Gaius Faelis Juvenalis
@juvenalisdacat.bsky.social
Lover of history, soon to be dead rodents, and generally raking the muck. Oh, and books lets not forget them! Support your local library.
Doom scrolling the end of the Republic is my latest hobby.
No other social media accounts. Yes! believe it or not.
Doom scrolling the end of the Republic is my latest hobby.
No other social media accounts. Yes! believe it or not.
Pinned
We live in a minority controlled country and the minority are more and more turning to Christian white nationalism, and they do not plan on losing control.
I can't believe I was reposted by @radiofreetom.bsky.social just so he could straw man me.
I have a begrudging respect for Tom, I just find some times he needs a good poke and a good poking I apparently gave. I don't think I'm going to be winning over any of his followers any time soon.
I have a begrudging respect for Tom, I just find some times he needs a good poke and a good poking I apparently gave. I don't think I'm going to be winning over any of his followers any time soon.
December 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I can't believe I was reposted by @radiofreetom.bsky.social just so he could straw man me.
I have a begrudging respect for Tom, I just find some times he needs a good poke and a good poking I apparently gave. I don't think I'm going to be winning over any of his followers any time soon.
I have a begrudging respect for Tom, I just find some times he needs a good poke and a good poking I apparently gave. I don't think I'm going to be winning over any of his followers any time soon.
@nbcnews.com is today's winner for manufacturing consent.
With this wonderful aritcle by Courtney Kube, Julie Tsirkin and Gordon Lubold.
With this wonderful aritcle by Courtney Kube, Julie Tsirkin and Gordon Lubold.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling ve...
www.nbcnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
@nbcnews.com is today's winner for manufacturing consent.
With this wonderful aritcle by Courtney Kube, Julie Tsirkin and Gordon Lubold.
With this wonderful aritcle by Courtney Kube, Julie Tsirkin and Gordon Lubold.
Just call it what it is @npr.org, and what it was his first term. Using U.S. tax payer money to buy the loyalty and support of a key demographic that he f'ed in the first place.
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
Farmers welcome Trump's $12 billion aid package, say additional relief is needed
President Trump says he's sending $12 billion in aid to American farmers who are reeling from global trade disruptions. Those include inflation and Trump's tariffs that are making fertilizer and farm ...
www.npr.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Just call it what it is @npr.org, and what it was his first term. Using U.S. tax payer money to buy the loyalty and support of a key demographic that he f'ed in the first place.
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
This story has become the perfect example of how corporate media can't report on anything the least technical or scientific.
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
Fire-making materials at 400,000-year-old site are the oldest evidence of humans making fire
Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery moves our understanding of when humans started making fire back by 350,000...
www.npr.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This story has become the perfect example of how corporate media can't report on anything the least technical or scientific.
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...
Good to see the corporate media has moved on from the wanton murder of people in the Caribbean. I imagine it was getting old asking "Is this a War Crime?" every other day. Now they have a new shiny toy to play with in the form of an oil tanker and a right wing dissident.
December 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Good to see the corporate media has moved on from the wanton murder of people in the Caribbean. I imagine it was getting old asking "Is this a War Crime?" every other day. Now they have a new shiny toy to play with in the form of an oil tanker and a right wing dissident.
Did the voters? All by their lonesomes? Jiminy Cricket this is rich coming from the co-founder of 'Project for the New American Century'. Think tanker from long ago, and advocate for invading Iraq. At the center of the neo-con NWO. You guys birthed this bullshit, through media state govt. capture.
Voters Got Us Into This Mess. They’re Getting Us Out.
Georgia on our minds.
www.thebulwark.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Did the voters? All by their lonesomes? Jiminy Cricket this is rich coming from the co-founder of 'Project for the New American Century'. Think tanker from long ago, and advocate for invading Iraq. At the center of the neo-con NWO. You guys birthed this bullshit, through media state govt. capture.
