Robert Emmerson
@dreadpiraterob.bsky.social
Father, husband, teacher of small children, cyclist, ukulele player, lover of pie, progressive activist
Do you wonder what Elon is doing over at Twitter? Don't.
In case people are wondering how things are going over on X, the everything app
July 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Do you wonder what Elon is doing over at Twitter? Don't.
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This man is a pet groomer in Iran.
I don’t know anything about this particular kitten, but there are many street cats in Iran, and Iranians often take them in — so pet groomers always have lots of customers.
Wait for the last couple of meows.
I don’t know anything about this particular kitten, but there are many street cats in Iran, and Iranians often take them in — so pet groomers always have lots of customers.
Wait for the last couple of meows.
July 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This man is a pet groomer in Iran.
I don’t know anything about this particular kitten, but there are many street cats in Iran, and Iranians often take them in — so pet groomers always have lots of customers.
Wait for the last couple of meows.
I don’t know anything about this particular kitten, but there are many street cats in Iran, and Iranians often take them in — so pet groomers always have lots of customers.
Wait for the last couple of meows.
This is the only good policy change the Trump administration and the GOP have ever done.
www.rawstory.com/tsa/
www.rawstory.com/tsa/
'About dang time!' TSA quietly removes long-reviled security check
The internet erupted in cheers Monday over reporting that the Transportation Security Administration quietly reversed a decades-old security check long reviled by travelers.The TSA began encouraging p...
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July 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is the only good policy change the Trump administration and the GOP have ever done.
www.rawstory.com/tsa/
www.rawstory.com/tsa/
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Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs.
What the hell are we doing?
What the hell are we doing?
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
June 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs.
What the hell are we doing?
What the hell are we doing?
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MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
June 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
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As long as they’re hiding their faces, badges and names we should stop calling them “federal agents.”
Call them masked goons or unidentified thugs or whatever, unless and until they provide proper ID.
Call them masked goons or unidentified thugs or whatever, unless and until they provide proper ID.
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As long as they’re hiding their faces, badges and names we should stop calling them “federal agents.”
Call them masked goons or unidentified thugs or whatever, unless and until they provide proper ID.
Call them masked goons or unidentified thugs or whatever, unless and until they provide proper ID.
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Mike Lee shouldn't just be expelled from Congress, he should be expelled from public life, just completely shunned by everyone he encounters like in that episode of The Twilight Zone.
He is unfit to hold public office and his party should take action. The party won't, but it should.
He is unfit to hold public office and his party should take action. The party won't, but it should.
June 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Mike Lee shouldn't just be expelled from Congress, he should be expelled from public life, just completely shunned by everyone he encounters like in that episode of The Twilight Zone.
He is unfit to hold public office and his party should take action. The party won't, but it should.
He is unfit to hold public office and his party should take action. The party won't, but it should.
Seriously.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
June 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Seriously.
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“My family was separated by deportation, and I was left behind.” - Diane Guerrero
June 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“My family was separated by deportation, and I was left behind.” - Diane Guerrero
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Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him
June 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him
The Republican Party fires people for being black.
C'mon, DNC, why aren't you saying this every day?
www.rawstory.com/trump-librar...
C'mon, DNC, why aren't you saying this every day?
www.rawstory.com/trump-librar...
'An absolute disgrace': Fury as Trump fires 'American hero' with 2-sentence email
U.S. President Donald Trump sparked widespread outrage Thursday by abruptly firing Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden with a two-sentence email sent by the White House's deputy director of presidentia...
www.rawstory.com
May 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Republican Party fires people for being black.
C'mon, DNC, why aren't you saying this every day?
www.rawstory.com/trump-librar...
C'mon, DNC, why aren't you saying this every day?
www.rawstory.com/trump-librar...
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"Listen not to what they say – watch what they do." >> act.gp/3GDpTUa
#DontTrumpCanada #Cdnpoli #CanadaStrong #Election2025
#DontTrumpCanada #Cdnpoli #CanadaStrong #Election2025
April 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
"Listen not to what they say – watch what they do." >> act.gp/3GDpTUa
#DontTrumpCanada #Cdnpoli #CanadaStrong #Election2025
#DontTrumpCanada #Cdnpoli #CanadaStrong #Election2025
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Pierre Poilievre has been in politics for 20 years, he's written 0 legislation; has one of the highest pensions in government. He's voted against the environment & climate nearly 400 times, derailed legislation to benefit workers, and voted against affordable housing initiatives.
January 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Pierre Poilievre has been in politics for 20 years, he's written 0 legislation; has one of the highest pensions in government. He's voted against the environment & climate nearly 400 times, derailed legislation to benefit workers, and voted against affordable housing initiatives.
