Deth Veggie
@dethveggie.bsky.social
Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable -- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -- .ooM
Hacker / Archaeologist / Gadabout / Professional Something-or-Other. Anti-fascist and Pro-science. As the old axiom says, reality has a liberal bias.
Hacker / Archaeologist / Gadabout / Professional Something-or-Other. Anti-fascist and Pro-science. As the old axiom says, reality has a liberal bias.
Pinned
Today I visited the concentration camp (Thereseinstadt) where my ggrandfather was imprisoned. It's something I fairly consciously avoided doing in the 12 years I lived in Europe. It was, as you may imagine, a fairly emotionally charged thing for me.
Evergreen skeet.
i am once again asking everyone who feels bad about working at a fascist agency to quit the agency
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Evergreen skeet.
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It’s almost as if he wants to create the political conditions for a pissed off electorate to demand Medicare for All just so he can go back to the private sector, shatter his old company’s $1.7B health care fraud record, and get away with it again
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It’s almost as if he wants to create the political conditions for a pissed off electorate to demand Medicare for All just so he can go back to the private sector, shatter his old company’s $1.7B health care fraud record, and get away with it again
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The term of art for this in a bankruptcy court is "fraudulent conveyance". Stealing money that isn't yours and then transferring it to a third party to defraud creditors is also a crime. It doesn't eliminate the possibility for judgment on the first charge.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The term of art for this in a bankruptcy court is "fraudulent conveyance". Stealing money that isn't yours and then transferring it to a third party to defraud creditors is also a crime. It doesn't eliminate the possibility for judgment on the first charge.
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This is of course true - and when you shift law enforcement resources away from areas of high crime to focus on lower crime areas the inevitable result is more, not less crime. In red states, most likely. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Trump’s claims about murder rates, illegal immigration fit red states more than blue ones
As federal immigration agents carry out the president's “Operation Midway Blitz” in Democrat-led Illinois — a "blue state" — a WBEZ and Sun-Times analysis shows other Republican-led "red states" have ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is of course true - and when you shift law enforcement resources away from areas of high crime to focus on lower crime areas the inevitable result is more, not less crime. In red states, most likely. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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/4 As for her belief in psychics and disbelief we landed on the moon, she’s saying those things in the context of widespread belief that tarrifs are not taxes and are paid by the foreign country from which goods are imported, so I don’t think she stands out much.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
/4 As for her belief in psychics and disbelief we landed on the moon, she’s saying those things in the context of widespread belief that tarrifs are not taxes and are paid by the foreign country from which goods are imported, so I don’t think she stands out much.
IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY PREDICTED THAT THE TERRORISTS RUNNING THE COUNTRY WERE NOT NEGOTIATING IN GOOD FAITH.
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY PREDICTED THAT THE TERRORISTS RUNNING THE COUNTRY WERE NOT NEGOTIATING IN GOOD FAITH.
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This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE?
Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.
I think they need to be even more straight forward and avoid euphemisms.
"Contacted for a comment, a spokesman instead repeatedly dodged the question, and instead explicitly lied to the reporter."
"Contacted for a comment, a spokesman instead repeatedly dodged the question, and instead explicitly lied to the reporter."
FWIW, I have noticed on a few occasions a story noting something like, "Contacted for a comment, a spokesman ignored several questions and instead insulted the reporter."
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I think they need to be even more straight forward and avoid euphemisms.
"Contacted for a comment, a spokesman instead repeatedly dodged the question, and instead explicitly lied to the reporter."
"Contacted for a comment, a spokesman instead repeatedly dodged the question, and instead explicitly lied to the reporter."
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practice, but this is an admin like no other. They are at war with the press - not seeking to inform the public with facts or truth.Their statements never address the substance of the story. Time to reexamine why media keeps including insults and propaganda in stories.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
practice, but this is an admin like no other. They are at war with the press - not seeking to inform the public with facts or truth.Their statements never address the substance of the story. Time to reexamine why media keeps including insults and propaganda in stories.
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Completely agree
I consume a massive amount of political news. And in every story the reporter contacts the specific Trump admin spokesperson for comment and the response is always a venomous personal insult followed by praise for Trump or a cabinet official. I realize that has always been standard journalistic
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Completely agree
www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Our second-oldest ally (or maybe third?) ceasing intelligence sharing due to us habitually murdering boatfuls of innocent people on the high seas.
Our second-oldest ally (or maybe third?) ceasing intelligence sharing due to us habitually murdering boatfuls of innocent people on the high seas.
