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thedrumfish.bsky.social
Writer and musician living on California’s Central Coast. Democrat. Environmentalist. LGBTQ ally. #NoDemUnder1k
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Donald Trump is “a president who so fundamentally miscalculates his own country’s interests.” economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist

San Luis Obispo Women's March!

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San Luis Obispo Women's March!

San Luis Obispo Women's March!

San Luis Obispo Women's March!

San Luis Obispo Women's March!

What happened to Little Marco?

Developing: USAID to spend $40 million on condoms for Elon Musk.

Protect our national parks.

Listen up, everybody.

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.

Yes, the Trump-Vance administration just told Germany it should make nice with a far-right political party with a history of using Nazi rhetoric and accepting racists and antisemites. And no Republican will complain. This is neo-fascism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

So much for his Hippocratic oath.

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

As chilling a meme as I have seen. But I agree.

What moron at @cnn.com thought it was a brilliant idea to keep Scott Jennings on the network while pushing Jim Acosta to leave?

"To any who dare to defy the American Golden Age, heed this warning: you will lose. Toe the line or we will run you down. The gloves are off and we're not playing around this time. For now, it's tariffs, but trust me, we can and will do so much worse." - Eric Trump, from his Shining City on the Hill

Many Americans are watching their own funeral and have no idea who died.

It’s been ten years since Monday.

These are strange days when the American people are more concerned about what the White House will do to America than terrorists or foreign enemies.

Oh, honey . . . you weren't ostracized for being a Republican, you were ostracized for being a relentlessly tedious nepo jerk.

The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy. My advice, take the first step, start with something small and see what works for you. Here are ten things all of us can do. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/10-t...

Other symptoms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD): Inappropriate social behavior. Loss of empathy. Lack of judgment. Loss of inhibition. Increasing trouble using and understanding written and spoken language. Trouble naming things.

This is a slap in the face to American women. Pete Hegseth has a track record of disrespecting women service members, and multiple credible sexual assault allegations. Our troops deserve better.

If your spouse needs a safe word with her friends to protect herself from you, you should be in therapy. Or in prison. Not the Secretary of Defense.

The White House Financial Disclosure page has been WIPED. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics mandates public financial disclosures for high-level federal officials through the OGE Form 278e promoting transparency and ensuring compliance with the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. SHARE EVERYWHERE!

If I were to sum up Republican policy, it would be this: profits over progeny. As in, their own children and grandchildren.

He will not complete this term - someting will happen before. Just saying. 👊

In the space of half a day, the new administration has trashed the Constitution, subverted the independence of the DOJ, granted a broad amnesty to traitors, abandoned the global community on climate and public health, and launched a wide-ranging attack on minority rights.

Oh, by the way: congratulations to all of my racist, fraud-promoting, misogynist, jingoist, Nazi-loving, authoritarian, plutocrat-enabling, petro-pumping, justice-undermining, seditionist, equality-hating, nature-trampling friends. You won. This is going to be awesome.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML3q...

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?

The Supreme Court ruled corporations were allowed to donate unlimited amounts to politicians in 2010. It only took them 6 years to take complete control of the government and 15 years to mark sure their voices are the only ones the masses ever hear again.

posted by @ironstache.bsky.social and yeah, as expected. Zero technogarch support. Plenty of political posts but zero action to help. nothing but short-fingered vulgarians with alligator arms.

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Corporations give money to Trump because they, like him, only care about themselves.