shanebaker.bsky.social
@shanebaker.bsky.social
Unions are harm reduction for capitalism.
April 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The oligarchs have already decimated the working class. They’re in the process of dismantling the government and selling it for parts to be rented back to us.
But now they are cannibalizing the millionaires. Who are beginning to realize they have created a monster.
#oligarchy
April 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.

Orson Welles
Touch of Evil (1958), spoken by Charlton Heston
March 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
1. Defund the National Parks Service.
2. Forest fires happen again.
3. Insist that we do “responsible forest management.”
4. Bring in the timber companies to “sweep the forests” (clear cut).
5. Backstop this strategy with tariffs on Canadian lumber causing high prices.
#nationalparks
February 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
MAGA has a love for highly personally compromised individuals.
They’re easier to control. They come with built-in levers.
February 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Elon is at about 2% of his stated goal. Mostly low hanging fruit and sensationalist stuff to rile up the masses.
So far he’s eliminated 0.6% of the US Budget.
DOGE is set to be deleted in July
It’s all a game. The goal is power and control, not saving money.
Source: dogegov.com/dogeclock.html
D.O.G.E. Clock powered by DOGE Tracker
Department of Government Efficiency Live Tracker
dogegov.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is very much like the world described in Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash” and “The Diamond Age” novels.

Franchised private micro-nations all over the world.

Use MAGA to destroy America. Chaos isn’t a mistake, it’s a tool.

youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?...
DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America
YouTube video by Blonde Politics | The Silly Serious
youtu.be
February 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
So when does #TitleIX get axed?

This is the 1972 law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government.

Goodbye to big wins in the #Olympics and the #WNBA?
February 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup
January 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“This is gonna bring down the price of #eggs !”

In fascist Italy they often said, “Mussolini made the trains run on time.”

The thing is this was ironic. They were actually a bit worse, and people knew it, despite the propaganda. They were joking.

Today’s egg meme comes from the same place.
February 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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January 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I have an ominous feeling that the people currently saying “it’s not a Nazi salute” will soon be saying “it’s just a symbol from Hinduism.”
January 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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(elon unveiling his new martian flag design) well as you uh can, you know, see. there's red which of course uh is the mars color. duh ha ha. and then here a white circle, and this is um representing the bright future for the ahh, human race. and then uh you have so, this is a hindu symbol,
January 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
You don’t have to be a Nazi to vote MAGA.

But if you’re a Nazi you definitely voted MAGA.
January 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
He saved the Chinese spy app AND Hamas. For his next trick he will go full luxury gay space communist and convert to Islam too and people will say he is based.
#trump
January 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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I want to reassure you all that if I ever become a beloved rich & famous author, there is no string of victims who will step forward and ruin your opinion of me. I’ve made quite sure of that.
January 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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So the worst genre is definitely dystopian nonfiction
January 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
50/50 chance the incoming Pres cuts all federal aid for the California fires next week. #FEMA
January 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Huge gratitude for our neighbors, Mexico and Canada have sent fire fighters and army to help us.
January 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Major disasters like these fires are like a Rorschach test.
People often look at them and the problem they diagnose just happens to be the very thing they were already obsessed with. #fires
January 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We may ask ourselves why he doesn’t want to make Mexico or Panama a 52nd or 53rd State.
January 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
“If you go on strike they’re gonna replace you with a robot!”

1. That already happened, it’s gonna keep happening, whatever.
2. Sounds like you’re saying strikes drives technological innovation to me.

#strike #robotreplacementtheory
December 23, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Even professional athletes find it necessary to unionize.
Ask yourself why.
#unionstrong #organizedlabor
December 23, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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Musk considers himself a centrist in a "woke" world that is supposedly shifting left. But then he endorses the Great Replacement theory and expresses support for the Germany political party with ties to neo-Nazis.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/w...
Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election
It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:09 PM