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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 1h

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Trump’s “masked enforcers” echo Videla’s junta, not the Constitution. No republic that normalizes secret arrests survives as a republic. The question is no longer who these agents are—but who we become if we let them remain masked. #FascismInPlainSight

DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 1h

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Masked federal agents snatching protesters off U.S. streets are not symbols of “law and order” but the death mask of democracy itself. The state that hides its face reveals its shame, not its strength. Authoritarianism begins in secrecy and thrives in silence.
thehill.com/opinion/crim...

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 1h

Bulldozers, arson, and forced labor against a stateless people are not “security measures”; they are the mechanics of apartheid. History will not absolve those who watch in silence. #WarCrimesInPlainSight #EndTheOccupation

Israeli arson, bulldozers and forced labour in the West Bank’s Tulkarem

Israeli violence continues in occupied West Bank where soldiers act with impunity, Palestinians made to work for free.

www.aljazeera.com

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2h

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Our energy demand grows with every leap in technology. This isn’t a glitch in progress—it’s the price of evolution. That’s why we need massive investment in fusion energy: not to tame AI, but to sustain the civilization creating it.

DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2h

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Data centers use ~4.4% of all U.S. electricity, with AI responsible for 10–20% of that—just 0.5–1% overall. Yet as tech advances across every sector, our hunger for energy grows. The challenge isn’t “AI vs. climate,” it’s how an evolving species powers its own progress.

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2h

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Our energy demand grows with every leap in technology. This isn’t a glitch in progress—it’s the price of evolution. That’s why we need massive investment in fusion energy: not to tame AI, but to sustain the civilization creating it. #FusionFuture #EnergyEvolution

DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2h

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Data centers use ~4.4% of all U.S. electricity, with AI responsible for 10–20% of that—just 0.5–1% overall. Yet as tech advances across every sector, our hunger for energy grows. The challenge isn’t “AI vs. climate,” it’s how an evolving species powers its own progress.

Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 2h

One way of looking at AI is that it’s main use is as a vehicle to give the fossil fuel industry one last reason to expand, says @billmckibben.bsky.social.

Green Energy Is Still a Better Bet Than AI

The buildout of lots and lots of power-gobbling data centers is not as inevitable as it appears.

www.commondreams.org

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 16h

The theological arrogance of "saving God" is a veil for a purely political project. This is the doctrine of #ChristoFascism: salvation is not spiritual, but a purge of dissent, diversity, and any challenge to patriarchal power. True faith is replaced by brute force conformity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 16h

Johnson's sanctioning of state violence against clergy and the press is not a failure of oversight; it is its purpose. This is the jurisprudential framework of authoritarianism being laid in plain sight: delegitimizing dissenters as a prelude to their elimination. The Rubicon has been crossed.

Mike Johnson Says ICE Shooting a Priest Doesn’t Cross the Line

The House speaker has yet to see any issue with ICE’s behavior in Chicago.

newrepublic.com

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 1d

A peace deal trembles in the balance, global stakes hang by a thread—and Trump’s meltdown is over his hair. The man who mistakes vanity for victory and delusion for diplomacy proves once again that narcissism, not nationalism, drives his every move. #CombOverCrisis #TheCrownIsMissing

'Shall we say turkey!' Critics laugh as Trump explodes at 'unflattering' Time cover photo

The Daily Beast reports President Donald Trump exploded in a late-night social media post about an unflattering photo of him on the cover of TIME magazine.Trump called the TIME story — covering the te...

www.alternet.org

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarians always panic when citizens remember who truly holds the power. The GOP calls peaceful protest “hate” because nothing terrifies them more than Americans standing united against tyranny. Fear is their gospel; freedom is ours. #NoKingsNoMasters #PowerToThePeople

GOPers Seem Very Worried About The 'No Kings' Demonstrations

Mike "Jesus" Johnson described the planned protest as the “hate America rally” that would draw “the pro-Hamas wing” and “the antifa people.”