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Our second-oldest ally (or maybe third?) ceasing intelligence sharing due to us habitually murdering boatfuls of innocent people on the high seas.
Our second-oldest ally (or maybe third?) ceasing intelligence sharing due to us habitually murdering boatfuls of innocent people on the high seas.
Good. I hope they win.
In September, federal agents swarmed a Hyundai manufacturing site, detaining more than 500 workers, including more than 300 from South Korea.
Now, nearly 200 detainees are preparing to sue ICE, alleging human rights violations and unlawful arrest.
Now, nearly 200 detainees are preparing to sue ICE, alleging human rights violations and unlawful arrest.
These South Korean workers came to the US to build an EV battery plant. They left in shackles. They still want to know why
ICE agents raided, arrested workers at a Georgia battery factory in September.
abcnews.link
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Good. I hope they win.
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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On this Veterans Day, more than any before, let us remember the valiant service of Black, Hispanic, Navajo, Japanese and other non-white Americans who fought bravely for the ideals of a country that failed to live up to them, and whose legacy a racist GOP is desperately trying to erase.
Two panels highlighting the role of African American soldiers in the liberation of the Netherlands have been removed from the American Military Cemetary Margraten. The Cemetary is controlled by the AMBC, and the panels were removed in line with current Trump policy.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
Monument: Op de Amerikaanse begraafplaats in Margraten is het opeens stil geworden rond de zwarte Amerikanen die hielpen Nederland bevrijden. Twee panelen die hun bijdrage herdachten – én wezen op hun...
www.nrc.nl
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
On this Veterans Day, more than any before, let us remember the valiant service of Black, Hispanic, Navajo, Japanese and other non-white Americans who fought bravely for the ideals of a country that failed to live up to them, and whose legacy a racist GOP is desperately trying to erase.
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In a single day, two different federal officers point guns at two different @chicagotribune.com photojournalists in and around Chicago. This is dangerous stuff.
1/2 Are there any experts out there who can correctly identify the weapons being pointed directly at these two @chicagotribune.com photojournalists?
What type of gun is this?
cc: @mandophotos.bsky.social
What type of gun is this?
cc: @mandophotos.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
In a single day, two different federal officers point guns at two different @chicagotribune.com photojournalists in and around Chicago. This is dangerous stuff.
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I mean you're the one being a racist "Ancient brown people couldn't have possibly built those things, it MUST have a superior race of white beings..."
The Annunaki pseudoscience is DEEPLY grounded in white supremacism.
The Annunaki pseudoscience is DEEPLY grounded in white supremacism.
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I mean you're the one being a racist "Ancient brown people couldn't have possibly built those things, it MUST have a superior race of white beings..."
The Annunaki pseudoscience is DEEPLY grounded in white supremacism.
The Annunaki pseudoscience is DEEPLY grounded in white supremacism.
Heroes.
4 UC Berkeley undergrads who put up a cardboard insect to protest Turning P*int USA’s sold out campus event are being charged with FELONY VANDALISM.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Heroes.
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More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
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White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
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JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
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For the left, there’s a fracture between neoliberals and progressives.
For the right, it’s between Nazis and moderates.
Progressives and moderates are finding common ground in resistance.
Currently can’t tell if establishment Dems will join the Nazis in the minority or the People in the majority.
For the right, it’s between Nazis and moderates.
Progressives and moderates are finding common ground in resistance.
Currently can’t tell if establishment Dems will join the Nazis in the minority or the People in the majority.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
For the left, there’s a fracture between neoliberals and progressives.
For the right, it’s between Nazis and moderates.
Progressives and moderates are finding common ground in resistance.
Currently can’t tell if establishment Dems will join the Nazis in the minority or the People in the majority.
For the right, it’s between Nazis and moderates.
Progressives and moderates are finding common ground in resistance.
Currently can’t tell if establishment Dems will join the Nazis in the minority or the People in the majority.
Holy shit. I thought this was satire, but he literally Insane Clown Posse'd.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Holy shit. I thought this was satire, but he literally Insane Clown Posse'd.
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Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"
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Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.
Three former San Antonio police officers were acquitted on Monday of all charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman who appeared to be having a mental health crisis when they were dispatched to her apartment in 2023. nyti.ms/4qRnvvT
3 San Antonio Officers Acquitted in Fatal Shooting of Woman in 2023
Melissa Perez, 46, swung a hammer in their direction and appeared to be in distress in her home when the officers arrived, officials said.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.