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Mark Roddy

@markr51.bsky.social

Retired software engineer. I only eat plants. Unprofessional artist. Unreconstructed 1960’s leftist. They were fascists then too. Zero troll tolerance.

created November 13, 2024

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Profile picture Daniel A. Hoyt (@danhoyt.bsky.social) reposted

RFK Jr., driving away with Rudy Guliani tied to the roof of his car

31/8/2025, 10:19:33 PM | 4741 591 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

As an advanced auto complete it is fairly useful. Give it an actual task and it’s dubious at best.

1/9/2025, 10:29:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

We won't stop until they stop ✊🏽 East LA

1/9/2025, 3:31:48 AM | 1452 456 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

Republicans: “Stop making everything about race.” Really? White people enslaved Black people for generations, stole Native land, lynched and segregated us, burned down Black communities that thrived, and treated Mexican land & labor like property to be taken. America already made it about race.

1/9/2025, 12:38:21 AM | 3062 894 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Google search results were fully enshittified before the chatbot showed up.

1/9/2025, 9:55:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eric Blair (@protecttruth.bsky.social) reposted

""The people of DC deserve better than what the mayor said today. Our demand remains that all escalated federal forces leave DC immediately" 👀👀👀

1/9/2025, 2:09:06 AM | 39 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

Rudi Giuliani is a distraction from Trump Dying, which is a distraction from Release the Fucking Epstein Files. Also everything is a distraction from everything else.

1/9/2025, 1:52:24 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

WTF is going on in the UK?

1/9/2025, 1:39:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander (@goodlander.house.gov) reposted

I’m so proud to be working for and alongside amazing moms across New Hampshire to tackle Trumpflation and make life affordable, safe, and free for everyone.

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1/9/2025, 1:32:01 AM | 52 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ (@the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social) reposted

We’ve seen this movie before. We know the plot points. We’ve learned how to distinguish the heroes from the villains. We know which side we’re on. And we know what it takes to win. Solidarity. Sacrifice. Courage.

30/8/2025, 9:30:04 PM | 487 230 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@cajunblue.bsky.social) reposted

🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2

31/8/2025, 7:52:23 PM | 7477 3181 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

The timeline was corrected to undo Trumps death, but as a consequence Giuliani had to go.

31/8/2025, 10:10:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Simmons for Congress (@mikesimmonsil.bsky.social) reposted

I’m about to hop on DuSable Lake Shore Drive for the annual Bike The Drive Event! I’m running for Congress as a passionate cyclist who will bring gusto to the fight for safer roads for those who bike! Let’s roll!

31/8/2025, 1:30:43 PM | 111 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Weird. I must have imagined that maglev train.

31/8/2025, 10:05:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

China marxist authoritarian not fascist.

31/8/2025, 10:02:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

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31/8/2025, 8:01:08 PM | 16057 5740 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does LA get an exemption from the interviewer? Our media is an f’ing joke.

31/8/2025, 5:37:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maple Mama (@maplemama20.bsky.social) reposted

@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!

31/8/2025, 4:52:42 PM | 7494 2805 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Advertising pharmaceuticals is just corrupt.

31/8/2025, 10:59:41 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Kornbluh (@annakornbluh.bsky.social) reposted

“theorists in the 60s used term social factory to describe the relationship between capital+labor in the postwar era. Today we inhabit a social manor. Society isn’t oriented toward the production of workers+commodities. It’s now an order of personalized service privilege hierarchy+fealty.” Jodi Dean

30/8/2025, 3:05:38 PM | 119 25 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Reading Capitalism’s Grave right now. Highly recommend we all read it.

31/8/2025, 10:56:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

The responsible news media like the NYT must sane wash the fascist regime while exaggerating every flaw in the opposition in order to achieve the balanced perspective from which the population can understand the world.

31/8/2025, 10:42:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Dysentery is always a possibility.

31/8/2025, 10:37:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

I keep an explicitly local directory outside of OneDrive and use that for everything I don’t want backed up by MSFT.

31/8/2025, 10:25:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

My brother and I were tossed off the side of a small sailboat and told to swim to shore. We did. It really wasn’t very far. Half way in we could walk. But still….

31/8/2025, 1:45:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mariana Z (@mariana057.bsky.social) reposted

If you wait long enough to cook dinner, everyone will eat cereal. Follow me for more recipes.

30/8/2025, 8:37:39 PM | 10715 994 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

This is never going away, is it?

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30/8/2025, 10:50:39 PM | 13525 3668 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Just Jack (@just-jack-1.bsky.social) reposted

He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.

31/8/2025, 1:02:32 AM | 17127 3642 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

No need to pray. Trump was killed by the tech-fascist oligarchs to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

31/8/2025, 1:38:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

We should just continue to assume Trump is dead, regardless of their attempts to prove he isn't. Trump is dead. He died over labor day weekend. The 'going golfing' video was an obvious fake. You cannot golf when you are dead.

30/8/2025, 10:06:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Our puritanical and pathetic welfare system just recycles various policy turds to keep the poors in line.

