🌖 Citizen K 🌓
@kstroopwafel.bsky.social
▫️liberal▫️history buff▫️skeptic▫️☘️ 🏳️🌈
“Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
-“Ozymandias,” Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
-“The Life of Reason,” George Santayana
“Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
-“Ozymandias,” Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
-“The Life of Reason,” George Santayana
🟠 DC’s newest “attraction:” menacing Trump banner hanging from the US Department of Agriculture HQ—alongside a Lincoln banner. Shades of Kim Jong Eun.
[📷: Eric Garcia/The Independent]
[📷: Eric Garcia/The Independent]
May 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🟠 DC’s newest “attraction:” menacing Trump banner hanging from the US Department of Agriculture HQ—alongside a Lincoln banner. Shades of Kim Jong Eun.
[📷: Eric Garcia/The Independent]
[📷: Eric Garcia/The Independent]
There was a dull shyster from Queens
who ripped us off by any means.
Rapacious, salacious,
ungracious, sebaceous,
his life nothing less than obscene.
who ripped us off by any means.
Rapacious, salacious,
ungracious, sebaceous,
his life nothing less than obscene.
May 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
There was a dull shyster from Queens
who ripped us off by any means.
Rapacious, salacious,
ungracious, sebaceous,
his life nothing less than obscene.
who ripped us off by any means.
Rapacious, salacious,
ungracious, sebaceous,
his life nothing less than obscene.
The King thought that he held dominion
because he was told by his minions
that his red-hatted idiots—
those poor mental midgets—
would grovel before his opinions.
because he was told by his minions
that his red-hatted idiots—
those poor mental midgets—
would grovel before his opinions.
May 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The King thought that he held dominion
because he was told by his minions
that his red-hatted idiots—
those poor mental midgets—
would grovel before his opinions.
because he was told by his minions
that his red-hatted idiots—
those poor mental midgets—
would grovel before his opinions.
🔵 Will Trump ever stop d*cking around with tariffs and making threats to trading partners? A 50% tariff on EU products starting in just one week is designed to roil markets.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Trump threatens 25% tariff on Apple iPhones and 50% on EU products starting June 1
Trump’s threat against Apple appeared to be a tacit admission that importers and consumers, rather than foreign countries, are responsible for paying the tariffs he has imposed and threatened to impos...
www.the-independent.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🔵 Will Trump ever stop d*cking around with tariffs and making threats to trading partners? A 50% tariff on EU products starting in just one week is designed to roil markets.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
🔴 Re: taking back Harvard grants and barring enrollment of international students, Trump’s administration shows its:
🔵 anti-intellectualism
🔵 xenophobia
🔵 isolationism
🔵 commitment to retribution
🔵 disregard for educational freedom
🔵 exclusion of top-notch students.
I hope Harvard fights and wins.
🔵 anti-intellectualism
🔵 xenophobia
🔵 isolationism
🔵 commitment to retribution
🔵 disregard for educational freedom
🔵 exclusion of top-notch students.
I hope Harvard fights and wins.
May 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
🔴 Re: taking back Harvard grants and barring enrollment of international students, Trump’s administration shows its:
🔵 anti-intellectualism
🔵 xenophobia
🔵 isolationism
🔵 commitment to retribution
🔵 disregard for educational freedom
🔵 exclusion of top-notch students.
I hope Harvard fights and wins.
🔵 anti-intellectualism
🔵 xenophobia
🔵 isolationism
🔵 commitment to retribution
🔵 disregard for educational freedom
🔵 exclusion of top-notch students.
I hope Harvard fights and wins.
🔴 This corruption infuriates me. I was a federal employee for 30 years and we were required to take annual ethics training including refreshers on The Hatch Act. My agency was strict on enforcement of ethics codes. This administration completely undermines the credibility of all career feds.
Trump’s $1 million-per-seat secret dinner is “the most brazen act of corruption by a president in our lifetimes, probably in a century, possibly ever,” says Chris Hayes. “Call it the Met Gala of presidential pay-for-play.”
'Met Gala of pay-for-play’: Trump crypto dinner is brazenly corrupt, says Hayes
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
🔴 This corruption infuriates me. I was a federal employee for 30 years and we were required to take annual ethics training including refreshers on The Hatch Act. My agency was strict on enforcement of ethics codes. This administration completely undermines the credibility of all career feds.
🔵 Church and State: Good news as The Supreme Court rendered a split decision on the use of public funds for a religious charter school. SCOTUS thus left in place a decision in Oklahoma to deny the use of funds for that purpose.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/p...
Supreme Court deadlock leaves in place ruling blocking nation’s first religious charter school | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court split evenly Thursday in a high-profile challenge over the nation’s first religious charter school, leaving in place a ruling from Oklahoma’s top court that found the proposed Cathol...
www.cnn.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🔵 Church and State: Good news as The Supreme Court rendered a split decision on the use of public funds for a religious charter school. SCOTUS thus left in place a decision in Oklahoma to deny the use of funds for that purpose.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/p...
🔵 Lately I’ve been capturing images of what life in DC is like before democracy meets its demise.
I want to remember.
I want to remember.
May 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🔵 Lately I’ve been capturing images of what life in DC is like before democracy meets its demise.
I want to remember.
I want to remember.
What has our country turned into? Trump has single-handedly coarsened our national discourse.
The following post makes me ponder, what qualifies as a “shithole country “?
The following post makes me ponder, what qualifies as a “shithole country “?
May 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What has our country turned into? Trump has single-handedly coarsened our national discourse.
The following post makes me ponder, what qualifies as a “shithole country “?
The following post makes me ponder, what qualifies as a “shithole country “?
