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Scion Altera@scion.agonyforge.com |
43 followers 138 following 75 posts
A professional software engineer since before Y2K. A dad. Some politics. I try to only talk about things I know something about, and listen to the rest. This is my personal account.
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Steve Benen
@stevebenen.bsky.social
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It's not every day that senators ask the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate a sitting Supreme Court justice.
What's more, the case against Clarence Thomas is quite credible. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️
@trans.bsky.social
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reposting with alt text
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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welcome to life under a fascist govt with no oversight
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Jessica Pishko
@jesspish.bsky.social
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Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath. Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.
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Assistant to the Professor
@darinself.bsky.social
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This is journalistic malpractice. The Biden admin was working on Parkinson's policy.
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Phillip Anderson
@phillipanderson.bsky.social
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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too
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Deth Veggie
@dethveggie.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Looks like some very, very good news from France!
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Amanda Smith
@amandasmith.bsky.social
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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it
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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social
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Well this is grim
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wade of mutilation
@waderockett.bsky.social
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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Scion Altera
@scion.agonyforge.com
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Posts written with randomly capitalized WORDS are one of my favorite STYLES because I always READ them in the voice of the BEASTIE BOYS and it makes me SMILE.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Institute’s YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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men around the world don't want me to reveal this secret but the truth is we do not become adults, we just get bigger. All men are 17 forever
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Zamira Rahim
@zamirarahim.bsky.social
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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.
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Uncle Duke
@uncleduke1969.bsky.social
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"Pssst." "Shhh!" "Whatcha doing?" "Waiting." "For what?" "A cheetah." "I hear those are beautiful." "They sure are, fast too, now hush." "Can I wait with you?" "Only if you're quiet."
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cait
@cait.bsky.social
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important to note that while they want women to have zero rights, they also want the entire populace to be uneducated and disenfranchised which is why they're destroying schools and making voting harder
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Zoe Tunnell
@zoewithasword.bsky.social
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This, exactly. I hate Biden. I don't want him. I think he's been monstrous to Palestine, awful in his defense of trans lives, and utterly incompetent in his response to the rising fascist tide. But when it comes to the presidential election, it's him or a fascist hell regime. Only options.
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.
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Star Trek Minus Context
@nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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AND he can pardon them proactively! He can give blanket pardons for categories of officers before he leaves office that the next President can't revoke.
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Scion Altera
@scion.agonyforge.com
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There’s always got to be one post distancing him from any given thing so they can point to it if they need to later on, and it’s got to have an early enough timestamp so everyone forgets about it and it looks legit when they dig it back up.
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Scion Altera
@scion.agonyforge.com
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This is why, even though I think he’s great, I don’t go to game night at my boss’ house. If he’s ever not my boss I’ll gladly start going.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Anyway in case you've been wondering why the Times has it's knife into the Biden admin, here's why. They reduced access for the most access obsessed dipshits in America. Thats all it took. Well, that and Biden saying Sulz should pay higher taxes on his personal wealth
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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"you're not American why do you care about the 4th of July" mate I'm Indian, any day someone got the Brits to fuck off back to their country is a national holiday for me
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Jo
@whatsjo.bsky.social
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I painted small rocks like M&Ms
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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Scion Altera
@scion.agonyforge.com
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At first I thought you were nuts for doing this, but I’m coming around to the idea. I think I’d be inclined to post more if they weren’t gonna be up here forever. Is that good? No idea.
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Jen Cross
@jencross.bsky.social
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Happy 4th of July! In the wise words of Ben Franklin: The Bald Eagle is a Bird of bad moral Character. Too lazy to fish for himself. The Turkey is a more respectable Bird, though vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would attack a Brit who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.
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Preeti Chhibber
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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If Trump were to personally shoot someone on Fifth Avenue: Not immune. (Probably. Maybe.) If he were to order the army to massacre thousands on Fifth Avenue: Immune. (Very clearly, under the decision.) But from a constitutional perspective, the latter is the grave danger to guard against.
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Scion Altera
@scion.agonyforge.com
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I liked Warren for the primary but that’s a really solid point. I never thought of it from that angle.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Scion Altera
@scion.agonyforge.com
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“You can’t”, but the President could because he’d just insist they do it regardless of legality, under threat of violence. He can’t be prosecuted and everybody else involved gets pardons. As far as I can tell, this fucks the entire system of government 100% completely. Please tell me I’m wrong?
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Mitchell Epner
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1/ Let me explain one way that today's Trump immunity decision threatens the survival of the Republic. Under today's ruling, a President would be immune for any way in which he used the military (a "core function"), even to kill American citizens in America. Theoretically, the soldiers who . . .
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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I don't think Biden should call Garland to his office and demand he open a criminal investigation immediately against Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Trump, and every executive at Fox News on charges of treason by tomorrow or he's fired, but if he /did/ do that, it wouldn't be criminal
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James Downie
@jamescdownie.bsky.social
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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
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Scion Altera
@scion.agonyforge.com
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After today Biden should just go ham and start doing everything regardless of the law or process or whatever. It’s all legal for him now. Then at the last minute before leaving office the Dems should ram through the “Bet You Regret That Act” that explicitly makes presidential crimes punishable.
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Don Zeko
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The really bitter irony here is that SCOTUS is making the president a king while a Democrat is president. They aren't worried about it because they know Democrats won't accept Biden actually acting the way they are saying he can.
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Scion Altera
@scion.agonyforge.com
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I think they should reduce the court to zero first, then expand it. Start over from scratch.
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Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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My first read: If a president commits crimes unrelated to him being the most powerful person in the world, he can be prosecuted. But if explicitly uses his powers to commit crimes, he is at least presumptively, and probably absolutely immune from prosecution. I mean, holy shit.
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Haus of Decline
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Lyse-Beast
@lyse.bsky.social
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One of my favorite memes is the “woman yelling at cat” one, so when I saw this I almost choked on my drink
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Scott
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and even if someone thinks "well I don't like/look at porn so why should it be a priority for me?" it's important to remember that when christofascists say "porn" they also mean age-appropriate comprehensive sex education, media with queer/trans people in it, and picture books about gay penguins.
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Parker Molloy
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Worth reading the first line of the screenshot and realizing that the very existence of trans people is considered "pornography" by the Project 2025 gremlins.
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rahaeli
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Fun story about this: when our fridge was on its last legs, she said to me "I think the fridge is going up" and I said "what the entire fuck?" "Going up!" she said, and then said "...is that a Baltimorism?" I asked some more questions. It's a Baltimorism.
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Michael Bazaco
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You shouldn’t have been drinking raw milk before H5N1. You definitely shouldn’t be drinking it now.
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Tim Carvell
@timcarvell.bsky.social
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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!"
2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons."
latenighter.com/news/paramou...
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