Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️
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Cynic watching the world burn with popcorn and whisky. Living sci-fi is always going to be worse than reading it.
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To note very bluntly my view of the next span of years, I will quote Neville Chamberlain: "It is the evil things we fight against, brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression, and persecution and against them I am confident the right will prevail."
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My working theory is The Pandemic was going to be what destroyed capitalism once and for all, and that doesn't appear to have happened, so they refuse to leave summer of 2020 until it does
February 19, 2026 at 8:24 PM
My working theory is The Pandemic was going to be what destroyed capitalism once and for all, and that doesn't appear to have happened, so they refuse to leave summer of 2020 until it does
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See, now this is 10000x more important than AOC stumbling over her otherwise fine answer on Taiwan.
President Donald Trump said that he’s discussing future weapons sales to Taiwan with Chinese President Xi Jinping and teased that he would soon make a decision about future defense support for the self-governing island.
Trump Says He’ll Soon Make Decision on Weapon Sales to Taiwan
President Donald Trump said that he’s discussing future weapons sales to Taiwan with Chinese President Xi Jinping and teased that he would soon make a decision about future defense support for the self-governing island.
bloom.bg
February 17, 2026 at 1:40 PM
See, now this is 10000x more important than AOC stumbling over her otherwise fine answer on Taiwan.
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DFL legislators introduced a bill to create an Office of the Inspector General and strengthen enforcement against fraud.
Guess how Republicans voted today.
Guess how Republicans voted today.
February 19, 2026 at 7:39 PM
DFL legislators introduced a bill to create an Office of the Inspector General and strengthen enforcement against fraud.
Guess how Republicans voted today.
Guess how Republicans voted today.
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More than a year after the Trump administration was first sued over its anti-transgender prison policies, DOJ literally showed up in court Thursday morning with a new policy — and it is even more anti-trans, aiming to end trans-related care in federal prisons altogether.
Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons
"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.
www.lawdork.com
February 20, 2026 at 4:01 AM
More than a year after the Trump administration was first sued over its anti-transgender prison policies, DOJ literally showed up in court Thursday morning with a new policy — and it is even more anti-trans, aiming to end trans-related care in federal prisons altogether.
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How much of the online political discourse in the US is driven by the unspoken idea of "liberals wanted to get back to normal after Trump 1, instead of using Trump 1 as a springboard to destroy capitalism once and for all, and so now liberals must be punished with Trump 2"?
February 17, 2026 at 10:46 PM
How much of the online political discourse in the US is driven by the unspoken idea of "liberals wanted to get back to normal after Trump 1, instead of using Trump 1 as a springboard to destroy capitalism once and for all, and so now liberals must be punished with Trump 2"?
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Because of 2016 (and 2024), we are never getting that ruling, at least not in my lifetime. If you didn’t vote blue in those elections, you share responsibility for every shitty antitrans law a left-of-center court would have overturned.
February 20, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Because of 2016 (and 2024), we are never getting that ruling, at least not in my lifetime. If you didn’t vote blue in those elections, you share responsibility for every shitty antitrans law a left-of-center court would have overturned.
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The single most effective way to advance trans rights is to vote for democrats in every election for the foreseeable future. Full stop.
Anyone who tells you differently does not actually have trans rights as their main goal.
Anyone who tells you differently does not actually have trans rights as their main goal.
February 20, 2026 at 2:35 AM
The single most effective way to advance trans rights is to vote for democrats in every election for the foreseeable future. Full stop.
Anyone who tells you differently does not actually have trans rights as their main goal.
Anyone who tells you differently does not actually have trans rights as their main goal.
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Every once in a while I really do have to remind you all that if Clinton had won in 2016, we would almost definitely now have a Supreme Court ruling that says trans people have a constitutional right to bathroom access, and none of this would be happening.
UH students lose several gender-neutral bathrooms, as university begins enforcing Texas bathroom bill
www.houstonchronicle...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.houstonchronicle...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
February 20, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Every once in a while I really do have to remind you all that if Clinton had won in 2016, we would almost definitely now have a Supreme Court ruling that says trans people have a constitutional right to bathroom access, and none of this would be happening.
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Given the length and development of his career, this is an interesting time for him to suddenly get religion.
