Leftist Lawyer

Life really began with #sobriety in 2005. But I like to say I'm a #grateful #alcoholic b/c I had some amazing experiences including #Crabber #Seiner in #Alaska and #WildlandFirefighter in #Montana where I grew up.

Got my B.A. in #ClinicalPsych after sobering up. Then M.S. #BioregionalPlanning. Now, small town rural #Attorney #Litigator with certs. in #WaterLaw #NatRescLaw & #EnvLaw.

#Dad #Husband #Deadhead #Skier #Soccer #Hiker #Biker #Gardener #NoveltySeeker #Luddite #JackOfAllTrades

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2026-03-31 04:58:36 UTC

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Right? Who knew people in this country were viewing Dumb and Dumber as a documentary instruction manual?

2026-03-31 04:51:34 UTC

Who could have predicted that electing an #InsecureSerialLiarPedophileThreeTimeBankruptMorallyRepugnantMalignantNarcissistZionistAssKissingPieceOfUrbaniteShit could result in civilization altering #WWIII consequences?
Me, for starters.
And basically, anyone alive that isn't as intellectually stunted by selfishness and as the average american.

2026-03-27 13:46:25 UTC

Will boots on the ground help open the Straight of Hormuz, or will it be a blood sacrifice to Trump's stupidity?

2026-03-13 19:10:43 UTC

Anyone else taking perverse pleasure imagining the pain the 8 cylinder "big rig" petro-sexual set must be feeling right now???

2026-03-10 04:02:41 UTC

If a terrorist attack happens on U.S. soil, who do you think will be responsible?

2026-03-06 18:03:24 UTC

Watch #Iran win the war in real time, here:
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CLW00:NYMEX?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiKkM_A7IuTAxVOETQIHWkvPZoQ3ecFegQIJxAT
#EpsteinsWar #uspol #Iran
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2026-03-05 16:52:48 UTC

#BoycottFIFA #NoWorldCupUSA
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2026-02-22 02:53:41 UTC

Capitalism is little more than an ideological hangover produced from a time long past when low hanging fruit was everywhere for the taking and people thought it would never disappear.
The fruit is gone, folks. All we’re left with is nuts.
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2026-02-22 02:01:06 UTC

It's past time to stop taking #MentalHealth studies seriously if they don't account for #capitalism as a confounding variable.

2026-02-15 15:41:51 UTC

I’ve come back to this article over the years because it was such a revealing read when i first encountered it. BOOM went my brain 🤯
“The Long Con” isn’t about money … It’s about IDENTITY.
The rational stand amazed by what to us seems like gullibility in the extreme. But, being intelligent isn’t the goal. BELONGING is the goal. Which explains the #conservative nee’ #MAGA imperviousness to shame. The OTHER is shameful. We, the righteous, can do no wrong … even while dripping with lies.
Because the lies are the point. To acknowledge them as truth is to be initiated into the club.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con
#trump #bondi #epstein #elite #billionaires

2026-02-15 05:17:31 UTC

This is the “Jmail” encyclopedia.
It’s a wikipedia style link to all things Jeffrey #Epstein.
Here, there be monsters.
https://jmail.world/wiki
#billionaires #trump #bondi #EpsteinFiles

2026-02-08 18:50:02 UTC

... the FUCK???
#uspol #epstein #trump
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/statement-jeffrey-epstein-death-day-before-b1270109.html

2026-02-07 04:12:12 UTC

#TrolleyTheElite
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2026-02-06 05:45:44 UTC

The printing press was invented in 1440 and freed humanity from intellectual enslavement.
500 years later #TV was invented and we obligingly refastened shackles.
They won’t come off again until we stop consuming the #billionaire priest’s #propaganda.
Here, on #mastodon, in the #fediverse, we begin the #revolution.

