Riggsveda
@riggsveda.bsky.social
My dad fought fascism in WWII. I’m proud to be an anti-fascist & follow him today.
Be fucking resilient. Find another way. There’s always another way.
Be fucking resilient. Find another way. There’s always another way.
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Riggsveda
@riggsveda.bsky.social
· Oct 8
My take: We’re in a war. No one on the side of the authorities, MAGA or not, can be trusted. Only lies will come from official sources unless by accident. Plutocrat media is a fog from which only some truth can be uncovered. Know your enemy. Give nothing away. Expect atrocities. Seek what’s real.
“China was going to hit us with rare earth…”
Hearing him is like listening to somebody talking with a dog’s brain.
Hit us, China!
Hearing him is like listening to somebody talking with a dog’s brain.
Hit us, China!
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“China was going to hit us with rare earth…”
Hearing him is like listening to somebody talking with a dog’s brain.
Hit us, China!
Hearing him is like listening to somebody talking with a dog’s brain.
Hit us, China!
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For months he Regime has been showing off its ability to turn anyone into a “lawbreaker” by changing their legal status, or the interpretation of the law, or simply by lying, unilaterally and arbitrarily. This means ANYONE.
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For months he Regime has been showing off its ability to turn anyone into a “lawbreaker” by changing their legal status, or the interpretation of the law, or simply by lying, unilaterally and arbitrarily. This means ANYONE.
More unburied bodies in a weird, hostile world, Edmund Fitzgerald edition. This may become a new obsession.
bsky.app/profile/moll...
bsky.app/profile/moll...
This map opens up such a fascinating world it deserves to link to the article it comes from. What a strange, horrific, alienlike world.
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
More unburied bodies in a weird, hostile world, Edmund Fitzgerald edition. This may become a new obsession.
bsky.app/profile/moll...
bsky.app/profile/moll...
This map opens up such a fascinating world it deserves to link to the article it comes from. What a strange, horrific, alienlike world.
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This map opens up such a fascinating world it deserves to link to the article it comes from. What a strange, horrific, alienlike world.
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
bigthink.com/strange-maps...
…and that was the day the Democrats became the Cold Comfort Farmers’ Party.
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
…and that was the day the Democrats became the Cold Comfort Farmers’ Party.
Looking forward to all the unleashed Thanksgiving flights, Senator Durbin.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Looking forward to all the unleashed Thanksgiving flights, Senator Durbin.
This fucker should be thrown down the oubliette till he coughs up a real answer.
MARIA: “What will you do when the ACA subsidies expire (and health insurance premiums skyrocket)?”
DR. OZ: “I don’t want to show our cards.” 🤔
DR. OZ: “I don’t want to show our cards.” 🤔
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This fucker should be thrown down the oubliette till he coughs up a real answer.
As the aristocrats of US government, senators naturally accrue wealth & lend their sympathies to the status quo that empowers the powerful. If they retain their seats they can create dynasties, which are anathema to the entire spirit of the nation’s foundation. We’ve forgotten this at our peril.
Congress was created with the image of the English Parliament In mind. The House of Commons became the House of Representatives. The House of Lords became the Senate.
That is all you need to know about the “whys?” and “how could theys?” of the US Senate.
That is all you need to know about the “whys?” and “how could theys?” of the US Senate.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
As the aristocrats of US government, senators naturally accrue wealth & lend their sympathies to the status quo that empowers the powerful. If they retain their seats they can create dynasties, which are anathema to the entire spirit of the nation’s foundation. We’ve forgotten this at our peril.
Congress was created with the image of the English Parliament In mind. The House of Commons became the House of Representatives. The House of Lords became the Senate.
That is all you need to know about the “whys?” and “how could theys?” of the US Senate.
That is all you need to know about the “whys?” and “how could theys?” of the US Senate.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Congress was created with the image of the English Parliament In mind. The House of Commons became the House of Representatives. The House of Lords became the Senate.
That is all you need to know about the “whys?” and “how could theys?” of the US Senate.
That is all you need to know about the “whys?” and “how could theys?” of the US Senate.
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some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you
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For those thinking this will kill the Dem party as we know it, that party has been metastasizing servility for decades & is in its end stages. But is the loss of your home, dear ones, & everything you’ve loved about the US preferable to a painful reckoning with the disease destroying your party?
Under invasion by fascism and being sabotaged by cowardly Dems willing to collaborate, there are only 2 options: allow the party to keep building a Vichy “government”, or support our partisans who are fighting from the woods & purge the Dem Right to extinction.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/09/c...
digbysblog.net/2025/11/09/c...
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
For those thinking this will kill the Dem party as we know it, that party has been metastasizing servility for decades & is in its end stages. But is the loss of your home, dear ones, & everything you’ve loved about the US preferable to a painful reckoning with the disease destroying your party?
For those thinking this will kill the Dem party as we know it, that party has been metastasizing servility for decades & is in its end stages. But is the loss of your home, dear ones, & everything you’ve loved about the US preferable to a painful reckoning with the disease destroying your party?
Under invasion by fascism and being sabotaged by cowardly Dems willing to collaborate, there are only 2 options: allow the party to keep building a Vichy “government”, or support our partisans who are fighting from the woods & purge the Dem Right to extinction.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/09/c...
digbysblog.net/2025/11/09/c...