30/8/2025, 10:03:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Consultants have advised timidity as the safest strategy. Don’t rock the boat, don’t tip the boat over.

30/8/2025, 9:06:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

It was commodity fetishism and is a major component of our cultural psychosis.

30/8/2025, 8:54:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Patrick Briney 🔵 (@briney.org) reposted

I don't care if you want to read the Bible. Just stop reading it to the rest of us. Thank you... 👀

30/8/2025, 1:50:14 PM | 1355 171 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hi, it's Abby. Yep. (@itsabbyyep.bsky.social) reposted

Dead Man Golfing

30/8/2025, 8:05:10 PM | 972 106 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Nozell (@marcno.bsky.social) reposted

Me next week, probably

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30/8/2025, 8:14:43 PM | 30 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

Murkowski is out collinsing Collins.

30/8/2025, 8:10:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

How is that not criminal?

30/8/2025, 8:09:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Hundreds of millions spent on consultants telling them to ignore the fascist coup and act like everything is normal.

30/8/2025, 8:07:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

This reminds me of the temple of Artemis in Ephesus.

30/8/2025, 7:50:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Maher, like lots of other Democrats centrists, thinks he can use his superior intelligence and quick wit to defeat any opponent. They show at best superficially prepared. The people on the right prepare, study their opponents, and have been taught modern rhetorical tactics.

30/8/2025, 7:22:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Colbert just owned every obsequious toady in the entertainment industry.

30/8/2025, 7:15:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

AFAICT the camp consisted of large tents filled with chain link cages and metal bunk beds. WTF did they spend 235 of that 245M on, and I’m being generous on 10M.

30/8/2025, 7:12:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture City of Boston (@boston.gov) reposted

Vote early, Boston! Early voting starts NOW in the City of Boston. Registered Boston voters can vote at any early voting site. Choose a location, make a plan, and vote, Boston! boston.gov/vote-early

VOTE EARLY BOSTON Early Voting Dates SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 There will be no early voting on September 1 due to Labor Day. For information on times and locations, visit: BOSTON.GOV/VOTE-EARLY
30/8/2025, 3:06:58 PM | 25 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed. Let’s imagine and then realize a sustainable society that works for all the people of this planet, that minimizes drudgery and maximizes the pursuit of happiness for all of us. There is a role for intelligent machines in that imaginary.

30/8/2025, 7:03:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

It is the advertising glut phase of the bubble.

30/8/2025, 5:54:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

That they do not care that ‘timidity and propriety’ is a crippling brand image is incomprehensible. Consequently I assume they are simply complicit, and prefer fascism over even the mildest of social democratic reforms.

30/8/2025, 3:01:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

You do understand that almost none of that is possible without also controlling the senate, and even then without a veto proof majority, right?

30/8/2025, 1:27:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Street Art Utopia (@streetartutopia.com) reposted

Public art can transform even the simplest urban furniture into fascinating pieces. Today, I’m showing you some incredibly creative benches from around the globe... <3 26 Creative Benches That Make Me Want to Travel! 👉 streetartutopia.com/2025/06/13/c...

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30/8/2025, 12:35:48 PM | 191 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

And predictably, the anti poor bigots abound in this thread.

30/8/2025, 1:05:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

This bench needs anti personnel additions to keep humans from using it comfortably. /s

30/8/2025, 1:04:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Progressive income taxes with 90% top marginal rate combined with a progressive wealth tax that abolishes billionaires. Problem solved. And yes they can all move to Qatar, IDGAF.

30/8/2025, 12:58:55 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Every cultural event is consumed by the spectacle. Nothing is an event for itself. The event is not the point, its placement in the spectacle stream is the point.

30/8/2025, 12:53:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BERGΛMΛX (@bergamax.bsky.social) reposted

"The Cat Read the Emails First" (2025) acrylic painting By Ukrainian artist Nataliya Bagatskaya - n.bagatska [IG] #art #painting #illustration #caturday

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30/8/2025, 10:36:07 AM | 4414 555 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Taking a person down by the neck is incredibly dangerous.

30/8/2025, 10:01:54 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Beautiful

30/8/2025, 1:52:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Mayor Dickens is a Democrat. He did go all in on Cop City, maybe that gets him a pass. But primarily the NY media has a lot more clout and mostly they hate Mamdani.

29/8/2025, 10:05:32 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

‘Gummint bad’ is a big part of how we got right where we are today. Reject their ideological perspective.

29/8/2025, 10:02:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

This condescending advice is only used against the left. The right can make any outrageous claim they like, and the media will just operate in stenography mode. Note that calling fascists fascist is not an outrageous claim.

29/8/2025, 6:51:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

being used, and being useless might seem to be contradictory, but they aren't.

29/8/2025, 6:47:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Currently around 300B since 2020. And this is likely to reach 1T before anyone pulls the plug.

29/8/2025, 6:45:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Just a stunningly beautiful public institution.

