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Midterminator
@midterminator.bsky.social
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Protect the #midterms! The policy of the GOP, the oligarchs and the trolling felon in the WH looks like a preparation for rigging the midterm elections.
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midterminator.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
Will Trump recheck all firearms licenses of US citizens after the next school shooting?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present)
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
Don't give up the ship. You can refuse illegal orders.

See also:
※ www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
※ www.factcheck.org/2025/11/expe...
※ www.ucmjlaw.com/disobey-a-su...
※ uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...
※ uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

#MarkKelly

Video: drive.proton.me/urls/6R1HG5S...
https://drive.proton.me/urls/6R1HG5SWGW#YHIlmb5E2xdj Source: Post 1990774492356902948 by Senator Elissa Slotkin, 2025-11-18 See also: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/11/experts-say-democratic-video-not-seditious-as-trump-claims/
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section890&num=0&edition=prelim
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
@smirkingchimp.bsky.social, a link in www.smirkingchimp.com/news/115537/... isn't working.

uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r... works

#MarkKelly | Mark Kelly | #UnlawfulOrders | unlawful orders
Screenshot of https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section892&num=0&edition=prelim 2025-11-27
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
Your work is important. It is no surprise that breaking the law has been normalized by a POTUS with a criminal record and by an evil party who supports his crimes.
Trubu Imperator (with apologies to Max Ernst)
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
Since 1943, Kelly is supported by this plaque at West Point.
LOYALTY TO THE CONSTITUTION THE UNITED STATES BOLDLY BROKE WITH THE ANCIENT MILITARY CUSTOM OF SWEARING LOYALTY TO A LEADER. ARTICLE VI REQUIRED THAT AMERICAN OFFICERS THEREAFTER SWEAR LOYALTY TO OUR BASIC LAW, THE CONSTITUTION. WHILE MANY OTHER NATIONS HAVE SUFFERED MILITARY COUPS, THE UNITED STATES NEVER HAS. OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW. MANY OTHER NATIONS HAVE ADOPTED OUR PRINCIPLE OF LOYALTY TO THE BASIC LAW. THIS NATION MUST HAVE MILITARY LEADERS OF PRINCIPLE AND INTEGRITY SO STRONG THAT THEIR OATHS TO SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION WILL UNFAILINGLY GOVERN THEIR ACTIONS. THE PURPOSE OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY IS TO PROVIDE SUCH LEADERS OF CHARACTER.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
With felon Trump compatible fully capitalized ALT text:
LOYALTY TO THE CONSTITUTION THE UNITED STATES BOLDLY BROKE WITH THE ANCIENT MILITARY CUSTOM OF SWEARING LOYALTY TO A LEADER. ARTICLE VI REQUIRED THAT AMERICAN OFFICERS THEREAFTER SWEAR LOYALTY TO OUR BASIC LAW, THE CONSTITUTION. WHILE MANY OTHER NATIONS HAVE SUFFERED MILITARY COUPS, THE UNITED STATES NEVER HAS. OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW. MANY OTHER NATIONS HAVE ADOPTED OUR PRINCIPLE OF LOYALTY TO THE BASIC LAW. THIS NATION MUST HAVE MILITARY LEADERS OF PRINCIPLE AND INTEGRITY SO STRONG THAT THEIR OATHS TO SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION WILL UNFAILINGLY GOVERN THEIR ACTIONS. THE PURPOSE OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY IS TO PROVIDE SUCH LEADERS OF CHARACTER.
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/18/mar-a-lago-face-plastic-surgery "Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’" "[...] Much has been made of the so-called “Mar-a-Lago face”, or the uncannily smooth and artificially voluminous features seen on the likes of Maga elite such as Kristi Noem, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz. The bee-sting puffy lips, frozen brows and taut necks have been compared to Real Housewives stars, sleep paralysis demons and – ironically, considering the Republican party’s anti-LGBTQ+ culture war – drag queens (minus the campy fun). [...]"
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
I guess the painting isn't in the White House anymore.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_We_All_Live_With#Reception === Reception === After the work was published, Rockwell received "sacks of disapproving mail", one letter accusing him of being a race traitor. Bridges herself never met Rockwell, but as an adult expressed admiration for Rockwell's courage in creating the painting. “Here was a man that had been doing lots of work, painting family images, and all of a sudden decided this is what I’m going to do…it’s wrong, and I’m going to say that it’s wrong…the mere fact that [Norman Rockwell] had enough courage to step up to the plate and say I’m going to make a statement, and he did it in a very powerful way…even though I had not had an opportunity to meet him, I commend him for that.” === Legacy === [image: Ruby Bridges and President Barack Obama view the painting in the White House. (video)] At Bridges' suggestion, President Barack Obama had the painting installed in the White House, in a hallway outside the Oval Office, from July to October 2011. Art historian William Kloss stated, "The N-word there – it sure stops you. There's a realistic reason for having the graffiti as a slur, [but] it's also right in the middle of the painting. It's a painting that could not be hung even for a brief time in the public spaces [of the White House]. I'm pretty sure of that." Bridges and Obama viewed the painting together on July 15, 2011, and he told her, "I think it's fair to say that if it hadn't been for you guys, I might not be here and we wouldn't be looking at this together." A copy of the painting was used to "dress" O. J. Simpson's house during his 1995 murder trial by defense attorney Johnnie Cochran. Cochran hoped to evoke the sympathy of visiting jurors, who were mostly black, by including "something depicting African-American history."
November 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
Will they ban Norman Rockwell too?
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The-problem-we-all-live-with-norman-rockwell.jpg
November 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
Google translation of https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-1123636, a page of the German parliament. November 7, 2025 Interior — Answer — hib 591/2025 Use of the term "Hammer Gang" Berlin: (hib/STO) The use of the term "Hammer Gang" is a topic in the Federal Government's response (21/2515 ) in response to a minor interpellation by the AfD parliamentary group (21/2357 ). This term is therefore a media-influenced term that is used both in the context of reporting on the so-called "Antifa East trial" and in the context of reporting on the so-called "Budapest complex". As the Federal Government further explains, the "Antifa East" proceedings refer to the complex of investigations surrounding several left-wing extremist attacks on alleged members of the right-wing scene since 2018 in Saxony, Thuringia, and Saxony-Anhalt. According to the response, the "Budapest complex" encompasses the investigations by Hungarian and German authorities in connection with the violent attacks on alleged members of the right-wing scene during the "Day of Honor" event in Budapest in February 2023. The federal government further writes that there is some overlap in personnel between the two investigations. To its knowledge, there is no established group called the "Hammer Gang".
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
@skywatch.bsky.social, again, please remove my account from your misleading list.

