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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 15h

Listening to her is like getting Maced.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 15h

"[Our] culture is no longer synonymous with the aspiration to freedom but with transactionalism and secrecy: the algorithms that... determine what you see, the money collected by anonymous billionaires, the [hidden] deals that the [US] president is making..."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 1d

The Timess 'keeps describing those MAGA [propagandists] as “provocateurs... Mainstream news outlets appear uncomfortable wrestling with the degree to which pro-Trump media figures practice propaganda undertaken in bad faith... We need them to get past that.'

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes Over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” With Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 1d

That is also one of the defining characteristics of "late stage" capitalism.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 1d

"Today the president is taking credit for a cease-fire in Gaza. But who, in America, was first in calling for that exact thing?

Students on campuses.

And what happened to them? They were banned from their own public spaces, all over the country."

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Gaza and Protest

Why freedom of speech matters

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 2d

with her usual superabundance of bile.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 2d

"...the most powerful liberal institutions – the Democratic establishment, major donors and the professional class around them – are captive to outdated etiquette."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Democrats are captive to outdated etiquette. It’s endangering democracy | Ryan W Powers

The establishment left’s attachment to rigid rules leaves the party out of touch and failing to meet the moment

www.theguardian.com

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 2d

"The repeated allegations that the company is violating regulations — including the bespoke regulatory arrangement agreed to by the company — indicates that officials aren’t keeping the public safe..."

www.salon.com/2025/10/12/e...

Elon Musk company accused of nearly 800 environmental violations

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800.

www.salon.com

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 2d

Moses Johnson is seriously deficient in the eyes of anyone who takes the simple homespun dictum attributed in the Gospels (John 8:32) to Jesus: "And the truth shall set you free."

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 2d

One thousand CDC staff have been laid off during the Trump shutdown when only one layoff was needed: Robert Kennedy Jr.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 2d

Despite his gaslighting the threat, Covid would have claimed his life in 2020 but for the no-holds-barred medical intervention by a dedicated team of doctors using an experimental antibody cocktail by Regeneron, antiviral Remdesivir and steroid dexamethasone) unavailable to any save the POTUS.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 3d

Some media outlets refer to Trump's attempt to "remake" the DoJ; the more accurate word is "unmake". Which appears to have essentially become a fait accomplis. Remake is what happens after tyranny.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 3d

"Jury nullification is an old weapon against tyranny. America’s founding generation saw juries as charged with determining not just fact but also law—that is, jurors could decide to acquit the accused... if jurors believed that the law itself was unjust."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock

When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 3d

Campaigning yourself and through legions of surrogates for the Nobel Peace Prize should in itself be disqualifying. Fortunately everything else about him also is.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4d

Donald Trump has been illegally shutting down the parts of government he doesn't like and firing tens of thousands of federal workers since Day One.

Republicans’ shutdown doesn't give him any more power to create chaos.

It’s workers and the American people who will suffer.

Vought sounds layoff siren: ‘The RIFs have begun’

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

www.politico.com

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking the paralyzing spell of "juristocracy."

"The Constitution deliberately disperses interpretive power to Congress, the president and state officials. More important, as the preamble to the document makes clear, 'we the people' are the ultimate sovereigns."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

You don't need to be a billionaire to be unhinged and untethered to reality - but it sure helps ! Stop the Thiel!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

The mindless idiocy of Moses Johnson is equaled only by his sanctimonious sycophancy which is so contrived it must take a great deal of effort to sustain day after day - but seems to come naturally to this anti-democracy tool who has hastened the demise of Congress as co-equal branch of government.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

May this trigger a comparable response from the others who've been offered this deal with the devil.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4d

MIT has rejected Fat Satan’s blackmail, making it the first university not to bend the knee.

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

"...Reid has a personal story that doubles as the spiritual journey of four decades of GOP putrefaction."

"The perv-fascist solidarity in Trump’s Washington has come to seem like the #MeToo movement in reverse."

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified

Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

Roger Marshall lies not only through his teeth but every other orifice as well. For this volume of toxic lies one hole ain't enough. He doesn't know a protester from his washing machine agitator but he speaks the rote lies he's given.

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 4d

Thank goodness for small favors.

Here, Don, I award you the Nobel Least Prize.

www.rawstory.com/trump-267417...

'What an absolute joke!' MAGA melts down after Nobel Peace Prize Trump snub

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its annual Nobel Peace Prize Friday to one Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician and leader of a resistance movement against President Nicolas Maduro, spa...

www.rawstory.com

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 5d

I've noticed them exploding on Youtube Shorts. Some are obviously fake because of the absurdity of the content. But others are difficult to divine. Should be labeled AI in a category unto itself. Nary to be admixed with the, ahem, "real" stuff.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/t...

A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes

www.nytimes.com

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 5d

Why is it that so many cowards to the bone, like Moses Johnson, claim a special relationship to the Lord?

sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 6d

Bondi does not testify to anything but her slavish loyalty to Trump, not the law, not the Constitution and certainly not truth or accountability. And her demeanor toward Democratic Senators asking legitimate questions of her is nothing short of grotesque for an alleged Attorney General of the U.S.

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