Fred.
@freeloosedirt.bsky.social
LA area Liberal. Lakers and Chiefs fan. Sobriety. I spin vinyl records. He/Him. If I don’t already know you, I’m more likely to block you from your DM than reply to it.
There’s a Spirit Halloween where our nation’s moral center is supposed to be.
My kids have measles, I can’t afford diesel, I lost my job, and my country just lost a war to Iran. But at least now I can watch firing squad executions on TV.
Can you imagine what this administration would do with the "people who would watch a public execution" data set?
White people attended public lynchings in droves and had picnics with their children there. I mean, PLEASE.
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h agoThe news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
I am not shocked. I am not surprised. I expect that this is what this country's leaders will do because they have a blood lust that is enabled by the country's people.
If you watch this, you and I will not be friends. Your soul is too rotten to be around
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h agoWASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.
As much as Donald Trump hates America, he hates Americans even more than that.
I was expecting crazy stuff, but trying to start a race war was beyond what I was thinking.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoTrump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
Leni Riefenstahl, but for snuff films
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h agoHegseth on Nidal Hasan: "He's gonna get a firing squad of soldiers. As it should be. We'll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it's public. Because people need to understand that there's serious consequences for these types of things."
this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money
Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 10h agoDonald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.
Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 10h agoSC Dem Senate nominee Annie Andrews released an ad calling trans women "biological men." She embraces sports and surgery bans for youth. Her campaign even says she won't work to overturn the HRT/blocker trans youth ban. She once argued against capitulation. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Ah yes, I remember when Trotsky wrote about how Russian workers should be replaced by low wage immigrants from China so that strong Russian boys would have more time to play girls ice hockey. It's right there in the manuscript.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h agoQ: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
Eyes up, whistles out. Fuck ICE.
CNN@cnn.com · 17h agoImmigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive. https://cnn.it/4zgcsQc
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
Trump: I'll let the Iranians hit Southern California The press (slur): what did he mean by this? Trump 24 hours later: I said the Iranians should hit San Diego or Los Angeles. With a missile. It will be traumatic.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · yesterdayTrump: You wanna see trauma? I said it the other day. Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles.
I’m not a scholar on Texas history or anything so can someone give me a quick rundown on how things turned out with the battle of the Alamo?
David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · yesterdayPosted by the RNC to market Trump’s upcoming San Antonio rally. Comments?
Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏
"As we've said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions of Americans at the hands of a foreign power shouldn't warrant such a severe response." buff.ly/utv8fhC
Relax, We Can’t Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Every Time a President Offers to Let an Enemy Bomb an American City
“As we’ve said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions o...
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I set a low bar for my expectations, but I’m surprised I haven’t seen one prominent Democrat call for Trump’s resignation. Just a bunch of sternly worded social media posts. Feckless
Fred.@freeloosedirt.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat Trump said about Los Angeles and San Diego should lead to a wave of leaders calling for his resignation.
We're four weeks out from the election and ballots in CA are being mailed out. I thought I'd make a little thread of voter guides I've used, in case anyone is looking for info. Please feel free to respond with links to voter guides you like. 🧵
I am so beyond fucking tired of the insane levels of deference and plausible deniability news media orgs--esp legacy ones like the NYT--afford Trump and the absolute intellectual rot and cravenness that it represents among the ownership & leadership of those orgs
Dave Itzkoff@ditzkoff.bsky.social · 3d agoOh brother.
Here in Los Angeles, coworkers who never talk politics are talking about how appalled they are about Trump’s shrugging at the idea that Iran would attack us.
with each passing day it feels more surreal to be an independent journalist. like playing with a toy train while vanderbilt owns the railways.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d agoBreaking News: Paramount officially closed its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a vast media empire.
The people who'll laugh or shrug off the 'nuke Los Angeles & San Diego comment' are the same people who wanted Mamdani to not be at the 9/11 commemoration.
When Trump shrugs off an imagined attack on Los Angeles and San Diego he’s not just writing off those of us who oppose him. There are more people living in Los Angeles county who voted fo Trump than the entire state of Mississippi. He just doesn’t care about Americans at all.