Bob Little
@boblittle.bsky.social
Former software & marketing guy who left it all behind to design and build cool stuff. Now focused on salvaging what's left of American democracy.
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Bob Little
@boblittle.bsky.social
· Oct 5
Trump and Vance want badly to stop you from using the f-word
That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch
The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.
www.inquirer.com
“Because if we accurately call out rising fascism … we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war.”
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JD Vance Munich Speech has become the Vance Doctrine.
Actionable policy which includes and prescribes direct interference into EU democratic processes by supporting far right and Eurosceptic parties.
If this is not the final wake up call Europe, I don't know what is.
Actionable policy which includes and prescribes direct interference into EU democratic processes by supporting far right and Eurosceptic parties.
If this is not the final wake up call Europe, I don't know what is.
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
JD Vance Munich Speech has become the Vance Doctrine.
Actionable policy which includes and prescribes direct interference into EU democratic processes by supporting far right and Eurosceptic parties.
If this is not the final wake up call Europe, I don't know what is.
Actionable policy which includes and prescribes direct interference into EU democratic processes by supporting far right and Eurosceptic parties.
If this is not the final wake up call Europe, I don't know what is.
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
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Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.
“You can do the math.”
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“You can do the math.”
My immediate reaction to this photo is that if I ever encountered these people in person somewhere I’d immediately turn and run away.
Deeply skeptical of whatever this is: apnews.com/article/mich... Can anyone provide the fine print on how a "Trump account" is supposed to work?
Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim 'Trump Accounts'
Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell pledged a historic $6.25 billion on Tuesday to provide an incentive to families to adopt new investment accounts for children.
apnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
My immediate reaction to this photo is that if I ever encountered these people in person somewhere I’d immediately turn and run away.
"Toilet Camera"
When [waves hands at everything] went insane about a decade ago I really thought we'd snap out of it, but we're just doubling down day after day, and also, who the hell is paying $600 a month to have their poop photographed and analyzed by an AI-enabled plumbing fixtures company???
When [waves hands at everything] went insane about a decade ago I really thought we'd snap out of it, but we're just doubling down day after day, and also, who the hell is paying $600 a month to have their poop photographed and analyzed by an AI-enabled plumbing fixtures company???
"Kohler can access data and pictures from toilet camera"
It's amazing what passes for a totally normal sentence in 2025
It's amazing what passes for a totally normal sentence in 2025
Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” - /var/log/simon
Claimed end-to-end privacy doesn’t fully conceal your rear-end data
varlogsimon.leaflet.pub
December 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"Toilet Camera"
When [waves hands at everything] went insane about a decade ago I really thought we'd snap out of it, but we're just doubling down day after day, and also, who the hell is paying $600 a month to have their poop photographed and analyzed by an AI-enabled plumbing fixtures company???
When [waves hands at everything] went insane about a decade ago I really thought we'd snap out of it, but we're just doubling down day after day, and also, who the hell is paying $600 a month to have their poop photographed and analyzed by an AI-enabled plumbing fixtures company???
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“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.”
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The signs of imminent market collapse for US equities are all around us, including this. www.ft.com/content/9d90...
UK pension funds dump US equities on fears of AI bubble
Public and private-sector funds concerned over market’s growing concentration in a small number of tech stocks
www.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The signs of imminent market collapse for US equities are all around us, including this. www.ft.com/content/9d90...
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That isn't even the craziest thing that Trump posted tonight!
Trump also posted:
- John Durham's report was found in a burn bag
- Nancy Pelosi planned Jan 6th for 2 yrs
- President of Venezuela surrendered to Trump
- Elon saved the 2024 election from being stolen
- President Obama committed treason
Trump also posted:
- John Durham's report was found in a burn bag
- Nancy Pelosi planned Jan 6th for 2 yrs
- President of Venezuela surrendered to Trump
- Elon saved the 2024 election from being stolen
- President Obama committed treason
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
That isn't even the craziest thing that Trump posted tonight!
