@support.blizzard.com are you having connection issues? I am, and it's not on my end. I'm not having any issues with any other internet thing I'm doing.

AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear

This is where Dems have lost ground in the last decade or so: focusing on being "correct" versus helping people. Of course, we should correctly acknowledge everyone's view of themselves, but Dems forgot all people's self-view includes their personal economy. They're starting to remember.

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

Raskin: "South Korea gave him some kind of golden crown or something, and then he lowered their tariffs. That is a monarchist mercantilism, that is not the American system."

The military aren’t even getting paid during the government shutdown, right? The National Guard who was deployed to California n Portland they didn’t get paid cuz Taco only deployed them for 29 days, right? Military shouldn’t have 2 go 2 food bank. Our gov should b helping them! #arresttrump

American Gestapo.

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

If you’d asked me in 2009 if I thought I’d ever long for the days of Dubya I would have laughed in your face.

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

Sen Mark Kelly, “We’ve never had a president that has spent his time thinking about how he’s going to use the Department Of Justice to go after political enemies"

Share more of these. You were elected to serve your constituents, and they are NOT happy with your service. Either change your service or GTFO.

When they say the quiet part out loud...

DC was just a practice run. This isn't just authoritarian, it's fascism. And no, I'm not escalating it. Stay safe, Chicagoans!

This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵

American Gestapo.

"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:

Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.

It's a sandwich. In an ordinary environment, an officer would say, "Did you just throw a sandwich at me?" It's not felony assault. Classification of "assault" often hinges on whether the object could cause harm or create a reasonable fear of harm. Disrespect isn't harm. Screw these fascists.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."

Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

A scathing watchdog report reveals the VA is reeling under “severe” staffing shortages, 94 percent of VA hospitals lack enough doctors, 79 percent lack nurses, and psychology services are chronically understaffed, with shortfalls spiking nearly 50 percent this fiscal year.

It IS adorable! The African spurred tortoise (sulcata tortoise) is the largest mainland turtle. The Galapagos tortoises are larger, but they're island tortoises. I used to manage one where I worked, and they do recognize and attach. The dog, of course, is a dog.

He's right. If Abbott can do it, ANYONE can. By far the biggest problem I had with Joe Biden's presidency: blanket pardons without vetting. If he hadn't done that, Trump's pardoning of traitors would stand out. Instead, "Biden did it too." Feh.

I had family fight fascism in WWII, I never thought I had to do so today, in 2025.

What is this BS? Granted, it's hard to show bribery... oh wait, there's a F***ING AIRPLANE! Trump has constantly jammed taxpayer money into his own pockets, bullied foreign powers into doing him political favors, and turned the Department of Justice into an arm of his office.

NEW ANGLE Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage. But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…

Secretary of Homeland Security on racial profiling by ICE: “That is not true… Don’t you dare ever say that again.” Who the f*ck does Kristi Noem think she is, addressing a legitimate question like that? It is true. Tom Homan admitted it. Noem is a liar.

I would pay a boatload of money for someone to teach my corgi Clyde or Claudia’s corgi Gracie to do this. But I think only Gracie would be adventurous enough to take to it ht: @amazlngnature.bsky.social

The Gestapo, reborn. I have seen, with my own eyes, native-born US citizens and naturalized citizens arrested and put in camps. Yes, I'm calling them camps. It's not about immigrants, it's about people with darker skin.

No “President” has a right to strip citizenship and deport people who challenge his policies. That’s fascism, not America.

Keep in mind, these are conservatives. It's a bad bill. Bad for the country, bad for most of the people living here. It's not a step backward, it's a full-on leap. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

I am not only not dialing back, I'm upping my anti-fascist, anti-GOP posting. Note Paramount just gave in to Trump. That is f***ing scary. We are all we have left.

So what do they say when our pre-election predictions come true? "Uh, uh..."

Ah shit, here we go again. STAND UP TO THIS BASTARD! Take him to court. I don't care what it costs in dollars, Paramount is costing the American people far more by giving Trump license to bully people. Gift article from The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

It’s easier to build concentration camps than hospitals because you don’t have to worry about the safety of the occupants.

Yes, we warned about all of it last year. Every last detail, every policy. Watched every rally speech, every interview, every campaign video. Posted thousands of clips about it all. Most completely or largely ignored by legacy media. And yes, it is going to get much worse.

"You will not impugn our integrity!" Too late for that, bozo.

Well, this sucks. "We don't need no education." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

He's right. I am considered upper middle class. Our combined income was between $145,000 and $175,000 (it'll be below that this year), $245,000 before 2017. Our income went down and our taxes went up. F*** Trump and F*** Paul Ryan, who wrote the damned thing.

Absolutely true. Thank Mitch McConnell for the damage done. It's on him, 100%. McConnell does his job properly, we end up with a 5-4 centrist court rather than a 6-3 far-right court, the most conservative court we've had in 100 years.

1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.

Communism and Socialism are not real issues in America, Fascism is. It’s that simple. If you’re worried about the former two at all your priorities are wrong.

Your daily reminder from a former data security professional. EVERYTHING you post will remain on the Internet essentially indefinitely. Be careful what you post!

A full investigation must be done into Pam Bondi and Emil Bove And who gave them their marching orders.

"Rewarding Emil Bove with a judgeship would be an affront to the rule of law," writes former U.S. attorney Harry Litman.