erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Absolute Skat Bebop hall of Fame. 21st century Be Bob freestyling legend youtube.com/watch?v=-91v...
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Absolute Skat Bebop hall of Fame. 21st century Be Bob freestyling legend youtube.com/watch?v=-91v...
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
And free ponies, puppies, or kittens for anyone who asks! The shamelessness of these lies knows no limits
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
✅Check ✅Check ✅Check ✅Check ✅Check With this game, when you win, we lose
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: ✅Check For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: ✅Check For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: ✅Check For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: ✅Check
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
"He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries." ✅Check He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. ✅Check
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
The declaration of Independence, lists some of the grievances against King George that triggered the founders. How many has the president also committed? www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Alt U.S. Department of Labor (@alt-dol.altgov.info) reposted
Generations of workers in America bled and died to win dignity on the job. They stood together against those who refused to recognize their humanity. On Labor Day, as fascism rises again, we honor those who came before us and carry forward their spirit of solidarity & defiance. Fight like hell. ✊
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD (@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social) reposted
If I win the Powerball, my Presidential campaign starts tomorrow and my platform is: Nationalized healthcare, incl Free vaccines Scientific research $$$$ Every kid gets fed every day High speed rail everywhere The day after the Super Bowl is a national holiday. Hope I can count on your vote!
Feral Maui Hermit (@mauigreg.bsky.social) reposted
The bridge too far has already been crossed the moment law enforcement started to wear masks. Every officer who is wearing a mask is already looking forward to his order to start killing us with reckless abandon. The mask was the test; if they are willing to do that, they are willing to kill us.
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Or how about the Gold brick that "Tim Apple" besties on Trump to get magically exempt from Tariffs? Or 47's open invitation to but influence and access through his Shit-coin Or ...
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Wait what? Are we still concerned about how terrorist organizations like the NRA purchase influence? I would have thought that Elon Musk's completely transparent purchase of influence on Trump would have shown we've jumped the shark on that one
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Sooooo, I'm still on the fence about how I feel about this beauty by Terry Pratchett and Colleen Doran, knowing it's tainted by the contributions of a villain who used his reputation as a "feminist ally" author to take and abuse Heartbroken for his victims rainn.org
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Theological Malpractice Right on!
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
3) major studios HAVE made bigger budget, edgier films since 4) accessibility of other media with wider distribution make "movies" the less controversial place to push boundaries M Python had something to say then, but now? Shut it Boomer
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a cop out They claim it's some PC pressure that might make introducing a movie from then now: 1) it's been done, so it won't be made now because it's derivative 2) what's funny is always a reflection of the current times, and because "Life of Brian" exists, no one needs make it
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Whistle blower protections and other rules-of-law just don't seem to matter in the White House. Who would've thunk
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
"One should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book, and has never read it." - Freidriche Nietzsche
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Until so-called law enforcement stop supporting unlawful orders to aid and abet the extrajudicial kidnapping of people off the streets. It was bad enough that they outright murder people for their own insecurities ("I feared for my safetyyyyy") they can all fuck off
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Fraternal Order of Police spamming my cell phone with fund raising calls (for their legal defense fund? So they can assault people without consequences?) Don't appreciate them being accomplices to 47's illegal kidnapping of people who "look" illegal ACAB
alternate ending (@jamiroqueer.bsky.social) reposted
he's not dead, it's a ploy to get everyone to buy sheet cake and fireworks as an economic stimulus
JL Kaufmann (@jlkaufmann.bsky.social) reposted
Brace yourselves, my lambs. I don't want you all sad and disappointed when he pops up again on Monday picking fights with international politicians he's never met over things that never happened.
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
It only took 12 years for the state of our nation to be stranger than fiction depicted in Cory Doctorow's "Homeland" craphound.com/all-audioboo... The Enshittification of the rule of law isn't making us Great
The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted
CDC leaders on why the left: “I resigned because I could not be part of the weaponization of public health and CDC… we should always be questioning - but you shouldn’t have a preconceived idea before you have the data.”
Fal Rising (@falrising.bsky.social) reposted
South Korea's former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has been indicted for aiding ex-president Yoon's attempted coup last year, joining Yoon's wife, defense minister, military leaders, and police who have all been arrested. America, this is how to hold an entire administration accountable for treason.
Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) reposted
When I reported for duty at Naval Station Great Lakes, I never imagined that some day a US President would seek to use it as a base for surveillance and enforcement activity on American soil. Our military was not set up to cater to the whims of a would-be American dictator.
God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted
If Cracker Barrel sets them off, imagine how they’ll react when they hear I went woke in the New Testament — turning the other cheek, feeding the poor, all that radical stuff.
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
We’re going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes we’re bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Americans for Tax Fairness (@4taxfairness.bsky.social) reposted
The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status. The NRA should not have tax-exempt status.
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Just imagine if the logo canonically depicted a Trans-man or a person of color The cognitive dissonance coupled with their bizzarroworld version of Christianity might create an Einstein-Rosen Bridge to the GOPs home planet
Freedom From Religion Foundation (@ffrf.org.web.brid.gy) reposted
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Accomplices Aiding and abetting ongoing criminal activity
Duncan Jones (@manmademoon.bsky.social) reposted
GoP sure has changed since they got the socialism bug, huh...