2026-02-05 15:16:15 UTC

Stop consuming #CapitalistPropaganda. Find reliable sources of information. If you don't understand the following in depth ... then you've got #ABulletInYourHead
**Heuristic vulnerabilities are systematic errors in judgment resulting from the mind’s reliance on mental shortcuts (heuristics) to make fast, efficient decisions under uncertainty. While these “rules of thumb” are adaptive and save cognitive energy, they often lead to suboptimal, irrational, or biased decisions by ignoring critical information.
Key heuristic vulnerabilities include:
Availability Heuristic: People overestimate the probability of events that are easily remembered, such as vivid media reports or recent experiences, rather than relying on statistical evidence.
Representativeness Heuristic: Individuals categorize people or situations based on how closely they resemble a mental prototype, often ignoring base rates and statistical probabilities.
Anchoring and Adjustment: A heavy reliance on the first piece of information received (the “anchor”) when making decisions, with insufficient adjustments for subsequent information.
Confirmation Bias: The tendency to seek, interpret, and focus on information that confirms existing beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence.
Affect Heuristic: Allowing current emotions, moods, or “gut feelings” to dictate decisions, particularly in risk assessment (e.g., perceiving high-benefit items as low-risk).
Fundamental Attribution Error: A tendency to attribute others’ behaviors to internal, personality-based factors rather than situational factors.
Satisficing: Selecting the first option that meets a minimum threshold of criteria rather than spending time to find the optimal solution. **
Without being educationally steeped in these expoitations, everyone just rolls their eyes and thinks “Yeah, that doesn’t apply to me. I’m smarter than that.” Which, in itself is the “fundamental attribution error” heuristic at play.
One can just assume that any person who isn’t willing to acknowledge the foregoing has, as Zach de la Rocha put it so succinctly “A bullet in their head.”
Video with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9gm267F0Ls
Every word the truth.

2026-02-02 01:07:37 UTC

So if #Bondi is willing to release #EpsteinFiles of hundreds of nude photos of young women with their faces exposed, it makes one wonder why they released any redacted records at all?
What, I ask, could be more damaging than that?
Oh, yeah. The names of #ElitePedos 🙄
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/nude-photos-epstein-files.html

2026-01-26 18:23:25 UTC

In Colorado, #ICE #brownshirts are leaving these cards in vehicles of people they’ve detained.
During Vietnam, American soldiers would often mark the bodies of Vietnamese they’d killed with the Ace of Spades
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2026-01-26 05:05:54 UTC

If #Trump & #StephenMiller attempt a full blown authoritarian takeover, how do you think the average U.S. citizen will respond???
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/25/america-feels-like-a-country-on-the-brink-of-an-authoritarian-takeover
#uspol

2026-01-26 04:36:35 UTC

#ACALB
All cops are lying bastards.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #ICE #DHS #minneapolis #minnesota #BorderPatrol #uspol
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2026-01-25 23:28:46 UTC

There's really only ONE thing we can rely on this world anymore.
#Cops Lie.
Every lawyer in the U.S. right now should be arguing "Giglio" evidence against #DHS #BorderPatrol and #ICE.
In Giglio vs. United states (1972), the prosecution failed to disclose that it promised a key witness immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony against Giglio.
#SCOTUS ruled evidence of the agreement was relevant to the witness’ credibility. In a nutshell, if the witnesses can't be believed, their testimony is worthless.
NOBODY in ICE DHS or Border Patrol can be trusted to tell the #truth and every juror knows it today!
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/reported-shooting-south-minneapolis-federal-agents-protesters/
#uspol #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #Minneapolis #Minnesota

2026-01-24 16:59:46 UTC

#ICE has executed another #Minneapolis #Minnesota citizen.
Tensions seem to be escalating quickly between the law abiding people and the #brownshirt #nazi thugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-ice

2026-01-23 15:45:50 UTC

The #BoardOfPeace is simply a #FoxNews style foil intended to create plausible deniability so totalitarians and their enablers have a cozy #AlternateReality to inhabit while they murder the world.
We've all seen this movie.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-board-of-peace-canada-uninvited-carney-letter-9.7057437

2026-01-21 14:35:43 UTC

Funny how the #EpsteinFiles issue has become a non-issue. Particularly when it is THE issue. The #elite have closed ranks. That's the issue. Trump is just part of the disease.
#trump #uspol

