Bugdozer
@timeforma.bsky.social
CA public school teacher. Here to think through how we organize to get our communities through this.
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Watching our mad king don his AI slop crown and publicly fantasize about rage shitting on our moment of collective power is the perfect counterpoint: he's the one isolated in his impotent fury, clinging to the online simulacrum while we primally express and experience our very real strength.
October 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Watching our mad king don his AI slop crown and publicly fantasize about rage shitting on our moment of collective power is the perfect counterpoint: he's the one isolated in his impotent fury, clinging to the online simulacrum while we primally express and experience our very real strength.
Who said it: JD Vance or some secessionist in 1860?
October 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Who said it: JD Vance or some secessionist in 1860?
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None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.
October 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.
An emblematic back-to-back on my feed.
October 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
An emblematic back-to-back on my feed.
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WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents
October 6, 2025 at 5:39 AM
WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents
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Something bleakly funny that the tyranny that infects America is not some kind of nouveau 20th century authoritarianism, but truly 17th century monarchic "rule without parliament"
October 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Something bleakly funny that the tyranny that infects America is not some kind of nouveau 20th century authoritarianism, but truly 17th century monarchic "rule without parliament"
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Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse
They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it
They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it
September 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse
They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it
They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it
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The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".
September 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".
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It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."
September 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."
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This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
September 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
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another corollary of “it’s a regime, not a government” is that its allies are also regimes, not governments. bsky.app/profile/reut...
Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro reut.rs/4piCG0f
Rubio vows US response following conviction of Brazil's Bolsonaro
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said the United States would "respond accordingly to this witch hunt" after former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was convicted of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.
reut.rs
September 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
another corollary of “it’s a regime, not a government” is that its allies are also regimes, not governments. bsky.app/profile/reut...
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JUST IN: Virginia State University is on lockdown, and Hampton University says classes are canceled, and students are urged to stay inside.
*As well as Alabama State
Stay safe 🙏🏾
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
*As well as Alabama State
Stay safe 🙏🏾
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
Two Virginia HBCUs receive threat; VSU on lockdown and Hampton classes canceled
One university in Virginia is on lockdown, and another has said classes are canceled as it urges students to stay inside, after threats were made to both Thursday morning. Both schools, Virginia State...
www.nbcwashington.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
JUST IN: Virginia State University is on lockdown, and Hampton University says classes are canceled, and students are urged to stay inside.
*As well as Alabama State
Stay safe 🙏🏾
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
*As well as Alabama State
Stay safe 🙏🏾
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
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So again, one might ask how an empirically-grounded journalist who wrote an entire book lamenting the polarized state of American politics, might describe one of the most intentionally polarizing fabulists of our era as someone who did "politics the right way." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%...
Why We're Polarized - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
So again, one might ask how an empirically-grounded journalist who wrote an entire book lamenting the polarized state of American politics, might describe one of the most intentionally polarizing fabulists of our era as someone who did "politics the right way." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We%...
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There's a reason Kirk rarely engaged with his fellow adults who knew things about things. It's because Kirk was not interested in or adept at knowing things about things...which, IMO, is not an admirable quality in a figure whose entire brand is to engage in public/political debate.
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
There's a reason Kirk rarely engaged with his fellow adults who knew things about things. It's because Kirk was not interested in or adept at knowing things about things...which, IMO, is not an admirable quality in a figure whose entire brand is to engage in public/political debate.
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One final thing. It's odd to see Ezra Klein, a total policy nerd, say Kirk did politics the right way when Kirk had almost no interest in either policy, or the empirical rigor necessary to get policy right. Kirk's approach to politics was 99% culture war rage stoking w/ almost no policy content.
September 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
One final thing. It's odd to see Ezra Klein, a total policy nerd, say Kirk did politics the right way when Kirk had almost no interest in either policy, or the empirical rigor necessary to get policy right. Kirk's approach to politics was 99% culture war rage stoking w/ almost no policy content.
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
I think today is gonna be a no Bluesky day
September 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I think today is gonna be a no Bluesky day
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A couple more thoughts on this. There is exactly one crime defined in the U.S. Constitution: treason. The first definition is levying war against the United States. Trump is explicitly threatening that.
U.S. soldiers are not only permitted, they are *obliged* to refuse an order to commit treason.
U.S. soldiers are not only permitted, they are *obliged* to refuse an order to commit treason.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A couple more thoughts on this. There is exactly one crime defined in the U.S. Constitution: treason. The first definition is levying war against the United States. Trump is explicitly threatening that.
U.S. soldiers are not only permitted, they are *obliged* to refuse an order to commit treason.
U.S. soldiers are not only permitted, they are *obliged* to refuse an order to commit treason.
Looking forward to the glorious future where these things are everywhere and we spend all our time yelling “is there a human I can talk to” like when you call customer service
September 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Looking forward to the glorious future where these things are everywhere and we spend all our time yelling “is there a human I can talk to” like when you call customer service
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so what if the reason they aren't letting Trump talk is that he had a Fetterman stroke and now he is woke
September 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
so what if the reason they aren't letting Trump talk is that he had a Fetterman stroke and now he is woke
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You need to put more on the table than “we’ll kill and or oppress less groups of people overall, or at least do it quietly so you don’t have to see it.”
August 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
You need to put more on the table than “we’ll kill and or oppress less groups of people overall, or at least do it quietly so you don’t have to see it.”
One might have guessed that an aspiring American dictator would need to lock in the substance of authoritarian rule while being very careful to avoid the appearance of it. Kind of fascinating that we got the opposite
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
One might have guessed that an aspiring American dictator would need to lock in the substance of authoritarian rule while being very careful to avoid the appearance of it. Kind of fascinating that we got the opposite
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lol didn't even occur to me how stupid this is bsky.app/profile/theo...
A bunch of guys wearing high visibility vests over full camouflage is a sight gag that would make Mel Brooks jealous 🤣
August 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
lol didn't even occur to me how stupid this is bsky.app/profile/theo...
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Horse race coverage, but the horses are democracy and authoritarianism
They’re not making the slightest pretense of doing anything but weaponizing a federal agency against Trump’s enemies, and the New York Times’ response is “Well played, sire!”
August 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Horse race coverage, but the horses are democracy and authoritarianism