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American in Oz. He/him/his. Thou/thee/thine. Views mine.
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“Everywhere you look in this age of tech-mogul-owned media, decisions follow these fascistic tastes.”
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Propaganda in cinemas, newsrooms slashed: this is the US media under Trump and his tech barons | Nesrine Malik
The president and his supporters joining forces to decide what audiences read and see seems straight from a fascism playbook, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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February 3, 2026 at 7:47 AM
“Everywhere you look in this age of tech-mogul-owned media, decisions follow these fascistic tastes.”
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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. I fled the place my grandparents settled to the place they fled Nazis. Every thing done during those dark times to help others mattered immensely and are celebrated. Resistance, empathy and humanity matter.
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Fleeing the United States
I quickly left behind most of my possessions, my friends, community, and my country to start my life over in the city where my grandmother fled Nazis.
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January 27, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. I fled the place my grandparents settled to the place they fled Nazis. Every thing done during those dark times to help others mattered immensely and are celebrated. Resistance, empathy and humanity matter.
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“The only way to keep the space from imploding is to fill it, to prop up the walls: to claim all the room there still is for speaking, writing, publishing, protesting, voting.”
Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.
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January 18, 2026 at 10:42 PM
“The only way to keep the space from imploding is to fill it, to prop up the walls: to claim all the room there still is for speaking, writing, publishing, protesting, voting.”
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🔥 JUST NOW — Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social lights up complicit Republicans: “Those of us who escaped places like that, the one place we thought we would never experience this is the united Goddamn states… I am ashamed. And we must do all we can to bring back the 🇺🇸 we all escaped into.
January 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
🔥 JUST NOW — Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social lights up complicit Republicans: “Those of us who escaped places like that, the one place we thought we would never experience this is the united Goddamn states… I am ashamed. And we must do all we can to bring back the 🇺🇸 we all escaped into.
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Here are some more ("Nazi-Style") posts from the U.S. Department of Labor . . .
... they no longer try to hide it.
🖕 Trump and his fascist regime !!
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Here are some more ("Nazi-Style") posts from the U.S. Department of Labor . . .
... they no longer try to hide it.
🖕 Trump and his fascist regime !!
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January 14, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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Here are some more ("Nazi-Style") posts from the U.S. Department of Labor . . .
... they no longer try to hide it.
🖕 Trump and his fascist regime !!
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Here are some more ("Nazi-Style") posts from the U.S. Department of Labor . . .
... they no longer try to hide it.
🖕 Trump and his fascist regime !!
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“…the laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’”
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
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January 12, 2026 at 11:43 PM
“…the laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’”
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
In other words: nothing.
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
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January 8, 2026 at 8:50 PM
In other words: nothing.
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Another post from a Venezuelan friend:
January 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Another post from a Venezuelan friend:
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Frank Zappa knew exactly what he was talking about back in 1986 when he was being interviewed with three Conservatives! 👇👇👇👇
January 4, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Frank Zappa knew exactly what he was talking about back in 1986 when he was being interviewed with three Conservatives! 👇👇👇👇
Big scoop by @nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
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January 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Big scoop by @nytimes.com
A stellar puncturing of the gasbaggery of Ross Douthat.
“… the existence of Believe is its own best counterproof: in a world where religious truths were as obvious and reasonable as Douthat wants them to be, there would be no need for him to write it.”
“… the existence of Believe is its own best counterproof: in a world where religious truths were as obvious and reasonable as Douthat wants them to be, there would be no need for him to write it.”
God of the Gaps | Robert P. Baird
Ross Douthat’s usual contrarian approach, in his recent book Believe, leads to a curiously impotent, watered-down account of religious experience.
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December 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A stellar puncturing of the gasbaggery of Ross Douthat.
“… the existence of Believe is its own best counterproof: in a world where religious truths were as obvious and reasonable as Douthat wants them to be, there would be no need for him to write it.”
“… the existence of Believe is its own best counterproof: in a world where religious truths were as obvious and reasonable as Douthat wants them to be, there would be no need for him to write it.”
Crikey. A Yank trying on an Aussie accent. Good luck, mate.
These Americans moved to Australia — but can't escape US politics
As interest in US politics surges and Australians' views shift for the worse, Americans reflect on what it's like to be an expat down under.
www.sbs.com.au
December 22, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Crikey. A Yank trying on an Aussie accent. Good luck, mate.
“They are attempting to intellectualize a fundamentally anti-intellectual movement.”
Patrick Deneen's Bullshit Case Against Liberalism
He distorts everything about this governing system and offers a scary 'aristopopulist' authoritarianism as an alternative
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December 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“They are attempting to intellectualize a fundamentally anti-intellectual movement.”
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Books about “Asian wife sharing.” Detailed descriptions of orgies. Scenes involving “ladyboys.”
That’s what @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official and mentor to Pete Hegseth.
What came next was even wilder.
That’s what @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official and mentor to Pete Hegseth.
What came next was even wilder.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Books about “Asian wife sharing.” Detailed descriptions of orgies. Scenes involving “ladyboys.”
That’s what @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official and mentor to Pete Hegseth.
What came next was even wilder.
That’s what @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered on a Goodreads page tied to the email address of a top Pentagon official and mentor to Pete Hegseth.
What came next was even wilder.
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As a pediatrician, let me say this about both RFK jr and Trump with regard to their knowledge about the health of children. They are ignorant, biased and extremely dangerous. They are both accessories to murder of children in the US and around the world and deserve to be prosecuted for that.
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
As a pediatrician, let me say this about both RFK jr and Trump with regard to their knowledge about the health of children. They are ignorant, biased and extremely dangerous. They are both accessories to murder of children in the US and around the world and deserve to be prosecuted for that.
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Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Love @ilhanmn.bsky.social
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Straight up murder!
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Straight up murder!
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It turns out, when you mix the 2016 video of Pete Hegseth talking about troops not following unlawful orders with the recent Democratic PSA on the same subject, their message flows together pretty seamlessly.
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It turns out, when you mix the 2016 video of Pete Hegseth talking about troops not following unlawful orders with the recent Democratic PSA on the same subject, their message flows together pretty seamlessly.
Let’s pause to remember how very long the US (and Republicans especially) have been meddling in Central America to create dysfunctional dictatorships and client states and the conditions that drive millions to migrate… to the US! Where they are now treated as enemy invaders.
Eugene Hasenfus, Gunrunner Who Exposed Iran-Contra Plot, Dies at 84
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December 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Let’s pause to remember how very long the US (and Republicans especially) have been meddling in Central America to create dysfunctional dictatorships and client states and the conditions that drive millions to migrate… to the US! Where they are now treated as enemy invaders.
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