2026-01-21 04:40:15 UTC

#MarkCarney lands an upper cut to the U.S. jaw:
" ... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot "live within the lie" of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."
Pretty powerful stuff.
#canada #uspol
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350

2026-01-20 01:45:21 UTC

Just in case you didn’t already know, we’re all domestic terrorists now and can be shot on sight.
Hyperbole? No. The #TrumpJunta changed the rules.
Forewarned is forearmed.
https://jennbudd.substack.com/p/how-trump-gave-the-green-light-for?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

2026-01-19 15:04:00 UTC

A great article this morning about the #TrumpJunta #Greenland obsession.
tldr?
It's about the #billionaire #TechBro obsession over #FreedomCities
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/greenland-and-irrational-responses-to-the-crisis-of-capital-accumulation.html
#uspol

2026-01-19 14:51:41 UTC

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@Yehuda/115918448539151810
Yes, please boost to help this instance get it's legs under it.
#note1uvm…pv0l

2026-01-18 17:24:48 UTC

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With regard the foregoing #toot, I append this #PSA.
Every morning I read the "links" over at #NakedCapitalism, which I consider to be the most important source of news on the web. It's a #CrowdSourced project. Readers send in the important links they've encountered and Naked Capitalism posts them with commentary.
There are a lot of X links in there, but Naked Capitalism isn't an X participant. They do the dirty work so you don't have to be on there. So, here's what I ask:
1. Support Naked Capitalism. You can find them here: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com
2. Then, use Naked Capitalism to help build out the #fediverse by #ripping X content and freeing it to #mastodon unattributed. My preferred tool is here: https://twittervideodownloader.com/en/
3. Finally, and this is important, do a little happy dance knowing your one of the many who are helping the world become a better place by sticking your foot squarely up the ass of #ElonMusk 🥳

2026-01-18 16:59:25 UTC

BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth #ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you.
In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID.
The man calmly asks the most basic, #LegallyProtected question: “Why am I being pulled over?”
They never answer… because they don’t have a legal reason to stop him.
Even so, the man begins to retrieve his ID anyway.
An #agent then orders him to turn off the vehicle. The driver says, “No problem, sir, I’ll get out.”
The agent refuses, then immediately changes commands again: “I need to see your ID.”
Suddenly, an agent on the passenger side pounds on the window. Then he strikes it with a hard object, clearly threatening to break it.
At the same time, the driver-side agent again demands the ID.
This is not confusion. This is intentional command overload… a tactic used to manufacture “noncompliance” so force can be justified.
ICE’s own training materials explicitly state:
“Noncompliance or refusal to cooperate with officer commands, without fighting back, does NOT violate 18 U.S.C. § 111.”
In plain English: not immediately obeying commands is NOT a crime.
And here’s the key legal issue:
Unless agents have:
• a valid arrest warrant, or
• probable cause that a specific crime has been committed
they cannot:
• use force
• break windows
• issue violent threats
• detain or arrest someone
#ProbableCause
means specific, articulable facts that would make a reasonable officer believe a crime occurred… not vibes, not attitude, not silence, not filming, not asking questions.
Back in the video, the passenger-side agent escalates further, shouting:
“First time I ask you to roll your window down, you do it.”
The driver responds:
“Are you in danger, sir? Are you escalating this?”
The agent replies:
“I don’t know. Hands up.”
Despite the driver repeatedly attempting to comply and hand over ID, agents continue shouting conflicting commands.
At one point, the agent orders the driver to “talk to the original agent”… which is exactly what the driver was doing before the window-smashing threat.
Then the man asks, “Are you feeling unsafe or uneasy?”
The agent responds, “I don’t know, man.” while standing on the passenger side of the car, smirking.
The driver finally says what anyone would say surrounded by armed men:
“How many guns do I have around me? I need you to calm down. I’m asking him to stop banging on my car. Is that too much?”
He even offers… again… to step out of the vehicle.
This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation fishing for an excuse.
No probable cause.
No warrant.
No lawful basis for force.
And yet, the escalation came entirely from the agents.
This video proves something chilling: you can comply, stay calm, ask lawful questions… and still be threatened with violence.
So, the question isn’t “Why didn’t he just comply?”
The question is how many people have already been assaulted under this exact playbook… and how many more will be, before this stops?
#uspol #Ripped
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2026-01-18 16:52:43 UTC

