Beyond Belief

Northbound Barker Road at Poplar Creek, closed.

#brookfield
#WIFlooding

Looking for an outfit, for that June 14 DC Military Parade fiasco?

I'm thinking a couple thousand dressed as "Tiananmen Tank Man" could appropriately set the tone.

The protests have been almost entirely peaceful. A handful of incidents isn't reason to use military on civilians, and some of these things could have been done by right wing agitators. This whole thing was created by Ole Yam Tits.

Amen.

I also hope to see a bunch of protesters in DC on the 14th ppaying the role of Tiananmen Square Tank Man," standing firm against an egregious parade.

Two things can be true at once...

Military/police firing on the press is flat out dictatorship tactics. Funny, the same happened under Trump last term.

What is the pattern? Hmmm 🤔

100% self-inflicted suicidal own-goals, by people either ignorant or evil.

Unless... they don't care about civil society? Then they're well on the path to the destruction they seek.

The "Big Beautiful Ermächtigungsgesetz" comes next.

Unexpected? Not entirely.

Bad for press freedom? Bad for a 1st Amendment on life support? Yeah.

Trump lunatics are openly calling for civil war on the basis of a few hundred people protesting in LA. It’s what Hitler himself did: took control of the government and then invented excuses for massive state and paramilitary violence.

@lutimestwo.bsky.social How? How did you write the perfect book? I just mainlined “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” and am truly gobsmacked!

So much I want to say. Last vestiges of restraint convince me to leave it at this. :-)

Almost Day 100... aside from abandoning Ukraine and NATO, rending citizens, tanking the economy, and enabling Elon to gut functioning departments, what has the 🍊💩🤡 done for us?

"Measles, Sir?"

A shorter version of my thread: for chrissakes can we pay attention to what fascism does instead of what it says? No, Trump isn’t trying stupidly and failing to revive U.S. industry. He’s trying quite effectively to burn it down so he can rule the ashes. Seriously. That’s the plan.

As was the promise to "faithfully execute" the laws of the United States.

He's killing them.

Pre election 🍊💩🤡: No more American wars!

Post election: I'm invading Canada, Panama and shoving missiles down Houthi throats.

ADHD before ADHD was cool!

"Petymology" -- the study of the inscrutable source of pet names.

"Sure, we call him "Tinks,"but that is just short form for Tinkly-Winkly, which is a nickname from "Mr. Tinkles," which derives from his "legal" name of "J. Reginald Tinklesworth, esquire."

FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.”

Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.

Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.

My tour guide at the Illinois State Capitol, who-- amid serious historical education- injected right wing crap about a voucher school bill currently being defeated by the legislature...

What game is afoot here? Bankrupt the system by sending every recipient a check for 20 times they're normal monthly payment?

Is Kyle Rittenhouse down there?

hey, my Mom just received March 6th, a $7008 payment from the Social Security Admin ... when her normal check is $372. WTAF?
@maddow.msnbc.com , @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Comfirmed, corroborated.

What's happening is a technocratic coup. Illegal? Yes. That doesn't mean it isn't happening. Nor does it mean we currently possess means to stop it. Nonetheless, those with power must try. So far, most aren't.

Roughly 10 years ago I was reading about how effective Elon Musk was in watching Tesla and getting around the obstacles imposed by the big three GM, Chrysler and Ford.

I could not anticipate that his strategy would be applied to our government.

Go get'em, Jeff!!

Can you guys even type the word "illegal"? "Unelected"?

Stop hedging and call this out for the unbridled coup that it is.

Zoning is relaxed in 'Stallis.

Not a Rawlsian to be found!

All this talk about buying Greenland... Grandpa was kicking the tires back in 1951 when Thule was built, in the second largest military deployment after D-Day.

Now, if we can only convince FoxConn to manage the construction.