Furrowed Brow

Furrowed Brow

@furrowedbrow91.bsky.social

║Philosophy・Science・History &c 📚║ Musicophile│Nonreligious│Humanist Pro: Secular Liberal Democracy・the Enlightenment Project Anti: Christo-Fascism・Declinism Values: Eudaimonism・Luck Egalitarianism・Pluralism・Cosmopolitanism {Sophia + Phronêsis} He/Him

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The so-called potus is a violent, serial rapist. Including of children. This is not open to doubt. America has had dismal lows before ofc, but, really, wtaf? There has to be consequences here. Deep, wide, meaningful accountability. Or else we are lost no matter what party is in power.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

A good summary of the House Judiciary Dems' 50-p report on Trump's history as a violent sexual predator, including a well vetted, under-oath account from Beatrice Keul of how Trump raped her in an Atlantic City hotel room in 1993, after the pair were introduced to one another by Jeffrey Epstein.

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Off the charts Trump family corruption. Kushner got Billions of foreign funds, while spearheading foreign policy. And the Hunter Biden hunters are silent. @MarshaBlackburn

Bribing doctors to push pseudo scientific claptrap. The US is the most intellectually dismal "advanced" country.

Jake Scott, MD@jakescottmd.bsky.social

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

The GOP isn't "just" a white christian supremacist movement. It's also a white MALE supremacist movement. They used to code their "women in their place" bigotry with "family/traditional values"; now it's out in the open. After all, conservatism seeks to *conserve* tradition. It's in the name.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

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It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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🚨 A bombshell new House Judiciary Democrats report details allegations from 11 women linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, including five who accuse Trump of sexual assault. The report also alleges a sweeping DOJ cover-up. We broke down the explosive findings.

meidasnews.comBombshell House Report Accuses Trump of Involvement in Epstein Sex Crimes, DOJ Cover-UpHouse Judiciary Democrats detail allegations from 11 women linking Trump to Epstein and accuse his Justice Department of a sweeping cover-up.

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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Repubs are white male christian supremacists because conservatives are. It's inherent in their pseudo-ideology: conserve. Conserve what was, tradition is what matters: change is bad. That rigidity stems from a fundamental overbearing psychology of fear, which leads to tribalism, hate & bigotry.

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

It's easy to make jokes, but there's a deeper, dangerous subtext here. What the christo fascists controlling things are having T push is that *some* voters shouldn't be allowed to vote, because they will vote against GOP tyranny. Or, even further, voting in itself is bad & to be eliminated.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says if Republicans lose the election it is voters’ fault

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So Trump’s closing argument is that high gas prices are good because his donors who run oil companies are making bank, Jon Husted has a nice ass but not quite as good as Nicki Minaj’s ass, after 7 months the Reflecting Pool is almost done, and we get a ballroom, arch and helipad.

Yea, white republicans were the only ones trying to bring guns onto the House or Senate floors. They even pushed a bill to make it legal.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

Now if only We the People rise up and take back ours! #Vote #VoteBlue and then demand accountability at all levels for the utter blatant criminality of the entire GOP/T regime!

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Brazil rejected Bolsonaro. Serbia's students beat Vučić. Machado is home in Venezuela. What a day for democracy.

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Periodic reminder that the media loudly demanded DETAILED POLICY PLANS (TM) from Kamala Harris while gramps over here is just riffing on asses from behind the seal of the President of the United States. Just a daily embarrassment but this is gold for the media 🙄

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says he examined Jon Husted’s ass to groans but then says Nikki Minaj has a nice ass to cheers

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I don’t get it. If the tariffs are great for America and are bringing back manufacturing and are one of Trump’s signature policies, why won’t the Republicans who refused to overturn them even mention them?

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“You’ll only have yourselves to blame” - Guy who started war nobody wanted, trade wars, raised prices on literally everything, pocketed billions, kicked people off health coverage, filled the streets with masked goons… (H/T @atrupar.com)

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We are making the oil oligarchs rich. We are making Trump and his cronies rich. It is literally at our expense every day. There’s no trickling down happening. And Trump is bragging about it knowing nobody in the Republican Party will stand up to him and say enough.

