Michael Eric Bérubé

RESPECT.
This is a man who understood and honors his Oath to support and defend the Constitution against ALL Enemies, foreign and domestic.

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

3 Resistance Messages That Backfire — and What to Say Instead Authoritarians thrive when resistance runs on alarm alone. Fear, outrage, and sweeping calls spread fast but leave people drained — here’s how to write and read for the long game.

A VERY good read. I have mostly been a consumer of BlueSky rather than a contributor, but I've likely been exacerbating many of the issues that Dr. Shattuck mentions in this SubStack with a lot of the stuff that I share and will try to do better.

One would LIKE to think that any 'officials' found to be 'lying in court' would be prosecuted for such a thing, but evidently that's too much to hope for in the Upside Down we find ourselves living in.

Patel is Hindu. Kirk was Christian. Brenton Harrison Tarrant (The NZ murderer) was just a bargain basement WP nut who did what they all have done since WWII...appropriate and desecrate cultural and religious symbols that have nothing to do with their Hate. There are no Nazis in Valhalla.

Did you have it for supper?

S-l-o-w-l-y, Trump voters are realizing Trump lied to them about- EVERYTHING.
It’s NOT beyond Trump to start a war to refocus attention from the (still unreleased) #EpsteinFiles after Elon Musk reminded MAGA that Trump’s name is all over them (and stop coverage of the massive #NoKingsDay protest)

Good seeing you today Brother Companion!

Love is the Whole of the Law. Love under Will. ;)
I read that someplace once.

"Fines" are always just the costs of being allowed to break the Law. If you can afford to pay the fine, there is no Law that you need to worry about obeying.

I am so very sorry for your loss Joie. ❤️‍🩹

That is a Military Coup. As a Veteran and someone absolutely opposed to our growing Fascist State...we do NOT want a Military Coup.

Human Trafficking on a Federal scale.

I'm so old, I remember when Republicans used to hyperventilate about a menacing federal government consisting of "jackbooted thugs." It turns out it wasn't a principled hatred of "jackbooted thugs" they were expressing, it was just jealousy that THEY weren't the ones in the jackboots.

Someone else have access to the Trump 'Klan Rally' signature AutoPen?

I saw your note on FB about transitioning away from the toxicity there and I copied and pasted your profile here...only to see I already follow you here too. :) <3

Sorry...I hit [POST] before I got to add the 'ALT' for the visually impaired. This is a photograph of the Total Lunar Eclipse at 02h30 on 14MAR2025 near Totality with a dark reddish shadow of the Earth cast over most of the Moon's surface and a black starry background behind the Moon itself.

Fujifilm X-T50, Tamron 18-300 at 300mm, ISO400, 1/4sec exposure @f/6.3 (HANDHELD!)
So much for 'Consumer level superzooms have too many compromises to be used by Professionals!'
Processed the RAW file in LightRoom Classic and touched the sharpness up a bit in Topaz.

We're organizing against the rising tide of racism, hate, and violence. We're standing up to greedy billionaires who've rigged the system. And we're pushing for a democracy that truly delivers liberty and justice for all.

It's time to take action.

Join us 🔗 commondefense.us/join

Dear Humans,

Your great-grandparents prayed for a cure for measles.

You have it—and yet some of you want to 'research' your way back to the 1800s.

I dropped my Twitter account (which I had had almost from the start of Twitter) but FB has 18 years of my life documented (hundreds of thousand photos of my kids growing up for instance) and as much as I am getting used to BlueSky, it's not photo gallery friendly and is taking time to integrate.

Bwahahaha.

Mar-a-Lago was listed as "Kremlin Headquarters" for a little while on Google Maps.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

A federal judge in Washington said that the way the Trump administration set up and has been running Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency could violate the Constitution.

Rand Paul's Old Tweet Criticizing Obama For Thinking He's A 'King' Resurfaces After Trump 'Endorsement' This you, Senator?

Hypocrite says what?

I would LOVE to see Gov. Mills follow Sen. King's path and take Susan Collins' seat in the Senate next year when she's termed out of the Blaine House. She could help flip Congress and stand up to MAGA much more directly every day.

They'd have to allow Constitutional Carry...I'm not seeing that likely.

Huh. No shit?
😁

Sen. Murkowski was quoted as stating that calls to the Senate come in at a rate usually 40 calls/min but that they have been trending 1600 calls/min.

Where is this shop? I know where I'll be buying my knives.