@johnnymains.co.uk Just got my next Johnny Mains book this afternoon. Something new to read as spring begins.
I’m a Kiwi in Aotearoa who watches US politics as a hobby. Kind of concerned right now to be fair. 💣🚀🍊☢️ 🌻🇺🇦🌻
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@johnnymains.co.uk Just got my next Johnny Mains book this afternoon. Something new to read as spring begins.
MAGA www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/t...
1 September 1939 | A Polish Jewish boy, Meilech Raich, was born in Trzebinia. In 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz from ghetto in Chrzanów. He was murdered in a gas chamber.
Orlando Police arrested a protester for leaving chalky footprints on the Pulse club crosswalk, according to Mother Jones reporting. Soon DeSantis is going to activate the National Guard to keep crosswalks black and white. Mass shootings will solve themselves. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
My Mum's care worker helps her shower & get dressed every morning. She works 0700 to 8.45pm, 3 hrs off during day. Has every second weekend off, but that's still 12 days in a row. Staff shortages have meant she missed her weekend off: is working 26 days straight. No overtime No pay equity #nzpol
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It is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS that RFKJ, without any medical training or knowledge, has set up barriers that are now preventing (hopefully just delaying) Americans from accessing COVID-19 vaccines… even including infectious disease experts like Dr. Titanji. I will keep calling my representatives.
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
She’s a singular sensation!
Like Kim Il Sung before him, he is the reason the sun rises in the morning
Revenge of Four Seasons Total Landscaping
Kristi Noem: "I do know that LA wouldn't be standing today if President Trump hadn't taken action."
Next federal takeover: Chicago. The Trump administration is asking the nearby naval base for help carrying out the president’s massive deportation campaign. “These operations are similar to what occurred in Los Angeles earlier this summer. Same DHS team." trib.al/4s3uBRn
here's today's post: "Chicago cordially invites the Mad King to go fuck himself" — Chicago will not comply with Donny’s police state fascism. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
Smart.
It’s only in the last few years that I became aware of a strong push by many Nazi-sympathizers of the German American Bund within Congress and in the Senate who vigorously opposed help for fleeing Jews, or any other form of American involvement. Rachel Maddow’s “Ultra” was my first exposure to it.
"Upgrade?" The Felon Administration is putting pressure on the Holocaust Museum to 'upgrade' the US response to Nazi Germany during WW2. They will whitewash the awful part of history when America turned away fleeing Jews. Many had to return, resulting in death.😢✡️ abcnews.go.com/US/upcoming-...
30 August 1874 | Italian Jew, Alberto Della Seta, was born in Rome. He was deported to #Auschwitz from Rome on 23 August 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
Good morning, America, Australia, UK, NZ and everywhere. A reminder today we have a national wide white supremacy march in Australia today. Inspired by anti-immigrant sentiment everywhere. I suspect it will get violent as the national socialist network types are organising it
Very subdued "sunrise" today: Sunday, 31 August, 2025. This is from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand. Mōrena / Good morning.
A treatment for Whooping Cough in 1907. This is for children. Vaccines are good, actually.
(1)🚨ALL EYES ON INDONESIA🚨 It's 0.41. A.M. Local time. First they cut off the power in Kwitang & Senen. Then the snipers came. And now they're using live bullets. Just 3 days ago the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission silenced the journalists to not broadcast the protests.
MAGA: "Go woke, go br—oh, never mind. . ."
HERE IS ANOTHER EXCERPT FROM THE POST THAT PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY LOSING THEIR MINDS OVER BECAUSE OF HOW BRILLIANT A WRITER JEFF TIEDRICH (ME!) IS. MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING "SIR! SIR! HOW DO YOU PUT ALL THE WORDS IN THE RIGHT ORDER? SIR!" READ MY POST AND FIND OUT, THANK YOU: bit.ly/4lVkU0h
We won’t notice it at first Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths All because of two men Trump and RFK, Jr
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I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.” { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
Vance sold his soul.
I just think of Trump as a little one, and the hurt he must have felt. I don’t think he was born the way he is now. I think he was created. That’s genuinely tragic. Unfortunately, for the good of the world, the sooner Trump isn’t the president, the better.
Happy birthday Mary Shelley, known as Frankenstein Day. #maryshelley #frankenstein #frankensteinday #gothicwriter #horrorauthor #gothicliterature #darkromanticism
I hope I have lived my life in a manner that, if no one sees me for a few days, the entire internet isn’t hoping I’ve died.
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
Well, that’s very odd.
On this day in 1906, a Czechoslovak Jewish woman was born. On the 3 Aug 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt and on the 22 Oct 1942 to Treblinka where she perished. Her name was Marie Fahnová
On this day in 1927, a Czechoslovak Jewish boy was born. On the 20 Nov 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt with his father and brother and on the 20 Jan 1943 to Auschwitz where they all perished. His name was Zdeněk Hanuš Turnovský Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
On this day in 1892, a Czech Jewish man was born. On the 22 Dec 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt with his wife and daughter and on the 6 Sep 1943, with his wife, to Auschwitz where they both perished. His name was Rudolf Leipen Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
I was going to make a funny post about Trump in hell, but really, every lost soul is a tragedy. He didn’t have to be the way he is. If he’d had a loving, gentle father who prioritised goodness over money, he might have been a different man. So much suffering could have been avoided.
