Peter D
@pedrowd.bsky.social
Anti-brexit, Pro-EU, Proudly Woke, Covid Aware & 'Salting the Vibes', FBPE, Climate Change Doomer, Wanabee Off-grid Survivalist (I'm working in it), Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️🌈
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Ana gets it. This whole thread is worth reading.
I've taught a couple of interviewing classes and, sure, "don't ask yes/no questions, ask 'why/how'" advice is standard. Most people will respond. But it's not a magic charm against a psychopath. "How did you justify?" is just as likely to get "Well, I didn't" as a "Did you?"
Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Ana gets it. This whole thread is worth reading.
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Everyone who follows the news already knows where this is headed.
Orwell. A police state. An authoritarian regime that disappears people—including citizens. Think Pinochet as a starting point.
The problem is that those who don't follow the news *don't* know where this is headed. We must tell them.
Orwell. A police state. An authoritarian regime that disappears people—including citizens. Think Pinochet as a starting point.
The problem is that those who don't follow the news *don't* know where this is headed. We must tell them.
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Everyone who follows the news already knows where this is headed.
Orwell. A police state. An authoritarian regime that disappears people—including citizens. Think Pinochet as a starting point.
The problem is that those who don't follow the news *don't* know where this is headed. We must tell them.
Orwell. A police state. An authoritarian regime that disappears people—including citizens. Think Pinochet as a starting point.
The problem is that those who don't follow the news *don't* know where this is headed. We must tell them.
(🚨) NEW at PROOF: It is 8PM the night before Election Day, and *this* is the breaking news the whole world should be talking about.
BREAKING NEWS: Trump’s Involvement in An Apparent Obama Assassination Plot Was Just Discovered—Then Systematically Covered Up
As America heads to the polls in early November, this would seem to be the biggest legal and political scandal US media is by and large doing nothing to draw voters’ attention to. Proof has the story.
sethabramson.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Not The Onion, but CBS News
Not an indie-club stand-up routine before ICE arrives to stomp on the club owner in front of his mom, but actual testimony from the snowflakiest fascist goons ever to hit the mean. shop- and tourist-lined streets of northwest DC
Not an indie-club stand-up routine before ICE arrives to stomp on the club owner in front of his mom, but actual testimony from the snowflakiest fascist goons ever to hit the mean. shop- and tourist-lined streets of northwest DC
“Lairmore said he ‘could feel it through his ballistic vest’ and it ‘exploded all over’ him after the Subway stack hit him. He said he ‘could smell the onions and mustard’ on his uniform, and even had an onion string hanging by his police radio later that night.”
This court case is pure gold.
This court case is pure gold.
Border Patrol agent testifies sandwich thrown at him "exploded all over," left mustard stains
Sean Dunn has been charged with a misdemeanor felony count for throwing a sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent during President Trump's federal takeover of D.C.
www.cbsnews.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Not The Onion, but CBS News
Not an indie-club stand-up routine before ICE arrives to stomp on the club owner in front of his mom, but actual testimony from the snowflakiest fascist goons ever to hit the mean. shop- and tourist-lined streets of northwest DC
Not an indie-club stand-up routine before ICE arrives to stomp on the club owner in front of his mom, but actual testimony from the snowflakiest fascist goons ever to hit the mean. shop- and tourist-lined streets of northwest DC
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The White House—which we pay for—looks more like an Epstein-inspired child rape bordello every day, given that the only people who'd be impressed by the fake gold snot above this door or the tacky, miscolored $4-font signage beside it are kids or the sort of predator who tries to lure kids somewhere
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The White House—which we pay for—looks more like an Epstein-inspired child rape bordello every day, given that the only people who'd be impressed by the fake gold snot above this door or the tacky, miscolored $4-font signage beside it are kids or the sort of predator who tries to lure kids somewhere
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Feeling triumphant and hopeful? Me too. But we're not out of the woods yet. Not by a mile.
Yesterday was a crucial, but small, battle win in a really scary war to take down our democratic Republic.
But the public beast is awakening. Another well researched take from @sethabramson.bsky.social.
Yesterday was a crucial, but small, battle win in a really scary war to take down our democratic Republic.
But the public beast is awakening. Another well researched take from @sethabramson.bsky.social.
(🚨) NEW at PROOF: You may or may not agree with its observations and conclusions, but I hope you’ll consider giving this new PROOF post-election report a read.
The Five Biggest Takeaways From Election Day 2025 Aren’t At All What You Would Think
Big Democratic victories in New York, New Jersey, Virginia and California are well worth celebrating—but behind the gaudy headlines heralding such wins are darker indicators worth considering as well.
sethabramson.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Feeling triumphant and hopeful? Me too. But we're not out of the woods yet. Not by a mile.
