Oldionus
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Resident of the beautiful State of Oregon, spend about a third of the year in the also beautiful State of California. Humanist and Rationalist. Secular Buddhist. Amateur pianist and clavichordist.
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Oldionus
@oldionus.bsky.social
· May 14
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This colour image, combining #Hubble observations with further info by Robert Gendler & Jay GaBany, shows an incredible view of Messier 106 (M106 or NGC 4258), an intermediate spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici.
➡️ esahubble.org/news/heic1302/
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #science #astronomy #space
This colour image, combining #Hubble observations with further info by Robert Gendler & Jay GaBany, shows an incredible view of Messier 106 (M106 or NGC 4258), an intermediate spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici.
➡️ esahubble.org/news/heic1302/
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #science #astronomy #space
What an absolutely stunning image. What evolutionary purpose does the human sense of beauty serve that when we see an image like this, of beauty on the largest scales, we (Some of us, anyway) get goosebumps?
Plausible but unlikely while he's still pres. and after that? Well, I wouldn't put money that Trump will even be alive after Jan. 2029 at the rate he's going.
“.. It does set a precedent, and we will follow it ... Donald Trump, all of his kids. Everybody," Frost said.
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February 5, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Plausible but unlikely while he's still pres. and after that? Well, I wouldn't put money that Trump will even be alive after Jan. 2029 at the rate he's going.
As I understand it, these unilateral demolitions and constructions are illegal, or at least arguably so. Question: if Congress, newly supplied with 51% of a backbone, were to pass a resolution banning them, would it require a signature to take effect and be vetoabe? Or would it be purely symbolic?
February 4, 2026 at 3:19 PM
As I understand it, these unilateral demolitions and constructions are illegal, or at least arguably so. Question: if Congress, newly supplied with 51% of a backbone, were to pass a resolution banning them, would it require a signature to take effect and be vetoabe? Or would it be purely symbolic?
To say this is grossly unprofessional doesn't come close to an accurate description of just how depraved this is in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Disgusting and so, so disheartening.
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
February 4, 2026 at 5:09 AM
To say this is grossly unprofessional doesn't come close to an accurate description of just how depraved this is in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Disgusting and so, so disheartening.
Are you sure he's a man? I have suspected he may be some kind of demon or zombie, because he obviously lacks the emotional and empathic nature common to most of humanity.
In the old days, I spent quite a lot of time, razzing on the executive orders drafted by President Trump. They were so poorly drafted I speculated they were written by AI. I was wrong! They were drafted by Stephen Miller, a man who did not go to law school, apple.news/AL2Z5BvQwRq2....
How Stephen Miller Stokes Trump’s Boundary-Pushing Impulses — The Wall Street Journal
The White House aide has been an architect of aggressive immigration sweeps in U.S. cities and deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean
apple.news
February 4, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Are you sure he's a man? I have suspected he may be some kind of demon or zombie, because he obviously lacks the emotional and empathic nature common to most of humanity.
Talk about stupid euphemisms. Corruption is not "enriching" family members. It's illegal diversion of influence money to people more than happy to trade influence with those entrusted with power in our democratic system for dirty money. It's absolutely rotten, and totally illegal. Yet, here we are.
But were they missteps? Really?
Billionaire investor and GOP donor Ken Griffin: “This administration has definitely made mis-steps in choosing decisions or courses that have been very, very enriching to the families of those in the administration” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
February 4, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Talk about stupid euphemisms. Corruption is not "enriching" family members. It's illegal diversion of influence money to people more than happy to trade influence with those entrusted with power in our democratic system for dirty money. It's absolutely rotten, and totally illegal. Yet, here we are.
Stunning. Gives you hope that we may indeed be able to keep our republic.
Order to release Adrian and Liam Arias is a real barn burner storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 31, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Stunning. Gives you hope that we may indeed be able to keep our republic.
Some of these goons need to face prosecution for assaulting citizens, by spraying with irritants, who are doing nothing more than recording what they are seeing, or peacefully protesting what is happening in front of them. Local police need to start arresting them for assault.
DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range.
And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
January 31, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Some of these goons need to face prosecution for assaulting citizens, by spraying with irritants, who are doing nothing more than recording what they are seeing, or peacefully protesting what is happening in front of them. Local police need to start arresting them for assault.
