Susan of Texas
@susanoftexas.bsky.social
Rich people kill you for money.
If the stakes were not so high, these people would be laughable. It reminds me of American mid-century tv and movies that mocked the Russians for being ludicrously ideological.
This feels a little too on the nose:
Under Trump, America only wants people who don’t check facts
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
Under Trump, America only wants people who don’t check facts
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
If the stakes were not so high, these people would be laughable. It reminds me of American mid-century tv and movies that mocked the Russians for being ludicrously ideological.
These people are not our heroes and they are not our leaders or models. They are our employees.
What the actual fuck.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
December 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
These people are not our heroes and they are not our leaders or models. They are our employees.
I see we are at the “refers to himself in the third person” stage of mental collapse.
Q: A number of Republicans have denounced your statement on Rob Reiner. Do you stand by it?
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
TRUMP: Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.
December 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I see we are at the “refers to himself in the third person” stage of mental collapse.
You misspelled “inevitably.”
Hakeem Jeffries announced the creation of the “House Democratic Commission on AI and the Innovation Economy,” and handpicked its five commissioners. Unfortunately, these new members have a history of supporting Big Tech. From Henry Burke: trib.al/9FYNXSv
Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested. - The American Prospect
A new AI commission established by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries includes several corporate-friendly legislators.
trib.al
December 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You misspelled “inevitably.”
Scott Jennings getting ready to go on tv to say “look, Americans voted for the president because he’s someone who speaks his mind”
December 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Scott Jennings getting ready to go on tv to say “look, Americans voted for the president because he’s someone who speaks his mind”
He is probably losing income.
These people want leftist and liberals to come back to Twitter so badly. They give all kinds of reasons, but the fact is without them the Nazi bar marinates in its own juices and they can't stand it.
December 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
He is probably losing income.
I don’t know much about South Korean history but I have heard of the Gwangju Uprising and massacre. If we do not act, we will never teach our government that fascism will fail and be punished in the US.
Investigators concluded Monday that South Korea’s ousted conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol plotted to impose martial law to eliminate his political rivals & monopolize power — Yoon is currently in jail while standing trial
One day America — one day 🤞🏼
One day America — one day 🤞🏼
December 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I don’t know much about South Korean history but I have heard of the Gwangju Uprising and massacre. If we do not act, we will never teach our government that fascism will fail and be punished in the US.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
On that subject, I’m curious about how many toxins the Administration is huffing from the rubble of the East Wing. It’s not like they can afford to kill any brain cells.
The Trump administration has nearly doubled the amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale under EPA regulations.
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Formaldehyde causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air.
www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
On that subject, I’m curious about how many toxins the Administration is huffing from the rubble of the East Wing. It’s not like they can afford to kill any brain cells.
The problem with this argument (among many, many other problems) is that there are a lot of great guys out there and nobody needs to hook up with a dimwitted creep to have kids.
Scott Yenor, a Heritage hire, says feminism is an “ideology of decadence” that touts “young women who want to be known for their minds“ adding: “I’m glad that you have a good mind, but if that’s what you want to be known for, like, you’re not going to have kids.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Just disgraceful’: outcry as Heritage thinktank appoints far-right figure to key post
Scott Yenor, who has offered views on women, marriage and LGBTQ rights, helped to found secretive fraternal order
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The problem with this argument (among many, many other problems) is that there are a lot of great guys out there and nobody needs to hook up with a dimwitted creep to have kids.
They saw dollar signs and want to enjoy their blood money without all that carping about concentration camps, torture, and fascism.
the most banal blood and soil nazism imaginable, an entirely family soaked herrenvolk fox news to the point they’re too stupid to see the blood on their hands
![Inspired by their dad's quarter-century of service, the siblings landed at ICE after other careers. John spent six years in the Air Force, including one overseas deployment. James, the younger brother by five minutes, worked for the Bureau of Prisons. Danielle, the eldest,
was first a schoolteacher, then worked for U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services.
[image of the twins handling an unnamed man detained in an unmarked van, caption: From left, ICE officers James and John, who are twins, transport a Mexican undocumented migrant to a processing facility after moving him from a county jail for deportation in Kansas City, Missouri, on Nov. 19, 2025. The migrant had been in the United States since he was two years old and was arrested by local law enforcement on drug charges. Omar
Ornelas/USA Today Network]
Robert was nearing the end of his career just
as his kids were joining the force](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dsbpb3w7glnyddtbewg73g74/bafkreigd7aegs3qedzwrm7hymmnruixapv2ewk2lkknhwt5zlpss2r2jli@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
They saw dollar signs and want to enjoy their blood money without all that carping about concentration camps, torture, and fascism.
