eridyn.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

I tend to think about what is happening to America right now as the ongoing attempted murder-suicide of multiracial democracy by a white nationalist minority and it’s very frightening but what’s happening in LA feels like a good sign that we’re not going down without a fight

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 38 comments

Apropos of nothing www.liberalcurrents.com/the-totalita...

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

You must always be more disciplined than the forces brought against you. They're allowed to make mistakes. They make the rules. Your mistakes will be used as justification for your own repression.

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

Remember kids, if someone wants you to post about violent plans, property damage, or other crimes - where it can be easily turned into charges against you, they're a Fed. And the point of optics in protests is to get attention from normies. Of course you can't shame the shameless.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

I know my old uniform would no longer fit, but several friends, I think theirs will and I'm curious how the optics of a line up of flag-waving Eagle Scouts would play here in such.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

it's incredibly important to assert and (re)claim the promise of America as part of liberalism and progressivism one reason I am still obsessed with @remhq.bsky.social is that they made this connection explicit over and over again when I was young and full of grace youtu.be/uSjo81bSW3s?...

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Now is a good time to bump this. It makes it extra hard for the National Guard and soldiers to fire at you if you are literally waving the fucking stars and stripes flag.

submitted 18 hours ago • 16 comments

Greeting aggression with calm is a great way to ridicule aggressors while maintaining the moral and popular sympathetic high ground. It's not always possible or best-course, but it's a good first act. "Be annoyingly calm, and act calmer the angrier they get," was literally in my police training

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Clown the clowns. Mock them relentlessly. Break their egos and their pretending at strength.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

A giant collection of data sets. Someone's speaking my love language.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Last day to submit a comment against politicizing the civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is insane.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

... no "If my grad school is relevant to anyone's day to day life, things are bad. If my undergrad is relevant to anyone's day to day life, things are catastrophic."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Musk apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad P.R. for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The entire crypto industry is a scam being perpetrated by people who can afford to buy as many politicians as they need to, and they're trying to do a rug pull so large that it'll crash the world economy when they do it. The supervillain era is here.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

We can have our schadenfraude without doing or calling for crimes and evil acts ourselves. Never accept governments rendering people stateless, or stripping citizenship for fun.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

One should not interrupt a leopard while it is feasting.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

And also that the value of $TSLA wasn’t based entirely on business fundamentals

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

“Poster’s Madness” is now a structural theory of international politics and domestic coalition-maintenance and degradation. Throw out that IR degree.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

broken clock fight

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I feel this a little too hard.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This would be a great day to open the windows or go for a long walk, but... It smells like smoke inside the house and we've kept the windows closed all day.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

the infighting theory...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It's strategically advantageous for Musk to look independent from Trump and vice versa now. They did their 130 days of DOGE. IMO they remain mutually useful. Going to be a strange time figuring out how deep the divide is. If Trump ever takes action that hits Musk materially, divorce complete.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

People really do not appreciate how much our civil servants prioritize service, duty, integrity, honesty and accuracy above all else. If the politicians or ideologues interfere, we the public will hear about it - just as we today heard of the interference with the USDA report.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It's bad that USDA political leadership reportedly interfered for political purposes with the timing and text in a report around a statistical release. Cold comforts: they reportedly didn't interfere with the statistical estimates per se. Similar reports have not emerged from BLS, BEA, nor Census.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments