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Autumn

@scirocker.bsky.social

Singer/Songwriter for Space of a Day, Gardener, MS, MPH, Chasing Common Sense over a Rainbow. Music on http://open.spotify.com/artist/5nNOI6NL16ypK6js5aiheB?si=Ndg9Yb01T

created November 11, 2024

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Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Declaring war. He can suspend elections and distract from the Epstein hearing.

2/9/2025, 3:38:45 AM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

He's going to declare war. That's where they have been this weekend. All of them went quiet.

2/9/2025, 3:37:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CNN (@cnn.com) reposted

The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town has overwhelmingly won an election, four years after White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve. https://cnn.it/4p0fkwn

1/9/2025, 12:03:01 AM | 928 251 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Oink oink

1/9/2025, 11:19:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

Porcine

1/9/2025, 11:19:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted

Russia, Russia, Russia!! HOAX!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

1/9/2025, 6:10:26 PM | 1383 402 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

If you got them to do it too they could not rat on you.

1/9/2025, 11:17:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

HAPPY LABOR DAY TO ALL
1/9/2025, 6:26:02 PM | 1030 382 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

31/8/2025, 2:39:34 PM | 16770 4536 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

Chubby ice agents picking crops.
1/9/2025, 7:02:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted

Exactly. Keep the pressure on. Trump will not stick with anyone he thinks may be dragging him further down. That was the beginning of his distancing from Elon. Keep the pressure on. RFK must go.

1/9/2025, 6:34:59 PM | 1284 311 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Not music. Just noise and sounds.

1/9/2025, 5:56:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

No musical talent or training means he doesn't make music. Musicians call this "noise".

1/9/2025, 5:56:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted

It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite

1/9/2025, 3:29:55 PM | 2539 464 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

1/9/2025, 3:45:25 PM | 9053 2087 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture this is awkword . com (@awkword.bsky.social) reposted

What could possibly go wrong?

1/9/2025, 4:12:52 PM | 1962 818 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 (@solnatamd.medsky.social) reposted

Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.

1/9/2025, 4:49:17 PM | 2602 923 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

We share this graph as often as we can. #UnionStrong

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1/9/2025, 5:01:35 PM | 1424 612 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Old people with poor muscle tone and diet do not handle surgery well. Takes a long time to recover and they often never fully recover if at all. He knew he was having heart surgery when he was talking about heaven and had the cabinet tongue bath 6 days ago. Big Send Off.

1/9/2025, 3:20:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Josh Zingher (@zingherpolisci.bsky.social) reposted

We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

1/9/2025, 12:23:55 PM | 3458 1034 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) reposted

1/ If you are feeling overwhelmed by the fast paced of legal news, remember that it’s deliberate. It’s a strategy Trump uses, flooding the zone in hopes that people will tune out. Read what you need to know here to get ready for the week: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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Profile picture Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted

Stephen Miller is REALLY bad at pretending to be Trump. Like this doesn’t even almost sound like a Trump tweet

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1/9/2025, 12:57:13 PM | 2579 498 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

Netflix gets my $

1/9/2025, 3:15:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.

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Profile picture Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted

Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.

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1/9/2025, 1:18:16 PM | 1552 277 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 (@kdnerak33.bsky.social) reposted

PragerU spelled certify wrong on the Oklahoma certificate of completion, because of course they did.

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1/9/2025, 1:41:17 PM | 828 275 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

They hear that music in the grocery store all the time.

1/9/2025, 3:11:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah piss off with all that. Lol

1/9/2025, 3:10:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

After a show Saturday had a 20 yr old tell me and my guitarist that he enjoyed the music and enthusiasticaly proclaimed "Old people are cool!" Yeah, we're Gen X and we don't care if you think we're cool.

1/9/2025, 3:08:10 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

After a show Saturday had a 20 yr old tell me and my guitarist that he enjoyed the music and enthusiasticaly proclaimed "Old people are cool!" Yeah, we're Gen X and we don't care if you think we're cool.

