This will be my final thread on this account (I'll still be on BSKY, but under another account - see last post in this thread), but it's an important one. I wanted to STRONGLY REITERATE what @leftistlawyer.com is saying in the thread below. Having worked at A Certain Agency for many years, let me...

Okay, last call for anyone who hasn't seen my previous bleatings on this, lol! I'll be turning this account off tomorrow, so if you want to know where I'll be, check this out: authormichaelhicks.com/2025/01/25/s...

For folks who've recently followed me on this account, please be advised that I'll be shutting this one down soon! If you want to continue to follow me, please follow my @authormichaelhicks.bsky.social account. 👍😎

Yo - I'm going to post this a few more times over the next couple days for anyone who hasn't seen it. If you've seen it already, just ignore and go about your day, lol!

Yo - I'm going to post this a few more times over the next couple days for anyone who hasn't seen it. If you've seen it already, just ignore and go about your day, lol!

I'm consolidating my social media platforms AND changing my address here on BSKY. So if you want to keep following me, the info is here: authormichaelhicks.com/2025/01/25/s...

There's a lot of people making (justified) comparisons of the current state of the United States to 1930s Germany, but there's one more comparison I haven't seen yet. Before Hitler rose to power, the Weimar Republic sponsored a genocide in Namibia and justified it by otherizing the people there.

The whole thing - the abrupt end of all pretense that the United States is a representative government, the utter devastation in Gaza, the blithely ignored global meteorological catastrophe currently erupting in LA and Éowyn, all the Nazis everywhere - it's all one collapse. Ugly, ain't it.

NEWS FLASH: ANYONE WORKING TOGETHER IN "BIPARTISANSHIP" WITH NAZIS (FASCISTS, OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THEM) IS A NAZI COLLABORATOR. Just like Pétain and the Vichy French collaborated with the Nazis in WW2, so, too, have the Dems since Jan 2021. This is something you just can't candy-coat.

Stop writing “rolls back DEI initiatives” and start writing “begins resegregation efforts” challenge

Can confirm…

"One of the most horrific realizations when your government is hijacked from the inside is that there is no official to whom you can turn. Living for legacy, living for security, living for money -- it makes no difference, they are not living for you." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

Look I have the evidently controversial opinion we should care about everyone, everywhere, all at once, because every single human being matters

For those of you who don't know much about what's under the hood of the Signal secure communications app: signal.org/blog/signal-...

With regard to the TB outbreak in Kansas, I feel compelled to refer back to this article about the Texas Center for Infectious Disease, which talks about how incredibly effective elastomeric respirators with P100 filters have been for many years: www.kens5.com/article/news...

Exit, stage left!

People who "find joy in making an obvious Nazi gesture" are called Nazis, Zack

Well, after being broadbrushed as a complicit piece of sh**, I think I'm done with BSKY for the morning. With every day that passes, this place feels more like Xitter. Anyway, time to get some writing done.

Dear America, PLEASE stop deifying politicians. Far right, right, or otherwise.

Turns out these are in fact real. I wish my dumbass had known this a year ago. a.co/d/ifdgq8I

Emphatic reminder: if you want to communicate something electronically and don't want state or the Federal Government to be able to "read your mail," please use an app like Signal that employs end to end encryption. Your 4th Amendment rights are about to go into the toilet.

They want to restrict citizenship to cishet white people. That's clearly the end goal here. It's just right out in the open.

I don't remember many Democrats getting upset when this happened, because it was done in exchange for war funding. www.reuters.com/world/us/wha...

Josh speaks for an entire generation here, lol

This. If you see things like this happening, step up.

So, I had someone else come out of the woodwork and tell me that things would have been "worse" had Biden's DOJ arrested Trump and the rest for sedition back in January 2021. Worse than what? Trump in power a second time? Folks, if you don't punish sedition, you HAVE NO DEMOCRACY. It's gone. 1/5

Please note that you can get hit with this type of thing from both fascists (Team Red) and neoliberals (Team Blue).

I agree with a great deal of what Nina says, but this is an example of pointing out something that "should" be done that will NEVER happen. The Democratic Party has already chosen: it's literally a private corporation (as is the RNC) that's beholden only to monied interests. That's it.

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On point!

As someone else on this thread pointed out, Dem leadership NEVER makes the rotating villains (Manchin, Sinema, Fetterman, etc.) pay a price for their intransigence, like removing them from committees. The helplessness of the Democrats is nothing but theater as they work in bipartisanship with Nazis.

A key part of the Trump admin's plan is to blast you with a firehose of insanity to wear you down and exhaust you as quickly as possible. It's quite *intentional*, just like it was when he took office in 2017. Stay informed, yes, but don't rage-scroll all day. Focus instead on ways to resist.

For all Federal employees and military service members: now is a good time to recall the oath you took and reaffirm your determination to abide by it in the days to come.

I think I'm channeling Julia Child. IYKYK...

FYI, @moderation.bsky.app - @kromonos.net is slamming people into a bunch of outrageous lists. P.S. Apologies to folks for not doing very well on alt text here.

And reading a bit in between cooking steps...

Time to lose myself in cooking... www.thecookingguy.com/recipes/hunt...

Of course they haven't arrested the "clients." I mean, just imagine if we started holding rich, powerful (and predominantly white) people accountable for their crimes? Who knows where that could lead, right?

"Paging Luigi...paging Luigi...please pick up the white courtesy phone..."

1. "Controversial"? REALLY?? Sieg heiling is "controversial" now? I want to live in a world where Nazi symbolism and ideology are uncontroversially bad. 2. You chose to sleep with him. He didn't happen to you. You chose him. And this was, unfortunately, eminently foreseeable, even then.

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Regardless of your immigration status in the U.S., you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Know your rights and assert them. Independientemente de su estatus migratorio en los Estados Unidos, usted tiene derechos garantizados por la Constitución. Conozca sus derechos y hágalos valer.

100% agree. When open Nazi symbols are socially acceptable, society is heading for a very bad place, beyond even the already very bad effects of imperialism.

Members of the Democratic Party doin' bipartisanship with the Nazis, folks.

Great art:

FYI:

This article fills me with horror. Not the fact that the Arctic is doing what it's doing, that's built into the energy overload. But that humans would measure this process with AI and find out Amazing Things™. Like the Nazis of old keeping records of their slaughter. Exactly the same.

Just an observation as I see more and more of the MSNBC crowd and paid Dem mouthpieces piling in here: keep in mind that these are the people who kept telling you for the last 8 years that Trump & co would be held accountable. They lied. Stop falling for their BS.

A lot of people don't get that Elon Musk sieg heiling is directly related to the genocides in Palestine, Sudan, and Congo as well as his transphobia and racism. Musk is a member of the oligarchy which benefits from mass death and the disposability of people for profit.