AZsharona

This…. Very scary

Where’s Alfred Hitchcock when you need him🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

So glad you’re homesteading the bees! 🐝🐝🐝

I’m with ya!

This is how it’s done folks. Take to the streets and be seen and be heard

This is how it’s done folks. Take to the streets and be seen and be heard

Republicans pretend to want “small government,” but the second they get power, they crown a self-proclaimed king and let him rule unchecked.

He’s son emboldened to just push ahead doing what he’s been doing for so long. And why wouldn’t he?!?!….. There’s been few consequences dealt him for all the rules he breaks and criminal behavior he’s engaged in. He’s like a run away train of of criminal activity

Antisemitism in the Oval Office A confrontation seen with a historian's eye

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Donald Trump Personally Thanks John Roberts For Keeping Him Out Of Jail: ‘I Won’t Forget It’ A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

The Most Memorable Moment Of Trump’s Speech: It wasn’t Rep. Al Green (D-TX) being escorted out of the House chamber or the long list of Trump absurdities. Nope, it was Trump rubbing Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ face in their mutual corruption:

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Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents As Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump’s team.

Growing signs that US policy has moved on to regime change for allies.
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Agree. He has an audience as well. His countrymen don’t want to see their President groveling before a Putin lackey. Their determination is grounded in their national pride. Zelensky powerfully vindicated that today. To see your President stand up to the two greatest powers in the world? Priceless.

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The Logic of Destruction
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Cosmic Road Trip: four distinct composite images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope, presented in a two-by-two grid, Rho Ophiuchi at lower right, the heart of the Orion Nebula at upper right, the galaxy NGC 3627 at lower left and the galaxy cluster MACS J0416. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical/Infrared: (Hubble) NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: (JWST) NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

Cosmic Road Trip
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@mettasolutions.bsky.social so glad to see you here Sharon. Bsky is a great place to mix and mingle and find fresh ideas. I wander through here daily and find some high minded people who bring amazing insights. You will be such a knowledgeable contributor. Welcome 🦋

Cowards

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
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Five Questions with Authoritarianism Expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat Last November, we first discussed Trump’s “Project 2025” plan in this post, Frogs Boiled. We were just learning, inexplicably, that there was a publicly available “plan” for Trump’s second term and it...

Five Questions with Authoritarianism Expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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It’s Day One--Of a New Phase of the Fight to Save Our Democracy Welcome to the Political Opposition

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Yes! Old fashioned books with covers and pages