J. Allen Kaiser
@jallenkaiser.bsky.social
#Ukraine supporter.
Still #NeverTrump.
End #CitizensUnited
Here for democracies, resisting authoritarianism
Stovebuilder for masonry heater diplomacy; піч, Speicheröfen, Leivinuuni, Kakelugn.
Still #NeverTrump.
End #CitizensUnited
Here for democracies, resisting authoritarianism
Stovebuilder for masonry heater diplomacy; піч, Speicheröfen, Leivinuuni, Kakelugn.
I feel you. I’m not one to find comfort in optimism by default—when so often it’s obviously [to me] conceived of emotional need & animated by magical thinking
There’s much I don’t agree with Chris Hedges on—but for the last decade I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the truth of these words:
There’s much I don’t agree with Chris Hedges on—but for the last decade I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the truth of these words:
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I feel you. I’m not one to find comfort in optimism by default—when so often it’s obviously [to me] conceived of emotional need & animated by magical thinking
There’s much I don’t agree with Chris Hedges on—but for the last decade I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the truth of these words:
There’s much I don’t agree with Chris Hedges on—but for the last decade I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the truth of these words:
Hits even harder thinking about the (unsung) lyrics’ meaning…when applied to the context of this defender playing this song in the muddy fog somewhere in the occupied territories, fighting to bring down the Russian aggressor—family back home praying for a night with no air raid alarms & no surprises
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hits even harder thinking about the (unsung) lyrics’ meaning…when applied to the context of this defender playing this song in the muddy fog somewhere in the occupied territories, fighting to bring down the Russian aggressor—family back home praying for a night with no air raid alarms & no surprises
Reading past the excerpt: Hegseth makes clear that—to him—and every other Project2025 White Christian Nationalist—it was never an order’s illegality which gives a soldier the duty to disobey it.
It’s the identity of the President giving the order—Obama—who wasn’t “befitting of [soldiers’] loyalty”
It’s the identity of the President giving the order—Obama—who wasn’t “befitting of [soldiers’] loyalty”
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Reading past the excerpt: Hegseth makes clear that—to him—and every other Project2025 White Christian Nationalist—it was never an order’s illegality which gives a soldier the duty to disobey it.
It’s the identity of the President giving the order—Obama—who wasn’t “befitting of [soldiers’] loyalty”
It’s the identity of the President giving the order—Obama—who wasn’t “befitting of [soldiers’] loyalty”
Precisely. It’s the DARVO pattern—leaving themselves leverage to blame the victim who calls them on their abusive behavior by denigrating them—“can’t take a joke”—and pretending themselves to be the victim of free speech suppression, thought policing, and “woke” / “politically correct” censorship.
December 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Precisely. It’s the DARVO pattern—leaving themselves leverage to blame the victim who calls them on their abusive behavior by denigrating them—“can’t take a joke”—and pretending themselves to be the victim of free speech suppression, thought policing, and “woke” / “politically correct” censorship.
🎯 Trump openly latched onto the idea…hedged as “a joke” —just as every unconstitutional idea and disgusting statement Trump & MAGA have floated. It has always been “just a joke”…until they make “the joke” enough times to normalize broaching it —“humorously”…Then they follow through on it—*seriously*
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
🎯 Trump openly latched onto the idea…hedged as “a joke” —just as every unconstitutional idea and disgusting statement Trump & MAGA have floated. It has always been “just a joke”…until they make “the joke” enough times to normalize broaching it —“humorously”…Then they follow through on it—*seriously*
Oh, these guys are WAY off the rails. If anyone other than Biblical Jesus voices 2/3rds of Jesus’s ideas—CREC demonizes them as “Marxist” and “radical left atheist.”
Doug Wilson & CREC = same folks who say women shouldn’t have voting rights, defend black slavery, preach against “the sin of empathy”
Doug Wilson & CREC = same folks who say women shouldn’t have voting rights, defend black slavery, preach against “the sin of empathy”
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Oh, these guys are WAY off the rails. If anyone other than Biblical Jesus voices 2/3rds of Jesus’s ideas—CREC demonizes them as “Marxist” and “radical left atheist.”
Doug Wilson & CREC = same folks who say women shouldn’t have voting rights, defend black slavery, preach against “the sin of empathy”
Doug Wilson & CREC = same folks who say women shouldn’t have voting rights, defend black slavery, preach against “the sin of empathy”
I guarantee “warrior” wording partly stems from Doug Wilson’s Christian Nationalist CREC orgs—Hegseth is a member, sends kids to CREC school
“Warriors for Christ”
“Culture Warriors…at war with Cultural Marxism”
“[nonchristians/LGBTQ/scientists] are at war with God” etc.
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
“Warriors for Christ”
“Culture Warriors…at war with Cultural Marxism”
“[nonchristians/LGBTQ/scientists] are at war with God” etc.