Actually, my association with the nation’s most notorious pedophile and sex trafficker was perfectly innocent. Of course I could have chosen to avoid rapists, but hanging out with one shouldn’t cast a shadow on my reputation.
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Actually, my association with the nation’s most notorious pedophile and sex trafficker was perfectly innocent. Of course I could have chosen to avoid rapists, but hanging out with one shouldn’t cast a shadow on my reputation.
A sadistic president is unacceptable.
I am totally serious about this: file articles of impeachment over this specifically
man.
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A sadistic president is unacceptable.
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TPUSA is currently in the middle of a sexual harassment scandal, just helped generate hundreds of death threats against some teachers, and Pete Hegseth said he committed a war crime at the request of Kolvet but every week all these mainstream outlets are just like “How you holding up, buddy? 😢”
Apologies for yet another thread with a hate read of a Douthat joint, but we need to talk about the role the credulous "center-right" is playing in normalizing fascistic illiberalism in the US. Kolvet is a rabid Islamophobe and anti-trans hatemonger, but you'd never know that from this interview.
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
TPUSA is currently in the middle of a sexual harassment scandal, just helped generate hundreds of death threats against some teachers, and Pete Hegseth said he committed a war crime at the request of Kolvet but every week all these mainstream outlets are just like “How you holding up, buddy? 😢”
Our descendants won’t accept our excuses. They never do. Our kids don’t even accept our excuses, let alone people who don’t know and love us. All our excuses for inaction will be labeled irresponsible, self-indulgent, immoral, and weak.
Anyone still serving in the Trump Administration must reckon with the reality that, when the government has previously perpetrated egregious miscarriages of justice, history has not been forgiving to those who’ve gone along, however reluctantly. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
History’s Judgment of Those Who Go Along
Some civil servants and senior officials in the Trump Administration are experiencing bouts of conscience.
www.newyorker.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Our descendants won’t accept our excuses. They never do. Our kids don’t even accept our excuses, let alone people who don’t know and love us. All our excuses for inaction will be labeled irresponsible, self-indulgent, immoral, and weak.
When someone can’t stop damaging himself, he needs intervention. He does not need to be president of the US, which feeds his delusional behavior like he is at a free all-you-can-eat banquet.
Just yesterday I was wondering if (or when) Trump will say or do something so egregious it will cause Republicans to take action and remove him from office. Now this. All he had to do was say nothing. It's remarkable, in a hideous way.
I appreciate Trump settling the political violence argument with barely disguised hope that someone murdered the Reiners because they were mean to Trump bsky.app/profile/eric...
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
When someone can’t stop damaging himself, he needs intervention. He does not need to be president of the US, which feeds his delusional behavior like he is at a free all-you-can-eat banquet.
And it is our responsibility to fire them when they don’t do their job. We have a role in this too: don’t vote for people who admit(!) they are too weak, unimaginative, and idle to do their jobs.
This stuff will not end until we all start saying it is unacceptable and demand appropriate remedies are taken by our members of Congress. They work for us.
December 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
And it is our responsibility to fire them when they don’t do their job. We have a role in this too: don’t vote for people who admit(!) they are too weak, unimaginative, and idle to do their jobs.
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Local and local-ish people who could get pregnant: Would you be interested in attending a short, free session on how to get, and help other Texans get, access to safe, legal abortion at home?
The 401c3 that I work with, I'll Have What She's Having, puts on these clinics. I'd love to host one.
The 401c3 that I work with, I'll Have What She's Having, puts on these clinics. I'd love to host one.
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Local and local-ish people who could get pregnant: Would you be interested in attending a short, free session on how to get, and help other Texans get, access to safe, legal abortion at home?
The 401c3 that I work with, I'll Have What She's Having, puts on these clinics. I'd love to host one.
The 401c3 that I work with, I'll Have What She's Having, puts on these clinics. I'd love to host one.
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Rob Reiner religion note: One of his last film projects was “God & Country,” a documentary released last year based on Katherine Stewart’s book.
