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People > Profit
LISTEN TO BLACK WOMEN!!!!
Gift Links save Democracy!
Blog at http://ToreUpButTrue.blogspot.com
avatar Sculpture by Olga Ziemska
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Anyone else having a flashback of the TrekTNG episode where the Enterprise becomes a warship with a hot war in progress? Picard’s #1 barking kill orders, the command deck low lit and dark? A warlike people has brainwashed the crew, wiped memories so they wake up in the middle of a different reality?
Musing today about how, if nothing in life is certain for every person but death & taxes, billionaires want their corporations to be people. The ending of things is a fact of life, literally. Someday, even Ford Motors & Exxon will die, because they became finally irrelevant. Posting for no reason.
February 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Musing today about how, if nothing in life is certain for every person but death & taxes, billionaires want their corporations to be people. The ending of things is a fact of life, literally. Someday, even Ford Motors & Exxon will die, because they became finally irrelevant. Posting for no reason.
Two black journalists, reporting on a protest, have been arrested for being black and doing their job.
🚨 Federal agents also arrested independent journalist Georgia Fort after she filmed and reported on a protest at a Minnesota church tied to an anti-ICE demonstration.
They’re targeting freedom of the press!
They’re targeting freedom of the press!
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Two black journalists, reporting on a protest, have been arrested for being black and doing their job.
Watch the Raphael Warnock interview after the intro, about 4:39.
(doesn’t Chris Hayes look like a malevolent gnome here? Weird vibe)
youtu.be/bmJwnBtZIYE?...
(doesn’t Chris Hayes look like a malevolent gnome here? Weird vibe)
youtu.be/bmJwnBtZIYE?...
‘History is being made here’: Chris Hayes reports LIVE from Minneapolis
YouTube video by MS NOW
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January 28, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Watch the Raphael Warnock interview after the intro, about 4:39.
(doesn’t Chris Hayes look like a malevolent gnome here? Weird vibe)
youtu.be/bmJwnBtZIYE?...
(doesn’t Chris Hayes look like a malevolent gnome here? Weird vibe)
youtu.be/bmJwnBtZIYE?...
Beginning to think AI is the white man’s magic wand. Whatever he can imagine will appear, fully realized, no reference to wizards or dragons necessary. It’s the same escapism from reality, but they are more desperate to believe it.
Trump posts an image of him planting the American flag on Greenland alongside a sign that says “Greenland US Territory est 2026”
January 20, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Beginning to think AI is the white man’s magic wand. Whatever he can imagine will appear, fully realized, no reference to wizards or dragons necessary. It’s the same escapism from reality, but they are more desperate to believe it.
Over the centuries, armies have gone to war to protect the women, children and elderly that kept the home fires burning. Even the KKK claimed to protect women. Now we have ICE, beating and killing women, children & old folks, on purpose, with expletives. How did women and children become the enemy?
January 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Over the centuries, armies have gone to war to protect the women, children and elderly that kept the home fires burning. Even the KKK claimed to protect women. Now we have ICE, beating and killing women, children & old folks, on purpose, with expletives. How did women and children become the enemy?
"This is a warning - he needs a body count. He wants to be pettier than Putin in his eliminations. He doesn’t care if you’re an oligarch or a hospital orderly. Venezuela is a testing ground for his need to imprison, torture and kill any of us who he imagines are enemies. " ToreUpButTrue.blogspot.com
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January 5, 2026 at 9:35 PM
"This is a warning - he needs a body count. He wants to be pettier than Putin in his eliminations. He doesn’t care if you’re an oligarch or a hospital orderly. Venezuela is a testing ground for his need to imprison, torture and kill any of us who he imagines are enemies. " ToreUpButTrue.blogspot.com
Anyone else having a flashback of the TrekTNG episode where the Enterprise becomes a warship with a hot war in progress? Picard’s #1 barking kill orders, the command deck low lit and dark? A warlike people has brainwashed the crew, wiped memories so they wake up in the middle of a different reality?
January 3, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Anyone else having a flashback of the TrekTNG episode where the Enterprise becomes a warship with a hot war in progress? Picard’s #1 barking kill orders, the command deck low lit and dark? A warlike people has brainwashed the crew, wiped memories so they wake up in the middle of a different reality?
Remember that CEOs hate tp pay employees, and always have. In fact, it’s more important to them to cut labor costs than to maintain product or service quality. If you need to actually perform a PR task, now you have Elon’s empty-headed clone, Grok do it. That is AI’s future: doing every job badly.
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January 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Remember that CEOs hate tp pay employees, and always have. In fact, it’s more important to them to cut labor costs than to maintain product or service quality. If you need to actually perform a PR task, now you have Elon’s empty-headed clone, Grok do it. That is AI’s future: doing every job badly.
If anyone deserves to lie in state in the Rotunda, it’s Rob Reiner. He told us who we are as Americans far better than any politician: Flawed dreamers, dogged right-doers, life-long friends. We are all bereft by his loss.
December 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If anyone deserves to lie in state in the Rotunda, it’s Rob Reiner. He told us who we are as Americans far better than any politician: Flawed dreamers, dogged right-doers, life-long friends. We are all bereft by his loss.
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2028: "Strong rope, no floor"
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
2028: "Strong rope, no floor"
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"While elite journos and businessmen kiss the ring of Trump, people in jammies and slippers confront ICE in the street. The courage of ordinary people has been stunning compared to the elite."