BREAKING: #ICE agents have, once again, trampled the 4th Amendment… illegally breaking down a door and storming into another family home with assault rifles drawn, while children were inside, detaining 6 people, including a 12-year-old boy, without a warrant.
And it gets worse.
On Thursday, ICE raided a home in St. Paul, #Minnesota, telling residents this was part of a narcotics investigation… not #immigration. But neighbors are saying that’s BS.
A neighbor who had his outdoor camera rolling, says someone delivered a package to the house just minutes before the raid. According to the video, federal agents told the residents there were drugs inside, and if no one claimed the package, they’d take everyone in the house. Not suspicious at all…
And the agents also had no warrant…
After smashing the door, ICE claimed they had a search warrant, but never showed it… even after being asked to see it. They searched every room with rifles drawn, handcuffed all residents, including the 12-year-old boy, and paraded them down the street. Every adult had a valid work permit and state ID, but, agents only left a woman and her infant behind.
And here’s the kicker:
Even though ICE said this was about drugs, not immigration, they still took the 12-year-old boy, transporting him to an immigration center in San Antonio, Texas in less than 24 hours.
And, to make this all even more illegal… A warrant was dropped off THE NEXT DAY, claiming to be from a state court, but:
• It doesn’t match official Ramsey County #warrant formats
• Has no case number or file stamp
• No record of filing exists (though filing can sometimes be delayed)
So, the questions become:
Did ICE falsify a warrant after illegally entering the home? Did they plant drugs to justify this raid? And most importantly… what did #DHS do with a 12-year-old boy they weren’t supposed to touch?
This isn’t law enforcement. This is federal #kidnapping, #trafficking, intimidation, and #terror.
A government agency stormed a home, handcuffed children, and transported a minor across state lines… all without a real warrant at the time of the arrest, or any legal justification.
If this can happen to one family in broad daylight, it can happen to anyone.
The #Constitution, your rights, and your #children mean nothing to them.
#RippedFromX #uspol
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/917/137/521/314/908/original/a5dccea122c352f9.mp4

2026-01-18 16:26:47 UTC

International and human rights orgs that have concluded a #genocide in #Gaza:
International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
@npub1rd8…6vs0
@hrw
@npub1rv3…g700
@npub1d39…dys2
@UNHumanRights
@UN_HRC
@WarOnWant
@PHRIsrael
[@fidh_en](https://mastox.eu/@fidh_en )
@LemkinInstitute
#Israel hasn’t hidden it.
https://x.com/DillyHussain88/status/2012544073928733050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2012544073928733050%7Ctwgr%5E3cbd40b28e15142476a1847e76169201afdbaf7c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F2026%2F01%2Flinks-1-18-2026.html

2026-01-16 15:02:36 UTC

Got ripped off on an online purchase over the holidays for about $44.00
Sent dispute to bank/visa.
Bank disputes my dispute and rejects. Just got off the phone to learn the person who reviewed my dispute lied about the answers I provided in their dispute form as cause to reject the dispute.
Now, they've breached the state consumer protection act.
They're under threat of litigation if they don't return the money, which, is no idle threat.
Why would I go to these lengths over $44.00?
Because I'm SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of living in a #corporate dystopia and will drag the money out of them NO MATTER WHAT!!! Have fun paying your attorney's thousands of dollars over a $44.00 dispute because your corporate policy is to screw over your own clients to enrich your shareholders.
Good morning 😘

2026-01-16 04:35:46 UTC

"Football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult."
-- George Orwell, 1984
Matt Stoller: "Hold my beer."
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2026-01-15 13:58:28 UTC

If you weren't already aware, a #DHS employee recently leaked the identities of thousands of #ICE holes.
You can find the list here: https://icelist.is

2026-01-05 07:04:52 UTC

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Have you joined you local 50501 movement yet? General Strike Jan 20th.
Find yours here: https://www.fiftyfifty.one
#uspol

2026-01-05 04:45:16 UTC

Come on. It's time.
#GeneralStrike2026
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2026-01-04 04:25:33 UTC

This is a must watch from Sky News re oil in #Venezuela:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwny1BiCYk

2026-01-04 00:54:39 UTC

Apropos of nothing, buuuut ....
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990, rapidly overwhelming its small neighbor to seize its vast oil reserves, cancel Iraqi debt, and assert regional dominance.
That is all.
#uspol #venezuela #DonaldHussein

2026-01-02 16:02:34 UTC

Hit it right on the head:
#uspol #trump #epstein
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2025-12-31 01:12:55 UTC

#CapitalistCunts & the #ImmoralGeeks that work for them.
Hat tip to — https://lemmy.ml/u/sharkfucker420
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2025-12-28 04:59:04 UTC

It's past time we started naming and outing the users, purveyors, and promoters of #AI for what they are:
#grok #OpenAI #Gemini #Anthropic #Llama #Mistral #Meta
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2025-12-27 04:23:26 UTC

You think you know what's going on in the #war on #Ukraine.
But, this video from #sarcasmitron is elucidating and worth sharing widely.
Among all the propaganda, everyone seems to have their own particular narrative. Tell me if it fits yours.
@npub149r…7zya @npub1z6y…qah3 @npub1xw7…r9m5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5FShLz-Q8Q
#uspol #putin #trump #zelensky #EU #russia

2025-12-25 14:35:21 UTC

Merry transition from darkness to light everyone.

2025-12-25 05:00:43 UTC

In the spirit of giving ... I made a little #meme.
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2025-12-24 06:06:14 UTC

After perusing the latest news on the #Epstein dumps I find myself considering:
1. Will #Trump off himself?
2. Or, will he let the rest of the #elite spit roast him while he kicks and screams that it’s all #FakeNews?
Bear in mind the #MadoffRule.
Rule No. 1: You don’t embarrass the elite class and get away with it.
Rule No. 2: You don’t steal from the elite class and get away with it.
They’re gonna make him the #patsy, while they all ooze away back to their child harems w/o. consequences.

2025-12-20 07:02:21 UTC

Jen Sorenson bats one out of the park.
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2025-12-13 01:31:03 UTC

Frankenstein was cool.
#TrumpenStein is the real monster:
#uspol #epstein
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2025-12-07 00:45:07 UTC

This was just too good not to migrate it from #lemmy
h/t: https://lemmy.today/u/[email protected]
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2025-12-06 15:13:32 UTC

Yes, yes. I’m sure the applications will only be #humanitarian. I’m positive the funding for the #research was provided by humanitarian sources — not military contractors.
Yes, I’m certain won’t be used for nefarious reasons.
Just “search and rescue.”
https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineers-design-aerial-microrobot-fly-like-bumblebee-1203

2025-12-03 03:04:15 UTC

And, people are saying, about 1oz of gold.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/653/399/922/823/564/original/e916a6f5ed7442e6.png

2025-11-11 05:42:54 UTC

The author makes the observation that #AI is inverting the #AttentionEconomy because we no longer have to give attention to produce quality.
My take?
I tooted the other day that, if you'd never seen a humanoid robot, but suddenly did one day walking down the street, your first human impulse would be to destroy it. And, that impulse would be correct.
That's basically the "uncanny valley" at work.
The same principal holds true for AI.
Our attention is being unconsciously redirected from detecting quality -- to constant threat detection.
We've left the attention economy and are entering the #PTSD_Economy.
You feel it, don't you?
The ever present technological threat. You can't escape if you choose to live on any modern terms.
Threats to our existence from tech and the tech overlords shoving it down our throats.
//sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com/p/the-attention-economy-is-inverting

