@bagatelleyouwhat.bsky.social
I'm me, barely.
If it's not from the Genoc region, it's just sparkling murder.
Do your part for climate change: reduce, reuse, recycle. We gotta get online discourse down to 3 jokes and one wistfully-resigned irony.
Alright Reuters, hang on now, it's China out there ramming boats and planes and trying to seize land. Why have relations "soured" under a Philippines leader? How is that a thing that you think is a thing?
13.10.2025 07:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! π
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere π
πΆThicker than
A deep dish pie
Joints are sore
Blood pressure high
Pudding, flan
And crème brûlée
None are safe
From the Green BeignetsπΆ
Our authoritarianism is run on clichΓ©s borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies β it was all tiresome then and there, and now itβs pathetic.
08.10.2025 21:38 β π 3909 π 1183 π¬ 178 π 44
No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in.
www.nokings.org
The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein
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the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
09.10.2025 03:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New Working Paper π¨
I am introducing the new dataset on Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR). It includes information on the composition of parliaments in 819 legislative terms in 130 autocracies from 1945 - based on over 200k individual-level observations.
tinyurl.com/48h68hmh
Six surgeons general: Itβs our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
05.10.2025 09:08 β π 38014 π 17016 π¬ 813 π 2392The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:
-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech
If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.
Holding off the Russians means βfinding ways to compensate for Ukraineβs desperate shortage of manpower,β Robert F. Worth writes. Kyiv has found ingenious methods of staying in the fight:
08.10.2025 03:15 β π 154 π 35 π¬ 4 π 1That must mean that it's more as useful than it was ever has been yet before, right?
07.10.2025 16:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βAny university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world,β writes @sivav.bsky.social in this brilliantly belittling essay. newrepublic.com/article/2013...
07.10.2025 13:20 β π 86 π 43 π¬ 0 π 1
Israel's offensive in Gaza, launched in response to the Palestinian militant group Hamas's attack on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and laid waste to swathes of territory reut.rs/48kwUW4
07.10.2025 08:43 β π 37 π 19 π¬ 5 π 3I don't mind giving credit where it's due. I just don't think there's any scenario where it comes due faster than a few years from now.
06.10.2025 06:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Look at the bigger picture. Do you think he's pursuing peace for Gaza, or a deal for his own ends? It matters, for the possibility of any stable peace or ceasefire. He can, and will, dangle and pull away anything that's put together, when there's more in it for him tomorrow. With tariff ease.
06.10.2025 05:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0All of Trump's enablers think he's a useful idiot, too. That they're riding him toward a good outcome, and don't worry about X, Y, Z. That's the dynamic that empowers him. The ends do not justify the means. Don't join them.
06.10.2025 05:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hank it can tell me all seven US presidents since 2000. And how to add glue to pizza (by adding glue to pizza). That's such a bargain at only $1t. It's like the Oracle of Delphi but the priestess is Max Headroom.
06.10.2025 02:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Isn't it a trope that democracy looks pretty much the same everywhere, but fascism always has the local flavor?
05.10.2025 16:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Get rekt. The courts are doing pretty well against this autocrat, it's one of the venues in which he's losing the most.
05.10.2025 14:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?
05.10.2025 11:16 β π 2424 π 865 π¬ 60 π 17Good to know. Double the order. There's no downside!
05.10.2025 13:40 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Isn't it okay for him to just be an opportunist who is fine with offering his vote to autocrats even though they're not asking? People do that, it's okay to observe that happening. It doesn't reflect poorly on you personally.
04.10.2025 04:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Donβt believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything βwithout a doubt,β but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.
03.10.2025 17:04 β π 4604 π 1222 π¬ 314 π 195I'm planning a 3-illegal-acts-a-day ceiling for this crew.
04.10.2025 03:44 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I mean, when they copy a 100-year-old playbook, we can speedrun the fixes, right?
... right?
A chill spreads
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s85M...