Because of Skywatch, there still are accounts believing that I support MAGA. Your list is flawed and probably does harm to many @Blueskyhelp.bsky.social accounts.

-> @support.bsky.team
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
Shubhangi Sharma @ItsShubhangi Vance's public remarks cast his wife's faith as a kind of problem to be fixed, a soul yet to be "moved." It's the image of a husband proselytising to the woman who has only ever supported him. She gave up her career for him. Trusted him enough to make three children with him. This feels like betrayal dressed as piety. The thing with J.D. Vance is, he may have been great so far as a husband, but he feels the pressure now, the closer he gets to the oval office. And instead of standing up to it, he's bending. Rather than defending his wife's dignity, he's giving in to the noise, treating his wife's faith like a political liability all while trying to please the MAGA base that treats it like a revulsive blot. As a husband and a leader, he has a responsibility to do better. But he is recklessly monkey-balancing at best, and at worst, joining in on the religious harassment of his own wife. It's a terrible look. It reeks of weak morals and tacit betrayal—in love, and in leadership.
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/goet...
https://substack.com/home/post/p-176876503 contains a link to this letter. «National Trust for Historic Preservation October 21, 2025 Mr. William Scharf, Chair National Capital Planning Commission 401 Ninth Street NW, Suite 500N Washington, DC 20004 Ms. Jessica Bowron Acting Director, National Park Service National Park Service 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 Ms. Billie Tsien, Chair Commission of Fine Arts 401 F Street NW, Suite 312 Washington, DC 20001-2728 Re: Proposed Construction of White House Ballroom Mr. Scharf, Ms. Bowron, and Ms. Tsien, [...] [...] While the National Trust acknowledges the utility of a larger meeting space at the White House, we are deeply concerned that the massing and height of the proposed new construction will overwhelm the White House itself—it is 55,000 square feet—and may also permanently disrupt the carefully balanced classical design of the White House with its two smaller, and lower, East and West Wings. [...] [...] Sincerely, Dr. Carol Quillen President and Chief Executive Officer»
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
Many US citizens still support the Republicans. And the Republicans strongly support Trump's atrocities.

