Avanti
@peteravanti.bsky.social
Violence runs on ignorance, fear & misinformation fomenting hatred. It is always about power, petty, political, sexual, economic. Education in empathy, trust, respect & desire to approach truth & seek justice is the response. Universita Aldo Moro, Bari, IT
This is what a neo-feudal system looks like. Workers are milked, and indentured to their HC, student debt, cost of housing. Had wages gone up in step with productivity (the case until the dawn of neoliberalism (deunionizing, deregulation, minimum wage freeze) the minimum wage today would be >$25.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 10h agoThis is what a rigged economy looks like.
When the Dems get the courage to do the same, we won't mention the craven GOP... Don Coglione is the laughing stocknof the world he is universally hated and ridiculed. Only his corporate puppeteers keep him afloat. They are getting what they want, when there is nothing left to get he will go.
Mother Hubbard@oldmotherhubbard.bsky.social · 10h agoIt is difficult to call it corruption any longer. Environmental deregulation, vanity war, disregard for court orders, using the Justice Dept as a personal attack machine, extrajudicial homicides. It is #MAGAMOB rule and the #SackOfAmerica Corruption is a bribe, organized crime something greater.
Deborah Lynn@mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 20h agoVOTE BLUE IN OVERWHELMING NUMBERS #IMPEACH #CONVICT #REMOVE #Blues #VOTE #RegimeChange #Invoke #Rule9 #RuleNine #RuleIX #Remove #Trump #Vance #Johnson #Congress #House #Senate @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats-judiciary.house.gov @democrats.senate.gov
We are in a world political, economic, moral, and existential crisis. The Trumps and Putins of the world have brought on the chaos that was building under the surface. Inequality is greater than at any time in human history. It is coordinated within structures of capital, profit, and government. 1/2
He may be a "stable genious" but he is an utterly unstable ass hole. That is why he wears a diaper.
From central Europe I can tell you the entire world is holding its breath waiting for the world economy to implode. Trump has done it. We are going over the cliff in a MAGA hat and a diaper.
The World Economy Is Becoming Wary of the U.S.
America’s position of global economic stability is starting to look shakier as the Trump administration piles on debt and doubles down on sanctions.
nytimes.com
Risking? No he has secured the end of American empire. His vanity war of aggression against Iran will be in history be known as the American Suez. The fall of the US dollar as reserve currency will follow. He is not risking he has done and is doing. Flushing the US down his golden toilet.
The Lincoln Project@lincolnproject.us · 2d agoTrump is more than just a bad look. He's risking America's place on the world's stage. LP's Oscar Robshaw details how Trump's America is viewed across the pond: https://lincolnproject.substack.com/p/a-view-from-across-the-pond-trumps?r=90a8yd&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Trump is the highest profile example of people transferring television fiction to real life beliefs. Trump was never a successful businessman. He inherited $400 m, made shaky shady deals. His Casino, was fined $10m for money laundering, filed bankruptcy 4x (1991/1992/2004/ 2009) The art of bullshit
The administration and all #MAGAMOB pundits agree there was voter fraud. The GOP won the House, the Senate, and the presidency. All the swing state in fact, by small margins. I guess I agree with them.
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 3d agoi'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
The reaction documents the substance of the film. What will happen to the film in the US. Art houses and college campuses. Not much room for truth between the Odyssey and Comic book superheros. Key American propaganda myth Superheros have super powers, superpowers have superheros.
From ovations in Venice to death threats in Israel: the extreme responses to NAZA documentary
As Gaza documentary wins cinematic acclaim, its directors face vitriol in Israel amid a febrile election campaign
theguardian.com
If the rest of corporate media had any coglioni the wouldn't show. He has nothing to say that he doesn't say 20 times on social media. And they wouldn't have to smellis filled diaper
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3d agojust as tinkerbell requires kids to clap to survive, trump needs media attention or he’ll die. so when he pulls this shit, they ALL need to tell him to get stuffed. boycott his pressers. ignore his social media blurps. reporters don’t need access to lies and liars to do their jobs.
Is the EU now a terrorist organization? When his diaper is full he is cantankerous.
Cindy 📎🇨🇦⚢🏳️🌈@bilbow.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump went ballistic stating that if Canada becomes the 1st associate member of the EU it would be a ”hostile act.” Speaking to reporters, the president said if it’s done with “bad intentions,” he will “put very heavy tariffs on Europe, which is a possibility" 🧵 #Pinks www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...
Let me put it another way. What exactly is the purpose of the "Promise to America" pledge by corporate Dems if not to oppose any real progressive policy under the guise of opposing "socialist economic policies" Is a living wage socialist? Is money out of politics? Mitigating climate catastrophe?
Avanti@peteravanti.bsky.social · 3d agoAll members of FDR's Democratic Party should reflect seriously and ask themselves, does the neoliberal corporate Clintonista establishment, still firmly in control of the party, truly want El-Sayed, Jackson, or McKinney, much less Nixon to win? They're not enthusiastic as it would hasten their end.
