Wendy
@wendocious.bsky.social
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Wendy
@wendocious.bsky.social
· Dec 16
with Tim Miller
www.thebulwark.com/p/anne-apple...
www.thebulwark.com/p/anne-apple...
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime
The billionaires rushing to get on board with Trump, and contributing millions for his inauguration, may have missed this key detail: Enhancing the power of a leader—to bend the rules and undermine th...
www.thebulwark.com
This is terrifying, but it's a must listen. Anne Applebaum's insight and analysis is brilliant. And, frankly, whatever she thinks, is what we should all be thinking.
All of this.
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 31, 2025 at 5:21 AM
All of this.
“If this country hasn't broken your heart, you probably don't love Her enough.”
- Corey Booker
January 20, 2025: 💔
- Corey Booker
January 20, 2025: 💔
January 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“If this country hasn't broken your heart, you probably don't love Her enough.”
- Corey Booker
January 20, 2025: 💔
- Corey Booker
January 20, 2025: 💔
All the money in the world… and they choose to be Bond villains instead of superheroes.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
All the money in the world… and they choose to be Bond villains instead of superheroes.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
😳
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
😳
Sounds completely “legit” 🙄
Tyler VanAkin was the final winner of the contest run by Elon Musk’s pro-Trump campaign group, which offered $1mn prizes to registered voters in swing states who signed a petition 'in support of the constitution'. on.ft.com/4gKGz9F
January 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sounds completely “legit” 🙄
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Bravo, Liz Cheney. She is doing exactly what @timothysnyder.bsky.social advocates in On Tyranny by standing out. We must have the backs of those on the front lines facing Trump’s corrupt assault on facts and truth. Be a Liz, not a Bezos. ✊
January 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Bravo, Liz Cheney. She is doing exactly what @timothysnyder.bsky.social advocates in On Tyranny by standing out. We must have the backs of those on the front lines facing Trump’s corrupt assault on facts and truth. Be a Liz, not a Bezos. ✊
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Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit her job
Because she refused to obey in advance
Pity that Jeff Bezos-owner of the paper
Is too busy worrying about making another billion
And doesn’t have
One
Whit
Of the courage displayed by Ms Telnaes
DON’T BEND THE KNEE
Because she refused to obey in advance
Pity that Jeff Bezos-owner of the paper
Is too busy worrying about making another billion
And doesn’t have
One
Whit
Of the courage displayed by Ms Telnaes
DON’T BEND THE KNEE
“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post and why she’s my newest hero anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
January 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit her job
Because she refused to obey in advance
Pity that Jeff Bezos-owner of the paper
Is too busy worrying about making another billion
And doesn’t have
One
Whit
Of the courage displayed by Ms Telnaes
DON’T BEND THE KNEE
Because she refused to obey in advance
Pity that Jeff Bezos-owner of the paper
Is too busy worrying about making another billion
And doesn’t have
One
Whit
Of the courage displayed by Ms Telnaes
DON’T BEND THE KNEE
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It would be really funny if an Apple employee reported Tim Cook to Apple HR for violating their anti-corruption policies
SCOOP: Apple CEO Tim Cook will personally donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee.
He believes the inauguration is a great American tradition and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity.
He believes the inauguration is a great American tradition and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity.
Scoop: Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration
Cook joins other top CEOs and companies in making a seven-figure pledge.
www.axios.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It would be really funny if an Apple employee reported Tim Cook to Apple HR for violating their anti-corruption policies
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A multitude of right-wing leaders and groups tried to purge voters, gain access to voter rolls and overall make it harder for people to vote in the 2024 election. Here's who you should watch out for.
The People and Groups Who Tried to Disenfranchise Voters in 2024
Democracy Docket looks back at the anti-voting people and groups we exposed in 2024.
www.democracydocket.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A multitude of right-wing leaders and groups tried to purge voters, gain access to voter rolls and overall make it harder for people to vote in the 2024 election. Here's who you should watch out for.
You can't make this stuff up.
"You can't change history. Unless we make it a national holiday.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene floats making J6 a national holiday
WASHINGTON — With the four-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack coming this Monday, steel fencing is now once again wrapping the Capitol, which has had some Democrats in tears and many Capitol ...
www.rawstory.com
January 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
You can't make this stuff up.
