Roman Fiddler
empiresend.bsky.social
Roman Fiddler
@empiresend.bsky.social
USArmy 'Vietnam-era' veteran, RN, Veterans for Peace member, book junkie, iFixit aficionado, RedHat since 1997, Fedora since 2003, antiX since 2020, poet.
Just don't think Jesus would call any of the slave-owning motherfuckers "bro."
Happy Sunday!
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February 10, 2026 at 4:59 AM
All of senators, not just D's, have lost touch with their voters. At best the voters are an afterthought every 2 years.

And you know what? The voters still vote for them.
They went through the trouble of severing DHS. Just shut down DHS if republicans don’t agree to your terms. Why extend it? I get that ICE is funded no matter what and won’t close down, but what was the point of severing DHS for leverage if you’re just gonna keep extending the funding?
If Dem senators vote to extend the DHS CR again, they are instantly going to lose a tremendous amount of support from their base who have been in wait-and-see mode on this. I can only assume Dem senators considering this have completely lost touch with their voters. Don’t do it.
February 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
These two humps are part of the same nonexistent camel:
An opposition that doesn't exist now, and has not existed for the past decade. They will cave and give everything away.

And that's the future of the party once called Democrat.
Schumer and Jeffries cannot be relied on to resist ICE. Simple as that.
““I think there’s agreement that no masks should be deployed in an arbitrary and capricious fashion, as has been the case, horrifying the American people.” - @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Predictable how the guys are working hard to blow all the political momentum.

We have seen this bad movie b4.
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
We are in an existential crisis: life or death, all of us, whatever we believe/think/want, whatever, is no longer relevant.

If you think this has nothing to do with you;
If you think this post is alarmist;
If you believe there will be an election;

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
February 2, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Our country is disintegrating in front of us.
And all you can say or do is Epstein.

Let me be blunt:
1. Epstein had nothing to do with ICE in Minneapolis.
2. Epstein had nothing to do with the murder of Renee Good or Alex Pretti.
3. Epstein has nothing to do with what's coming to Springfield, OH
February 2, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Yeah, a trash strike in Memphis. A killing in between the killing of two brothers, three that defined my life...and I'm not alone.
JFK, MLK, RFK. What a coincidence. Change bringers. All murdered. Change bringers.

Can there be no change?
He said everything we needed to know to change things back then and that is why he was killed. His dreams are not dead. They will never die. It's up to us, those living now, to make his dreams the reality children will come to know and pass on to their children.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV07...
A Warning From History | Powerful Speech By MLK
YouTube video by Martin Luther King Jr.
www.youtube.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Definitions are necessary.
Fascism (Fa): authoritarian nationalistic right-wing system of government. Supporters of Fa: Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, et al.
AntiFa: those opposed to authoritarian nationalistic right-wing system of government. Supporters of antiFa: most of US.

So who is antiFa? Me.
January 31, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Amen.

Draw a Venn diagram with circle 1 being AI, circle 2 Climate Change. Where they overlap is Fascism, period.

Question: Is Fascism here now?
Magic8Ball: It is certain.
If journalism becomes a crime, fascism isn’t coming. It’s already here.
January 30, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Of course she did. Susan brought us Bret Kavanaugh and the other corrupt Supremes. She's hoping to go into assisted living permanently in the Senate nursing home this year, but sadly her ticket is being rejected by Maine. We've had enough and it will be Graham Platner moving her on.
January 30, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Sorry.
Hard times require hard actions.
Shut the government down...Period
No more funds for ICE.
Defund ICE.
Impeach and indict Noem and Miller.
Abolish Fatherland Security.
Take back our country.

