Queen of Spades
@heartsrunner.bsky.social
If you like playing Hearts, let's talk! Cover your pass. Play for first.
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
oregonlive.com
oh hi im one of those affected! note well that a week or two after MSFT/Xbox laid off thousands of us, they made a $60 million donation to the President's AI initiative .....
Be careful of any #dot-gov sites
🌵🌞@daysonrick.bsky.social · yesterdayJustifiably so. Not only for the poor information and omissions. A commercial tool called PostHog that closely tracks what every visitor does on the site, and aother tool, apparently made in-house, sends user data to a destination that is not visible are present. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"knowing things" is a conspiracy by Big Knowledge to get you to buy more Knowledge
Our thoroughly corrupt electoral system.
Religion is an unnatural strain on a human mind. It's a herd mentality thing. Instead of thinking for yourself, someone else does that for you. It's very unhealthy and dangerous.
Always: Give people a common enemy, and they'll unite in hating it. Perfect distraction when you want to hide your own crimes.
Marc Riggsbee@marcriggsbee.bsky.social · 3d agoHeed the warning.
#WeThePeople #WeOutnumberThem #TheyNeedUs more than we need them
Jason Tiedje@peaceendspoverty.bsky.social · 3d agoJust because the organs of government are captured. We the people are not. The people are the body of this nation. This bribery, infidelity and various corruption but symptoms of an infection. We shake off our apathy and enrich our diet. Gather together become immune to division.♥️🔄👣
Jesus Was a Capricorn (Owed to John Prine)
YouTube video by Kris Kristofferson - Topic
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On Viewless Wings@onviewlesswings.bsky.social · 4d ago"Everybody's gotta have somebody to look down on, Who they can feel better than at any time they please; Someone doing something dirty decent folks can frown on, If you can't find nobody else then help yourself to me." - Kris Kristofferson (MA (Oxford)), 'Jesus Was A Capricorn'.
Every dictatorship begins when a political class decides that the leader matters more than the law. Republicans have now made that decision in full public view. This is a betrayal of America and the work of America’s enemies, carried out from inside its own institutions.
BREAKING: Pirro has dismissed the case against Davey Hearn for vandalizing the reflecting pool, saying that there's no way vandals could have caused the damage.
#TrumpsWar This Moroccan-Spain incident is no coincidence.
US Congressional Committee Describes Ceuta, Melilla as ‘Located in Moroccan Territory’
A committee of the United States House of Representatives has formally described Ceuta and Melilla as Spanish-administered cities “located in Moroccan territory,” marking what appears to be the first ...
moroccoworldnews.com
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 6d ago"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
