Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition

TW ⚠️

NBC shows another angle of the 2nd strike on Nasser hospital, which targeted rescue workers responding after the first strike killed journalists

International volunteers say they were suspiciously required to leave for a training.

Bibi calls it a “tragic mishap”

And his body is rotting along with his pudding brain!

Good morning Bluesky. "Government of any sort – including democracy – does not possess more wisdom or justice than its individual citizens, and that it is every citizen’s responsibility to avoid acquiescence."- Henry David Thoreau

Pentagon’s tech innovation head abruptly steps down Doug Beck has been a critical link between the Defense Department and Silicon Valley.

The head of the Defense Innovation Unit — the Pentagon’s in-house tech incubator — has abruptly stepped down, severing a key link with Silicon Valley.

Listen to what the Father has to say about "his orangeness"and his administration. I think he is right on target.

BREAKING: Howard Lutnick just suggested on CNBC that the Trump admin is in discussions about whether they should take stakes in defense companies like Lockheed Martin.

I mean what could go wrong, right? The Government profiting from war and owning the means of production.

The irony is rich — Trump wants DOJ to sue California over redistricting while he celebrates Texas gerrymandering maps he personally pushed for. And now other red states are lining up to do the same.

We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸

Correct Bernie! RepubliKKKans
Haven't believed in Science FOREVER......

We. Have. A. Dictator. In. The. White. House.

Keeping those hands under the table

J.B. Pritzker: "Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here."

This is how you stand up to bullies and aspiring tyrants.

This. 100%.

Paxton tells Texas schools to follow Ten Commandments law despite court ruling Attorney General Ken Paxton's guidance comes days after U.S. District Judge Fred Biery sided with 16 families who sued their school districts to stop the law from going into effect.

My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery."
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Orange is the New Nightmare The Regime

There was something I missed that I now understand with grave reality — people lived their lives under repressive systems. They still worked and cooked and ate and wrote and talked to neighbors. They still took walks and watched movies and read books.

A nightmare. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

The war is apparently Zelensky’s fault. Tomorrow is going to be another shit show.

Let’s make a planet in which nobody is starving. Let’s make a planet in which men and women have equal access to power. Let us make a planet in which no ethnic group has it over another ethnic group. Let’s have a planet in which science and engineering is used for the benefit of everybody on the planet. And my personal idiosyncrasy, let’s have a world in which we go to other worlds. ~ Carl Sagan

You know you’re a winner when you leave Putin looking like this.

Gestapo brought down by heroes.

Life comes at you fast

It’s now apparently Chris Murphy’s war.

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📌Consider where we are in our nation's history: European prime ministers and presidents are urgently flying into the United States to oppose the actions of its unstable authoritarian leader.

Damn skippy

You realize, don’t you, that this era will be remembered as the time when the country with the world’s strongest economy and largest military rapidly went insane.