stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
he's there to craft catastrophies
-believes everyone should have a manifesto, maybe even 2! -booted off every Meta platform! -uncomfortably squinting in the brite lite of your optimism! -thanx for likes, pls share
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he's there to craft catastrophies
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undulating tops
Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted
The Democratic party leadership is only concerned with finding moderates who don't rock the boat too much – and that's the exact opposite of what we need and what this time demands.
Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 (@tabathasouthey.bsky.social) reposted
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted
The biggest mistake liberals make on media issues is assuming the mainstream media gives a single fuck. They don’t care. They’re rich and they’re white and they’re protected. None of this affects them. They don’t give a shit. If you understand this fact then the tone of the coverage makes sense.
Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) reposted
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
man i am ALWAYS getting stiffed by the Left
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
toads know
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love that song
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duck duck goose
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
& we dont need it
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
understandabubble
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
that makes entirely too much sense
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)
certain events over the last week, & 'Weekend At Bernie-ing' is now a verb
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
"ok, sure, but what if the dictator had more taste than to embellish the Oval Office w/ cheesy golden filigree?"
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)
okay, uh, sure: 'half a giraffe' ..well to be fair, it's really hard to rhyme almost any other fractions w/ animals at all ..like 'a third' & 'bird', but like, what kind of bird? ..& 'quarter', 'fifth', 'eighth', 'sixteenth'..? forget about it ..'half a giraffe' is the only one that really swings
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
okay, uh, sure: 'half a giraffe' ..well to be fair, it's really hard to rhyme almost any other fractions w/ animals at all ..like 'a third' & 'bird', but like, what kind of bird? ..& 'quarter', 'fifth', 'eighth', 'sixteenth'..? forget about it ..'half a giraffe' is the only one that really swings
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
wash that puppppp
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
take care of yourself
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
it is more easily disregarded than one is generally led to believe
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
they hope to make enough $$ to amass enough resources to somehow ride out, in some semblance of the style w/ which they have become accustomed, the climate collapse that they themselves brought down upon all of us
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
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stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
hey you
sean (@impossiblemachine.bsky.social) reposted
Take the time to watch this and follow @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
team tRUmp has never been big on those: 'there's only one way to solve this' approaches: -beat charges of tax fraud? submit your financial records -quash pedo rumors? release the Epstein files etc, etc, etc ..its almost like those sorts of things wouldnt work out all that well for him
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
please go & stand in the corner facing the wall & one of our representatives will be w/ you shortly
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)
please enjoy the 'Last Known Photograph' quality of these 2 pics of the potus taken in the last couple of days
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted
This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
as i understand it, theyre quite musical
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stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
a hex
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)
Libs: 'thoughts & prayers aren't enough!' The Right: 'why do you hate Christians?'
Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini (@karimwafa.bsky.social) reposted
A system cannot fail those it was never built to protect. — W.E.B. DuBois
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
'what's in the pipe, Chuck?' "Scoops!"
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
samesies
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
"..the shtrawberriesh!"
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)
remember when young Christopher Walken wanted to eat America?
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
gout is a terrible thing Biffo...lay off the rich foods
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
Charlie "Scoops" Spundlemin couldnt agree w/ you more!
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
seems par for the course
Daniel Carlson (@danielwcarlson.bsky.social) reposted
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.
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
we've all done it
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
'Flirty Chatbot' sounds like a drag name
Marxist-Glonzoist (@primaryschool.bsky.social) reposted
the thing that worries me is that basically all routes out of this mess involve some significant segment of our sclerotic, insane elite admitting, even obliquely via the sheepishly belated passage of necessary reforms, that they were catastrophically wrong in a way that cost everyone
Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted
The main people who got us here cannot get us out. That's what everyone is seeing in real time.
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
is that a dare?
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
they will blame who they are told to blame
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
i am in favor of this & related endeavors
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior.bsky.social) reposted
"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
MJ: 'he needs to stop being mean to me w/ the truth' (translated from the original Butthurttoddler)
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
read the room, dude ..or at least the bio
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
rite ovah heah
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stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
thank you ..i have a whole lotta hats, it was hard to choose one to post
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
you're posting particularly poetically
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
strong, apt imagery
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social)
Drop some hats...
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
samesies
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
i have always kinda felt that it is DJT's weird pro-wrestling, reality Tv cachet that holds much of this shiteshow together ..maybe im kidding myself, but i dont see the hardcore red hats getting all comfortably behind the guy in the eyeliner
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
one wonders how they'd react if it were painted like a n@zi armband?
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
It was clear two years ago that Project 2025 and Trump planned to drain all monies from everything but Criminal Justice, Immigration, National Security and the Military, and that those formerly separate pots would in fact be one pot aimed at controlling the American population via government force.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
You can't speak coherently about what has to happen in America now if you even allow for the possibility that Trump did not run the most deceitful campaign about what he planned to do as president that contemporary American politics has ever seen. Any attempt to legitimize his actions is grotesque.
Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) reposted
I still think many Americans have no idea how bad this is going to get. I saw President Obama reposting a tepid, mealy-mouthed analysis by Ezra Klein—who's never seen a phenomenon he couldn't be 5 years late in incompetently circumscribing—and I felt like we don't have what it takes to survive this.
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
prognosis= not good
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ghoulish
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
HEYYOOOO
Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) reposted
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity The techlords intend to bring humanity to the brink of collapse and then, in a magic trick, rise to power, saving the species or themselves as the last specimens. by @camargy.bsky.social www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
Erin Fogg (@criminalerin.bsky.social) reposted
Hit da hotline then hit da BRICKS
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
piddling away democracy
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
at first we thought fascism would sound like jackboots on cobblestones, but then we realized it sounded more like that awkward silence after we were all done laughing at a joke someone told about how horrid everything had become
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the problem:
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tactical landscaping
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tactical landscaping
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
sick /encouraging/
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
the stuff that military coups are made of..?
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
Superdude has always been woke af
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
must be hard to say that w/ his tongue so far up tRUmp's ass
Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted
This man has way too much power, and most people have no idea who he is.
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
'bout the only thing i'd argue here is whether Miller is tRUmp's lackey as far as immigration policy goes, or if it's the other way around
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Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted
Once again, the thing we need to spend more time worrying about is not the end of American power/hegemony, but rather its persistence & projection in far uglier, more unilateralist, & highly authoritarian form: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
'horrible deathbed'..? ..who writes the stuff? ..its him isnt it? he writes this stuff
stosh machek (@stoshm.bsky.social) reply parent
"you wanna win the game? may be dont play the game" -Ancient Ninja Knowledge
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.