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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 1h

I am fairly certain they want all of us dead. They're prepping for a reduced population, where the "service industry" is automated/robotic, and very few humans are needed to maintain it.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 3h

Womp Womp
#NobelPeacePrize

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 1d

The last decade should be referred to as the Rise of the Assholes

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 1d

Every accusation is a confession

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 3d

You know why. They were convinced that it would harm their enemies, the folks on the left. They are convinced that anyone not MAGA is evil & perverted & dangerous. Now they are confronting the fact that their folks are in it & it's breaking their brains.

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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 4d

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 3d

He fantasizes this... FFS, the delusion of these sociopaths is fear-based dementia, all to rile up people who have never been to the PNW and never will. They're stoking fires, hoping for all out conflict

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 3d

He NEEDS to know he’s a PoS

He won’t… but he should

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 3d

He should be behind bars

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 3d

If he pardons Maxwell, then they cut a deal. It will scream that he's guilty as f***... but will anything happen?

Will they bury the Epstein Files? Will there be any justice, ever?

Dismayed.
Disgusted.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

They’re not acting like they’re in a four-year term.

They’re acting like they’re in an everlasting dictatorship.

Are we all clear on this?

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 4d

BE AWARE

a tweet about the arson/assassination attempt on Judge Diane Goodstein's home

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 4d

The fearful always lash out.
This is what I believe we are seeing now. A desperate, fearful almost unhinged kind of striking out - because they know they're unpopular, that their ideas and ideology is in rapid decline.

This is at least my hope.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 5d

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 5d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 6d

FUCK
THAT

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 6d

All together now…

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 6d

Every accusation is a confession
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump calls Democrats ‘the party of hate, evil, and Satan’ in late-night rant

President continues social media attacks on opposition over government shutdown

www.independent.co.uk

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 7d

People with microphones love telling people they're not allowed to say anything

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 8d

It has taken so little time - a mere decade, an eye blink really - for this nation to become so hate-riddled and corrupt, irreparably divided.

Everyone is shouting and no one is listening.

The inmates are running the asylum, and we go about our day as if nothing is wrong…

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 9d

'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech

Everyone of us knows someone like Hegseth, the universally reviled co-worker or classmate, the one person that walks into a room and everyone groans. He's a poison.
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...

'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech

Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what the...

www.rawstory.com

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Jeri Ryan (official account) @jerilryan.bsky.social · 9d

THIS.

The hardest part about the past decade for me has been realizing just how many people will simply never care. Your neighbors could get hauled away and you’d just shrug and carry on. We’re on a razor thin edge right now, soldiers are patrolling our streets, every speech is a declaration of war against our own citizens, and as long as nothing changes for you in the immediate, you don’t care. Our culture taught you selfishness, algorithms taught you hate and apathy, and history taught you nothing.

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David J. Fielding (Zordon) @davidjfielding.bsky.social · 9d

Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!
#goodluck #tradition #firstdayofthemonth
#imagecredit to the artist/owner

a black & white woodcut style illustration of a leaping rabbit

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 9d

Yes. (And still getting "standoff" BS and "who will blink first" and "who will voters blame" from news.)

Trump and MAGA control the *entire* government. It's a simple fact:
- White House
- Senate
- House
- Scotus
- OMB (to the hilt)
- Every regulatory agency

They're in command. It's on them.

OBrienSci @obriensci.bsky.social · 9d

I do not understand why they cannot get the headlines right.

Just follow the gop playbook!

“Repubs control it all! The shutdown is on them!”

As nauseum.

Don’t lead with the nuance.

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