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People of a certain age might know me as "Todd P" I live in NYC and talk+consume mostly politics and news on these kinds of apps My involvement in music is largely janitorial /facilities maintenance these days, I'm more or less retired from show booking

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Just this month I've walked past Zach Cherry and the guy who played Skinny Pete, both on or around Wyckoff Ave.

What is it with secondary players from quality long form television and the Bushwick/Ridgewood border?

21.07.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because News Corp hopes this soft hitting piece leaves the impression there's less there than people thought.

This is not meant to be the journalism it claims to be. Murdoch is a massive Israeli stooge. Today, Mossad wants the Epstein affair to be a nothingburger, because Trump is useful surviving.

18.07.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So Colbert had to know he'd be caving to Trump in a few weeks, a month ago when he did the hit job interview on Mamdani - but he did it anyway

And I'm someone who loved him on Strangers with Candy and Exit 57

Makes you wonder all the ways they ensnare people to do their bidding

18.07.2025 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marxist. Communist. Socialist. Decades after the end of the Cold War, Western leaders still use these labels as scapegoats to avoid discussion of their own failing systems.

17.07.2025 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 83    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Ha! They reversed course

15.07.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It appears Reddit disabled r/all

That's the last nail in the coffin making it fully useless algorithm propaganda

If you haven't already, abandon it y'all

15.07.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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South Korea's ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol rearrested Yoon is in detention for a second time over his failed martial law declaration last year.

Here's how the rule of law works, when it comes to presidents who abuse power and violate the constitution.

South Korea's ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol already faces criminal charges of insurrection, in connection with his failed martial law decree last year.

10.07.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 827    πŸ” 226    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 12

was doing ice courtwatch today and the masked feds lurking outside a courtroom to arrest immigrants were talking about going to ellis island and the tenement museum

11.07.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1093    πŸ” 274    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 18

We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.Β 

A new generation that gives meaning to the β€œwe” in β€œwe the people.”

Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as the future.

10.07.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 16487    πŸ” 3832    πŸ’¬ 816    πŸ“Œ 283

when will liberals realize things are not ever going back to the way they used to be?

07.07.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than β€œ18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked β€˜African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

04.07.2025 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 33175    πŸ” 9571    πŸ’¬ 386    πŸ“Œ 331

The β€œHomeland” is not a thing, it was made up by GW Bush and anti-Arab warmongers to help the climate for militarization after 9/11, Dept of β€œHomeland Security” was invented 22 yrs ago and widely seen as creepy and propagandizing at the time

It’s only ever been bullshit

03.07.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2345    πŸ” 458    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 29

Congress and SCOTUS have empowered a gestapo under a president with no effective checks or balances.

You can call me dramatic but why sugarcoat or downplay it?

The US is headed unmistakably into classic authoritarianism - a fascist regime as the most powerful nation on earth.

03.07.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congress and SCOTUS have empowered a gestapo under a president with no effective checks or balances.

You can call me dramatic but why sugarcoat or downplay it?

The US is headed unmistakably into classic authoritarianism - a fascist regime as the most powerful nation on earth.

03.07.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We should all recognize today for what it is. A very sad closing chapter on the United States.

03.07.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shameful

02.07.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 25378    πŸ” 7110    πŸ’¬ 441    πŸ“Œ 227

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

03.07.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 102066    πŸ” 22327    πŸ’¬ 3668    πŸ“Œ 959
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No hyperbole, Congress just made ICE the most funded law enforcement organization in the history of mankind.

There are already anonymous masked thugs disappearing people to black sites.

We're so conditioned to shrug off conspiracy theories but this will get much much worse.

03.07.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We should talk more about the fact that ICE appears to be engaging in such blatant racial profiling that it rivals or even surpasses the most notorious periods of discriminatory policing in U.S. history.

30.06.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

27.06.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 40611    πŸ” 10707    πŸ’¬ 1714    πŸ“Œ 857

Now time to go after Eric Adams, pitifully anticlimactic final boss.

It'll be fun to watch them try to rehabilitate him, and plump up his campaign with billionaire cash.

26.06.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

25.06.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 38657    πŸ” 6920    πŸ’¬ 471    πŸ“Œ 419
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'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIREDβ€”including audio recordingsβ€”show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIREDβ€”including audio recordingsβ€”show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

25.06.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4847    πŸ” 2903    πŸ’¬ 176    πŸ“Œ 288
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For the first time ever, ICE is holding nearly 12,000 people who have no criminal convictions or criminal charges in squalid overcrowded deportation centers.

24.06.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 316    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 16
Ghoul Stephen Miller warns NYC is what happens when a society β€œfails to control migration”

Ghoul Stephen Miller warns NYC is what happens when a society β€œfails to control migration”

Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like <checks notes> the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.

25.06.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6984    πŸ” 1271    πŸ’¬ 192    πŸ“Œ 114

The last few days have truly been a low point for the American news media. And it’s all because journalists in this countryβ€”and their corporate mastersβ€”lack the courage to say what they all know and say endlessly in private:

That Trump is stupid, and nuts.

24.06.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4339    πŸ” 1033    πŸ’¬ 207    πŸ“Œ 55

Andrew Cuomo was the US Secretary of Housing and is now running for mayor, where one of the largest agencies they manage is NYC's Housing Authority.

And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy.

This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"

24.06.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5699    πŸ” 1101    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 34

Extremely light traffic at my precinct in Liberty Park, Glendale, Queens. What few voters I saw heavily skewed obvious Mamdani supporters.

No one on earth is enthusiastic about Cuomo, unless they are literally employed by the state of Israel.

Big Pogozelski polling site game.

24.06.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Israel starts an unprovoked war with Iran

Iran fires back and exacts more damage on Israel than anyone has in decades

Trump drops bombs on Iran's nuclear bunkers that aren't nearly enough to take them out

Iran fires missiles at one US base

Trump declares cease fire

Iran won.

24.06.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests brutally beat, take Santa Ana father In a graphic video that has since gone viral on social media, about seven or more masked men wearing U.S. Border Patrol vests are seen taking part in a brutal beating of a Santa Ana father before f…

Masked men in U.S. Border Patrol vests brutally beat, take Santa Ana father

22.06.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 246    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 51

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