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I promise you - This is why Maga won & Dems lost 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=v8sJ...
There’s nothing like Andrea Bocelli singing, “Do you see what I see?” During his Christmas special.
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
There’s nothing like Andrea Bocelli singing, “Do you see what I see?” During his Christmas special.
I don’t know if I just figured this out, but I did figure out, that Maga = “Revenge of the Nerds” but instead of revenge of the nerds, the scientists, this is revenge of the nothing’s. They are angry that they have been left behind and the only pleasure they can get is through revenge & damage.
December 12, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I don’t know if I just figured this out, but I did figure out, that Maga = “Revenge of the Nerds” but instead of revenge of the nerds, the scientists, this is revenge of the nothing’s. They are angry that they have been left behind and the only pleasure they can get is through revenge & damage.
This is probably the most heartfelt podcast I’ve ever heard w/ @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @jysexton.bsky.social - A much needed therapy session of human connection, trying to make sense & create space for the sad & confusing national degradation we currently feel: 🙏👇 youtube.com/watch?v=miqw...
Is America Emotionally Malnourished?!: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie
YouTube video by Danielle Moodie
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May 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is probably the most heartfelt podcast I’ve ever heard w/ @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @jysexton.bsky.social - A much needed therapy session of human connection, trying to make sense & create space for the sad & confusing national degradation we currently feel: 🙏👇 youtube.com/watch?v=miqw...
From now on, if I meet a maga, I’m going to literally tell them to “eat a bag of dicks” - I have zero tolerance for domestic terrorists. As Rage Against the Machine says, “there be no shelter here! (the frontline is everywhere)” youtu.be/-s3Y3WMGuYc?...
Rage Against the Machine - No Shelter (Lyrics)
YouTube video by Epicman427
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May 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
From now on, if I meet a maga, I’m going to literally tell them to “eat a bag of dicks” - I have zero tolerance for domestic terrorists. As Rage Against the Machine says, “there be no shelter here! (the frontline is everywhere)” youtu.be/-s3Y3WMGuYc?...
Great show from Chauncey DeVega (where is he on Bluesky? 🤷♂️) with guest, @normansolomon.bsky.social - nourishment and knowledge for the soul against American empire and fascism. Please listen and share: 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Trump's 100 Days, America's Empire is Rotting From Within
Podcast Episode · The Chauncey DeVega Show · 05/01/2025 · 59m
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May 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Great show from Chauncey DeVega (where is he on Bluesky? 🤷♂️) with guest, @normansolomon.bsky.social - nourishment and knowledge for the soul against American empire and fascism. Please listen and share: 👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
I’ve been listening to @petedominick.bsky.social since the beginning of time, & I don’t think I’ve ever heard him sound this fierce-liberal. I think he’s at the end of his rope with the ridiculousness of the Trump side: youtube.com/watch?v=pP-o...
1343 Yale History Professor Greg Grandin + News & Clips
YouTube video by Stand Up! With Pete
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April 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I’ve been listening to @petedominick.bsky.social since the beginning of time, & I don’t think I’ve ever heard him sound this fierce-liberal. I think he’s at the end of his rope with the ridiculousness of the Trump side: youtube.com/watch?v=pP-o...
Let me describe the narcissist. People are scared of narcissists, but we realize they’re just babies, so we say don’t be afraid of a baby…but then give that baby a handgun. 😳 Now what if that narc baby is in the White House, affecting worldwide markets w/ tariffs and holds nukes. 😱
April 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Let me describe the narcissist. People are scared of narcissists, but we realize they’re just babies, so we say don’t be afraid of a baby…but then give that baby a handgun. 😳 Now what if that narc baby is in the White House, affecting worldwide markets w/ tariffs and holds nukes. 😱
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Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Hungarian Model
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
This particular episode of @gaslitnation.bsky.social with host, @andreachalupa.bsky.social is so important! @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social explains the past & present state of our Democracy & the very real chances of us entering a Great Depression. This is a MUST LISTEN 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=67jI...
"We Are Becoming an Apartheid State."
YouTube video by Gaslit Nation
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March 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This particular episode of @gaslitnation.bsky.social with host, @andreachalupa.bsky.social is so important! @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social explains the past & present state of our Democracy & the very real chances of us entering a Great Depression. This is a MUST LISTEN 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=67jI...
I thought this episode of Democracy-ish was well put together and highly important in particular with @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @wajali.bsky.social so I hope you will join me in giving this a listen 🙏 youtube.com/live/AdpfsjI...
The King is HERE | democracyish LIVE
YouTube video by Danielle Moodie
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March 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I thought this episode of Democracy-ish was well put together and highly important in particular with @daniellemoodie.bsky.social and @wajali.bsky.social so I hope you will join me in giving this a listen 🙏 youtube.com/live/AdpfsjI...
