I still have not gotten an answer as to why Donald would even consider pardoning Ghislane Maxwell. And Biden is not an answer.

Seems kinda bad that all of a sudden the government is just Stephen Miller and the guy who wrote Project 2025

This would all be hilarious, if it wasn't for the fact that Fox's lies and bullshit are helping ramp this up for a full authoritarian clampdown. They're deliberately manufacturing a crisis so they can invoke Emergency Powers, declare martial law, and suspend elections.

I'm not religious, but I'm liking this new Pope. He even cites a quote from Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism that has been my pinned post for weeks. Not that I'm claiming he lifted it from my Bsky post, you understand. But he might have - you don't know! 🤣 apnews.com/article/pope...

I had an extensive conversation with a conservative friend years ago, wherein we agreed that what we both wanted was for people to be free to lead a good, healthy and productive life; we just disagreed about the governmental policies that would ensure that. But now it turns out that (cont'd)

Because during the cold war, the Russians put a lot of money and effort into academic research on how to manipulate people through propaganda. And now they're better at it than anyone in the world.

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand "I browse as root."

My fellow Americans what are we even doing here bruh

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

I want to live in a country where doing this would get you arrested for assault.



Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. Assata Shakur #socialistsunday

Where the fuck is this kind of journalist in mainstream media these days?

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Am i allowed to say “ZIIIIIIIIING!!!“ when it’s true?

A whole life spent making shit up I've read that pathological liars get so lost in the maze of their own invention that they lose all sight of what's real and what isn't 🤷‍♂️

Every company's push for all departments to implement AI immediately has a real "Train your successor before we RIF you" vibe to it.

It’s wild the agents who have videographers following them never seem to have footage of what they claim those they are arresting did

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

It sucks is that we have a society where LEOs (and shitty pretend-LEOs like ICE) believe that they're entitled to assault people who aren't doing anything wrong, just because those people annoy them. About time someone told them to cut the shit.

Gotta love how these shitbags just invent ad-hoc arrestable offenses at will. - Looking at a federal agent funny - Videoing stuff - Standing somewhere - Breathing - Liberal haircut - Civilian - Looking like someone we gave a swirlie to in high school

They're going to be weeks cleaning the ketchup off all that tacky gold shit in the Oval Office

Looking forward to this guy's follow-up article about Lemmy

This is a wildly underrated post, and I am revisiting it now *because*. bsky.app/profile/pete...

The reason we call the places where royalty live "Palaces" is after the "Palace" in Rome. So called because it was "that big house on top of the Palatine". The reason we call sports stadiums "Colosseums" is after the Roman Colosseum, i.e. "that big building next to the Colossus". 😜

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

I want to live in a world where I would be surprised to find out that something this fucking wretched was going on.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Probably the *weirdest* thing about this shitty timeline we're living in is how often recently it has made me agree with people like Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, MTG, Dick Cheney, Max Boot, Tucker Carlson, et al... WTF, man. 🤣

Enh, who wants healthcare anyway. It'll just prolong us having to put up with all this shit.

I've spent my whole life working for big corporations. It's not because I love big corporations. It was to ensure my healthcare, because I've never been delusional enough to think, "Oh, I'm young and healthy, nothing bad will happen to me." One damned hospital stay could RUIN YOUR LIFE.

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I'm not even sure this qualifies as a Big Story, didn't we all just assume that? But I guess maybe the general public don't know. Nice of them to gift otherwise unemployable lunkheads with $50k bonus & $100k/yr while teachers are still having to pay for school supplies out of their own salaries.

"entrepreneur and intellect" 🤣

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

Certainly the Federalist Society and and the Heritage Foundation have studied it.

#WarRavagedPortland Now, the scary thing about our current situation is that I'm seeing a lot of MAGAs saying they would like to see these people tear gassed and beaten with batons. You know, for being weird and having a different opinion.

They shot a Priest, who was posing no threat, in the head with a pepper ball. BECAUSE THERE'S NO ONE TO PROSECUTE THEM FOR ASSAULT.

It's amazing how far you can get in politics with nothing but lies. Even the FBI and Justice Dept's own statistics show that the people doing the killing in this country are Right Wing nutjars, and yet they keep up this nonsense about leftist terror because "Why Not Just Keep Lying? It works!"

I feel like we need the National Guard here - to protect us from ICE.

Wearing a frog suit and saying ICE is bad is terrorism now

My greatest hope is that some day one of them will actually do something useful to curb fascism. And I don't mean making speeches and sending out donation requests.