Josh
@polkaweather.bsky.social
Musician. Clouds/Sunsets enthusiast. Mostly vegetarian. Pro-Constitution 🏳️🌈 #sandwichfan
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Josh
@polkaweather.bsky.social
· Jun 27
Just how bad will the American social/legal hellscape look by Christmas? June 2026? January 2027? My imagination has limits, and reality is exceeding it every week.
Jimmy Carter was the protective talisman. He was so decent, fundamentally good and prayerful, he prevented the US from falling into fascism during his lifetime. After 100 years in December 2024 he was just done, and here we are.
January 19, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Jimmy Carter was the protective talisman. He was so decent, fundamentally good and prayerful, he prevented the US from falling into fascism during his lifetime. After 100 years in December 2024 he was just done, and here we are.
Terrorists paid by the Treasury.
After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas.
ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.
ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.
January 15, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Terrorists paid by the Treasury.
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A reminder that 1934 was measurably worse for Germans than 1933, when the regime was consolidating power. Widespread loss of rights began in the new year.
January 8, 2026 at 1:07 AM
A reminder that 1934 was measurably worse for Germans than 1933, when the regime was consolidating power. Widespread loss of rights began in the new year.
So, we're supposed to work or go to school, pay taxes, observe traffic laws, feed the hungry, comfort the sick, nurture our friends & families while the executive branch acts like a raccoon on coke? And US military traffics a foreign head of state and his wife? Sounds like a recipe for...#Netflix.
January 4, 2026 at 2:29 AM
So, we're supposed to work or go to school, pay taxes, observe traffic laws, feed the hungry, comfort the sick, nurture our friends & families while the executive branch acts like a raccoon on coke? And US military traffics a foreign head of state and his wife? Sounds like a recipe for...#Netflix.
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Venezuela opposition reports the so called "capture" of Maduro was a negotiated deal between Maduro and US for an agreed exit strategy. We reported in November that this would be the case. The US bombed Venezuelan service members as part of a death theatre. #VenezuelaInvasion
January 3, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Venezuela opposition reports the so called "capture" of Maduro was a negotiated deal between Maduro and US for an agreed exit strategy. We reported in November that this would be the case. The US bombed Venezuelan service members as part of a death theatre. #VenezuelaInvasion
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You do not need to be a fan of Maduro to think that this is both morally abhorrent and world-historically fucking stupid.
Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them
January 3, 2026 at 7:03 AM
You do not need to be a fan of Maduro to think that this is both morally abhorrent and world-historically fucking stupid.
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CBS is now state run media. Killing a story, then lying about the justification, is the death of integrity.
December 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
CBS is now state run media. Killing a story, then lying about the justification, is the death of integrity.
Many ICE, CBP, and DHS officials will have to be tried and imprisoned for their crimes against humanity. We have to gird ourselves to see it through. Despicable what they are doing.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Many ICE, CBP, and DHS officials will have to be tried and imprisoned for their crimes against humanity. We have to gird ourselves to see it through. Despicable what they are doing.
abc7chicago.com/post/bulgari...
abc7chicago.com/post/bulgari...
I will never understand people like Susie Wiles. She knows precisely how unhinged they all are and took the job anyway, to enable the tangerine's "vision". Now, obviously with Vanity Fair article, she's headed for the exit and writing a bestseller tell all. Scum
December 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I will never understand people like Susie Wiles. She knows precisely how unhinged they all are and took the job anyway, to enable the tangerine's "vision". Now, obviously with Vanity Fair article, she's headed for the exit and writing a bestseller tell all. Scum
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Not a surprise, I wake up at 4am mulling this horror show.
"US civic health rating downgraded after year of ‘restrictive‘ Trump actions" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"US civic health rating downgraded after year of ‘restrictive‘ Trump actions" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US civic health rating downgraded after year of ‘restrictive‘ Trump actions
Civicus, a non-profit that monitors global civic freedoms, moved the US from the ‘narrowed’ to ‘obstructed’ category
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Not a surprise, I wake up at 4am mulling this horror show.
"US civic health rating downgraded after year of ‘restrictive‘ Trump actions" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"US civic health rating downgraded after year of ‘restrictive‘ Trump actions" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Hillcrest Wind Ensemble celebrates the 40th anniversary of our founding with our Winter Concert, With Pride and Joy! December 13, 6:00 PM at the Courtyard by Marriott/Liberty Station, 2592 Laning Rd, San Diego CA 92106.
For information or tickets, visit our website at www.hillcrestwindensemble.com.
For information or tickets, visit our website at www.hillcrestwindensemble.com.
