Their wars: bombs, killing brown people. Expensive! Our wars: chest hair.

Corporation/Politican gets caught.* Crisis Team: “We take this seriously.” Spokesperson: "We take full accountability." Media Relations: "Rigorous investigation." Robbie world: Go to jail. Pay the fine. Be humiliated forever. *stealing, murdering, mislabeling, raping, killing

When people renew wedding vows, it's safe to assume someone got caught cheating.

Peace vs silence: One is chosen. The other is imposed. #blackstandardcollective

Fuck me if I am going to be blinded by politics. If Fauci lied--skewer him. Trump raped girls--skewer him. My loyalties are to other people living here--not to any corrupt leaders.

ONEST Brief: America Turns 250, Russia Strikes Kyiv, and Canada Deepens Its Indo-Pacific Push www.onestnetwork.com/america-turn...

Artificial, manipulated economy. Low pay. High prices. Suffocating the masses.

Celebrating Starmer's move on speech and media? Loving that Bluesky is untouched? Feeling triumphant? When the state begins with control of expression the state ends with murder of citizens. #History #Data #Science #Facts #Evidence

Public trust....

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Trump is ready to end this entire fiasco just as soon as Bibi and AIPAC say he can.

The Supreme Court keeps stretching executive power, and everyone’s pretending it’s a normal plot point. In theater, when a character grabs authority that isn’t in the script, the audience reacts. Government should expect the same instead of demanding calm. *We are the audience. Reacting.

Foreign‑policy briefings this week....hmmm what comes to mind? Greatest Hits of Blunders? Vintage Replays of Awful Decisions? Recycled Unlearned Lessons?

Mind-bendingly, Congress is suddenly obsessed with “AI safety,” which is funny considering they’ve ignored every other safety issue for a decade. ("Decade" is my restraint word when I really mean "century.") #TechPolicy #Governance

Not to imply however that accounts not included are dishonest....overthinking the starter pack. go.bsky.app/EWygQyW

Fox News: We hate everyone who didn't arrive on the Mayflower. Especially if they are poor, tan and speak with an accent. I love this account though I fear it will go out of business as Fox News requires so little decoding.😂 @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social

TFW you go to follow someone and they've been following you all along. #sorry

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All these people are smart and have something useful to say--they are worth a good look. #abrazos go.bsky.app/hMs6RM

Corporate consolidation is being framed as efficiency, though history shows concentrated economic power inevitably distorts markets and weakens civic autonomy. A healthy society requires dispersion of influence, not aggregation. #Corporations #Greed

Teachers are the backbone of every community. As such, workload, pay, and respect require consideration in all discussion of education.

Update: Food insecurity numbers remain elevated. Nonprofits have been reporting increased demand all year. #FoodSecurity #BasicHumanRights

The Supreme Court just made it harder to hold platforms accountable when someone uses them to steal your content — and two justices explicitly warned that small creators would feel it most.

A small business just got sued for using a photo they probably thought was fine to use — and it's the kind of thing that happens more often than most people realize. Professional photography is copyrighted the moment the shutter clicks.

I am not a prolific poster, but I like organizing in support of women. When I think of supporting women, I avoid the negativity of attacks on males. Rather, I strive for positive action: patronizing superior women-owned business, outreach, shelters, PP...and online. 💗 go.bsky.app/DNgPNfj

There are substantial numbers of Blue voters we need to evacuate first.

Very toxic branding. Somehow infected America's executive branch.

But of COURSE he would vote NO for We the people! That's the Republican Way!!

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Word to Congress: Voting is not some complex advanced theory.

Happy National Pawnbrokers Day, Microwave Oven Day and Gazpacho Day to one and all! Thank You For The Days, out today, is about a man who tries to celebrate a different funny holiday for 365 days. 'Witty & clever, kept me engaged & amused. A definite hit.' ***** Order: geni.us/ThankYouforT...

Noticing, just noticing that with inflation the basics rise first — the things people can’t skip. Like being force-fed higher prices. #economy

I do not get wound up that easily. However I got wound up when I found out about school ventilation issues. School Lunch Debt, Poor Quality of Breathable Air. Children. Schools. Our society is flat out ghoulish. #education

Are we currently on: Ceasefire/Strait Opened or Bombing/Strait Closed? I know it is one or the other but this is getting hard to track.

This fucking needs to be said about real estate and home-buying. All the bullshit about ROI and insanity about zoning and greed, greed, greed, greed. Buying a house is NOT ALWAYS fucking about "MY PROFITS" yammer yammer yammer. Sometime people want a warm home in a nice setting. #joyless

Some months ago, I saw a quote: “I want to tell you the gentlest thing.” I wonder what it meant—“You are seen”? “You can rest”? For me, gentleness feels like morning light on hills, the scent of linden trees, a quiet kindness that asks nothing. I would like to be told the gentlest thing.

I was young the first time the news disturbed me and how fortunate for me my great-grandmother was alive. "Oh Allie, I am so sorry. None of this is new. Your parents think they discovered injustice. [she cackled] Hardship and cruelty are constants best combated, not by outrage, but love."

Police have released a sketch of the main suspect accused of defacing the reflecting pool.

“Are you enjoying the show? Refill your popcorn, you’ll love this next part.”

"Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy." #Blue #Resist go.bsky.app/Sg3GjYH

Seems all systems of government seek to achieve good at inception. Seems they all end up the same. I cannot think of an -ism that has ended up in practice simply being another feudal system. Greedy overlords hijack and pervert government over and over and over.

New at Can We Still Govern? Yes, government can use smart innovations to reduce burdens. Rebecca Johnson and Tyler Simko describe a data-matching innovation that led to a 15 percentage point ⬆️ in pandemic emergency rental assistance access. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-automa...

Might have to optimize this account!

I wrote about billionaires whining about Mamdani and the teeny tiny tax he wants them to pay on their multimillion dollar pied-a-terres. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

The WHO’s update on global measles outbreaks is grim.... #WHO