A large portion of our security and geopolitical posturing costs are downstream from our unconditional support for Israel expansionist policies. And apparently ambasador Whack-a-bee stepped right into it. The welfare we pay for Israel is not just the tens of billions we send them directly.

The overarching goal of far right is the destruction of state and the establishment of ideology purified autonomous “economic zones” unencumbered by progressive taxation and regulation by state. This is less against multiculturalism and more about opening the Overton window to the economic zone.

Large account posting something ill-informed but because they limited who can reply to followers only, I sit and watch as 50 yes-men rush to agree and encourage each other in the ignorance. Seems disingenuous to follow just to engage and unfollow after, since I don’t want his junk on my timeline.

I heard they call him Squeaker Johnson

Only 3 countries in the world have a defense budget larger than $100B. Those countries are United States, China and Rusia with United States spending $997B in 2025. Trump requested a $115.6B budget for DHS in FY2026. That is getting close to Russia entire defense budget ($145B estimated).

What recent elections have shown is that there is indeed a deep pool of progressive energy untapped through traditional gotv. But they come out when there’s a clear distinction (either charismatic candidate or a clearly articulated moral issue). So don’t put Republican lite on a democratic ticket.

I watched Musk being interviewed on Dwarkesh podcast about his SpaceX ambitions. He’s been delusional for a long time, but now I had a feeling that he’s also scared. He kept mixing categories, scales (mega versus kilo), he was laughing inappropriately, he was scared shitless. Tesla is really toast

Wyden has been the main voice pointing at the large trove of US Treasury documents that exist on Epstein that haven't been released either. Epstein made 4,725 wire transfers of over $1 billion dollars, with no legitimate purpose... And yet was never audited by the IRS? Shady all the way down.

I’m losing my mind. There’s no incontrovertible evidence of Epstein recording tens or hundreds of members of the elite in compromising situations for Israel . But there’s order of magnitude more circumstantial evidence of that than of him being a russian asset. And all the msm sings that at unison

I’m exploring if blocking Will Stancil will spare me all the Hudson River School types takes on how we should all be nice to each other and we should take photos of people setting dumpsters on fire for the Feds cuz it’s not nice to set dumpsters on fire. And the entire useless Stancil discourse.

Throughout history, it was the job of internal secret police to monitor power distribution and act against transnational power centers. Madame Verdurin type conspiracies were identified, monitored and neutralized. Epstein Island flourished for 25 years and gave us 4chan, X, Palantir. Where was FBI?

This shit is like one of those “Jesus and Antichrist walk into a bar “ . Why the fuck would Noam Chomsky have dinner with Peter Thiel in Jeffrey Epstein mansion??

That is exactly how I was thinking of all of this. To bring Elon over to their side in 2013, all they have to do was to tempt his most depraved instincts. We all have a little monster within. If you think only of the $300 million he pumped into Trump, the plan succeeded very well.

I miss from Twitter recognizable voices carrying a reasoned argument. I left when Musk incentivized the nutjobs, and maybe is different now. Bluesky is like one big account post a dumb slogan, and then you have 100 replies competing for who agrees more. Performative is necessary and insufficient.

This civil rights investigation into Alex Pretti murder? That’s not how things are normally done. Murder is a state crime. His murderers, if convicted by Minneapolis, cannot be pardoned by Trump of state charges. Is MN charge them again after the pardon - double jeopardy will certainly be invoked.

Here’s the answer to all your questions. As long as unpalatable item no 3 is true, Schumer will trade unpalatable item no 2 for unpalatable item no 1.

Perhaps we shouldn’t trust these people on Bluesky declaring victory on Democrats capitulations each time.

It’s really the same army of political consultants and pollsters who convinced Kamala not to upset Israel that is now encouraging Schumer and Jeffries not to upset Trump. Even on Bluesky is mostly accounts who screamed “no one care about Gaza” who are now saying Schumer is doing a great job.

As told by Will (kicked out because the press riding with him wasn’t following rules about observers identity) I would at least give him the opportunity to appeal and make amends. What’s the story from the organizers perspective? Was there some really outrageous rule breaking that triggered it?

We really need to clear up the army of grifters who feed on the left addiction to slogans and demagoguery. When you get a fundraising text, take a minute and visit ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer before donating or reporting the text it as junk. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits

Politically it would be suicide for Democrats to come up with an immigration proposal before the midterms. But they still need a progressive plan that can draw enough popular support after that. As much as the public hates ICE tactics large majorities of both parties wants to regulate immigration.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Assaulted During Town Hall Meeting youtu.be/Sr7Ath7YjZY

The 2029 Pretti Good Act will establish a commission to identify all agents, create a detailed accounting of all acts, and hold criminally liable as necessary. Agents who voluntarily and truthfully disclose will be granted some leniency, provided their crimes did not include murder or torture.

