BBC Panorama's 'Trump: A Second Chance?' was overlooked in the US until the Felon's dirty tricks drew Streisand Effect attention to it. Broadcast before the election on 28 Oct 2024, @hcrichardson.bsky.social pointed out what we are presently experiencing—the rapid deployment of the fascist state.

The United States cannot afford to wait for the Democrats to learn. The country lacks an opposition party. No one in politics is defending the Constitution. Don't be surprised if it is gutted by the 250 anniversary of independence.

I think I've been found: I'm not monetizing anything; not gaming or polishing content www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Eastern European dissidents became experts in authoritarian takeovers, and authoritarians, of all kinds. What lessons can Americans learn from them? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-to-endure-authoritarianism

We live in repulsive times.

“the world became stupider” Internet Archive and Open Library founder Brewster Kahle on a 'the operation was successful, but the patient died' moment. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Nancy Pelosi reaches the conclusion we should reached with him before 2016. Trump is 'worst thing on the face of the earth'. He should have, like Hitler, been drowned at birth. His existence gives permission to Germany to fall back into Nazi-ism and the rest of the world to follow.

Imagine,if you will: Laura Loomer—Trump’s botoxed Rasputin, hissing conspiracies, frothing hatred, and basking in her delusion of power. A carnival ghoul in dark robes, as welcome as a flesh eating virus at a family picnic, proving that extremism not only survives—it gets facelifts.

This methodology explains every post FOTUS makes on his personal social media platform truth social (of which he owns 52%). Starting with its nomenclature that posts are called “truths” and reposts are called “retruths,” it is all propaganda.

Pogo by Walt Kelly from October 31, 1955. One of several annual strips marking the birthday of his daughter Kathryn Barbara Kelly, who died as an infant. In these strips, the bug was always trying to deliver a cake with one candle to someone for their first birthday but could never find them.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

From Andrea Gibson’s book Take Me WIth You

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

This is the _smallest_ measure of justice for Virginia Giuffre. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Serial liar's claims of lies are lies. This is the entirely of the FOTUS regime. It's why the head of the snake is what has to be cut off: top-down management trajectory collapses with elimination of the head. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

@blackholefun.bsky.social offers perhaps the most plausible explanation for Mike Johnson's failure to act in any way. He's AI slop. bsky.app/profile/thed...

Cover by Carl Barks.

Steve Bannon in his recent interview with The Economist said FOTUS will have hoods third term in 2028. He didn’t say how. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social gives us David A. Graham’s warning about some ways this power grab could take place.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

From Li'l Folks by Charles M. Schulz.

Come on, @economist.com; a headline is missing: Steve Bannon insists that Trump will be president again for a third term in 2028. And that it's in the bag. Bannon says "he's a vehicle of divine providence." It's why merely opposing FOTUS will not save the Constitution. It requires elimination.

News media fail. Another example in an ever-lengthening chain from @nytimes.com. NYT, you're dragging us down the authoritarian poop chute.

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A necessary book by one of our finest thinkers in America today. Thank you, @joycewhitevance.bsky.social

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Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare. And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”

FOTUS has lied about historic preservation all his vile life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XW...

Many parents are now are forgoing minivans for greener alternatives: cargo bikes. They have been around for decades, but the advent of the electric bike motor has made them much more popular. n.pr/3WJyZn9

What a day America!! Proud #IndivisiblePartner. JOIN THE CALL, Oct 21st ---> act.link/gi-innlm youtube.com/shorts/ecnvH...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

News media fail

Wes Anderson saw these computers as a child and never recovered

“Free speech” only counts if you’re a white bigot.

When a picture says a thousand words… #TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

RIP Diane Keaton — the news of her death sent me looking for this excellent piece about her and her serious interest in photography by her friend Larry McMurty www.nybooks.com/articles/200...

It’s exciting to run across someone who can write about Guy Davenport. Davenport connected so many synapses in so little space, it all felt like James Joyce, but without the need for a scholarly guide.

This sounds familiar.

What if Disney owned The Looney Tunes?

Drew Struzan, the artist behind some of the most recognizable movie posters in cinema history — including for the Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Back to the Future franchises — has died at 78.

Choirboy Johnson is guilty of aiding and abetting the Felon’s destruction of the USA and its government—the Republic we can’t keep.

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond. Pay attention and act!

Leigh’s comments on feminism are synecdoche for Charlie Kirk, white nationalism, the current membership of the GOP and, of course its poster boy, FOTUS. But maybe this one topic, addressed to 51% of the population, will help them understand what they’re giving up.

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

Quentin Crisp would say trump brought style to corruption. youtu.be/mIjuHWUHnhI?...

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”