Mr. Rochester 📎🇨🇦
@mrrochester.bsky.social
Here for the sanity lacking elsewhere. Union strong, supporter of public education everywhere, which I reckon makes me a socialist - not a bad word in Canada. 🚫 Fascists. Rare books.
No lists.
“Always neighbours; never neighbors.”
No lists.
“Always neighbours; never neighbors.”
Was he a student in this class, coached by a cravenly obtuse, arrogantly stupid, teacher to practice "revisionist history," and write juvenile essays from fascists' points of view?
October 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Was he a student in this class, coached by a cravenly obtuse, arrogantly stupid, teacher to practice "revisionist history," and write juvenile essays from fascists' points of view?
Why completely demolish the East Wing?Why not renovate the interior? Because Trump wants to shove his ballroom in your faces. If he’d elected to renovate, the gaudy room would be hidden. Now, the exterior will also be gaudy and vulgar. Yet another collateral benefit of electing a “king.”
October 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Why completely demolish the East Wing?Why not renovate the interior? Because Trump wants to shove his ballroom in your faces. If he’d elected to renovate, the gaudy room would be hidden. Now, the exterior will also be gaudy and vulgar. Yet another collateral benefit of electing a “king.”
Let’s just say it: the hats are not trolling, and are not a joke. There will be no getting rid of Trump through the ballot box. And, if you don’t get rid of him in some other way, there will be no 2026 or 2028 elections.
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Let’s just say it: the hats are not trolling, and are not a joke. There will be no getting rid of Trump through the ballot box. And, if you don’t get rid of him in some other way, there will be no 2026 or 2028 elections.
Tempted to take sides in any battle of displaced peoples to regain what they feel is their rightful territory? Let us remember that we (in North America, in this case) ALL live, work, and play on stolen land. Who wants to be first to give theirs back? No?
October 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tempted to take sides in any battle of displaced peoples to regain what they feel is their rightful territory? Let us remember that we (in North America, in this case) ALL live, work, and play on stolen land. Who wants to be first to give theirs back? No?
There are lots of reasons to be against the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, but the “leave poor Iran alone; they have every right to a nuclear weapon” is not one of them.
June 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
There are lots of reasons to be against the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, but the “leave poor Iran alone; they have every right to a nuclear weapon” is not one of them.
We need these two to “give a fuck when it ain’t their turn to give a fuck.”
May 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
We need these two to “give a fuck when it ain’t their turn to give a fuck.”
Hey, at least she is not in danger of relapse.
May 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Hey, at least she is not in danger of relapse.
At least she isn’t at any risk of relapsing . . . .
May 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
At least she isn’t at any risk of relapsing . . . .
5 million to her family. US taxpayers are now being forced to support J6 insurrectionists and their families. Still, she achieved long term (really long) sobriety that day.
May 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
5 million to her family. US taxpayers are now being forced to support J6 insurrectionists and their families. Still, she achieved long term (really long) sobriety that day.
This was over a small fuel tax increase in France. They mean it when they say, “Liberty” is not negotiable. There is a large fascist nation that could use some examples of courage.
May 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This was over a small fuel tax increase in France. They mean it when they say, “Liberty” is not negotiable. There is a large fascist nation that could use some examples of courage.
General Sherman should have burned the whole state.
May 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
General Sherman should have burned the whole state.
He leads the USA. Seriously.
May 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
He leads the USA. Seriously.
So . . . all the years I thought everyone who watched Star Wars naturally sided with the Rebellion, 40% were actually Empire stans?
May 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
So . . . all the years I thought everyone who watched Star Wars naturally sided with the Rebellion, 40% were actually Empire stans?
The USA is literally fighting for its survival as a functioning democracy. Fascists have taken over and are destroying lives. But please, do lecture people about restraint. Germans said the same thing to those it saw as “extreme” in the 1930s. Then came the 1940s . . .
April 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The USA is literally fighting for its survival as a functioning democracy. Fascists have taken over and are destroying lives. But please, do lecture people about restraint. Germans said the same thing to those it saw as “extreme” in the 1930s. Then came the 1940s . . .
We know who the collaborators are. Let’s remind them of the cost. We know where they all live.
April 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
We know who the collaborators are. Let’s remind them of the cost. We know where they all live.
“I was shocked at the faces when Hitler appeared. They reminded me of the crazed expressions I saw once in the back country of Louisiana on the faces of some Holly Rollers. They looked up at him like he was the Messiah, their faces transformed into something positively inhuman.” (1934, W.L. Shirer)
April 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“I was shocked at the faces when Hitler appeared. They reminded me of the crazed expressions I saw once in the back country of Louisiana on the faces of some Holly Rollers. They looked up at him like he was the Messiah, their faces transformed into something positively inhuman.” (1934, W.L. Shirer)
Trump is just the leader of an American political party, not some sort of devil. He and the MAGA hordes are just making it easy to collaborate and hate - eventually convincing you that there’s no nation, just the individual against others. See the trajectory now? (Quoted from Alan Furst, 1996)
March 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Trump is just the leader of an American political party, not some sort of devil. He and the MAGA hordes are just making it easy to collaborate and hate - eventually convincing you that there’s no nation, just the individual against others. See the trajectory now? (Quoted from Alan Furst, 1996)
Sweet, sweet schadenfreude. Suffering suits them.
March 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Sweet, sweet schadenfreude. Suffering suits them.
She’s typecast: MAGA checks every box on the “Are we Nazis” questionnaire, including “Have a large minority of racist/Christian white women expressed their devotion to the dictator”? From 1933:
March 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
She’s typecast: MAGA checks every box on the “Are we Nazis” questionnaire, including “Have a large minority of racist/Christian white women expressed their devotion to the dictator”? From 1933:
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, by Owen Beattie.
March 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, by Owen Beattie.
Straight from the NSDAP playbook. We’ve reached 1936.
February 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Straight from the NSDAP playbook. We’ve reached 1936.
Media’s (legacy and popular independents) reaction to the USA falling to fascism so easily. Let’s try to move against the fascists -/ not just report their misdeeds “for the record,” and constantly pointing out the obvious.
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Media’s (legacy and popular independents) reaction to the USA falling to fascism so easily. Let’s try to move against the fascists -/ not just report their misdeeds “for the record,” and constantly pointing out the obvious.
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.” It’ll get bloody, USA, (whether you read it as metaphorical or literal), but never give in or give up.
February 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.” It’ll get bloody, USA, (whether you read it as metaphorical or literal), but never give in or give up.