New collaboration with @graehall.bsky.social

Someone: They doctored the photo. Trump: I'm a doctor in the photo. Someone: That candidate talks about cisgender. Trump: He wants six genders! Someone: Are you going to deal with illegal aliens? Trump: Release the UFO file.

"You can't win. The game is fixed. So when they say, 'Why do you burn down the community? Why do you burn down your own neighborhood?' It's not ours. We don't own anything. ... The social contract is broken." www.youtube.com/watch?v=llci...

Sharing this because it's important to understand just how the pieces fit together. This is a 30 minute video, but it explores the compounding ways Trump is wrecking the American economy: from deportations to tariffs to government cuts to datacenters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUM4kv0HnG0

Centrists are so strange. They look the Dems trying to achieve complex solutions and succeeding slowly, and Reps trying to achieve simplistic solutions and failing quickly, and they can't tell the difference? If I hear "both sides" one more time, I will lose my grip on reality. 🧵1

The Palestinian Authority held the first municipal-level elections in years in occupied territory and in response the Israeli army kidnapped one of the victors and held him hostage and released him only on the condition that he step down from his seat.

I'm not shocked there are so many non-Catholics upset about the Trump/Pope feud. American Protestant Christians don't even care what the Bible says. What makes you think they care what Martin Luther said? They just think Luther was a black civil rights leader.

Imagine still pulling a Ruth Bader Ginsberg after seeing what that did to the nation

Russia's invasion of Ukraine crippled the Russian economy, humiliated their military, and made Ukraine a world leader in drone tech. America's invasion of Iran is crippling the global economy, humiliated their military, and made Iran richer than ever. Doesn't seem fascist invasions work well lately.

As a child I thought a concession stand was a place to get popcorn and nachos. As an adult I know a concession stand is when Hakeem and Chuck make a speech.

"You see, Timmy, in my day, American products were reliably high quality and the Chinese imports were cheap or defective. "Sure, Grandpa. Next you'll tell me that you did your own homework instead of just subscribing to BlackboardGPT!" futurism.com/space/pentag...

I am collecting a full set of error messages today. #Bluesky is working perfectly. No notes.

If you have 30 minutes to kill, this does a good job walking through how Trump's policies, from tariffs to deportations, caused the economic mess we're in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUM4...

Would a Dem like Harris have started this war of choice in Iran? Netanyahu asked previous presidents to attack. Bush: No Obama: No Biden: No Trump: Sure thing boss!

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

You have 4 choices for your finances (voting analogy): A: Get a job, pay taxes and bills. Sucks, but responsible. (Dem) B: Join a gang, steal and murder. Fun while you're winning. (Rep) C: Play the lotto. Never win. Whine that you're rich. (Third) D: Couch surf and expect to be supported. (Nonvoter)

BREAKING: Donald Trump meets privately with Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth to assure them their jobs are secure, amidst swirling rumors that they may be the next cabinet members to be fired. #KashPatel #PeteHegseth

1969-1974 Nixon: Criminal 1981-1989 Reagan: Criminal + Brain Damaged 1989-1993 Bush Sr: Warmonger 2001-2009 Bush Jr: Brain Damaged + Warmonger 2017-2029 Trump: Criminal + Brain Damaged + Warmonger This is the natural progression of conservative leadership. I can't wait for the next guy.

need to print this out and mail it to every legislator (related: do they still do those posterboards of tweets in Congress or no? feels like I haven't seen those in a sec)

I love this text post so I drew it

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

BREAKING: Former Marine Sgt. Brian McGuinness stood up in Congress to say what millions of Americans are thinking: We don’t want to fight a war with Iran for Israel. Security dragged him out and broke his arm. Veterans are speaking out. The American people don’t want this war.

Here’s a little run down of all the shit Trump’s done to the US military: He’s allegedly called them suckers and losers, he never pressed Putin about allegations of bounties placed upon US troops, he didn’t go to a memorial in France because of the rain, he ordered the NG and the marines up to…

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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Every nonbinary rose has its þ.

this was too much to copy and paste so i had to screenshot but this is scary stuff init

Like Anti Trust, like curbs on the 2nd Amendment(Bazooka) I feel using mass media to intentionally lie to the American public for Political Gain is NOT free speech under the 1st Amendment. The Greedy Rich always whine how restrictions on them ownng everything is Unconstitutional. Money is NOT speech

Read the thread. Important discussion of Petrodollars and military action.

It's 1990, and I'm protesting no blood for oil. It's 2001, and I'm protesting no blood for oil. I'll be doing this protest for 20+ years. Its 2026, and I'm still protesting no blood for oil. The amount of money spent in wars world wide could have been spent ending oil dependence.

New emails suggest Trump made 'insulting' bid to fund Epstein-linked modeling 'project'. Keep in mind: Melania was working with a modeling agency connected to Epstein. Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. Trump married Melania in 2005.

Americans need to understand just how bad it’s going to get when trump’s court makes the 14th amendment null and void. They’ll let him personally revoke the citizenship of anyone he doesn’t like, which then allows his minions in ICE to imprison them, even deport them. It’s going to get so bad.

Good update of the "poverty line" that was set back in 1963 and has not kept up with reality.

10 years ago, I wanted more nuclear power to ease off fossil fuels. Today, we are finally getting it. But solar/wind have become better options and it's only so oligarchs can power the plagiarizing liar machines to erode trust in our senses.

Redcaps: "Communists will destroy our way of life!" Mamdani: "I want to destroy oligarchy, hate, poverty, and violence!" Redcaps: "Exactly! That's our way of life!"

I love the idea that we can't call it socialism because it scares people. it's like when I tell toddlers my ice cream is spicy so they won't want to eat it.

🎵Take me out to the ballroom Decorate it in gold Find me some donors with lots of cash I don't care if the East Wing gets smashed Let me loot loot loot the taxpayers And spread around doom and gloom For it's 1, 2, 3 terms I'll spend In my new ballroom! 🎵

How far we have fallen that even Reagan, the cause of most of modern America's ails, was still smarter and savvier than Trump is today.

Just gone. And no one will stop him. He's doing this to the whole country and no one will stop him.

If you don't want me to take an hour long dissociative shower to stare at the void, then don't create a world with no future.

So 7 million people march against America's would be king. Then he posts a slop video of himself as king (and what a big boy in that fighter jet!) literally shitting on Americans. Then immediately demolition begins of the White House to make room for his ball room. Do I have that right?

@forrestvalkai.bsky.social, dropping truth about learned helplessness vs compassion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9V...

Some work still to do, shall we say.

A disturbed man and his fanatical advisors are making potentially life-threatening decisions on the basis of what he sees on television. We should all be very concerned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-trump-gets-and-processes-information

Democrats are pretty good at fixing things Republicans break but they are terrible at getting credit for it. Which keeps the cycle going.

What amazes me is how BAD he is at EVERYTHING! He's worth infinite dollars and is the most powerful man in the world. And he hides a bruise with a paint sample. No blending at all. No attempt to match skin tone. No one to help him apply it. It would be LESS obvious to just to nothing at all!

As people get into false romance with LLMs, I am left thinking that a parasocial relationship with a chatbot is emotional masturbation. "If you [emotionally] masturbate, you will go blind [to reality]." -moms in the future