Asinus Pervicax
@knownagitator.bsky.social
Still fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills.
Pinned
The precedent set here is the end of Congress, which I don't think Congress will even notice
Breaking: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to cancel $65 million in teaching grants.
one of the things i've been saying for years at this point is that the american republic ended in 1946, when the presidency was given sole control over nuclear weapons. like in post-augustus rome, what came after preserved the forms of the republic, but was fundamentally different in substance.
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Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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“The Robins deposited some groceries in a public square at the foot of a Christmas tree on Tuesday evening, adding that the rest would be distributed through community food banks.
“Don’t forget – the hunger justifies the means, Merry Christmas!”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
“Don’t forget – the hunger justifies the means, Merry Christmas!”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’
Group called Robins des Ruelles later said in statement stunt was intended to highlight cost of living crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“The Robins deposited some groceries in a public square at the foot of a Christmas tree on Tuesday evening, adding that the rest would be distributed through community food banks.
“Don’t forget – the hunger justifies the means, Merry Christmas!”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
“Don’t forget – the hunger justifies the means, Merry Christmas!”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
absolutely detestable behavior that is very obviously downstream of the lawless atrocities in Gaza that the Biden administration both enabled and participated in.
The US has boarded a third tanker, the Panama-flagged Bella-1 en route to Venezuela.
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
absolutely detestable behavior that is very obviously downstream of the lawless atrocities in Gaza that the Biden administration both enabled and participated in.
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these people are just perverts for human suffering and every decade or so they hold society hostage with some stupid new complaint
terfs have been reading my article it seems. lovely people, very rational, calm, and polite
December 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
these people are just perverts for human suffering and every decade or so they hold society hostage with some stupid new complaint
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There is no way to escape right-wing views in America. They're relentlessly promoted by wingnut billionaires who own both the legacy and social media.
i know what conservatives think, its the whole reason i have zero respect for them
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
There is no way to escape right-wing views in America. They're relentlessly promoted by wingnut billionaires who own both the legacy and social media.
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We cover a lot of ground in these short essays, but among other things I think they're a particularly honest look at our city post-Helene. With a lot of determination from folks otg, alongside immense grief...all while facing elites more openly greedy and exploitative than ever.
Hey y'all, our A Word About Our City radio essays — a collaboration with Asheville Community News on @ashevillefm.bsky.social — are now in one collection. #avlnews
If you want a radical, honest look at what's going on in our city, have a listen: www.patreon.com/collection/1...
If you want a radical, honest look at what's going on in our city, have a listen: www.patreon.com/collection/1...
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We cover a lot of ground in these short essays, but among other things I think they're a particularly honest look at our city post-Helene. With a lot of determination from folks otg, alongside immense grief...all while facing elites more openly greedy and exploitative than ever.
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Authorities are investigating possible ties between the shooting at Brown University and a professor who was killed at MIT, WPRI reports
www.wpri.com/target-12/po...
www.wpri.com/target-12/po...
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Authorities are investigating possible ties between the shooting at Brown University and a professor who was killed at MIT, WPRI reports
www.wpri.com/target-12/po...
www.wpri.com/target-12/po...
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Also they hate children in general and want to limit their autonomy at every possible turn
December 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Also they hate children in general and want to limit their autonomy at every possible turn
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I know we've been through this a number of times, but he can't do this. The name "John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" was established by Congress in 1964 under Public Law 88-260.
*KENNEDY CENTER TO BE RENAMED TRUMP-KENNEDY CENTER: LEAVITT
Bloomberg Terminal headline
Bloomberg Terminal headline
December 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I know we've been through this a number of times, but he can't do this. The name "John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts" was established by Congress in 1964 under Public Law 88-260.
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BINDERS YOU GUYS. BINDERS
HHS’ proposed rules say the FDA will go after retailers and manufacturers of binders made to treat gender dysphoria
December 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
BINDERS YOU GUYS. BINDERS
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Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
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America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent
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What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article
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It's so jarring to see how truly out of touch executives and upper management are, not just with what the public wants and expects, but with what their organizations actually even do
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's so jarring to see how truly out of touch executives and upper management are, not just with what the public wants and expects, but with what their organizations actually even do
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When we had numbers like this in occupied Ireland we convinced a number of state and local governments in the US to apply sanctions to US companies doing business there.
I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
When we had numbers like this in occupied Ireland we convinced a number of state and local governments in the US to apply sanctions to US companies doing business there.
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Change in employment since Trump took office, by sector. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
December 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Change in employment since Trump took office, by sector. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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david duke probably wouldn't have shut down most of the CDC
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
david duke probably wouldn't have shut down most of the CDC
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*shoves all chips into center of table*
“Call”
“Call”
After briefing on strikes off Venezuela, Sen. Sheehy says “if we're going to question the legal process and the procedural process to target bad guys that this administration is using, then all of you better start cracking open every single Obama kinetic strike”
December 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
*shoves all chips into center of table*
“Call”
“Call”
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I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.
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Hey y'all, please share or support this if you can. Our trans local journalism co-op's facing a lot right now. This city is still a disaster zone in many ways and, well, it ain't exactly easy to be trans.
Any help is appreciated.
Any help is appreciated.
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Donate to Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath, organized by Asheville Blade
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December 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hey y'all, please share or support this if you can. Our trans local journalism co-op's facing a lot right now. This city is still a disaster zone in many ways and, well, it ain't exactly easy to be trans.
Any help is appreciated.
Any help is appreciated.
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An entire thesis about the consequences of the digital attention economy could be written based on this post alone
We first started this story after noticing streamer Vitaly Zdorovetskiy playing Stake casino games while doing his "pedophile catch" videos, where he would sometimes play on his phone *with* the alleged predators on stream.
December 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
An entire thesis about the consequences of the digital attention economy could be written based on this post alone
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This morning, in the largest expansion yet, hundreds of new union baristas are walking off the job in 34 cities.
That means there are now:
🗣️ 3,800 baristas
☕️ across 180 stores
📍 in over 130 cities
on an open-ended ULP strike!
We’re 👏 only 👏 getting 👏 stronger
That means there are now:
🗣️ 3,800 baristas
☕️ across 180 stores
📍 in over 130 cities
on an open-ended ULP strike!
We’re 👏 only 👏 getting 👏 stronger
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
December 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This morning, in the largest expansion yet, hundreds of new union baristas are walking off the job in 34 cities.
That means there are now:
🗣️ 3,800 baristas
☕️ across 180 stores
📍 in over 130 cities
on an open-ended ULP strike!
We’re 👏 only 👏 getting 👏 stronger
That means there are now:
🗣️ 3,800 baristas
☕️ across 180 stores
📍 in over 130 cities
on an open-ended ULP strike!
We’re 👏 only 👏 getting 👏 stronger