@ibmenubu2.bsky.social
Philosophical pessimist; generalist & eclecticist; anti-conceptionist; agnostic-atheist; existential zen stoicurean; transhumanist; as live-&-let live as any. The truth isn't necessarily nice but I can't help seeking it anyway. Amor fati. Memento mori.
I think that was her "doth protest too much" moment - she didn't say the photos don't exist. AND reed hoffman never contributed money to Sen Whitehouse.
08.10.2025 17:03 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0My takeaway is the Attorney General was not prepared to answer specific questions with specific answers.
Instead she had a slew of βwhataboutismsβ lined upβ¦
It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.
There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.
Also, release the damn Epstein files already.
Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.
07.10.2025 23:25 β π 15437 π 4275 π¬ 378 π 132Horrible!
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#WarRavagedPortland
08.10.2025 11:23 β π 28288 π 9165 π¬ 1082 π 1417Renewables Drive A Stake Through The Cold, Dark Heart Of King Coal cleantechnica.com/2025/10/07/r...
08.10.2025 12:47 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Republicans are fully and completely complicit on this dictatorship and all of the horrible things that go with it.
07.10.2025 23:59 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0This is from Marge Greene.
You know who has been warning about this for months? Democrats.
But the people who had no plan to deal with this crisis and still donβt want you to believe this is about βillegals.β
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
07.10.2025 23:29 β π 52935 π 20061 π¬ 1629 π 1175β.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..β
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I'm hearing just now on Thom Hartmann (10/7/25, 2:48 PM EST) that a Supreme Court Justice could also swear her in but that Democrats may feel it's more useful as anti-Trump propaganda to keep on Johnson's ass about his trying to keep hers from being signature #218 to release the Epstein files.
07.10.2025 18:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Escalating rhetoric between Mike Johnson and Chuck Schumer. Johnson has been saying Schumer forced this shutdown to protect himself from a future primary challenge by AOC; today Schumer singles out Johnson as the central obstacle to reopening the government.
07.10.2025 18:49 β π 87 π 25 π¬ 6 π 1Tips from WITNESS on how to safely, ethically, and effectively film immigration enforcement abuses.
More at lab.witness.org/projects/eye...
Vote YES on Prop 50 California
Consider sharing. The time for debate is over. The time for hoping theyβll play fair is over. The path forward is crystal clear: We either use the power we have, or we lose the country we love. There are no other options left. Prop 50 is the path. Vote YES on 50.
#yeson50
Art expresses what words cannot
19.08.2025 03:22 β π 9134 π 2630 π¬ 211 π 100Something to think about?
"Many will say to me on that day, βLord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?β Then I will tell them plainly, βI never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!β"
Matthew 7:22-23 (NIV)
This weekend in America.
06.10.2025 13:11 β π 155 π 53 π¬ 9 π 3I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.
07.10.2025 01:33 β π 17182 π 4544 π¬ 561 π 151Yes, very weird. π€·πΌββοΈ
06.10.2025 11:55 β π 16844 π 7048 π¬ 326 π 219Β‘De nada!
06.10.2025 21:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It pisses me off that they are allowed to wear a military combat uniform. Pisses me off.
05.10.2025 02:19 β π 189 π 11 π¬ 2 π 0it's planned so they can conscript and force young folks, both sides, to fight their wars.
05.10.2025 03:19 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0OUR TAX $$s are buying Latinos to turn on Latinos; Blacks to turn on Blacks.
This is what happens when a nation deliberately forces 80% of its population into a βone paycheck away from disasterβ existence.
EU countries have mechanisms to prevent this. Instead, πΊπΈ made the $ a religion.
Public shaming is crucial right now, and so is calling out people from groups to which we ourselves belong.
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