NEW: Cardinal Dolan accuses the Trump-Vance ICE of “targeting, harassing, and going into” Catholic parishes.
He called it a major violation of religious liberty.
He called it a major violation of religious liberty.
February 20, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Given the length and development of his career, this is an interesting time for him to suddenly get religion.
And unfortunately the Church Committee viewed JFK and LBJ as among that group, and the people who worked for both. That's how we learned about Cointelpro and unfortunately the 'protect Kennedy and our big Johnson' approach uh.......America really lost with that one.
protecting rich white guys from consequences is usually way more about institutional preservation for the greater whole of rich white guys and less about individual white guys just really liking each other (though that's also a factor)
February 20, 2026 at 4:01 AM
And unfortunately the Church Committee viewed JFK and LBJ as among that group, and the people who worked for both. That's how we learned about Cointelpro and unfortunately the 'protect Kennedy and our big Johnson' approach uh.......America really lost with that one.
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oh i agree. i just think it’s interesting - and explanatory - that nixon was more or less let off because of the establishment wanting to protect itself (and not lose the cold war propaganda battle) and not because anyone particularly liked nixon.
February 19, 2026 at 7:53 PM
oh i agree. i just think it’s interesting - and explanatory - that nixon was more or less let off because of the establishment wanting to protect itself (and not lose the cold war propaganda battle) and not because anyone particularly liked nixon.
And in case people wonder why the Dems didn't push harder for it? There was a committee that started exposing just how much lawlessness JFK and LBJ got up to and suddenly they were far less enthusiastic about indictments that might start affecting *their* guys. America lost heavily from that.
it was about protecting the prestige of the presidency, such as it was by that point; and moreover about preserving the idea that the postwar establishment was relatively not-corrupt and not-lawless. prosecuting nixon would’ve been like opening a whole generation-plus-worth of cans of worms.
February 20, 2026 at 3:58 AM
And in case people wonder why the Dems didn't push harder for it? There was a committee that started exposing just how much lawlessness JFK and LBJ got up to and suddenly they were far less enthusiastic about indictments that might start affecting *their* guys. America lost heavily from that.
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Kind of hard to argue about 'protecting the prestige of the Presidency' when you see the current President. Nothing could be more damaging to the institution than Trump. We have so many worms now in this can. The can is entirely worms. It's all fucking worms.
February 19, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Kind of hard to argue about 'protecting the prestige of the Presidency' when you see the current President. Nothing could be more damaging to the institution than Trump. We have so many worms now in this can. The can is entirely worms. It's all fucking worms.
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i grasp the legitimacy of the presidency preserving logic that Ford was operating under back in 1974, and also, we are reaping the consequences of letting the Worm Can merely get more full of big gross worms
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personally i think that decision led to that can of worms opening in far more spectacular and destructive fashion now. sometimes you just gotta open the can before the worms proliferate, one might say
February 19, 2026 at 7:53 PM
i grasp the legitimacy of the presidency preserving logic that Ford was operating under back in 1974, and also, we are reaping the consequences of letting the Worm Can merely get more full of big gross worms
bsky.app/profile/fain...
bsky.app/profile/fain...
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rich powerful white men in the US understandably DO believe that losing your job and having to see people say mean stuff about you on the Internet is the WORST POSSIBLE FATE THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO ANYONE because that has historically been the case for THEM.
we must make them fear far worse.
we must make them fear far worse.
February 19, 2026 at 7:48 PM
rich powerful white men in the US understandably DO believe that losing your job and having to see people say mean stuff about you on the Internet is the WORST POSSIBLE FATE THAT COULD EVER HAPPEN TO ANYONE because that has historically been the case for THEM.
we must make them fear far worse.
we must make them fear far worse.
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we must stop buying this idiotic American idea that the worst thing you can do to a white powerful man for committing horrible crimes against democracy is "losing your job and people saying mean things about you."
there are far worse things we can do to these criminals, and we should do them.
there are far worse things we can do to these criminals, and we should do them.
February 19, 2026 at 7:47 PM
we must stop buying this idiotic American idea that the worst thing you can do to a white powerful man for committing horrible crimes against democracy is "losing your job and people saying mean things about you."
there are far worse things we can do to these criminals, and we should do them.
there are far worse things we can do to these criminals, and we should do them.