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I guarantee “warrior” wording partly stems from Doug Wilson’s Christian Nationalist CREC orgs—Hegseth is a member, sends kids to CREC school
“Warriors for Christ”
“Culture Warriors…at war with Cultural Marxism”
“[nonchristians/LGBTQ/scientists] are at war with God” etc.
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
“Warriors for Christ”
“Culture Warriors…at war with Cultural Marxism”
“[nonchristians/LGBTQ/scientists] are at war with God” etc.
www.npr.org/transcripts/...
@benborges.xyz he fella! Just a (hopefully helpful) heads-up in case you weren’t aware: there appears to be a bug in a script/API/plug-in you’re using to share YT links to Bsky…it’s apparently got an “undefined” field that’s populating your posts with that text on the last line of every YT link post
December 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM
@benborges.xyz he fella! Just a (hopefully helpful) heads-up in case you weren’t aware: there appears to be a bug in a script/API/plug-in you’re using to share YT links to Bsky…it’s apparently got an “undefined” field that’s populating your posts with that text on the last line of every YT link post
I voted against all of this darkest and most terrible timeline…and I’ll keep donating and protesting and volunteering until I can vote against it again. In the meantime, never ever quitting.
Russia’s socioeconomics are in stage 4 cancer mode. Dunno which day it’ll die, but it’s undeniably terminal.
Russia’s socioeconomics are in stage 4 cancer mode. Dunno which day it’ll die, but it’s undeniably terminal.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I voted against all of this darkest and most terrible timeline…and I’ll keep donating and protesting and volunteering until I can vote against it again. In the meantime, never ever quitting.
Russia’s socioeconomics are in stage 4 cancer mode. Dunno which day it’ll die, but it’s undeniably terminal.
Russia’s socioeconomics are in stage 4 cancer mode. Dunno which day it’ll die, but it’s undeniably terminal.
Correction: Witkoff wants Putin, specifically Putin & Russia’s & Saudi’s continued cash-flow into the crypto company his and Trump’s kids own & operate
It’s a transparent bribecoin pump-&-dump money laundering scheme to enrich Witkoff & Trump families
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
It’s a transparent bribecoin pump-&-dump money laundering scheme to enrich Witkoff & Trump families
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Correction: Witkoff wants Putin, specifically Putin & Russia’s & Saudi’s continued cash-flow into the crypto company his and Trump’s kids own & operate
It’s a transparent bribecoin pump-&-dump money laundering scheme to enrich Witkoff & Trump families
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
It’s a transparent bribecoin pump-&-dump money laundering scheme to enrich Witkoff & Trump families
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Typo: it’s “World Liberty Financial” (I reversed the first 2 words of the co. name) which is owned & operated by Steve Witkoff’s + Donald Trump’s families/kids, and is netting $billions in laundered bribes from foreign states/actors—primarily Russia + Saudi Arabia
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Typo: it’s “World Liberty Financial” (I reversed the first 2 words of the co. name) which is owned & operated by Steve Witkoff’s + Donald Trump’s families/kids, and is netting $billions in laundered bribes from foreign states/actors—primarily Russia + Saudi Arabia
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
When the “Temu United States” ad is just a little too on-the-nose
![[Meme text]
A: Oh, you’re in the United States?
B: Well I was *born* in the United States
But now I’m in the
[Meme image]
“TEMU UNITED STATES”
[ad illustration of US Capitol, White House, Statue of Liberty, other various US landmarks in collage]
“CLEARANCE
EVERYTHING MUST GO”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ammcksy7bl5ncfgyvvljfrtf/bafkreihqa4owgjb3kf5fw7bqkaxx3bg3ozvokqpcqz5o3uoxatpobvggim@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
When the “Temu United States” ad is just a little too on-the-nose
@jjsmart.bsky.social YouTube really needs to clean up their act. Look at the header ad they serve *above* your profile when I search for “Jason Jay Smart” — a promo for a paid Russian propagandist, Tim Pool.
August 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
@jjsmart.bsky.social YouTube really needs to clean up their act. Look at the header ad they serve *above* your profile when I search for “Jason Jay Smart” — a promo for a paid Russian propagandist, Tim Pool.
BTW, I love your [Alphonse Mucha] Art Nouveau header image!
July 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
BTW, I love your [Alphonse Mucha] Art Nouveau header image!
Obviously they’re cowards—not the issue
It’s the reliance on the same vapid reasoning as Qanon to make its point
“You can’t spell __ without __” is the same anagram-parsing drivel that drives MAGA conspiracism
Won’t win any hearts or minds—what is does do: frame Trump’s opposition as meaningless
It’s the reliance on the same vapid reasoning as Qanon to make its point
“You can’t spell __ without __” is the same anagram-parsing drivel that drives MAGA conspiracism
Won’t win any hearts or minds—what is does do: frame Trump’s opposition as meaningless
June 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Obviously they’re cowards—not the issue
It’s the reliance on the same vapid reasoning as Qanon to make its point
“You can’t spell __ without __” is the same anagram-parsing drivel that drives MAGA conspiracism
Won’t win any hearts or minds—what is does do: frame Trump’s opposition as meaningless
It’s the reliance on the same vapid reasoning as Qanon to make its point
“You can’t spell __ without __” is the same anagram-parsing drivel that drives MAGA conspiracism
Won’t win any hearts or minds—what is does do: frame Trump’s opposition as meaningless
The evangelicals eat this shit up.
