Jeff McNeill

Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.

Shimon Peres

When you win a war, your people are united and applaud you. When you make peace, your people are doubtful and resentful.

— Shimon Peres

“The demonstrations were very small.”

YouTube video by KEXP Adrian Quesada - No Juego/ Ídolo (Live on KEXP)

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The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Mad King Trump Seizes Your Money The president is doing almost exactly what Charles I did to touch off the English Civil War.

Trump refuses to respect the fact that Congress has the power of the purse “That’s yet another part of the Constitution that Trump is fully flushing down the toilet, and arguably the most important one,” From @ryanlcooper.com and @ddayen.bsky.social:

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pizzacakecomic o "Do you really want your tax dollars going to feed someone else's kids??" Yes! 1000% yes, 1 want my taxes to help feed hungry kids. WTF is wrong with people?

Let me go on the record: as much money I have, whatever I can spare, I will ALWAYS want the extra to go to feed children

DHS Purchase Of Business Jets During Shutdown Draws Democrats’ Ire The department said it would not allow the federal shutdown "to slow down this process" of replacing the jet, but Democrats want to know where the money is coming from.

The Trump administration is spending $172 million on two jets for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other senior officials

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

Trump has only increased criminal activity, including pardoning criminals, hiring thugs who attack Americans, illegal rendition, extrajudicial killings in international waters. Trump has also only increased prices with illegal taxes (tarriffs are taxes), deep, deep cuts to healthcare, it never ends.

Trump’s Very Own Basket of Deplorables The president and his movement are dropping the fig leaf and declaring half the country the enemy. How can this go on?

NEW—"If you're a Trump-backing Republican, there is nothing you can say vile enough that the party will cut you loose. If you’re publicly opposed to Trump…it doesn’t matter how peacefully and patriotically you express that opposition…you're an America hater at best and a literal terrorist at worst."

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

I can't believe there is no EDIT button in bsky/bksy. I mean ... really?

That moment you realize, your country in its ignorance and callousness, threw away its dominance.

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i think i would prefer it if bluesky leadership was honest with how much they loathe having a large social media app that they never wanted, spun it off into separate company, and then went back off to Protocol Land where they never have to think about the opinions of plebeians ever again.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article) The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
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State Borders

silver lining of our rancid political moment: following the collapse of governance, the graphic designer takeover will institute some long-awaited improvements

A black cat stares blankly at the camera, his white fangies poking out, while lying on his cream bath mat.

did you know? being denied turkey leftovers leads to madness and vampirism

John Roberts is slowly dismantling America Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?

John Roberts is slowly dismantling America

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Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa Gift of Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich © 2012 Julian Schnabel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Fakires by Julian Schnabel, 1993
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FAQ: Why America just bailed out Argentina with a $20 billion lifeline | CNN Business The Trump administration is bailing out Argentina in a move critics are saying has more to do with politics than economics or American interests.

Invest in America? But you just invested in Argentina, to bail out your bro Citrone. Why would anyone believe a word of these con artists?

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China Has Overtaken America - And Trump's policies guarantee that we will never catch up.

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I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

Journalism, the job where when someone powerful lies you describe it as "not strictly true" because describing facts would be bias bsky.app/profile/atru...

Soren Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The Fifth Risk - Wikipedia

Anyone still not clued in on what they are doing to government institutions and why that is important, and perilous, needs to read Michael Lewis' The Fifth Risk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fif... And The Premonition en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pre... for good measure.

The Fifth Risk - Wikipedia

Really sick to my stomach about all the Trump crap including mainly fascism (destroying institutions, deploying troops, murdering people in boats on the high seas, supporting the Gaza and West Bank terror, not supporting Ukraine, and so much more), and reversing our efforts on the Climate crisis.