George Wood

The time has now come to call it exactly what it is: de facto fascism.
- Nation above the individual: ✅
- Centralised autocratic government: ✅
- A dictatorial leader: ✅
- Forcible suspension of opposition: ✅
- Anti-intellectualism: ✅
- Belief in a natural social hierarchy: ✅
- Fear of liberalism: ✅

Declaring a Crime Emergency in the District of Columbia By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 740 of the District of

Today will be immortalised in history as the day that fascism's death grip took hold in the United States of America. This is not sudden, nor is it particularly surprising; it does, though, mark a sombre milestone in America's journey into authoritarianism.

When Trump refuses to leave the White House in 2028 we will look back on the day Trump federalized and militarized D.C. WITHOUT ANY BASIS WHATSOEVER as the beginning of that coup plot

Robert Reich How Trump is Following Hitler's Playbook | Robert Reich

Crime in D.C. hit a 30-year low last year.

Trump deploying the National Guard on the city is yet another authoritarian show of force.

It's straight out of the dictator's playbook. https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?feature=shared

London police arrest 150 as pro-Palestinian protesters defy new law Police in London have arrested about 150 people after demonstrators violated a new law banning support for a pro-Palestinian group.

BREAKING: London police arrested 150 demonstrators supporting the banned Palestine Action group.

Big Mags: The paedophile-hunting granny who built a heroin empire A new podcast tells the story of Mags Haney, the Stirling drug dealer who may have been a police informant.

Well done, BBC, you've won the "best headline of all time" award.

In fact, a quick search of Google for exact matches of the phrase "alive on this intricate Earth" reveals that they only come from one, single source... content produced by you. 😅

While the difference is subtle, the meaning of the quote is changed by it.

"this intricate Earth" means the planet Earth and therefore its intricacies.

"the intricate earth", however, in the lack of capitalisation of the word "earth" suggests earth the substance, as in the ground or the soil.

Your quote is:
"I am really here, alive on this intricate Earth under trees."

The original quote from 𝑃𝑖𝑙𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑡 𝑇𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘 is:
"I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under trees."

YouTube video by vlogbrothers At Least There Are Trees

Good morning, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. I truly enjoyed your video entitled "At Least There Are Trees".

I wanted to highlight that you very slightly misquoted Annie Dillard, which is a minor— and I'm quite sure inadvertent— mistake, but does change the meaning you subsequently assign to it.

There's great comfort and nostalgia in this for me...

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YouTube video by Hannah Fry The most beautiful invention of all time

This is knowledge that I did not until now have, but am now overwhelmed with glee to have been bestowed with.

Thank you, @fryrsquared.bsky.social!

I too grieve for America at the moment. But more than that, I mourn the sickness afflicting compassion around the world.

Greed has done this to us. Remember that.

The land of the free is dead. 🇺🇸

Ever since recorded music attained fidelity on-par with live performances, it could be argued that nobody "needs" to learn to play an instrument.

But luckily we decided the world is a better place when we teach each other how to play instruments so we still do it.

I feel the same about writing.

James Madison famously said, "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

Seldom have more historically poignant words been uttered.

A nugget of @owenjones.bsky.social wisdom to share this morning:

“If someone says it’s raining, and another says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both… your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.”

A spade is a spade, and a genocide is a genocide. Wake up, BBC.

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

Well done, that man. It is people like you who will save America, if indeed it can be saved. I salute your courage.

In light of Stephen Miller’s vitriolic posts of late, I can’t help but think that really, he’s the mastermind behind all of this.

He’s cold, calculated, and shows himself to be totally devoid of any empathy.

I think he’s got his hand all the way up the tangerine sock puppet in chief’s arse. 🍊🧦

June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride:

action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...

Hear, hear!

A half-drunk pint of Pilsner Urquell sitting on a rustic table in an atmospherically-lit room.

Out for some Czech pivo (beer) with my Czech man. 🇨🇿

Musk-Trump feud: The tech billionaire slams the president's ingratitude The US president and the world's richest man trade insults in spectacular fall-out over budget bill.

It’s immensely fun watching the inevitable unfold, I find.

I am absolutely horrified by the scenes in Liverpool. My thoughts are with everybody affected.

Liverpool will always hold a special place in my heart — it is a city of unique strength, spirit and unity.

Tonight and always, you’ll never walk alone.

Wow!

This is deeply disgusting. Wearing his pathetic campaign hat to the West Point graduation.

Disposable vapes ban: Why people are stockpiling ahead of June deadline Some disposable vape users say they are stockpiling, worried about what they will do after the ban.

My heart bleeds.

‘I don’t know what we’ll do when disposable vapes are banned.’

Buy a reusable one? Maybe?

Immigrants and trans people ARE NOT the source of your woes. They are vulnerable and heavily marginalised groups in dire need of our compassion and love.

We must do better, or we risk destroying ourselves with our hatred.

Starmer unveils 'tighter' immigration policy promising numbers will fall significantly - live updates Proposed changes include English tests and cuts to recruitment of overseas care workers, as Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Labour

Fuck off, Starmer. You can piss all the way off with this right-wing appeasement.

You’re wrong. Do better.

@susiedent.com I find myself inexplicably viscerally irritated by the word “flavourful”; I feel a primal urge to correct it to “flavoursome.”

Is the former ever proper?