Atticus West

@atticuswest.bsky.social

Attorney and Counselor at Law. Litigator. B.A. Philosophy. Phish. Padres. Me like words. Occasionally wry. My posts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qr2uvymrekywvidqb3c5unmv/feed/aaaezkmwjnhk6

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

I still have trouble remembering whether I was one of the Secret Service agents who ran to protect President Kennedy’s motorcade at Dealey Plaza or whether I wouldn’t be born for 13 more years after his assassination

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

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Here’s Trump posting the results of the German election in which the neo-Nazi AfD did well. It’s important to understand that the U.S. Republican Party is part of a global fascist movement dedicated to persecuting minorities and stealing our freedom.

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Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 5d ago

Democrats who have had absolutely nothing to do with Hasan Piker will be hounded about him, while Republicans who are directly benefitting from Musk funding will be asked about him in the most generic "money in politics" way, if at all.