AliceV
@aliceventuri.bsky.social
Cranky retired human. Reader of many things.
The Right is taking advantage of Charlie Kirk’s death and making it their Reichstag Fire. I think we all know where this is leading.
In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.
September 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The Right is taking advantage of Charlie Kirk’s death and making it their Reichstag Fire. I think we all know where this is leading.
Read this thread. Take it to heart, because everything Gregg says here is God’s own truth.
Now we have to figure out what to do about it. As far as I’m concerned, everything is on the table. Lives are literally at stake.
Now we have to figure out what to do about it. As far as I’m concerned, everything is on the table. Lives are literally at stake.
August 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Read this thread. Take it to heart, because everything Gregg says here is God’s own truth.
Now we have to figure out what to do about it. As far as I’m concerned, everything is on the table. Lives are literally at stake.
Now we have to figure out what to do about it. As far as I’m concerned, everything is on the table. Lives are literally at stake.
This needs wider distribution. Take notes, folks; we’re all going to need to know these “10 Commandments” before long.
6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
August 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This needs wider distribution. Take notes, folks; we’re all going to need to know these “10 Commandments” before long.
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Also, apropos of nothing in particular, if anyone tries to tell you that the protests in LA are a distraction from the budget bill, kindly remind them that the bill will MASSIVELY expand ICE’s budget, so the two things are very much related.
June 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Also, apropos of nothing in particular, if anyone tries to tell you that the protests in LA are a distraction from the budget bill, kindly remind them that the bill will MASSIVELY expand ICE’s budget, so the two things are very much related.
Here’s a neat little checklist so we all can keep score at home.
What to expect next:
– Escalation framed as “restoring order”
– Mass arrests under vague pretexts
– Targeting of protest organisers and journalists
– Expansion of emergency powers
– Demonisation of dissent as “terrorism”
– Escalation framed as “restoring order”
– Mass arrests under vague pretexts
– Targeting of protest organisers and journalists
– Expansion of emergency powers
– Demonisation of dissent as “terrorism”
June 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Here’s a neat little checklist so we all can keep score at home.
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If you have a republican house or senate member, now would be a good time to bother the hell out of them via phone and email.
These numbers are damning. Millions of Americans will lose health insurance if Republicans get their way.
May 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If you have a republican house or senate member, now would be a good time to bother the hell out of them via phone and email.
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“the goal is not to make raising children easier for everyone... it’s about providing a reward for families who do childrearing the ‘right’ way.” (i.e., in large, white, breadwinner/homemaker families)--my take on pronatalism in a great piece by @melissagiragrant.com
newrepublic.com/article/1943...
newrepublic.com/article/1943...
The Trump Administration Isn’t Pro-Family. It’s Pro-Patriarchy.
So-called pronatalist policies to increase the birth rate often involve rewarding the “right” kind of family—an exercise that’s hard to separate from its sexist and racist origins.
newrepublic.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“the goal is not to make raising children easier for everyone... it’s about providing a reward for families who do childrearing the ‘right’ way.” (i.e., in large, white, breadwinner/homemaker families)--my take on pronatalism in a great piece by @melissagiragrant.com
newrepublic.com/article/1943...
newrepublic.com/article/1943...
You’d think we wouldn’t have to point this out, but here we are.
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
You’d think we wouldn’t have to point this out, but here we are.
Huh. Could it be that the Republican implementation of the white male meritocracy isn’t working as they claimed it would?
Or is it working exactly as they planned?
Or is it working exactly as they planned?
Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) is the subject of an investigation into the alleged assault of a 27-year old woman in Washington, D.C. on February 19. The alleged victim is not his wife.
“…the initial victims' police report described a phone call where officers could hear Mills instructing the victim to…
“…the initial victims' police report described a phone call where officers could hear Mills instructing the victim to…
February 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Huh. Could it be that the Republican implementation of the white male meritocracy isn’t working as they claimed it would?
Or is it working exactly as they planned?
Or is it working exactly as they planned?
It seems that Republicans can’t be trusted to either protect or obey the rule of law. It’s not just Trump that needs to ejected from office.
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
GOP member wants bishop ‘added to deportation list’ after Trump prayer service
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) heavily criticized statements made by the Right Rev. Mariann Budde on Tuesday at the inaugural prayer service held for President Trump. “The person giving this sermon shou…
thehill.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It seems that Republicans can’t be trusted to either protect or obey the rule of law. It’s not just Trump that needs to ejected from office.
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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As I've tried to tell people who've fretted that Bluesky is some kind of sequestered space of like-minded folks (obviously, it's not), people who vehemently disagree with us will come here in droves. They want to be where we are. The right cannot stay away. They want our attention & outrage so bad.
November 16, 2024 at 11:13 PM
As I've tried to tell people who've fretted that Bluesky is some kind of sequestered space of like-minded folks (obviously, it's not), people who vehemently disagree with us will come here in droves. They want to be where we are. The right cannot stay away. They want our attention & outrage so bad.
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In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it
November 16, 2024 at 7:25 PM
In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo wrote a great editorial this morning. Along with Timothy Snyder’s “Don’t obey in advance,” perhaps we can add “Don’t despair in advance.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-m...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-m...
The Most Pernicious Anticipatory Obedience Hides in Plain Sight
In the waning days of the 2024 presidential campaign, Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos became the target of widespread and deserved disgust for nixing The Washington Post’s policy of endorsing presidential…
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo wrote a great editorial this morning. Along with Timothy Snyder’s “Don’t obey in advance,” perhaps we can add “Don’t despair in advance.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-m...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-m...