ICYMI โ โLA wouldnโt be standing todayโ This is a real thing @Sec_Noem said on tv, with a straight face
dithering away our last chance๐ SocDem, party of FDR Unregulated capitalism and untaxed wealth are killing democracy in America. #StandWithUkraine #Taiwan #Tibet vegan animalista โ ๏ธanimal rights pix Super Villain https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ULKH3SQU-3I
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ICYMI โ โLA wouldnโt be standing todayโ This is a real thing @Sec_Noem said on tv, with a straight face
In case you thought RFK Jr. didnโt fully belong in this fascist administration - like heโs a fluke, hired to please the crazies who helped elect Trump - no. He belongs with the techbro fascists shrinking both democratic government and population before AI shrinks job numbers. Theyโre all sympatico.
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It ... it incredibly unsettling when people say "signs" of Eugenics when RKF Jr.'s stated policy on diseases is (paraphrased) ... "only the weak die from diseases so it's ok for diseases to spread through society" That is not only erroneous, but also an *explicitly* Eugenic stance.
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Imagine if the US would put this kind of effort into infiltrating and destabilizing Russia instead of Denmark
Good morning Europe
๐ We need a chart, again. bsky.app/profile/pama...
BREAKING SCANDAL: The US Dept of Labor hired a foreigner, a Russian poster model for their America First propaganda campaign
If only they had been given ranged capabilities earlier...
There was a very failed "breakthrough", which got a lot of airtime, until it failed. Now, there's only crickets from the analyzing community. Phillips put my thoughts to words..
Estonia considers restoring ailing bogs to protect against Putin
At Gerasimovโs briefing, Russia proudly showed off its โmap of victories.โ But a closer look against realistic maps reveals the trick: Moscow simply colors in the grey zone as if fully captured. A victory by crayons, not on the battlefield.
๐ช๐บ A group of a dozen EU countries has looked into unexplored legal possibilities to proceed by qualified majority instead of unanimity, - Bloomberg. โผ๏ธ Making the change would allow faster and more decisive action in the context of increased geopolitical competition.
Yes, Iโve read fascismโs on the rise again in Europe with a boost from Russian influence ops - again! Youโd think Trumpโs America wouldโve been a warning.
first thing Americans do when they wake up is forget the past
๐ That, and my personal pet peeve, the real, homegrown, infiltrated Left - mostly irrelevant until the infiltrated Right joined in the grift (the Rightโs lovefest with the Kremlin was seeded decades ago but only came into full bloom lately)
Good job Vlad my best bud www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/c...
Putinโs most prized puppet Having pre-surrendered foreign policy (not to mention the White House and Congress) in front of the whole world, Americans now need to worry about more than Putin. bsky.app/profile/noel...
How to spot pro-Kremlin accounts They never mention Kremlin influence ops, just US ones; silent on Russian regime change ops & wars, not US ones (Iraqโs the only one this century) - despite Russiaโs current massive attack on Europe, & madly successful regime change op in the US. Etc. Happy hunting
every day the double standard just gets more and more unbearable Tim Pool and Dave Rubin were getting paid millions of dollars by the literal Kremlin to produce Russian propaganda meanwhile there are people on the left running exposรฉs on Pakman taking a DNC check fucking kill me dude
lol, but donny boyโs done everything daddy vlad wants
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Theyโre sociopaths incapable of caring about others. They figure theyโll be fine - in their New Zealand or fascist Greenland bunkers if it comes down to it.
European leaders are starting to say it but even now, with so much evidence in, American leaders only whisper it. bsky.app/profile/pama...
Almost forgot the wife he drove to suicide. Imagine such a heinous, unqualified person winning confirmation in a un-destabilized America. Note that Massachusetts is the bluest state among those restricting covid vax access. I hope itโs not the Kennedy name at work there www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/h...
Iโll finish it later How many Americans know that Trumpโs crypto czar, David Sacks, was hired by PayPal bud Musk at X where he spent his time posting pro-Russia talking points & trashing Ukraine? (I read he helped talk Musk into buying X). Now heโs helping end US economic supremacy #ConnectTheDots
Thereโs no better way to celebrate Labor Day if youโre near one of these (Iโm not, unfortunately). www.newsweek.com/map-list-cit...
Exactly. Reduce the threat of rebellion when AI puts everyone out of work - by reducing the population
PayPal Mafia pawn says what? Remember when Elon Musk pretended to be libertarian? And propagandists like Glenn Greenwald got Americans believing it - with a whole chorus of Putinistas singing along? Lol, hardly anyone here needs to apologize for being suckered. It was mostly fools still on X.