Looking at the GOP and their voters, we now can understand better than ever before how Hitler could grab absolute power.
Source (2025-10-28): Gallup, https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way,
"Elections Without Democracy
THE RISE OF COMPETITIVE AUTHORITARIANISM",
page 53,
Journal of Democracy Volume 13, Number 2 April 2002

#CompetitiveAuthoritarism #Authoritarism #Democracy #AntiFascism

scholar.harvard.edu/files/levits...
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/levitsky/files/SL_elections.pdf Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, Elections Without Democracy - THE RISE OF COMPETITIVE AUTHORITARIANISM, page 53, Journal of Democracy Volume 13, Number 2 April 2002 «[...] Competitive authoritarianism must be distinguished from democracy on the one hand and full-scale authoritarianism on the other. Modern democratic regimes all meet four minimum criteria: 1) Executives and legislatures are chosen through elections that are open, free, and fair; 2) virtually all adults possess the right to vote; 3) political rights and civil liberties, including freedom of the press, freedom of association, and freedom to criticize the government without reprisal, are broadly protected; and 4) elected authorities possess real authority to govern, in that they are not subject to the tutelary control of military or clerical leaders. Although even fully democratic regimes may at times violate one or more of these criteria, such violations are not broad or systematic enough to seriously impede democratic challenges to incumbent governments. In other words, they do not fundamentally alter the playing field between government and opposition. In competitive authoritarian regimes, by contrast, violations of these criteria are both frequent enough and serious enough to create an uneven playing field between government and opposition. Although elections are regularly held and are generally free of massive fraud, incumbents routinely abuse state resources, deny the opposition adequate media coverage, harass opposition candidates and their supporters, and in some cases manipulate electoral results. Journalists, opposition politicians, and other government critics may be spied on, threatened, harassed, or arrested. Members of the opposition may be jailed, exiled, or—less frequently—even assaulted or murdered. Regimes characterized by such abuses cannot be called democratic. [...]»
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
The Destruction of the East Wing of the White House is bought to you by: Adelson Family Foundation Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Benjamin Leon, Jr. Betty Wold Johnson Foundation Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Cameron Winklevoss Caterpillar Inc. Charles and Marissa Cascarilla Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Edward and Shari Glazer Google Hard Rock International Harold Hamm HP Inc. J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher Konstantin Sokolov Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. Micron Technology Inc. Microsoft Corp. NextEra Energy Inc. Palantir Technologies Inc. Paolo Tiramani Reynolds American Inc Ripple Stefan E. Brodie Stephen A. Schwarzman T-Mobile US Inc. Tether The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation The Lutnick Family Tyler Winklevoss Union Pacific Railroad
October 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
meidasnews.com/news/trump-o...
https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-orders-federal-workers-to-stay-silent-about-white-house-demolition Trump Orders Federal Workers to Stay Silent About White House Demolition The East Wing is being torn down to make way for a $250 million ballroom, and federal employees have been told not to take photos or speak publicly about it Aaron Parnas, 2025-10-21
October 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
Different necktie in August 2025.
October 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
midterminator.bsky.social
Often the small print is at least as important as the large print.

I am not sure whether I like that hoax or not. But to those who got triggered by it, the hoax might work as an incentive to improve critical thinking.
Often the small print is at least as important as the large print. I am not sure whether I like that hoax (https://www.stopice.org/) or not. But it might work as an incentive to improve critical thinking.
October 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
Often the small print is at least as important as the large print.

I am not sure whether I like that hoax or not. But it might work as an incentive to improve critical thinking.
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
midterminator.bsky.social
Too many people get triggered by this. Keep your mind cool, your thinking critical and your resistance focused. Nothing should help the #RepublicanFelon and his gang to sabotage the midterm elections.
October 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM