Robert
@robertgonyo.bsky.social
Theatre artist, pinball player, rock & roll nerd.
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Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
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![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
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www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
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Republicans are purposely and strategically incompetent on antiterror; they hope for violent attacks they can frame as terrorist, to justify accelerating the terrorist violence they’re already enacting against the US civilian population.
2/ nor can we forget Thomas Fugate, the 22 year old Trump campaign worked appointed as the lead counter terrorism coordinator at DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Republicans are purposely and strategically incompetent on antiterror; they hope for violent attacks they can frame as terrorist, to justify accelerating the terrorist violence they’re already enacting against the US civilian population.
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Alternative medicine grifters will tell you to “follow the money!”
Just not their money…
Just not their money…
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Alternative medicine grifters will tell you to “follow the money!”
Just not their money…
Just not their money…
I would pay an insanely premium price for a dryer that doesn’t turn fitted sheets into pillowcase-strangling still-wet nooses.
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I would pay an insanely premium price for a dryer that doesn’t turn fitted sheets into pillowcase-strangling still-wet nooses.
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Singer/songwriter is an art that requires less of an expense than illustrator in that you don't even need crayon and paper.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
All AI music does is devalue the work done by human artists. It’s not accessibility, it’s exploitation. We need real protections for artists against AI!
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
BTW — even if you had access to this AI startup as a child, you still wouldn’t know how to make music.
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Singer/songwriter is an art that requires less of an expense than illustrator in that you don't even need crayon and paper.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
The subtext is what it's always been- These people don't want to be artists. They want to be famous.
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STRONG AGREE
The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
STRONG AGREE
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We’re out here looking for positive examples of masculinity and here’s Hegseth like “it’s crypto Nazi tattoos and sexual assault.”
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We’re out here looking for positive examples of masculinity and here’s Hegseth like “it’s crypto Nazi tattoos and sexual assault.”
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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so many people thought they were taking the temperature of America when they were actually marinating their brain in an artificially constructed fake reality on their phones
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
so many people thought they were taking the temperature of America when they were actually marinating their brain in an artificially constructed fake reality on their phones
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answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior
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The absolute first thing Democrats Must Do if/when they hold power again is restore as much of the funding/agencies illegally dismantled & cancelled by these unprecedented criminals as possible & then put Musk & everyone else involved in jail for the rest of their lives.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The absolute first thing Democrats Must Do if/when they hold power again is restore as much of the funding/agencies illegally dismantled & cancelled by these unprecedented criminals as possible & then put Musk & everyone else involved in jail for the rest of their lives.
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It's got to be wild to be a run of the mill Republican asshole who buys the party line about waging war against pedophiles in the government, and then you find some pedophiles in the government and try to wage war, and your Republican asshole friends are like "wellllll, define 'pedophiles'"
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's got to be wild to be a run of the mill Republican asshole who buys the party line about waging war against pedophiles in the government, and then you find some pedophiles in the government and try to wage war, and your Republican asshole friends are like "wellllll, define 'pedophiles'"
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Don't mess with New York—we will always protect our neighbors.
The people power and organizing capacity of NYC is unstoppable. We are mobilizing across every borough, on every block, to defend democracy and protect our neighborhoods-and we need your help.
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The people power and organizing capacity of NYC is unstoppable. We are mobilizing across every borough, on every block, to defend democracy and protect our neighborhoods-and we need your help.
Join us and get trained at HandsOffNYC.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Don't mess with New York—we will always protect our neighbors.
The people power and organizing capacity of NYC is unstoppable. We are mobilizing across every borough, on every block, to defend democracy and protect our neighborhoods-and we need your help.
Join us and get trained at HandsOffNYC.com
The people power and organizing capacity of NYC is unstoppable. We are mobilizing across every borough, on every block, to defend democracy and protect our neighborhoods-and we need your help.
Join us and get trained at HandsOffNYC.com
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November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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So Bezos is in them too then?
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So Bezos is in them too then?
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Many people, ~100% of whom had no legal business being anywhere near the data or offices of the government that they carelessly dismantled, need to go to jail for a very long time once this is done.
"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.”
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
What happened to DOGE after Musk left.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind
What really happened when he logged out of Washington.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Many people, ~100% of whom had no legal business being anywhere near the data or offices of the government that they carelessly dismantled, need to go to jail for a very long time once this is done.
This is revisionist history, by people who bought “the narrative.”
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is revisionist history, by people who bought “the narrative.”
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Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
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everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
everyone correctly noting that any time you put Trump in a room with someone charismatic he becomes extremely complimentary until someone reminds him he hates that person, take a bow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
he’ll be posting unhinged shit about Zohran again by tomorrow
In which 285 national legislators reveal they never took a political science class. Or at least, were too stupid to understand it, if they did.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Eighty-six Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
In which 285 national legislators reveal they never took a political science class. Or at least, were too stupid to understand it, if they did.
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you will never understand politics if you cannot accept that *some people want bad things*. not because they've been tricked, not because Capital has manipulated them, because they *have bad values*
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
you will never understand politics if you cannot accept that *some people want bad things*. not because they've been tricked, not because Capital has manipulated them, because they *have bad values*
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Crisis (a Democrat is president): grocery prices rise 2% annually
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
The media is saving the "it's a crisis" takes for when a Dem president takes over and starts arresting the people responsible.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Crisis (a Democrat is president): grocery prices rise 2% annually
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
Not a crisis (a Republican is president): the president ignores the Constitution to destroy half the federal government, deploys troops to US cities, surrenders Ukraine to Russia, and then calls for the mass execution of Democrats
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
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It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
WATCH: After six Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders, Trump erupted online, accusing them of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of the senators in that video, joins Chris Hayes to respond.
'HANG THEM': Trump melts down, accuses six Dems of ‘seditious behavior’
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