Trump also posted:
- John Durham's report was found in a burn bag
- Nancy Pelosi planned Jan 6th for 2 yrs
- President of Venezuela surrendered to Trump
- Elon saved the 2024 election from being stolen
- President Obama committed treason
Trump also posted:
- John Durham's report was found in a burn bag
- Nancy Pelosi planned Jan 6th for 2 yrs
- President of Venezuela surrendered to Trump
- Elon saved the 2024 election from being stolen
- President Obama committed treason
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The president is a lunatic
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The president is a lunatic
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I guess my overall complaint with a lot of tech stuff nowadays is the product constantly telling me I’m wrong in using it in the way that I want to use it
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I guess my overall complaint with a lot of tech stuff nowadays is the product constantly telling me I’m wrong in using it in the way that I want to use it
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jesus christ; he didn't have "reasonable concerns." He was literally impeached for trying to get Ukraine to smear Biden! what the fucking fuck?!
Donald Trump had reasonable concerns about how Joe Biden’s relatives enriched themselves through his service. Yet his own family is making the “Biden crime family” look small-time
How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden
It’s about more than denying inflation
econ.st
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
jesus christ; he didn't have "reasonable concerns." He was literally impeached for trying to get Ukraine to smear Biden! what the fucking fuck?!
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This is James Bennet, the former NYT opinion editor who didn't read Tom Cotton's "let's unleash the military on American cities" op-ed before running it and then got fired. Also, he hired both Bari Weiss and Bret Stephens. He's more responsible than most for the republic's ruination.
Donald Trump had reasonable concerns about how Joe Biden’s relatives enriched themselves through his service. Yet his own family is making the “Biden crime family” look small-time
How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden
It’s about more than denying inflation
econ.st
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
This is James Bennet, the former NYT opinion editor who didn't read Tom Cotton's "let's unleash the military on American cities" op-ed before running it and then got fired. Also, he hired both Bari Weiss and Bret Stephens. He's more responsible than most for the republic's ruination.
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The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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On this day in 1863 Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
On this day in 1863 Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address.
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
The latest essential reading from @gilduran.com
Silicon Valley's new mantra:
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
Here's what tech's Apocalypse Capitalism means for our collective future:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
Here's what tech's Apocalypse Capitalism means for our collective future:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley Apocalypse Capitalism
“Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.”
www.thenerdreich.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The latest essential reading from @gilduran.com
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being buffeted by an endless flood of news stories about vulgar degenerater perverts gleefully meting out wanton cruelty while engaging in gaping, unobstructed corruption is uh, not great for the soul, tbh
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
being buffeted by an endless flood of news stories about vulgar degenerater perverts gleefully meting out wanton cruelty while engaging in gaping, unobstructed corruption is uh, not great for the soul, tbh
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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I think that more journalists need to look into this exchange between Musk and Epstein again.
It's a timely subject, and I'd bet a signed dollar bill that Musk wouldn't take kung fu lessons even if he received government subsidies to do so.
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It's a timely subject, and I'd bet a signed dollar bill that Musk wouldn't take kung fu lessons even if he received government subsidies to do so.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I think that more journalists need to look into this exchange between Musk and Epstein again.
It's a timely subject, and I'd bet a signed dollar bill that Musk wouldn't take kung fu lessons even if he received government subsidies to do so.
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It's a timely subject, and I'd bet a signed dollar bill that Musk wouldn't take kung fu lessons even if he received government subsidies to do so.
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The pre-vaccine era child graves were so beautiful!
(image: carved figures in a Baltimore cemetery on the grave of the 2 O'Donovan children who died from infectious disease in 1905)
(image: carved figures in a Baltimore cemetery on the grave of the 2 O'Donovan children who died from infectious disease in 1905)
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The pre-vaccine era child graves were so beautiful!
(image: carved figures in a Baltimore cemetery on the grave of the 2 O'Donovan children who died from infectious disease in 1905)
(image: carved figures in a Baltimore cemetery on the grave of the 2 O'Donovan children who died from infectious disease in 1905)