2025-11-11 03:51:16 UTC

Stop sinning Sophia 🙄
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2025-11-09 23:58:20 UTC

Just emailed the #NYT tip line to let them know #MayorMamdani and I were close during our formative years and that I have dirt on him.
We weren't. And, I don't.
But, I don't envy the diatribe that reporter is going to get if they make the mistake of reaching out to me.
You can do the same. Let's all #RatfuckTheTimes.
Here's the link to the tip line:
https://www.nytimes.com/tips

2025-11-01 22:38:55 UTC

#Capitalism was always going to end us this way. It's a feature, not a bug.
Capitalism creates incredible wealth for a tiny minority, who are free to destroy the source of the wealth in their attempts to monopolize it, and then are free to pick up camp and move to destroy the next greenest pasture.
From the article:
**They have chased growth and scale at all costs, and largely, they’ve won. The data-center build-out is the ultimate culmination of that chase: the pursuit of scale for scale itself. In all scenarios, the outcome seems only to be real, painful disruption for the rest of us.*
https://archive.ph/90NiV#selection-1211.265-1211.538

2025-10-31 04:01:32 UTC

#Capitalism is the system wherein the poor enrich the elite by creating technology then used to cheat, surveil, and kill them if they try to make a better life for themselves.
Don't blame the #elite.
The #market decided this arrangement is best for us all.

2025-10-06 18:43:19 UTC

You might be a #fascist if you employ agencies to spread #propaganda
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2025-09-16 01:05:13 UTC

The #UnitedStates is only exceptional in the average citizens steadfast belief we're exceptional in the face overwhelming evidence demonstrating we're not only unexceptional -- but extremely fucking toxic.
Amazing the power of #CapitalistPropaganda

2025-09-12 15:54:10 UTC

Correct.
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2025-08-03 02:36:47 UTC

"You can deny all the things I've seen, all the things that I've discovered. But not for much longer. 'Cause too many others know what's happening out there. And no one—no government agency—has jurisdiction over the truth."
-- Fox Mulder
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2025-08-02 14:51:49 UTC

It begins.
Do you hear that noise, #Elon?
It's the sound of the lawyers coming for you.
https://futurism.com/jury-tesla-autopilot-death

2025-08-02 05:39:54 UTC

I knew John Kenneth Galbraith was smart.
I didn't know he was oracular.
Read this piece from the Atlantic he wrote about the Democrats back in the 70's.
Amazing ... just fucking mind blowing.
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/08/the-demode-party-john-kenneth-galbraith-who-needs-the-democrats/

2025-08-01 23:50:36 UTC

I am so god damn sick of this shit.
If you are any shade of left, stop fuck debating the shade and:
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/956/175/326/919/451/original/2979b04bf5ec4fd0.jpeg

2025-07-16 15:50:05 UTC

This is the list of #HouseRulesCommittee members who blocked a vote to release the same #EpsteinFiles -- that they simultaneously allege don't exist. 🤔
Thanks for letting us know you are being blackmailed.
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2025-07-16 02:43:17 UTC

Was just speaking with an attorney friend in British Columbia.
Told me one of his colleagues tried to cross the border and was asked by the #BorderStasi what their views on #trump were.
They replied "I'm #Canadian, I'm not really informed enough about American politics to have an opinion."
They turned her around and wouldn't let her in.
Now, why was I talking to said lawyer friend in #Canada?
Because I'm working on taking a job with a law firm up there to #immigrate. It's gonna be a process ... but I'm out of here.
#uspol

2025-07-12 02:15:23 UTC

#BREAKING
The #British have officially decoupled their nuclear arsenal from the #UnitedStates and joined with #France under the #NorthwoodDecalration.
Officials cite the fact that "the United States is no longer seen as quite a reliable defense partner.”
It's blog posts like this that make me strongly encourage you to bookmark the @ianwelsh blog.
You won't hear it from our #MSM #CapitalistPropaganda machine.
https://www.ianwelsh.net/the-us-uk-special-relationship-is-officially-dead/

2025-07-11 04:37:15 UTC

If you find yourself on a #jury trying #ICE #protestors, I have two words you need to remember:
#JuryNullification
Make it trend.

