@johnnyflapjack.bsky.social
Working-class intellectual, with a strong background in socialism. Was off all social media, until Nazis tried to stifle criticism of their messiah. Already getting tired of the echo chamber BS & will delete this account eventually.
"The panel appears to include only one person currently working in a Texas public school district and has at least three people associated with far-right conservative activism."
Less education, more ethnonationalist indoctrination.
It was always both.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/t...
Less education, more ethnonationalist indoctrination.
It was always both.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/t...
Texas State Board of Education advisers signal push to the right in social studies overhaul - The Texas Tribune
Some advisers have criticized diversity efforts, questioned the historical contributions of people of color, and promoted debunked beliefs.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"The panel appears to include only one person currently working in a Texas public school district and has at least three people associated with far-right conservative activism."
Less education, more ethnonationalist indoctrination.
It was always both.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/t...
Less education, more ethnonationalist indoctrination.
It was always both.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/t...
A lot of Team MAGA has to wonder why he's so desperate to keep from releasing the files.
Apparently, the GOP caucus already knows.
Anyone who isn't in the files or subservient to Trump, wants them released.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Apparently, the GOP caucus already knows.
Anyone who isn't in the files or subservient to Trump, wants them released.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump puts intense pressure on Republicans to block release of Epstein files
Representatives Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace have been summoned to Situation Room or phoned by Trump himself
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A lot of Team MAGA has to wonder why he's so desperate to keep from releasing the files.
Apparently, the GOP caucus already knows.
Anyone who isn't in the files or subservient to Trump, wants them released.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Apparently, the GOP caucus already knows.
Anyone who isn't in the files or subservient to Trump, wants them released.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And here you thought Berkeley was the world capital of woke.
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
And here you thought Berkeley was the world capital of woke.
If car bombs explode simultaneously in both India & Pakistan, the perpetrator is most likely a third nation attempting to start a war they don't have to fight.
At this juncture, China is the imperialist terror-state that has the most interest in the region.
At this juncture, China is the imperialist terror-state that has the most interest in the region.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
If car bombs explode simultaneously in both India & Pakistan, the perpetrator is most likely a third nation attempting to start a war they don't have to fight.
At this juncture, China is the imperialist terror-state that has the most interest in the region.
At this juncture, China is the imperialist terror-state that has the most interest in the region.
Montana is the Spanish word for mountain.
I call upon President Trump to immediately rename the state "Mountain" or "Pile of Rocks"
#Murica
I call upon President Trump to immediately rename the state "Mountain" or "Pile of Rocks"
#Murica
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Montana is the Spanish word for mountain.
I call upon President Trump to immediately rename the state "Mountain" or "Pile of Rocks"
#Murica
I call upon President Trump to immediately rename the state "Mountain" or "Pile of Rocks"
#Murica
Why, they're just selfless champions of privacy!
Any time a capitalist cries about freedom and justice, it's always a smokescreen.
openai.com/index/fighti...
Any time a capitalist cries about freedom and justice, it's always a smokescreen.
openai.com/index/fighti...
Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy
OpenAI is fighting the New York Times’ demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and accelerating new security and privacy protections to protect your data.
openai.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Why, they're just selfless champions of privacy!
Any time a capitalist cries about freedom and justice, it's always a smokescreen.
openai.com/index/fighti...
Any time a capitalist cries about freedom and justice, it's always a smokescreen.
openai.com/index/fighti...
The "People's Branch" of govt
A fourth branch, co-equal with legislature at State & Fed lvls.
Basic HS civic literacy test to qualify for general elections.
Min BSE in some kind of engineering to make infrastructure committee
BA or BS with teaching credits/certs for education committee, etc
A fourth branch, co-equal with legislature at State & Fed lvls.
Basic HS civic literacy test to qualify for general elections.
Min BSE in some kind of engineering to make infrastructure committee
BA or BS with teaching credits/certs for education committee, etc
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The "People's Branch" of govt
A fourth branch, co-equal with legislature at State & Fed lvls.
Basic HS civic literacy test to qualify for general elections.
Min BSE in some kind of engineering to make infrastructure committee
BA or BS with teaching credits/certs for education committee, etc
A fourth branch, co-equal with legislature at State & Fed lvls.
Basic HS civic literacy test to qualify for general elections.
Min BSE in some kind of engineering to make infrastructure committee
BA or BS with teaching credits/certs for education committee, etc
Reposted
Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people.
We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.
Frankly, drawing attention to murdered journalists and conservationists is more important than anything else that's likely to be accomplished there.
Protesters lay outside the #COP30 climate summit in Brazil covered in white sheets, to call attention to the deaths of activists and journalists killed while "defending land, territories and natural resources."
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Frankly, drawing attention to murdered journalists and conservationists is more important than anything else that's likely to be accomplished there.
I have to admit, I thought they would punt Obergefell into space.
The Christofascists will be in a murderous rage by now.
