Robert Waters
@robowaters.bsky.social
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Deskilling is real.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Deskilling is real.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
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DNI Tulsi Gabbard politicized intelligence to fake a case against Obama and his aides. Now AG Pam Bondi is going to investigate. When an autocrat uses his intelligence services and law enforcement to concoct a sham prosecution and a show trial, that's a dangerous moment.
July 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
DNI Tulsi Gabbard politicized intelligence to fake a case against Obama and his aides. Now AG Pam Bondi is going to investigate. When an autocrat uses his intelligence services and law enforcement to concoct a sham prosecution and a show trial, that's a dangerous moment.
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NEW: The most important scandal of the week is not Trump's Epstein mess. It's the Gabbard-Trump plot to fabricate evidence to set up a sham DOJ prosecution of Obama & others and perhaps show trials. A major abuse of power & a perversion of US intelligence & law enforcement. True authoritarianism.
July 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
NEW: The most important scandal of the week is not Trump's Epstein mess. It's the Gabbard-Trump plot to fabricate evidence to set up a sham DOJ prosecution of Obama & others and perhaps show trials. A major abuse of power & a perversion of US intelligence & law enforcement. True authoritarianism.
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NEW: Here's a new scandal bigger than the Epstein mess. Trump's top intel officer is fabricating evidence so his DOJ can investigate & prosecute Obama & his aides w/ possible show trials—as Trump says, "Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people.”
link.motherjones.com/public/40858...
link.motherjones.com/public/40858...
July 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW: Here's a new scandal bigger than the Epstein mess. Trump's top intel officer is fabricating evidence so his DOJ can investigate & prosecute Obama & his aides w/ possible show trials—as Trump says, "Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people.”
link.motherjones.com/public/40858...
link.motherjones.com/public/40858...
Happy Friday 💚 Here is some recent stuff. I painted the “Burning Bush” piece orientation a couple ways. I neglected to post the portrait version the other day. I hope you have a good day. #robowaters
Burning bush, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 24”, 2025.
Burning bush, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 24”, 2025.
May 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Happy Friday 💚 Here is some recent stuff. I painted the “Burning Bush” piece orientation a couple ways. I neglected to post the portrait version the other day. I hope you have a good day. #robowaters
Burning bush, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 24”, 2025.
Burning bush, acrylic on canvas, 20” x 24”, 2025.
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“”I’m disillusioned and tired. Send me to a country that will accept me since my country doesn’t,” he told his brother”
Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost.
Read his story:
Read his story:
Former Fort Carson Iraq war veteran gives up the fight to stay in the US
www.stripes.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“”I’m disillusioned and tired. Send me to a country that will accept me since my country doesn’t,” he told his brother”
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Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, our adversaries now have access to sensitive information about one of our intelligence agencies.
Elon Musk and DOGE staff should NOT have access to sensitive national security information. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
Elon Musk and DOGE staff should NOT have access to sensitive national security information. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.
www.huffpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, our adversaries now have access to sensitive information about one of our intelligence agencies.
Elon Musk and DOGE staff should NOT have access to sensitive national security information. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
Elon Musk and DOGE staff should NOT have access to sensitive national security information. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
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Video of Trump getting seriously booed and repeatedly called a traitor at Superbowl 2025.
February 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Video of Trump getting seriously booed and repeatedly called a traitor at Superbowl 2025.
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New in PN: Trump burns down financial watchdog agency to spite Liz Warren
And if it lets Elon get his payments app started without federal regulation, even better!
And if it lets Elon get his payments app started without federal regulation, even better!
Trump burns down financial watchdog agency to spite Liz Warren
And if it lets Elon get his payments app started without federal regulation, even better!
www.publicnotice.co
February 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New in PN: Trump burns down financial watchdog agency to spite Liz Warren
And if it lets Elon get his payments app started without federal regulation, even better!
And if it lets Elon get his payments app started without federal regulation, even better!
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Four FEMA officials were fired for not following illegal orders to withhold spending.
The White House is saying of judicial decisions: "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump."
These are not warning signs. This is happening now.
The White House is saying of judicial decisions: "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump."
These are not warning signs. This is happening now.
The constitutional crisis goes hand in hand with the attack on the civil service and a politicized legal infrastructure.
