Bill Martin
@nutribill.bsky.social
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Well this makes pretty clear what we've known since 1898, that wars abroad militarize police back home.
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March 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Well this makes pretty clear what we've known since 1898, that wars abroad militarize police back home.
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I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed.
But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.
But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.
February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I was one of those warning how bad it would be and how Trump 2 would be much worse than anyone complacently assumed.
But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.
But even I didn’t have ‘cancel all foreign aid, including to kids with HIV & malaria’ and also ‘let the world’s richest man get access to our private data’ on my 2025 bingo card.
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“But her emails!”
Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.
3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“But her emails!”
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How is this legal? How? Why is every top Democrat not outside the Treasury right now, holding a press conference at least? Or filing a lawsuit?? I am losing my mind.
“Elon Musk has vowed to unilaterally cancel hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of gov’t grants after gaining access to review the US Treasury’s vast payments system, a move that prompted the sudden resignation of one of the department’s most senior officials.”
www.ft.com/content/27ba...
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Musk vows to cancel grants after gaining access to US Treasury payment system
System disperses trillions of dollars in US government spending each year, including social security
www.ft.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
How is this legal? How? Why is every top Democrat not outside the Treasury right now, holding a press conference at least? Or filing a lawsuit?? I am losing my mind.
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A stark reminder of the power and discipline of rightwing messaging (propaganda) and the utter weakness and ineffectiveness of liberal messaging.
More Americans now believe Trump won a bigger popular vote margin in 2024 than Biden won in 2020 (he didn’t of course).
More Americans now believe Trump won a bigger popular vote margin in 2024 than Biden won in 2020 (he didn’t of course).
January 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A stark reminder of the power and discipline of rightwing messaging (propaganda) and the utter weakness and ineffectiveness of liberal messaging.
More Americans now believe Trump won a bigger popular vote margin in 2024 than Biden won in 2020 (he didn’t of course).
More Americans now believe Trump won a bigger popular vote margin in 2024 than Biden won in 2020 (he didn’t of course).
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Respect to @anntelnaes.bsky.social for quitting the Washington Post due to censorship over her on-point cartoon. More of this from artists and writers, please. Don't obey in advance, especially to the broligarchy.
January 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Respect to @anntelnaes.bsky.social for quitting the Washington Post due to censorship over her on-point cartoon. More of this from artists and writers, please. Don't obey in advance, especially to the broligarchy.
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I don't care what TIME says.
MY Person of the Year is Kamala Harris.
TIME got it wrong.
So did America.
MY Person of the Year is Kamala Harris.
TIME got it wrong.
So did America.
December 12, 2024 at 7:19 PM
I don't care what TIME says.
MY Person of the Year is Kamala Harris.
TIME got it wrong.
So did America.
MY Person of the Year is Kamala Harris.
TIME got it wrong.
So did America.
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It's important to remember that when Trump talks about pardoning the January 6th attackers, these were no innocent Boy Scouts. They were violent thugs, hellbent on wrecking our democracy.
As usual, Donald Trump is deluded and wrong.
As usual, Donald Trump is deluded and wrong.
December 10, 2024 at 5:43 AM
It's important to remember that when Trump talks about pardoning the January 6th attackers, these were no innocent Boy Scouts. They were violent thugs, hellbent on wrecking our democracy.
As usual, Donald Trump is deluded and wrong.
As usual, Donald Trump is deluded and wrong.
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This cover is more like it.
December 13, 2024 at 6:07 PM
This cover is more like it.
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We are so - and I use this word advisely - fucked.
RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
We are so - and I use this word advisely - fucked.
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Our gerontocracy needs to be dismantled. These older folks should be relaxing at home, not grasping to power till the very end.
Sen. Mitch McConnell “fell following Senate GOP lunch. Getting medical treatment,” @bresreports.bsky.social reports
December 10, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Our gerontocracy needs to be dismantled. These older folks should be relaxing at home, not grasping to power till the very end.
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This is an insanely dangerous idea
December 11, 2024 at 2:03 AM
This is an insanely dangerous idea
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"The message to Israel is that this needs to stop, What we are seeing in the Golan is a violation of the 1974 agreement. This is a very serious issue."
The UN's Syria Special Envoy Geir Pedersen tells me that Israel's unlawful actions in Syria need to stop.
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The UN's Syria Special Envoy Geir Pedersen tells me that Israel's unlawful actions in Syria need to stop.
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December 9, 2024 at 10:52 PM
"The message to Israel is that this needs to stop, What we are seeing in the Golan is a violation of the 1974 agreement. This is a very serious issue."
The UN's Syria Special Envoy Geir Pedersen tells me that Israel's unlawful actions in Syria need to stop.
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
The UN's Syria Special Envoy Geir Pedersen tells me that Israel's unlawful actions in Syria need to stop.
zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
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If this is what it looks like Kennedy got promised a powerful office and a straight up bribe to drop out.
There’s often some horse trading in elections, but paying your opponents to clear the way for you is deeply corrupt.
There’s often some horse trading in elections, but paying your opponents to clear the way for you is deeply corrupt.
The Trump campaign disbursed $100,000 to a California law firm that lists Kennedy as one of its attorneys three weeks after he bowed out of the race and backed Trump — the only payment they made to the form during the 23-24 election cycle.
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Trump campaign paid law firm employing RFK Jr. weeks after he endorsed Trump
The Trump campaign disbursed $100,000 to a California law firm that lists Kennedy as one of its attorneys three weeks after he bowed out of the race and backed Trump.
www.nbcnews.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:59 PM
If this is what it looks like Kennedy got promised a powerful office and a straight up bribe to drop out.
There’s often some horse trading in elections, but paying your opponents to clear the way for you is deeply corrupt.
There’s often some horse trading in elections, but paying your opponents to clear the way for you is deeply corrupt.
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The state of media for Americans is so completely broken
I want to watch TV coverage of the live fall of the Syrian regime.
CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants
So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election
CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants
So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election
December 8, 2024 at 3:46 AM
The state of media for Americans is so completely broken
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I can see how the anti-Jewish logic of the speech could've made sense to the post-WW1 German audience.
And, I see parallels with Trump's anti-immigrant campaign. In this speech, in fact, Hitler is framing the topic as the Jews being unwanted immigrants.
I can see how the anti-Jewish logic of the speech could've made sense to the post-WW1 German audience.
And, I see parallels with Trump's anti-immigrant campaign. In this speech, in fact, Hitler is framing the topic as the Jews being unwanted immigrants.
AI RECONSTRUCTS HITLER'S SPEECH TO ENGLISH (Extended)
YouTube video by History Unknown
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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I can see how the anti-Jewish logic of the speech could've made sense to the post-WW1 German audience.
And, I see parallels with Trump's anti-immigrant campaign. In this speech, in fact, Hitler is framing the topic as the Jews being unwanted immigrants.
I can see how the anti-Jewish logic of the speech could've made sense to the post-WW1 German audience.
And, I see parallels with Trump's anti-immigrant campaign. In this speech, in fact, Hitler is framing the topic as the Jews being unwanted immigrants.
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Now that white nationalist Nick Fuentes has been arrested for pepper spraying and pushing a woman down the stairs, maybe he's eligible to be nominated for something by Trump
December 7, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Now that white nationalist Nick Fuentes has been arrested for pepper spraying and pushing a woman down the stairs, maybe he's eligible to be nominated for something by Trump