Uh, and the christian nationalists backing/in the US regime???? Oh, right, that's the only legitimate apocalyptic theology. Got it.

The Atlantic notes how the Pentagon wants to "analyze bulk data collected from Americans." From our "Mind the Gap" paper 2024, a snippet I have come back to what seems like dozens of time at this point. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Folks, this regime HAS NO PLAN.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

The conflict with Iran isn’t just going to affect oil prices. Here is the share of global seaborne commodity flows transiting the Strait of Hormuz in 2025 (imports + exports) #EconSky

Wonderwall Tifo @mnwonderwall.bsky.social #mnufc

4,000 axed; AI fears realized. #econsky

The media made inflation the defining issue of the 2024 race. Biden brought it down, and it was continuing its downward trend right up until the launch of Trump's "liberation day" tariff war. It has been climbing steadily since. The media? Crickets. #EconSky

Oil jumps 10% on Iran conflict and could spike to $100 a barrel, analysts say - www.reuters.com/business/ene...

So, how 'bout that affordability re: gas & heating prices... 📈

“.. “100+ oil per barrel soon,” Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev gloated on X Saturday evening. @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Trump's gift to (among others) the oil industry... #EconSky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

This is why your life sucks. Not immigrants. Not woke. Not transpeople. This. #economics #wagestagnation #affordability #politics #greed #elites #unions #costofliving #corporations #capitalism

Any negotiators the US regime will be willing to "negotiate" with will be of the same moral caliber as those who've bombed 7 countries in a year, murdered protesters, stripped citizens of food & healthcare, & are led by Epstein criminals & its protectors. So, no, not defenders of the Iranian people.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

So, not mass surveilling all of us and not allowing a machine to decide who and how to kill is being a radical leftist. Okie dokie. Good to know I have been and will continue to be in the radical leftist camp. Glad at least one of them said no.

So, time for Boy Scouts to end as a thing.

Absolutely no way this stain on our capitol must be allowed to stand once he is gone. He's counting on us not being willing to take it down. We have to prove him wrong. #WTTR

So impressed and blessed for all the brands reaching out to support. thousand and more companies offered to donate product and my team gunna get to it. 🙏🏾🙏🏾 BUT if you a billion dollar company,,, we don’t want a product donation. We want you to sponsor these women + athletes. 👀

They think we're stupid, weak, disposable. They think they are smart, strong, the worthy ones. They miscalculate badly and it will be their undoing. We'll show them what we are. Time to get off their media ASAP and show them we will not be complicit in their evil or tolerate their arrogance. #WTTR

Pay attention and get off their media. Pretty simple way to say nope, your money can't buy my soul. In their superiority delusions, they miscalculate that we're sheep who'll remain complicit in their evil overthrow of our lives. We aren't and we won't. #WTTR

Not too progressive. Too weak. We can fix both. Well, not with those supplicants of corporate money that currently lead Congressional Dems & the DNC. They need to get off their knees and get loud for what the people want, need, and deserve. THAT'S strong. #WTTR

We have neighbors, friends, family, coworkers who are okay with this. It could happen to any of us. I should not happen to any human being ever. We have to do better as a species.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

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Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

They're not gonna stop here. Not for trans folks, not for anyone they want erased. #WTTR

Arsonists to explore whether we didn't start the fire

They're creating multiple "emergencies" MN won't be able to compensate for alone which will give the regime excuse to invoke all sorts of "emergency" fed powers so they can de facto take over a Dem state. It's a beta test for all blue states. How does this advance their Network States objectives?

Hegsdeath won't handle this well at all.

He needs to be excluded from society in every way. Any research, analysis, commentary of his must be considered invalid & tainted. He must be stripped of any wealth, positions, awards gained via associations with any of the Epstein class. His name must be erased from any previous mentions anywhere.

The DNC should release this as an ad immediately

Who knew? Actually, any thinking, self-respecting woman knows women have at least the same amount of “balls” 🙄 as men. Can we please call it guts, fortitude, strength, discernment, decency, wisdom, will, anything other than ‘balls?” Check the gender stereotyping and male supremacy. It’s gross.

“Balls are weak and sensitive. If you really want to get tough, grow a vagina. Those things take a pounding.” (Betty White)

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“What kind of administration releases naked photos of victims, and then protects the perpetrators?” #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinAdministration

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

The Trump regime is using AI for mass surveillance of Americans, and plans to integrate AI into their weapons systems. They are trying to extort Anthropic for refusing to go along. The oligarchs and their would-be King want to make human beings like us obsolete.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

And just like that #USAHockey lost all of the goodwill for their win by partying with a man who's actively covering up child sex crimes and laughing about the misogynistic "joke" of inviting the women's ice hockey team to the White House by a sex predator. Shameful.

The U.S. men's hockey team must apologize to the U.S. women's hockey team and show solidarity by refusing to attend Trump's State of the Union address! sign.moveon.org/petitions/ho...

From now on, we call it "hockey" and "men's hockey."

If a bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights. If politicians can take them, then they're not "inalienable" and they're not "rights."

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

In the past I think most of the GOP was aware that their stated policies are wildly unpopular in implementation, and have made sure to do their looting quietly while only following through on immigration enough to keep the undocumented an exploitable resource for their businesses

Kansas is on the verge of making priests mandated reporters. But if an abuser confesses to a priest in private, the priest can still legally keep it secret. That’s not closing a loophole. That IS the loophole. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/kansas-hou...