The America 250 stuff feels very pizza party after layoffs coded.

Nothing says “USA! USA!“ like packing food pantry items for panicked neighbors who don’t know what the fuck is going on with SNAP benefits into 🎆 AMERICA 250! 🎆 branded grocery bags.

its not enough for me to know that i have a new follower: i need to know "why (the hell)"

nursing my first coffee & idly wondering if its concerned Dems, GOP opponents, or foreign trolls & bots set to monkey wrench US elections posting the most about the questionable life choices of G.Platner

Looks like Yemen is in the war and we could see Bab al-Mandeb closed for real. Stockpiles are practically drained and the real economic and energy consequences are about to really announce themselves. What a disgusting and unnecessary mistake this was. And it will likely get worse.

he will spin this in a way that makes him look strong, (even tho it makes him look like a toddler) & then he will turn his sights on NBC ..expect their affiliates licenses to come under review by the FCC ..let's see if they show more backbone than CBS

some will see a man furious at being disrespected, contradicted, & wrongly accused ..theyll share his anger, & interpret his quitting the interview as not taking crap off someone who ought to be showing him deference ..others will recognize this as the expression of a disgruntled, spoiled toddler

let's be clear: he didnt call her stupid bc she didnt know what she was talking about, he called her stupid bc she wont get w/ his program

Why should anyone have any faith in ever having a functioning government when none of the current elected representatives are doing anything to get a madman out of office

It helps to think about fascism as the moment the oppression a state exerts on countries they consider colonies and "lesser" peoples swings back around to the homeland and the same tactics of extraction, exploitation, and control become more widespread among their own citizens.

good morning

there is a large % of the population, from all walks of life, that firmly believe the rich deserve everything that they can sieze for themselves, bc they have the means to take it

Hey artists!! Post some art you made from before Bluesky "FishBirdClipTeeth" mixed media on canvas board approx 2015

more evidence of that BlueSky Bubble:

the only thing more maddening & wearisome than the constant exploitation, corruption, & disregard for the welfare of the nation is EVERYBODY WHO STILL SEEMS SURPRISED BY IT

more crozzpozts

me, im just over here crozzpozzting

The middle class is being liquidated and it's just like no one really wants to talk about it.

Is it a sign of a functioning country that every time we hear that the SCOTUS is going to issue an opinion, we know our lives are about to get worse?

answer: everything

if you want a puppy, ask for a pony ..or, if you want to not ever be audited by the IRS, ask for that AND a $1.8billion defense fund for your allies

the only thing more distressing than the country's drift towards authoritarianism is how popular it it w/ so many

the formula:

Ben checks in:

then & only then

just sitting here waiting for the DOJ to open investigations on all the canceling 250th Anniversary performers

I think it’s probably time people wrap their heads around the idea that these fascists want to crash the economy.

'how' you ask..?

My white paper from the American Institute For Change this morning: Fallout from the Iran War is causing economic and energy crises that will hasten the end of American hegemony, cause incredible suffering, and open a window for revolutionary energy. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Wild that a class of people who became historically wealthy and disturbingly powerful by stealing our collective wealth could only think to invent a technology that aggressively steals all of our ideas and likenesses and work to create an addictive sludge designed to destroy us.

Oh god the Project 2029 Dems outline is predictably awful. Timid bullshit, has means tested written all over it, absolutely not a single bold thing put forward because the wealth class benefactors paying for it are either the same ones who paid for Project 2025 or have the exact same aims.

Fascists like Tucker take advantage of a lack of leftists in power by filling the vacuum with fake-leftist critiques of capitalism to gain influence over people desperate to have a voice. We’ve seen this over and over with authoritarians. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-fascis...

this got me put on a Bluesky moderation list called: 'MAGAs Little Helpers': "any Dem who kicks back & runs on: 'Vote For Us Because We're Not Them' & loses, kinda deserves it, BUT if they win, they need their feet held very close to the fire for their whole term" ..ohh, Bluesky, dont go changin'

....what?

ya know, he holds the record now for the most assassination attempts on any US president ..a dubious honor, at best ..& not w/ out an asterisk, bc, were they all? really? ..well, lets assume for the sake of conversation, they were all in fact legit attempts: what ought we make of such a record?

'only i can save us from me'

any Dem who kicks back & runs on: 'Vote For Us Because We're Not Them' & loses, kinda deserves it, BUT if they win, they need their feet held very close to the fire for their whole term

im usually amused by oxymorons, but i find being: "almost certain" absolutely maddening Alfie knows...

dear internet; please consider replacing your all-time favorite phrase: 1) 'i dont know who needs to hear this, but....' with: 2) 'i dont care what anybody else thinks, but....' ..because: 1) you do, dont you? & 2) you dont, do you?

i beg to differ

Repost with a favorite photo of yourself✨

as a short respite from the minute-to-minute horror show, allow me to gift you w/ this microSoft paint image of a time traveling, interdimensional, very stoned sasquatch (or Yowie, as he is called in his native Australia) riding a Parasaurolophus ..enjoy

as i gaze into my crystal ball....

more from this guy:

i'm just about as certain that future americans will never seriously study & learn from this era in time because they'll be too busy w/ their day to day survival, as i am sure that we'll never see all the E.Files, but not quite as confident as i am that he'll never see the inside of a jail cell

anxiously awaiting news of whether this might not have happened: -if he was golfing -if he'd attended his son's wedding -if he weren't trying to make the case for a bunker w/ a ballroom on top

its surprising to note that, judging by how many of his Supporters are willing to absolutely debase themselves for him, how wide-spread Humiliophilia is in the US House & Senate

guess i'll just keep doing it like this until Bsky's character limit goes up:

"i am innocent of any wrong-doing, so i am knee-capping any effort into investigating me" ..see how dumb that sounds?