David Jones
@drolympia.bsky.social
Where elderly dementia eagles dare and drunken deviated septum clowns rule and where I sit mulling it all over, waiting for dreams of a good place to awake
Polyopoly of Force
January 4, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Polyopoly of Force
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Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted
December 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted
'The clubby deal-making and moral racketeering of the Epstein class is now the United States’ governing philosophy'
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
'The clubby deal-making and moral racketeering of the Epstein class is now the United States’ governing philosophy'
Secession of the Plebs
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Secession of the Plebs
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I don't think Tuesday's shellacking changes much in the Senate. But it could make Speaker Mike's self-immolation on Trump's behalf a lot less agreeable to a bunch of soon-to-be-unemployed House members.
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I don't think Tuesday's shellacking changes much in the Senate. But it could make Speaker Mike's self-immolation on Trump's behalf a lot less agreeable to a bunch of soon-to-be-unemployed House members.
“If you hurt my people,” he said, “nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.”
August 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“If you hurt my people,” he said, “nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.”
Meet me darling come Saturday night
all good souls from near and far we’ll
meet in the house of 1000 guitars
all good souls from near and far we’ll
meet in the house of 1000 guitars
July 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Meet me darling come Saturday night
all good souls from near and far we’ll
meet in the house of 1000 guitars
all good souls from near and far we’ll
meet in the house of 1000 guitars
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Hard to argue with that, it’s right there in the Book of Cruel Rich Psychopath Assholes
GOP senator insists 'Biblically, you're supposed to work' to earn medical care
Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV) defended the GOP's planned deep cuts to Medicaid that could kick over 10 million low-income people off health insurance.According to The Independent's D.C. bureau chief Eric Mi...
www.rawstory.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Hard to argue with that, it’s right there in the Book of Cruel Rich Psychopath Assholes
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More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.
June 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
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Susan Crawford has the Mandate of Heaven, the West must fall
April 2, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Susan Crawford has the Mandate of Heaven, the West must fall
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This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute.
Spread it far and wide.
Spread it far and wide.
WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
March 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute.
Spread it far and wide.
Spread it far and wide.
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this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
March 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg
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This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.
Coffee, I like it. Wanted you all to know that.
February 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Coffee, I like it. Wanted you all to know that.
keep your conversations boring, people, we have a nation to keep...
February 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
keep your conversations boring, people, we have a nation to keep...
'Why are the pictures square if the lens is round?'
-Steven Wright
-Steven Wright
January 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
'Why are the pictures square if the lens is round?'
-Steven Wright
-Steven Wright
'When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him'
December 27, 2024 at 10:31 AM
'When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him'
“My medical billing app just added it, novel avian influenza is now a billing option when I code acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. It was never there before last week.” H5N1 has begun to be recognized by the industry is a sick looking canary, not dead yet, but sick. (Jessica Wildfire Substack)
Everything "That Friend" Wants You to Know About H5N1 Bird Flu
An article with ongoing updates.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:17 AM
“My medical billing app just added it, novel avian influenza is now a billing option when I code acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. It was never there before last week.” H5N1 has begun to be recognized by the industry is a sick looking canary, not dead yet, but sick. (Jessica Wildfire Substack)
Are we able to grasp the amazing positives of climate mitigation? We should be explaining how living in this future would be like entering an entirely better world
November 14, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Are we able to grasp the amazing positives of climate mitigation? We should be explaining how living in this future would be like entering an entirely better world
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We will not be silenced! 🗣
November 13, 2024 at 12:11 AM
We will not be silenced! 🗣
'reality based on ignorance, lies, and denial. That leads to a weak society that can come apart at the seams far more easily'
October 22, 2024 at 3:17 AM
'reality based on ignorance, lies, and denial. That leads to a weak society that can come apart at the seams far more easily'