Alex Sterling
alexsterling.bsky.social
Alex Sterling
@alexsterling.bsky.social
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I once read somewhere:

“If one person calls you an ass, they’re probably an ass. If everyone calls you an ass - you’re an ass”.
Trump is suing the NY Times for $15 billion because he didn’t like what they wrote about him.

CBS, ABC News, Des Moines Register, WSJ, and now the NYT.

The “freedom of speech” President is trying to crush the freedom of the press and their freedom of speech through lawsuits.
In other words:

The poorest 90% of Americans are being exploited and exhausted to fund the fancies of the wealthiest 10%.
“The top 10% of U.S. households now account for nearly half of all consumer spending, a record high since data collection on this metric began in 1989.”

@weisenthal.bsky.social @mikezaccardi.bsky.social
I don’t know and I don’t want to know. I love the Goonies movie 😭
I knew #BBCRADIO4 was out of touch, but a whole hour of “poor me” from landlords that can only have 2 instead of 3 spare houses, and are horrified at having to pay some NI on their lazy income - when the rest of us have been paying NI forever and seen house prices more than triple in our lifetime.
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When I wrote this in January, people said I was an alarmist. Today, the New York Times reported that “Senior officials in the federal government have taken over a conservative media entity to talk about a crackdown on anti-conservative thought and speech.”

Yes, a crackdown on thought and speech.
There Will Be Retribution
From Marc | Donald Trump will insist on using the powers of the state to attack his political opponents.
www.democracydocket.com
Every other Sunday I have a game with a trans Orc bard, an asexual wood elf sorcerer, and a polyamorous golden dragonborn.

I felt that was quite diverse 😭
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The weakness in America has caused this.
A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza.
The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started.
Thousands fleeing for their lives
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The level of corruption from the Trump Crime Family is breathtaking. Trump’s crypto firm received $2 billion from the United Arab Emirates in May. Two weeks later, the White House agreed to give the U.A.E. access to hundreds of thousands of the world’s most advanced computer chips.
Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches.
www.nytimes.com
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"There's no difference between the 2 major parties," said a person with their entire finger up their nostril, fingertip feeling the slight breeze from the air circulating through their empty skull
White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.
Looks like they’re going to dismantle the GOP guys.
Stephen Miller: “We are gonna channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot & dismantle these terrorist networks … we are going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks"
If they were positively identified, why were the not arrested?

This is so clearly illegal..where the hell are your leaders?
I talked about this on the latest episode of Normal Men, but a real conversation needs to start about whether or not the pilot (drone or otherwise) who pushed the button on these strikes should be prosecuted (along with every step in the chain of command where the order came from)
Congrats on your new addition, Xalavier (damned awesome name BTW)
This makes pantomime illegal?

Jesus Christ.

“Free Speech absolutionist party of small government”

Dangerous. Vicious. Very clearly - not hyperbole - fascist.
saying you are trans or a trans person taking an everyday regular selfies of themselves also qualifies as a crime here
News orgs HAVE to stop calling these porn bans. Yes, #HB4938, does also criminalize porn — also terrible — it goes far beyond that.

LGBTQ+ sites, social media sites, community forums, Shakespeare, drag, a review of Mrs. Doubtfire, all punishable by jail $500K fine and twenty years in jail.
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REPORT: The Haddonfield Police Department has confirmed that any residents who speak ill of Michael Myers on social media will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law
Important to honestly appraise all information - even when we very much want it to be true!
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Yeah. Amazing how this bombshell has gone largely under the radar. And it includes plenty of frontline clinical staff, too. We ALREADY have c100,000 staff vacancies.

But apparently problems in the NHS are the fault of striking workers. Bonkers.
Wes Streeting is making the NHS make around 100k vital staff redundant and the £1billion redundancy cost has to be paid out of the existing NHS budget.
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Israel has systematically bombed homes, residential towers, hospitals, and shelters in Gaza City, killing dozens of Palestinians and forcibly displacing thousands of others. This is what Israel has done in the past 24 hours alone.
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So not surprising that the people who fetishize assault rifles kill more Americans than those who don't.
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It's very worth noting that these are the conditions *all* detainees are held in. Not just the "dangerous criminals" who make up a tiny fraction. ICE attracts people who despise immigrants, and the cruelty is the point.
This is how the US now treats its friends.
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
This is a sensible take.

Wealth inequality has SKYROCKETED in my lifetime.

Tax 👏 the 👏 ultra 👏 rich
This government could have taken on the super-rich to tackle inequality.

They chose to fan the flames of racism and embolden the far-right instead.

Our country needs a change in direction, now.

It’s time for a real alternative that redistributes wealth, ownership and power.
In our defence, based on current events…it may not have been such a bad choice 😂
Has anyone else noticed how all of these angry Yob “I gut no GCsE” types are all really rather short?

I wonder if that’s what makes them so angry and hateful.

Isn’t Yaxley something like 5ft 6?