29/8/2025, 6:41:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 (@minibubbly.bsky.social) reposted

Neil Young quits Facebook and Instagram over Meta's use of chatbots with children 'Meta's use of chatbots with children is unconscionable,' Young's team shared in a statement. www.cbc.ca/music/neil-y...

29/8/2025, 4:02:30 PM | 13328 3036 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

Fascism is a many headed monster and needs to be attacked appropriately.

29/8/2025, 6:38:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

Great Ad Great Candidate. This is a winning message!

29/8/2025, 6:36:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Our Skynet is a statistical model generating symbolic tokens that provide an illusion of awareness. This is likely far worse than an actual self aware machine.

29/8/2025, 1:56:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s capitalism driving both of these effects.

29/8/2025, 1:52:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

We have put monsters in power.

29/8/2025, 1:50:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

We need pictures. You took pictures, right?

29/8/2025, 1:45:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

Meanwhile the #NYT is diligently reporting all the arrests made by the illegal occupation forces, as if crime was the actual motive, as if the framing was objective reality.

29/8/2025, 1:42:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a government concentration camp. Prisons, both privatized and public, are generally horrible.

29/8/2025, 1:33:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

The resources required will top off the destruction of the planet we live on.

29/8/2025, 10:55:50 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cllr Dr Alex Powell (@apowelllaw.bsky.social) reposted

If you accept the premise that "illegal Migration" is a serious issue, then you are part of the problem. This is a moral panic and every time you affirm it as an issue you play into the signification spiral. Progressives/left must reject the issue itself not just the "solutions" of the right.

29/8/2025, 8:43:23 AM | 757 197 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Coincidentally BYD cannot sell cars in the US. Musk gets a safe zone free from serious competition.

29/8/2025, 10:47:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

It solved no problem. Instead it was a foot in the door to escalate identification requirements, which is where we are now.

29/8/2025, 10:06:14 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Nobody else is gonna blow him.

29/8/2025, 1:18:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

I do sketches on canson to work out what I’m trying to do. The paper is not very good, and it will tear from tape and masking fluid. But also it’s not expensive.

29/8/2025, 1:16:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

So it was a dumpster fire?

29/8/2025, 12:56:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Recalls are just repairs that the manufacturer has to offer free to owners.

29/8/2025, 12:55:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

When you’re paid to promote fascism you end up saying a lot of stupid shit.

29/8/2025, 12:30:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

What problem does that fix?

29/8/2025, 12:28:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

These same people were leaving their cars running with the ac on while they shop.

29/8/2025, 12:22:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

The firings and resignations will result in replacements by fascist clowns. The walkout is good, but unless they stay out, it does little to change the disaster that is the new CDC.

29/8/2025, 12:20:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

In the maga alternate reality that is now manifesting itself in our reality the maha cdc is the evil politicized organization they imagined it to be when it was earnestly trying to save lives.

29/8/2025, 12:16:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

That is now the CDC.

29/8/2025, 12:11:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Without CDC approval use is not covered for liability. At least that is my understanding.

29/8/2025, 12:10:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) reposted

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

28/8/2025, 9:34:56 PM | 10417 2242 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social)

Disobedience is the way.

28/8/2025, 8:55:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katelyn Jetelina (@kkjetelina.bsky.social) reposted

CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo

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28/8/2025, 6:59:50 PM | 13457 3410 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

The book report shall be in 5PE format, judged using the same stupid metrics as AP exams use. A grading system from 1 -10, with 10 being the highest possible grade, shall be used, and a grade of 9.0 or higher must be achieved.

28/8/2025, 8:54:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) reposted

Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.

28/8/2025, 8:08:52 PM | 24887 4201 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Only within the maga alternate reality.

28/8/2025, 8:42:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn’t prioritizing social programs what governments ought to do?

28/8/2025, 8:40:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Klein's objective is a restoration of the center right neoliberal order.

28/8/2025, 5:47:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) reposted

Yesterday, HSI and MPD set up a checkpoint on Rhode Island Ave in DC. Neighbors stood on either end, holding signs saying “LA MIGRA ADELATE.” As HSI and MPD started to pack it up, residents told them, “we don’t think you’re good Americans” and “fuck you guys, go home.”

28/8/2025, 4:27:34 PM | 1183 271 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat (@lorenzothecat.bsky.social) reposted

In many places in America, it's easier to buy a gun than it is to adopt a cat from a shelter.

28/8/2025, 12:13:47 PM | 3665 684 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Democratic leaders continuing to beg their 'friends' in the fascist party to join them is why people despise the brand.

28/8/2025, 5:32:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Nadler accepting the framing to argue policy is why democrats are fucking idiots.

28/8/2025, 5:15:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Maga emerged from gamer-gate/4chan/qanon live action role playing. A core subset basically believes they are characters in a simulation. Elon Musk, for example, apparently believes he is not only a playing character in a sim, but that he has won the game.

28/8/2025, 5:14:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Roddy (@markr51.bsky.social) reply parent

Chavez, at least initially, was very popular. He won the 1998 election wit 56% of the vote.

28/8/2025, 4:54:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view