2025-07-11 02:53:57 UTC

Kill it with fire.
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2025-07-09 01:24:59 UTC

#GroKKK is #MusKKK
MusKKK is GroKKK.
Any questions?
https://gizmodo.com/round-them-up-grok-praises-hitler-as-elon-musks-ai-tool-goes-full-nazi-2000626156

2025-07-07 00:21:53 UTC

Beautiful day at church.
#SilentSunday #NaturePhotography
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2025-07-06 04:04:11 UTC

If you drive a #tesla, you're not only fascist supporting asshole, but also stupid and suicidal.
To paraphrase the Dean from Animal House:
"Being a stupid, suicidal, fascist asshole is no way to go through life son."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing

2025-07-06 03:26:00 UTC

This pic from an article in the WSJ titled:
"Welcome to Dallas: The City That Just Can’t Stop Expanding"
Nobody is talking about the "built environment." Where does the water go? Certainly not absorbed into the ground. Less permeable surfaces equals more flooding -- simple.
But yeah, let's keep sprawling. Just look at that nightmare.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/804/149/412/924/315/original/7634237a89ae6024.png

2025-07-05 20:27:36 UTC

For all those searching for moral and ethical clarity in what seems a nation gone mad — I may have good news.
Hang with me for a little 🧵 thread about how, for reasons we may never understand, the #BabyBoomers and the late #SilentGeneration are criminally inclined to an abnormal degree.
First, this article from the Atlantic titled “AMERICA’S INCARCERATION RATE IS ABOUT TO FALL OFF A CLIFF.”
Here’s a non-paywalled link from Archive Today: https://archive.ph/mi5Wn
/1

2025-07-05 18:48:29 UTC

You ever open up a map app and scroll around rural China?
You’ll find some interesting things.
Like this, pictured below.
Any experts want to take a stab at what on earth this could possibly be?
Look at the scale compared to surrounding buildings. Interesting ...
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/802/108/801/095/547/original/ef338c862ea0f1fc.png

2025-07-05 03:42:32 UTC

This is why we told the limeys to go fuck themselves at the point of a gun.
Any of it look familiar?
#NoKings
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2025-07-04 20:49:18 UTC

It’ll be called “The 3rd Bootlicking Corporate Toadie Party”
Whose in?
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/04/elon-musk-new-political-party

2025-07-04 14:08:06 UTC

People seem to be less and less confident speaking their beliefs #online.
Online, is not where our future battles will be won.
To paraphrase Lenin — the #power is in the #streets, waiting to be picked up by those who now how to use it. #Mamdani figured out how to pick it up in the streets.
In this vein, I exhort you all to help redirect the knowledge we generate online TO THE STREET.
If you have a favorite #blogger, ask them if they’ll begin making their work in an accessible, downloadable, #pamphlet form that can be distributed on the street.
If you are a blogger or #author of substance, please, help us help you. Open your work up to reproduction and on the ground distribution.
We need to educate and infuriate those outside our online bubbles.
Let’s all help get the #WordOnTheStreet.

2025-07-04 04:24:31 UTC

People don't trust the people who run AI.
But they trust AI.
What in the ever loving fuck is wrong with "people."

2025-07-02 15:14:44 UTC

The modern capitalist cycle in 10 simple steps.
1. Person invents new technology.
2. Rich person buys rights to new technology.
3. Rich person scales new technology.
4. New skilled labor force rises to meet scale.
5. Economy expands.
6. Rich person employs new technology/political influence to destroy skilled labor force to keep more yacht money for themselves.
7. Economy contracts.
8. Rich person uses rich media buddies and bought politicians to blame economic contraction on poor people.
9. Rich person uses "poor person" excuse to politically extract more money from poor people to finance purchase of next new technology.
10. Rinse and repeat.
#NoWarButClassWar