On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is good on Trump's downward spiral:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is good on Trump's downward spiral:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Trump Is a Weak, Failing President, and the Media Is Finally Saying So
As Trump’s downward spiral starts producing harsher media coverage, a writer who regularly dissects MAGA and political media explains why he’s entering a tailspin that will be very hard to reverse.
newrepublic.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"While elite journos and businessmen kiss the ring of Trump, people in jammies and slippers confront ICE in the street. The courage of ordinary people has been stunning compared to the elite."
On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is good on Trump's downward spiral:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is good on Trump's downward spiral:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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Though my experiences with Toyota Prius(es) I owned have been fantastic, I find this is disgusting. If, like me, you don't believe greed, corruption, misogyny, bigotry and hate towards our neighbors represents America, call Toyota at 1-800-331-4331 and let them know!
www.jalopnik.com/2028920/toyo...
www.jalopnik.com/2028920/toyo...
Toyota Chairman Goes Full MAGA At NASCAR-Inspired Event He Threw In Japan - Jalopnik
Remember when Elon Musk was the only automotive CEO pandering to President Donald Trump?
www.jalopnik.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Though my experiences with Toyota Prius(es) I owned have been fantastic, I find this is disgusting. If, like me, you don't believe greed, corruption, misogyny, bigotry and hate towards our neighbors represents America, call Toyota at 1-800-331-4331 and let them know!
www.jalopnik.com/2028920/toyo...
www.jalopnik.com/2028920/toyo...
“It was strongly suggested to me that Mel Gibson is someone who had a personal relationship with the president and that really should be all I needed to know.”
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“It was strongly suggested to me that Mel Gibson is someone who had a personal relationship with the president and that really should be all I needed to know.”
D&D as a perfect microcosm of toxic male identity. Good article, note that this has a gift link.
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
D&D as a perfect microcosm of toxic male identity. Good article, note that this has a gift link.
“I firmly believe the (economic) AI apocalypse is coming. These companies are not profitable. They can't be profitable. They keep the lights on by soaking up hundreds of billions of dollars in other people's money and then lighting it on fire.”
Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“I firmly believe the (economic) AI apocalypse is coming. These companies are not profitable. They can't be profitable. They keep the lights on by soaking up hundreds of billions of dollars in other people's money and then lighting it on fire.”
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“The only moments in our lives that count for anything are those when we do the right thing — when we don’t have to look down at the table but can raise our heads and look each other in the eye. Nothing else matters.” —Russian dissident Alexei Navalny
www.treason.io/p/read-why-a...
www.treason.io/p/read-why-a...
READ: Why are you staring at the table?
A dead Russian dissident has words for all of us, on the eve of Trump charging his critics with crimes.
www.treason.io
September 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“The only moments in our lives that count for anything are those when we do the right thing — when we don’t have to look down at the table but can raise our heads and look each other in the eye. Nothing else matters.” —Russian dissident Alexei Navalny
www.treason.io/p/read-why-a...
www.treason.io/p/read-why-a...
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Tylenol does not cause autism. Autism does not have symptoms. Apparently some pharmaceutical company is coming out with a drug for autism “symptoms.” Dpn’t be fooled. This is insider trading, and he stands to profit from Kenvue AND this new bullsht drug.
September 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Tylenol does not cause autism. Autism does not have symptoms. Apparently some pharmaceutical company is coming out with a drug for autism “symptoms.” Dpn’t be fooled. This is insider trading, and he stands to profit from Kenvue AND this new bullsht drug.
Is it just me or does all the thoughtcrime and speech punishment after Kirk’s murder smack of fear that we will copycat on their ass? They feel all right about ICE beating up peaceful protestors, but the ridiculous and transparent terror of their “radical leftist” propaganda might not be just words.
September 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Is it just me or does all the thoughtcrime and speech punishment after Kirk’s murder smack of fear that we will copycat on their ass? They feel all right about ICE beating up peaceful protestors, but the ridiculous and transparent terror of their “radical leftist” propaganda might not be just words.
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CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance.
Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.
See how this works?
Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.
See how this works?
September 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance.
Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.
See how this works?
Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.
See how this works?
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The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says Sinclair has "every right" to demand that Jimmy Kimmel to donate to Turning Point USA
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations
Ignore Trump/Kimmel for a minute; what drives this censorship is Capitalism boosted by monopoly. Mergers & takeovers by powerful corporations are more precious to the wealthy than the Constitution. They will always bend the knee for a few more billions in their pockets. Boycott. Opt Out. Buy Local.
September 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ignore Trump/Kimmel for a minute; what drives this censorship is Capitalism boosted by monopoly. Mergers & takeovers by powerful corporations are more precious to the wealthy than the Constitution. They will always bend the knee for a few more billions in their pockets. Boycott. Opt Out. Buy Local.
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“This isn’t a program that’s primarily concerned with changing policies or systems; it’s a fetish for domination.”
I keep saying this, but @jvl.bsky.social is writing the best daily political newsletter there is.
www.thebulwark.com/p/conservati...
I keep saying this, but @jvl.bsky.social is writing the best daily political newsletter there is.
www.thebulwark.com/p/conservati...
“Conservatism” Is Now Just a Domination Fetish
From states rights, a rules-based system, and limited government to a boot stamping on a human face—forever.
www.thebulwark.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“This isn’t a program that’s primarily concerned with changing policies or systems; it’s a fetish for domination.”
I keep saying this, but @jvl.bsky.social is writing the best daily political newsletter there is.
www.thebulwark.com/p/conservati...
I keep saying this, but @jvl.bsky.social is writing the best daily political newsletter there is.
www.thebulwark.com/p/conservati...