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Some people are assholes. Some people are flaming assholes. And then there's Donald Trump. AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL! If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? -- Rabbi Hillel
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@deanobeidallah.bsky.social "Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive on the land the Lord has promised." (Duet. 16:20) This is the heart of the Covenant. The radical settlers (and their supporters) are unjust and no longer carry the Covenant. Their claim is null and void.

I fear the development of a new Fascist International. Dark days ahead, especially for Ukraine and Europe as a whole.

@hartmannreport.com Student protestors, and their faculty supporters, have been expelled. Shapiro in PA called them antisemites, even though Jews were disproportionately represented, even among the organizers. Pro-Palestinian protestors are now threatened with deportation. People are afraid.

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

I’ve just done my #eXit! the X exodus is massive. Don't lose any of your followers. Thanks to #OpenPortability I've registered 416 new passengers for a journey to #BlueSky & #Mastodon. Join us on openportability.org and automatically find your communities on #January20!

Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇 Well, are you?!

What does it say that this took me zero time to understand.

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

This sums it up, yes.

@msignorile.bsky.social There is no human need for health insurance. There's a human need for health CARE. The health insurance industry is 100% parasitical, adding no value of any kind. It functions merely to transfer wealth from workers to owners and are the epitome of a pure capitalist construct.

And down goes FBI Director Christopher Wray, to be replaced by a dangerous brown-nosing sycophant who will cater to Trump's every authoritarian whim, Kash Patel

If Trump had been president when my grandparents escaped from Eastern Europe, he would have sent them back to die. No human being is "illegal." 1/3

Video of Torhalla visiting Ukrainian troops in Pokrowsk, relating to the previous post. donorbox.org/pokrowsk

I was re-reading @naomiaklein.bsky.social Naomi Klein's "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need." The introduction she wrote in 2017 is even more frightening and important today. www.abebooks.com/servlet/Book...

There is no human need for health insurance. There is a human need for health CARE. The health insurance industry is 100% parasitic, adding no value of any kind. As they function merely to transfer wealth from workers to owners, they are the very epitome of a pure capitalist construct.

If you’re upset about President Biden pardoning his son Hunter, wait until I tell you about the time Trump pardoned his son in law’s hooker hiring daddy and made him ambassador to France.

@scalzi.com I just want to say that "Redshirts" is a marvelous read. Thanks for that and all your other books. Great stuff! As an aside, I wonder how Iain Banks would have reacted to Musk using some of Banks' "Culture" ship names for his own SpaceX recovery vessels.

I have no problem with Biden pardoning his son. But I have a real problem with the fact that he has not pardoned Leonard Peltier.

"Strikes on Bryansk with ATACMS are a signal that the West seeks escalation," 🤡- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

@itsalexberg.bsky.social This morning, I heard your response to the white union electrician who TRIED to explain about progressives talking down to him. You proved his point exactly. Instead of asking questions and LEARNING from him, you lectured him about the need for progressives to listen. Wow.

An important source of information, worthy of support. www.rfuplus.com

There is no human need for health insurance. There is a human need for health CARE. The health insurance industry is 100% parasitical, adding no value of any kind. It's designed to transfer wealth from workers to insurance company owners. As such, it is the quintessential capitalist construct.

If Trump puts a tariff on Chinese goods, expect China to retaliate by shifting its soybean imports from the US to Brazil. This will further destroy family farms, which will be bought up by big agricultural conglomerates. Farmers will thereby be forced to enter the working class as employees.

Trump doesn't give a damn about creating American jobs. Tariffs are simply a way to transfer wealth from the working class to the capitalist class. A regressive tax, paid by workers, tariffs are designed to subsidize even more tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy.

The state of Georgia has fired every member of a health care committee tasked with investigating maternal deaths after their report of 2 women who likely died due to abortion ban was leaked to the public. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Now is the time to ditch Twitter/X and move to Bluesky.

@davidpakman.bsky.social I'd love to get a free #echomachine2025 book package, which you have so generously offered.

Tusli Gabbard, as the Director of National Intelligence, is very dangerous for Ukraine. She is part of Putin's and Trump's dream of creating a Fascist International. Huckabee's appointment as ambassador to Israel signals the triumph of Zionism. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine will be completed.