Flying Pace
@flyingpace.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, editor, Icelandic horse with a resplendent mane.
Today I told the very nice person in McInnis's office that once Yale cuts a deal with Trump, it turns itself into a white supremacist institution. I mean, many folks will tell you it always has been. But once you cut a deal with the country's biggest white supremacist, it's undeniable.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2d agoMad at Yale trying to cut a deal with Trump? Call President McInnis! A very nice person just answered the phone over there and took my comment - said they update McInnis with our comments every day! president.yale.edu/contact-us
One thing that's been especially memory-holed: by the end of Trump's first term, mainstream outlets like Foreign Policy were seriously discussing whether his democidal COVID response constituted a crime against humanity. (It did.) foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/19/t...
The U.S. Coronavirus Response Might Be a Crime Against Humanity
The Trump administration callously dismissed the deaths of the most vulnerable, including minorities.
foreignpolicy.com
Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 3d agoIt continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.
![In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ty2kxmxjmtealqi2kc7f4pww/bafkreiej6o22cdapxm6lj3rgrrznhhijzm5kpcjmvscemg2g7vg4tzm7na)
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
If Congress does not even try to impeach him for his crimes, then Congress is saying he didn't do anything impeachable. That's unacceptable.
Appreciate this documentation. As we’ve said since Trump’s return, it’s clearly not just one or two airlines/airports doing ICE’s dirty work. It’s the entire US aviation system - so that’s what we need to boycott until the regime implodes.
Nick Benson@ottergoose.net · 4d agoLooks like American Airlines is moving people for ICE too; fellow avgeeks are confident this is flight AAL406, AUS-MIA, on July 31. We’ve been confident Delta wasn’t the only one flying people for ICE, we just haven’t seen much footage. www.instagram.com/reel/DbeWJIY...
They are trying to use AI as an ‘agency tumbler’, like a cryptocurrency tumbler which is a mechanism that attempts to obscure the originator of crypto transactions by using a disguising function (typically transaction pooling) for purposes of money laundering. This is responsibility laundering.
If you want to know what participating in technofascism looks like, it’s play-acting that computers have agency in order to construct the social belief that corporations and governments aren’t responsible for their own decisions because they were commissioned via a computer.
That country should face a crisis of credibility in the eyes of the entire world. Trump is announcing that the US isn't really a country if he won't defend Blue states against Iranian attacks. Iran has exposed a division far deeper than it could have hoped.
One of the most basic reasons to have a government is protection against outside military threats. If a government refuses to defend parts of its own territory, it faces a crisis of legitimacy in the eyes of the people who live there.
anybody throwing our trans sisters and brothers and siblings under the bus is doing it because they want to do it it demonstrably does not win elections if you serve Diet Fash the actual fash prefer the full-sugar Original Recipe Fash, and the people disgusted by any flavor of fash stay home
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 6d ago8. The political math of Acton's position doesn't add up. Republicans aren't going to reward her for baseline levels of transphobia—Ramaswamy will run ads against her on any number of transgender issues regardless.
America hates this piece of shit. He's a racist, a thief, and a traitor. He just had to pay $5 million to one of his rape victims. Why aren't @democrats.org pushing impeachment? Why aren't @democrats-judiciary.house.gov making the case for removal every single day?
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d agoTrump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
Impeachment IS the majority right now. Celinda Lake from President Lake Research Partners told us that 53-56% of Americans are in favor of impeachment. 2/3rds are unhappy with the job he's doing, but maybe don't understand yet that these are impeachable, corrupt, treasonous offenses.
Waiting has *no* advantages Waiting makes everything worse in several different ways Anyone who says they want impeachment but also says it should be put off until next year needs to take some time and think it thru Waiting is a horrible idea
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
nytimes.com
How are any of these hacks going to look us in the eye during their stump speeches and seriously claim they stood up to Trump? Half the grandparents in Minneapolis did more.
Flying Pace@flyingpace.bsky.social · 7d agoBlue state officials' failure to demand impeachment is some real Benedict Arnold shit.
Blue state officials' failure to demand impeachment is some real Benedict Arnold shit.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
"Invited"? The Court *abetted* this, criminally. I'm not trying to do a gotcha, but we can't defeat Trumpism until mainstream commentators admit the SCOTUS majority are Trump's accomplices. Democracy can't function if fascists are allowed to do high crimes and coups—it just can't!
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.The Supreme Court invited exactly this when it held that the president's attempt to conduct "sham" "investigations" was a core executive power immune from all regulation, including criminal prosecution, in Trump v. United States.
Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
I guess they also really need to beat Tiffany, for some reason
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · last wk.Dems really need to drive a big fucking wedge on data centers, it’s becoming *the* issue
if you’re an immigrant and unemployed, you’re a freeloader, but if you’re gainfully employed, you’re stealing someone’s job. They just don’t want these people to exist except as targets for their hatred one way or the other bsky.app/profile/heba...
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
Are you going to watch this happen on your next trip, or are you going to join the US air travel boycott and demand impeachment?
Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
"On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."
There's a National Blood Supply Crisis Happening Right Now
Red Cross officials are pleading with Americans to donate blood, especially if they have O-positive blood.
gizmodo.com
THIS WEEK would be the best week to impeach and remove the criminal in the White House
This is the graph of an ethnic cleansing campaign. My immediate response is to wonder why so few people with big platforms are driving pressure on Congress to remove Trump
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last wk.for around two months now, the Trump admin has been replacing more and more previously-scheduled hearings with "mega master hearings" hey I wonder what the number of missed hearing deportation orders looks like at that same time .....oic ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
"The fucking Epstein files! Goddamn it! Where are they? It's a fucking law, bitch! Show it, you fucking pedophiles! ... These fucking rapists. We're just cool with it? That bitch [Trump] has the keys to the nuclear—he's like, like, all up into 13-year-olds. Like, dude, what? Go to jail, go to jail."
The Hollywood Reporter@thr.com · 2w agoAlan Ritchson went there.
After 9/11, the U.S. didn't reach 600 casualties in Afghanistan until mid-2005, nearly four years into the war
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · last wk.Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/p...