Coney-Barret will get most of the death and rape threats.
They despise any perceived faith-traitors, but especially women.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...
The Christofascists will be in a murderous rage by now.
Coney-Barret will get most of the death and rape threats.
They despise any perceived faith-traitors, but especially women.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...
Supreme Court denies Kim Davis' petition to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
The judges will not revisit the landmark 2015 decision in Obergefell v Hodges.
abcnews.go.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I have to admit, I thought they would punt Obergefell into space.
The Christofascists will be in a murderous rage by now.
Coney-Barret will get most of the death and rape threats.
They despise any perceived faith-traitors, but especially women.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...
The Christofascists will be in a murderous rage by now.
Coney-Barret will get most of the death and rape threats.
They despise any perceived faith-traitors, but especially women.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...
I feel like every sixth generation or so shouldn't have to learn about authoritarian fascism first-hand.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I feel like every sixth generation or so shouldn't have to learn about authoritarian fascism first-hand.
"...the organization of Monte Sierpe is similar to the structure of at least one Inca knotted-string device used for detailed record-keeping (khipu) that was recovered near Pisco."
No wheels, no writing, no currency, problem!
Fascinating.
theconversation.com/a-centuries-...
No wheels, no writing, no currency, problem!
Fascinating.
theconversation.com/a-centuries-...
A centuries-old grid of holes in the Andes may have been a ‘spreadsheet’ for accounting and exchange
An ancient band of thousands of precisely aligned small pits stretching 1.5 kilometres across the Pisco Valley in Peru has baffled experts for almost a century.
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"...the organization of Monte Sierpe is similar to the structure of at least one Inca knotted-string device used for detailed record-keeping (khipu) that was recovered near Pisco."
No wheels, no writing, no currency, problem!
Fascinating.
theconversation.com/a-centuries-...
No wheels, no writing, no currency, problem!
Fascinating.
theconversation.com/a-centuries-...
Reposted
Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
I honestly thought they would cave sooner.
The GOP doesn't have to get the entire Dem caucus to chicken out.
But they know they can get a few, and they know who their chickens are.
In both houses.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
The GOP doesn't have to get the entire Dem caucus to chicken out.
But they know they can get a few, and they know who their chickens are.
In both houses.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
US senate votes to advance Republican bill to end government shutdown
Senate takes the first step toward ending the 40-day shutdown, advancing a funding bill after weeks of gridlock.
www.aljazeera.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I honestly thought they would cave sooner.
The GOP doesn't have to get the entire Dem caucus to chicken out.
But they know they can get a few, and they know who their chickens are.
In both houses.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
The GOP doesn't have to get the entire Dem caucus to chicken out.
But they know they can get a few, and they know who their chickens are.
In both houses.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
By being 2 of the only swing votes in the GOP Senate delegation, Collins & Murkowski each have almost as much power as Moscow Mitch.
American voters should take note:
when you are a reliable party line vote, leadership does not care what you think about ANYTHING.
They own you.
American voters should take note:
when you are a reliable party line vote, leadership does not care what you think about ANYTHING.
They own you.
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
By being 2 of the only swing votes in the GOP Senate delegation, Collins & Murkowski each have almost as much power as Moscow Mitch.
American voters should take note:
when you are a reliable party line vote, leadership does not care what you think about ANYTHING.
They own you.
American voters should take note:
when you are a reliable party line vote, leadership does not care what you think about ANYTHING.
They own you.
"The words were taken from sections of his speech almost an hour apart."
Because they were the pertinent statements he made to incite the mob of traitors.
Editing an hour of rambling incoherence down to relevant details is called "journalism".
Scary times.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Because they were the pertinent statements he made to incite the mob of traitors.
Editing an hour of rambling incoherence down to relevant details is called "journalism".
Scary times.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits. Insiders say it ‘feels like a coup’ by broadcaster’s enemies
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"The words were taken from sections of his speech almost an hour apart."
Because they were the pertinent statements he made to incite the mob of traitors.
Editing an hour of rambling incoherence down to relevant details is called "journalism".
Scary times.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Because they were the pertinent statements he made to incite the mob of traitors.
Editing an hour of rambling incoherence down to relevant details is called "journalism".
Scary times.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
He's pulling it off!
Such a dapper chapper.
FYI, human ladies also prefer sea sponges to fedoras.
www.sciencealert.com/dolphins-spo...
Such a dapper chapper.
FYI, human ladies also prefer sea sponges to fedoras.
www.sciencealert.com/dolphins-spo...
Dolphins Spotted Wearing Sea Sponge Hats to Try Woo The Ladies
Last year, orcas sashayed into the world of fashion with dead salmon hats.
www.sciencealert.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
He's pulling it off!
Such a dapper chapper.
FYI, human ladies also prefer sea sponges to fedoras.
www.sciencealert.com/dolphins-spo...
Such a dapper chapper.
FYI, human ladies also prefer sea sponges to fedoras.
www.sciencealert.com/dolphins-spo...
