MichaelDorset
@stillcraftsman.bsky.social
No DMs. Craftsman at heart, draftsman by profession. I'd retire tomorrow if I could afford it; I've got lots of stuff to do at home. If hope can save democracy, I'm trying to do my part. It's not easy. I was/am OldWhiteGuy on the bird app, FWIW
Not sure why this imaginationless reactionary murder-covering-up sack of shit has any buzz right now but if he does it's because the dumbest, most imaginationless assholes at The Bulwark, the Times and Neera Tanden want him to while exactly zero other people, and FEWER Democratic rank-and-file, do.
Stop Trying to Make Rahm Emanuel Happen
Elite political reporters are eager to boost his presidential bid. But there has seldom been a candidate more poorly suited to a historical moment.
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There's plenty of corruption, crimes against humanity, and downright evil shit to focus on, but every so often it strikes me how thoroughly we USians have been exposed and disgraced on the world stage. A country who can elect such a man—twice!—is not a worthy country. We need radical reformation.
Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"
After banning CNN, MS NOW & Politico from the White House, he installs State-Run television, just like they have in so many other countries... Sieg Heil, ya'll. #38Days 🌊
Every single one of these weird Pelosi-ish Democratic leadership Democrats who declares "we are capitalists" should be reminded daily that the fusillade of horror happening in the United States right now is the absolute fucking ZENITH of capitalism and then be pressed to explain why that is good.
My man looks like Mel Gibson headbutted a wasps' nest
The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for the Arctic Report Card, an annual scientific assessment that has tracked the rapidly changing Arctic for the past two decades.
I would like to huzzah the profound brilliance of Democrats running all candidates past Republicans to make sure they are unattackable by Republicans, meaning an entire Democratic Party field of venomous Jesusy "remigration"-spouting neo-nazi assholes. Then we'll be "electable," boy howdy.
Here's a question for @robertdownen.bsky.social I wonder how Islamophobic Texas Republicans will attempt to use Abdul El-Sayed in their attack ads against Talarico and the Democratic Party in general? The same really applies nationwide. It's why establishment Dems solidly backed Stevens.
"The Schutzstaffel is bad but necessary and we can reform it to do good" is just the dumbest fucking argument you can make, Conspicuously Tin-Eared Insanely-right-wing-leaning Mainstream Core of the Democratic Party.
"When I derailed the train nobody died because there are many other trains that people might have conceivably used." yeah but they did die, they died and now they are dead because you killed them, you fucking death's mask frog voice mass-murdering Nazi prick you.
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
Hey. Hey. You know what else shocked the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects? EVERYTHING DONE BY THE NEO-NAZIS RUNNING THE COUNTRY THAT THE TIMES HAS JUMPED OVER ITS DICK TO LEGITIMIZE, SOFTBALL AND OBFUSCATE FOR A YEAR A FUCKING HALF
Important statement from the New York Times
The emoluments clause, called the foreign emoluments clause, is a provision of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8) that generally prohibits federal employees from receiving gifts, payment, or other object or service of value from a foreign state or its rulers, officers,
We white settlers simply don't have any more right to be here than anyone else. That's the bottom line. That's what "no one is illegal on stolen land" really means. We simply do not have any moral right to exclude other people from a country built by force and genocide.
Someone get a camera on Carville 24/7 so we can actually see the moment where half his brain explodes out of his eye socket.
JUST IN: In a stunning upset, democratic socialist Melat Kiros has unseated 30-year incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in the Colorado House primary www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
3/3 ..And it feels like we're back where we were before we started the war—except maybe a little bit worse off. And my understanding is that the ceasefire says we've now got 60 days to develop a plan to deal with the nuclear issue, but we don't know yet what that plan is.”
2/3 …This administration, or a prior version of this administration, pulled out of it, which caused then Iran to develop more nuclear capacity. We've now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. ⬇️
🧵 1/3 Obama explaining the situation with Iran “There was a deal in place in which Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons that the entire international community, including Israeli intelligence, our own intelligence agencies, assessed was working. ⬇️
I understand that our institutions are going to recognize the authority of the Supreme Court, by the way. What I'm saying is it's very important for *us*—all of us—to view the fascist 6 as completely illegitimate, and let that observation of obvious truth inform our politics and worldview.
In my opinion hardwood Democrats who don't want to be replaced shouldn't have sucked shit for so long without listening to everyone screaming at them about it. We need to see so many of them replaced in so many primaries. Every time it happens is cause for hope and should cheer people everywhere.
Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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Don’t exonerate Musk. He gave us Trump because he knew Trump would allow him to do it.
To be very precise, on top of being a useless conman, he is one of the biggest mass-murders in history, a genocideer on par with any of history's other monsters.
Not a scientist with a breakthrough in medicine or the environment to help humankind. Not an engineer with a breakthrough technology that helps humankind. No... the first ever trillionaire is this useless conman. SMFH.
When I was a kid, the allegories of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone shaped my sense right and wrong way more than Sunday school so, while I am not looking forward to Ellison Paramount launching Star Trek: Genocide Is Actually Good Sometimes, it is fucking well going to happen.
Scott Pelley has been fired by new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton.
The richest man in the world gutted USAID and bragged about “feeding [it] into the wood chipper.” Remember who is responsible for this suffering. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...
Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
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We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
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