Timothy Erdmann
@timerdmann.bsky.social
Musician, photographer, writer, amateur philosopher.
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Timothy Erdmann
@timerdmann.bsky.social
· Feb 28
The slide to totalitarianism will be televised/
The slide to authoritarianism is being televised/
Right now
In front of your naked, streaming eyes/
As long as bread and circuses are in good supply/
As long as you can place your bets and mine your coin online/
You’ll sit idly by
As Democracy dies
The slide to authoritarianism is being televised/
Right now
In front of your naked, streaming eyes/
As long as bread and circuses are in good supply/
As long as you can place your bets and mine your coin online/
You’ll sit idly by
As Democracy dies
Reposted by Timothy Erdmann
I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
July 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.
No tyrant.
No kings.
Nero doesn’t care that the city burns.
He deploys centurions and then attends the gladiator games.
No kings.
Nero doesn’t care that the city burns.
He deploys centurions and then attends the gladiator games.
June 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
No tyrant.
No kings.
Nero doesn’t care that the city burns.
He deploys centurions and then attends the gladiator games.
No kings.
Nero doesn’t care that the city burns.
He deploys centurions and then attends the gladiator games.
How about not get distracted by a verbal back and forth and report on what actually happens. I don’t care that Trump SAYS he’s gonna pull Elon’s contracts, report when he DOES. They’re distracting you again from his corruption, and power grab.
No Kings.
No Oligarchs.
NoAutocrats.
No Kings.
No Oligarchs.
NoAutocrats.
June 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How about not get distracted by a verbal back and forth and report on what actually happens. I don’t care that Trump SAYS he’s gonna pull Elon’s contracts, report when he DOES. They’re distracting you again from his corruption, and power grab.
No Kings.
No Oligarchs.
NoAutocrats.
No Kings.
No Oligarchs.
NoAutocrats.
Donald Trump: Swindler-in-chief.
June 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Donald Trump: Swindler-in-chief.
This wasn’t a case of both sides backing down. China only imposed its tariffs as a response to Trump’s gambit, and has reduced them only because he retreated. And retreat he did. This was basically Trump running away from the killer rabbit.
May 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This wasn’t a case of both sides backing down. China only imposed its tariffs as a response to Trump’s gambit, and has reduced them only because he retreated. And retreat he did. This was basically Trump running away from the killer rabbit.
Reposted by Timothy Erdmann
Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
May 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
The Republican party is a wretched hive of embarrassment and suck-upery.
April 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The Republican party is a wretched hive of embarrassment and suck-upery.
The US Administration is stealing from you & you don’t even know it or care that they are.
April 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The US Administration is stealing from you & you don’t even know it or care that they are.
Most Americans are frogs in the pot.
April 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Most Americans are frogs in the pot.
“The strength and powers of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resisting it.”
April 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“The strength and powers of despotism consist wholly in the fear of resisting it.”
I’m convinced MAGA Republicans just want to rape and pillage the world to enrich themselves as much as possible before they die, saying, fuvk everyone else. Why else would they allow poisons into our food supply & environment, suck the world dry of oil, shred every tree, and let the poor die?
April 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I’m convinced MAGA Republicans just want to rape and pillage the world to enrich themselves as much as possible before they die, saying, fuvk everyone else. Why else would they allow poisons into our food supply & environment, suck the world dry of oil, shred every tree, and let the poor die?
If anyone other than Republicans regain control of the majority & Presidency, step one needs-HAS TO-be restoring the proper balance between the three branches. Cut presidential power back and add 3 Supreme Court Judges.
April 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If anyone other than Republicans regain control of the majority & Presidency, step one needs-HAS TO-be restoring the proper balance between the three branches. Cut presidential power back and add 3 Supreme Court Judges.
Hands off march in San Diego, CA April 5, 2025. 20,000+ strong. One glaring thing I noticed was an almost complete absence of people between 18-30y old.
April 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Hands off march in San Diego, CA April 5, 2025. 20,000+ strong. One glaring thing I noticed was an almost complete absence of people between 18-30y old.
He is trying to be Emperor, Dictator, King, and there is nothing at all regal about him.
April 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
He is trying to be Emperor, Dictator, King, and there is nothing at all regal about him.
The only rational reason for Trump’s actions is that he wants everything to burn down and collapse so that he can destroy government institutions, dissolve congress & the courts, and use his followers as an army to install himself as king or emperor.
April 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The only rational reason for Trump’s actions is that he wants everything to burn down and collapse so that he can destroy government institutions, dissolve congress & the courts, and use his followers as an army to install himself as king or emperor.
The congressional majority is just kicking back, sipping wine, watching Nero burn Rome to the ground.
April 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The congressional majority is just kicking back, sipping wine, watching Nero burn Rome to the ground.
Be the shepherd of your own attention. -Brian Eno
March 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Be the shepherd of your own attention. -Brian Eno
Maximize Engagement
Maximize Profit
Maximize Stupidity
Maximize Catastrophe
Maximize Profit
Maximize Stupidity
Maximize Catastrophe
March 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Maximize Engagement
Maximize Profit
Maximize Stupidity
Maximize Catastrophe
Maximize Profit
Maximize Stupidity
Maximize Catastrophe
When you elect a clown, expect a circus.
March 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
When you elect a clown, expect a circus.
Tyranny requires constant effort. Authority is brittle.
Oppression is the mask of fear.
Oppression is the mask of fear.
March 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Tyranny requires constant effort. Authority is brittle.
Oppression is the mask of fear.
Oppression is the mask of fear.
So much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly. The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it-and that is the real trick of the imperial thought-machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.
March 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
So much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly. The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it-and that is the real trick of the imperial thought-machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.
Teachers should strike to protest the Education Dept cuts. In fact every union affected by these tariffs should strike.
March 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Teachers should strike to protest the Education Dept cuts. In fact every union affected by these tariffs should strike.
Making America unhealthy, uneducated, and uninformed again.
March 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Making America unhealthy, uneducated, and uninformed again.