Testudo Aubrei

Logging off bluesky for Lent. Catch you on the flip side.

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Trump is recreating Japanese internment camps from WWII.
There is no excuse—

Fascism 1.0 took a World War and the rise of Bolshevism.

Fascism 2.0 only took the idea there might be too many foreigners around, & the generation that literally never had it so good lost their minds.

That is a really good point.

A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.

I genuinely think that we noticed it mostly because nearly everyone got sick, and a lot of people got far sicker than they do in a normal flu season.

(And flu is really bad!)

They are also shared by a lot of other diseases and have probably been under diagnosed in the past, I think. Like my understanding is the flu has a lot of sequelae. Epstein Barr is its own special kind of awful. Etc.

I was curious about this because I didn't remember any gluteal contact from the last time I watched speed skating, which was a fairly long time ago. Apparently, it's a relatively new American-pioneered technique adapted from NASCAR! www.npr.org/2026/02/16/g...

They even built their own prisons.

There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.

photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision.

After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

somebody on the old site pointed out that scene is like showing up at a new office, and there's a weird guy dressed like a wizard going "Microsoft Excel is no match for the power of sorcery"

then after he almost kills you, everyone else is like "no, really, he is a wizard, and he will kill you"

there is also something very “i have never interacted with a human being” about the idea that you can pick and choose which rights you’re going to defend without any backlash within your coalition

I was thinking about this old post because I saw Colin Jost’s video about his bobsled run and it was roughly my reaction when I did the bobsled ride at Park City and was convinced that I would die

This Administration is evil.

The other of the rich men said to him "Master, what good thing shall I do and live?" He said to him "Man, perform the law and the prophets." He answered him "I have performed them." He said to him "Go, sell all that thou hast and divide it to the poor, and come, follow me."

I desperately want people who still insist on re-litigating the 2016 primary to realize that they are the true heirs to Boomers who never fucking stopped talking about Bobby Kennedy and 1968.

Wawa for sandwiches and pretzels and nothing else.

i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

Because the alternative isn’t building a Better world with the blood of martyrs but horrors without end and becoming what you hate.

Believe it or not, I am sympathetic to supportive of the argument for “threaten to blow it all up and take the cis down with us if trans right are abandoned.“ But I also think not keeping our powder dry until it’s needed dilutes the threat. Can‘t negotiate if you already shot the hostage.

Counterpoint: we need a trans liberal Boudicca.

When you get your woman card, they make you flip a coin. Heads they don’t like you because you don’t know enough, tails they don’t like you because you know too much. The results of the coin flip are orthogonal to how much or little you know.

Old: Kids’ Letters To Santa
New: Kids’ Letters Confiscated By Satan

Chuck Schumer spectacularly failed the “vote blue no matter who” test and should be hounded from office

Choosing to believe AOC is reading my posts like a child believes Santa reads their letters

Literally millions of people voted for the imaginary Trump in their heads and are extremely upset that they got Actually Existing Trump, because they're dumb motherfuckers rather than truly depraved monsters.