Apparent conclusion: Ignore American media and get your info abroad.
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Apparent conclusion: Ignore American media and get your info abroad.
So many coverups. Release the Epstein files. Release the Homan tapes. Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.
Well stated
Such a dolt
IMPEACH and LOCK HIM UP!!!
The Olympics need to move.
Apparently, it’s socially unacceptable to compare anyone or anything to Hitler. Mention Hitler, and you’ll be shouted down with a chorus of “Godwin’s Law”. Well sod that. Until we start comparing Trump to Hitler, we’re unprepared for what is barrelling towards us. 🧵1/4
I hope the majority realizes you can't win over the right wing with civility or the old ways. Doesn't work. Its a dangerous, violent, hypocritical cult without shame. They want power by any illegal means necessary. Choose your fighters accordingly. The current Dem leadership ain't it.
Laws mean nothing in trumpistan. We just go with our guts. Laws don't protect people on boats or people with brown skin today. They won't protect anybody tomorrow.
Charlie Kirk was a pathetic racist. It's shameful that so few of our representatives in Congress have the courage to stand against the kind of whitewashing bullshit the republicans are spreading about him.
Well, I got kicked off the entire Meta universe. I guess someone really was listening. Reading, actually.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
The Science News Cycle
Proceeding according to plan
It’s heartening to hear many principled voices argue that those in office should wield political power in a way that they would be happy to have it wielded when they’re not in power. But it’s worth saying this clearly: the current administration is not acting as if it intends to be out of power.
Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Incredible idiot
feminist_news_now The same Supreme Court that ruled colleges can't use race in the admissions process has just ruled 6-3 that ICE officers CAN use race to conduct raids and detain people. DIABOLICAL.
Cartoon by @paulnoth.bsky.social.
Pete LITERALLY told you so, Kamala LITERALLY told you so. #fuckmaga #FDT #wetoldyouso #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Jimmy Kimmel’s mother tried to warn him…
Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.
Yup, more representative of the grandson of a whorehouse owner
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞. 𝐇𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐩𝐫𝐨-𝐠𝐮𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜. 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲𝐫. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 "𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧" 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧.
There is a need for real Democrats these days.
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Understanding fascists
"Do unto others…" will suffice nicely, and variations on it exist throughout history and around the world.
This looks bad. Fortunately I never raped anybody.
When Fox can't ignore it, you know it's bad.
The continuing mystery of trump is whether he is destroying his country out of stupidity or whether he's doing it for russia. Conceivably both. This is a great way to destroy the country.
A good one to tuck away for a sunny day
Your government interacts with its people.
“Disney is run by human beings. Some of those human beings are cowards. Those cowards don’t want to be named and shamed, and if you do that effectively, they will shift their behavior.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Cancel fascism and reinstate Kimmel: indivisible.org/government-c...
I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.
There goes the First Amendment.
I can't get over how weird this photo is. I love that someone in England captioned it: "Darling, be a dear and DO click on the floor lamp."
This is hard to believe. Such idiocy. "You do not set a six-figure fee on something meaningless. The regime knows knowledge has power. It fears it. By pricing it like treasure, it confesses its value."
the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents
Be sure to laugh.
Ossoff: "There are families in NE Georgia now who will not have local access to child birth services ... I mean, we are the wealthiest country in the world. We should be building new hospitals. We should be building new clinics."
Watch this!
Could be! #politics #fascism
Under the First Amendment, the president doesn’t get to censor comedians, TV networks or political speech. Americans and our Constitution reject Kings, dictators and speech Commissars.
I'm not trying to tell you it's not going to suck but this is more or less what the path to most of the good endings looks like: 1) isolated, unpopular president with few allies 2) entirely transactional and lightly committed collaborators 3) deeply committed domestic and international opposition
Yeah, every morning I get up, grab my gun, bayonet and grenades, and do my ritual pre-breakfast political chant: "In the holy name of Karl Marx, kill the republican slime! Kill kill kill! Death to them!"
And David Letterman Rarely Speaks On Politics….
Ruffalo: I'm reaching out to all of my brothers and sisters in the entertainment industry, to join us...They're coming after celebrities because they know we are the last ones to actually be able to have our freedom to speak. So use your platform wisely, use it generously for this movement. #NoKings
Censorship is here and it’s come in the form of corporations censoring themselves in order to win favor with the regime.
I hope they are putting those tattoos on their foreheads to make it easy for us. I don't want to run around pulling people's pants down to make sure we can be friends.
Right-wingers are calling for my arrest. You know why? Because they know I’m the only candidate in my race who will actually stand up to ICE and Trump. And they’re right.
Our democracy is collapsing in real time. Much of the damage will be irreparable. If you’re waiting to say or do something, you better not wait much longer.
Concerning our first dictator
“Ghost of Pandemics Yet to Come”
Any Senate Democrat who voted for this egregious alteration of history is a disgrace.
Let's hope SOMETHING is his undoing, the sooner the better.
A guy who thinks he can lower drug prices 1000~1500% ought to be pretty easy to ridicule. At such rates you could make a good living getting sick.
They said they wanted guns to keep their freedoms. Turns out if you let them keep their guns, you can just take their freedoms
me, age 15: conservatism seems like a fundamentally evil belief system me, age 21: actually it is more complicated than that, things are very complicated and everyone has their own way of seeing things. i am very smart me, age 3x: no i was right the first time nvm
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/
Flunked arithmetic
the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare
Actually, I think it's a competition these days. Many countries have a big asshole, either in power or in opposition. Trump is a certainly a very big asshole, but there's Putin, and Netanyahu, and the current Kim, and several others. They tend to support one another. Assholes stick together. (Ick.)
You’re about to see a push on the right to designate a bunch of nonviolent people on the left as ANTIFA because they don’t like their rhetoric. Dangerous times.
It's always amazed me how much damage a single maniac can do. Hitler's infamy will last forever. I wonder if the donald hopes to be still infamous thousands of years from now, by similar means. Just think of it: a slow-witted rich kid from Queens, still being discussed in the year 6000. Immortality!
Late night hosts criticizing the president isn’t new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who can’t take it is.
Thank you for standing up for what's right, Jerry 🍦
It’s actually remarkable how he gets all that orange makeup to stay on that thin skin of his.
Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.
My assessment as well, for the past decade or so
Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
This is why TV is hardly relevant these days. They can't say anything.
Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."
If you see anyone not mourning the death of Robert Redford the way you would like, please call their employer and get them fired!
Except he's assuming there will be free elections next year. I seriously doubt that.
‘LOST’ creator Damon Lindelof pledges not to work with @Disney unless Kimmel is reinstated, and Matt Belloni says other Hollywood talent will likely soon do the same.
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
All of the unions in Hollywood should immediately boycott Disney/ABC. They only care about money, so go after that.
Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."
When Putin took power in Russia, he made sure all the comedians who made fun of him were removed from television. Trump is perfectly copying Putin's authoritarian playbook to end Free Speech in America.