We are at the point where any half, quarter, little, or no measures are defeat.
January 28, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Broken promises, ay?
Also gave himself a lot of wiggle room on the numbers
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Reposted by Roman Fiddler
What the everloving fuck
"I'm gonna give Homan the benefit of the doubt"

"They should coordinate with local law enforcement, pick these people up in the middle of the night when they're not suspecting it"

Walz is capitulating to fascists and encouraging night raids. Genuinely disgusting. Why would anyone settle for this?
January 28, 2026 at 2:36 AM
They need to be arrested, tried, and ... Well what did we do at Nuremberg?
January 27, 2026 at 4:55 AM
I am a veteran. I am a registered nurse. I also carry today. Alex Pretti was a hero who knew the dangers of being out there, knew the only thing to do was to be present, and help stop fascism. He stood & met the challenge. He cared. And he gave his life for an idea bigger than himself. Day is done.
Also if you’re a veteran, especially OIF/OEF or adjacent or just interested in veteran shit, follow this account please not sure why it isn’t bigger.
Heartbreaking and infuriating.

Defund ICE. Shut em down.
January 27, 2026 at 4:46 AM
And what did you do to further the cause? Will you refuse to give ICE more $$$? Shut down the government?

Shut it all down. Take control of the narrative. Do what the opposition is supposed to do.

SHUT IT DOWN!!!!
Minnesota has been the center of America’s heartbreak—but we are also the center of America’s courage and hope.

Ordinary people have done extraordinary things: they have stood up, marched, brought food to their neighbors, and they have not blinked.

I am so proud of our state.
January 27, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Climbing aboard the Ratline. To disappear, will not to be found when questioning is necessary, avoiding the Trials? Argentina? Venezuela?
Well done, Minnesota!!!
Breaking WSJ:

Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino will imminently leave Minnesota along with some of his agents, according to administration officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
January 26, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Who's confident there will be an election this year?

At this point 2028 is a lifetime away. How many more executions this year? How many before we do something? How many more before our representatives get enough backbone to stand & fulfill their Constitutional duties?

How many executions????
After everything we’ve seen the past few days…are we feeling confident about this gang giving up power after the 2028 election?
January 26, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Gruppenführer Bovine Swine struts through MN wearing his Nazi coat and we sit by, along with Congress, and do nothing.

Meanwhile DHS continues to build the concentration camps that will house us all, and we & Congress do nothing.

Oh, but they're not coming for us!

Are they?
January 25, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Let's see:
Stand your ground!
White man confronted by black kid shoots him dead.
Acquitted.

Immigration border protection "agent",
confronted by woman protester, shoves her to ground, nurse tries to help, shoots nurse dead, & says nurse was armed.

Time to stand our ground!
January 25, 2026 at 5:10 AM
the arc of the moral universe
Is hyperbolic
deception is the goal of rulers
justice can never happen
Good and Pretti
sacrificed
for US

Justice is vomiting into the toilet
sick with the knowledge
that all is futile

unless

WE stand and fight

April 18, 1775

behind stone walls
US and them

Choice?
January 25, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Think!

"remember just that I was innocent
and that, like you, mortals of this day,
I had, as you do, a face marked
by anger, by pity and joy
quite simply, a man’s face!"

-Benjamin Fondane, from Exodus, Romanian/French poet, died October 2, 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland

Disobey!
January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Together we search for answers,
Together we find none.
Yet our failure solidifies our bond.
We know we only have each other,
Together we continue to search.

To paraphrase Beckett:
We can't go on, we must go on.

Stopping is not an option.
January 18, 2026 at 5:05 AM
If this is not a war, then what the fuck is it?

"Doctors found glass shards and plastic fragments in his skull and a fragment of metal lodged just shy of his carotid artery."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions
Kaden Rummler and Britain Rodriguez tell KTLA and LA Times of being shot at close range during California protest
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Yes, it's time to protect the "Homeland" and shut down DHS. If Congress cannot get up the courage to do it, then rename it "Fatherland Security" since this is where it is all headed: Amerika uber alles.
No. We don’t need to “modify ICE training.” We need to close DHS. Dismantle it. It’s an outdated expensive bureaucracy that’s been usurped by violent white supremacists. Shut it down.
January 18, 2026 at 3:34 AM