Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
24.10.2025 17:38 — 👍 3590 🔁 1731 💬 120 📌 97
Westpac Bank gets a lot of good publicity from the Westpac Rescue helicopters.
But you probably didn't know it's actually NSW taxpayers who provide the VAST majority of the funding!
@browne90.bsky.social #auspol
24.10.2025 05:56 — 👍 147 🔁 68 💬 4 📌 5
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
24.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 22282 🔁 4694 💬 746 📌 342
Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics.
It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.
It corrupts our political system every day.
24.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 21108 🔁 6021 💬 748 📌 243
When my kids were like, 2-4 years old….they also pouted and acted like babies.
24.10.2025 21:08 — 👍 3415 🔁 784 💬 252 📌 51
Congress just held a hearing to determine why nothing ever gets done. After five hours...they adjourned...because nothing got done. America’s fine. Carry on.
#FridayTwistedHumor
24.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 2416 🔁 539 💬 64 📌 15
Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.
24.10.2025 21:51 — 👍 11746 🔁 3341 💬 664 📌 157
Very concerning, if true.
24.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 13576 🔁 4713 💬 566 📌 133
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24.10.2025 22:42 — 👍 18612 🔁 5251 💬 817 📌 346
What did I just watch
23.10.2025 04:01 — 👍 478 🔁 90 💬 27 📌 28
View of the canal from a bridge, trees with golden leaves reflected in the still water.
Golden Leaves abound 🍂💛🍂
Quiet and peaceful by the canal
#photography #landscape #LandscapePhotography #nature #WeekQForQuiet
#AlphabetChallenge #reflections
22.10.2025 09:04 — 👍 286 🔁 34 💬 19 📌 1
23.10.2025 00:13 — 👍 15232 🔁 7201 💬 766 📌 323
I love you @dontattempt.bsky.social justice for your #intelligence 👍
23.10.2025 05:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is very good
22.10.2025 23:52 — 👍 21848 🔁 7809 💬 603 📌 389
Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…
23.10.2025 03:31 — 👍 8815 🔁 2673 💬 347 📌 255
JB Pritzker: “This man has some weird idea in his head about the city of Chicago. The city’s not on fire. Things are better today than they were 5, 7 years ago. I’m not gonna just sit back while he’s literally turning this country into a dictatorial regime”
22.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 119 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 0
😕🇺🇸
23.10.2025 02:49 — 👍 12272 🔁 3902 💬 323 📌 126
Maybe this is obvious to everyone but…why does the White House need a ballroom? It has enough space for state dinners, no? Is this for dances? Weddings? Storing classified documents?
Just confused so the reason would be helpful thx
23.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 17267 🔁 2898 💬 2975 📌 318
My god it’s hideous
22.10.2025 21:51 — 👍 11308 🔁 2259 💬 2158 📌 405
It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.
22.10.2025 21:38 — 👍 18206 🔁 2287 💬 1597 📌 254
🔮🦋🌞Have a magical day🌞🦋🔮
22.10.2025 12:29 — 👍 61 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?
22.10.2025 23:32 — 👍 20700 🔁 6998 💬 1549 📌 426
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
22.10.2025 17:38 — 👍 32176 🔁 11657 💬 1476 📌 617
If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
22.10.2025 19:15 — 👍 26839 🔁 6483 💬 365 📌 224
Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
22.10.2025 22:11 — 👍 22969 🔁 6172 💬 682 📌 239
Trump is rigging maps to build a Congress that serves only him, not the people. @AOC knows the power to stop him is in California’s hands—Prop 50 is how we fight back and win. #YesOnProp50
23.10.2025 00:11 — 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
While I am happy that more people are finding their last straw broken by the republican admin, I don't think they need fundraising anymore. They're now funded through Americans paying higher costs for goods to cover tarrifs. Tarrif $ goes to the govn & Congress is an open check book to #47.
20.10.2025 20:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.
21.10.2025 23:29 — 👍 13607 🔁 3467 💬 218 📌 128
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