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Parent. Loather of hypocrisy. Funny thing about irony." Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future "- Joe Strummer
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Trump’s executive action targeting ActBlue is a “brazen attack on democracy in America." Beware the erosion of the traditional separation between the White House and the Department of Justice. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

submitted 6 days ago • 124 comments

So why do we have a mechanism to object to electors if we're never supposed to use it? If it's not for Trump, who's it for? Someone *worse* than an fashy adjudicated sexual assaulting insurrectionist convicted felon?

submitted 120 days ago • 271 comments

Evangelicals overwhelmingly chose Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter — a literal Sunday school teacher. There is no reason to think they will ever return to sanity…

submitted 121 days ago • 1148 comments

It took only three weeks to apprehend the killer of a CEO, while more than three years have passed since the Epstein list became known, and no arrests have been made.

submitted 125 days ago • 176 comments

Israeli authorities deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the population in Gaza. They are responsible for the crime against humanity of extermination and for acts of genocide, according to experts.

submitted 126 days ago • 41 comments

History repeats. 50 years ago today, 12/23/74, Ex-President Nixon is called the “maestro” who “led the orchestra” of the Watergate coverup. Trump is/was the “maestro” on the insane post 2020 election lies, Jan 6th and the spreading of even more insane lies about that day ever since.

submitted 128 days ago • 13 comments

This is the very definition of Misinformation by Elon

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

submitted 133 days ago • 907 comments

@jenpsaki.bsky.social on the culture of fear Trump is trying to create: “What this pattern could lead to is a country where journalists don't speak truth to power... and a society that is simply too afraid to speak out. That is the impact of obedience in advance.”

submitted 135 days ago • 19 comments

submitted 141 days ago • 108 comments

A friend points out that dictatorships, nowadays, also fail because they run out of money. They can't steal enough from the state to pay loyalists, wind up relying on narcotics trade or international crime (true of both Syria and Venezuela, for example) and then their soldiers stop fighting

submitted 142 days ago • 114 comments

Trump's oligarch cabinet is estimated to be worth a combined $340bn. Trump’s “government by the billionaires for the billionaires” goal is to provide huge tax cuts for the super-rich, to be achieved at the cost of slashing services such as education, social security and Medicaid. #spookyconnection

submitted 145 days ago • 45 comments

Remember 8 years ago when it was a huge deal that Trump wouldn’t divest from his businesses? Seems quaint now

submitted 145 days ago • 1751 comments

Russian assets in movies Russian assets in real life

submitted 147 days ago • 84 comments

POV: you live in Ukraine Every football match is kicked off by a hero of Ukraine defending against the Russian invasion

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

Please ask yourself what the worst 10 allegations a prospective Secretary of Education could ever face are and then tell me this is not one of them Preventing child abuse and child sexual abuse is central to the mission of the American education system and McMahon already allegedly failed that test

submitted 160 days ago • 364 comments

Netanyahu and Putin sitting on a tree both of them hiding from the ICC.

submitted 160 days ago • 62 comments

It will be hard to find someone worse than Matt Gaetz for attorney general. But if anybody can do it, I trust it's the president-elect.

submitted 160 days ago • 443 comments

#BlueSky keeps winning.

submitted 161 days ago • 281 comments

At least four of Trump’s top picks to lead his government have been accused of sexual harassment, rape, or child rape trafficking. #opdeatheaters

submitted 162 days ago • 90 comments

In today’s edition of “Fact Checks Are Nutritious and Fun,” Stephen King reposted this quote and told everyone he didn’t originate it. www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

submitted 165 days ago • 3 comments