🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 (@sebastiangarof5.bsky.social) reposted
Did you all know that there’s 1000 victims of Epstein? How could something like that be possible unless he had a lot of people involved helping him?🔄
As the train of fascism, steadily approaching the platform, slowly pulled in, the journalist traded clever ledes while the historians made notes and the politicians wrote letters.
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view profile on Bluesky 🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 (@sebastiangarof5.bsky.social) reposted
Did you all know that there’s 1000 victims of Epstein? How could something like that be possible unless he had a lot of people involved helping him?🔄
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I know I heard about this insanity when I lived in Miami around 2007. Underage girl wrote about boats, and parties, and islands, and the cooked (R) were busy making dirty deals to keep it going.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
JIATF South is not a new thing. Pursuing and detaining suspected smugglers is why the Coast Guard had the Hitron program. Declaring actual war on “narco-terrorists” in international waters is just illegal. Who decided they were killable, when we have other options?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
I am always reminded how straight forward and rewarding to everyone progress can be, when it is recognized, needed, and acted upon. Words, letters, soundbites, footnotes in history, will not save lives and help us all live better lives now.
Tomato Szn (@bskylife.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Who was President when that happened Mehmet?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Me, and the rest of the world right now, as "know-nothing" racist politics and snake oil salesmen run the biggest country into the dirt...
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
I am still waiting. Is it cowardice? Not wanting to play into Miller’s Nazi America fantasy? Like, they’ve made clear what they’re going to do, regardless of the actual reality. They have a powerful propaganda machine. What are we going to do?
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
So, to stay engaged and not lose my mind, I am going to be a little artsy on here, a little comedy, be less anonymous, because fuck a fascist. We are still the good guys, the right team, and it’s sad only history may get to see that. Otherwise, eat, drink, be merry, for tomorrow is tomorrow.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
Fuck a square, fuck a mortgage, fuck being bound to anything not metaphysical That Porsche won’t hold me when I feel most alone and afraid.
Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I think he thinks he’s supposed to be at that meeting.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
I can tell you that this was illegal. The United States has always sought to apprehend and arrest the people involved in the drug trafficking industry. No, the irony is that real "clear and present danger" is the petty tyrant in the White House.
More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
You’ll find my faith somewhere between East of Eden and Norman Greenbaum.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Put him on a billboard. I’m going to YouTube him now. Very cool.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
So is the shape-shifting non-being Boggert from Harry Potter sorta the same as Schrödinger’s Cat?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
Interesting, I may be a gemini mercury.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Are the men really this fucking stupid? That’s rhetorical, please don’t answer. I know they are the worst. They also used to trust people with expert knowledge, and now, caveman shit.
Punish the Villains (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
Buzz Grambo (@buzzgrambo.bsky.social) reposted
I came out to support @jollygoodginger.bsky.social and other veterans. Please come join us. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6tjgYNJ/
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
So he’s saying that he is a narcissist? Got it.
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.bsky.social) reposted
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Radio Free America (@radiofreeflorida.bsky.social) reposted
“The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.” - John L. Lewis #RadioFreeAmerica
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, but this is America and being meme-able can absolutely propel you into the political elite, at least for the (R)s.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Cops: I think he’s getting it. Other Cops: I’m still not sure he’s getting it. Instructor: Don’t overthink it, next we will cover “getting your story straight and how to articulate the events that led you to believe you had authority to deny them their rights”. Easy stuff.
Auschwitz Memorial (@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social) reposted
31 August 1926 | A Polish Jew, Dawid Wiśnia, was born in Sochaczew. Deported to Auschwitz in December 1942 from the ghetto in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki No. 83526 In 1944, he escaped from a transport to Dachau, joined the US Army & later emigrated to the US. He became a cantor. He passed away in 2021.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I never could watch Orange is the New Black. Too many friends and family in corrections.
Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) reposted
Now you know what Ukrainian internet looks like every time putin vanishes to get more face fillers.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Such a great movie. So funny and sadly closer to the truth, in regards to these leaders actual intelligence and ability.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
Which would actually be pretty punk rock.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
It’s funny to think that Stephen might have had a better early life experience if he’d gotten into the arts. I see a real thespian performing here, on a very big stage. Instead, he became a monster. Is there a place for a Mel Brooks style skit with this POS?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
Hope is a powerful thing. It can persist against all adversity. It springs from an endless fount. Our humanity. News of Trump’s health have been going around and talk of Vance. I would remind, there is no mythical past. We’ve been pawns in the game since yellow journalism. Since Greece.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve brought in our nips expert and they’re saying it appears to be him. I’m ignorant of the science/art but they don’t think it could be easily faked. Is this picture recent?
Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior.bsky.social) reposted
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I hate being right: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ll still pop this bottle of champagne I’ve had since last November. Then get to work helping elect progressive Democrats that think it’s never too late to regulate guns, AI, or bring justice to monster pedophiliacs.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
I am getting off for the rest of the day. Going to re-read "For Whom The Bell Tolls" and think about who I am and where I want to be in this god-awful era of fascism.
JoGo (@akjakalope.bsky.social) reposted
Are we gonna let this stand? Are we “over” the Epstein files?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
"We are at war with Eastasia,"
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, thank you for what you have shared. This is pretty damning stuff. Are they trying to reflect "popular opinion" at the moment? It is like transgender rights (~1% of population) become the rallying issues in micro-regions to secure the electoral college. There are no refugees at The Savoy.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
If fraud was a disqualifying thing for holding high office, Trump and none of his Cabinet should be in power.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to be a PSA, but wear your seat belts properly. The difference between death/life long disability and walking away is usually the seatbelt.
Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) reposted
If drones you identify as belonging to a hostile foreign state are flying in your airspace conducting military espionage, why not shoot them down? There are surely unpopulated areas in their flight path. Why impotently complain to the press instead?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
- The Western powers know what they know and will see this as opportunity to see what Russia's capabilities are. - Ukraine has become the testing ground for our next World War. I hope this helped, I am going to find my "For Whom The Bell Tolls" now.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you actually want me to explain what is going on here? - Russia has other means of gathering this intelligence, from HUMINT to SAT. - Russia is always testing boundaries, like when it's hacked into critical infrastructure in the States. - It serves as a threat (drones are bombs now). 1/2
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
You obviously know nothing about how elections work in the United States. I am not going to say anything else intelligent and waste my time. Meet Bill:
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I was just trying to point out an account that could've been made by Cambridge Analytica or Black Cube it looks so genuine and is suppressing the vote. Suppressing the vote will always help the extremists, like Reform.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I think I agree with everything you have said and thank you for using words other than playground cutdowns. What we do here in the States now is another story. If you look over my timeline, I say the midterms won't save us. 1/2
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Who said what now? This is the "popular vote" and we have an electoral college system. Trump secured his win in regions of states like western PA. As the news was coming out from county clerks on results there it looked (R) mail-in voted, early voted, and E-Day voted in record numbers.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, it's not like this is the first time she has been blatantly bought off by someone facing charges. She did the same thing as Florida's AG.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, what a moron. Try learning how to read and how to use a dictionary. Anyway, I thought there was a moment with a real person to spread some knowledge, but of course, I was wrong. To the blocked cell you go and as tradition requires, meet Bill:
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
These rightwing monsters co-opted these bigger conservative parties by working through the system. Lots of digital, help from abroad, etc. but they never stopped voting for that "conservative" party. They just changed it. Surrendering the battlefield to the worst enemy is insane.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I am not always happy with the hard truths of our global descent into fascism. A strong push from our far left against the "cop" Kamala Harris suppressed voter turnout. A lot of this wasn't even genuine, just astroturfed online frenzy. It resulted in a million times worse situation.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
West Point is where? Is it because he was such a great strategist? Remind me, who won the bloodiest war in our history?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It is feeling a lot like Hungary right now. No, I am not hungry, it is like they are copying Viktor Orban's playbook here. Except we need the workers, seem to have exploiting cheap labor hardwired into our system, and they're not even Muslim, like more Christian than any Christian nationalist.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
Just a shot in the dark here, but could anyone confirm if they have extra fencing or barriers around the Supreme Court, White House, or Union Station right now? #SCOTUS
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
she said that “black” with a hard r
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I enjoy and encourage you to speak like this more often, and not reflect the double consciousness Du Bois spoke of.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
It is feeling a lot like Hungary right now. No, I am not hungry, it is like they are copying Viktor Orban's playbook here. Except we need the workers, seem to have exploiting cheap labor hardwired into our system, and they're not even Muslim, like more Christian than any Christian nationalist.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
hahahaha
Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) reposted
Emmett Till would've turned 84 today. He was only 14 when white supremacists lynched him. The white woman Carolyn Bryant who falsely accused him of harassing her, confessed she lied. The warrant for her arrest was never enforced. She died only 2 years ago in 2023 at the age of 88. This is America.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
There’s even a crazy story about the sign that is a historical marker for him in the Delta. I spent years in that part of the country and it is why I’m devoted to defeating Republicans. Keep up the good work brother!
