@desleyandrew.bsky.social
Retired psych/social scientist; interested in absolutely everything. Desperately trying to stay sane in the face of looming chaos. Music is my saviour. #RENegade. And I come from the Land Down Under. 🇦🇺🦘
You had to be there. It was a simpler, more innocent world.
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Wandering the island of Sciathos, Greece in the evening. The amazing stone work is evident in the winding path and the buildings that line it.
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steve Biko
Pic of the day
#photography
It won’t. But it seems to not matter. They must have a “Plan”
11.02.2026 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.
11.02.2026 17:48 — 👍 16393 🔁 4349 💬 1203 📌 370Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
The Justice Dept. unit responsible for prosecuting potential wrongdoing by law enforcement — including during the crackdown in Minneapolis — has lost two-thirds of its prosecutors and is under orders to scale back its investigations of excessive force, people familiar with its work told Reuters.
05.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 873 🔁 466 💬 29 📌 16Fair enough. But, in reality, the resistance will only succeed when govt policy is changed and that will rely on the Dems’ electoral success (and the courts).
05.02.2026 21:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m an Australian. I have been following US politics very closely since Obama. What I am seeing from the current resistance is a lot of frustrated rage and passionate words but no coordinated action. The Democrats don’t even have a leader.
05.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0When I hear People say “We will win” I immediately ask “Yeah. Great. How? Precisely.
With Bullet points.”
A black and white political cartoon shows a grave marked “RIP Democracy 1776 to 2026” with the epitaph “He can’t do that.” An eagle emblem is etched into the headstone. A judge’s gavel lies abandoned on the grave slab. Dry grass surrounds the grave under a dark sky, with smoke curling upward, suggesting the collapse of legal restraint and democratic norms.
05.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 1858 🔁 550 💬 60 📌 37Zooming
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www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
03.02.2026 13:40 — 👍 4927 🔁 1761 💬 296 📌 92“This isn’t a moment, it’s a movement”
31.01.2026 13:25 — 👍 23953 🔁 7788 💬 496 📌 348I am in no way ready for February, but at least it’s shorter than January.
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So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.
30.01.2026 23:05 — 👍 4934 🔁 1322 💬 71 📌 55
We’re going to see more and more of this. They’re going to start canceling live events because our country SUCKS.
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Brian May Rules Out Queen Shows in US: “America Is a Dangerous Place at the Moment”
"It's very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America"
consequence.net/2026/01/bria...
Lady Gaga has put out a gorgeous anthem for Minneapolis.
youtu.be/e3o5FIXoK84?...
Plenty of time to get yer shit sorted. ✊
29.01.2026 01:23 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Congress? THIS congress??
24.01.2026 23:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
24.01.2026 20:29 — 👍 39765 🔁 11380 💬 764 📌 622this guy just wanted to help defend his community and they murdered him for it and the highest officials in the nation are lying about what multiple camera angles are showing the nation
this cannot stand
America looks so stupid to the rest of the world, right now.
If it weren't for the mass shootings, they'd probably think there were no schools here.
Today is the most humiliating day in the history of the United States of America.
At least until tomorrow.
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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