Paranoid delusions seem to be seizing Sec. Burgum. His fumbling fact free rationale for illegally shutting down Revolution Wind is ludicrous. It means higher electricity prices for consumers & massive job cuts. Not to mention undermining energy independence. Itโs crazy & lawless.
Sec. Kennedyโs warped political agenda is corrupting our protection against disease. His destructive discharges of CDC leaders are yet another attempt to replace science with zealotry.
Kennedy is unfitโperiod. Heโs the one who should be fired. His dangerous illegalities require Congressional intervention. Bipartisan investigation is a first stepโaiming for full accountability.
Remember the Boars Head listeria outbreak that killed 10 people & made 60+ ill? Well a key CDC program will no longer be monitoring for listeria & other foodborne illnesses. Without early detection & interventionโmore people will get seriously sick & die.
Then whoever posted that has no sense of humor.
Also cousin Caroline said he got family members hooked on drugs. His brother David died of a drug overdose. This man would kill literally millions without compunction - and a fine way to do it is to reduce vaccine use, production and distribution in an age of increasing pandemics.
Are you so sure? After killing over 80 kids and adults on Somoa heโs set his sights on killing millions. Any serial killer would envy him. He even has the childhood clue of cruelty to animals (putting live chicks in a blender to feed his hawk). By all reports, he enjoyed it.
Since legacy media wonโt diagnose people without a proper exam, Iโll say it loud: RFK Jr. is a psychopathic serial killer hired by a president installed by a foreign adversary to kill Americans. Make it all make sense any other way. Iโll wait.
They attack Fauci, an actual doctor and scientist, but praise RFK Jr., whoโs never even seen the inside of a lab. Make it make sense.
The Late Showโs funny but Colbert was better at parodying the Right, as in the Colbert Report. (I donโt know how one parodies outright fascists - but Charlie Chaplin did.) A reason to keep Netflix, anyway
How clueless were they to think an aspiring dictator would serve them? They knew heโs authoritarian when they voted. Heโs unpopular now because heโs ruining their lives - but do they put 2 & 2 together? Do they see that they now need to vote in massive numbers to override his vote rigging tactics?
Whoโll replace him? He was installed deliberately. Everything else that made the US strong (economic reliability, alliances & global engagement, defense geared externally & not domestically, human rights many nations envy, etc) is being dismantled. Why not public health? AI will replace dead workers
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/08/28/t...
So few in power call him what he is: the culmination of the most consequential subversion and regime change operation in history. bsky.app/profile/pama...
Really important piece by @mykolabielieskov.bsky.social about how Putin is trying to gain control of a vital part of Ukraineโs defenses through working with Trump. www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
Should we tell them
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 20 years ago. Earlier this week, ~180 FEMA workers warned that Trump's cuts are setting the stage for a similar calamity. The next day, dozens of them were punished. This is a perfect summation of Trump's homicidal hurricane policy. Our new report โฌ๏ธhas more. ๐งต
On this day 20 years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall. I only moved to New Orleans in 2023, but Katrina's impact is still seen and felt all over the city. #neverforget
A history of extraction and exploitation feels ever-present in New Orleans, but it was perhaps most visible after Hurricane Katrina, which occurred 20 years ago this week.
After the flood and the trauma of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was flush with financial resources, big ideas and hope. Two decades later, much of that hope has gone unrealized as residents cope with dysfunction and soaring costs. nyti.ms/4mCyS8e
The Meters - Down by the River #FunkyFriday #GenreRoulette #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #TheMeters #NeilYoung #MusicCover #NOLA Where Neil Young meets the funk. Down in New Orleans. youtu.be/kABocjOlQQg?...
20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans ๐ I heard so many tales of horror & suffering from my friends who lived there at the time - especially those evacuated to the Superdome โBitter Ashes,โ a song I wrote & performed with Nox Arcana, is my requiem for all we lost that August:
Gotta take time to feel good about something on politics Bsky, so hereโs the tune m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioyv...
Joni Ernst, who cast key vote on Hegseth, vandalizes U.S. military and walks away.
Is Iowa a bellweather? Too early to tell, but the news is good! MAGA Senator Joni Ernst likely has some sooper dooper secret internal polling that scared the snot outta her. Tillis, Tuberville, McConnell also are OUT!
Joni Ernst won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say #Pinks www.cbsnews.com/news/joni-er...
