dons
@dons.bsky.social
An imagination trying hard not to fail
The Founders did not intend this
It doesn't have to be this way
Interests: 💣 Wealth Inequality. Dominionism
Don't Dream It's Over
🦋 Joined 5/25/23 but languished
The Founders did not intend this
It doesn't have to be this way
Interests: 💣 Wealth Inequality. Dominionism
Don't Dream It's Over
🦋 Joined 5/25/23 but languished
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If every website removed their paywall for a week, you'd see how much of what's in the Epstein files was covered in real time. And you'd remember what actually happened in the first Trump term and how everything he's doing now was announced then. Paywalls are a massive self-inflicted wound.
February 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM
If every website removed their paywall for a week, you'd see how much of what's in the Epstein files was covered in real time. And you'd remember what actually happened in the first Trump term and how everything he's doing now was announced then. Paywalls are a massive self-inflicted wound.
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We live in truly extraordinary times. A Republican president has totally abdicated on <checks notes> free trade, NATO, & the right to keep & bear arms. The corruption & lawlessness are not the only unprecedented things.
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 6:31 PM
We live in truly extraordinary times. A Republican president has totally abdicated on <checks notes> free trade, NATO, & the right to keep & bear arms. The corruption & lawlessness are not the only unprecedented things.
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What about the future: expect a MAJOR push from the executive, DOJ, FBI to attempt to ban the recording of ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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We’ve seen this act before.
The Democratic Party needs new leadership. Jeffries and Schumer are not up to the challenge.
They’re too afraid, bought, weak, whatever. It doesn’t matter why at this point.
It just matters that they aren’t the people for this moment and need to get out of the way.
The Democratic Party needs new leadership. Jeffries and Schumer are not up to the challenge.
They’re too afraid, bought, weak, whatever. It doesn’t matter why at this point.
It just matters that they aren’t the people for this moment and need to get out of the way.
NEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 21, 2026 at 11:23 PM
We’ve seen this act before.
The Democratic Party needs new leadership. Jeffries and Schumer are not up to the challenge.
They’re too afraid, bought, weak, whatever. It doesn’t matter why at this point.
It just matters that they aren’t the people for this moment and need to get out of the way.
The Democratic Party needs new leadership. Jeffries and Schumer are not up to the challenge.
They’re too afraid, bought, weak, whatever. It doesn’t matter why at this point.
It just matters that they aren’t the people for this moment and need to get out of the way.
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even moderate members of congress are finally realizing that the BS they've been sold about centrism from the democratic consultant industrial complex fails to account for uncertainty or shifting public opinion, and thus has zero external validity here in the real world. let me just say: welcome!
January 18, 2026 at 8:05 PM
even moderate members of congress are finally realizing that the BS they've been sold about centrism from the democratic consultant industrial complex fails to account for uncertainty or shifting public opinion, and thus has zero external validity here in the real world. let me just say: welcome!
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We could feed and educate our kids, house our neighbors, live longer, fuller, healthier lives, have time and space to create and rest and dream.
It should be this way and it can be this way, but we have to beat the fascists by demanding something better than our old, wretched status quo.
It should be this way and it can be this way, but we have to beat the fascists by demanding something better than our old, wretched status quo.
January 17, 2026 at 6:14 PM
We could feed and educate our kids, house our neighbors, live longer, fuller, healthier lives, have time and space to create and rest and dream.
It should be this way and it can be this way, but we have to beat the fascists by demanding something better than our old, wretched status quo.
It should be this way and it can be this way, but we have to beat the fascists by demanding something better than our old, wretched status quo.
Everyone else should resign and rebuild the party starting with her.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Everyone else should resign and rebuild the party starting with her.
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Anyone with cursory knowledge of the rise of fascism should not only see America's present trajectory, but also recognize how badly opposition party leaders are underreacting to the threat.
There are zero Democrats overreacting.
There are zero Democrats overreacting.
They are trying to outlaw dissent as we celebrate our 250th anniversary standing up to tyrants.
January 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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I'm just taking your lunch money to make sure it is spent wisely.
Chris Wright: "We are just controlling the flow of funds into Venezuela so those funds can be used to better the conditions of the Venezuelan people and reduce the risks to the American people of the giant criminal activity coming out of that country. We're not stealing anyone's oil."
January 7, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I'm just taking your lunch money to make sure it is spent wisely.
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So the US taxpayer will spend billions of dollars to make the Venezuelan regime even more repressive so that it can protect American oil companies who won’t actually do anything except themselves receive billions more dollars of taxpayer subsidies. MAGA
January 6, 2026 at 8:20 PM
So the US taxpayer will spend billions of dollars to make the Venezuelan regime even more repressive so that it can protect American oil companies who won’t actually do anything except themselves receive billions more dollars of taxpayer subsidies. MAGA
Cult Leader and Family Mob Boss expresses himself eloquently.
January 6, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Cult Leader and Family Mob Boss expresses himself eloquently.
