Teacher. Pond rippler and web plucker. Seeker, sinner, citizen. Books, chess, mixed metaphors. Artist who can't color inside the lines. Ryan-Seaver Dualist.
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When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.
"Evidently China is farther along in its project than I realized, because Xi has reached the point where he no longer humors Trump. Which means that the Chinese believe America’s decline is terminal."
The ‘it’s not fascism’ thesis has been subdued by blunt force trauma
The Apprentice Technogarch Editition: the reality show's new set and cast for 2025
@adamzyglis.bsky.social
If you read one thing today, make sure it’s this truly excellent piece from @asharangappa.bsky.social That Venn diagram is everything. asharangappa.substack.com/p/making-sen...
6/ What did Jamie Dimon know and when did he know it? www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023...
5/A fox guarding the trafficking hen house? www.npr.org/2019/07/09/7...
4/ Did Cioffi and Tannin have anything to do with the market collapse that shuttered Bear Stearns? Did Epstein? repository.crmsindonesia.org/bitstream/12...
4/ Were any of these folks involved in the 2008 Bear Stearns fraud case?
3/ “How in the world, do you, the U.S. attorney, engage in a negotiation with a criminal defendant, basically allowing that criminal defendant to write up the agreement?” Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
2/ Did Epstein know these guys? www.justice.gov/archive/usao...
1/ Wow. I have a few questions: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
war on chicago...a brazen, vulgar VP response to war crimes...a cage fight on the south lawn...national guard trash deployment...masked bounty hunters hitting democratic cities #DystopianAF
Suppose 47 was indeed an FBI informant in a deal he could not refuse...How did he become so? What else did he divulge about whom?
The clown health secretary and the clown-in-chief…
Ex-Israeli spokesman: "You represent sharia. You represent the hatred of Western society." Me: "I am Western, you racist piece of shit... I thought I was coming on to debate John Spencer not this ridiculous war criminal." Full debate between me & an Israeli racist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
@kaltoons.bsky.social
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
Rancid rot
potus caligula
Because the guy who runs their account is a Nazi.
It makes perfect sense if you understand that the goal is to destroy the United States of America
He's more animated and frenetic than I've seen him
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Mamdani: Why should I debate Trump's puppet when I could debate Trump himself? If Trump is serious about this, he should come to New York City. We can have as many debates as he wants about why he is cutting snap benefits for hungry New Yorkers just to fund tax cuts for his billionaire donors
Damn, man, Bernie is hot, has the receipts, and has RFK Jr. on the ropes over his vaccine stance. Take two+ minutes and have a listen. Take it to heart. Then #RESIST this corrupt admin and its clowncar of unqualified cosplayers. We need *every* Senator with a conscience to go after them like this.
Not worthy of regretful hindsight. Fucking fuckers fuck with you; that's what they do. Thank you.
McConnell can f*ck all the way off. He is responsible for this president and the current Supreme Court. apple.news/Ab3-75NapQpO...
Teddy Roosevelt
Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in
resistance through art
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Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
the two americas
::taps mic:: Autism is a) not caused by vaccines and b) a mental health diagnosis made using criteria developed specifically for humans and therefore impossible to diagnose in dogs. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Wildland firefighters were stunned when federal immigration authorities recently raided an active wildfire response in Washington state, arresting two firefighters and sidelining crews for hours. By Alex Brown @stateline.org
The victims just announced that they will compile their own list of Epstein abusers. The admin will coverup and DARVO, attempt to destroy these women just as they did to Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, etc etc. These women are brave beyond belief. We all have to defend them
Mayor Bowser, "shared priorities" with this administration means having masked agents disappear our neighbors in the middle of the night. It means soldiers with assault rifles in our neighborhoods. It means arresting children. These are the priorities of a dictator. DC does not share them.
🚨 NEW from Drop Site News: Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging. Story by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...
Phang: The judge notes that the MacArthur Park show of force was just sheer political theater. Major General Sherman, objected, expressing concern that there would be a large number of people because it was Father’s Day. To which Bovino criticized him, questioning his loyalty to the country.
Valued users! We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A.: postal delivery, representative government, edible food, clean water, lifesaving vaccines, and no kings—ever, guaranteed. Well, 250 years of free is enough.
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Who made these signs? They should be in every city in America ✊🏼 #arresttrump #notofascism
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
This man was just Granted Asylum by a Judge and ICE grabbed him up without cause.. This is fuked up..total disregard and disrespect of the Court and the Judiciary .. 😱
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
This whole thread is just appalling. The hearing arises from the Trump admin conspiring with a foreign country to violate a federal court order in the middle of the night so it can deny due process to children who escaped dangerous circumstances.
Is it happening???
Does anyone wonder if 47 is the distraction for the real grift?
Think Prince and ICE. He is splintering military
47 is feeding the death rumor
In Los Angeles, this should be done everywhere. The pics of Americans snatched by ICE Gestapo is being projected on the side of a detention center in Los Angeles. #iceout #losangeles #california
And he is targeting threats from democratic leaders who are potential candidates for 2028...a preemptive assault for the presidency
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Project 2026 should already be drawn up so it's execution is a counteroffensive in the first 30 days. Personnel, policy, legislation lined up for the blitz
@rob-rogers.bsky.social
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
Just Dance Vance is Person C. harpers.org/archive/1941...
“Do you guys feel bad about what you’re doing? Don’t you f*cking hate yourselves?”
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
A company was awarded a $1.2B contract for a detention center to house migrants. The group behind it remain a mystery
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
The Dark Alliance has been scaled.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
Censorship alert: the White House published a list of 'objectionable art', including a cartoon by Felipe Galindo (Feggo) blog.cartoonmovement.com/2025/08/cens...
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
In a word, revenge: ➡️The Transportation Department said it is cancelling $175 million for four projects that are part of California's #high-speed #rail project, following cancellation of $4 billion in #federal grants for the state's ambitious high-speed rail project in July.
A compromised president who serves his master Putin. MAGA www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This administration of extremists, quacks, and grifters continues to endanger the lives and health of millions
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Russia's wet dream: ktla.com/news/califor...
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
The antiwar president wants to change the Department of Defense’s name to the Department of War. 🤷🏽♂️
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
I genuinely think part of the current political dynamic is that a lot of Dems -- especially your typical educated, affluent city-dwellers -- simply can't believe what's going on. Even though it's right there on the TV, right there in the streets, it's hard to shake the feeling of unreality.
Art. I, Sect. 8: "Congress shall have the power...To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." Fucking fuckers fucking shit up.
Stalin could only have dreamed of having such toadies.
Stephen Miller is completely full of shit, and he knows it. He's selling hatred of cities to people who do not live in cities and are scared of them.
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
#trump #flag #flagburning #news #maga #gop #whitehouse #dictator
The federal government is acquiring American companies? Time to nationalize SpaceX!
Donald Trump sending National Guard troops into Democratic cities against their will is not just unconstitutional, it is an inversion of the Founders’ intent. The safety-valve against state violence—militias—has become the source of state violence. www.mind-war.com/p/militia-ti...
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country