David

David

@scotinus.bsky.social

Liberal transplant from Scotland to the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Music, science, politics, software, American exceptionalism sarcasm, MMT, saving democracy and dogs. Crypto-naysayer; it's a bigger fool pyramid - fun until it's not. Post.News refugee.

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The sooner we get over ourselves, grow the fuck up, knock off the "we're so exceptional" shit, move beyond archaic religiosity and prudish patriarchal idiocracy, and face up to the fucking reality that we're one of many and cooperation is king, then maybe we can have nice things too. #America250

Grandma Janet@sweetgrandmajan.bsky.social

This is getting painful by the day. Happy 250 America. 😈🤡😡

What sort of loser doesn't win a Nobel?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Tinpot...check Dictator (wannabe)... check

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

That's more like it.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

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NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting having already started in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.

democracydocket.comAlaska Natives’ early voting hampered by unlawful closuresAt least 18 early voting sites in Alaska Native communities have yet to open, which is hampering turnout among a historically disenfranchised population.

🎵 HIM HIM FUCK HIM 🎵

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

BRAZIL: BOLSONARO REFUSES TO ACCEPT ELECTION DEFEAT, DEMANDS RESULTS BE ANNULLED Mercado Media

If you flip a few words around, you can see how ridiculous it all is. "I have a 97 year-old grandmother, I don't want biological grandfathers doing aqua-aerobics with my grandmother"

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Today's world is a comic book. Elections across the globe are battles in the war of Good versus Evil. The global oligarchy against the liberal order. Deception and propaganda; 1984's command to disbelieve your own eyes against the lived experience of the working & middle classes. WE won this one.

npr.orgBrazil's left-wing President Lula elected for fourth termBrazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff.

It's sad that so many people live their lives, with such shallow and simplistic perspectives. Making your entire life about abortion, is a lazy, disingenuous way of *pretending* to care about something, while not actually giving a single empathetic fuck about anyone else.

KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞@mary1kathy.bsky.social

apnews.com/article/trum... voted for Trump every time. Then came cancer and the bills How tragic that it took a potential death sentence to get her to give up her hateful, racist politics.

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Time for another reality check from Nathan Jun is one of the best political content creators 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

This is the truth. US financial support for Ukraine stopped the moment Trump took office. Yes, we've reluctantly allowed the military industrial complex to SELL weapons to Ukraine but it is Europe who are purchasing and paying for them, no longer the US. Trump HAS ALWAYS been a Russian asset.

4fuxake@blueheartedly1.bsky.social

Absolutely 👇

OK, that's it. The iconic song, "YMCA" about young men hooking up for sex at their local venue, was fun to lend out for a while to the unknowing right-wingers, but sadly I feel it must now be added to the "Things Destroyed by Donald Trump" list.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Paxton rally tonight vs Talarico rally tonight Paxton:

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ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZA ONCE AGAIN… Their intentions are clear: Kill them all or make them so desperate that they are forced to leave their land. “Killing them all would be incredible” - Moshe Feiglin -Zehut party leader

Remember when Rubio's meme claim to fame was the water bottle? How far he has come. 🤣

Paulley Ticks@tomadelsbach.bsky.social

Marco Rubio after he realized how much Donald Trump is into man-ass. #DonaldTrump #JonHusted

They're trying to do as much possible damage as they can. This IS Project 2025. Destroy all the institutions and customs that make us collectively strong, then steal all the resources and make the population utterly dependent on oligarchs.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump's head of FEMA just told states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. The Trump admin's disaster chief told state officials they must increase their financial reserves and emergency capabilities to handle most disasters on their own — without federal help.

Pretty essential thread, if you want to recalibrate your resistance energy. It is so damn hard to keep up and most people do not understand how bad it has already got. And we have two more years of it. We cannot screw up these mid-terms or the period that follows.

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Absolutely appalling. Where is Congress?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WaPo: The Trump admin has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian missile and drone attacks — a delay that comes as Trump embraces Russia and slams Ukraine.

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Replying to @onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Zelenskyy is highly regarded around the world and Europeans are grateful to him for holding the line against Putin. Trump on the other hand is despised around the world. And the BBC is complying in advance with the right-wing government it seems to expect to take over the UK in a couple of years.

Yesterday was OSU parents day & had a great time. (Go Beavs!) Today I have a knee abrasion, the muscles under my right scapula have seized up like a boulder and my left wrist/hand is a bit sore. My lovely wife (who was driving) saw my feat, and now claims I am too old for slightly-drunken parkour.

Truly terrible stories. As Snyder says, this is what siding with Russia means. By appeasing Putin, Republicans enable these abuses and prolong the war. Republicans are letting Trump support Russia financially now. More women will be raped. More men will have their testicles electrocuted.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

These courageous testimonies are very much worth knowing about, and also worth keeping in mind (as the author pointed out to me) as we consider what it means to take Russia’s side. "Rape as a weapon of war: The voices of Ukrainians" by Sara Cincurova snyder.substack.com/p/rape-as-a-...

Now do Putin.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Trump issues a "Complete and Total Endorsement" of Netanyahu, warning Israelis that if they elect anyone else, "America will have to do this work ourselves" in Iran. He calls Bibi an "even greater Partner for Peace" for waging the war with him.

This is an uncharacteristically bold prediction for Senator Cruz. The left-wing-transgender-witch community in Alaska, are notoriously difficult to pin down.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ted Cruz: "Right now, if you are left-wing transgender witch, you hate Donald Trump"

Ossoff is hitting the spot. It's very refreshing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the AI they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom ... I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become"