"The people who made the fire at the site... are unlikely to have been our own ancestors, as Homo sapiens did not have a sustained presence outside Africa until about 100,000 years ago. Instead, the inhabitants were probably early Neanderthals"
Reads headline again...sigh
Reads headline again...sigh
Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests
Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"The people who made the fire at the site... are unlikely to have been our own ancestors, as Homo sapiens did not have a sustained presence outside Africa until about 100,000 years ago. Instead, the inhabitants were probably early Neanderthals"
Reads headline again...sigh
Reads headline again...sigh
@cnn.com pointing out how media (themselves included) are ignoring the murder of 85, focusing on just 2. Also pointing out we left a person floating in the Caribbean and don't know what happened to them.
3 separate US strikes on alleged drug boats have initially left survivors. Each time they’ve been treated differently | CNN Politics
As the US military has undertaken a campaign of attacks against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, at least five people have survived initial strikes ending up in the w...
www.cnn.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
@cnn.com pointing out how media (themselves included) are ignoring the murder of 85, focusing on just 2. Also pointing out we left a person floating in the Caribbean and don't know what happened to them.
Holy shit, wtf does @apnews.com's J. Fetterman think has been the state of Gaza and W. Bank all these decades?
"But if the deal stalls, Gaza could be trapped in an unstable limbo for years to come, with Hamas remaining in control..., Israel’s army enforcing an open-ended occupation."
"But if the deal stalls, Gaza could be trapped in an unstable limbo for years to come, with Hamas remaining in control..., Israel’s army enforcing an open-ended occupation."
Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan faces pitfalls in a complicated second phase
The first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is nearly complete, after a two-month process plagued by delays and finger-pointing.
apnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Holy shit, wtf does @apnews.com's J. Fetterman think has been the state of Gaza and W. Bank all these decades?
"But if the deal stalls, Gaza could be trapped in an unstable limbo for years to come, with Hamas remaining in control..., Israel’s army enforcing an open-ended occupation."
"But if the deal stalls, Gaza could be trapped in an unstable limbo for years to come, with Hamas remaining in control..., Israel’s army enforcing an open-ended occupation."
Modern capitalism is actually a very sick form of socialism. We have a class of people and corporations who think all the profit should be private and in their pockets. While all the costs and degradation should be carried by the public.
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Modern capitalism is actually a very sick form of socialism. We have a class of people and corporations who think all the profit should be private and in their pockets. While all the costs and degradation should be carried by the public.
If you don't think the state sponsored violence is coming soon, your not paying attention. ICE and the boat strikes are your warning.
December 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
If you don't think the state sponsored violence is coming soon, your not paying attention. ICE and the boat strikes are your warning.
Kind of amazing how little coverage the D.C. Pipe Bomber is getting, and his beliefs in the election conspiracy touted by Trump.
Is major media is afraid of pissing Trump off and getting sued?
Is major media is afraid of pissing Trump off and getting sued?
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Kind of amazing how little coverage the D.C. Pipe Bomber is getting, and his beliefs in the election conspiracy touted by Trump.
Is major media is afraid of pissing Trump off and getting sued?
Is major media is afraid of pissing Trump off and getting sued?
“It doesn’t really matter what they were trying to do. What matters is that they were not in a shipwreck state, distressed, dog-paddling in the water.” --Sen. Cotton referencing two men sitting on a capsized boat in the middle of the Caribbean Sea.
two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton
ALT: two men are sitting at a table in front of a crowd and one of them is saying that 's a bold strategy cotton
media.tenor.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“It doesn’t really matter what they were trying to do. What matters is that they were not in a shipwreck state, distressed, dog-paddling in the water.” --Sen. Cotton referencing two men sitting on a capsized boat in the middle of the Caribbean Sea.
If we can have a minimum age to run for president then we can sure as shit have a maximum age.
December 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
If we can have a minimum age to run for president then we can sure as shit have a maximum age.
of course, why wouldn't it end up here.
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
of course, why wouldn't it end up here.
so, by the Administrations' logic, we should line the Purdue-Sackler family up against a wall...followed by most of the alcohol industry.
December 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
so, by the Administrations' logic, we should line the Purdue-Sackler family up against a wall...followed by most of the alcohol industry.
so now they're tying to say that the boat strikes are against "non-state actors" in order to justify their murders. The problem is, that would mean they aren't tied to any government, Maduro or other.