I deleted F-book years ago and remember everyone saying โdelete F-bookโ and here we are. Maybe we need laws instead of cancel culture. Maybe we need actual democratic fightback against oligarchsโ war on all of us.
In 1988, Tom Waits won $2 million in a lawsuit against Frito Lay for using a sound-alike of his voice in a radio ad, thus creating a strong precedent for these future owners of Meta
Meta is so foul. Just beyond foul.
The extent to which these companies assume by default that they are unimpeachable and can do this stuff without any fear of meaningful consequences is reaching truly impressive heights. Here is a Meta product lead just casually creating a sex bot out of the likeness of the most famous singer alive
Europeโs leaders are starting to get it. Americans, not so much, despite almost a decade of warnings. Itโs as if even foreign policy watchers canโt face this monstrous reality.
Recent US polls Iโve seen show Trumpโs disapproval way higher than his approval ratings on every topic including his handling of the war. Apparently the Russia sanctions bill would get about 80 votes out of 100 but heโd refuse to sign it. Heโs doing all he can to subvert elections which heโd lose.
America too will be a gas station masquerading as a country by the time Trump and Putin are done with it.
From October, 2024: Everything that has happened was predictable, and indeed predicted youtu.be/pHDVpBLMiFI?...
๐ itโs like a contagious disease
The fire sale at the end of the empire www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
"In all, officials said, Russia launched 598 drones and 31 missiles in the overnight assault on Kyiv and other cities. Ukraineโs defenses shot down 563 drones and 26 missiles, according to the Ukrainian authorities."
Do you remember when Trump pretended to care about Russia bombarding and killing Ukrainian civilians? Seems like so long agoโฆ. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sobering but important analysis by @mikecarpenter.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/119673/ukrai...
Kyiv this morning
Russians hit the EU diplomatic mission building in Kyiv, I feel like this calls for more than a deep concern
Weโre about to reach levels of deep concern previously unseen
D*** f****** b****
How many children were there in the oil refinery
No more windows in our office building
I havenโt organized a compilation of all Putinโs assets in the White House but hereโs a new one. (Gorโs a Soviet who worked for asset Rand Paul before working for Trump. With so much smoke around Trump you can smell the fire.) bsky.app/profile/pama...
When will everyone do the math? Itโs a war on us, the American people, by an administration nurtured and supported by a foreign adversary meddling in US politics. Iโm not sure I can continue to watch Americaโs decline. Itโs too horrific and dumb at the same time.
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadnโt happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
Pay attention. Your familyโs safety is on the line.
I have no idea what this challenge is about, just love this song. (It was supposedly a โBeatlesqueโ band on Apple Records.)
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
Weโre going to go on a rant for a minute, and yes weโre bringing some history with us. Back in 1755, Benjamin Franklin wrote words that still echo today: โThose who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.โ
Americans do not want to live under a military state, that was never the American dream. Our country was founded on the promise of liberty, not soldiers patrolling our streets. The Constitution is clear: the military does not police civilians.
The reality is simple our rights are not bargaining chips. Liberty is not something you trade away for โtemporary safetyโ, because when you do, you lose both.
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
No frickin way #allythepiper #piperally #freebird
Back in my mentions, deservedly so
Starbucksโ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Not commenting on these specific proposals. They might be good ones. Immigrationโs an economic good in many ways. Clearly the volume of it over decades caused catastrophic cultural backlash, as in other nations, but one canโt expect Third Way to grapple with that or anything outside its own agenda.
Havenโt read the piece yet but every time I see Third Way types stepping forward to lead where other Dems donโt itโs like hearing fingernails on a blackboard. Iโm seeing it a lot. Just like the fascists, theyโve got the money, the think tanks, the pull. Itโs a continuing disaster for this nation.
Of course the real fascists in the GOP canโt be targeted because of gerrymandering. Thatโs another battle for a very different day.
These people will be a huge pain in the future & I welcome them. Itโs unfortunate heโs targeting someone whoโs secretly a NeverTrumper & Ukraine supporter, but Grahamโs notoriously spineless. The entire GOPโs been reduced to groveling in the face of budding tyranny. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
In fact the people who use crime as an excuse to institute repression (sending the military to patrol cities, for example) are the same ones ENABLING the flood of guns into those same cities. The fascists have been straight-up lying about their real agenda for decades.
More guns than people Note: 2nd Amendment notwithstanding, weโre closer to dictatorship now than ever. The storyโs not over but as of now, rampant gun ownershipโs done nada to protect our freedoms. Not one thing. What would? Tax the rich. Universal health coverage. If that makes me Left so be it.