The thing that gives me hope is that we've more or less fought them to a draw with nothing but heart.
17.11.2025 00:48 β π 94 π 15 π¬ 4 π 0@stephlbrock.bsky.social
Birder. Dancer. Painter.
The thing that gives me hope is that we've more or less fought them to a draw with nothing but heart.
17.11.2025 00:48 β π 94 π 15 π¬ 4 π 0the thing is, as Iβve aged, the bar for who looks like a child to me has risen. there are whole tax paying ass adults who scan as literal children to me when I see them.
what the actual fuck is wrong with people.
If you put out the fire then you're no better than the fire itself. Perhaps instead of fire fighters what we need are fire understanders
17.11.2025 01:13 β π 919 π 111 π¬ 20 π 4Listen to the corporate centrists. They do not care about people. Their only priority is protecting the capitalist machine that feeds them.
Theyβll sacrifice anyone, normalize fascism, do anything if it means the checks keep coming in.
liberals conservatives
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pretending MLK
wasn't a socialist
Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how itβs been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
16.11.2025 23:54 β π 1641 π 493 π¬ 11 π 0old enough to remember Paul LePage
16.11.2025 23:05 β π 44 π 1 π¬ 5 π 0@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, βSTFU.β
15.11.2025 17:34 β π 3623 π 1440 π¬ 72 π 70A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to
16.11.2025 19:35 β π 5227 π 903 π¬ 37 π 23Eugenics.
16.11.2025 16:41 β π 70 π 19 π¬ 1 π 0Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But βRound Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
16.11.2025 17:00 β π 1172 π 210 π¬ 6 π 12In the fight between Jabba and MTG in the Thunderdome, Iβm rooting for the Thunderdome.
16.11.2025 16:52 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0We have Mr. Beast at home.
Mr. Beast at home:
No but see itβs an ironic gift because the friend sucks so much and thatβs why itβs funny and THIS is what capitalism is for, buying things for literally every occasion for any reason please give us your money that is the only value you have to us.
16.11.2025 15:34 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Aside from the enormous Epstein scandal, these extrajudicial murders should bring down this administration, from Trump and Hegseth to the shooters to the aides who photocopied the orders. Itβs morally and legally exhausting living through this lawless, lying, corrupt regime. #NoFascistUSA
15.11.2025 19:38 β π 211 π 67 π¬ 2 π 1Now, if we had a competitive market for news, the kind capitalists always tell us is so wonderful and is the automatic by-product of deregulation, you'd think all the other papers would be putting this front and center.
16.11.2025 14:52 β π 19 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0It has been so frustrating seeing all the seeds that had been planted during the Bush admin bear their logical fruit and everyone is surprise. Did we all forget about the patriot act? It was always a cover for surveillance! The βterror levelsβ at the airport was always propaganda!
16.11.2025 14:55 β π 29 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0anyway ludicrous to think the right question is βhow did DHS lose its way??β and not βwhy did we build a domestic security super agency in the first place, and who has that power servedβ
16.11.2025 13:56 β π 413 π 121 π¬ 7 π 3if youβre accepting the premise that Homeland Security was created to βkeep Americans safeβ and the way Trump is using it is somehow an aberration from the original purpose you need to read some more history π
16.11.2025 13:39 β π 211 π 48 π¬ 2 π 4Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans.
by Megyn Kelly
if we tax them more, how will they pay for all the blood cleansing, cell rejuvenation, and transcranial magnetic stimulation they need? www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
16.11.2025 14:01 β π 1164 π 334 π¬ 48 π 14A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice, which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.
15.11.2025 23:40 β π 1088 π 232 π¬ 17 π 0This memo is almost an admission of legal *vulnerability* for those carrying out bombings.
βIt signals fear that what theyβre doing is illegal and that they could possibly be subject to criminal action under US law and international law,β Rep Adam Smith tells me. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Dressed up like youβre in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.
16.11.2025 14:28 β π 1210 π 326 π¬ 143 π 26Dems should say this right now, loudly and clearly: Anyone who is trusting Donald Trump, of all people, when he says what heβs directing you to do is lawful and that youβll be protected later may be putting themselves in a very precarious position. 6/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, itβs here. And yes, itβs going to burst.
Itβs also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officialsβunambiguously including the presidentβfrom accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
6d Listen to this article Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church.
The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too. "Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him." Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.
Hereβs a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
βInside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.β
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views
we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive
you canβt bring in people who are mad heβs not delivering on horrible shit
Literally exactly what the Founders worried about. Exactly.
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