Robert Rodi

Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave like a particle accelerator, I tell you what.

01.03.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A lot of progressive orgs on the frontline the next 4 years; if each of us chooses 2 to support with regular monthly donations they can budget for the battles (& we can spread our $ wide). I chose Environmental Defense Fund @envdefensefund.bsky.social and Fund for Investigative Journalism. #2for2028

22.01.2025 10:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A lot of progressive orgs on the frontline the next 4 years; if each of us chooses 2 to support with regular monthly donations they can budget for the battles (& we can spread our $ wide). I chose Environmental Defense Fund @envdefensefund.bsky.social and Fund for Investigative Journalism. #2for2028

21.01.2025 23:49 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

21.01.2025 12:58 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social

14.01.2025 15:36 — 👍 13481    🔁 2853    💬 448    📌 171

(3/3) ... are now depending on relief & rebuilding from the president they elected, who is actively hostile to their entire state. Let's finally hope they were right and his corruption & ineptitude fast-forwards a general systemic breakdown, and we really *can* build something new from the wreckage.

14.01.2025 23:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(2/3) ... of the genuine suffering that would follow, which the high-profile progressives themselves would largely be shielded from. But with the L.A. wildfires, things are looking a little different; some of those who would've been previously immune to the kind of collapse they were ushering in ...

14.01.2025 23:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(1/3) Remember 8 years ago when some high-profile progressives voted for Trump, on the principle that the only way we were going to see real change is to burn down the current system? While I could appreciate the point, intellectually, what offended me about this was the cavalier dismissal ...

14.01.2025 23:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just replaced my 2015 iMac with a refurbished 2020 from Back Market. Works like a dream, a notch for sustainability, and — since Back Market is independent — another chunk of change kept out of the coffers of the oligarchy. Baby steps.

08.01.2025 12:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mark Zuckerberg Announces Meta Will Dump 'Politically Biased' Fact-Checkers The tech billionaire said “community notes,” as used on Elon Musk's X, will be implemented on Facebook and Instagram instead.

Jesus wept. www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-z...

07.01.2025 16:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right. I'm here on Jan 1 as part of a resolution to cut ties to the oligarchs. By EOY, I'm hoping to have made this my sole social; meantime, it's my go-to. And to kick off, here's a thing I haven't mentioned elsewhere: in October, I gave up alcohol. No special reason. Just felt like time.

01.01.2025 22:50 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0