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
For those thinking this will kill the Dem party as we know it, that party has been metastasizing servility for decades & is in its end stages. But is the loss of your home, dear ones, & everything you’ve loved about the US preferable to a painful reckoning with the disease destroying your party?
Under invasion by fascism and being sabotaged by cowardly Dems willing to collaborate, there are only 2 options: allow the party to keep building a Vichy “government”, or support our partisans who are fighting from the woods & purge the Dem Right to extinction.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/09/c...
digbysblog.net/2025/11/09/c...
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Under invasion by fascism and being sabotaged by cowardly Dems willing to collaborate, there are only 2 options: allow the party to keep building a Vichy “government”, or support our partisans who are fighting from the woods & purge the Dem Right to extinction.
digbysblog.net/2025/11/09/c...
digbysblog.net/2025/11/09/c...
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Does he think this is a mere inconvenience? We won’t be making sky-high payments because we can’t! This is going to kill people because they will be forced to drop health insurance.
Well, that's certainly one theory about what Americans will remember.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Does he think this is a mere inconvenience? We won’t be making sky-high payments because we can’t! This is going to kill people because they will be forced to drop health insurance.
I have amazing powers of recall when powered by rage. I can hold onto a grudge longer than a blue crab with a chicken neck. And these fuckers will not be forgotten no matter how far away their next election is. Promise.
None can be primaried in the next cycle, Shaheen & Durbin retiring.
Hassan, Masto, Fetterman up for reelection in 2028.
Rosen, Kaine, King up for reelection in 2030.
Hassan, Masto, Fetterman up for reelection in 2028.
Rosen, Kaine, King up for reelection in 2030.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I have amazing powers of recall when powered by rage. I can hold onto a grudge longer than a blue crab with a chicken neck. And these fuckers will not be forgotten no matter how far away their next election is. Promise.
If this passes and gets through the House, we’ll have millions with unaffordable health care, millions still not getting SNAP, and millions still stuck with drastic air flight cutbacks. This will fix nothing AND lose us all the goodwill of this year’s election.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Update from Michael Gold
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If this passes and gets through the House, we’ll have millions with unaffordable health care, millions still not getting SNAP, and millions still stuck with drastic air flight cutbacks. This will fix nothing AND lose us all the goodwill of this year’s election.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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The vote is procedural and does not mean the package has cleared the Senate. But so far that's the head count of the Democrats that agreed to trust Republicans and the White House.
The Republicans don't have a track record worth trusting.
The Republicans don't have a track record worth trusting.
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The vote is procedural and does not mean the package has cleared the Senate. But so far that's the head count of the Democrats that agreed to trust Republicans and the White House.
The Republicans don't have a track record worth trusting.
The Republicans don't have a track record worth trusting.
This guy wouldn’t know how to fight if he was attacked by his own left hand.
Schumer: "However this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue. Democrats must fight."
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This guy wouldn’t know how to fight if he was attacked by his own left hand.
Trump has shown repeatedly that anything Congress passes means nothing to him. He will ignore any legislation he doesn’t want. Add to that the fact that the Republican Congress is a dishonorable nest of bald-faced liars whose promises mean nothing and…well, WTF are you even doing, Dems?
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Trump has shown repeatedly that anything Congress passes means nothing to him. He will ignore any legislation he doesn’t want. Add to that the fact that the Republican Congress is a dishonorable nest of bald-faced liars whose promises mean nothing and…well, WTF are you even doing, Dems?
As the Regime is ordering SNAP benefits stopped (again), the “10% flight reductions” originally warned of will evolve into 20, 30, 50% or more until Dems cave to this blackmail. Then, when the Dems do give in, the misery will continue as if they never had.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US flight cancellations rise as Sean Duffy warns travel could reduce to a ‘trickle’
More than 2,500 flights cancelled as transportation secretary says flight reductions could reach 20% if shutdown persists
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
As the Regime is ordering SNAP benefits stopped (again), the “10% flight reductions” originally warned of will evolve into 20, 30, 50% or more until Dems cave to this blackmail. Then, when the Dems do give in, the misery will continue as if they never had.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Great American Experiment, 250th Birthday Edition: what if, instead of relieving human suffering and fixing injustice, we just, you know, let the worst people do whatever they want?
In Opinion | “Throughout the Trump era, many of the most prominent voices of right-wing America have only become shriller, angrier and, yes, more racist and more antisemitic,” our columnist David French writes.
Opinion | Cruelty, Bigotry and Rage. What’s Not to Like?
This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Great American Experiment, 250th Birthday Edition: what if, instead of relieving human suffering and fixing injustice, we just, you know, let the worst people do whatever they want?
We could have had that. Instead, we got this rot-brained giant erector set.
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We could have had that. Instead, we got this rot-brained giant erector set.
For the Bluskies in the Central NY/NE PA area, NWS predicts most areas get up to 1” snow by Monday evening. ❄️☃️🌨️. Smuggled in this screenshot for the wx nerds ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
For the Bluskies in the Central NY/NE PA area, NWS predicts most areas get up to 1” snow by Monday evening. ❄️☃️🌨️. Smuggled in this screenshot for the wx nerds ⬇️
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I love everything about this entire escapade
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I love everything about this entire escapade