Accidentally started #WyattEarpAndTheCowboyWar on #Netflix. Thought it was a decent documentary. Oh, it's a short series. #OMG, it's six episodes and I'm on the last one!!! "Accidentally."
When it opens it tells you its more than you ever knew and they are not fucking around! #IkeClanton is a #Trump prototype. It's the politics of #Reconstruction. It's the #CivilWar. It's a #LoveTriangle. It's #NationalCorruption.
Watch it. Use it to prepare. It is a prehistory of what is happening now.
18.3.2025 00:35Accidentally started #WyattEarpAndTheCowboyWar on #Netflix. Thought it was a decent documentary. Oh, it's a short series. #OMG, it's...Ok. Now what? #TrumpDefiesCourt
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9yv1gnzyvo
#ThoughtCrime
Supreme Court analysis: New case could open the door to DEI prosecutions.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/supreme-court-analysis-trump-bondi-dei-prosecutions.html
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
https://www.404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanford-scientists-consider-scientific-exile-french-university-says/
The #TSA should #Strike. #AirTrafficControllers too. All non-healthcare federal employees as well. Everyone else should provide mutual aid until #DOGE is shut down and spending control returned to #Congress.
We've all forgotten who, actually, holds the power. Its the people with the power, and will, to say "No."
Federal employees are terrorized. They need a #GeneralStrike.
“PATCO on steroids”: Trump’s TSA union busting sparks calls for a general strike | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/11/patco-on-steroids-trumps-tsa-union-busting-sparks-calls-for-a-general-strike/
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/
"Don't tell us we'll feel it!" yells #Trump as he starts feeling it.
Norway fuel giant 'refuses to fill US submarines' after Trump-Zelensky clash | World | News | Express.co.uk
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2021304/norway-fuel-giant-refuses-fill
What, the actual, fuck?
Why isn't this screamed everywhere?
TRUMP STEALS CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS AGAIN!!!
Trump takes seized boxes back to Florida on Air Force One | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/trump-seized-boxes-returned-air-force-one/index.html
Hot tip. Buy stock in Russian champagne.
#Trump #Zelenskyy #PutinsPuppet #Ukraine
28.2.2025 18:06Hot tip. Buy stock in Russian champagne. #Trump #Zelenskyy #PutinsPuppet #UkrainePiss off #ElonMusk by pronouncing #DOGE with a hard G.
It's government, not jovernment, dammit.
c.f. #GIF
26.2.2025 21:11Piss off #ElonMusk by pronouncing #DOGE with a hard G.It's government, not jovernment, dammit.c.f. #GIFEconomic Black Out called for Feb. 28 | AFRO American Newspapers
https://afro.com/24-hour-economic-blackout-feb-28/
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If you have a #GOP representative or senator CALL them and tell them to rein in this destruction. They know #Trump and #Musk are hurting their own voters.
Republicans quietly object to Elon Musk's DOGE cuts | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-republicans-mike-johnson-26ba7e32fb2bc1c054bf20d911aa5a8f
What is happening at #USAID
USAIDStopWork
https://www.usaidstopwork.com/
Trump
FTR #Trump just ignores court order to continue funding grants and aid.
Virginia community health centers close over federal funding access
https://www.vpm.org/news/2025-02-04/virginia-community-health-centers-close-federal-funding-grant-access
Trump
Reminder of what happened the last time #Trump #FAFO'd specific #FBI agents for "retribution."
The persecuted agents should listen to #GalaxyQuest: #NeverGiveUpNeverSurrender!
Two former FBI agents settle lawsuits with Justice Department
https://thehill.com/homenews/4796219-peter-strzok-lisa-page-settle-lawsuits-justice-department/
Every adolescent boy must be arrested at their first wet dream.
Mississippi politician files ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’
https://www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/mississippi-politician-files-contraception-begins-erection-act/
Why the legacy media suddenly sound like Bernie Sanders | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/13/why-the-legacy-media-suddenly-sound-like-bernie-sanders/
I dunno. I think it all boils down to "Have you tried NOT being an asshole?" That seems to keep people wanting me dead.
UnitedHealthcare CEO killing: CEOs struggle with new security reality | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2024/12/14/unitedhealthcare-killing-ceos-respond-social-media-backlash/
#Neoliberalism is a failure
Democrats are trying to work out where it all went wrong. On the left of the party a consensus is forming | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/democrats-kamala-harris-bernie-sanders-elections-b2644773.html
Progressives aren’t the problem in the Democrat coalition | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/11/11/progressives-arent-the-problem-in-the-democrat-coalition/