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

The story of the Black American community's Great Migration and ultimate rights and economic elevation through no thanks to my ancestors is one of the great American stories in my opinion. I don't have "White guilt." I just greatly respect it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

(Reuters) - U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. They have a word for that extortion.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

It's unfortunate, but things will get a lot worse before Americans understand Trump is a destructive clown leading a clown show of ideologues smashing windows to the glee of people who will get hit the hardest. It will turn around. Keep the faith & do the things that make you happy in the meantime.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Friday’s New York Post. When you’ve lost the Murdochs.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

NEW: The Associated Press is suing Trump Administration officials in federal court for banning AP reporters from events over the organization continuing to use the name 'Gulf of Mexico.' AP says the ban violates the First and Fifth Amendments.

submitted 1 day ago • 198 comments

The Maine Principal's Association said it would continue to allow trans girls to compete in school sports, saying President Trump's recent executive order is in conflict with state law.

submitted 1 day ago • 169 comments

Trump first term: "I built the military." Trump second term: "I'm downsizing the military." ???

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk’s AI Bot Grok Finds Over Half of His Tweets ‘False or Misleading’, Disses Him as ‘A Mogul With A Microphone’ www.mediaite.com/online/elon-...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

These are talking points straight from the Kremlin. It is clear that Trump’s plan to “end the war” is to remove Zelenskyy, replace him with a Putin stooge, and then let Putin take over Ukraine.

submitted 3 days ago • 783 comments

I reject any thought of endorsing Russia and the perverse radical right wing authoritarian values associated with that. Trump is taking us down the wrong road and America largely does not understand what's happening.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Comes down to whether to support Putin and Trump, or #Zelenskyy , Ukraine and Europe. Do you want Russia as our ideological ally, or the Western liberal democracy we've been building since WWII.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "In that network of rightwing billionaire libertarian-turned-authoritarians, they are very open about the fact that they think democracy is obsolete, we're living in a post-Constitutional America, and they are trying to get everyone ready for a technostate monarchy."

submitted 3 days ago • 139 comments

Well, Trump doesn't respect the sovereignty of Canada, Panama, and Denmark. Why should he have any regard for #Zelenskyy or the sovereignty and border of Ukraine?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The supposed evidence driving the Trump administration push for a DOJ investigation and potential asset freeze is a 5-minute video clip from the known misinformation purveyor Project Veritas. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/project...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

MAGAs who hate #Zelenskyy and #Ukraine are largely #Putin sympathizers who admire his extreme right wing ideology and sheer brutality under the guise of supposedly righteous, moral-defending "Christianity."

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE can keep accessing government data for now, judge rules

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Trump is a convicted felon getting his revenge for righteous cases filed against him for his criminality and recommended by juries made up of citizens. www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My guess is that Judge Chutkan declined calls from Democratic AGs for a temporary restraining order blocking DOGE’s access to federal data today because she wants to see DOGE put on the spot to clarify exactly where their authority comes from from the get go.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Trump 'executive order' cited as reason for sudden closure of JFK Library in Boston. www.wcvb.com/article/jfk-...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Clark is reportedly back in government, in a top post at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It’s an agency that Trump, Elon Musk and other allies have taken steps to paralyze in recent weeks.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Giving Russia the appearance of being on a par with the US today and ignoring Ukraine and the EU was a win for Putin, and that's just the start.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Moscow Back at the Table, and Appearing to Call the Shots. Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe correspondent BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Oops @meidastouch.com

submitted 4 days ago • 679 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 4 days ago • 5974 comments

Trump White House Claims Elon Musk Doesn’t Actually Work for DOGE in Striking New Legal Filing www.mediaite.com/news/huh-tru...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This DOGE thing is all a big con. It's not going make any meaningful reductions in the budget and is focused on destroying liberal policies and values. Democrats need to man up and stop self-hating themselves and get their you-know-what together.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

As an official presidential advisor, Elon has no legal authority to do anything other than advise. It's up to the rule of law to shut down what Elon is doing. The wheel of justice turns slowly. But turn, it does.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The radical right has gaslighted the democrats into second guessing themselves into self-hatred. They need to snap out of this period of cutting themselves.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Not to worry folks, DOGE operatives are now asking for access to your individual tax returns ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 155 comments

If people are afraid of stepping on toes and offending the tender sensibilities of extreme right wing ideology, they'll get what they deserve. A fascist government and the loss of freedoms and liberties that come with that.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans behave like an anti-democratic #fascist movement focusing on #intolerance on certain groups, nationalism, annexing sovereign nations, using religion as a weapon and replacement for sound secular reasoning. And mostly, idealizing the authoritative power of a cult of personality figure.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Ukraine was not invited to the US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, said a source. “Of course we understand that Americans have their own issues with Russians, it’s not our business—about the bilateral relations . . . but it is needed to have Ukraine and Europe if talks [are] about Ukraine and Europe.”

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Donald Trump is expected to unveil his new plan to settle the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. These new demands might just break the EU.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

Turning our help to #Ukraine into a one-sided quid pro quo transaction is gross. Shades of Trump asking #Zelensky if he would "do him a favor" before sending aid. Taking advantage of another's plight for gain is immoral and unethical.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

New @bloomberg.com: Undocumented workers helped build Elon Musk’s Tesla gigafactory bloom.bg/41gG6a3

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 8 days ago • 1910 comments

Read. 👇👇👇 Blistering.

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

At today's #Munich-Security-Conference it was #JD-Vance's lips moving, trashing our European allies, but it was #Putin who was actually doing the talking.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE is a president's advisory board given the authority of an extremely high-level government agency. Donald says go for it, go fast, and do what you can do to destroy anything that seems a democratic party or progressive interest, value, or priority - quicker than it can be litigated in court.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is saying F you to everybody, he has immunity. Laws and the constitution don't mean jack to him. Not like it was hard to see this coming.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Two weeks into President Trump’s sweeping freeze on foreign aid, H.I.V. groups abroad have not received any funding, jeopardizing the health of more than 20 million people, including 500,000 children. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

submitted 17 days ago • 35 comments

Republicans already sane-washing #Trump's #Gaza remarks. "What he really meant to say was . . . " "He was being sarcastic." "He's just trolling the libs. Winning!" "It was just a joke, lighten up Frances." "He's negotiating." 49 reasons. All in a line. All of them good ones. All of them lies.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Just at the time Trump is doing his best to convince the world that the US seeks to perpetrate #genocide, he's gutting and demoralizing our intelligence agencies. He's setting the table for terrorists attacks here in the United States.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Donald spit balling about a #genocide of the people living in #Gaza is a fantasy that won't happen. It's more the fact that Trump even had that idea, and articulated it in front of the world at the worst possible time.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Trump desperately needed an offramp from the #trade-war idea fiasco. #Mexico and #Canada gave him one even if he didn't deserve it.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

For a baby boomer like me, seeing America turn into a 2nd tier country controlled by the evangelical religious right where none of the rules and conventions apply anymore and a criminal is in charge is still a shock. I reserve the right to still be shocked by this.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Putin says Europe will ‘stand at the feet of the master’ as Trump’s tariffs alarm allies. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/03/p...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Knowing the names of the an unelected oligarch’s underlings who are destroying the government from within is a crime now, apparently.

submitted 19 days ago • 1961 comments