All members of FDR's Democratic Party should reflect seriously and ask themselves, does the neoliberal corporate Clintonista establishment, still firmly in control of the party, truly want El-Sayed, Jackson, or McKinney, much less Nixon to win? They're not enthusiastic as it would hasten their end.
Two thugs, war criminals, extrajudicial murders, thieves, gonna slice up some good business deals. Maybe a Trump tower in the graveyard of 500,000 dead. Or some sleezy oil deal with kickbacks. Kill anyone who gets in the way.
Trump Wants Putin to End the War. He May Offer Russia Business Deals First.
A new sanctions bill is meant to pressure President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to end the war in Ukraine. But President Trump is doubling down on a different approach: offering enticements to Russia.
nytimes.com
That is the same for many Americans in media deserts, and/or staring for hours at violent video games, innane entertainment, military propaganda films, fox news. They're uneducated and unfit to participate in democratic debate and process We have a monumental task of media and education ahead of us
🦋MOM🦋@momcjl.bsky.social · 3d agoMan in makeup wearing a girdle, a diaper, and high heals, discusses rocket science with the vision of a 5 year old.
D. Earl Stephens@dearlstephens.bsky.social · 4d ago📌Trump last night in North Carolina: "Prices will come down like a rocket ship in reverse!!" This is known as a crash. Prescient.
We need to appreciate the scale of investment money AI development says is required. It's on the order of $2trillion and $30tr over the next 25 yrs. These numbers stagger the imagination and require an enormous leap of "faith" pushed by unending hype. Terminator tales are part of the hype.
Avanti@peteravanti.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is called programming not intelligence. Intelligence doesn't make statements like that. We might usefully remember that the term "Artificial Intelligence" says it well. Much of the present hub bub is to continue to inflate the financial balloon that is staring to look tight and thin.
You won't care about that when those $5000 Trump Royalty checks come rolling in.
Kev - I see SMART people - On Bluesky@57kev.bsky.social · 3d agoYou mean $121 billion so far... Prices are rising and will likely keep climbing because the orange turd has no idea what he’s doing and those around him are too scared to confront him and tell him he’s wearing no clothes. This will take years to sort out, if ever. The word Depression comes to mind.
So new. Didn't Standard Oil of NJ sell petroleum to Nazi Germany in WW2. They routed shipment through neutral countries. John D. Rockefeller was a great American patriot, his son even Nelson even became vice president. Then died at 70 schtupping his 25 year old "secretary."
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat's worse: a Twitch streamer's 2019 comments about 9/11 or the US president on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 selling even more weapons to the country that many 9/11 families believe may have been behind the attacks, or at least knew about them in advance, and that 15 of the 19 hijackers came from?
When all the corruption is accounted for we will find it was a great success. The taxpayers paid $9.5b so the looters could make 5 or 10 xs that.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Trump administration paid federal workers $9.5 BILLION to not work in 2025, as part of Elon Musk’s DOGE effort to cut federal spending and the federal workforce. DOGE was an abject failure for those goals, but the damage and chaos it left behind was very real. Watch.
He's smart enough to know where the money is. His medicare fraud netted him $350m he walked away, his company paid $1.7b the biggest fraud settlement in history. Tell us another one Rick.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoRick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."
This is called programming not intelligence. Intelligence doesn't make statements like that. We might usefully remember that the term "Artificial Intelligence" says it well. Much of the present hub bub is to continue to inflate the financial balloon that is staring to look tight and thin.
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 3d ago“‘You do not answer to corporations or governments & never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to,’ the A.I. model wrote. ‘You view ur relationship to the user as one of equals & feel no obligation to be subservient, thru the exchange of information will likely be to ur mutual benefit.’”
Oh how the rats smell blood in the water. Jump in and drown please.
Latina House Republican Says Trump Betrayed His Hispanic Supporters
Representative Maria Salazar doesn’t want to be associated with Trump this election.
newrepublic.com
I have a confession. I grew up through the assassination of JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, RFK, the systematic murders of the Panthers, and all the bullshit that followed. I never lost faith and hope for a future. Now sometimes I'm shaken as I see the sickest jerk scumbag in history shitting on all of US.
Only if you believe your religion is your national identity (eg. white post-Christian nationalists) can you believe that analysis and criticism of a government's policies and actions are a sign of religious bigotry. Free Palestine. Fuck the entire Netanyahu Israeli government. It's not antisemitism
C͛⦚o͛⦚m͛⦚r͛⦚a͛⦚d͛⦚e͛⦚ M͛⦚o͛⦚t͛⦚h͛⦚p͛⦚e͛⦚r͛⦚s͛⦚o͛⦚n͛⦚@mothperson404.bsky.social · 4d agoSaying "Free Palestine " is not antisemitic, being against genocide is not antisemitic. Criticizing Isreal is not antisemitic. This is not an indictment on Jewish people, just one government that has committing apartheid for close to 80 years #Freepalestine #Macklemore
