The most wonderful time of the year ✨
MO-born and raised. Working-class. I view everything thru a Marxist lens & give a shit about everybody. Doing my best.
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The most wonderful time of the year ✨
I can’t believe i just typed that out AND posted it (!!) but I’ve read enough books on three-letter agencies to know this shit happens and these people are not half as smart as they think they are.
The part in the original statement that mentioned he’d been in contact with his business partner stuck out to me. Felt like a character in a high-stakes thriller letting their adversary know there’s a 3rd party “insurance policy” standing by with damning evidence.
yes.
How do you suggest we “subtract” those people, Nate? What does that mean? 🪿
Nine years ago exactly, I was listening to the same rhetoric from Uzbekistan's dictator Islam Karimov, who had died. The regime would have hidden it longer but they had the misfortune of him of dying right before Uzbekistan's independence day, when he would come out and wave to show he's alive.
Ameren Missouri's peak residential rate went up 43% since 2020, while inflation over that same time was 24%. If you needed that spelled out.
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a good rule to follow re: US propaganda is to believe exactly the opposite of what the state department claims. maduro is a dictator? ok, he must be a wildly popular fairly elected populist. he's a drug smuggler? ok, he must be fighting against the cartels. venezuela is bad? ok venezuela is great
It's very surreal to watch people freak out about the CDC suddenly not protecting them like yes You were already not being protected by the CDC, you're just now noticing it because now the propaganda is red and not blue anymore
I don't know how many years I've been saying this but the beaver should be reintroduced in every landscape it lived in before colonization
Love that!
Saw my first monarch at our home yesterday! Not ashamed to admit I teared up a little bit.
Good morning, beautiful people of bsky! It’s such a joy to wake up and see pictures of your plants and pets and read about movies and TV shows you’re watching and games you’re playing and music you’re into. I love your politics and your dunks and your vulnerabilities and I hope you have a good day!
Just want to say I learn SO much from your threads and I always look forward to seeing them in my feed. Thank you!
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton
Appreciate ya, Jim!!
Interesting. I get why median would be a better measure of distribution, but I had (perhaps mistakenly) thought if c-suite execs across the border were being paid more (they are) that would also raise the median. Thanks! Much more of a words gal. Numbers give me hives. 🙃
A friend shared a video of a family of deer near a creek this morning. A fawn had the zoomies and was running in circles, splashing playfully in the water. Absolutely joyful. I saw a monarch butterfly this morning for the first time at our home. Breathtaking. Good omens. Something’s in the air…
Could it not raise both?
a lot of very significant differences between parenti and chomsky but one of the biggest is that parenti wasn't buddies with epstein
Median income is only rising because these CEOs are paying themselves more than ever.
How did Dems lose an election to a buffoon who openly led a coup and openly fights to end elections altogether? It seems irrational until you see that Democrats only pretend to oppose Republicans on certain issues. The whole thing is a show. Like pro wrestling. They all work for the same bosses.
Plz let him die on Labor Day. Workers of the world deserve a win.
It’s that time again. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What it will not do is stop the fascism from happening, but he also didnt start the fascism, he is a particularly effective vector and avatar of it. Vance has real potential to be a Caucescu type, but i think he's not nearly a slick or experienced enough operator to pull off real consolidation
It will change a whole fucking lot when it happens, because the main power this administration has been wielding is despair and demoralization, the party in the streets alone will mark a significant fucking watershed.
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Bluesky right now:
GET EM
Hell yeah, Martha, get his ass
This is so awesome and truly, bravo to them and I hope this movie is a success. It looks like a ton of fun. But this is a fucked up world when a movie promotion is helping people more than their own government is, and that the help is for HEALTHCARE COSTS.
Checked FB yesterday. Lost of well-meaning liberals talking about how the USA military doesn’t belong on the streets of USA cities harassing citizens… I commented that it’s just as bad when our military occupies the streets of foreign cities as well. I really need people to understand this.
it feels like such a simple ask.
Missouri was once a bellwether state. Since then, the state has been gerrymandered to hell and under a republican supermajority for the last couple decades. Love to see this constituent’s rage. People are suffering, and class consciousness is growing. We’re pissed!
Masking is praxis. Maybe not as exciting as talking about the revolution but something everyone can do to show solidarity and care for the community.
Missouri was once a bellwether state. Since then, the state has been gerrymandered to hell and under a republican supermajority for the last couple decades. Love to see this constituent’s rage. People are suffering, and class consciousness is growing. We’re pissed!
Constituent: You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass.
People masking in 2025 are demonstrating radical care. They're showing awareness that the institutions that are supposed to protect us are dead. It’s a minor inconvenience that makes a genuine difference in the spaces we occupy, and a simple way to align our values with our actions. Care. Mask up.
10/ Here’s the truth: – Every breath indoors without protection is a coin flip. – By 2030, the question won’t be who masked. It will be who’s still standing. – It’s not paranoia. It’s prevention.
