Trump's "Golden Age of America."
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Trump's "Golden Age of America."
A black and white still photo of a dozen or so of the main characters and others in the episode standing in a group on a sidewalk or driveway looking pensively straight ahead at something offscreen. The men are wearing casual shirts and pants, the women casual dresses. A dark colored station wagon is partially visible in the background at left.
Tonight in 1959, βThe Twilight Zoneβ episode βThe Monsters Are Due On Maple Streetβ (season 1, episode 22)βRod Serlingβs taut and unforgettable Cold War parable depicting the societal consequences of irrational fear and paranoia of communist infiltrationβwas broadcast for the first time on CBS.
The front page has a headline over a bombed landscape with smoke rising. The headline reads βA war without a strategyβ
The front page of tomorrowβs Economist.
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
The UN, though in Manhattan, is on international land, not American. Also a pretty central tenet of diplomacy is βwe will not take advantage of proximity to murder your peopleβ for reasons that should be very obvious.
Holy shit. These people shouldnβt be near sharp cutlery, let alone seats of power.
Mullin: βThis is war.β
Raju: βYou concede this is war?β
Mullin: βWe havenβt declared war.β
Reporter: βYou just said itβs a war.β
Mullin: *stammer
π₯ π¬π§ @zarahsultana.bsky.social to Keir starmer : βThere was no intelligence indicating an imminent threatβ yet weβve already seen pre-emptive strikes attacking a girls school, killing over 100 childrenβ¦ How much do you enjoy being Trumpβs poodle?β
Did sailors take warning?
To add to this apt point; whatever Americans in safety of being thousands of miles away from all this may think, people in Turkey are indeed fearful they are the next. Israel targetting Turkey after Iran is vocally discussed. It is in our news as Israel openly voices it. It is a real threat for us.
Again, neither being Evil nor doing Very Bad Things - in fact, not even actually Iran trying to acquire nuclear weapons - justifies the American president completely violating the UN Charter, the Constitution, & domestic law to start a war.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
See, it's easy to denounce this straight up instead of politely asking the administration to pretty please give the American people an explanation when they have a sec
Todayβs military strikes on Iran β carried out by the United States and Israel β mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
Our constitution is clear: the decision to take our nation to war rests with Congress. Trumpβs reckless & dangerous decision to initiate military action without congressional authorization is clearly unconstitutional.
Congress must reconvene βimmediately β for a vote on the War Powers Resolution.
our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon muskβs signature sense of humor
Can we have our hopes this high?
Celia y Willie
Itβs canβt be said enough β this is a wildly corrupt betrayal of the MAHA crowd, and flies in the face of everything RFK JR has ever promised them.
Driven entirely by greed and paying off their big pesticide corporation donors.
UK: Prince Andrew arrested.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
2.16.26
Presidents Day
Hundreds of people joined Rise and Resist, gathering in front of Trump Tower in NYC to tell Trump to go fuck himself. It was beautiful. The people of New York hate him. Among the chants were "Fuck Trump" + "Lock Him Up!"
Power to the People!
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The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
This is literally what Ted Bundy did to kidnap his victims.
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.
This is blackout poetry to me
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
that's... not an election?
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the βerasure of white cultureβ. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
bite the hand that will not feed
Rather than wrestling with a Professor, the guy just wanted to ask a question about student debt...
US Rep. Balint after reviewing unredacted Epstein files:
"They are a bunch of sick fucks. So many people knew." She confirmed Trump lied about kicking Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. Other files show the relationship continued for years.
#OpDeathEaters #EpsteinCoverup #EpsteinFiles