Federal employees are much less likely to resist following illegal orders when General Counsels are telling them its ok, and they would otherwise lose their jobs.
Federal employees are much less likely to resist following illegal orders when General Counsels are telling them its ok, and they would otherwise lose their jobs.
SCOOP from @nbcnews.com — A senior FEMA official instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
February 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Four FEMA officials were fired for not following illegal orders to withhold spending.
The White House is saying of judicial decisions: "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump."
These are not warning signs. This is happening now.
The White House is saying of judicial decisions: "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump."
These are not warning signs. This is happening now.
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If you are looking for someone to say that all is lost and the courts can't help protect democracy, you are following the wrong guy.
If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.
If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.
February 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you are looking for someone to say that all is lost and the courts can't help protect democracy, you are following the wrong guy.
If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.
If you are looking for someone who fights hard and will never give up, I'm here for you.
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“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”
'Mark my words': George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could 'end' U.S. democracy
George Conway predicted that Donald Trump would engage in a constitutional showdown that could spell the end of U.S. democracy.Vice President J.D. Vance argued Sunday that federal courts “aren’t allow...
www.rawstory.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”
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Amazing how this all overlaps with the Leonard Leo-version of Catholicism that has become the Republican Party in the form of JD Vance, the rectum of these two Venn Diagram cheeks.
Yes
February 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Amazing how this all overlaps with the Leonard Leo-version of Catholicism that has become the Republican Party in the form of JD Vance, the rectum of these two Venn Diagram cheeks.
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Remembering all the times people criticized communism because the art it produced, socialist realism, was 'bad' and not 'real art'.
Well, here's what capitalism produces: slop. The most horrific, aesthetically empty, soulless, literally inhuman shit imaginable. Every accusation a confession
Well, here's what capitalism produces: slop. The most horrific, aesthetically empty, soulless, literally inhuman shit imaginable. Every accusation a confession
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
February 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Remembering all the times people criticized communism because the art it produced, socialist realism, was 'bad' and not 'real art'.
Well, here's what capitalism produces: slop. The most horrific, aesthetically empty, soulless, literally inhuman shit imaginable. Every accusation a confession
Well, here's what capitalism produces: slop. The most horrific, aesthetically empty, soulless, literally inhuman shit imaginable. Every accusation a confession
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Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.
February 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.
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They are already claiming legislative power; next they will attack any parts of the judiciary that dares disagree with them.
BREAKING: Carl Schmitt disapproves of “law” based on spurious, authoritarian conception “legitimacy.” Old, half-baked, dangerous arguments.
February 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
They are already claiming legislative power; next they will attack any parts of the judiciary that dares disagree with them.
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Judges, I am begging you to understand before it's too late: they will not obey judicial orders. Order them to appear in court and arrest them when they lie to you, or else they are gonna wipe their ass with your orders.
The people who are engaged in a series of illegal abuses of government power - some might even call it a coup! - are labeling even the slightest judicial pushback to be a coup. I don't know where this ends, but its clear where they want it to end.
February 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Judges, I am begging you to understand before it's too late: they will not obey judicial orders. Order them to appear in court and arrest them when they lie to you, or else they are gonna wipe their ass with your orders.
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The only question is whether lawsuits and injunctions and judges can roll this all back. With Judge Nancy Gertner and @mjsdc.bsky.social
slate.com/podcasts/ami...
slate.com/podcasts/ami...
Illegal and Unlawful and Somehow Still Happening
A former Judge tells us how the law ends, and it’s not losing lawsuits.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The only question is whether lawsuits and injunctions and judges can roll this all back. With Judge Nancy Gertner and @mjsdc.bsky.social
slate.com/podcasts/ami...
slate.com/podcasts/ami...
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Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
February 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
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Republicans are going to pass a budget with one of the biggest deficits in world history.
February 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Republicans are going to pass a budget with one of the biggest deficits in world history.
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Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel:
“We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”
“We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”
February 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel:
“We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”
“We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”
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Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo
2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text
February 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo
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I would like our media to become permanently hyperfixated on Marco Rubio’s recent negotiations to put immigrants and US citizens in El Salvadorian prisons.
February 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I would like our media to become permanently hyperfixated on Marco Rubio’s recent negotiations to put immigrants and US citizens in El Salvadorian prisons.