No joke.
Tucker knows he just won major cred with the Christian nationalist crowd, has them in the palm of his hand.
No joke.
Tucker knows he just won major cred with the Christian nationalist crowd, has them in the palm of his hand.
June 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The evangelicals eat this shit up.
No joke.
Tucker knows he just won major cred with the Christian nationalist crowd, has them in the palm of his hand.
No joke.
Tucker knows he just won major cred with the Christian nationalist crowd, has them in the palm of his hand.
@briantylercohen.bsky.social Would you PLEASE stop using deceptive clickbait thumbnails?
Obama is nowhere in this vid—using his image + a title quotation *he did not say* is intentionally misleading; it’s destructive to your own brand & to Dem credibility
For all our sakes—do better—BE MORE HONEST
Obama is nowhere in this vid—using his image + a title quotation *he did not say* is intentionally misleading; it’s destructive to your own brand & to Dem credibility
For all our sakes—do better—BE MORE HONEST
June 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
@briantylercohen.bsky.social Would you PLEASE stop using deceptive clickbait thumbnails?
Obama is nowhere in this vid—using his image + a title quotation *he did not say* is intentionally misleading; it’s destructive to your own brand & to Dem credibility
For all our sakes—do better—BE MORE HONEST
Obama is nowhere in this vid—using his image + a title quotation *he did not say* is intentionally misleading; it’s destructive to your own brand & to Dem credibility
For all our sakes—do better—BE MORE HONEST
I recently discovered @mindfulrussell.bsky.social Dr. Russel Razzaque’s YT channel—highly recommend
Here’s an intro excerpted from his latest vid, with a quick WhoWhatWhyHow explainer of his content
Sanity in what feels an increasingly insane, Trumpy world
YT channel:
youtube.com/@russrazz?si...
Here’s an intro excerpted from his latest vid, with a quick WhoWhatWhyHow explainer of his content
Sanity in what feels an increasingly insane, Trumpy world
YT channel:
youtube.com/@russrazz?si...
June 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I recently discovered @mindfulrussell.bsky.social Dr. Russel Razzaque’s YT channel—highly recommend
Here’s an intro excerpted from his latest vid, with a quick WhoWhatWhyHow explainer of his content
Sanity in what feels an increasingly insane, Trumpy world
YT channel:
youtube.com/@russrazz?si...
Here’s an intro excerpted from his latest vid, with a quick WhoWhatWhyHow explainer of his content
Sanity in what feels an increasingly insane, Trumpy world
YT channel:
youtube.com/@russrazz?si...
Every time Jon Stewart takes a crack at bothsideism it’s a swing-&-a-miss
It’s as if he doesn’t have the capacity to recognize the gross hypocrisy in his own rhetoric…even while critiquing the gross hypocrisy of MAGA Rs’ rhetoric —and Dems who do nothing to counter MAGA Rs’ rhetoric or their agenda
It’s as if he doesn’t have the capacity to recognize the gross hypocrisy in his own rhetoric…even while critiquing the gross hypocrisy of MAGA Rs’ rhetoric —and Dems who do nothing to counter MAGA Rs’ rhetoric or their agenda
June 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Every time Jon Stewart takes a crack at bothsideism it’s a swing-&-a-miss
It’s as if he doesn’t have the capacity to recognize the gross hypocrisy in his own rhetoric…even while critiquing the gross hypocrisy of MAGA Rs’ rhetoric —and Dems who do nothing to counter MAGA Rs’ rhetoric or their agenda
It’s as if he doesn’t have the capacity to recognize the gross hypocrisy in his own rhetoric…even while critiquing the gross hypocrisy of MAGA Rs’ rhetoric —and Dems who do nothing to counter MAGA Rs’ rhetoric or their agenda
THE I C E
IS GONNA
B R E A K
IS GONNA
B R E A K
June 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
THE I C E
IS GONNA
B R E A K
IS GONNA
B R E A K
Right in the feels
June 15, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Right in the feels
Alaska is beautiful. A lot of gorgeous mountains and wild places among the Rocky Mountains too.
It makes me incredibly sad & angry that the current regime has made the US so unsafe for tourism and travel.
It makes me incredibly sad & angry that the current regime has made the US so unsafe for tourism and travel.
June 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Alaska is beautiful. A lot of gorgeous mountains and wild places among the Rocky Mountains too.
It makes me incredibly sad & angry that the current regime has made the US so unsafe for tourism and travel.
It makes me incredibly sad & angry that the current regime has made the US so unsafe for tourism and travel.