Andrew Deeringer

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Radical hypothesis:

If you're a reporter or even a columnist (umbrella 'journalist' camp), generally *least* useful thing you can do with your time and platform is tell political parties what their "messaging" should be.

-Reporters have the privilege of seeing things other people can't ...

2025’s official slogan is “It Gets Worse.”

A Day in the Life of a Woke Third-Grade Teacher, as Imagined by a Far-Right Politician The alarm blares, and I wake up with a renewed vigor to indoctrinate America’s youth. I ride my bike to work, smugly turning up my nose at real Ame...

"I read The Lorax aloud. By the end of the book, all the kids are radicalized and collectively devise a plan to dismantle capitalism."

So America is the mark?

"I don’t want a revolution of violence. I want a revolution of responsibility-one where we take care of each other, where people can raise a family without choosing between groceries and medicine, and where love doesn’t have to take a back seat to red tape."

On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters."

On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.

Real macho stuff.

On top of your excellent points, I would add that our news media by and large are not set up to inform ordinary Americans about things that matter. In that context, blaming stupid American voters is a lot like blaming under-performing students for a bad teacher.

They can blow up a story, hammer it home, hound politicians about it, make it a scandal, make it something everyone is talking about and officials have to answer for. They've done it over and over, most recently with the news that Biden was old, but they're not doing it now. (3/3)

Some of it is in the tone they take, some of it is in the amount of coverage they give, and the placement of the stories. Some of it is reaching from facts to implications. (2/3)

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on our news media's failure to sound the alarm:
We've seen the mainstream media again and again, in good ways and corrosive ones, dogpile on a story they want the public to jump on. (1/3)

If America were a game of Monopoly we’re at the point in the game where one person owns 75% of the board and everyone’s just waiting for them to take everything everyone has left so the game can end

2025 feels like being awake during surgery

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

quaker here. do i now have a right to have my children opt out of seeing any school books that relate to war?

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

Current NYT headline indicating that the vaunted bunker-buster bombs did not, in fact, bust the bunkers.

So to recap: Trump violated the War Powers Resolution, failed in his mission, lied and said he succeeded, made up a cease-fire between two countries in his head, then got mad and cursed when he found out it didn't exist.

SCOTUS Says Human Rights Should Be Left to the Same ‘Democratic Process’ it Undermined Read more here.

The callous opinions in Skrmetti last week and Dobbs three years ago today underscore that the Supreme Court keeps punting human rights to a democratic process that the Roberts court broke.

Wrote about it for @democracydocket.com:

My projecting ass saw these as ashamed

We live in a rogue and dangerous country.

Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

My lovely wife got me real, quality oud oil for Father's Day and I will be making this my whole personality until further notice.

It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.

The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence.

This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.

💔 Heartbreaking reality of Russia's genocidal war on Ukraine.

This story exemplifies the reason people are outraged at ICE.

This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.

Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

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Cian Westmoreland @CianMW If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487

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