1/9/2025, 3:08:10 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

Statement from Trump about his good friend Rudy Giuliani who was injured in a serious car crash on Saturday:

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1/9/2025, 2:17:50 PM | 2964 471 | View on Bluesky | view

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

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1/9/2025, 2:38:33 PM | 3318 862 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

If we will never be a Socialist [sic] or Communist [sic] Country [sic], then why are you giving billions of dollars to farmers to make up for losses from your stupid tariffs (SOCIALISM) and having the US government own part of Intel (COMMUNISM)?

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31/8/2025, 11:21:05 PM | 6542 2034 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Drunk all the time.

1/9/2025, 4:54:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

The media treats the wealthy, even wealthy criminals, like titled aristocracy.

1/9/2025, 4:52:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

He is probably recovering from a heart procedure and they are covering up.

1/9/2025, 2:36:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Dancing with The Reaper

31/8/2025, 10:05:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

It involves liquor and a Hooker.

31/8/2025, 10:03:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

Post a video of yourself with today’s newspaper saying this

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31/8/2025, 9:28:40 PM | 7246 1277 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted

"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."

31/8/2025, 9:34:37 PM | 15803 3548 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

Yeah, real super hero crime fighting spreading that mulch around.

31/8/2025, 8:06:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

The Republican halcyon days of wine and empty party rhetoric are coming to an end. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

31/8/2025, 8:06:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

Keep it up y'all. Make them answer for their actions. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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

Profile picture public health guy (@publichealthguy1.bsky.social) reposted

wow

31/8/2025, 7:50:43 PM | 4052 1234 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Couldn't care less.

31/8/2025, 8:04:04 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about *power*, pure and simple."

30/8/2025, 9:16:27 PM | 2576 727 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

Gee, that's a shame.

31/8/2025, 8:03:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Keep thinking about Michael Cohen saying "Rudy is drunk all the time."

31/8/2025, 8:03:03 PM | 46 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) reposted

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.

31/8/2025, 7:19:26 PM | 2751 699 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not like math is their subject.

31/8/2025, 8:01:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

You guys and your fancy foreign words.

31/8/2025, 8:00:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

I dont know which is worse, that they thought we wouldn't be able to check or that they didn't think we would.

31/8/2025, 7:59:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Hahaha!

31/8/2025, 7:54:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

NEWS: Trump and House Republicans' budget cuts seek to eliminate the HOME affordable housing program that’s built/rehabbed 1.3M homes in 30 yrs, including 540k in rural areas. 84% of those homes are in districts that voted for him. Rural families now face losing their lifeline.

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31/8/2025, 4:08:43 PM | 1936 777 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

He played with Gruden last week not today.

31/8/2025, 7:41:35 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.

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31/8/2025, 4:55:13 PM | 8803 1889 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Well then, what kind of mess has he gotten us into and who wrote this?

31/8/2025, 7:41:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Well done! Be very loud.

31/8/2025, 7:40:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Charlie Angus (@charlieangus104.bsky.social) reposted

One more sleep until @meidascanada.ca goes live. What better day to launch than Labour Day. Join the network here: www.youtube.com/@charlieangu...

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31/8/2025, 11:01:58 AM | 1060 210 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted

Subscribe now 🇨🇦

31/8/2025, 6:58:32 PM | 649 124 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.

31/8/2025, 5:27:12 PM | 14276 3662 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

The DOJ is telling the court that all unaccompanied children Trump is sending to Guatemala have parents or guardians in that country who have requested their children be returned to them. The plaintiffs are saying that's not at all true. You can read the back and forth here:

31/8/2025, 5:34:41 PM | 1164 342 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

This is the second judge in a week that has brought up the fact that the government can't be trusted with clear instructions - likely because the government ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn the planes around last March saying "verbal orders from judges don't count."

31/8/2025, 5:38:04 PM | 5578 1654 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture public health guy (@publichealthguy1.bsky.social) reposted

this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups

31/8/2025, 5:42:42 PM | 1654 578 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

31/8/2025, 6:00:09 PM | 17419 5154 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh yeah, well we dont want to pay an illegal tax to boost the military since they are already wasted out money like crazy so just piss right off Donny.

31/8/2025, 7:38:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

So 30 year olds with master degrees can work in meat processing plants for 14 bucks and hour to keep from starving.

