Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) reposted
Trump must go. Now. November 5, 2025. Washington DC. Be there. No Kings. Never Trump. The Truth Matters. Abolish ICE. Stay civil, or you will be blocked.
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MAGA has found its Reichstag Fire.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
The original sin occurred in the months and years after 9/11: โข Extraordinary rendition. โข Enhanced interrogation techniques (aka torture). โข Guantanamo Bay. โข Denial of due process. โข Denial of legal counsel. โข Warrantless wiretaps. โข Extrajudicial killings.
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
From asbestos to stolen elections, Trump has spent decades turning conspiracy theories into government policyโeroding trust and warping U.S. institutions. Hereโs how the paranoid style became the Trump style. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) reposted
Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
You misspelled โReichsministerโ.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
I love it when fascists eat their own young โฆ
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
McCarthyism on steroids.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social)
This is what Brian Kilmeade wants to do with homeless people โฆ
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup. And the sun is setting so much earlier each day too โฆ
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
BREAKING: President Trump announces that 90 percent of the entire U.S. population was killed by illegal drugs last year.
SteveG (@trenchdiggr.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Some brave publication needs to report "Trump announces 88% of US population killed by drugs last year." Factual. Make him own his bottomless ignorance about everything.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
How can anyone be this incredibly ignorant, let alone the President of the United States?
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Dismantle ICE and HSI. Better yet, dismantle the entire DHS.
Sharon (@sharonk.bsky.social) reposted
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social)
Facts are stubborn things โฆ
Tea Pain (@teapainusa.bsky.social) reposted
COLD HARD FACTS: 74% of political violence is perpetrated by far-right extremists. ONLY 4% is from left-wing extremism.
Camelina (@camelina.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
@LuLuRoche (@luluroche.bsky.social) reposted
WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND: rump has absolutely no feelings for others. none. sociopaths and narcissists care about no one but themselves. he will use people and throw them away. Kirk was useful. he could care less about him beyond him getting young people to vote for him. WE ARE IN DANGER.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Fire Kilmeade.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social)
So much winning โฆ
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
So much winning โฆ
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
โ Youโre Fired ! โ
Mavi Reshef (@mavibluecatte.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
that needs to be a campaign promise in the 2026 midterms and beyond: that the USA will become a signatory of the ICC and subject to it's rulings. we've CLEARLY gone too far ignoring such things
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Scientists need to stop undermining their own credibility by obfuscating the truth, and they need to stop feeding the false narrative that they are all-knowing, super intelligent experts whose every proclamation is the final word. Science is a process, not a result. 2/2
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
If we are ever going to combat successfully the populist assault on science, we are going to need working scientists to do a far better job educating the public as to what science actually is and how it actually works. 1/2
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
No one deserves praise for an apology when the apology was absolutely required under any definition of human decency. And given that it took four days and a firestorm of public criticism before he issued a half-hearted, bare minimum apology, it is fair to question his sincerity.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Fine. A de minimis apology. Fox News should nevertheless fire Kilmeade. What he said was absolutely inexcusable.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe we need to look at models from the past, like Radio Free Europe during the Cold War, the BBC during World War 2, or Voice of America until recently. Or maybe we need something entirely new and different. Sunlight is the best disinfectant against their lies and propaganda. 2/2
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
The propaganda is rampant and out of control. And itโs getting worse with each passing day. We need to find an effective and scalable way to counteract it. I donโt even know if it is possible, but we have to try. 1/2
Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) reposted
Fox News host, Brian Kilmeade, calls for the extermination of homeless people. But itโs the liberals that are stoking political violence?! Theyโre trying to silence the truth-tellers. Donโt let them. Loudly and relentlessly call out their hypocrisy. Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Jeff, you are the best !
Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) reposted
if someone quotes Leviticus saying gay people should be stoned to death, and calls that "God's perfect law," it's accurate to say they called for gay people to be stoned to death. Likewise, it's inaccurate to say they never called for it. bc I can parse language and understand how humans communicate
Landon Michael (@aetheriandreams.bsky.social) reposted
Pressure is currently mounting against Fox news, all sources are starting to take notice of the trending story regarding Brian Kilmeade advocating to murdering homeless or destitute people. But do not let that take away from the other members of the panel agreeing. Hold them all accountable.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Not merely inappropriate. Obscene. Each action by itself is beyond wrong. But taken together, itโs a clear effort to martyr Charlie Kirk. MAGA is the root cause of political violence in this country. And Trump is the Inciter-In-Chief.
Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) reposted
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who donโt toe a party line on what is โallowedโ to be expressed. And employers are going along. Itโs the new secret police
Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted
Pointing out Charlie Kirk's hate speech is not hate speech. It's objective reporting. Apologize to Matthew Dowd and rehire him. A full-throated embrace of genocide is hate speech โ beyond all measure. Fire Brian Kilmeade. Immediately.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Making health care free is great as long as you have actual plan for how to allocate scarce resources in an effective and efficient way, and a way that is fair and equitable. 3/3
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
3. How will you ration the limited supply of health care products and services among the nearly unlimited competing demands? 2/3
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
You can make health care free, but then you will need to solve three problems: 1. How will you limit the demand for health care products and services? 2. How will you encourage people and organizations to supply health care products and services? and โฆ 1/3
Margaret Cho (@margaretcho.bsky.social) reposted
We should have given him a sitcom to play the president. it would have been so much better and he probably wouldnโt have known the difference. If I had a Time Machine I would have pitched it in 2010 and we could have avoided all this.
Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted
Fox News: โKill the homeless with lethal injections.โ No problem. MSNBC: โCharlie Kirk is divisive.โ Fired on the spot. Welcome to America 2025.
Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd.bsky.social) reposted
There's no reason to take any reporting about Tyler Robinson at face value right now. Countless officials, law enforcement agencies, politicians, influencers, and reporters have been wrong, hoaxed, or caught making things up. Social media is making us all crazy and stupid.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
https://derkoolschrank.com/ (@derkoolschrank.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
SEPT, 1933, GERMANY: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them into prisons and camps in what they called Beggarsโ Week [Bettlerwoche], carried out by the SA and SS, with the support of the police.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Miller just declared that the Regime is going to weaponize law enforcement.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
So they are planning to arrest everyone in the Trump Regime and dismantle the Executive Office of the President and the RNC ? Awesome. Canโt wait. ๐ฟ ๐ฟ ๐ฟ
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
You donโt look like a bot โฆ
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Literally no one with more than two functioning neurons believes that I was literally quoting anyone exactly or that what I wrote was anything other than satire and social commentary.
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
WWJD? Not what Kilmeade said on Foxnews
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Projection.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Spreading propaganda encouraging or supporting mass murder is a Crime Against Humanity. Brian Kilmeade is promoting state sponsored mass murder on Fox News. Fox News is the propaganda arm of the Trump Fascist Regime. Brian Kilmeade and Fox News are guilty of Crimes Against Humanity.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
MAGA: Charlie Kirk was the greatest proponent of free speech in the history of human speech. Also MAGA: Anyone who says anything bad about Charlie Kirk should be banned from speaking publicly forever.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
It took the Nazis 6 years from the time they rose to power to their first programs of mass murder. It took the MAGA Regime less than 8 months. MAGA is moving 9 times faster than Nazi Germany. Congratulations.
The Steady State (@steadystatevets.bsky.social) reposted
๐จ Miller calls the Democrat Party a โdomestic extremist organization.โ Using this language conditions the public to embrace the notion that an entire political party might justify extreme actions, such as revoking civil liberties, curtailing free speech, or weaponizing security powers against them.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Charlie Kirk loved free speech. So do I. He exercised his free speech rights vociferously to spread hatred, cruelty, lies, and propaganda. Free speech also includes my right to condemn everything he said and to denounce his character and motives. Vociferously.
Kari Dru (@karidru.bsky.social) reposted
I'm getting a little frustrated with "nobody knows anything you're all spreading disinformation" because we know a lot. We know Fuentes and Kirk were beefing. We know the Groypers are claiming him. We know that taken together, everything on the bullets were memes.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
And they wonder why we accuse them of being Nazis. Are you fucking kidding me ... ?!?!?!?!? encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) reposted
Feel like Iโm going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
How do we know that he hasn't already ... ?
Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) reposted
Russian drones have entered NATO airspace for the second time this month, following the incursions into Poland on Wednesday Zelenskyy said todayโs incursion into Romania โcannot be accidentalโ and represents โa deliberate expansion of the war by Russiaโ euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/13/r...
Max Boot (@maxboot.bsky.social) reposted
This is what happens when the US doesn't push back.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Step 1: don't use ChatGPT. Step 2: repeat Step 1.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Love the contrast between the burnt orange of the butterfly against the bright purple of the blossoms and the green vegetation in the background.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you !
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you have a link to the video?
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
#4, #5, #8, and #9 โ great stuff !
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Now read Jefferson, Madison, Paine, Adams, Hamilton, and Washington. And draw your own conclusions. 2/2
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social)
The Extreme Court of the Fascist States of America has gutted the Bill of Rights. We no longer live in a free country. We now live in a tyrannical, authoritarian, police state dictatorship. Tyranny has arrived. It is here. Today. 1/2
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
You misspelled โlionizedโ.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
And hypotheses that have been contradicted by empirical evidence are considered to have been debunked and are therefore rejected. 4/4
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
That said, not all scientific hypotheses are equal. Only hypotheses that are supported by actual empirical evidence are considered valid, and are, as a result, accepted as theories. 3/4
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
There is no such thing as โsettledโ science. All scientific theories are provisional in the sense that they are always subject to revision or rejection as new and better information becomes available. 2/4
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social)
Science is NOT a set of established facts promulgated by self-appointed experts based on their opinions. Science is an evidence-based structured PROCESS for developing, revising, and evaluating competing hypotheses to determine what is most likely to be true. 1/4
Max Boot (@maxboot.bsky.social) reposted
โLast month, when Mr. Trumpโs 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian exports took effect, Brazil said its global exports actually rose 4 percent because of increased purchases by China.โ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/w...
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
The Regime is escalating.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social)
Yikes ! They want to turn the U.S. into the Handmaidโs Tale.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
They arenโt trying merely to eliminate the education department. They are trying to eliminate education.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Itโs not merely that they were wrong. They lied.
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasnโt some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasnโt, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending itโs some culture war and it is only in their own minds Dangerous times
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. The terms are โhubrisโ and โarrogance.โ Both attitudes were rampant among all of the colonizing powers over the last 500 years.
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Revolution?
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
Itโs bad. Really bad. It is amazing how easy it is to justify almost any atrocity simply by declaring that some group is a โterrorist organizationโ or by declaring almost any situation a โnational emergency.โ
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
They tried, but then they realized that they donโt have a reflection in the mirror. ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ
John Locke of Boston ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ (@johnlockeboston.bsky.social) reply parent
They donโt care about the truth. They only care about shaping the narrative.