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@jamesalanmarks.bsky.social

Atheist. Veteran. Former journalist. Former software engineer. Animal-lover. Neurodivergent. Refuses to call them "skeets".

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I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

08.10.2025 17:26 — 👍 488    🔁 294    💬 21    📌 74

That's how it *should* work. Fuck around and find out.

21.04.2025 04:22 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

America: where autism is a national crisis, but homelessness, poverty, bigotry, sexism, racism, trafficking, anti-Semitism, pandemics, and mass shootings are not

20.04.2025 21:34 — 👍 85    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 1
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Worth keeping in mind.

04.04.2025 05:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you're not racist but you continue to support a President who is, guess what?

31.03.2025 01:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it's because you're choosing to close your eyes. Just like the citizens in those other dictatorships did.

We are now at the "prison camp" stage of this assault on our democracy. If you're blind to this, it's time to open your eyes and start fighting back. Before it's too late.

9/9

18.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you're watching "undesirables" being sent to prison camps, not only without the benefit of a judicial process but in outright defiance of one, and you aren't seeing EXTREMELY troubling parallels to human rights abuses in other dictatorships throughout history,

8/9

18.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Then maybe people protesting Tesla, or protesting the President, or maybe members of the media that Trump decides are being too critical. Anyone the current administration decides is a "criminal" or a "threat to the country".

7/9

18.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm going to guess that it's to send a message. At the moment, it's Venezuelan gang members. Next it might be people protesting the war in Gaza.

6/9

18.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What crimes have they been tried for and convicted of that would justify sending them to hard-labor prison camps? And why in prison camps that we have no control over in a different country?

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18.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But let's say, for the sake of argument, that they ARE Venezuelan gang members. Why are we sending them to prison camps in El Salvador? Why aren't we just deporting them back to Venezuela?

4/9

18.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"But they LOOK like gang members, don't they?" Listen, if someone shaved your head, put you in a prison jumpsuit with shackles around your wrists and ankles then paraded you, head down, in front of cameras YOU'D look like a criminal gang member too.

3/9

18.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

How do we know they're Venezuelan gang members? Because Trump said so. No further evidence of their alleged gang affiliation has been provided.

2/9

18.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Trump has now, in defiance of a federal court order, deported hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to a prison camp in El Salvador and has vowed to deport even more.

1/9

18.03.2025 01:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sadly, no.

05.03.2025 06:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All the credibility of the Iraqi Minister of Information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf during 2003 invasion of Iraq.

03.03.2025 00:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of Iraqi Minister of Information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Photo of Iraqi Minister of Information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Reminiscent of Iraqi Minister of Information Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (2003 invasion of Iraq).

03.03.2025 00:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Let's not forget that nature intends to kill you, if the existence of predators, disease, and natural disasters are any indication.

27.02.2025 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"

"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

15.02.2025 20:43 — 👍 19579    🔁 5750    💬 290    📌 247
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Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl

It cost more to displace and terrorize homeless ppl than to house them.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

09.02.2025 15:14 — 👍 43    🔁 30    💬 5    📌 13
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This is what's wrong with extreme wealth disparity in a democracy.

29.01.2025 04:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Entry from the Diary of Anne Frank, January 13, 1943: "Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. ... Families are torn apart; men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Entry from the Diary of Anne Frank, January 13, 1943: "Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. ... Families are torn apart; men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Sound familiar?

We are in an historic time, and how we respond will be recorded in history for the generations that follow.

We cannot stand by and let this happen again.

26.01.2025 19:26 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Why not release the Epstein files?

26.01.2025 00:54 — 👍 14113    🔁 4868    💬 794    📌 259
LA Times headline: Estimated cost of fire damage in Southern California balloons to more than $250 billion

LA Times headline: Estimated cost of fire damage in Southern California balloons to more than $250 billion

elon musk could single-handedly rebuild los angeles and still have about $200 billion left over but tell me again how the rich need another tax cut

24.01.2025 19:50 — 👍 1223    🔁 203    💬 29    📌 5

After reading some of Danielle's work, I ordered her book immediately. You should check it out.

25.01.2025 05:57 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

24.01.2025 20:08 — 👍 60727    🔁 24330    💬 1315    📌 1515

Contact the author(s) directly. They're often more than happy to share the information.

24.01.2025 21:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’re meant to calmly accept the absurd idea that any white man is innately qualified for any job or position, no matter what his education, resume or proven capabilities and any non-white man or woman inherently stole their way into employment via #DEI. This of course is pure, undiluted fascism.

24.01.2025 15:01 — 👍 7730    🔁 1865    💬 256    📌 78

OK, what... is that?

24.01.2025 06:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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