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
We all like winning and it’s hard not striving to be better, especially if you have a competitive spirit. Perfection?! Who is using this word to describe themselves?! Seems like there might be a lot more mental health issues in a person who talks this way. Who is even the arbiter of such a goal?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Godspeed.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Well it definitely is, here opposing the Labour Parry in England, which only helps Reform gain more traction. Why not actually attack the bad guys? This account is cooked. I wonder if the Nazis write them checks?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
What an odd thing to be arguing right now, since it seems for millions of Americans, the lesser of two evils was a moderate black woman and not voting for her got us Trump’s regime. Debating just putting this account in my blocked cell as it seems like it’s trying to suppress voting.
Public Citizen (@publiccitizen.bsky.social) reposted
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.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
This movie is a top five for me. Can watch it for the thousandth time and still love every bit. The booing hag in her dream. Miracle Max. Andre the Giant saying he is the brute squad. That he put the poison in both cups to outsmart the Sicilian. Crying as you wish as he tumbles down the hill.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I just keep waiting for Miller to get the place where he unironically says something to the effect of “only our labor can truly free us.” Give it time. This is #AmericanFascism #DumbFascism after all.
Barack Obama (@barackobama.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
NurseGenius (@nursegenius1019.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Paula White the WH Spiritual Advisor will pray for you for a financial donation The more money you send her the stronger the prayer. Yes she has an Office in the WH and is the Official Spiritual Advisor to the Administration Ask Karoline about that Prosperity Doctrine
altNOAA 🇺🇸 (@altnoaa.bsky.social) reposted
Newsom should create the CCDCP - California Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... and hire every single one of them.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
+ body count from mass shootings, Afghanistan, Iraq, failed COVID response, cancelling USAID, ending Women’s natal healthcare, etc. When is it high enough people will see start seeing it? #AmericanFascism #DumbFascism
NeuroFellaMD 📚⚖️🗽 (@melissaf.bsky.social) reposted
Jfc
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh great, the manipulative robots are eugenicists. It is blowing my mind that people are losing their jobs to LLM that don’t just make little mistakes. They’ll make huge mistakes and then lie about it. Needed those Asimov three laws. Not too late.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
An honest break down of the type of soulless shitbags that are filling the ranks of America’s Gestapo. A modern day Woody Guthrie? That thing in his hands does kill fascist, after all. Thank you Jesse Welles. Going to pump this in my car.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
ABC Always Be Closing
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
I feel that despair energy, but let it simmer and turn to rage. The ball of rage in me has kept me going on some long days helping defeat Republicans. We are the good guys. I’ll only stop fighting for good when I’m kaputz.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s been every week since they took control of the White House.
L.A. TACO (@lataco.bsky.social) reposted
L.A. TACO is committed to staying on the front lines, exposing the truths they are trying to cover up and amplifying the voices of those who need it most. But we can’t do it alone—we still urgently need your help to keep covering this evolving crisis. givebutter.com/LA_TACO_TMC
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Found it. Thanks y’all. Thanks for all you are doing. Knowledge is still power.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for being a good person and doing the right thing. I’m definitely wondering how we out-of-staters can help? I’ll look into you right now.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
No kidding. Praise the big sky spirit.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
I can hear the Ken Burns documentary voice describing current events with images playing out in his style and it looks really fucking bad. How do we stop being the Good Germans? Throw sandwiches?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
It’s a long list of damage being done, including to our nat’l security and economy, but the gutting of worker and consumer protection agencies has been horrible watching. Just insane. How does anyone see his dividing and destroying as good?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
I think these troops are in the highest concentration of officers anywhere in the country, drawing active-duty pay, and they got tired real quick of just seeing them stand around getting full pay, TAD pay, and per diem. So they put them to work.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
So an illegal intrusion on Germany's sovereignty? Remember when the rightwing said Hitler would stop with the annexation of Austria? Whoops! I meant when Putin annexed Crimea? What happened next? Full-scale invasion. NATO or at least NATO minus USA, need to respond. Article 5?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social) reply parent
Russian drones are violating Germany's sovereignty? Is this not an attack on NATO? Article 5 anyone?
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
Stephen Miller read history and knows that Mussolini took credit for making trains run on time in Italy. Truth is that it had zero to do with him, but Trump/Republicans are always going to take credit for everything good and blame everything bad on powerless groups. #AmericanFascism #DumbFascism
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
Adam, I will also add that Trump gave her $5 million in a wrongful death suit. Between this, the pardons, and ICE Gestapo attacking workers and disappearing them, we are way past the the start of any movie about the Nazis. It is abundantly clear the Dems won't do what is needed.
Progress or Backwards (@progressornot.bsky.social)
I asked a very serious friend of mine from Ireland that I have worked with in helping defeat Republicans what stage of the movie are we? Like the beginning stage, where we are "Whats's going on in Berlin with these Nazis?" He said we should be burying weapons in barrels. He thinks we lost already.