@luciusquinctius.bsky.social
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22.11.2025 19:41 — 👍 49 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 01\ Why are the Republicans and Russia trying to force Ukraine to surrender now?
There's a chance it's because Russia knows it cannot finance the war much longer.
The Republicans & Russians could be pushing hard to lock in odds of Ukraine's future extermination before Russia's failure is obvious.
This is what oligarchy looks like:
If you're Elon Musk, the richest man alive, Tesla gives you a $1 trillion pay package & Trump gives you a huge tax break.
If you're a poor kid on SNAP, Trump appeals a court decision that would have prevented you from going hungry.
Obscene.
What do Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Comcast, Meta, and HP have in common?
They all once pledged to stop donations to anyone who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
And now they're all donors to Trump's White House ballroom. https://popular.info/p/these-corporations-stopped-worrying
All over the world, Laurie, we are asking the same question. And one more: how are people in the States educated, to become what they are?
11.10.2025 18:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
05.10.2025 09:08 — 👍 38249 🔁 17083 💬 821 📌 2410Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
18.09.2025 00:23 — 👍 67502 🔁 16201 💬 1191 📌 538Putting up an alibi for not doing the right thing
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Whatever the accuracy and value of “Democracy Indices”, this is truly remarkable and again shows the striking disconnect between the U.S. legacy media and U.S. political reality.
29.08.2025 11:18 — 👍 380 🔁 128 💬 2 📌 6
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Netanyaho is the embodiment of the worst kind of Machiavellian lust for power.
08.08.2025 12:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All countries supplying Israel should have stopped a long time ago. It has been clear for a long time, that Israels' respons to the october 7 attacks are out of bound, grossly disproportionate and bringing cruel suffering to thousands of innocent human beings.
08.08.2025 12:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair. Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake. Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame your enemies. Crime is bad, unless the criminals are pro-Trump. This isn’t 4D chess, or even tic-tac-toe, just Autocrat 101.
04.08.2025 17:20 — 👍 1238 🔁 406 💬 26 📌 27The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.
Will we listen to his words today?
This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
The GOP's tax cuts for billionaires and corporations ballooned the deficit. So now they're blaming the problem on vital social programs and demanding devastating cuts that will harm millions of people.
It's socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.
Orban should be phased out of the EU
23.05.2025 08:05 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?
NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country
HASSAN: That's incorrect
This exchange is so very telling.
Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:
"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
At least they are brave...or something
05.04.2025 09:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I will always keep speaking out. And I speak out for no other reason than I love my country with all my heart.
Note: All of the messages I’m posting here are just a sample of the literally 1000s I’ve received from around the world and I’m only including those I’ve received publicly.
28.03.2025 08:32 — 👍 5307 🔁 1498 💬 58 📌 38
NEW: Today in Instanbul, Turkey.
A people fighting for democracy & against authoritarianism. This is how you do it!
Chairman of Republican People’s Party, Özgür Özel:
“Today, 2.2 million of our citizens overflowed Maltepe Square. This is just the beginning. This nation will not remain silent.” 🇹🇷
Dear American friends.
We agree that status quo in the Artcic is not an option.
So let’s talk about how we can fix it - together.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Danish Foreign Minister
All entry points into Gaza are closed. At the border, food is rotting. Medicine is expiring. Vital medical equipment is stuck.
If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act to uphold them.
Why no one wants to meet US Vice President Vance in Greenland
Vice President Vance’s brief visit to Greenland triggered protests from locals and Danes angered by perceived US threats, following President Trump’s claims on the territory. Attempts to meet residents failed, forcing a scaled-back trip.
This is completely terrifying, a huge violation of the first amendment, and part of the coopting of a distorted version of anti-semitism to justify persecution of people speaking out against Israel's genocide. And the broader pursuit of a police state.
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