Meanwhile: Meida reports suggest Bezos and his fiancé will marry sometime this week in a $600 Million dollar ceremony/celebration.
BLOW THIS UP!
Striking Amazon workers picketing outside an Amazon warehouse were greeted by a torrent of water in freezing temperatures from Bezos.
These mega corporations & billionaires will stop at NOTHING to stop us from organizing.
Fuck that! We stand with WORKERS. #SolidaritySeason
Striking Amazon workers picketing outside an Amazon warehouse were greeted by a torrent of water in freezing temperatures from Bezos.
These mega corporations & billionaires will stop at NOTHING to stop us from organizing.
Fuck that! We stand with WORKERS. #SolidaritySeason
December 22, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Meanwhile: Meida reports suggest Bezos and his fiancé will marry sometime this week in a $600 Million dollar ceremony/celebration.
Why do Republicans want to take away anything that serves the public good?
www.forbes.com/sites/eriksh...
www.forbes.com/sites/eriksh...
December 16, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Why do Republicans want to take away anything that serves the public good?
www.forbes.com/sites/eriksh...
www.forbes.com/sites/eriksh...
This is terrifying, but it's a must listen. Anne Applebaum's insight and analysis is brilliant. And, frankly, whatever she thinks, is what we should all be thinking.
with Tim Miller
www.thebulwark.com/p/anne-apple...
www.thebulwark.com/p/anne-apple...
Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime
The billionaires rushing to get on board with Trump, and contributing millions for his inauguration, may have missed this key detail: Enhancing the power of a leader—to bend the rules and undermine th...
www.thebulwark.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:35 AM
This is terrifying, but it's a must listen. Anne Applebaum's insight and analysis is brilliant. And, frankly, whatever she thinks, is what we should all be thinking.
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💯. Thoroughly agree. The terms of the settlement were incommensurate with the merits of the case.
As a lawyer let me be clear: ABC News was NEVER going to lose the defamation lawsuit to Trump. They agreed to pay Trump $15 million bc in their view it's good for business. Don't let these oligarchs gaslight you: Trump is still a FASCIST threat. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/dont-let-t...
Don’t let the corporate oligarchs gaslight you into bending a knee for Trump
ABC News gives us the ABC’s of submitting to Trump’s fascist rule
deanobeidallah.substack.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:13 AM
💯. Thoroughly agree. The terms of the settlement were incommensurate with the merits of the case.
Can't stop thinking about the "5G chips in Covid Vaccines" conspiracy crowd from X uploading their medical data at Musk's behest so he can feed it to his AI machine. Without HIPPA protections! To the poster boy for the Oligarchy's takeover of American democracy! The cognitive dissonance is wild.
November 20, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Can't stop thinking about the "5G chips in Covid Vaccines" conspiracy crowd from X uploading their medical data at Musk's behest so he can feed it to his AI machine. Without HIPPA protections! To the poster boy for the Oligarchy's takeover of American democracy! The cognitive dissonance is wild.
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Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp.
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Elon Musk owns Twitter/X.
When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Elon Musk owns Twitter/X.
When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy
November 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp.
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Elon Musk owns Twitter/X.
When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Elon Musk owns Twitter/X.
When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy
"A Donald Trump plan to court-martial top military brass for their part in the withdrawal from Afghanistan was slammed as 'utter nonsense" by a retired general Monday."
Since Trump negotiated the withdrawal plan himself, will he court martial himself?
Since Trump negotiated the withdrawal plan himself, will he court martial himself?
"What is not utter nonsense is this is a political attack of utmost hypocrisy."
'Utter nonsense': Retired general slams Trump 'hypocrisy' with latest plan
A Donald Trump plan to court-martial top military brass for their part in the withdrawal from Afghanistan was slammed as 'utter nonsense" by a retired general Monday.The Trump transition team is repor...
www.rawstory.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
"A Donald Trump plan to court-martial top military brass for their part in the withdrawal from Afghanistan was slammed as 'utter nonsense" by a retired general Monday."
Since Trump negotiated the withdrawal plan himself, will he court martial himself?
Since Trump negotiated the withdrawal plan himself, will he court martial himself?
Time for some fresh air.
November 17, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Time for some fresh air.