Stan Oklobdzija
@stano.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. Public Policy @ UC Riverside | Better Cities Through Better Government | 1st Gen 🇺🇸: 🇷🇸/ Việt Nam Cộng Hòa | 躺平 | Ham chơi
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
stanokl.github.io | https://everyoneiswelcome.substack.com/
📍: The Inland Empire, California.
Hell yes. This is the way.
They are putting Americans’ safety in danger while destabilizing the region to enrich themselves.
Congress must act, and Trump must be impeached.
Congress must act, and Trump must be impeached.
January 3, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Hell yes. This is the way.
I've only seen calls for impeachment from Wiener and @katmabu.bsky.social. How is it that none of the 250 Democrats in the House or Senate have followed suit?
Trump must be impeached immediately. This is not how a democracy functions.
January 3, 2026 at 8:37 PM
I've only seen calls for impeachment from Wiener and @katmabu.bsky.social. How is it that none of the 250 Democrats in the House or Senate have followed suit?
I just left a message with my Rep. @normajtorres.bsky.social urging her to make a public call for Trump's impeachment over his illegal and unconstitutional deployment of American troops in Venezuela last night.
If you don't contact your member to do the same, you don't get to bitch online today.
If you don't contact your member to do the same, you don't get to bitch online today.
January 3, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I just left a message with my Rep. @normajtorres.bsky.social urging her to make a public call for Trump's impeachment over his illegal and unconstitutional deployment of American troops in Venezuela last night.
If you don't contact your member to do the same, you don't get to bitch online today.
If you don't contact your member to do the same, you don't get to bitch online today.
I'm calling on the Canadian military to capture noted pedo terrorist Donald Trump so that he can stand trial in Toronto for his role in the international rape gang Tren de Epstein. Pro-democracy Americans have suffered long enough under Trump who was elected illegally and unconstitutionally.
January 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I'm calling on the Canadian military to capture noted pedo terrorist Donald Trump so that he can stand trial in Toronto for his role in the international rape gang Tren de Epstein. Pro-democracy Americans have suffered long enough under Trump who was elected illegally and unconstitutionally.
Our response as citizens as well as the response of our elected officials will demonstrate to both the world and ourselves whether we're any better than the Russians.
Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
January 3, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Our response as citizens as well as the response of our elected officials will demonstrate to both the world and ourselves whether we're any better than the Russians.
Impeachment is the moderate position.
January 3, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Impeachment is the moderate position.
"It's a big club and you ain't in it."
Tony Dokoupil…
aka Katy Tur’s husband
aka Katy Tur’s husband
January 3, 2026 at 6:07 AM
"It's a big club and you ain't in it."
He looks like if the Oompa Loompas discovered fentanyl.
My man looks like Robert Redford was battered and deep-fried
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
He looks like if the Oompa Loompas discovered fentanyl.
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I want to make 1 quick point here: the entire discourse around "Merrick Garland did nothing wrong, quit picking on him" V "Merrick Garland moved to slowly" misses the point. Yes, Garland was the wrong make, model, & type of AG for the moment we were & are in. But the failure was a category error. 1/
The issue, & not one @qjurecic.bsky.social has demonstrated in her reporting, is how the majority of the news media, politicians, & other elites & notables responded to & framed the attack on 6 January, how the attack came about, & its aftermath. 1/
my theory of Jan 6 is that nobody (except for a few weirdos) likes to think about it. from 2021-2025, the investigations/prosecutions meant that Biden was the guy who was making people think about it (which they hated). now Trump is the guy making them think about it and they also hate that
January 3, 2026 at 1:11 AM
I want to make 1 quick point here: the entire discourse around "Merrick Garland did nothing wrong, quit picking on him" V "Merrick Garland moved to slowly" misses the point. Yes, Garland was the wrong make, model, & type of AG for the moment we were & are in. But the failure was a category error. 1/
People are wrong when they say we need to engage with Trumpists to defeat Trumpism. We need the opposite. Those people should be banished into a parallel, 2nd class society where only they exist to keep each other company. However, true repentance should get you instant passage back to our world.
It's genuinely good seeing this come from relatively normal and sane elites, because we're going to need them to help us reconstitute a normal, functional elite and enforce new norms that banish the insane shit swallowing everything for a generation or more.
January 3, 2026 at 12:08 AM
People are wrong when they say we need to engage with Trumpists to defeat Trumpism. We need the opposite. Those people should be banished into a parallel, 2nd class society where only they exist to keep each other company. However, true repentance should get you instant passage back to our world.
Right after this photo was taken, I went to the campus bar and drank 3 IPAs in a row. Horrible way to celebrate getting a PhD, but it seemed like a good idea in the moment.
January 2, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Right after this photo was taken, I went to the campus bar and drank 3 IPAs in a row. Horrible way to celebrate getting a PhD, but it seemed like a good idea in the moment.
"Officer, while I may have just blown twice the legal limit, my AM radio swears this will never happen again."
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 11:29 PM
"Officer, while I may have just blown twice the legal limit, my AM radio swears this will never happen again."
Off brands like Mr. Pibb won't even advertise on Twitter because they don't want their brand associated with Nazis or AI child porn, but for some reason, every Democratic elected is still posting away....