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in one sense the dem party establishment is very successful because their job is to pretend that lazy corporatism is the same thing as a functioning democracy
got away with it for many years too, until all the structural supports began to buckle from generations of corruption
got away with it for many years too, until all the structural supports began to buckle from generations of corruption
One must understand that the supine spineless of the Democratic Party is extremely profitable for the very rich. We would not have wages so low that most Americans are effectively in poverty if we had an effective left-wing party, and the very wealthy would have to pay for that. They prefer fascism.
it's so weird that there are still people who defend chuck schumer on here
so many "we don't have any power, what do you expect him to do" and "we've tried absolutely nothing strategically unique and are all out of ideas" type of folks who seem extremely happy to wallow in powerlessness
so many "we don't have any power, what do you expect him to do" and "we've tried absolutely nothing strategically unique and are all out of ideas" type of folks who seem extremely happy to wallow in powerlessness
January 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM
in one sense the dem party establishment is very successful because their job is to pretend that lazy corporatism is the same thing as a functioning democracy
got away with it for many years too, until all the structural supports began to buckle from generations of corruption
got away with it for many years too, until all the structural supports began to buckle from generations of corruption
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here?
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site?
No money for Musk, ever, please.
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Happy New Year!
Multiculturalism is worth fighting for - and we shouldn’t let the MAGA right get away with turning it into a dirty word.
Multiculturalism is worth fighting for - and we shouldn’t let the MAGA right get away with turning it into a dirty word.
December 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Happy New Year!
Multiculturalism is worth fighting for - and we shouldn’t let the MAGA right get away with turning it into a dirty word.
Multiculturalism is worth fighting for - and we shouldn’t let the MAGA right get away with turning it into a dirty word.
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oh no, please stick around, technofascist sociopath, don't go
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
oh no, please stick around, technofascist sociopath, don't go
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Every billionaire is a policy failure. Every trillion dollar company is a failed regulatory environment. Earth should be for all people, not just the lucky or the ruthless.
December 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Every billionaire is a policy failure. Every trillion dollar company is a failed regulatory environment. Earth should be for all people, not just the lucky or the ruthless.
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it's odd to see the people who can accurately assess Bari Weiss isn't a good journalist and failed upward into her role as chief brunchlord, but can't take the additional leap to realize this is part of an active plot by extraction class media ownership to actively destroy journalism and consensus
December 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
it's odd to see the people who can accurately assess Bari Weiss isn't a good journalist and failed upward into her role as chief brunchlord, but can't take the additional leap to realize this is part of an active plot by extraction class media ownership to actively destroy journalism and consensus
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Reminder: Billionaires pay millionaires to convince thousandaires to believe society’s problems are caused by hundredaires — not by billionaires
December 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Reminder: Billionaires pay millionaires to convince thousandaires to believe society’s problems are caused by hundredaires — not by billionaires
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Carrying the water for billionaires should be disqualifying for Dem candidates whose attention should be directed at the rest of the population of the US and not 1100 people with vastly more wealth than they could ever spend. Sorry, Gavin, that’s old think pandering to donors.
Gov. @gavinnewsom says he disagrees with Mayor @zohrankmamdani about the need for a wealth tax on billionaires, which he is “adamantly against” - says Dems are a “big tent party” with both views.
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
More on the CA proposal: www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Carrying the water for billionaires should be disqualifying for Dem candidates whose attention should be directed at the rest of the population of the US and not 1100 people with vastly more wealth than they could ever spend. Sorry, Gavin, that’s old think pandering to donors.
This is an important must read. I only wish more vectors of toxic Christianity such as the Federalist Society, Opus Dei, John Eastman, Leonard Leo, Russel Vought, Tom Homan, Caroline Leavitt, and the pestilent Christofascists on SCOTUS were among those named. Thanks and please continue this work!
Rightwing MAGA Christianity has about as much relation to the gospels as MAGA politics does to the Constitution.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is an important must read. I only wish more vectors of toxic Christianity such as the Federalist Society, Opus Dei, John Eastman, Leonard Leo, Russel Vought, Tom Homan, Caroline Leavitt, and the pestilent Christofascists on SCOTUS were among those named. Thanks and please continue this work!
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Trump’s “healthcare” plan will bankrupt and kill millions of Americans.
We can eliminate the private insurance industry, and save $650B per year with Medicare for All — which would cover everyone, save families money, and include dental, vision, hearing, prescriptions and longterm care.
We can eliminate the private insurance industry, and save $650B per year with Medicare for All — which would cover everyone, save families money, and include dental, vision, hearing, prescriptions and longterm care.
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Trump’s “healthcare” plan will bankrupt and kill millions of Americans.
We can eliminate the private insurance industry, and save $650B per year with Medicare for All — which would cover everyone, save families money, and include dental, vision, hearing, prescriptions and longterm care.
We can eliminate the private insurance industry, and save $650B per year with Medicare for All — which would cover everyone, save families money, and include dental, vision, hearing, prescriptions and longterm care.
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Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
MEGYN KELLY IS RIGHT ABOUT EPSTEIN - Catholic League
Bill Donohue
www.catholicleague.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.
One week after Heritage’s leader made room for neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes in his political coalition, Florida adopted Heritage’s plan for public education.
www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...
www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...
Florida first state to adopt conservative education plan via Heritage Foundation
The education board, which also approved highlighting evils of communism, will adopt “Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.”
www.orlandoweekly.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
This needs to be seen by everyone.
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This needs to be seen by everyone.