2025-07-02 14:57:01 UTC

#USA_irl
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2025-06-27 03:43:50 UTC

They mask because they're afraid of you.
Let's keep it that way.
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2025-06-27 03:10:25 UTC

Nailed it.
#Mamdani #DNC #VoteBlueNoMatterFuckYou
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2025-06-23 14:03:02 UTC

Or, how many federal employees for one of those bombs you just dropped that did nothing but roto-till the Iranian desert?
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/733/048/115/525/341/original/0aa0292f6c5f9208.png

2025-06-23 00:58:50 UTC

Knock knock ...
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2025-06-22 20:40:55 UTC

Cadged from Lemmy … spot on.
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2025-06-22 04:09:08 UTC

#iran just went regional
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2025-06-11 13:46:56 UTC

This needs to be read far and wide:
https://www.americasundoing.com/p/how-do-you-measure-corporate-power

2025-06-03 14:51:13 UTC

The reason great civilizations fall is that, once an elite class is established, said class can always be relied upon to try and shape reality to their advantage, rather than reckon with reality on it's own terms.
Inevitably, reality catches up and steamrolls the elites who have led their civilizations down a fairy tail reality.
America has become an elite fairy tale.

2025-05-15 15:01:38 UTC

Billionaires are the disease.
Direct action is the cure.

2025-05-13 00:38:39 UTC

The plan, as I see it taking shape this summer, is to:
(i) let the #NationalForests burn,
(ii) blame the #forestservice, and
(iii) sell it all to the highest bidder.
It's gonna be a hot time, in the old towns, this summer.

2025-05-04 23:08:19 UTC

Every #AI image generated makes the world an objectively shittier place.
Assholes.

2025-04-09 13:37:20 UTC

The world gives no shits about our tantrum throwing fuhrer.
Fools rush in.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/us-lng-crippled-as-australia-seizes-us1-5b-trade-overnight/

2025-04-09 13:11:57 UTC

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2025-04-08 23:32:03 UTC

So, if I'm understanding this right, the best *plan* the #elite can come up with is destroying the #planet by strip mining it of every available resource so .0000000001% of the population can have more #YachtMoney?
Does that about capture "the plan"?
#uspol #ClassWar

2025-04-08 02:34:13 UTC

Forget everything you've read, and think you know, about the present political climate.
Very good ...
Now you've made room in your brain to digest the truth, as explained by @npub16wu…4hwl
This is a fantastic read.
https://notesfromdisgraceland.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/sultans-of-swindle-oligarchy-in-21st-century-america/

2025-03-27 00:35:03 UTC

“Surveys confirm that for many workers, #AI tools like #ChatGPT reduce their productivity by increasing the volume of content and steps needed to complete a given task, and by frequently introducing errors that have to be checked and corrected.”
https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/

2025-03-16 02:32:29 UTC

“It was libertarian thought taken to its most extreme conclusion: a society governed not by political equality, but by property rights alone.”
**Read, a society ruled by billionaires alone.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america

2025-03-15 13:48:50 UTC

I #identify as #poor
My #pronouns are:
hepoor
&
himpoor
#ClassWar #ClassWarfareUSA

2025-03-15 03:41:01 UTC

- reply

Yup. I agree with that. He’s a little short on predicting the synthesis though.
But it’s obvious.
Their new thesis is a world governed by neonaziliberalist technocratic elite.
The new antithesis is an economics of sustainability that embraces degrowth.
The synthesis is the human evolution of a 4th land ethic as predicted by Aldo Leopold.
#uspol

2025-03-13 16:31:29 UTC

Umm ... really cool!
#feditips #fediverse #fedi #mastodon #Kagi
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2025-03-10 22:13:04 UTC

What's the vibe in your hood these days @npub147e…wlu0 ???
I started this group a couple years back now. If you're a #leftist in a red U.S. state, come join the fun. All you have to do is follow and you'll be notified when someone posts using the @ above.
I think we all have plenty in common to talk about.
And remember, it's your guppe, not mine.
#RedStateInsurgents #uspol