@justcheckingin11.bsky.social
I block accounts that don't allow me to respond. (I'm almost always giving kudos.)
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“Authoritarians have always understood that spectacle is power. To overwhelm the senses is to project control. To indulge without shame is to show immunity from consequence.”
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The Theater of Power: Trump and the Tradition of Deliberate Decadence
November 3, 2025 | By Steven A. Cash
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November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“Authoritarians have always understood that spectacle is power. To overwhelm the senses is to project control. To indulge without shame is to show immunity from consequence.”
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"One of the worst trends in the broader cultural conversation about technology — one that's markedly accelerated over the last decade — is the shift from talking about people who create tech to focusing on those who merely finance it."
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"One of the worst trends in the broader cultural conversation about technology — one that's markedly accelerated over the last decade — is the shift from talking about people who create tech to focusing on those who merely finance it."
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Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
October 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.
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There are heroes amongst us.
Story: www.wctv.tv/2025/10/03/f...
He came up with the idea after those in need used a creek to wash their clothes.
Story: www.wctv.tv/2025/10/03/f...
He came up with the idea after those in need used a creek to wash their clothes.
October 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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He finally got his revenge against the man who asked him if he was up past his jail time.
Now it's up to us to ask why he's terrified to release #TheEPSTEIN_PedoFiles.
#StandWithTheSurvivors
Now it's up to us to ask why he's terrified to release #TheEPSTEIN_PedoFiles.
#StandWithTheSurvivors
September 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
He finally got his revenge against the man who asked him if he was up past his jail time.
Now it's up to us to ask why he's terrified to release #TheEPSTEIN_PedoFiles.
#StandWithTheSurvivors
Now it's up to us to ask why he's terrified to release #TheEPSTEIN_PedoFiles.
#StandWithTheSurvivors
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#BoycottDisneyABC is really happening! Join in.
Take Action Against Disney-ABC
Boycott
Cancel subscriptions (if you have)
Leave comments on ABC (dot) com
Leave comments for Sinclair
Show up to an ABC HQ or affiliate to picket!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Boycott
Cancel subscriptions (if you have)
Leave comments on ABC (dot) com
Leave comments for Sinclair
Show up to an ABC HQ or affiliate to picket!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TAKE ACTION AGAINST DISNEY-ABC for BENDING TO THE ADMIN
DISNEY-ABC: STOP BENDING TO AUTHORITARIAN PRESSURE. ACTION RESOURCE LIST WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE A few hours ago, Disney-ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air—just hours after the FCC threatened...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
#BoycottDisneyABC is really happening! Join in.
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remember when Dems passed the overwhelmingly popular COVID stimulus bill and received LITERALLY NO POLITICAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER
remember when Dems campaigned on protecting Social Security and received LITERALLY NO POLITICAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER
remember when they passed the infrastructure bill and r
remember when Dems campaigned on protecting Social Security and received LITERALLY NO POLITICAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER
remember when they passed the infrastructure bill and r
September 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
remember when Dems passed the overwhelmingly popular COVID stimulus bill and received LITERALLY NO POLITICAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER
remember when Dems campaigned on protecting Social Security and received LITERALLY NO POLITICAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER
remember when they passed the infrastructure bill and r
remember when Dems campaigned on protecting Social Security and received LITERALLY NO POLITICAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER
remember when they passed the infrastructure bill and r
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Comedian Rita Brent previews Gloria Gaynor’s upcoming Kennedy Center performance
August 31, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Comedian Rita Brent previews Gloria Gaynor’s upcoming Kennedy Center performance
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"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about *power*, pure and simple."
Chairman Trump's Great Grift Forward
Move over, Mao.
www.publicnotice.co
August 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"Perhaps the most important thing to understand about Trump’s mobster state capitalism is that it isn’t about economic efficiency or stimulating growth, let alone a vision of how the economy works and what it should create. It’s about *power*, pure and simple."
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🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
🚨 League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
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When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
What Gives Me Hope
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
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"How quickly you would give up, for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator who'd eat you for lunch."
He ate him for lunch.
He ate him for lunch.
August 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"How quickly you would give up, for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator who'd eat you for lunch."
He ate him for lunch.
He ate him for lunch.
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Calling Alaska a summit is like calling Appomattox a summit
August 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Calling Alaska a summit is like calling Appomattox a summit
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Purges of FBI and IC, gutting of DOJ, prosecutions of political opponents, assaults on independent institutions, massive expansion of ICE with fascist-adjacent recruiting messages, firing of general officers—but nothing much to see here. Let’s not be alarmist. Also what about Hunter’s laptop.
August 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Purges of FBI and IC, gutting of DOJ, prosecutions of political opponents, assaults on independent institutions, massive expansion of ICE with fascist-adjacent recruiting messages, firing of general officers—but nothing much to see here. Let’s not be alarmist. Also what about Hunter’s laptop.
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Is Tulsi Gabbard’s position that Mueller’s separate indictments against 13 Russian individuals/entities and 12 GRU officials for 2016 election interference were false filings? Has any journalist asked her?
July 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Is Tulsi Gabbard’s position that Mueller’s separate indictments against 13 Russian individuals/entities and 12 GRU officials for 2016 election interference were false filings? Has any journalist asked her?
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Breaking from the Office of Pres. Obama:
"Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
"Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
July 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Breaking from the Office of Pres. Obama:
"Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
"Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
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I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.
July 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I think the idea that “The President is simultaneously an institution beyond the reach of criminal law and also a private person who can file $10 billion defamation suits when he dislikes a news article” is not very sensible.
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Maybe I’m weird, too. 🤷🏼♂️
July 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Maybe I’m weird, too. 🤷🏼♂️
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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UTAH… this is not a game…
July 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
UTAH… this is not a game…
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The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
July 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
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July 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.
July 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.