Grim Milestone

Grim Milestone

@grimmilestone.bsky.social

Engineer, atheist, ape descendent, and perfectly ordinary Earthman. Pro-democracy, anti-autocracy, anti-plutocracy, anti-idiocracy. Rescuer of Dobermans. Move gently and fix things.

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On this day in 2020, our pandemic denier-in-chief and soon-to-be insurrectionist yet again claimed to have won Michigan's non-existent Man of the Year award, but America was too busy weighing Russian propaganda about Hunter's laptop to pay much attention to that sort of bonkers nonsense.

On this day in 2016, a former Miss Finland accused this rapist of groping her a decade prior, and America was just jim-dandy with that too when it came to the ballot box.

Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨New RAPE Accusation Against Donald Trump Former beauty pageant contestant Beatrice Keul previously said Trump tried to force himself on her but she rebuffed him. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beatrice-keul-donald-trump-rape-allegation_n_6adb428ce4b04787f03a7bdc

This, America.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

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Replying to @matthew.flux.community

There's a huge difference between saying that Democratic leaders have failed to respond to Republican strategies and simple nihilistic leftism. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who cannot see the difference. Don't overextend Murc's Law. Democrats have agency, and they should use it. /end

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Replying to @schiff.senate.gov

In December 2020, DOJ rejected Trump’s plea to “just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” Now DOJ is fully on board.

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Not for nothing but PBS does election night coverage and we work really really really hard on it. Union shop as well!

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

The US is "trying to block renewables while actively promoting and subsidizing dirty coal — and its diplomacy is trying to make other countries also pull back on action. It is looking at the fire, denying there is a fire, and then pouring more petrol on it” www.wral.com/news/ap/0eff...

wral.comUN projections say world is losing ground in fight to curb climate change, faulting US a bitHumanity is losing more ground in its fight against climate change. If all the countries do what they promise to do in the fight to curb climate change, the world will still warm this century by anoth...

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

Great point. Terrifying conservatives into reluctantly backing reactionary extremists has been job 1 for Republicans the past 60 years. They do this primarily through propaganda media, which liberals often deride as merely comical (eg Jon Stewart).

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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

The Age of the Oligarchs. Enjoy your socials in the meantime

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests. LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.” “We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”

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Zelenskyy says Starlink restrictions REMAIN in Ukraine, crippling interceptor drones and military operations. He says Ukraine has evidence the restrictions are DELIBERATE after testing Starlink systems in the EU, where they worked perfectly at speeds that cause connections to fail inside Ukraine.

The new Zacharia time scale will be applied to the quantum world of cabinet appointments shorter than one Scaramucci, where Schrodinger's Zacharia bends the concept of time and reality

🙄 "I feel like he's done a really good job closing the border," he said. "I also do appreciate his efforts in trying to end some of the conflicts that began under the last administration, besides the fact that the Iran conflict hasn't really worked the best, from my perspective."

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100% this thread

Michael Fletcher@mefletcher54.bsky.social

Something similar can be said about Trump's election victories. The Russians played a part, but they did what they always do: exploit US weaknesses. They didn't create those weaknesses. They only had to amplify them.

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Ilhan Omar’s home was raided today, weeks after border czar Tom Homan cited an “ongoing criminal investigation.” It reportedly involves immigration paperwork when she was a child. There is NOT an ongoing investigation of Homan taking $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting because Trump killed that probe.

but of course

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

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Zelenskyy: "Freedom, independence, Ukraine -- we can't lose it. And the truth is on our side."

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This absolutely crazy message is fed to young evangelical girls constantly. No wonder so many are leaving. It's so harmful to the ones who stay.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

WH Press Sec Katie Zacharia: The abortion pill has the same chemicals that they used in the extermination camps in Nazi Germany

I'm stuck on this. Not on my most pessimistic day after November 2024 did I imagine that, in my lifetime, America would be sating its ever-increasing bloodlust with livestreamed executions

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com

The idea of executions being live-streamed is absolutely sick and disgusting. You don’t hate Pete Hegseth enough

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Ruffalo: Keep the bastards away from our most vulnerable people, our beloved, beloved immigrants. Because if you ain’t Native American, you’re an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant.

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All Republicans have to offer voters in the midterms is failure, lies, corruption, cover ups, fear mongering, name calling, enrichment of oligarchs, christian nationalism, racism, data centers everywhere, flock cameras, higher prices, new wars and fake bribes. Hell of a platform.

It's circa 2010 America and someone tells you that in 15 years, our government will be implementing a fascist authoritarian takeover replete with armed goons in our streets, the Crusades with our military, and the random renaming of various seas & lakes, all at the hands of... Donald fucking Trump.

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