Yesterday was a crucial, but small, battle win in a really scary war to take down our democratic Republic.
But the public beast is awakening. Another well researched take from @sethabramson.bsky.social.
Yesterday was a crucial, but small, battle win in a really scary war to take down our democratic Republic.
But the public beast is awakening. Another well researched take from @sethabramson.bsky.social.
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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
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This is what a New Era looks like.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is what a New Era looks like.
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So glad Meghan blocked me long ago (without me ever having interacted with her) so I never have to see putrid garbage like this in the wild
October 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
So glad Meghan blocked me long ago (without me ever having interacted with her) so I never have to see putrid garbage like this in the wild
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I have never seen such a perfect image
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I have never seen such a perfect image
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An even better version! (Apparently hand-drawn, rather than AI.)
October 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
An even better version! (Apparently hand-drawn, rather than AI.)
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The earliest anti-fascist movements were made up of very strange bedfellows - communists, socialists, anarchists, republicans (small r), trade unionists, and even monarchists in some instances.
They were “big tent” organizations with the specific purpose of driving out the authoritarian rulers.
They were “big tent” organizations with the specific purpose of driving out the authoritarian rulers.
October 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The earliest anti-fascist movements were made up of very strange bedfellows - communists, socialists, anarchists, republicans (small r), trade unionists, and even monarchists in some instances.
They were “big tent” organizations with the specific purpose of driving out the authoritarian rulers.
They were “big tent” organizations with the specific purpose of driving out the authoritarian rulers.
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36/ I believe our—the left’s—inability to focus on a primary goal without litigating and relitigating *every other issue we’re exercised over all the time*—is, to be clear *along with* apathy, what will destroy the United States. Not Trump: us.
*We’re* the reason, I believe, that America will fall.
*We’re* the reason, I believe, that America will fall.
October 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
36/ I believe our—the left’s—inability to focus on a primary goal without litigating and relitigating *every other issue we’re exercised over all the time*—is, to be clear *along with* apathy, what will destroy the United States. Not Trump: us.
*We’re* the reason, I believe, that America will fall.
*We’re* the reason, I believe, that America will fall.
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35/ We all have a decision to make in these final months of American life. No one can make that decision for you. I’ve no interest in haranguing people about that decision—because candidly unless you come to a position on your own, you’re not really there, anyway. So I’m just telling you where I am.
October 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
35/ We all have a decision to make in these final months of American life. No one can make that decision for you. I’ve no interest in haranguing people about that decision—because candidly unless you come to a position on your own, you’re not really there, anyway. So I’m just telling you where I am.
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34/ Metamodernism is about having hope even when it’s hopeless—a paradox, but metamodernists learn to live this way.
I believe America will collapse. Whereas a binary-/dialectics-oriented poststructuralist says, "Then you’re giving up," the metamodernist says, "No, I’m getting ready to *stand* up."
I believe America will collapse. Whereas a binary-/dialectics-oriented poststructuralist says, "Then you’re giving up," the metamodernist says, "No, I’m getting ready to *stand* up."
October 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
34/ Metamodernism is about having hope even when it’s hopeless—a paradox, but metamodernists learn to live this way.
I believe America will collapse. Whereas a binary-/dialectics-oriented poststructuralist says, "Then you’re giving up," the metamodernist says, "No, I’m getting ready to *stand* up."
I believe America will collapse. Whereas a binary-/dialectics-oriented poststructuralist says, "Then you’re giving up," the metamodernist says, "No, I’m getting ready to *stand* up."
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30/ The person next to you in the trenches is likely *not* someone you would befriend, sleep with, or even necessarily trust in certain *other* settings.
But they’re your fellow traveler on *this* task, this task *right here*, the *only one urgently before you this day*—and that *has* to be enough.
But they’re your fellow traveler on *this* task, this task *right here*, the *only one urgently before you this day*—and that *has* to be enough.
October 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
30/ The person next to you in the trenches is likely *not* someone you would befriend, sleep with, or even necessarily trust in certain *other* settings.
But they’re your fellow traveler on *this* task, this task *right here*, the *only one urgently before you this day*—and that *has* to be enough.
But they’re your fellow traveler on *this* task, this task *right here*, the *only one urgently before you this day*—and that *has* to be enough.
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28/ And bluntly, 90%+ what I am seeing on the left right now is people using the Big Cause (rule of law and democracy) as a backdrop for their personal causes—which, to be clear, are often entirely just, even as they’re incompatible with the sort of massive coalition-building we need right now.