1/ I don’t know how to say this without sounding harsh, but I need you to hear it. COVID — or SARS-2 — is not “just another cold.” It doesn’t leave you the same. Every reinfection stacks damage: brain, heart, immune system.
Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.
Heartbreaking. 💔
In the US, we are over-individualized so we can be more easily exploited by the capitalist system. This leads to things like isolation, depression, desperation, and a certain kind of ~loneliness epidemic~ we all keep hearing about. AI will not fill these voids. I don’t like where this road leads.
Felt.
Justice-minded folks have a habit of fetishizing youth participation and throwing masses of activated young people at a problem while pledging support and having reverence in the background. This leads to most of those young people getting ground under and burned out and leaving the work w in 5 yrs.
Real-life lol @ this and especially the “No one liked it!” line in the quoted post. 😆😩
No new pictures, where are you mentally?
Sidebar: Channel Zero was genuinely unsettling for me and I still cringe when I think about this little toothy guy!! God, what a great show.
No new pictures, where are you mentally?
Do we think they forget, or is it intentional and the whole purpose of the Democratic Party/liberal project?
Get their asses! You got this.
Oh, the thing that we’ve all known was going to happen for the last 2 years is finally being highlighted openly in global news headlines… Gird your loins.
Felt! We spend the majority of our lives working in order to buy our time and retire. We all have so much more important things to do with our lives.
Putting this here for… reasons.
Finally, I said years ago, and folks who have followed me for a long time know this is true, that defunding the police was a moderate demand that is actually the basement in terms of what's needed. I said that liberals will be deeply sorry that they turned that demand into some kind of bogeyman.
The rest of the world is moving onto renewable energy because it’s literally the only way forward and this stupid ass country keeps trying to base its entire economy on gambling and fossil fuels.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're using AI imagery, you're not "resisting", you're not in any sort of "resistance". You're capitulating, you're yielding. You're actively helping what you claim to oppose by using it.
My 10yo convinced her Gen X grandma (nana) to stop using ai and cancel her ChatGPT subscription and Y’ALL… The children deserve some goddamn reverence.
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Help me convince my best friend that she should get Bluesky because the people deserve these anecdotes in skeet form.
Help me convince my best friend that she should get Bluesky because the people deserve these anecdotes in skeet form.
I wonder who the moderator was? Just from reading this statement, I have a guess…
Hey buddy, I’m extra critical of liberals bc they stifle progress & make excuses for genocide while telling themselves they’re the moral voters. They put themselves on a pedestal of “decency” bc their brand of fascism is less overt, and meanwhile fail to see their contradictions helped get us here.
order a whole pie for lunch who gives a fuck
I would argue there are no “distractions” as it’s all interlocked and pouring from the same source. Unchecked global capital and colonial powers.
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I don’t see a single mask. It’s hard to take these people seriously.
“Under the collusion of power and capital, human rights have been distorted into mere props in a political "show" and bargaining chips in a power "casino," completely deviating from the core values and fundamental principles of human rights.”
China's annual report on human rights violations in the United States of America. It's crazy how everything in the report is a FACT. And it's even crazier that Americans who are forced to live under such horrible conditions think themselves to be "freer" than others. Definitely worth the read:
ask yourself not “what is illegal?” but “what is immoral?”
sunday soundtrack: scrubbing the bathrooms + toilets with a flourish and rhythm 💃🏼
Congrats to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. Grateful for her work!
When people ask about my politics, I ease into the conversation by asking them if they’ve ever heard of Sarah Kendzior before I light a cigarette. (I don’t smoke.)
Pleasantly surprised to see this glowing review of THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP in the new issue of St Louis Magazine! For more on the book, visit here: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
You should read MANHUNT
For no reason at all, here's the campfire story scene in MANHUNT where a character relates the tale of J. K. Rowling's grisly death in her fortified Scottish castle.
Anyone ever read “Mother Hunger” by Kelly McDaniel to learn How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance?
Do y’all smell that? I just got a whiff of class consciousness rising…
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
Landback of all lands stolen through colonial plunder. There is no such thing as “shared” lands with colonizers.
“Unemployment remains remarkably low” My experience: you can’t file for unemployment until your severance runs out. I look for summer layoff waves to cause a more noticeable impact this fall.
This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance
Huey P. Newton did this for me ^ Completely shifted the way I think about and evaluate risk. Totally inspiring, and had a huge role in shaping the person I am today.
Find joy where you can get it and arm yourself.
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Except China’s economy lifted 800 million people out of poverty, but SURE.
big trigger warnings. but beautiful.
Genuinely my main complaint about traveling. I miss my bidetttt 😩
i do love my ma and pa ….thanks a lot. I’ll be singing this in my head for the rest of the day. 🤪
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In case it’s handy….
Cool chairs and sweet cat. 😻