January 2, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Off brands like Mr. Pibb won't even advertise on Twitter because they don't want their brand associated with Nazis or AI child porn, but for some reason, every Democratic elected is still posting away....
I really hope not, but I would not bet any amount of money against this.
Hah unlikely. Give it a year and the leftists will be saying that Mamdani was always a shitlib cosplaying as a socialist.
Zohran is going to kill the “YIMBYs and leftists are mortal enemies” idea and that alone will make the internet 23% less annoying to me personally. Big accomplishment.
January 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I really hope not, but I would not bet any amount of money against this.
Our politics would be a lot better if more Americans internalized the fact that America already had a long-running experiment with authoritarianism. It was called "The Southern United States" and democracy didn't reach the states where 30% of the population lived until 1965.
When Americans insist "it can't happen here," they’re wrong. A sociologist who studies collective memory and identity examines how the U.S. forgot its own fascist movements and what that collective amnesia means today. buff.ly/9mzgR3S
America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.
buff.ly
January 2, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Our politics would be a lot better if more Americans internalized the fact that America already had a long-running experiment with authoritarianism. It was called "The Southern United States" and democracy didn't reach the states where 30% of the population lived until 1965.
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I think 95% of people think that "democratic socialism" means furnishing a Scandinavian style welfare state while also preserving a free-market economy. I too bristle at "collectivism" but I'd also support a movement called Interplanetary Maoism if the goal was building an American Denmark.
I don’t like that line at all. I would be strongly disinclined to support someone who said it. But it’s not like Mamdani’s opponents support individualism. Their slogan is “obey the dear leader, conform to conservatism, and send the garbage back where they came from.”
“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...
January 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I think 95% of people think that "democratic socialism" means furnishing a Scandinavian style welfare state while also preserving a free-market economy. I too bristle at "collectivism" but I'd also support a movement called Interplanetary Maoism if the goal was building an American Denmark.
I get why everyone is obsessed with Mamdani and I also think he's great, but I've really got my eye on Katie Wilson in Seattle. That woman has the juice.
"A city that values the pursuits that create beauty and community, whether or not they ever turn into careers. A city that thinks you should have time to read a book and lay on the grass looking up at the clouds." -Katie Wilson
January 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
I get why everyone is obsessed with Mamdani and I also think he's great, but I've really got my eye on Katie Wilson in Seattle. That woman has the juice.
Because I am older than one year old, I remember when Republicans did the exact same thing to Haitians in Ohio. When your voters and the dumbest and most despicable people in America, this is how you keep them entertained.
Lying to smear a minority group, being caught lying, and saying the ends justify the means for the sake of saving the nation or whatever is fascism 101. Obvious to anybody who knows anything about the 20th century. And musk and the entire tech right is doing it
January 2, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Because I am older than one year old, I remember when Republicans did the exact same thing to Haitians in Ohio. When your voters and the dumbest and most despicable people in America, this is how you keep them entertained.
All these chuds talk about is how they're being "replaced" and very truly, I wish I could do more to replace them faster.
Here is the editor of Tablet agreeably reposting someone calling nonwhite NYC immigrants "worthless biotrash." It's astonishing how quickly this stuff has escaped containment
January 2, 2026 at 6:31 PM
All these chuds talk about is how they're being "replaced" and very truly, I wish I could do more to replace them faster.
As they're really the only viable opposition party in local politics, in 2026 I want California's Democratic Socialists to dream bigger than banning Waymos and blocking gondolas.
Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.
January 2, 2026 at 6:00 PM
As they're really the only viable opposition party in local politics, in 2026 I want California's Democratic Socialists to dream bigger than banning Waymos and blocking gondolas.
Unless you are giving an exam where you are watching students complete it with pen and paper, you have to just assume that at least 80% are going to turn in LLM slop.
Oh, it's an ad aimed at students offering an AI service that will do 90% of the work of writing a paper for them. Cool. Cool cool cool.
January 2, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Unless you are giving an exam where you are watching students complete it with pen and paper, you have to just assume that at least 80% are going to turn in LLM slop.
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TAPing with credit cards is coming to LA Metro this spring!
And you can pay for up to four additional riders! No more having to buy individual TAP cards for every friend/family member/child you are traveling with!
And you can pay for up to four additional riders! No more having to buy individual TAP cards for every friend/family member/child you are traveling with!
January 2, 2026 at 2:56 AM
TAPing with credit cards is coming to LA Metro this spring!
And you can pay for up to four additional riders! No more having to buy individual TAP cards for every friend/family member/child you are traveling with!
And you can pay for up to four additional riders! No more having to buy individual TAP cards for every friend/family member/child you are traveling with!
Somehow, I knew instantly that this was referring to Twitter.
Hey I don't think you should use a website that generates CSAM on demand
January 2, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Somehow, I knew instantly that this was referring to Twitter.
This story reads like the WSJ is preparing to drop something fairly big about Trump's health and he called them to get out ahead of the story. There's no reason to have 3 bylines on this story otherwise.
Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)
Exclusive | As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance
In an interview, President Trump—the oldest man to assume the office—said he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:21 PM
This story reads like the WSJ is preparing to drop something fairly big about Trump's health and he called them to get out ahead of the story. There's no reason to have 3 bylines on this story otherwise.