October 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
28/ And bluntly, 90%+ what I am seeing on the left right now is people using the Big Cause (rule of law and democracy) as a backdrop for their personal causes—which, to be clear, are often entirely just, even as they’re incompatible with the sort of massive coalition-building we need right now.
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27/ I’m not here to say AI is good or bad. I’m not here to say white men don’t benefit from white privilege. I’m not here to say whether poststructuralist buzzwords like "centering" or "decentering" have metaphysical utility. I’m saying that unless we lose ourselves in activism, we’re not activists.
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
27/ I’m not here to say AI is good or bad. I’m not here to say white men don’t benefit from white privilege. I’m not here to say whether poststructuralist buzzwords like "centering" or "decentering" have metaphysical utility. I’m saying that unless we lose ourselves in activism, we’re not activists.
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26/ No Kings Day 1 was amazing. No Kings Day 2 was amazing. I think these days will continue to be amazing. But 2% to 4% of America protesting isn’t enough.
We need a 40%+ coalition, and poststructuralist tropes are literally *designed* to "deconstruct" any and every 40%+ coalition. That’s its DNA.
We need a 40%+ coalition, and poststructuralist tropes are literally *designed* to "deconstruct" any and every 40%+ coalition. That’s its DNA.
October 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
26/ No Kings Day 1 was amazing. No Kings Day 2 was amazing. I think these days will continue to be amazing. But 2% to 4% of America protesting isn’t enough.
We need a 40%+ coalition, and poststructuralist tropes are literally *designed* to "deconstruct" any and every 40%+ coalition. That’s its DNA.
We need a 40%+ coalition, and poststructuralist tropes are literally *designed* to "deconstruct" any and every 40%+ coalition. That’s its DNA.
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14/ Historically, activism works when—if it has a *massively* encompassing goal that’s *very* hard to achieve—it a) focuses only on that goal (not individual activists’ other ambitions) until the main goal is achieved, b) folks are willing to work daily alongside those they disagree with on a *lot*.
October 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
14/ Historically, activism works when—if it has a *massively* encompassing goal that’s *very* hard to achieve—it a) focuses only on that goal (not individual activists’ other ambitions) until the main goal is achieved, b) folks are willing to work daily alongside those they disagree with on a *lot*.
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11/ You may think you don’t know what I’m talking about; you do. In your heart, you do.
When someone posts a highly effective piece of visual rhetoric that happens to be AI-generated and 33% of the left focuses on how AI is unethical rather than the end-goal of that particular usage of it, you do.
When someone posts a highly effective piece of visual rhetoric that happens to be AI-generated and 33% of the left focuses on how AI is unethical rather than the end-goal of that particular usage of it, you do.
October 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
11/ You may think you don’t know what I’m talking about; you do. In your heart, you do.
When someone posts a highly effective piece of visual rhetoric that happens to be AI-generated and 33% of the left focuses on how AI is unethical rather than the end-goal of that particular usage of it, you do.
When someone posts a highly effective piece of visual rhetoric that happens to be AI-generated and 33% of the left focuses on how AI is unethical rather than the end-goal of that particular usage of it, you do.
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8/ SCOTUS will soon give—yes, *give*—Trump 19 new House seats by ending the Voting Rights Act. Trump will declare the Insurrection Act, then martial law, when he likes. He has eliminated any USAF brass that would stop him. And I don’t believe Trump will allow any further elections he has not rigged.
October 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
8/ SCOTUS will soon give—yes, *give*—Trump 19 new House seats by ending the Voting Rights Act. Trump will declare the Insurrection Act, then martial law, when he likes. He has eliminated any USAF brass that would stop him. And I don’t believe Trump will allow any further elections he has not rigged.
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7/ Right now, I assess our chances of stopping Trump from ending democracy semi-permanently or permanently at <20%. Why? The courts have already made clear that, at least at the highest level, they cannot and will not do their jobs. Congress has literally given its gavel over. Trump has the USAF.
October 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
7/ Right now, I assess our chances of stopping Trump from ending democracy semi-permanently or permanently at <20%. Why? The courts have already made clear that, at least at the highest level, they cannot and will not do their jobs. Congress has literally given its gavel over. Trump has the USAF.
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(🧵) I’m going to say some things that may cost me followers. That’s only appropriate, given that what I say in this thread is about exactly that: how utterly meaningless everything is right now besides saving America—because without rule of law and democracy, nothing we dream of will ever come true.
October 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
(🧵) I’m going to say some things that may cost me followers. That’s only appropriate, given that what I say in this thread is about exactly that: how utterly meaningless everything is right now besides saving America—because without rule of law and democracy, nothing we dream of will ever come true.
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Be the inflatable unicorn you want to see in the world
October 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Be the inflatable unicorn you want to see in the world