Just now realised I have been using US English for my phone’s autocorrect for literal years now. Oops lol.

If you seriously believe that Donald Trump is America’s first autocrat, or that we haven’t been living in an authoritarian police state for the better part of a century, I implore you to study our nation’s history & the politics of other countries. The United States of America today is a hellhole.

Police all over America have been behaving this way for decades. You people only care when there’s an easy boogeyman to target. Lazy, opportunistic nonsense. Get ahold of yourselves.

Thats literally because of us. 🤦‍♂️ We’re the problem.

Authoritarianism is not automatically Fascism. Fascism is narrowly defined and uniquely evil. The Trump Administration is authoritarian. It is definitely not Fascist. Stop diminishing The Holocaust.

I mean, what did you really expect?

Late night hosts criticizing the president isn’t new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who can’t take it is.

I don’t know anyone under 50 who watches late-night TV, or any network TV for that matter. There isn’t a conspiracy. The world has changed.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

There’s a concerning lack of Constitutional literacy on this app. These replies are giving me an aneurysm. See Article I, Section 8, Clause 3; Article I, Section 8, Clause 18; Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2; Article VI, Clause 2 of the US Constitution. Don’t comment on things you don’t understand.

SCULLY: Do you know there’s a wiki page that said, “Obama tan suit scandal”? OBAMA: You know what? I’m rocking that suit… And the weird thing was that there were all these pictures of Ronald Reagan in a tan suit and George Bush in a tan suit. I thought I looked better than them in it

Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.

Me when someone says Die Hard isn’t a Christmas film

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

Obama: So we have to extend to people during their period of mourning We can also at the same time say I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake I can disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.

I miss this man so much.

In light of some of the discussions about Tyler Robinson, it's important to remember that people can be legally sane yet deeply mentally unwell at the same time. Many criminal defendants and convicts fall into this category, including the current president of the United States.

Calling him “opposition leader” is disingenuous. He was popular *in the West*, not in Russia. He never would have been elected in a free and fair election. This Western chauvinism is beyond irritating.

It’s time to restore some sanity and stability. Partisanship is over.

Shapiro: Censorship, using the long arm of government to silence people, to silence businesses and nonprofits, and restrict their right to free speech, that will not solve this problem. 

Even if you aren’t masking anywhere else it still makes sense to wear a mask in medical settings & pharmacies because there’s a greater chance of being close to someone contagious & there are more people who are at higher risk in these places. Masking in these settings both protects you & others.

When you get a vaccine or a medical checkup, we expect the healthcare worker to wash their hands and wear gloves. We should think the same about wearing masks in medical settings. Viruses can spread pre-symptomatically; masks are another effective infection control measure.

Hiding the truth.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

It isn’t obliviousness, it’s the American perception of violence. Extermination of the homeless is not seen as a violent or radical solution by a majority of Americans. For years now it has been a mainstream position. This is because American society is filthy, morally bankrupt & should not exist.

I do think there is quite a large difference between the assassinations an elected political leader and a mere activist. Political leadership naturally invites a degree of danger. But merely expressing opinion–even in an adversarial manner–does not. Our political culture has been changed forever.

Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller aren't destroying the US. They're holding up a mirror to the US. They are the US personified. This IS who we are. But it's not *who we have to be*.

I hate this country. It’s the worst TV show in the world. And it’s stuck on this channel.

You all need to read the Constitution.

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

How about that.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

I need you all to understand that, if a podcaster can be killed over his politics, so can you. Kirk was not a politician. Not a public official. Just a poster. That’s what makes this different. That’s why it affects you. That’s why it’s time to shut up. This genie will not go back in the bottle.

The fact that you all collectively fail to understand why this is so cataclysmically bad for everyone is both hilarious and tragic.

You sound just like the late Charlie Kirk.

I’ve witnessed 50 years of politics. I lived through the unrest of the 1960s. We must not fan the flames of violence. That will only drive more hatred, division, and fear. What unites us is bigger than what divides us.

Once again, do not claim that the majority of responses on this site are not celebrating, justifying, or minimizing what’s happened. Most Bluesky users appear to be elated by Kirk’s death. This is sickening. Their cruelty does not justify murder.

This is the weakest shit I have ever heard. No wonder the Party is falling apart. They do not need your votes. This isn’t going to scare anybody. The Republicans are not united, certainly not behind spending cuts, WHIP SOME OF THEIR VOTES. Compromise. Undermine the GOP’s weak leadership.

Charlie Kirk’s assassination was horrific. That doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority of gun (and political) violence has been perpetuated by right wingers. You don’t get to change the narrative at will.

“It was 2700 miles away. How do we know it was coming to 🇺🇸? Are we gonna blow up every boat? It’s just insane.” Somehow @RandPaul is the only Republican who has an issue with Trump bombing a boat in international waters that allegedly had drugs and gang members

A lot of people mad at Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statement, but I understand him to be saying that the pen (or tongue) is mightier than the sword. That’s not a bad message right now, and you don’t have to like or agree with Kirk’s actual views to embrace that principle

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"

I despised Charlie Kirk from the moment I saw his smug little face. I hate everything he stood for. But I didn’t want to see him dead. Shame on all of you. May your despicable, vindictive posts come back to haunt you for the rest of your miserable lives.

When Trump said "I am your voice," this is who he was talking to.

Stop saying Bluesky isn’t celebrating, justifying, or minimizing the incident. Yes the fuck they are.