I almost feel bad for Andy Schlafly.
His mom practically invented right-wing culture warfare and he did invent the Christofascist misinfo wiki.
Now Elon has robbed him with Grokapedia? And it will have exponentially more users, too?
That has to sting a little.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...
His mom practically invented right-wing culture warfare and he did invent the Christofascist misinfo wiki.
Now Elon has robbed him with Grokapedia? And it will have exponentially more users, too?
That has to sting a little.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...
Andrew Schlafly - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I almost feel bad for Andy Schlafly.
His mom practically invented right-wing culture warfare and he did invent the Christofascist misinfo wiki.
Now Elon has robbed him with Grokapedia? And it will have exponentially more users, too?
That has to sting a little.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...
His mom practically invented right-wing culture warfare and he did invent the Christofascist misinfo wiki.
Now Elon has robbed him with Grokapedia? And it will have exponentially more users, too?
That has to sting a little.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...
My parents were labor and anti-nuke organizers in the 70's.
They learned quickly not to use the words "socialism" or "communism".
The people would be with everything they said, right up until they heard one of the code words the media has trained them to fear.
Organizers today aren't that bright
They learned quickly not to use the words "socialism" or "communism".
The people would be with everything they said, right up until they heard one of the code words the media has trained them to fear.
Organizers today aren't that bright
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My parents were labor and anti-nuke organizers in the 70's.
They learned quickly not to use the words "socialism" or "communism".
The people would be with everything they said, right up until they heard one of the code words the media has trained them to fear.
Organizers today aren't that bright
They learned quickly not to use the words "socialism" or "communism".
The people would be with everything they said, right up until they heard one of the code words the media has trained them to fear.
Organizers today aren't that bright
The more I study sumo, the more I realize all prize fighting is strategic in nature.
Speed, strength & balance are required to complete at any level.
However, only the best tactical fighters can ever make it to the highest tiers of competition.
#StrategyGame
Speed, strength & balance are required to complete at any level.
However, only the best tactical fighters can ever make it to the highest tiers of competition.
#StrategyGame
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The more I study sumo, the more I realize all prize fighting is strategic in nature.
Speed, strength & balance are required to complete at any level.
However, only the best tactical fighters can ever make it to the highest tiers of competition.
#StrategyGame
Speed, strength & balance are required to complete at any level.
However, only the best tactical fighters can ever make it to the highest tiers of competition.
#StrategyGame
It seems like this country spends so much time with the flags at half mast now, that it makes more sense to just cut off the tops.
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It seems like this country spends so much time with the flags at half mast now, that it makes more sense to just cut off the tops.
If the idea of Project 2025 was to de-radicalize the working poor and military, so that they realize how much their families depend on a functioning federal govt... good job!
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If the idea of Project 2025 was to de-radicalize the working poor and military, so that they realize how much their families depend on a functioning federal govt... good job!
"Starting in the late 1980s, Cheney developed and implemented the dictator-like theory of executive power in which we all now live."
EXACTLY
And Kamala campaigned with his DAUGHTER.
(I thought she was supposed to be really smart?)
talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...
EXACTLY
And Kamala campaigned with his DAUGHTER.
(I thought she was supposed to be really smart?)
talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...
It’s Dick Cheney’s World, We’re Just Living In It
Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ Neither side would...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"Starting in the late 1980s, Cheney developed and implemented the dictator-like theory of executive power in which we all now live."
EXACTLY
And Kamala campaigned with his DAUGHTER.
(I thought she was supposed to be really smart?)
talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...
EXACTLY
And Kamala campaigned with his DAUGHTER.
(I thought she was supposed to be really smart?)
talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...
Here's what you need to know about Bovino: cops lie.
Every cop, every day.
That's all you need to know.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Every cop, every day.
That's all you need to know.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Here's what you need to know about Bovino: cops lie.
Every cop, every day.
That's all you need to know.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Every cop, every day.
That's all you need to know.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Do they understand WHY some women are afraid to be alone in a car with a stranger?
Have any of these men ever been in danger of sexual assault by someone much larger and stronger?
I don't know what that's like.
Betting they don't either.
time.com/7332356/uber...
Have any of these men ever been in danger of sexual assault by someone much larger and stronger?
I don't know what that's like.
Betting they don't either.
time.com/7332356/uber...
Male Drivers Sue Uber and Lyft Over Women-Only Ride-Hailing
The lawsuits allege that male drivers receive fewer rides because of the feature, violating sex discrimination laws.
time.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Do they understand WHY some women are afraid to be alone in a car with a stranger?
Have any of these men ever been in danger of sexual assault by someone much larger and stronger?
I don't know what that's like.
Betting they don't either.
time.com/7332356/uber...
Have any of these men ever been in danger of sexual assault by someone much larger and stronger?
I don't know what that's like.
Betting they don't either.
time.com/7332356/uber...