James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Proto-Germanic Paganist with nonspecific surliness. Squirrel psychologist, Fullerian Professor of absurdity, oppressor of the inhabitants of Pavia
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The transition to clean energy would reduce US energy prices by 20% to 80% by 2040.
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
How Many People Live Paycheck to Paycheck? www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/19/h...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
The shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona. As many as 60% of American households live paycheck to paycheck, while one in three report forgoing basic necessities such as food or medicine to pay energy bills and avoid disconnection. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ghislaine Maxwell hinted at Epstein’s ties to Trump officials—why wasn’t she pressed for names? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ian Weissman, DO (@drianweissman.bsky.social) reposted
"America’s leading physician groups are now openly defying Kennedy. U.S. vaccine consensus has officially shattered." www.vox.com/health/45922...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July. Immigrants make up almost 20% of the U.S. workforce; 45% of workers in farming, fishing, and forestry; and 30% of all construction workers; and 24% of service workers.
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Angry constituents confront Congress on immigration, Medicaid cuts and Gaza www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
"I’m a rabbi. Here is why my faith tells me the war in Gaza must end." The High Holy Days call us to act: free the hostages, feed the hungry, and end the war. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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The investigation is sure to raise questions, considering that Republicans have spent the past several years denouncing anti-misinformation efforts and demonizing efforts to root out foreign manipulation such as those that have been known to thrive on MAGA-friendly platforms like the Musk-owned X.
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
House Republicans have launched an investigation into Wikipedia, a long-standing target of conservatives. Elon Musk and others have waged a campaign to portray Wikipedia as an oppressive tool of leftist manipulation. Now a House committee is investigating allegations of anti-Israel bias.
Dale Ryder (@kryton3298.bsky.social) reposted
Texas maps are being litigated, Missouri is next. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Integrity73 (@integrity73.bsky.social) reposted
@arktimes.bsky.social Before September 3,This is for all the Epstein File Survivors. I hope Pam Bondi gets what she deserves for lying to the American People! youtu.be/VCRnVwaoCYM?...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
This is how insane it is in America right now, with Trump and his MAGA half-wits in charge of our nation.
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
A scientist who resigned from the CDC is warning that goofball RFK Jr. has shown signs he believes in eugenics. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned in protest at the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, says that America needs to wake up to the secretary’s rhetoric. news.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
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Why couldn't this have happened 60 years ago?
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social) reply parent
There's no way that I believe the statement that the Giuliani team put out there.
Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine (@papootx.bsky.social) reposted
Texas AG Partizan Attack On Beto Ken Paxton threatens to arrest Beto O'Rourke for fighting the illegal gerrymander of five congressional seats. Speech is no longer Free in Texas! open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Imagine Trump doing that... He would have fired her as an EDI hire and replaced her with a member of the KKK.
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Thoughts and Prayers
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She Left Me for a Man With Shoes - Willie Crowder (1933) Lost Delta Blues youtu.be/BzNygRNNA1E?...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
The town of Vail, Colo., has settled a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Colorado on behalf of a Native American painter whose artist residency was abruptly canceled last year after she posted to social media a painting about her views on the war in Gaza. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/a...
Lynn (@lynnf.bsky.social) reposted
@realzappbrannigan.smokefleet.net www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Israel’s Gaza Media Ban Is Indefensible. 200 journalists have been killed so far among the 63,000 Palestinian civilians. 90% of Gaza has been leveled. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/o...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
“I start eating, eating, eating. I can’t control myself. I wish I had a second stomach.”
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Fermented wool is wool that has undergone a suint fermentation process using natural bacteria found on the fleece itself Why are the colors in the world’s oldest knotted-pile carpet still so vivid and bright, even after almost two and a half thousand years? www.chemistry.nat.fau.eu/2021/03/08/f...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
German artist Cornelia Konrads creates site-specific installations using a variety of materials such as wood, stone, brick, and steel wire, set in natural surroundings with elements of impermanence, transition, and the surreal. Here’s ‘Passage’ (2007) @WomensArt
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Trump goes 2 full days without an impeachable offense, and we all just assume he's dead.
