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Dogs/ Politics/ Sexuality/ Nerdery/
Genderfluid, bi (they/them)
CA Central Coast
Bsky 7/23
Trans rights are human rights
Abortion is health care
Chinga la migra
#uglydogs (photo by Blair Braverman)
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@wattle.bsky.social
· Jun 14
From All Saints Episcopal Church in San Francisco 🕯
Take off your masks
Lay down your weapons
Remove your armor
Repent & return home
Lay down your weapons
Remove your armor
Repent & return home
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It is disturbing but it is also as American as apple pie and I wish people would start saying things like "is a slap in the face of our highest ideals" or similar because have you met American history
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It is disturbing but it is also as American as apple pie and I wish people would start saying things like "is a slap in the face of our highest ideals" or similar because have you met American history
game recognizes game
Why would the President help free a man who defrauded veterans, farmers, teachers, nurses, small businesses and over 10,000 across America of over $1.6 Billion? Is robbing from the poor to feed the greed of rich criminals the America we want?
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 AM
game recognizes game
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So the thing is that the Republican party seems to have had an insight that you don't need to be popular any day of any year, except more popular than the other person on election day every four years, and being popular at any other time is inefficiency you can optimize out to free up resources
Trump Approval Among Men:
Disapprove: 51% (+12)
Approve: 46% (-7)
YouGov / Nov 24, 2025
(% Change With Feb 2025)
Disapprove: 51% (+12)
Approve: 46% (-7)
YouGov / Nov 24, 2025
(% Change With Feb 2025)
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
So the thing is that the Republican party seems to have had an insight that you don't need to be popular any day of any year, except more popular than the other person on election day every four years, and being popular at any other time is inefficiency you can optimize out to free up resources
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Translation: Pete may well go down for this. But I’m not going with him.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Translation: Pete may well go down for this. But I’m not going with him.
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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The thing about laws and legality is once you reach the tipping point, the fascists rewrite the laws. The Holocaust was strictly legal under German law.
similarly "torturing prisoners" is the kind of thing that you'd assume is an illegal order...except these freaks made sure to create a legal justification for it. not illegal now!
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The thing about laws and legality is once you reach the tipping point, the fascists rewrite the laws. The Holocaust was strictly legal under German law.
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I know who's *not* going to jail for war crimes. This guy!
They fired him on Aug 22nd.
Boat strikes started September 1st.
I wonder why they fired him? And fired all the Judge Advocates General?
They fired him on Aug 22nd.
Boat strikes started September 1st.
I wonder why they fired him? And fired all the Judge Advocates General?
Admiral Milton Sands III is a highly decorated Navy SEAL and was commander of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Basically, he was the final boss of the Navy SEALS.
He just got fired.
Listen to the respect and humility with which he and his soldiers talk about African and European military allies.
He just got fired.
Listen to the respect and humility with which he and his soldiers talk about African and European military allies.
U.S. Army Colonel's Shocking Revelation: What He Said About Flintlock Will Surprise You!
YouTube video by Defense Now
m.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I know who's *not* going to jail for war crimes. This guy!
They fired him on Aug 22nd.
Boat strikes started September 1st.
I wonder why they fired him? And fired all the Judge Advocates General?
They fired him on Aug 22nd.
Boat strikes started September 1st.
I wonder why they fired him? And fired all the Judge Advocates General?
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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The fact that they can’t show their work is the tell
Like the Oklahoma Junior who can’t write a damn paper, we should be making them cite the sources of their religious belief instead of asking them if they really super mean it
I think this falls in line with a growing push to recognize actionable harms when christian conservatives face things in public life they don’t like generally.
It’s the Hobby Lobbyfication of public life
It’s the Hobby Lobbyfication of public life
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The fact that they can’t show their work is the tell
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I think this falls in line with a growing push to recognize actionable harms when christian conservatives face things in public life they don’t like generally.
It’s the Hobby Lobbyfication of public life
It’s the Hobby Lobbyfication of public life
It feels surreal, and like a new even darker turn has been taken in the anti-intellectual part of rightwing populism
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I think this falls in line with a growing push to recognize actionable harms when christian conservatives face things in public life they don’t like generally.
It’s the Hobby Lobbyfication of public life
It’s the Hobby Lobbyfication of public life
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Someone said patriarchy is putting the sexual satisfaction of men in higher priority than the survival of women and children and I can't unsee it
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Someone said patriarchy is putting the sexual satisfaction of men in higher priority than the survival of women and children and I can't unsee it
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this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things
the Party of Personal Responsibility
This is great, now Team Trump is acknowledging that illegal orders were given to kill survivors of the initial strike, the only question is who gave them? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth denies he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’
Defense secretary called reports about his role in strike as ‘fake news’ intended to discredit US military
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
the Party of Personal Responsibility
It's not very useful for actual work unless you are in one of a handful of niche fields
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It's not very useful for actual work unless you are in one of a handful of niche fields
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The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
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This is really important. Civilian control of the military is incredibly important. But it implies that each of us has an obligation to not vote for people who will ask the military to do stupid, crazy things. Because the norm of civilian control will not withstand literally ANYTHING.
one of the things dr schake and i were both wrestling with in this conversation--i think not really conclusively--is how you maintain the norm of civilian supremacy when the civilians are issuing objectively illegal, murderous orders
Neon Liberalism #54: Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of "The State and the Soldier," as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking point. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
November 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is really important. Civilian control of the military is incredibly important. But it implies that each of us has an obligation to not vote for people who will ask the military to do stupid, crazy things. Because the norm of civilian control will not withstand literally ANYTHING.
Mafia government
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Mafia government
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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All of these jobs they are taking education funding away from are mandatory reporting positions.
Only the rich will be able to afford these jobs & we know what they do w kids
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Only the rich will be able to afford these jobs & we know what they do w kids
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
All of these jobs they are taking education funding away from are mandatory reporting positions.
Only the rich will be able to afford these jobs & we know what they do w kids
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Only the rich will be able to afford these jobs & we know what they do w kids
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
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Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
not in Donald Trump's America!
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
not in Donald Trump's America!