Fascism is expensive.
05.08.2025 06:40 β π 9148 π 3505 π¬ 348 π 313@intention8.bsky.social
A person of character. A rare and weird human. A caregiver to humans. Soulmates to animals. Musical artist. Feminist and supporter of human rights.
Fascism is expensive.
05.08.2025 06:40 β π 9148 π 3505 π¬ 348 π 313Casar as CNN presses him about running against Doggett: "We aren't accepting these illegal maps. We're not going to just stand by and be pit against one another... this fight is about something much bigger than the horserace... it's about voters being able to choose their member of Congress"
04.08.2025 21:40 β π 9490 π 2161 π¬ 187 π 85Yes
05.08.2025 18:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Republicans are replacing all voting machines with new ones approved solely by Trump.
05.08.2025 16:27 β π 962 π 329 π¬ 91 π 37A Note to My Readers
This took me a month to write. You will read nothing like this anywhere else.
We are drugging women's responses to male violence instead of stopping male violence. And we're calling it healthcare.
Now you know why.
substack.com/@tomjoad3/no...
The richest 10% own 60% of UK wealth β and it's still growing.
Not because they work harder, but because our tax system helps them.
Two pics. One of a female astronaut labeled science and the other a person in a burqa labeled religion
I like this comparison too
03.08.2025 01:04 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0That figures. They think girls should be fair game at puberty. They want the age of consent lowered. They need more underage girls, that is why they want more babies. Pedophilesβ¦.
02.08.2025 23:20 β π 16 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0In Iran if a 12-year-old girl is raped and impregnated by her father, she must carry the baby to term, or be thrown in prison for life.
Wait, sorry, no. That's Alabama.
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03.08.2025 10:19 β π 6222 π 2259 π¬ 283 π 124Absolutely incredible read.
I can't recommend it enough.
Thank you, Tom Joad.
Reducing victims to silence is like killing them twice.
"We have spent decades perfecting the art of not listening. We interrupt. We second-guess. We question timing. We assign motive. We protect the accused. We worry about careers. About elections. About damage to a reputation."
Imagine getting fired because math hurt a manβs feelings. Weβre being governed by a walking Yelp review.
02.08.2025 21:50 β π 18844 π 4619 π¬ 1283 π 369Astute observation.
03.08.2025 19:50 β π 19705 π 3314 π¬ 4213 π 1023Utahβ¦
03.08.2025 02:52 β π 19372 π 4957 π¬ 218 π 136π THESE JUSTICES NEED
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T. R. U. T. H.
03.08.2025 22:02 β π 143 π 65 π¬ 6 π 0"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."; Hannah Arendt
Fascism never changes
01.08.2025 20:57 β π 26 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0This firing is intended to have a chilling effect on subsequent U.S. Labor Statistics Commissioners, who will be afraid to give Donald bad, but accurate, news.
01.08.2025 20:47 β π 212 π 31 π¬ 14 π 1Another woman being removed because of her competency. This is gender discrimination as well.
03.08.2025 16:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation
02.08.2025 16:55 β π 10615 π 5963 π¬ 705 π 566Today would be a good day to release the Epstein Files.
Unredacted.
In their entirety.
Trump opening an investigation into Jack Smith for daring to investigate him is what we see in other nations that we say are corrupt, autocratic regimes. Well that is what we live in now in the USA. Some people simply don't grasp it.
03.08.2025 14:23 β π 624 π 204 π¬ 45 π 15Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
03.08.2025 15:16 β π 35909 π 11079 π¬ 1304 π 646The story of how Trump sells access to the White House - to benefit himself and his family financially and to benefit his political operation - is shocking and sordid.
No President has ever monetized access like Trump has.
1/ It's a story you need to know.
Women are the true gods and creators. So keep living in your patriarchal world imagining men as the rulers when for CENTURIES women have been the creators of life. AS ALL HUMANS come out of a woman, but continue to deny us the power and fight your wars and kill everyone and everything on this planet
03.08.2025 00:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Our capitalist system is not only fueled by the relentless destruction of living systems, it has also severed us from nature to such an extent that most people are unaware theyβre living through the most rapid extinction event in the 4 BILLION year history of this planet.
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