Reposted by 🌖 Citizen K 🌓
Happy b’day, “Pet Sounds” — released by The Beach Boys today in 1966 and a groundbreaking influence in music. 🎂
“I bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life,” Paul McCartney once said. “I figure no one is educated musically until they’ve heard this album.”
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice”
“I bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life,” Paul McCartney once said. “I figure no one is educated musically until they’ve heard this album.”
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice”
May 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Happy b’day, “Pet Sounds” — released by The Beach Boys today in 1966 and a groundbreaking influence in music. 🎂
“I bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life,” Paul McCartney once said. “I figure no one is educated musically until they’ve heard this album.”
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice”
“I bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life,” Paul McCartney once said. “I figure no one is educated musically until they’ve heard this album.”
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice”
🇺🇦 I just love this guy. I’m on tenterhooks waiting to see how obstructive the Russian “negotiating team” will be, and how little Rubio will contribute.
President Zelenskyy is asked if he has a message for Putin as he arrives in Turkey:
“I’m here.”
🔥
“I’m here.”
🔥
May 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🇺🇦 I just love this guy. I’m on tenterhooks waiting to see how obstructive the Russian “negotiating team” will be, and how little Rubio will contribute.
On the lighter side, here’s an item from a recent police blotter for Federal Way, WA.
May 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
On the lighter side, here’s an item from a recent police blotter for Federal Way, WA.
Reposted by 🌖 Citizen K 🌓
Veterans know about trust - how trust is given and how trust is earned.
Our nation continues to face a crisis of trust - and all of us can and must take action to change that.
Our nation continues to face a crisis of trust - and all of us can and must take action to change that.
May 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Veterans know about trust - how trust is given and how trust is earned.
Our nation continues to face a crisis of trust - and all of us can and must take action to change that.
Our nation continues to face a crisis of trust - and all of us can and must take action to change that.
Reposted by 🌖 Citizen K 🌓
Obama turned down a *book* to comply with ethics rules surrounding gifts.
Trump is accepting a jet.
That’s the difference.
Trump is accepting a jet.
That’s the difference.
May 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Obama turned down a *book* to comply with ethics rules surrounding gifts.
Trump is accepting a jet.
That’s the difference.
Trump is accepting a jet.
That’s the difference.
Reposted by 🌖 Citizen K 🌓
Can you believe the pain and hardship, suffering and starvation of our white Afrikaners in South Africa .. No food, no life .. they have to flee this devastation as refugees to the USA 🤔
May 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Can you believe the pain and hardship, suffering and starvation of our white Afrikaners in South Africa .. No food, no life .. they have to flee this devastation as refugees to the USA 🤔
I’m all for science and worked for a science agency for decades, but I don’t see the point of exploring or inhabiting Mars when we’re laying waste to the earth. How about addressing climate change and preserving ecosystems?
Some optimistic astronomers might still hope to find signs of aliens on Mars, but no one could have expected to discover something that sounds quite so delicious buff.ly/MY6k6sh
May 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I’m all for science and worked for a science agency for decades, but I don’t see the point of exploring or inhabiting Mars when we’re laying waste to the earth. How about addressing climate change and preserving ecosystems?
🔴 How is anything resembling this being normalized? “An ally of… Trump called for the execution of Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a threat the Democratic lawmaker says he’s taking seriously.”
Roger Stone is barely a human being.
www.kjzz.org/politics/202...
Roger Stone is barely a human being.
www.kjzz.org/politics/202...
Sen. Mark Kelly says he's taking a threat of 'execution' by Trump ally Roger Stone seriously
An ally of President Trump last week called for the execution of Mark Kelly, a threat the Democratic senator says he’s taking seriously.
www.kjzz.org
May 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
🔴 How is anything resembling this being normalized? “An ally of… Trump called for the execution of Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a threat the Democratic lawmaker says he’s taking seriously.”
Roger Stone is barely a human being.
www.kjzz.org/politics/202...
Roger Stone is barely a human being.
www.kjzz.org/politics/202...
May 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
May 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🟠 It’s such a “victory” to impose impossibly high tariffs on a major trading partner and then negotiate reductions in those tariffs. So much winning!
www.cnn.com/2025/05/12/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/12/b...
US and China agree to drastically roll back tariffs in major trade breakthrough | CNN Business
The United States and China agreed Monday to drastically roll back tariffs on each other’s goods for an initial 90-day period, in a surprise breakthrough that has de-escalated a punishing trade war an...
www.cnn.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🟠 It’s such a “victory” to impose impossibly high tariffs on a major trading partner and then negotiate reductions in those tariffs. So much winning!
www.cnn.com/2025/05/12/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/12/b...
❌ Reincarnation?
⚫️ Hitler died April 1945.
🟠 Trump born June 1946.
⚫️ Hitler died April 1945.
🟠 Trump born June 1946.
May 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
❌ Reincarnation?
⚫️ Hitler died April 1945.
🟠 Trump born June 1946.
⚫️ Hitler died April 1945.
🟠 Trump born June 1946.
Reposted by 🌖 Citizen K 🌓
How are the masked ICE agents arresting people off the streets different from these guys I've filmed? Proud Boys, Blood Tribe, Patriot Front, Boogalo Boyz?
May 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
How are the masked ICE agents arresting people off the streets different from these guys I've filmed? Proud Boys, Blood Tribe, Patriot Front, Boogalo Boyz?
🟠 I wish the US would welcome more refugees but for now only Afrikaners are being fast-tracked. Big surprise.
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
First Afrikaners granted refugee status due to arrive in U.S.
Three months ago, President Trump signed an executive order telling white Afrikaans South Africans they could apply for refugee status in the U.S. The first group has been swiftly processed and is set...
www.npr.org
May 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🟠 I wish the US would welcome more refugees but for now only Afrikaners are being fast-tracked. Big surprise.
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...