Blowing shit up in the backyard transcends cultures. Dudes rock.
Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.
Salads recalled due to possible presence of metal filings were sold at Fresh Choice, New World, PAK’nSAVE + Woolworths supermarkets throughout #NewZealand. Spiers salads sold between 27 - 29 August 2025. www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-r... AND www.mpi.govt.nz/food-safety-... #Aotearoa #NZ #NZFood
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
8/30/2025- Public Health www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
me after the tariffs are struck down as illegal
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap
That’s what I don’t understand either!
I miss the old brand #CDC
@maddow.msnbc.com I’m seeing a lot of “Trump is dead” tweets. Anything factual to this?
He must be removed. He must. This is untenable many people will be hurt if he is allowed to stay in his office.
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
It finally happened.
“[Bill] Pulte got his job in the administration about three years after his wife, Diana Pulte, donated $500,000 to a super PAC backing Trump. The donation was channeled through a Delaware shell company, ML Organization LLC, that Bill Pulte controlled.”
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
I wonder why Bill Pulte didn’t send this case over to DOJ with a criminal referral along with his selective targeting of Adam Schiff and Lisa Cook? apnews.com/article/paxt...
These two men have proven one thing without a doubt. If you are born wealthy in America no amount of stupidity, lies, or fraud will limit your opportunities. You can fail upwards to the very highest levels of power as long as you have no shame.
Wow! This is a turnaround.. "Atlas network, ACT, TPU and NZ Initiative now fully supportive of Māori wards" says Don.
Say it louder for the people in the back 📣
Hobson’s Pledge repeat their arrogance and use somebody’s image without permission AGAIN FFS #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
"The idea that the law is a weapon the president uses to protect his friends and harass his enemies was brought into American politics by one man," Jonathan Chait writes. "He now happens to be the one man who is very definitively above the law":
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
ICYMI — Republican Former State Senator just had his law license reinstated by the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee after getting pardoned by Trump for campaign finance crimes. He pled guilty, only did 2 weeks. www.fox13memphis.com/news/brian-k...
How much more clearly can RFK Jr demonstrate that his job is to cull the herd? It’s not subtle.
Got offered this extremely specific list of professions to choose from when filling out a credit card application
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
JFC he’s taking us to war?!?!?!? He’s invading another country?!?!? Is this right? Am I reading this correctly? JFC! @democracydocket.com @occupydemocrats.bsky.social @democrats-judiciary.house.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov @judiciarydems.senate.gov
Well Trump knows Ukraine isn’t having elections because it’s at war. So use the same tactic at home. If the USA is in a war, could elections be run? 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
Me too!!!
He would bomb the wrong Scandinavian country.
I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.
29 August 1904 | A Pole, Dobiesław Doborzyński, was born in Niwka near Będzin. A physicist. In #Auschwitz from 24 April 1942. No. 32499 He was shot in the camp on 27 May 1942.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
The Lecture. www.patreon.com/posts/lectur...
The overall goal here is clear: Trump wants full control of the U.S. economy. That’s reckless no matter who the president is. But it’s a ruinous mission for a president who obviously has no idea what he’s doing. trib.al/1edFbZq
“Ghassemi and her MIT colleagues found that AI systems were more likely to leave female patients untreated.”
Explaining this: As a presidential nominee who was confirmed by the Senate, Trump has to fire her, and her lawyers say that has not happened yet, so she is still in office.
Putting a 10 year old on tv to talk about his friend being shot at school is a different level of diabolical.
Jones responds to Ogles…
🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (4?) is a judo champion! She runs out of her class and with a mighty roar. Fierce face on. She tackles Dad! She's ready for ANYTHING. Except maybe being tipped upside down. Small human giggles and Dad chuckles ensue. (1)
I said this 7 months ago and was called an alarmist. History says elections won’t save us. They will end us. Blue states must declare war. “I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism. The success rate after fascists were elected was 0%.” ▶ Once they win elections, it’s already too …
During last week's heat wave farm workers in Soledad CA we're harvesting spinach in 92° temperatures. They told us it is very difficult work as it's an open field with very little shade. #WeFeedYou #calor
Donald accused Seth of having “the Personality of an insecure child.”
Arguably the most anti-religious administration in history. Just nakedly hostile to those who wish to practice their faith.
media should not interview minors who have just survived a mass shooting
RFK now limits COVID vaccines to -Adults aged 65+ -Younger individuals with qualifying health conditions So much for "freedom of choice." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
I wonder how they feel about all this. It must be pretty depressing for them.
This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.