31/8/2025, 7:37:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) reposted

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

31/8/2025, 6:04:17 PM | 3177 1054 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Dude wore the exact same thing last week. Look at the date.

Man with weird calves golfing.
31/8/2025, 7:36:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Dayum Kabas. Nice catch.

31/8/2025, 7:35:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) reposted

Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.

31/8/2025, 6:20:23 PM | 5025 1035 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted reply parent

Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!

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Profile picture Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) reposted

part of the growing chasm between the supreme court and the lower and intermediate courts is that the supreme court has not punished the government for its overwhelming disrespect of the bench

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Profile picture Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) reposted

ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!

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Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...

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Profile picture Peter Sterne (@petersterne.com) reposted

Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.

Tweet from Joshua J. Friedman: Plaintiffs: No. Possible some children might be in that situation, but everything we could find on short notice is children not in this situation. Judge: Mr. Ensign you saying that *all* these children have parents who are requesting their return to Guatemala? DOJ: That's what I've been told Tweet from Joshua J. Friedman: Judge: During recess, I read provision you cited and then the complaint. Every one of 10 named plaintiffs says they are *afraid* of being sent back to Guatemala. (Reads aloud from declarations.) Doesn't line up with what govt is saying. This is why we have courts.
31/8/2025, 6:39:13 PM | 4861 1671 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted

Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.

31/8/2025, 7:08:22 PM | 5514 1479 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Welcome to Earth!

31/8/2025, 7:30:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE AUGUST 29, 2025 Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.
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Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

What about people living overseas who are not in the military?

31/8/2025, 4:18:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

Donald Trump is once again threatening to issue an executive order targeting voting. This is an effort to subvert the Constitution and the 2026 election, which grants states and Congress but not the president power to regulate federal elections. If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."

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Profile picture Kate Starbird (@katestarbird.bsky.social) reposted

Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.

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Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Americans are spoiled, uninformed, and lazy. I have lost count of the number of people who have no idea what is happening. They still trust the government like a baby trusts a parent.

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Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it

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Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope it is painful.

31/8/2025, 4:14:37 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

it is all homoerotic soldier boy cosplay.

31/8/2025, 4:13:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

Millions of taxpayer dollars to transport and protect him every weekend so he can play golf. At least we get to enjoy our high healthcare prices and no food!

31/8/2025, 4:12:55 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

The middle finger just like Jesus would do!

31/8/2025, 4:11:19 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

www.al.com/news/2025/08...

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Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the world we will leave our children.

31/8/2025, 3:39:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

There’s an old saying that “Mussolini made the trains run on time.” But he didn’t. That false claim stuck because the Italian dictator and his supporters said it a lot. Mussolini ended up with his dead body hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station. Not a success story. /2

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Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

When qualifications are irrelevant and the only value is loyalty to a dictator, corruption flourishes. That's lucrative for a few, but it undermines the system for everyone else. Where there is no justice, just obvious corruption, a functional society is impossible. The trains don't run on time. 6/

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Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

In a kleptocracy like Trump is building, merit means nothing. Look at what’s happening at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Experts have fled. Hacks and kooks are in charge. People will die because of Trump’s power grab. 5/

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Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, an economic dislocation pushed by ideologues who ignored experts, was a huge disaster. An estimated 20 million Chinese died of starvation in 1959-1962. Trump chooses unqualified loyalists over experts to run his regime, and the disaster gets worse every day. 4/

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Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

In dictatorships, paranoia becomes policy. Joseph Stalin devastated the Soviet military through purges. After 13 of 15 army commanders were ousted, his military was so weakened that the Soviets nearly lost to Germany in WWII. Trump is currently purging and weakening the U.S. military. 3/

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Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted

"A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator,” says Trump. And indeed some victims of right-wing brainwashing think dictators can “get things done.” What they don’t understand is that dictatorships are often incompetent. A thread. 1/ 🧵🧵🧵

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Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

I thought this was common knowledge and Republicans are cool with it.

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Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social) reply parent

I saw it. Alien ships landed in the Pacific just off the coast, and a hardy band of Marines fought back against unbelievable odds.

31/8/2025, 3:34:16 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Autumn (@scirocker.bsky.social)

Wow

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