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Sooooo jealous of ignorant folks
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 (@peipolitical.bsky.social) reposted
Concert outside the White House! #cdnpoli
kieron verbrugge (@ornitier.online) reposted
to tell you the truth I'm kinda over waking up every day and finding out more things have happened
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
Duncan Jones (@manmademoon.bsky.social) reposted
I remember before the Chinese made magnets popular, we used to build MRI scanners with lines of X-ray specs from the back of comic books, and hard drives used tiny trained mice who would note everything down in a series of 1s & 0s on a little slate with white chalk…
jessica 🍉 (@itsmrsrabbittou.bsky.social) reposted
“They can’t do that it’s illegal!!” I’m not like an expert or anything but I’m pretty sure fascism doesn’t care about what’s legal or illegal. That’s kind of its whole thing.
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
At some point, the police, armies, and other governmental Enforcement have to defect. Didn't they? That's where all this advice to the populace fails to move anything. In a police state, at some point the police need to side with the people. If not, the resistance fails
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
“... that you’ll dismantle the structures that made America what it is? ... Because that is exactly, specifically, his goal: to frighten you into surrendering the rule of law.” (Slightly abridged) — Spook Country, William Gibson (pg. 136-137)
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
“A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.” 1/2
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Imagine a President capable of a genuine human emotion, other than greed, jealousy, or hate. I can ONLY imagine
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Do the bulk of FBI, local Law enforcement, and national guard believe the nationalist/fascist rhetoric or do they just aspire to be able to use the excuse "we were following orders" while perpetrating hate crimes? Resistance needs a pushback by those 47 is mobilizing against their fellow citizens
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
This situation can't improve as long as the people cosplaying as "law enforcement" continue to aid and abet the felonious unconstitutionality being ordered by the wannabe dictator/monarch They just want a chance to hurt people. We're fucked
Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 (@alcappuccinoit.bsky.social) reposted
Walking around as president while wearing a hat that says you were right about everything should automatically trigger the 25th Amendment.
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Until they donate a few million to the Imperial Ballroom at 1600 Pennsylvania; Then their ability to hold members hostage indefinitely will be codified law with SCOTUS precedent. Justice Thomas likes to use his gun membership to find showers as he Van-lifers in a free RV
Face-Eating Leopards (@leopards-eating.bsky.social) reposted
If you’re a parent who’s trying to ban “inappropriate” books from the school library but you let your kids listen to the current President unsupervised you’re doing it wrong
Duncan Jones (@manmademoon.bsky.social) reposted
So beyond watergate… we’re essentially relying on the guilt in participants hearts and the ineptitude of those criming to allow us to untangle this when this administration is gone. Suboptimal.
Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 (@hookcity.bsky.social) reposted
No frickin way #allythepiper #piperally #freebird
Duncan Jones (@manmademoon.bsky.social) reposted
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Universal healthcare and other social systems are necessary & just Taxes we pay & that billionaires can afford to pay more, are for convenience to not have to step over the poor or dying on the way to helicopters, yachts, and second homes Tax the rich or covert mansions/HQs into sanctuaries
Freedom From Religion Foundation (@ffrf.org.web.brid.gy) reposted
Miss Aja (@brat2381.bsky.social) reposted
All Folks Had To Do Was Vote For The Super Qualified Black Lady… With A Degree In Economics
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
"Dutch babies" = baked German pfannkuchen (pancakes) or sweet variants on a Yorkshire pudding Use same ratio by volume of eggs, milk, flour then a bit of sugar and a less savory fat than beef drippings pour batter over caramelizing apples in butter and cinnamon to get Big Apple Apfelpfannkuchen
Arlene Hache (@arlenehache.bsky.social) reposted
Pop Culture Man reluctantly lets teens use his door camera to film a music video. It turned into a masterpiece. "This gives me hope about the next generation of music," one viewer wrote. www.upworthy.com/maples-pet-d...
Master Elrond [he/him] (@inuyasha1953.bsky.social) reposted
other98 One of the richest CEOs on Earth walks into the White House, on live TV, hands the President a literal bar of gold like it's some Renaissance bribe, and walks out with a tariff exemption worth millions. You can't make this stuff up.
Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted
"The Republican Party has a long and proud history of producing the nation’s finest male cheerleaders. In the past 50 years, more Republican presidents have been male cheerleaders than seen combat."
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
But call a judge, Mr. Or Mrs., and you'll get a reprimand about respect for their identification as "a judge" or "your honor". Call an "agent", "officer", vice versa or "Mr." Same deal Heck, call a Robert, Rob, Bob, or Bert; unthinkable! Outage! Everyone has what they answer to Not difficult
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Lol Been there, just celebrate the time amongst the books that your child is trying to gift us
M Meerkat (@kackbro.bsky.social) reposted
Chump Accepts Luxury Jet from Qatar, saying IF He Leaves Office, It's His To Take With Him ! NO WORDS !!!!!