Your dedication to defending an AIPAC paid corrupt politician who occasionally vote Democrat should get you an AIPAC honorary membership.

It’s a very confusing and dangerous moment when there’s two heavily armed groups on the streets of Minneapolis with one attacking civilians and the other protecting them.

Rahm Emmanuel doesn’t represent anyone but himself. Stop pushing him down our throats.

Absolutely, it’s the playbook for every bloody repression of 20th century movements. I said the same a few days ago: The administration is still searching for casus beli. I wouldn’t be surprised if a few ICE agents main mission is to provide that, and Jonathan Ross may well be one of them.

There were two dominant political projects in USA 2025 - crushing the anti-Israel movement through accusations of antisemitism, and empowering a private army of goons to be unleashed on civilian population as a provocation to violence. Guess who’s helping with ICE funding? AIPAC servants.

It’s interesting that except for one, all seven Democrats who voted to fund ICE/DHS are literally leaders in their state delegation as far as AIPAC contribution to their campaigns. See Texas and Washington .

The 8th circuit will play a critical role in assesing constitutional limits for ICE/Military Police/NG. You’d expect the most brilliant conservative constitutional scholars to build a solid defense for the government actions. Unfortunately, it will very likely be this Trump appointed guy:

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are complicit and must resign.

There are also other Minneapolis Mutual Aid links, pick the one you think is the most impactful in helping. Is not just ICE. Trump has cut SNAP for half a million Minnesota residents under the false pretense of fraud. www.givemn.org/story/wwca4g

They are afraid we’re winning. A successful general strike in Minneapolis will embolden a nationwide general strike next time the abuse gets unbearable. The plan was to keep the lid on, and now the whole pot is blowing up. They’ll make conciliatory speeches for two days and then start again.

The least Democratic leaders can do is constantly call for his removal through constitutional means. Every acquiescence is a cowardly betrayal. He’s going to hit us again and again. I don’t know the bargain Schumer has been offered to lay low, but he should know Trump is not going to honor it.

It is precisely the same accounts who told us to calm down, Biden/Kamala are doing everything they can to stop Israel that are telling us now to calm down, Hakeem and Chuck are doing everything they can to stop Trump. Just search their replies timeline.

This is exactly why most of us screamed at Biden. You can’t allow and arm a genocidal army and pretend there’s still a rule based international order when raw power is not condemned. It erodes the foundation and everything collapse. Minneapolis is like Gaza, but with fewer victims. Greenland too.

As Obama said : Chicken or fish ? Twitter is nasty but there’s very limited debate on Bluesky. Comments comment approvingly. I honestly don’t remember how blocking worked on X, but on BS if the poster blocks a commenter no one can see the comment. I don’t want chicken or fish.

Chuck Schumer needs to be asked to resign

God: Bob don’t push it !

At the end of Obama administration R controlled 5 of the 13 appeal circuit courts. That has been reversed today with D controlling only 5. The appeal courts have always been the most powerful courts, they often have the last words ( because SCOTUS may just decide to not hear a case).

If you haven’t yet, block them now!

I just noticed that this campaign deluge against Newsome is pushed on Bluesky by a lot of accounts who have been promoting Gov. Shapiro for VP in a very coordinated fashion. They both suck but Shapiro sucks much worse.

I believe Schumer (like Sinema) has internalized that even if he changes course now and stop being Trump lap dog, he’s going to be defeated in the primary against any serious candidate. And he’s going to support his master to the max because he has nothing to lose anymore. We need new leadership.

I re-watched Anora today, I’ve been re -watching all of Sean Baker films. No other director mastered the gestural frame as well as Baker since Jean-Luc Godard. Just as À bout de souffle would be ordinary fiwithout the final scene, all of Baker’s would be ordinary without the last 3 min. 📽️ #FilmSky

I think Schumer and AIPAC Jeffries are fully co-opted. They do only performative opposition,leaving what is now a majority of the population without leadership and ideas on what to do other than go out in the streets. This cannot end well and it’s impossible to believe Schumer doesn’t know that.

When you have a strong parliamentary opposition, the protest is absorbed in institutional channels. And don’t tell me “we’re in minority “, opposition is by definition in the minority. Why aren’t the “good democratic guy” calling for a leadership change?

The peacemaker is at it again:

The average D congressperson margin of victory in 2024 (a bad year for D party) was 26.8 percent. The D won on average by 63.4%. These people are in safe D seats. Any D primary from the left is super safe, guaranteed to win. We need to primary the deilos amongst them. No enemies on the left.

Excellent instructional video pass it on

SCOTUS is killing basic constitutional protection through emergency “temporary” rulings. Trump appellate judges reverse district court decisions. We need to be united on a “no enemies from the left” platform