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The eventual fate of the GOP
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The eventual fate of the GOP
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March 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The U.S. has been suffering from a bad--potentially fatal--case of "it can't happen here." And now that we know it can, there are still plenty of folks whose eyes have yet to open to just how dangerous this situation is.
March 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The U.S. has been suffering from a bad--potentially fatal--case of "it can't happen here." And now that we know it can, there are still plenty of folks whose eyes have yet to open to just how dangerous this situation is.
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Knowingly or useful-idiotically, Schumer is complicit.
Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.
March 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Knowingly or useful-idiotically, Schumer is complicit.
Latest from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social with @wajali.bsky.social who reminds us that our representation on the Democrat side (& MSNBC) has been “no bueno” too, and that we need to come together as united Americans to help resist our current Authoritarian “tech bro” rule. 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=_wTR...
How The Broligarchy Conquered America: An Interview With Sarah Kendzior
YouTube video by Wajahat Ali
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March 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Latest from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social with @wajali.bsky.social who reminds us that our representation on the Democrat side (& MSNBC) has been “no bueno” too, and that we need to come together as united Americans to help resist our current Authoritarian “tech bro” rule. 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=_wTR...
A conversation between @petedominick.bsky.social and @djrothkopf.bsky.social is always a refreshing voice of reason in a crazy world. 👇https://youtube.com/watch?v=e4JGNPSe4e4
1314 David Rothkopf & News + Clips
YouTube video by Stand Up! With Pete
youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A conversation between @petedominick.bsky.social and @djrothkopf.bsky.social is always a refreshing voice of reason in a crazy world. 👇https://youtube.com/watch?v=e4JGNPSe4e4
@gilduran.com explains Trump’s recently announced Jonestown-cult-like tech “Freedom Cities” with Host @andreachalupa.bsky.social on #GaslitNation 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Jiju...
Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Gaslit Nation
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March 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
@gilduran.com explains Trump’s recently announced Jonestown-cult-like tech “Freedom Cities” with Host @andreachalupa.bsky.social on #GaslitNation 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Jiju...
Say the word “women” everyday! Women will fight. Women will lead the way. Women will not go away. Women are our future. Women will not stand for this! Women are taking power back.
March 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Say the word “women” everyday! Women will fight. Women will lead the way. Women will not go away. Women are our future. Women will not stand for this! Women are taking power back.
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Truth is the enemy of injustice. The only reason leaders or a movement actively oppose truth—whether in the form of words, ideas, free speech, history, or education—it is because they seek to promote and institutionalize injustice—whether in economic, political, or social form.
March 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Truth is the enemy of injustice. The only reason leaders or a movement actively oppose truth—whether in the form of words, ideas, free speech, history, or education—it is because they seek to promote and institutionalize injustice—whether in economic, political, or social form.
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Anti science. Anti history. Anti math (anti economic and statistical truth). Anti civics. Anti fact. Anti education. As much as it is pro greed or pro power or pro racism or pro misogyny or pro Russia, this administration is the most openly pro ignorance, anti knowledge in our history.
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
www.nature.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Anti science. Anti history. Anti math (anti economic and statistical truth). Anti civics. Anti fact. Anti education. As much as it is pro greed or pro power or pro racism or pro misogyny or pro Russia, this administration is the most openly pro ignorance, anti knowledge in our history.
@mariaressa.bsky.social on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social is a gem/hero. As a journalist in the Philippines, she was a “first to deal” w/ Facebook misinfo & authoritarian dictator, Duterte who said, “Shoot & kill drug addicts…these 👉 journalists are drug addicts!” Get it? youtube.com/watch?v=jsHo...
Jon Stewart & Maria Ressa On the US’s Authoritarian Slide | The Weekly Show
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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March 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
@mariaressa.bsky.social on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social is a gem/hero. As a journalist in the Philippines, she was a “first to deal” w/ Facebook misinfo & authoritarian dictator, Duterte who said, “Shoot & kill drug addicts…these 👉 journalists are drug addicts!” Get it? youtube.com/watch?v=jsHo...
When Trump gets backed into a corner, his narcissistic survival defense mechanism kicks-in. He sprays like a skunk or he inks like an octopus. He pulls the rip cord of maximizing “unreality” to confuse the masses: “They’re eating the cats they’re eating the dogs!” or “You’re causing WW3!!!”
March 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
When Trump gets backed into a corner, his narcissistic survival defense mechanism kicks-in. He sprays like a skunk or he inks like an octopus. He pulls the rip cord of maximizing “unreality” to confuse the masses: “They’re eating the cats they’re eating the dogs!” or “You’re causing WW3!!!”
God spoke to me. He said Trump is a piece of shit.
March 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
God spoke to me. He said Trump is a piece of shit.
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DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
March 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.