The film turned a critical lens toward Christian nationalism.
Disclosure: I know this, because I’m in it. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
The film turned a critical lens toward Christian nationalism.
Disclosure: I know this, because I’m in it. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Rob Reiner's 'God & Country' explores the politicization of Christianity
The new documentary looks at the rise of Christian Nationalism as a political movement through the eyes of theologians and conservative thinkers.
www.wbur.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Rob Reiner religion note: One of his last film projects was “God & Country,” a documentary released last year based on Katherine Stewart’s book.
The film turned a critical lens toward Christian nationalism.
Disclosure: I know this, because I’m in it. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
The film turned a critical lens toward Christian nationalism.
Disclosure: I know this, because I’m in it. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
![Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a complex and heterogeneous personality disorder characterized by patterns of grandiosity, entitlement, low empathy, and interpersonal difficulties, which can manifest as either grandiose (“thick-skinned”) or vulnerable (“thin-skinned”) forms.[1][2] Grandiose individuals display arrogance, social dominance, and exploitative behaviors, while vulnerable individuals show shame, inferiority, hypersensitivity, and extreme reactions to criticism. NPD often involves impaired emotional empathy, superficial relationships, and difficulty tolerating disagreement. It is often comorbid with other mental disorders and associated with significant functional impairment and psychosocial disability.[1]
Criteria for diagnosing narcissistic personality disorder are listed in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), while the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) contains criteria only for a general personality disorder since the introduction of the latest edition.
There is no standard treatment for NPD.[5][6] Its high comorbidity with other mental disorders influences treatment choice and outcomes.[5] Psychotherapeutic treatments generally fall into two categories: psychoanalytic/psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapy, with growing support for integration of both in therapy.[7][8] However, there is an almost complete lack of studies determining the effectiveness of treatments.[6] Treatment is frequently not sought; one's subjective experience of the mental disorder, as well as their agreement to and level of engagement with treatment, are highly dependent on their motivation to change.[9]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r7rbcpbfbjbh37g5aqojkjel/bafkreihf527x4iwbm2br3jusgt3qxmcdyy2sbmwgcqadume74igesy53ci@jpeg)
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"The 'Dark Enlightenment' that’s the current fad among tech billionaires and the GOP... rebrands hierarchy as inevitability, inequality as virtue, and authoritarianism as efficiency, with their writings wrapped in tech-bro futurism and pseudo-scientific gibberish." open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
Is the Morbidly Rich’s “Brilliance” Just a Threat to the Republic?
In 11 months, we’ll have an opportunity to retrieve our democracy from the clutches of the morbidly rich, the ideologues who deify them (and have for millennia), & their bought-&-paid-for politicians…
open.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"The 'Dark Enlightenment' that’s the current fad among tech billionaires and the GOP... rebrands hierarchy as inevitability, inequality as virtue, and authoritarianism as efficiency, with their writings wrapped in tech-bro futurism and pseudo-scientific gibberish." open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
They acted. That is why people are in this mess. The result will be that many will lose insurance and suffer or die, or end up costing the taxpayer in emergency rooms. The other result will be that they will stop spending money-and 70% of the economy is consumer spending.
“Tens of millions of American consumers are poised to face vastly more expensive health care premiums unless Republicans act. Barring a breakthrough, families nationwide will soon have to choose between paying far more or going without.”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
As health care consumers confront brutal choices, Trump expresses indifference
“Don't make it sound so bad,” the president said when asked about the tens of millions of Americans facing a dramatic spike in health care costs.
www.ms.now
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
They acted. That is why people are in this mess. The result will be that many will lose insurance and suffer or die, or end up costing the taxpayer in emergency rooms. The other result will be that they will stop spending money-and 70% of the economy is consumer spending.
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🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Upton Sinclair (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Upton Sinclair (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for Governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.
When someone needs to yell over and over “we are the best,” you aren’t the best. You’re just being propagandized.
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
When someone needs to yell over and over “we are the best,” you aren’t the best. You’re just being propagandized.
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This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
BREAKING: Authorities will release the person of interest in the Brown University shooting, officials said, as the investigation continues.
Live updates: Person of interest identified after 2 killed and 9 injured at Brown University
Live updates: 2 dead, 9 wounded in Brown University shooting; person of interest in custody
nbcnews.to
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.