Rachel Maddow (@maddow.msnbc.com) reposted
"Crime is lower in D.C. than it is in the Republican-led states these National Guard troops are leaving..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Lindsay 👩🔬🚲 (@llbroadwell.bsky.social) reposted
"lindsay you're too much" fuck you and go find less then
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
In case you needed, like me, something peaceful to break up the doom scrolling
Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 (@mayorwu.boston.gov) reposted
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
Thomas Lecaque (@tlecaque.bsky.social) reposted
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
John Green (@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social) reposted
Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Connections Puzzle #800 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Boo Is there any real pattern to when purple is _______[something] vs. starts with [something] Had it dialed in and as far as difficulty, the blue and purple seems inverted to me
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Y'all Queda Freedom of religion "for me but not for thee." For all their adoration of the Constitution, they really don't know anything about it, before or after the "right to bear arms".
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
It's pronounced "mom water" (At least by the teens my kids hung around with)
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Gipfeli Swiss German term for croissant 🥐 Though the French insist they're entirely different laminated pastries in the shape of a crescent
Duncan Jones (@manmademoon.bsky.social) reposted
Can I recommend the meeting is held in Scheveningen, in the Netherlands? Very nice there this time of year…
Elad Nehorai (@eladn.bsky.social) reposted
It’s wild to think about how people feel that MeToo, Black Lives Matter, etc went too far as we watch the rights of women and the safety of Black people being further stripped away. It is just part of the same pattern as we’ve always seen: any inch towards equality is seen as an existential danger.
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
The house next door is for sale; I can feel the judgement from the prospective buyers through the walls
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
He pretended to not know that protecting the Constitution was part of his oath of office. He'd rather tear it up. Faithless, spineless, feckless, brainless, unprincipled, out and out evil waste of oxygen That he avoided Polonium and diet Coke or rapid descent from open window in Alaska is a shame
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Look, I get that we want the truth about Epstein and Trump and whomever else was party to the pedos But, do we really think "once this drops he's done"? The 43 other felonies, multiple war crimes, bent knee to Putin, failure to deliver any of his day one pledges besides "dictator on day one" didn't
Merriam-Webster (@merriam-webster.com) reposted
The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.
Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith.com) reposted
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Right, He'll probably make them unpaid laborers at one of his golf courses
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
When Trump wanted the MI governor murdered, he didn't try to use government employees and law intimidation officers. Now instead of volunteers and secrecy, he does it in broad daylight and as a photo op
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Trump and his minions probably thought IVF entailed non-consensual impregnation of minors and then forcing them to carry full term and then giving the child to "deserving trad wives" MAGA (assuming they read) think the Handmaids Tale, & other dystopias, were meant to be instructional not cautionary
Ricky Davila (@therickydavila.bsky.social) reposted
It’ll always be disgusting to me that a convicted criminal was given the power to issue pardons to his fellow criminals so that he can illegally buy their complete loyalty. I’ll never regret voting for the intelligent successful black female prosecutor.
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Reality shall conform to Policy, Immediately! or more heads will roll
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
The walking poop knife
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Wasn't Texas one of the states that threatened to prosecute folks for attempting to assist residents "defecting from Texas, Florida, Georgia" to get abortions in freedom of choice and access states? That cult? Again, every accusation was a confession
Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) reposted
Governor Pritzker is right. No more blank checks for Netanyahu’s right-wing government and its military. No more blank checks for war crimes against Palestinians. forward.com/fast-forward...
Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) reposted
Can someone explain how banning gay marriage will fund schools and lower rent and make groceries affordable?
Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) reposted
During oral arguments in the Posse Comitatus Act trial, California's lawyer contextualizes the "standing army" of nearly 5,000 troops in the U.S.'s second largest city. "That’s larger than the entire force sent to Afghanistan in the three months following Sept. 11, 2001," she says.
Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) reposted
This Saturday, nationwide “Fight the Trump Takeover” protests will take place with 50 rallies across 20 states to oppose Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas. “Fight the Trump Takeover” is coordinated by Texas for ALL(@texasforall.bsky.social), the day of action pushes back against
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Which of the following is True: (Select up to three) A) this is bribery and highly illegal B) because the tariff is also illegal, Tim was right C) Tim should be fired, by board without parachute for ethics issues D) that gift was ugly E) Apple bears liability because Tim's life was threatened
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
Tim is an executive with a major tech company. Tim met with the president of a nation where their products are designed and distributed, but not manufactured. Tim presented that official with a "commemorative", "personalized", gold and glass "sculpture". Shortly after tariff threats stopped:
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social)
Funny timing, but I think that Tim Apple might need a refresher on whatever LMS platform they use to roll out things like Business Ethics training and Corruption/Anti-Corruption training for their executives. I half expected to see this past weeks news, as an example:
erickam.bsky.social (@erickam.bsky.social) reply parent
They're not "distractions", because the administration doesn't care what we the populace think. It's not gamesmanship, because they're not playing. These are moves to disenfranchise voters, their representation, consolidate power and create a dictatorship/oligarchy that he and his puppeteers want