John Kusters Jr
@jkusters.bsky.social
🌻 🏳️🌈🖖🏻🎲🖋 married poly cisgender gay man, he/him/his, Black Lives Matter, Trans Lives Matter, anti-fascist, writer, sci-fi fan, Trekkie, TTRPG GM, cruise addict, SF Bay Area
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Telegram: https://t.me/jkusters
Blowing stuff up really seems to give a certain segment of Americans a “hard as steel” boner. Stuff like these drone attack footage is pure pornography for people like that.
Newsmax's Greg Kelly on US strikes on alleged drug boats: “It's totally legal. It's pure, it's good. And it has nothing to do with transgender.”
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Blowing stuff up really seems to give a certain segment of Americans a “hard as steel” boner. Stuff like these drone attack footage is pure pornography for people like that.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
Only photogenic people have value in Trump’s mind.
Q: “Can you clarify where you said the Presidential Medal of Freedom is better than the Congressional Medal of Honor? Many veterans are upset about that”
TRUMP: “People who get the Congressional Medal of Honor are often horribly wounded or dead...”
#VeteransDay
TRUMP: “People who get the Congressional Medal of Honor are often horribly wounded or dead...”
#VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Only photogenic people have value in Trump’s mind.
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Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party
Let me see if I have this right. There are just enough Democratic Senator “yes” votes for cloture for the filibuster to be overcome, and none of them are up for reelection next year. All the signs of an engineered capitulation, a way to open the government without appearing to cave (but they did).
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Let me see if I have this right. There are just enough Democratic Senator “yes” votes for cloture for the filibuster to be overcome, and none of them are up for reelection next year. All the signs of an engineered capitulation, a way to open the government without appearing to cave (but they did).
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Seeing a whole lot of Dem senators rushing to get their heartfelt, “I voted no” posts up. Remember that those 8 yes votes were carefully selected bc they aren’t up for reelection. The caucus picked who would take the fall so the rest could claim to be on our side. I don’t trust any of them rn.
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Seeing a whole lot of Dem senators rushing to get their heartfelt, “I voted no” posts up. Remember that those 8 yes votes were carefully selected bc they aren’t up for reelection. The caucus picked who would take the fall so the rest could claim to be on our side. I don’t trust any of them rn.
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Tonight Democrats proved that old quip.
If a genie gave Democrats 3 wishes, they'd negotiate it down to 1, and then wish for something they think Republicans will like.
We need a true opposition party now more than ever. Because this aint it.
If a genie gave Democrats 3 wishes, they'd negotiate it down to 1, and then wish for something they think Republicans will like.
We need a true opposition party now more than ever. Because this aint it.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Tonight Democrats proved that old quip.
If a genie gave Democrats 3 wishes, they'd negotiate it down to 1, and then wish for something they think Republicans will like.
We need a true opposition party now more than ever. Because this aint it.
If a genie gave Democrats 3 wishes, they'd negotiate it down to 1, and then wish for something they think Republicans will like.
We need a true opposition party now more than ever. Because this aint it.
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.
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Just one. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Just one. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
Unbelievable. Trump may tell everyone he’s Mr. “America First,” but everyday Americans come in last place in his hierarchy.
After $40 bn for Milei, now $40 bn for Orbán? Meanwhile no money for starving children or healthcare in America.
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Unbelievable. Trump may tell everyone he’s Mr. “America First,” but everyday Americans come in last place in his hierarchy.
Sounds like an awesome endorsement to me!
James Talarico, a Texas Democrat running for U.S. Senate who has put his faith at the forefront of his campaign, follows several adult film performers, escorts and OnlyFans models on Instagram, according to an Axios review.
Faith-forward Texas Senate candidate follows porn actors, escorts online
James Talarico has become a sensation in Texas politics by talking about how his Christianity is the basis for his progressive politics.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Sounds like an awesome endorsement to me!
I met an artist on Nextdoor whose work really talks to me. She paints scenes of my part of California that perfectly capture how *I* see them. I purchased the piece in the link and will pick it up next week.
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14531 Big Basin Way, Saratoga, CA 95070
phone: 408-867-0171
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November 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I met an artist on Nextdoor whose work really talks to me. She paints scenes of my part of California that perfectly capture how *I* see them. I purchased the piece in the link and will pick it up next week.
aegis-gallery-of-fine-art-cooperative-inc14531-big-basin-way-s.square.site/product/oil-...
aegis-gallery-of-fine-art-cooperative-inc14531-big-basin-way-s.square.site/product/oil-...
I have a number of old VHS tapes and no player to watch them with. I looked around at my local recycled media stores, and none of them take VHS tapes these days. I don’t care to make money from them but am loath to send them to the landfill. Is it worth my time and effort to find them a new home?
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I have a number of old VHS tapes and no player to watch them with. I looked around at my local recycled media stores, and none of them take VHS tapes these days. I don’t care to make money from them but am loath to send them to the landfill. Is it worth my time and effort to find them a new home?
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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
Eep, Christmas music playing in my favorite sandwich shop. Isn’t it a bit early for this?!?
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Eep, Christmas music playing in my favorite sandwich shop. Isn’t it a bit early for this?!?
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This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.
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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
Absolutely true for me on far too many occasions…
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Absolutely true for me on far too many occasions…
I am reminded of the argument the conservatives made during the fight for same-sex civil marriage rights, that us gays already had the right to marry the opposite-sex person of our choosing, so we already were being treated equally. Bullshit argument then, bullshit argument now.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I am reminded of the argument the conservatives made during the fight for same-sex civil marriage rights, that us gays already had the right to marry the opposite-sex person of our choosing, so we already were being treated equally. Bullshit argument then, bullshit argument now.
*sobs in Californian*
Trump: "I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. If you look at energy, we're getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline."
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
*sobs in Californian*
Gay powers restored, blah blah blah
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Gay powers restored, blah blah blah
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We’ve still had no oversight hearings, no classified briefings, and no legal justification for this Administration's boat strikes.
It is completely a dereliction of duty for Republicans to not convene at all and be on vacation during this shutdown.
It is completely a dereliction of duty for Republicans to not convene at all and be on vacation during this shutdown.
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
We’ve still had no oversight hearings, no classified briefings, and no legal justification for this Administration's boat strikes.
It is completely a dereliction of duty for Republicans to not convene at all and be on vacation during this shutdown.
It is completely a dereliction of duty for Republicans to not convene at all and be on vacation during this shutdown.
Really, it was only a matter of time…
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Really, it was only a matter of time…
He’ll regret his words once the balance of power in the Senate shifts back to the Democrats
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
He’ll regret his words once the balance of power in the Senate shifts back to the Democrats