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Hillcrest Wind Ensemble celebrates the 40th anniversary of our founding with our Winter Concert, With Pride and Joy! December 13, 6:00 PM at the Courtyard by Marriott/Liberty Station, 2592 Laning Rd, San Diego CA 92106.
For information or tickets, visit our website at www.hillcrestwindensemble.com.
For information or tickets, visit our website at www.hillcrestwindensemble.com.
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"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'"
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
Billboards outside US Southern Command urge troops not to 'break the law’ in Caribbean strikes
“Don’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans.
taskandpurpose.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"The new billboards are designed to inform troops of legal resources … 'The [Southern Command] strikes … represent the most blatantly illegal act that this administration has had the military carry out.'"
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
taskandpurpose.com/news/vet-group-billboards-caribbean-strikes/
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On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
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Remember when we were comparing ICE’s budget in the “Big Beautiful Bill” to other nations’ entire military budgets?
Well, Trump’s Nazi regime is using that funding to build their own army, and it’s not for deportations—it’s to incite fear and do whatever evil they must to remain in office forever.
Well, Trump’s Nazi regime is using that funding to build their own army, and it’s not for deportations—it’s to incite fear and do whatever evil they must to remain in office forever.
October 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Remember when we were comparing ICE’s budget in the “Big Beautiful Bill” to other nations’ entire military budgets?
Well, Trump’s Nazi regime is using that funding to build their own army, and it’s not for deportations—it’s to incite fear and do whatever evil they must to remain in office forever.
Well, Trump’s Nazi regime is using that funding to build their own army, and it’s not for deportations—it’s to incite fear and do whatever evil they must to remain in office forever.
Can you feel the snark and historical illiteracy from this National Park Service intern when I dared to ask what would happen to the historic trees demolished near the East Wing? #whitehouse
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Can you feel the snark and historical illiteracy from this National Park Service intern when I dared to ask what would happen to the historic trees demolished near the East Wing? #whitehouse
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Ready, set, VOTE! This is our moment, California.
Vote by mail. Vote Early. Vote YES on Prop 50 by November 4th!
Vote by mail. Vote Early. Vote YES on Prop 50 by November 4th!
October 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Ready, set, VOTE! This is our moment, California.
Vote by mail. Vote Early. Vote YES on Prop 50 by November 4th!
Vote by mail. Vote Early. Vote YES on Prop 50 by November 4th!
I hardly have bandwidth these days, but it's important to remember giants a) the monumental life of Dr Jane Goodall whose 'Reason for Hope' awakened by conservation brain 25 years ago.
And b) the literal voice from heaven Gavin Creel, who passed one year ago.
And b) the literal voice from heaven Gavin Creel, who passed one year ago.
October 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I hardly have bandwidth these days, but it's important to remember giants a) the monumental life of Dr Jane Goodall whose 'Reason for Hope' awakened by conservation brain 25 years ago.
And b) the literal voice from heaven Gavin Creel, who passed one year ago.
And b) the literal voice from heaven Gavin Creel, who passed one year ago.
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BREAKING:
The Nobel Prize has to remain Trump's wet dream indefinitely.
The committee has announced that the felon in chief has been permanently disqualified. Apparently renaming the US Defense Dept "Department of War" does not sit well with their values 🤷🏼♀️
Also: photo of someone who DID win 😉
The Nobel Prize has to remain Trump's wet dream indefinitely.
The committee has announced that the felon in chief has been permanently disqualified. Apparently renaming the US Defense Dept "Department of War" does not sit well with their values 🤷🏼♀️
Also: photo of someone who DID win 😉
September 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
BREAKING:
The Nobel Prize has to remain Trump's wet dream indefinitely.
The committee has announced that the felon in chief has been permanently disqualified. Apparently renaming the US Defense Dept "Department of War" does not sit well with their values 🤷🏼♀️
Also: photo of someone who DID win 😉
The Nobel Prize has to remain Trump's wet dream indefinitely.
The committee has announced that the felon in chief has been permanently disqualified. Apparently renaming the US Defense Dept "Department of War" does not sit well with their values 🤷🏼♀️
Also: photo of someone who DID win 😉
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🧵 Who's the most informed about American politics? Very lefty seculars.
My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
September 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🧵 Who's the most informed about American politics? Very lefty seculars.
My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
My new FREE study @sfjournal.bsky.social finds atheists/agnostics, especially if they are politically sorted, score higher on knowledge of basic civics & current politics than other groups. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake,
don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year.
Don’t bother.
Please.
And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.
don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year.
Don’t bother.
Please.
And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.
September 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake,
don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year.
Don’t bother.
Please.
And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.
don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year.
Don’t bother.
Please.
And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.