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After reading the Poilievre platform, it should be titled Boot The Suit. Unserious word pablum and condescending assumptions, bad math, wrapped in pandering sloganism. Simple solutions from a simple man who doesn't understand the world isn't simple. #cdnpoli
April 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
After reading the Poilievre platform, it should be titled Boot The Suit. Unserious word pablum and condescending assumptions, bad math, wrapped in pandering sloganism. Simple solutions from a simple man who doesn't understand the world isn't simple. #cdnpoli
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Kidnapping people off the street, flying them to a foreign country and paying to have them locked up in a brutal prison is not just outrageous. It's criminal. Criminal on many levels. Criminal in ways from which it cannot possibly be argued the president has immunity for his behavior.
April 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Kidnapping people off the street, flying them to a foreign country and paying to have them locked up in a brutal prison is not just outrageous. It's criminal. Criminal on many levels. Criminal in ways from which it cannot possibly be argued the president has immunity for his behavior.
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Jason Stanley again on why he's leaving his job at Yale and moving to Canada.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqof...
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-Matter #Ethics #Justice #SocialJustice #fuckmaga #Anti-Fascist #antifa #AntiTrump #AntiMAGA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqof...
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-Matter #Ethics #Justice #SocialJustice #fuckmaga #Anti-Fascist #antifa #AntiTrump #AntiMAGA
Expert on Fascism Explains Why He’s Getting Out of America Right NOW, Offers Chilling Warning
YouTube video by The Humanist Report
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April 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Jason Stanley again on why he's leaving his job at Yale and moving to Canada.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqof...
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-Matter #Ethics #Justice #SocialJustice #fuckmaga #Anti-Fascist #antifa #AntiTrump #AntiMAGA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqof...
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-Matter #Ethics #Justice #SocialJustice #fuckmaga #Anti-Fascist #antifa #AntiTrump #AntiMAGA
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You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.
“Mommy, no. Mommy.”
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.
The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.
When you remove 30% of the parts from a car, it doesn't make it more efficient. It just stops working.
Republicans are destroying the economy, destroying democracy, and making sure China becomes the global superpower.
www.rawstory.com/social-secur...
Republicans are destroying the economy, destroying democracy, and making sure China becomes the global superpower.
www.rawstory.com/social-secur...
Trump said he'd protect Social Security — Elon Musk is killing it from inside: employee
A ten-year civil servant at the Social Security Administration is asking why tech billionaire Elon Musk has made one of his first major targets the government agency working with remarkable efficiency...
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April 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
When you remove 30% of the parts from a car, it doesn't make it more efficient. It just stops working.
Republicans are destroying the economy, destroying democracy, and making sure China becomes the global superpower.
www.rawstory.com/social-secur...
Republicans are destroying the economy, destroying democracy, and making sure China becomes the global superpower.
www.rawstory.com/social-secur...
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I kind of want to go
April 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I kind of want to go
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The last time the US set tariffs this high, it was 1930 -- and it sparked a global trade war that caused international trade to PLUMMET.
By 66%.
By 66%.
April 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The last time the US set tariffs this high, it was 1930 -- and it sparked a global trade war that caused international trade to PLUMMET.
By 66%.
By 66%.
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Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.
March 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.
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One random show, with no press or preknowledge. They should do the play as Bill and Ted, everyone else is normal, they are bill and Ted - it is never addressed.
March 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
One random show, with no press or preknowledge. They should do the play as Bill and Ted, everyone else is normal, they are bill and Ted - it is never addressed.
If you are crossing the border make sure you sign out of all social media, disable face or fingerprint unlock, or better yet, factory reset it.
Hey Canadians:
I just heard about two Canadian friends of a friend who were driving into the US. The border agents demanded they unlock their phones; the agents searched the phones, found anti-Trump stuff on one, then confiscated that phone and neither person was allowed into the US
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I just heard about two Canadian friends of a friend who were driving into the US. The border agents demanded they unlock their phones; the agents searched the phones, found anti-Trump stuff on one, then confiscated that phone and neither person was allowed into the US
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March 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you are crossing the border make sure you sign out of all social media, disable face or fingerprint unlock, or better yet, factory reset it.
Bondi and Rubio should be jailed for contempt until their return.
It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador *precisely because* any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately.
Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
We’re Finally Seeing the “Evidence” Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. It’s Unbelievable.
The Trump admin said a soccer player had a gang tattoo. It’s a tattoo of Real Madrid’s logo.
slate.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Bondi and Rubio should be jailed for contempt until their return.