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Recovering blogger MIA from social media for over a decade. Non-recovered Gooner. Returned via Bluesky only to find that it is too late now, it will always be too late, fortunately! Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
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The American Gulags are Coming balloon-juice.com/2025/02/20/l...

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submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Crossing the Rubicon is just a distraction! We need to focus on informing citizens about Caesar's policies in Gaul.

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submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Generally Trump, the Trump administration, and Trump supporters can be predicted by asking this question: how would a bully handle this? Bullies are weak and insecure and favor other bullies. Hence the craven support for Putin. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

"The fascists in Germany and the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, once they seized power, aggressively purged the civil service. They see in these structures, correctly, an enemy that would stymie their absolute grip on power. It is a coup d'état by inches." chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-purge-...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

You know who stopped going to press availabilities on her beat? Dahlia Lithwick for the Supreme Court. I don't think it's led to any loss of quality in her reporting at all. Similarly there's no need to participate in Karoline Leavitt's gaggle. AP will not be missing anything.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

i never tell the truth about anything, not even videogames. i feel i am ugly so have undergone millions in plastic surgery. i use IVF to ensure my offspring are male. i do not interact with said offspring, except one, who i am trying to make into mini-me. it's me, the person with the best genetics.

submitted 7 days ago • 58 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 9 days ago • 316 comments

Some thoughts on the Republican assault on the gay and trans community balloon-juice.com/2025/02/05/g...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 18 days ago • 212 comments