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Protect definitions and context. When Atlas Shrugged, Adam Smith Puked. Democrat. Policy preferences run from Neo-Keynesian (SocDem-adjacent with market focus) to Progressive/SocDem. The photo of Kurt Vonnegut was taken by Bernard Gotfryd.

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May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 23h

Communism, Socialism, SocDem:
Marx discussed known/accepted failures of capitalism; believed socialism to communism inevitably replaces capitalism.

SocDem govt uses market forces to address capitalist failures. Addresses excesses of capitalism.

Is Zohran Mamdani a Communist? According to Communists, No | The Daily Show

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 41m

“.. Trump is doing more than elevating bad taste by building a monument to himself. He’s .. taking a wrecking ball to the quaint notion that the White House’s occupant should have goals and values that transcend grifts ..”

@timobrien.bsky.social
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 4h

What on Earth. Another one.
Another pervert pastor.
Jon Paul Sheptock from Texas arrested on child pornography charges.

www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Trump-supporting Texas worship pastor faces child porn charges

The Christian singer famously performed at a 2022 Trump rally.

www.chron.com

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May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 8h

By the end of this administration, the only institutions that may remain will be those inside us. If this is the case, we'll keep them alive with our knowledge, experience, and will power.

America is an idea we all hold dear, even in the darkest times. AAMOF, that is when our hold is strongest.

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 8h

I did it backwards. First, I looked at the pets. Then I went up top and got angry. Humaning is so hard sometimes.

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck Adams.

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May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 8h

I can't believe there is a gif with a cat riding an eggplant... Wait, I mean, I can absolutely believe that exists.

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May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 8h

Why that looks like an eggplant holder!

a cartoon drawing of a cat riding a purple eggplant

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a cat riding a purple eggplant

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May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 11h

Message consolidation would help in the face of fascism. Consistency brings about understanding.

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 13h

Trump: Biden didn't even know who he was pardoning. They used the Autopen.

Also Trump: I don't know who you are talking about. I pardon a lot of people.

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 13h

Storytelling is not just for nights of Netflix and Chill or putting the kids to bed.

It has long been an effective social justice tool too. People do not imagine, especially gruesome, things on their own. You need to prompt them.

Hat tip to Justice Sotomayor.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13h

SCOTUS just allowed Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Justice Sotomayor wrote this vivid dissent blasting AL for using the method of nitrogen gas.

@laurengill.bsky.social's reporting from an AL execution shows you why: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...

Take out your phone, go to the clock app, and find the
stopwatch. Click start. Now watch the seconds as they
climb. Three seconds come and go in a blink. At the thirtysecond mark, your mind starts to wander. One minute
passes, and you begin to think that this is taking a long
time. Two . . . three . . . . The clock ticks on. Then, finally,
you make it to four minutes. Hit stop.
Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating.
You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are
strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping
your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the
gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe.
That is what awaits Anthony Boyd tonight. For two to
four minutes, Boyd will remain conscious while the State of
Alabama kills him in this way. When the gas starts flowing, he will immediately convulse. He will gasp for air.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is a broken man who's breaking our country.

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May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 13h

In the age of lies, in the economy of attention, when you see someone scream the truth, let them know. We won't all become social media stars saying true things. But we can take a moment to let each other known they were seen and heard.

maurazehuva.bsky.social @maurazehuva.bsky.social · 14h

There was a planned escalation in front of the ICE facilityon Sat night for a photo op. We all knew it, we all saw it. We can bring the receipts.

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 14h

Just wanted to let you know I heard you scream the truth into the deluge of lies. Sorry I couldn't give you more. Keep screaming the truth.

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May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 14h

The only thing keeping the bond market from imploding is the rule of law.

When the bond market goes, so do store deliveries, paychecks, bank accounts, jobs, police departments, US sovereignty...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 14h

The only thing keeping the bond market from imploding is the rule of law.

When the bond market goes, so do store deliveries, paychecks, bank accounts...

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 14h

We are all just property and props to this narcissist. To put it crudely so as to properly reflect the disease in his mind:

We are dolls to be played with. I am a white male doll who supports him (I do not!). You are a white female doll. He is playing with some black female dolls right now.

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 14h

Because if there is one thing Trump knows, we all feel broken. So if they speak up, Trump will remind them they are broken. And that makes them feel broken all over again.

10 minutes a day of meditation and self-reflection would cure this personality blip. But who has time in this economy?

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 14h

Jack Smith says he will speak publicly.

Let's see if he learned the lessons of Mueller.

Say it aloud that Trump is a criminal. Spell out the crimes. Spell out why the prosecution failed and who helped him avoid accountability. Spell out what they are doing now.

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 14h

The Trump administration just declared that erecting a ballroom is the President’s main priority.

Meanwhile.

The cost of living is way too high and the Republican healthcare crisis threatens millions of Americans.

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May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 14h

There are several possible reasons lies are coming out of Trump's mouth.

Occam's razor says it is because he has had a successful career of being a shameless liar.

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May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 14h

JFC. Too many of my fellow Americans would believe this imbecile if he told them they were "burning to the ground."

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 14h

I guess this is a win for those of us who want the rule of law to sustain against the repeated abuses of the White House's current occupant.

If it breaks, the bond market goes boom, deliveries stop, checks bounce and we move towards a new dust bowl.

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 15h

I am not sure why someone would seek to partially clarify anything out of this fraud of a White House.

We know Trump has other priorities. There is holding up the DOJ, the DOJ to go after perceived enemies, the Nobel obsession, bailing out Ayn Rand-tina, destroying NATO, E-Bribes...

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 15h

*elected Democratic officials or just Democratic officials.

May Be Writing @hrbw.bsky.social · 15h

This is how I thought it was going to go in 100 years:
Internet Age > Information Age > Logical Age > Wisdom Age.

This is how it went in the past ten years:
Internet Age > Gilded Age > Post-Fact Age > Oligarch Age.