Gerald Ford, underrated great villain of American history.
I have really come to believe that we'd be in a much better place right now if we had put Nixon away in a dingy cell for the rest of his natural life, instead of the slap on the wrist for being naughty that he actually received.
February 20, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Gerald Ford, underrated great villain of American history.
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This is actually one of the major turning points that got us where we are today. The infantalisation of the American public ("bloo bloo Americans would be traumatised by seeing a President in the dock!") stunted the maturing of our democracy *just* as we were reforming it root and branch.
I have really come to believe that we'd be in a much better place right now if we had put Nixon away in a dingy cell for the rest of his natural life, instead of the slap on the wrist for being naughty that he actually received.
February 20, 2026 at 2:51 AM
This is actually one of the major turning points that got us where we are today. The infantalisation of the American public ("bloo bloo Americans would be traumatised by seeing a President in the dock!") stunted the maturing of our democracy *just* as we were reforming it root and branch.
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HOW IS THIS MAN’S NAME LITERALLY WESLEY R. DINGUS
THAT IS NOT A REAL NAME
THAT IS NOT A REAL NAME
and republicans still can’t figure out why they’re hemorrhaging young voters tiffinohio.net/posts/ohio-g...
Ohio GOP mayor accused of sniffing underage relative's underwear
Butler Mayor Wesley R. Dingus faces two misdemeanor voyeurism charges following a Richland County investigation. The case unfolds as he remains on bond in a separate felony matter.
tiffinohio.net
February 20, 2026 at 3:49 AM
HOW IS THIS MAN’S NAME LITERALLY WESLEY R. DINGUS
THAT IS NOT A REAL NAME
THAT IS NOT A REAL NAME
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South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."
February 20, 2026 at 3:39 AM
South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."
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Thinking on this further, I wonder if someone is scrambling to re-allocate resources from influence ops in other countries to the US & this is the most plausible way they could explain these accounts' change in posting habits.
So for the second week in a row the main character on the site is purportedly a foreign national who's loudly & ignorantly posting about American politics where the only consistent thing they espouse is that people need to blame Democrats (& never Republicans) for their problems.
February 19, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Thinking on this further, I wonder if someone is scrambling to re-allocate resources from influence ops in other countries to the US & this is the most plausible way they could explain these accounts' change in posting habits.
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Gemara: "Why does the halacha follow Hillel? It is because the students of Hillel were kind and gracious."
Student of Hillel: "I have a little brother in Beit Shammai. I call him Satan Junior lmao"
Student of Hillel: "I have a little brother in Beit Shammai. I call him Satan Junior lmao"
November 24, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Gemara: "Why does the halacha follow Hillel? It is because the students of Hillel were kind and gracious."
Student of Hillel: "I have a little brother in Beit Shammai. I call him Satan Junior lmao"
Student of Hillel: "I have a little brother in Beit Shammai. I call him Satan Junior lmao"
He was one of the only two good generals the UK produced in six years of trying. The other was Bill Slim.
To be fair that is Montgomery saying that in the trailer and he is verifiably a terrible general so -
February 20, 2026 at 2:42 AM
He was one of the only two good generals the UK produced in six years of trying. The other was Bill Slim.
Black Flag Over Dixie, which talks all about how *much* it actually respected humanity, is one of those very important reads.
The respecters-of-humanity* in the Confederacy.
*some exceptions may apply
*some exceptions may apply
February 19, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Black Flag Over Dixie, which talks all about how *much* it actually respected humanity, is one of those very important reads.
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Like granddaughter of relatively high ranking party, official and mother who goes to elite US institution isn’t exactly the story of an average Chinese American dual national.
Had the positions being reversed people would be pointing to this as an example of American exceptionalism.
Had the positions being reversed people would be pointing to this as an example of American exceptionalism.
February 19, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Like granddaughter of relatively high ranking party, official and mother who goes to elite US institution isn’t exactly the story of an average Chinese American dual national.
Had the positions being reversed people would be pointing to this as an example of American exceptionalism.
Had the positions being reversed people would be pointing to this as an example of American exceptionalism.
