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Talk to me about fantasy, sci-fi, books, movies, games of all varieties, and the occasional political discussion.
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yougotrobd.bsky.social
Didn't see the aurora on our trip to Iceland, but LUCKILY...it's cloudy as fuck here tonight.
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
yougotrobd.bsky.social
Why play to win when instead you could play for the opportunity to maybe win a year from now?
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
yougotrobd.bsky.social
Hats: they're on your head
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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nberlat.bsky.social
at least since Obama, Ds have been attempting to amp up border enforcement and generally increase vicious policing of immigrants in an effort to defuse the issue. "if we can just show we hate immigrants too, the gop will do a deal on the border and we can take this issue off the table."
July 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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leonardpierce.bsky.social
Nobody likes an I-told-you-so, gang, but I gotta reiterate: Fascism is not a deviation from capitalism, it is a consequence of capitalism

The failure of liberalism to stop fascism is not an unforeseen accident under capitalism, it is a necessary and inevitable feature of capitalism
February 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
this is your reminder that the owners of the New York Times, during the Holocaust, openly admitted they didn't consider themselves the same as the Jews being annihilated by the Nazis, nor did they consider covering the Holocaust an important story
katelynburns.com Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · Feb 9
I got mad at the New York Times after their editorial board released an opinion piece condemning Trump's anti-trans EOs and I decided to write about how the paper of record laundered transphobia into the mainstream and paved the road for Trump's transphobia. www.patreon.com/posts/nyt-ed...
The NYT Editorial Board's Shameless Pro-Trans Stance | Katelyn Burns
Get more from Katelyn Burns on Patreon
www.patreon.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
SCHATZ: “.. I will oppose unanimous consent. I will vote no. I will do maximal delays until this is resolved.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back
The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
www.wsj.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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missmouse.bsky.social
Members of Congress going into the US Agency for International Development!
February 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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beyer.house.gov
We are here today to shine a light on the crime that is unfolding before our eyes and support our tremendous civil servants at U.S. AID.

Follow live on C-SPAN here:
www.c-span.org/event/news-c...
February 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
THE ASK This week, between Monday and the vote on Vought, we're asking people from all over the country to plan a visit to Senate State Offices to demand Democrats fight and to hold Republicans accountable for their complicity. DEMOCRATS MUST USE EVERY PROCEDURAL TOOL TO SHUT DOWN TRUMP'S AGENDA Yes, we need Democrats to vote no on Vought's nomination, but no is not enough. Democrats have the power to grind Senate business to a halt and force Republicans to feel the political cost of backing Trump's extremist agenda. Here's how: 1. Deny a Quorum: If Republicans don't have 51 votes in the chamber, Democrats can walk out and shut down Senate business entirely. 2. Block Unanimous Consent: Object to every procedural shortcut, forcing Republicans to take the longest possible route for every step of the confirmation process. 3. Max Out Debate Time: Use all 30 hours of debate on Vought to expose Project 2025, Musk's Treasury takeover, and the funding freeze. 4. Delay and Disrupt: Force roll-call votes, quorum calls, and procedural delays to slow everything down. 5. Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump's other nominees, helping to install more MAGA loyalists into powerful positions in the federal government while this power grab continues. No Business as Usual: This is a constitutional crisis. Democrats must abandon the old rules and fight with everything they have. Bottom line: Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step of this process-no cooperation, no easy votes, no fast-tracking Trump's takeover. To learn more about how Senate Democrats can shut down Trump's agenda with procedural hardball, check out our explainer here.
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
So many have not learned them at all.
Post from 'Rev. Benjamin Cremer' states, "If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ."
January 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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jefftiedrich.bsky.social
so if I'm understanding the tech-bro position correctly, it's this
December 27, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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cerberusxt.bsky.social
That's fucking depressing...
December 26, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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elivalley.bsky.social
Lots of clarity today
Alex press tweet w/pic of cops locking arms adjacent to striking workers: "NYPD literally locking arms to protect Amazon’s operations lol" https://x.com/alexnpress/status/1869764581360619628 Luis Feliz Leon tweet w/pic of cops escorting handcuffed Amazon driver: "Breaking: Amazon driver attempted to stop his delivery van in support of ULP strike NYC in the warehouse entrance. The cops swarmed him, and he was arrested. Workers surrounded the van, and cops flung them off." https://x.com/Lfelizleon/status/1869748494250152071
December 19, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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dantastic.bsky.social
Saw this on FB. #starwars
December 17, 2024 at 11:21 AM
yougotrobd.bsky.social
Lubalin's Pale Blue Dot has been on repeat for the past few days. I really want this song to blow up, it does good things for me.

youtu.be/yPMwdCR5atc?...
Lubalin – pale blue dot (official music video)
YouTube video by Lubalin
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December 14, 2024 at 5:30 AM
yougotrobd.bsky.social
3-hr series recap video: skimmed
Read-through of the Mistborn trilogy: paused
My free time for the next month: claimed

Wind and Truth: begun!
December 8, 2024 at 9:09 PM
yougotrobd.bsky.social
You should throw out your black plastic cooking utensils and replace them with wood because the plastic increases your risk of cancer and because the wood makes you feel like a medieval peasant shakily scooping the last of the stone soup, wondering how your family will survive the winter.
December 5, 2024 at 8:19 PM
yougotrobd.bsky.social
We always know when it's dinner time
Two white and gray cats sitting up and staring off-camera in an identical fashion
December 5, 2024 at 4:49 PM
yougotrobd.bsky.social
"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail."

Speak on that 🤔

www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime
These high-powered weapons are only meant for police. How are they ending up in criminals' hands?
www.cbsnews.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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cherijacobus.bsky.social
December 5, 2024 at 12:26 AM
yougotrobd.bsky.social
Charlie didn't appreciate me trying to capture a picture of her blissful expression while I was scratching her butt
A brown Chihuahua giving some serious side-eye
December 3, 2024 at 7:58 PM
yougotrobd.bsky.social
Gonna be thinking about this any time a talking head or politician describes something as a "national security threat."

The Myth of American Idealism, by Noam Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson
A book passage reading "The planners "defined security in terms of correlation of power" and "defined power in terms of control over or access to resources," by which logic any thread to U.S. control of resources was a threat to national security."
December 3, 2024 at 7:27 PM