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Trump doesn't pay taxes. So why should you? Trump pulled in $1.4bn from crypto grifts in 2025, plus more than $200mn from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500mn. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the

forbes.comHow Trump Turned His Golf Empire Into A Billion-Dollar Tax ShelterFor decades, the president has claimed charitable deductions on golf courses he never gave away. Now he’s pushing the scheme further—and apparently using the presidency to get away with it.

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Trofimov is correct: the key takeaway from the FT's blockbuster story is that the Trump family and cronies were exercising direct private control over this massive Alaska project, and they were using that control to benefit the Kremlin. Plain as day. But NYT couldn't understand what was happening.

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Hamilton Nolan: the greatest threat to our democracy today is huge pools of accumulated capital in private hands. People like Bernie Sanders talk about the oligarchy... but people need to understand that breaking up these enormous fortunes is critical to us maintaining a democratic government.

newrepublic.comTranscript: The Most Important Divide in American PoliticsMaking unions stronger and corporations and billionaires weaker are essential steps to strengthening American democracy, says author Hamilton Nolan.

I've been waiting for a new progressive era since the 90's. I thought Bushy II's reign & '08 crash/bailout would bring people to their senses...but no: the populist backlash only produced a vacuum for T ("he can't be bought!"), who was always obviously only going to fleece us all/deepen inequality.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Again, no one should have this type of money (power). WTF are we even doing? #AbolishBillionaires

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Elon Musk has apparently paid hundreds of millions of dollars to block the distribution of "Musk," the documentary.

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Don't forget that nearly all Republicans in Congress stood by and supported Trump's... -Tax cuts for the rich -Cuts to the social safety net -Iran War -ICE abductions & National Guard deployments -Inflationary tariffs -Blatant corruption His unpopularity is theirs too — and the midterms are here.

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Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

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NEWS: Trump launches massive operation, sends armed agents to ask voters' immigration status, registration status, and voting history at their homes. They are going door to door. Meanwhile, voters in Tennessee observe issues with voting machines altering their choices. Major Epstein news.

aaronparnas.substack.comNEWS: Trump Sends Armed Federal Agents to Voters’ Doors With a “Target List,” Major Epstein Action, Putin’s Envoy Declares “Checkmate”Good evening, everyone.

This better not end up only being for show. Real consequences. Criminal prosecutions, stripping of assets, paying back stolen gov. funds, & lengthy jail time. Anything less and we'll continue to be a plutocracy, as we have been since '08 when the too big to fail finance-bros went free.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

Democrats are preparing to investigate Musk if they win control of the House in November, Politico reports. Potential probes would focus on his DOGE leadership, federal job cuts, alleged data breaches, government contracts and Starlink’s role in Ukraine.

It's insane that we have reached the level where some will see this as a good thing, at least relatively speaking. It is not. No single individual, whether "on the side of democracy" or not should have this much power in a democracy worthy of the name. This is not democracy, it's plutocracy.

Jill Lawrence@jilldlawrence.bsky.social

"Mr. Bloomberg’s infusion of cash will offer some relief to Democrats who have watched apprehensively as Elon Musk and President Trump’s super PAC have unleashed hundreds of millions of dollars to support Republicans." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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If this is accurate, Elon lied about not having control over Starshield, and he lied about the administration making the decision. More importantly, why is a private citizen even *able* to make decisions that could hinder US military operations?

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Putin and Trump have had a shared dream for decades now, though to be clear it is actually Putin's dream to which Trump irrationally subscribes. Under it, Putin will restore the Russian Imperium and then Trump and Putin will divide the Atlantic world between themselves, with Putin getting most of it

welt.deUkraine-Krieg: „Diesen gemeinsamen Traum von Trump und Putin, den gibt's schon lange“ - Video - WELTDie USA erhöhen mit ausbleibender Militärhilfe und eingeschränkten Informationen den Druck auf Kiew. „Dieser Druck kostet dann Menschenleben“, sagt Sicherheitsexperte Nico Lange.