Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti

@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

Not my first social media rodeo, probably not the last one either.

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Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

globally. caused the cost of living to go up GLOBALLY.

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Inflation is up again. Not because of a pandemic. Not because of a natural disaster. Because of Trump’s war, tariffs, and corporate tax breaks. It really is this simple: Republicans took over, and then drove up the cost of living in America.

Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

wow i grew up in los feliz on the edge of griffith park, and had no idea about this fascinating history

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social

"In 1906, when Griffith first proposed the observatory as a gift to the city, he was hoping to salvage his reputation after the shocking crime he had committed three years earlier: the attempted murder of his wife." www.popsci.com/science/grif...

popsci.comThe criminal behind Los Angeles' Griffith ObservatoryIn 1903, real-estate magnate Griffith J. Griffith shot his wife. She survived: His reputation didn't.
Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

spot on

Mike Brock 🇺🇸@brockm.bsky.social

One thing you have to understand about Trump, Hegseth and many people around him is that as things start to unravel, because they are essentially cavemen wearing suits, is they will engage in increasingly horrific dominance displays. Live-streaming executions is only the start.

Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

what the actual F

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Pete Hegseth says Americans will be able to watch a Trump-approved firing-squad execution. If he follows through, the U.S. could join a disturbing club of countries known for public executions—including Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea.

meidasnews.comHegseth Turns Trump’s Firing Squad Into a Public SpectacleThe Army has scheduled Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution at Fort Hood — the first military execution since 1961 — while the Pentagon still will not explain how the firing squad will operate.
Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

what the actual F

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Pete Hegseth says Americans will be able to watch a Trump-approved firing-squad execution. If he follows through, the U.S. could join a disturbing club of countries known for public executions—including Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea.

meidasnews.comHegseth Turns Trump’s Firing Squad Into a Public SpectacleThe Army has scheduled Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution at Fort Hood — the first military execution since 1961 — while the Pentagon still will not explain how the firing squad will operate.
Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

Gestern war ich auf den Volkstimmefest und ein bier hat beim KPÖ standl SECHS euro plus 2 euro pfand gekostet. Wahnsinn. Wann gehen die leut endlich auf die strasse?!??? bei 10 euro? 20? Mir san echt schafe im schlachtschlucht.

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Geoffrey Lean
@geofflean.bsky.social

You’d think the ’ships of the desert’ could cope with global warming. But no. Nearly half of Somalia’s camel-owning households have lost at least one to drought, research finds. In parts of the north of the country this rises to almost three-quarters. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukAfrica's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soarHerders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.
Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

fascinating essay

☠°。Die Siebenschläfern *.ﾟ☠@sababausa.bsky.social

There was an excellent essay by Neil Flanagan about the post-9/11 bunker project, what we know about it & what more we can infer, that goes into satellite photos and even hydrogeology, and suggests the project maybe caused the Jefferson Memorial to subside www.thebirthofacapital.info/trumps-bunker/

thebirthofacapital.infoThey've already built the bunkerIt wouldn't be the first time Donald Trump blew one of the country's biggest secrets.
Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

"...and they're coming for your social security check to give to their buddies... they don't care about you. it's a big club, and you're not in it." George Carlin, prophet.

Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post wants to take trillions of dollars from Social Security www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int... and give to his friends in the financial industry cepr.net/publications...

cepr.netDonald Trump Wants to Take Your Social Security to Give Even More Money to Wall StreetTrump’s “Trump Accounts” plan would privatize Social Security, driving up costs and boosting Wall Street profits.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
@banditelli.org

Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶

Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

futute generations will look back on people in ice "uniform" the way previous generations looked back on photos of german national socialist trops; the only difference being the lack of faces for identification.

The Intercept@theintercept.com

ICE is issuing a new nationwide policy mandating a dress code for field operations. The policy, shared with The Intercept by a DHS whistleblower and confirmed by multiple ICE officers, details a new set of appearance standards aimed at making it easier for the public to recognize ICE officers.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Mashed Potato
@kristadb1.bsky.social

This is where I'm about to be a killjoy: The appropriate behaviour is to put your fucking phone down and haze that bear. I'm talking banging pots, calling it a bad bear (seriously, it works, I don't know why), and letting it know it is not welcomed. b/c this below is how you make a dead bear.

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com

"Okay, your first mistake here is not letting the fire die out before putting the meat on the grill, but I honestly think your main issue is that you put a bear in charge of making the food."

Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

one would think that an unpolluted, older source than existing translations would be of interest to theologists, right?

Isaac Samuel@rhaplord.bsky.social

*not-so-fun fact There is still no authoritative translation of the Ethiopian bible, more than 500 years after the outside world learned about it So it will be long before we get any translations of the hundreds of thousands of African manuscripts discovered in the last 30 yrs

Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

the american process, designed for cotizen and internranch oversight being dismantled before your very eyes, completely captured. seems we can't even maintain a republic, let alone a democracy

Ken Morales@kbmorales.bsky.social

1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

Basically all western governments have become criminal cartels run by socipaths and extracting anything they can in any way, and berift of any moral or ethical restraint. ansolute crazy times. complete and utter corruption and decay.

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Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

Michael Parenti
@exiledsurfer.bsky.social

BROCK PIERCE right in the middle!!?!! oh, man

Rev. Benjamin Cremer@brcremer.bsky.social

Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry. This is what idol worship looks like.

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Internet Archive
@archive.org

🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️