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I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president.

Shame.

In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.

#CECOT

We should never be sending anyone here or paying U.S. taxpayer funds to rent space for.

Is that what I think it is? Omfg

Forgot to add hashtag #mrbungle
#trump #republicans

The cover of the self-titled album of the band "Mr Bungle." Released in 1990? The album cover features the face of a clown and has a circus theme and has an explicit lyrics warning on the bottom right.

👉 Was just listening to this album again the other day because it reminds me so much of our politics right now. It's like a perfect metaphor for the Dump admin and republican party right now.... "step right up, let's make a deal!!!" "....ride my carousel....!!!"

He reminds me of Mr Bungle (The band). Their self-titled music album is like an entire metaphor for his admin and the republican party. I was just listening to it and laughing the other day, they should play it at his rallies. I have to make a meme of it....

The far right have also talked about introducing a consumption tax to pay for the abolition of the income tax for a long time now. I think that's what the tariffs are really for. These crackpots really think they can raise enough $$ that they can get rid of the income tax.

The money republicans decided to borrow to cover their losses.
Reagan "borrowed" three trillion dollars from your fund. Bush the war criminal "borrowed another $1.5 trillion.
Americans should have ended the republican party after the Reagan crime spree but no one would prosecute.

Stop right there! SS is the payout on a long term annuity you started to purchase the day you began working! Its not earned its purchsed! Please get this right! its the “Federal Insurance Contributions Act” (FICA) you’re buying retirement insurance from government!

Thank you for these improvements.

I *strongly* second what @spryoldlorax.bsky.social says.

The current system lets people I blocked—maybe for harassment—continue to harass me from behind a block, while I can’t find the blocked account to report. This shields harassers.

bsky.app/profile/spry...

This is a moderation list made up of accounts that are known for putting people on moderation lists for silly reasons, which creates problems for Bluesky users.
bsky.app/profile/mcsp...

New and old news on NLRB whistleblower - Starlink - Starshield - Russia - and Brendan Carr Update: Daniel Berulis Protected Whistleblower Declaration to Senator Tom Cotton (PDF). This is his statement, dated April 14th, and the exhibits, screenshots, backing up his claim. This is not the or...

Musk & his minions have already accessed & uploaded data. They left back doors open & allegedly according to a whistleblower sensitive data was uploaded to 🇷🇺 via star link.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Everything is Gamergate or yourslipisshowing

But hey everyone have a great time

We've been here before. The Wide Awakes.

The Club of Cape-Wearing Activists Who Helped Elect Lincoln—and Spark the Civil War The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/club...

Wide Awake “Excellent."-Wall Street Journal * “A must-read.”-The Civil War Monitor A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political…

At this era’s center, in the campaign that actually led to the war, was a huge, strange, forgotten movement – the Wide Awakes – born from this media landscape and fought out in the newspapers, polling places and, ultimately, battlefields of the nation.

How a newspaper revolution sparked protesters and influencers, disinformation and the Civil War The most politically divided time in US democracy coincided with a boom in new communications technologies, confrontational political influencers and widespread disinformation. It wasn’t 2024.

#Trump #USA #CivilWar #MAGA #TheWideAwakes

The most divided period in the history of U.S. democracy coincided with a sudden boom in new communication tech, confrontational political influencers, widespread disinformation and nasty fights over free speech

Abridged (shortened) article thread ⬇️ 9 min

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Hitler Used Werewolves, Vampires, and Astrology to Brainwash Germany 'Hitler’s Monsters' is a new book that examines the surprisingly deep connection between Nazis and the supernatural.

Hitler’s rise exploited public fixation with the occult & paganism. A culture rejected natural science in favor of faith-based “border sciences” allowed leaders to mythologize their beliefs in racial superiority. Border science, as distinct from pseudoscience, was a term adopted by 1930s occultists.

The supporters of the New Obscurantism have also broken with the ideals of America’s Founders, all of whom considered themselves to be men of the Enlightenment. Benjamin Franklin was not only a political thinker but a scientist and a brave advocate of smallpox inoculation.

The Economist’s word of the year for 2024 The Greeks knew how to talk about politics and power

#Kakistocracy #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation #FedSoc #FederalistSociety #IDU #InternationalDemocracyUnion
archive.is/ZXPhe

Some years it's hard to identify the main event, much less sum into a word. This isn't a problem in 2024

Abridged (shortened) article thread ⏬ 3 min

The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

#Trump #Musk #RFKJr #MAGA #Putin #Russia #Project2025 #InternationalDemocracyUnion #IDU #PseudoScience #AntiScience #Obscurantism #PostTruth #ItsACult #Theosophy #Autocracy
archive.is/4uZ7z

Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

Abridged (shortened) article thread ⏬ 15 min

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How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right Research suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific and political authorities.

#Covid #Covid19 #Trump #Musk #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #CurtisYarvin #MAGA #Project2025 #TheFourthReich #BadFaith #Fascism archive.is/WBfrQ

How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right

⏬ Bluesky 'bite-sized' article thread (7 min) with added links 📖🍿🔊

you read that a significant amount of antisemitism on 4chan....came from israel?

Where can I read about that? Omfg!!!

Omfg!!!