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January 29, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Seems about right. We are a party without leadership.
Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
January 27, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Seems about right. We are a party without leadership.
Yeah, and that's why you told the Secret Service to take away the magnetometers on Jan. 6, because of course YOUR supporters weren't bringing guns to a protest. (Oh, yeah, they were. And there was vioence, unlike the protesters in Minnesota. The only violence in MN was from the FEDS). Ugh, ugh.
As far as I know, we still think Alex was going for donuts and the jagoffs showed up. He just kept a firearm on him regularly which gun right types think is critical at all times.
Trump on Minneapolis shooting:
“I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it. But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn’t play good either” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it. But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn’t play good either” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
January 26, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Yeah, and that's why you told the Secret Service to take away the magnetometers on Jan. 6, because of course YOUR supporters weren't bringing guns to a protest. (Oh, yeah, they were. And there was vioence, unlike the protesters in Minnesota. The only violence in MN was from the FEDS). Ugh, ugh.
Never installed the damn thing in the first place. I can't seem to do without google, but I do without X, all Meta apps, and Tiktok.
I deleted Tik Tok.
January 26, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Never installed the damn thing in the first place. I can't seem to do without google, but I do without X, all Meta apps, and Tiktok.
You have got to be fuckimg kidding me. They are out front and admitting that it's extortion: help us cheat and destroy democracy and we won't send the gestapo after your people. Minnesota needs to SUE the Trump administration immediately. If the courts won't stop this, we're doomed.
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 12:42 AM
You have got to be fuckimg kidding me. They are out front and admitting that it's extortion: help us cheat and destroy democracy and we won't send the gestapo after your people. Minnesota needs to SUE the Trump administration immediately. If the courts won't stop this, we're doomed.
My heart is heavy.
state-sponsored child trafficking
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:48 PM
My heart is heavy.
ICE's claim to be exempt from the 4th Amendment amounts to a declaration of war by the regime on the Constitution of the United States. We cannot continue to enable them to do ANYTHING. Boycott, resistance, defunding, impeachment, removal.
January 21, 2026 at 11:44 PM
ICE's claim to be exempt from the 4th Amendment amounts to a declaration of war by the regime on the Constitution of the United States. We cannot continue to enable them to do ANYTHING. Boycott, resistance, defunding, impeachment, removal.
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Police chief details persistent criminal misconduct by ICE officers.
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Police chief details persistent criminal misconduct by ICE officers.
If this isn't enough to convince at least seven of the Supreme Court (forget about bribe recipients Thomas and Alito) that Trump's tarriffs are a horrendous abuse of power never even contemplated by Congress in its worst fever dreams, I don't know what would be.
If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.
January 20, 2026 at 6:11 AM
If this isn't enough to convince at least seven of the Supreme Court (forget about bribe recipients Thomas and Alito) that Trump's tarriffs are a horrendous abuse of power never even contemplated by Congress in its worst fever dreams, I don't know what would be.
In the goddamn WINTER. This is beyond depraved. It is EVIL.
I know the story is going around. This is Morristown, New Jersey. Half an hour from Newark Airport. Its on the hinterlands of New York City. It's a fight I know ICE isn't ready for.
Also, this is People magazine. It's as normal supermarket America as it gets. Let's hope this lights something.
Also, this is People magazine. It's as normal supermarket America as it gets. Let's hope this lights something.
N.J. Girl, 6, Found Alone by Neighbors Crying, Asking, 'Where's Papi?' After Dad Was Detained by ICE While Picking Up Food, Mom Claims
The mother of a 6-year-old girl in New Jersey says her daughter was found walking alone outside their apartment crying and asking for her father over the weekend after he was detained by ICE agents wh...
people.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 AM
In the goddamn WINTER. This is beyond depraved. It is EVIL.
This is truly horrifying. More and more it's clear that the MAGA cult, which controls the entire Republican party in all the states, is a DEATH CULT. They care nothing for the suffering of others, especially if they are "the other," like LGBTQ folk. So "let 'em die." Sick. Sick. And EVIL.
Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.
Thousands to lose access to HIV drugs with new cuts
An estimated 10,000 people are about to lose access to their HIV medication as the Florida Department of Health makes cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).
www.fox13news.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:04 AM
This is truly horrifying. More and more it's clear that the MAGA cult, which controls the entire Republican party in all the states, is a DEATH CULT. They care nothing for the suffering of others, especially if they are "the other," like LGBTQ folk. So "let 'em die." Sick. Sick. And EVIL.
