking. Far worse than anything I can remember in the US in my lifetime.
Republicans aren't asked to condemn Vance Boelter, who literally committed terrorism just 2 weeks ago against Dems and had a hit list. Dems and Republicans who "unconditionally support" Israel are never asked to condemn genocide or war crimes. But Mamdani must condemn everything. Nonsense. Enough.
Extraordinarily effective, menschy, and representative of the vast majority of American Jews in a way a Kushner or Miller could never be.
RFK Jr. fired all of the experts at CDC's vaccine advisory committee. He installed 8 unvetted people, including anti-vaxxers who should have ZERO role in deciding which vaccines insurance should cover. The committee's next meeting must be postponed.
It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.
🎶Every accusation is a confession🎶 Moms of Liberty edition:
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
His full name wouldn't happen to be Bob Starburst, would it?
a racist chud gets jealous of a person of african descent and tries to being the force of the state against them, many such cases www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Who cares what a bunch of pedos want?
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
I know a ton of people have made this point but imagine being the leader of one of the nation’s most prominent pro-Jewish organization and it this particular moment in U.S. history, you’re doing THIS, instead of spending night and day standing against the dictator wannabe rounding up families
No you fucking idiot, I'm suggesting that attacking Diaspora communities for the actions of the Israeli government reinforces the central point of Zionism, that only force (in the form of a Jewish ethnostate) can protect us from an eternally hostile world. bsky.app/profile/hrry...
Impeach. Remove. Prosecute. Jail.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Fuck them all, and screw you for being more interested in a photo opp than protecting your constituents.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah she's dumb, but holy hell, fuck that fascist asshole.
"The Trump administration has suspended foreign aid to Congo and the resettlement of [Congo] refugees ... thus abandoning countless victims of the very same real-life humanitarian catastrophe that he’s cherry-picking imagery from to portray an atrocity against whites that isn’t actually happening.”
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Reality liberal bias strikes again, time to bury our heads in the sand.
Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
You're seeing America kamikaze itself into a brick wall. It didn't have to be this way. But greed and racism, our two sins, will be our downfall. Too many people still with their hands in the sand.
This is a warcrime and should be reported as such by news organizations IN THE FUCKING HEADLINE
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe focus more on the authoritarian fascist who is in office now? His brain is also deteriorating; y'all seem to get a hard-on over that.
Disgusting, naked, open blatant corruption. Whether it is crypto, Trump Media stock, real estate developments, licensing deals or jets, foreign governments continue to buy our presidency by bribing our criminal president.
But remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils
That there were people cheering on the DOGE cuts because they thought the government would send them a $500 check from all the money saved firing scientists and park rangers is quite sad to me.
Darek (@darekb.bsky.social) reply parent
"Dear leader" type shit; lick boot or get the fudge out.
ICE just staged a big production to try to arrest a guy who posted the names and photos of agents to telephone polls, likely on the theory that doing so was criminal incitement.
The president is playing videos at his political rallies of people getting their heads shaved at what is effectively a concentration camp. He’s sending people to that camp with no due process, and 9 in 10 have no criminal record. The rallies are eating it up. Forget “can.” It is happening here.
Srikumar 