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Nerd culture aficionado. Avid reader. Husband. Dog & cat dad. Proud queer GenXer. Atheist/skeptic. I believe in science and in evidence-based medicine. I think history should make you uncomfortable and art should make you think. (any/all)
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Leading expert on democratic collapse says most authoritarian regimes start by seizing control of government agencies with power to regulate and prosecute. Trump is already, right now, closely following the path to entrenching an authoritarian regime.

submitted 89 days ago • 15 comments

“A walking conflict of interest… $20 Billion in 🇺🇸 government contracts…” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 89 days ago • 192 comments

This is an ominous precedent to set.

submitted 96 days ago • 41 comments

Huh. Wonder if this has anything to do with vaccines?

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Human Shield is such a unique name for a little boy. Is it from Afrikaans?

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

ya know, there used to be plenty of Republicans who I certainly disagreed with on a lot of things but who I at least believed had some personal integrity. Thinking of Bob & Elizabeth Dole, Lamar Alexander, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, etc. … are there any still around?

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Yeats has this pinned to the wall... For how can you compete, Being honour bred, with one Who were it proved he lies Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbours’ eyes;

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

PROGRESSIVES AGAINST KAMALA HARRIS IN 2024: "Don't vote for her!!!! She isn't good for Palestine!!!!" DONALD TRUMP IN 2025: "We should ethnic cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza so I can build some Mediterranean-view condos."

submitted 102 days ago • 641 comments

Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 authoritarian power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.

submitted 102 days ago • 127 comments

👏🏼👏🏼👇🏼 “The AFL-CIO has launched the Department of People Who Work for a Living (DPWL), a new campaign to hold Elon Musk's Dept of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, accountable & make sure the federal government is responsive to working people & not just to the whims of an unelected CEO like Musk.”

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

Crockett: “I’m tired of the white tears. If you’re competent you’re not concerned. When you compare me to Greene/Boebert there’s no comparison… The only ppl crying are mediocre white boys beaten out by people that had to work much harder.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFp8K0M...

submitted 103 days ago • 959 comments

We're not fighting culture "wars" so much as enduring the right's cultural assault on the basic premises that: 1) people should be left alone to live their own lives when they're not hurting anyone *and* 2) that public systems should aim at fair treatment of all people.

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

Even hellsite's severely limited and compromised fact-checking system won't abide a lie this blatant:

submitted 103 days ago • 18 comments

It’s weird to think that when I first joined BlueSky, I was mainly planning to use it to follow people who post about science fiction, fantasy, and comic books.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Today in LA. I ❤️ my town.

submitted 104 days ago • 733 comments

One thing Democrats could do right now is repeating ad nauseam that Republicans in Congress have the power to stop this. That would a) give permission to even just one Republican to speak up and b) help the public understand who is responsible for this mess and hopefully start to turn the tide.

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

😑 www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

At OPM, Musk’s staffers won’t leave—they work around the clock and have even installed sofa beds in the office. Our access to data systems has been restricted, raising serious concerns about cybersecurity and a complete lack of oversight. We are keeping our heads down and documenting everything.

submitted 105 days ago • 396 comments

Dear the Media, When something bad happens in an area under the executive branch's purview, and the White House goes "uh... a Black or gay person must've done it," you do not need to accept that. You're allowed to follow up in pursuit of the factual reason, not the bigoted excuse. Love, The public

submitted 108 days ago • 35 comments

Interesting list. I’ve only ever been to a couple of these. Maybe that’s a goal — explore my home state. www.worldatlas.com/cities/8-qui...

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

www.wboy.com/wv-outdoors/...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Will the real Adrian Dittman please stand up?

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-a-chatty...

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

The kiss-off song we've been waiting 65 years for, from Riki Lindhome youtu.be/ELSx0Kq8xZs

submitted 156 days ago • 34 comments

This 1973 novel did indeeed prove prophetic. We're all driving like this, nowadays.

submitted 161 days ago • 11 comments