I am looking forward to listening to this, I just need to find the time to do so because I spend so much time talking about #Pluribus with one of the people involved in this podcast...

Considering I have just finished reading an account of the sinking of the Bismarck and I am about to read about the Fleet Air Arm strike against the Italian battleships at Taranto, I enjoyed a good laugh when I heard about Trump's latest plan to reintroduce battleships... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Are you a fan of Pluribus? Do you want to listen to two awesome podcasting accomplices interview an awesome actor who stars in the awesome show called Pluribus? Well be ready for this treat! #Pluribus

This is freaking awesome!

Thanks to #Pluribus there is a lot of online chatter about the Darién Gap. Please be sensitive that you may be triggering the Scots in your lives, because when they hear Darién Gap it might remind them of the Darien scheme, one of the biggest disasters in Scottish history.

Look, Peter Hegseth is a big boy now! www.thebeaverton.com/2025/12/whit...

EPISODE 5: “Got Milk: Carol Gets Ghosted.” Grab your flashlight and do some investigating with Annie & Jenn as we break down “Got Milk.” It’ll help you get through this ten-day episode drought (because God knows they’ve needed their space)! #Pluribus pluribuspod.com

EPISODE 4: “Please, Carol: Tingles and Truths.” Fun Fact! Annie & Jenn absolutely LOVED this episode! Join us as we break down “Please, Carol” and remember: hugs, not drugs! Listen on your favorite app at pluribuspod.com. #Pluribus

We just watched this week's episode of #Pluribus another great episode and I was especially interested when Carol mentions her experiences from a conversion therapy camp as a possible analogy for the Joining.

Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan calling the Epstein Files a 'Democratic distraction' has to be one of the worst cases of journalistic malpractice yet. CBS continues to beclown and embarrass themselves. that's the topic of my post for today. thank you for reading! link is here: bit.ly/48j2Fy7

For anyone who is started watching Apple+TV's new show #Pluribus here is an awesome podcast for you to enjoy on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOdO...

This is a pretty accurate description of JRR Tolkien's musings on a possible sequel to 'The Lord of the Rings'.

In further news, Speaker Johnston says that Jesus of Nazareth has no right to protest in the Temple, and that the Romans arresting, prosecuting and executing Jesus is an appropriate response to Jesus flipping over the tables of the moneychangers in the Temple. religionnews.com/2025/10/29/s...

It looks like I will be taking a chunk out of my church book allowance for this book!

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

A piece of advice for the Democrat leadership, if you want progressives to vote for the Democrats maybe actually care about resisting the rise of fascism in the United States as opposed to enabling Trump through your moral bankruptcy.

A great review for a series that I enjoy. I watched the first episode of this series, I have also read the manga, and it does an excellent job of introducing us the world of a young women struggling with the aftermath of trauma and her depression.

One thing you can always rely upon from the national Democratic leadership in the face of Trump cosplaying as a dictator is complete and deafening silence, and so far they have not been a disappointment.

The DNC doing an awesome job of following in the footsteps of the 'liberal' and 'centrist' parties who enabled the establishment of the Nazi state in Germany. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Watching JK Rowling gloating over her role in stripping away the rights of people, I give thanks to the giant turtle Great A'Tuin that I avoided her elitist magic school shite like the plague and embraced the wonder, humour and compassion that is Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

This week's YouTube service from Strathearn United Church for the 13th of April 2025, Palm/Passion Sunday. What kind of hero is Jesus? www.youtube.com/watch?v=umTl...

It is always a pleasure to share my obsession with Otherside Picnic!

Come on, the Beaverton, it is like shooting fish in a barrel mocking this ad, but you did an awesome job! www.thebeaverton.com/2025/04/poil...

A release of a new volume of Otherside Picnic, either manga or novel, is one of the high holy days in my liturgical calendar! An excellent review of a gripping, with the odd moment of WTAF, volume!

Today while drunk ranting that camouflage is too 'woke' because real alpha warriors don't hide from the enemy, US Secretary of Defence and Trump lickspittle Hegseth slurred that military vehicles will now have high visibility schemes and that new red uniform caps will be issued!

This quote from Oliver Cromwell used by Leo Amery to describe Neville Chamberlain's 'leadership' in 1940 comes to mind "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!". www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g...

