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donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 23d

The Kremlin tries to look like the returned Cold War power that the USSR was, but it's a pale shadow of what it used to control, let alone of the Warsaw Pact. TL;DR, the population gap between the Kremlin and NATO has grown by 5x since the Cold War, and the economic difference has grown by 7x.
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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 9h

spent a couple hours downtown today and there's a lot of white women in their 40s and 50s fedposting harder than i would ever feel comfortable with

this meme is actually just real life

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DrJX1555 @drjx1555.bsky.social · 8h

Vermont “NO KINGS”

youtu.be/zWC0CrG9drs?...

Thousands show up for 'No Kings' protests across Vermont and Northern New York

YouTube video by MyNBC5-WPTZ

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donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 7h

Let's remember that visa violations are civil offenses punishable by fine, not unlike speeding.

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donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 10h

This is why we need to support the complete liberation of Ukraine, and have certainly never done enough to achieve it.

Taras Melnyk @taras19921.bsky.social · 10h

Their story is just one of hundreds of Russian atrocities committed in Bucha.

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dagnabbitt.bsky.social @dagnabbitt.bsky.social · 12h

#NoKings in FLL

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donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 12h

Sierra Madre, CA

#nokings

donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 14h

No Kings! Just a few whiny, hateful bitches.

#nokings Sierra Madre, CA

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donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 13h

Didn't we already have to get rid of a lunatic king with asinine economic policies, his continental wife, and his halfwit, drug-addicted son?

#nokings

donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 14h

@chadbourn.bsky.social

donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 14h

No Kings! Just a few whiny, hateful bitches.

#nokings Sierra Madre, CA

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donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 1d

The thought had crossed my mind. Well, halfway crossed. Then it sat down and made a campfire.

donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 1d

"Destruction of the state. Liberation of those Olympic Gods, to pillage wherever they want without having to worry about messy laws to constrain them. Everything will belong to them."

Ayn Rand already wrote it as a terrible novel.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The dumbest administration in any country anywhere in the world in the history of mankind.

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"Your mom": White House rudely responded to a journalist who asked who exactly chose Budapest as the venue for Trump-Putin talks

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donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta read it all very carefully. The program hallucinates wildly. It provides an interesting initial review, but the lifting definitely goes to me.

donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 1d

I've begun asking very specific 6-part questions of Chat GPT, and I'mgetting longer, more detailed answers. I also tell it not to make shit up. I'm suddenly getting more and more useful responses from my unpaid account.

donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 1d

You mean like what happened to his grandfather?

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

www.politico.com

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donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 1d

That assumes that "the marketplace of ideas" was ever more than a talking point. They don't want better ideas, they want their own ideas.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025

Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. If you believe, as the right does, that only they have the right to govern, and that opposition is dangerous to your rightful rule, then the use of force to suppress protest is right for you, wrong for them.

It's undemocratic, but so are they.

donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 2d

There's not enough emphasis on giving people a road map out of MAGA and too much eagerness to punish them. We absolutely need to make MAGA easy to leave.

donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 2d

I usually just put a pot under the drip. Am I supposed to call a plumber?

donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 2d

It was wild to see. One candidate said, "that guy misrepresented me as anti-death penalty. I just believe we need to apply it carefully and not execute innocent people," and the other guy began with, "now that's where you're too soft..."

Completely unhinged.

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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 2d

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

www.theguardian.com

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donwest84.bsky.social @donwest84.bsky.social · 2d

In 2005 I saw a Texas gubernatorial GOP primary debate in which one candidate said it's good if innocent people are accidentally executed because that keepsryone else on their best behavior.

The far right wants us to fear authorities. Americans being abused by ICE is in line with that reasoning.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 3d

White people have a kind of intra-white respectability politics about the level of racism that's considered permissible in polite company and I think a lot of polite racists are mad the gutter racists are tarnishing their good name.

I don't care for any kinda racist but I love myself, so. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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