All life makes use of the dead remains of forerunner life. But we're concentrating the chemical transformation of millions of years of accumulation in a a short time. If it were being done as part of a program to pave the way for a sustainable energy system, it would be one thing. But it isn't.
Maybe we shouldn't have based our entire civilization around a thick black goo formed from countless dead lifeforms over millions of years, essentially the concentrated essence of death
January 19, 2026 at 12:35 AM
All life makes use of the dead remains of forerunner life. But we're concentrating the chemical transformation of millions of years of accumulation in a a short time. If it were being done as part of a program to pave the way for a sustainable energy system, it would be one thing. But it isn't.
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Up until quite recently, it seemed to me that Trump's economic disaster was the biggest issue in the fight to defeat them, but now I think the thug paramilitary attack on ordinary Americans may be of equal importance. People REALLY don't like this.
Bill Kristol: "The agents presumably had a good laugh about this. Perhaps they relished their meal even more because the staff was frightened. Humiliation of victims, a kind of relish in their fear and misery, a kind of sadism has become a dominant part of the culture of ICE."
The People Are Turning Against ICE. Will the Politicians Take Notice?
Strongly worded statements will not stop the terrorization of the country.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Up until quite recently, it seemed to me that Trump's economic disaster was the biggest issue in the fight to defeat them, but now I think the thug paramilitary attack on ordinary Americans may be of equal importance. People REALLY don't like this.
Sheer sophistry and deceit. The DOJ, like every last corner of the regime, is an affront to the Constituiton and entire small-d democratic framework underpinning our nation's laws. Until they are extracted root and branch and reforms ensure it cannot happen again, our democracy is compromised.
NEW: The DOJ has filed a motion to block the appointment of an independent monitor to release the Epstein files in the Ghislaine Maxwell case.
The DOJ argues that federal courts lack the authority to enforce the Epstein Transparency Act… 1/
The DOJ argues that federal courts lack the authority to enforce the Epstein Transparency Act… 1/
January 17, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Sheer sophistry and deceit. The DOJ, like every last corner of the regime, is an affront to the Constituiton and entire small-d democratic framework underpinning our nation's laws. Until they are extracted root and branch and reforms ensure it cannot happen again, our democracy is compromised.
The fact that an official in an Amercian administration makes this argument in defense of aggressive war, which the US helped to make a violation of International Law, speaks volumes of how depraved our government has become. Miller is a criminal and should be tried in a Nuremberglike tribunal.
Stephen Miller articulated the Lebensraum theory of territorial acquisition—if we're strong enough, we can steal whatever we like—and makes clear that Russia should have Ukraine and China should have Taiwan, too.
January 17, 2026 at 5:39 AM
The fact that an official in an Amercian administration makes this argument in defense of aggressive war, which the US helped to make a violation of International Law, speaks volumes of how depraved our government has become. Miller is a criminal and should be tried in a Nuremberglike tribunal.
If they come to your door, even if you have no reason to need to resist them, don't open the door. Tell them through the door that unless they have a judicial warrant you will not admit or talk to them and demand that they get off your property immediately. Then say nothing further.
Yesterday, these incompetent fucks were just going door-to-door in a neighborhood near my house at 8:30 in the morning. School buses were driving through trying to pick up kids, people were out walking their dogs, and people were taking out their trash cans.
January 17, 2026 at 5:34 AM
If they come to your door, even if you have no reason to need to resist them, don't open the door. Tell them through the door that unless they have a judicial warrant you will not admit or talk to them and demand that they get off your property immediately. Then say nothing further.
This is not a warrant. I would tell them to pound sand, in a letter from an attorney if that could be conveniently arranged. I don't believe there is any statutory basis for this, and even if there was, it would probably be a 4th amendment violation and unconstitutional.
DHS employees entered our store this afternoon and served us a Notice of Inspection, demanding copies of I9 forms for each employee.
In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.
In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.
January 17, 2026 at 5:29 AM
This is not a warrant. I would tell them to pound sand, in a letter from an attorney if that could be conveniently arranged. I don't believe there is any statutory basis for this, and even if there was, it would probably be a 4th amendment violation and unconstitutional.