For anyone who is interested, Jenn and I released episode 4 'By Decree' of our podcast 'Careening Towards Fascism'. We discuss Trump's Executive Orders and the Enabling Act of March 1933 that was the legal basis of the Nazi State. careeningtowardsfascism.podbean.com

Perfectly said, Vivian.

NEW EPISODE! This week, Jenn & Sandy discuss the Enabling Act of 1933 that allowed Hitler to rule by decree, and draw parallels with Trump’s unprecedented use of Executive Orders. Has America effectively become an elected dictatorship? #podcast careeningtowardsfascism.podbean.com

Though I forgot the name of the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act, I did mention the critical role they played in triggering the Great Depression in our tonight's podcast @careeningpod.bsky.social

It is critical to remember that the Democrat leadership do not want effective mass organised resistance to the Trump regime. This is because such resistance scares the shit out of the Democrats' corporate donors/sponsors who fear that such resistance can not be easily contained.

So I guess Jeff Bezos will be replacing the Washington Post's banner 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' with something more upbeat like 'Isn't America Swell?' Or maybe "I for one welcome our new Trump regime!"

Jenn and I have released episode 3 of our podcast Careening Towards Fascism. In 'Complicity and Cowardice', we explore the hope and reality of political opposition to Trump and how it would be swell if people could learn from the lessons of Nazi Germany. careeningtowardsfascism.podbean.com

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

"I miss... the idea of it. But not the truth, the weakness. There was no future there." Baylan Skoll from Star Wars Ahsoka talking about the Jedi Order. I reflect on this quote a lot these days as I witness the present shit show that passes for much of Christianity in the world.

After Canada winning the 4 Nations Face-off Canada is looking forward to the former United States joining Canada as is its newest Territory, maybe even one day the former United States will become a Province, though hopefully they will have a different premier.

NEW EPISODE! Does Donald Trump want to redraw the map of North America (and beyond) in America’s image? Jenn & Sandy discuss Trump's annexation ambitions and how they compare with how Hitler annexed one European country after another. #podcast careeningtowardsfascism.podbean.com

“HELP! HELP! I’m being repressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!”

I did not believe this was real until I saw it with my own eyes. And Trump says Zelensky is a dictator? - J.

For anyone who is interested, Jenn and I have released episode 2 of our podcast, 'Careening Towards Fascism'. This week's episode is titled Annexations Ambitions. For an extra bonus you get to listen to me butcher the pronunciation of autarky and Anschluss! careeningtowardsfascism.podbean.com

here's today's post: "prosecutors to Donny: fuck straight off, we’re not dropping Eric Adams’ charges" — meet your new heroes of justice. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

Why is the Democratic Party leadership so ineffectual? They prefer corporate funding for financial support. This corporate support does not want effective resistance to the Trump/Musk regime as such resistance will confront the larger reality that it is capitalism that enables Trump/Musk.

If I hear the words "The 51st State" instead of "annexed by a hostile foreign country" one more time I am going to fucking break something.

I am excited to be part of this podcast where Jenn and I have a blast as we discuss why the world is going to hell in a hand-basket! So I hope you can give us a listen as we offer the possibility of hope in such days.

In 1938 the leaders of Britain, France and Italy imposed the Munich Agreement on Czechoslovakia to appease Nazi Germany, deluding themselves they had preserved the peace. Spoiler alert, they didn't. Which is why for most people, Munich is a warning, not an example to follow.

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No we are not! I believe that historians are a modern Cassandra, cursed with knowing the truth and we want to share the truth but everyone wants to ignore us because we make them uncomfortable.

If any American views this, please pay your 25% tariff to the Beaverton! www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/amer...

A neat reminder of how universal the use of the Universal Carrier was during the Second World War. This family of British armoured vehicles was used from start to the finish of the war in Europe, North Africa, Asia, by the UK, Dominions and others, such as the Red Army and even briefly by the US.

Some advice for the leadership of the Democratic Party. When it comes to the history of the liberal/centrist political parties in Germany who enabled the Nazi state, it is supposed to be a guide on how you should aggressively oppose Trump, not as road-map on how to enable him!