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Morris Rosenfeld American, 1885–1968 "Flying Spinnakers," 1938
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Vulgar. Ignorant. Narcissistic. A sociopath. A criminal. Egomaniac. A fraudster. A farce. A bullshitter. A liar. A swindler. A trickster. A con artist. A charlatan. An impostor. A slimebag. A faker. A clown. A schemer.
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Peeling Paint Appreciation Society. Picture courtesy of Vesta Emma.
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters Der Führer also wants to ban almost all voting by mail in a push stemming from baseless lies related to the 2020 election loss. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reluctant Antagonist (KJ Colt) (@moistenedtart.bsky.social) reposted
What we think serial killers look like vs what they actually look like:
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REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Noem says LA 'would have burned down' without Trump's National Guard deployment She characterized Los Angeles as a doomed city that needed to be saved by the president. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
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Flesh Banana (@notimeforpoopin.bsky.social) reposted
I waited hours for this cloud to come near the lake #lightning strike reflection.
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
POS Donald Trump, who is alive, is posting AI photos of himself dressed up as law enforcement.
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Trump celebrated the "true character" of former NFL coach Jon Gruden despite his resignation over reports that he used racist, sexist, and anti-gay slurs. "Great playing golf with Jon Gruden—a really nice guy and true character!" Trump wrote on Sunday.
M Meerkat (@kackbro.bsky.social) reposted
Spock and Kirk Time Traveled to 2025 Earth, and sensing the urgency of now,while not disregarding the Prime Directive, Want The Files Released......
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a lawyer, leader of a children’s anti-vaccine organization, and a promoter of conspiracy theories—is being praised by Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as a “foremost” global health expert and a “crown jewel” of the Trump administration. www.alternet.org/trump-adviso...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
It's fucked up that the Republicans are defending "thoughts and prayers" as the proper response to this crisis. The media is framing it as a rehabilitation of the idea. “incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to people of faith who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works.”
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
What happened to the social media "free speech" MAGA was demanding? A top official at the FDA demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself that were uploaded by a physician who is critical of medical misinformation by health officials in the Trump admin. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Israeli airstrikes and gunfire have killed 30 starving civilians around Gaza City, local officials say The toll includes 13 people trying to get food near distribution point, as Israeli cabinet authorizes next stages of the offensive. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had killed Abu Obeida, the longtime spokesman for Hamas, in an attack on Gaza City, in what would be the latest in a string of Israeli assassinations of the Palestinian group’s key figures.
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
A Republican congressman left a heated town hall via the back door after he was relentlessly laughed at and heckled while trying to defend Trump. Rep. Barry Moore was hammered with tough queries—and more than a few heckles—during a raucous town hall in Alabama. news.yahoo.com/news/article...
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MAGA Radio Host’s Cancer-Stricken Wife Can’t Get COVID Shot Because of ‘Kook’ RFK Jr. news.yahoo.com/news/article...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw faced MAGA’s full fury as his constituents demanded the GOP release more details of the late financier’s crimes and affiliations. news.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
James Hughes (@dystopian-fashion.bsky.social)
Trump's crackdown has generated a torrent of charges against people caught up in a surge of street patrols. Judges, defense attorneys, and grand jurors are already poking holes in most cases. “I’ve seen things in the past 72 hours that I’ve never seen in federal court,” Judge Zia Faruqui said.
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Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social) reposted
🧵What do Trump, Epstein & Brunel have in common other than sex trafficking & raping children? Melania. She is another Trump "Big Lie" Epstein and Brunel are central figures in her real narrative. Both now conveniently dead.
Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Vanity Fair staffers threatened to walk-out if the magazine puts Melania Trump on the cover.