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
so now they're tying to say that the boat strikes are against "non-state actors" in order to justify their murders. The problem is, that would mean they aren't tied to any government, Maduro or other.
I used to think these were feel good stories like most, but a wise person pointed out that they are actually quite sad, and evidence of the failure of our government and economy.
‘Oh, my God’: 88-year-old Michigan grocery cashier receives $1.7 million surprise | CNN
An 88-year-old Michigan grocery worker received a $1.7 million check Friday, thanks to a remarkable fundraising campaign led by a young Australian social media star.
www.cnn.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I used to think these were feel good stories like most, but a wise person pointed out that they are actually quite sad, and evidence of the failure of our government and economy.
"focus on the second strike... nuances of the law of armed conflict...a favor to the Trump administration. The idea that something...bad about that particular strike...suggests first one...the other attacks on boats was fine...reinforces idea...of an armed conflict."
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"focus on the second strike... nuances of the law of armed conflict...a favor to the Trump administration. The idea that something...bad about that particular strike...suggests first one...the other attacks on boats was fine...reinforces idea...of an armed conflict."
I would think they'd want the world to hear the evidence of the political weaponization they've been screaming about for years.
What's that? Jack Smith volunteered weeks ago to testify in an open hearing, huh...
What's that? Jack Smith volunteered weeks ago to testify in an open hearing, huh...
House Republicans subpoena Jack Smith for closed-door interview about his prosecutions of Trump
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith for a closed-door interview later this month even though he had earlier volunteered to ...
apnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I would think they'd want the world to hear the evidence of the political weaponization they've been screaming about for years.
What's that? Jack Smith volunteered weeks ago to testify in an open hearing, huh...
What's that? Jack Smith volunteered weeks ago to testify in an open hearing, huh...
Are they taking turns using this headline?
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...
Trump's Venezuela boat strikes fuel war crimes allegations. Are they legal?
Details about the strikes on an alleged drug boat on Sept. 2 have alarmed legal experts and lawmakers.
www.cbsnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Are they taking turns using this headline?
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...
WTF ABC? This article just glazes the Admiral as being, golly gee willikers, the bestest guy and spec. ops. commander in the country.
Meanwhile he's selling a story about a small boat loaded with unarmed people being in a "fight" with the U.S. Navy and the drone that blew them up.
Meanwhile he's selling a story about a small boat loaded with unarmed people being in a "fight" with the U.S. Navy and the drone that blew them up.
What to know about Adm. 'Mitch' Bradley, commander at the center of boat strike controversy
Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley, the Navy SEAL at the center of the Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug-running boat, rose through ranks to lead all U.S. special operators.
abcnews.go.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
WTF ABC? This article just glazes the Admiral as being, golly gee willikers, the bestest guy and spec. ops. commander in the country.
Meanwhile he's selling a story about a small boat loaded with unarmed people being in a "fight" with the U.S. Navy and the drone that blew them up.
Meanwhile he's selling a story about a small boat loaded with unarmed people being in a "fight" with the U.S. Navy and the drone that blew them up.
You expect me to believe that two individuals who survived an explosion that killed nine and disabled the boat immediately started collecting drugs in order to complete the delivery.
Because some anonymous source said so...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
Because some anonymous source said so...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
New details emerge about controversial Sept. 2 strike on alleged drug boat that killed survivors
A source gave ABC News more information about the circumstances and the policy.
abcnews.go.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
You expect me to believe that two individuals who survived an explosion that killed nine and disabled the boat immediately started collecting drugs in order to complete the delivery.
Because some anonymous source said so...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
Because some anonymous source said so...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
so they agreed to a ceasefire, but Israel kept bombing them and now Israel is negotiating on whether they can stop themselves from bombing? Makes perfect sense.
With Tensions Rising, Israel and Lebanon Expand Cease-Fire Talks
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
so they agreed to a ceasefire, but Israel kept bombing them and now Israel is negotiating on whether they can stop themselves from bombing? Makes perfect sense.