Ephrom
@ephromjosine.bsky.social
An SCC member and political commentator who has also written books before.
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October is "Breast Cancer Awareness Month." Brought to you by Big Boobs.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
October is "Breast Cancer Awareness Month." Brought to you by Big Boobs.
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In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning
October 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning
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thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead
October 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead
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Obama is the lynchpin of neoliberal failure:
- no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis
- no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture
- no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber
- refused to reform the filibuster
- drone wars expanded
- no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis
- no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture
- no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber
- refused to reform the filibuster
- drone wars expanded
obama ramped up the use of drone strikes (10x more than bush!) and deported a record number of immigrants. he helped maintain and expand the systems trump is now using to do his crimes
I miss the times when the worst thing a President did was wear a tan suit
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Obama is the lynchpin of neoliberal failure:
- no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis
- no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture
- no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber
- refused to reform the filibuster
- drone wars expanded
- no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis
- no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture
- no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber
- refused to reform the filibuster
- drone wars expanded
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it's not the law, but his decision to acknowledge the law, that is the highest authority here. trump isn't half as scary as how so many US institutions seem as though they'd be perfectly content with a dictator
Well, glad we solved that constitutional riddle
Trump Says He’s Barred From Running for Third Term After Weeks of Speculation
The president’s comments come after his allies promoted the idea of another term.
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
it's not the law, but his decision to acknowledge the law, that is the highest authority here. trump isn't half as scary as how so many US institutions seem as though they'd be perfectly content with a dictator
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they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
they are able to peel back the ACA because its a shitty half measure but if we had gotten real universal healthcare instead no one would dare touch it because literally everybody on all sides would flip out. one more reason why Democratic incrementalism and "pragmatism" is fucking stupid !!!!!
Yes, I'm sure if Climate Change didn't exist neither would modern fascism, I am very smart.
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Yes, I'm sure if Climate Change didn't exist neither would modern fascism, I am very smart.
I'm thinking about that time ContraPoints was like "I used to see right-wingers get really mad at ISIS beheading videos and that's just like what the left does with Israel" and nobody screamed out "Why shouldn't we be mad at ISIS beheading videos?"
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I'm thinking about that time ContraPoints was like "I used to see right-wingers get really mad at ISIS beheading videos and that's just like what the left does with Israel" and nobody screamed out "Why shouldn't we be mad at ISIS beheading videos?"
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sounds a lot like manufacturing consent for removing legal and bodily autonomy from people in their 20s
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
sounds a lot like manufacturing consent for removing legal and bodily autonomy from people in their 20s
Every parent should want what's best for their children, and that should include allowing them to have the best genetics possible. I don't know why this notion is so controversial.
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Every parent should want what's best for their children, and that should include allowing them to have the best genetics possible. I don't know why this notion is so controversial.
The fuck is with idolizing a civilization that lets people be idiots? "You used to be able to leave your doors unlocked at night." I can already do that, it's just a moronic idea I would never consider no matter how safe I am.
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The fuck is with idolizing a civilization that lets people be idiots? "You used to be able to leave your doors unlocked at night." I can already do that, it's just a moronic idea I would never consider no matter how safe I am.
If you are the same person at 12 as you are at 30, you're a piece of shit. I don't care what "science" says.
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
If you are the same person at 12 as you are at 30, you're a piece of shit. I don't care what "science" says.
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Why are they trying to find reasons that they can restrict trans people but also justify why they can fuck childern?
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Why are they trying to find reasons that they can restrict trans people but also justify why they can fuck childern?
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
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We sure this isn’t the researcher(s) trying to build an elaborate justification for whatever bigotry they want to indulge in? Refuse to hire young post-docs — you’re not a real brain yet. Refuse to hire 30s - we’re a mismatch. Claim optimum adulthood by moving goal posts. Deny young people autonomy?
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
We sure this isn’t the researcher(s) trying to build an elaborate justification for whatever bigotry they want to indulge in? Refuse to hire young post-docs — you’re not a real brain yet. Refuse to hire 30s - we’re a mismatch. Claim optimum adulthood by moving goal posts. Deny young people autonomy?
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Not Gonna Lie, folks. I am incredibly dubious in this day and age of any study that states 'you don't reach adulthood until X' considering how the 'full brain at 25' thing has been weaponized by both young and old to avoid responsibility and deny autonomy
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Not Gonna Lie, folks. I am incredibly dubious in this day and age of any study that states 'you don't reach adulthood until X' considering how the 'full brain at 25' thing has been weaponized by both young and old to avoid responsibility and deny autonomy
Labour said Corbyn was too radical and unpragmatic, and now they're proposing logical, common-sense positions like abolishing trial by jury for certain crimes.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Labour said Corbyn was too radical and unpragmatic, and now they're proposing logical, common-sense positions like abolishing trial by jury for certain crimes.
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if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Ex-president to start serving term in 12 sq metre bedroom in police base in Brasília after time for appeals elapses
Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been ordered to start serving his 27-year sentence in a 12 sq metre bedroom in a police base in the capital, Brasília, after his conviction for plotting a coup.
The far-right populist, who governed Latin America’s largest democracy from 2019 until 2022, was handed the punishment in September after the supreme court found him guilty of leading a criminal conspiracy to stop his leftwing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking power. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Jair Bolsonaro ordered to start 27-year prison term for plotting Brazil coup
Unfriended was a thing at one point, just wanted to remind you all.
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Unfriended was a thing at one point, just wanted to remind you all.
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