Joe Discenza
@jdiscenza.bsky.social
Opinions my own and, honestly, yours, too. If you think you disagree, take a moment to reevaluate. He/him. Oh, that wall pic is summer solstice 2023 sunset across the Baltic Sea from Międzyzdroje, PL.
In the time Kash Patel has been trying to prosecute 2 FBI agents who tried to protect US elections from garbage disinformation in 2020, the following have been hacked: Kash Patel The entire FBI Federal Elections Commission DHS emptywheel.net/2026/10/29/a...
All Kash Patel's Hacks - emptywheel
In the time Kash Patel has made chilling any scrutiny of election fraud claims a top priority, hackers have compromised him, the entire FBI, the FEC, and DHS.
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Abolish ICE, expose and arrest all these cheap thugs. Turn all the new data centers into ex-ICE prisoner dungeons. 24/7 loud music piped in: Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” on repeat, forever.
ACLU@aclu.org · 3d agoAfter observers lawfully filmed ICE in a public parking lot, the agents followed their car, boxed them in, and slashed their tire in retaliation. The observers bravely caught the whole thing on video.
For a shitty as this midweek, midday tipoff time was it’s so heartening to see bars all over the country – not just in the 2 home cities – completely packed. Fans were gonna watch the WNBA, no matter what it took. Today’s reponse will make it easier to argue against this bullshit in the future.
it was like having a friend sharing his deep love of the language and rhythm of these poems, only it was one of the most beloved actors of our time doing it knowing we needed connection and love during hard times
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (read by Sir Patrick Stewart) | 2020.08.19 | #ASonnetADay
YouTube video by Zsuzsanna Uhlik
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Patrick Stewart will be remembered for Star Trek, X-men & other films, but his work to prevent domestic violence is a large part of his legacy. Growing up w/ an abusive father, he saw police blame his mom for his father's violence. He never hesitated to speak out about how wrong that was. RIP
Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence
The actor recalls a childhood tainted by his father's cruelty
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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2d agoRIP to one of the realest who ever did it www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
I’ve been complaining about the quality of the writing of our current drama for some time, but whoever came up with this character deserves to run their own show someday.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW — I spoke to Tom, the guy at the South Carolina Trump rally who compared the president's supporters to the Jonestown Massacre. We talked about his loathing for Trump, his love of death metal, and where he learned his impeccable comedic timing. Read our full chat here:
Less than a week until Election Day and I was suddenly reminded of "festively bloodthirsty"
Mike (beep boop era)@latimeriidae.bsky.social · 7mo agoWalking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild
THE REAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY “We’re not running away from the Democratic Party. We’re going back to what the party used to be… You think about FDR and LaGuardia. You think about the New Deal… That’s what it could be again. And, if we want to win, I think that’s what we have to become.” ~ Zohran Mamdani
Today I got the "well when you've served in harm's way like I have, you're used to risk" treatment from a guy who flew over and dropped ordnance on a battlefield where I was fucking standing with a rifle.
ICE paid CoreCivic $495 million for a prison in Minnesota that's only worth $75 million. Asked why, CoreCivic said, “The federal government ultimately determined the sale price following its assessment process.” CoreCivic donated half a million dollars to Trump.
“I dont know shout out to my teammates! I can’t hear anything!” - Kiah Stokes as she tries to talk over a loony Balhalla crowd
Scrolling down the @nytimes.com homepage, I don’t come to the report on Jared Kushner’s traitorous multi-billion dollar bribery scheme until I get to … the Book Review section.
WHY AM I VOTING STRAIGHT DEMOCRAT? Not because I'm a Democrat. Not because I'm a liberal. Because every Republican on my ballot, and your ballot, is a Trump enabler. Trump can't exist without these guys. They make Trump who he is. They have to go. All of them. Clean sweep. VOTE THEM ALL OUT!
“Shadow docket” is the sort of name you’d come up with if you were writing an authoritarian dystopia.
Riki Wilchins@rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 5d agoFor the 1st time in US history SCOTUS has more rulings on its shadow docket -- unsigned and with no opinions -- than it has cases where it has heard oral arguments and issued signed rulings. IOW they are hiding their deliberations while stealing our democracy. www.propublica.org/article/supr...
An Autumn Canopy Walk at The Holden Arboretum outside Cleveland, Ohio
Trump’s design aesthetic has always been ‘bankrupt casino.’ Anyone who wvwr went to one of his tacky cheese palaces in Atlantic City can attest to that.
Finally the quality controller has turned up to inspect the new cat sofa..
Trump II as very specifically an effort to erase JFK seems like an underdiscussed angle. Bulldozed Jackie's rose garden, threatening to bulldoze the Kennedy Center, stripped the Kennedy blue off Air Force One, shuttered USAID, put JFK's animal torturing nephew in charge of reviving polio, now this
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 5d agoPresident Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch. If completed, it will cast shadows on many graves and monuments in nearby Arlington National Cemetery, the @washingtonpost.com's 3-D analysis found. On some days, Trump's arch would even shade the grave and eternal flame of JFK.
Donald Trump is making it clear: He doesn’t care what the courts say. trib.al/U3xRCsH
Trump Proudly Declares He’s Ignoring Judge on Golf Course Takeover
Donald Trump is making it clear: He doesn’t care what the courts say.
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Justin Pearson's response: "Men of faith––let alone men who are married, in their fifties, and in public office––have no business sending unsolicited nude photos to women."
The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 5d agoTennessee Republican Brent Taylor, running to flip a House seat his party radically gerrymandered, reportedly sent unsolicited nude photos as recently as 2021. Taylor faces Democrat Justin Pearson for a seat that Trump won 60-39 under the new lines. www.the-downballot.com/p/the-downba...
“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the publick expence, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion” Adam Smith ſays tax the rich (Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, vol. III (1776)) #C18
Tax Justice UK@taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 4d ago"Just like wealth, true reform has never trickled down from the top— it is built from the ground up." Ahead of tomorrow's Budget, our ED Faiza Shaheen explains the roadblocks to the reform this country needs & how we remove them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