crooksandliars.com

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 1d

It’s poetic, really — the same man who helped orchestrate crimes against democracy now demands a Nobel Peace Prize be handed to the autocrat he served. Fascism’s talent for self-parody remains undefeated. The delusion is no longer fringe; it’s the platform. #MAGAisMadness

'Hand It Back To The President': Top Trump Adviser Asks Nobel Winner To Cede Prize

Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, called on Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado to relinquish the award to the U.S. president.

crooksandliars.com

DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, the classic follow–unfollow dance — that fleeting moment when we shared a digital heartbeat before you vanished like integrity at a campaign rally. I’ll cherish our 12 hours together. May your follower count rise and your self-awareness remain mercifully low. 💅✨ @annieburns.bsky.social

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 1d

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While the world brokered peace, Trump waged war on coherence. His praise of Orbán revealed his true religion—worship of power without principle. The only “peace” he’s achieved is between ignorance and arrogance, perfectly united in one man. #DiplomaticDisaster

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 1d

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Trump’s summit performance wasn’t diplomacy—it was dementia dressed as delusion. Before world leaders, he babbled nonsense, exalted an authoritarian, and sexualized a head of state. America wasn’t represented; it was humiliated. The “deal-maker” just made history cringe.
#TrumpHumiliatesAmerica

Trump Fumbles Repeatedly While Bragging in Front of World Leaders

Donald Trump essentially told his fellow world leaders to pound sand.

newrepublic.com

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 1d

Do you suppose the right-leaning owners of these hard hit U.S. distilleries should never have voted for Trump?

"Several business owners told the [U.S. Distilled Spirits Council] that they feel like they're stuck in the middle of a fight they didn't pick."

Too bad, so sad...well...just a tad.

Sales for American staple 'collapse to zero' due to Trump's policies: report

President Donald Trump's signature tariff policy appears to have caused sales of a staple American spirit to collapse as trade relations between the U.S. and other countries deteriorate, according to ...

www.rawstory.com

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans have traded governing for gaslighting. Speaker Johnson openly admits to plotting fiscal sabotage—“rescissions” and “reconciliation”—a euphemism for cheating democracy in broad daylight. Power through deceit isn’t strategy; it’s authoritarian rot. #RepublicanCoup #DemocracyUnderSiege

Lying Republicans just admitted their victory strategy — and it can be stopped

Last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson said there would be no votes this week. (That’s after canceling votes last week.) The White House, meanwhile, said it has begun mass firings of federal workers be...

www.rawstory.com

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2d

A White House squatter seeking consolation from a notorious homicidal dictator? That’s very MAGA of him.

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 3d

Some old friends and many new, good to know and very Blue. Vet, follow, repost and enjoy your Saturday evening!
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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing screams “fiscal responsibility” like shutting down the government, jeopardizing military pay, and then pretending to be the adult in the room. Authoritarian incompetence wrapped in performative patriotism is still incompetence. #AuthoritarianGOPShutdown

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

BARTIROMO: What are the plans for military pay?

VANCE: We're doing some pretty non-conventional things to ensure our troops are able to get paid. But wouldn't it be great if the Democrats just opened up the government so that we did not have to make these very difficult decisions?

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2d

You're very welcome Beth!

DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2d

Calling cruelty “the Lord’s work” doesn’t sanctify it—it indicts it. Shooting a pastor and terrorizing migrants aren’t divine acts but the rituals of a state that mistakes fear for faith. No deity blesses the hands that wound in their name. #MAGAtsDeportNotGod
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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, Trump showcases his unparalleled genius—firing CDC experts working on infectious disease & health data, then hastily rehiring them after realizing that maybe, just maybe, firing people who prevent pandemics isn’t a masterstroke of governance. #RepublicOfStupid
thehill.com/policy/healt...

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Stuart.

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DemSocialistGuy @demsocialistguy.bsky.social · 3d

Folks in the Saturday Starter Pack.

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