GandalfTheBlue
@theresa58x
Reparations. LGBTQ+ rights. KTEZ 1981, Broadcaster/analyst/journalist "PressWatch: News You're Not Supposed To Know" 1990-2020 KBOO. Actual Leftist. I may follow without implying endorsement.
Musk is so rich, he knows he can brag about things that would get anyone else arrested. He very much needs to be arrested.
It's been a few weeks since this was above the fold--but you can be sure Europe has not forgotten. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-s...
It's important to keep our minds on the wonderful things we can do after the Great November Revolt. The USA is SO RICH. Just clawing back offshored trillions would transform our lives: health, prosperity, climate. 99 days. We can do this!
"The Miracle of '26," they called it. People who had never 'been political' registered to vote. The various, insidious, desperate actions by the Epstein class failed to block the election, and Trump was forced to flee. That's the story I'd like to tell the young ones some day.
Ocean Trader, 82nd Airborne, USS Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, and every A-10 that can be scraped up are in theater... Not an invasion? Sure looks lke an invasion.
Pre-invasion "softening up" bombardment of the Iranian coast defences have been going on for days. It's the same as the naval tactic in the "island hopping" of 1944, which is probably why Trump made the Freudian slip of calling Iran "the Islamic Republic of Japan." US press analysis is failing.
This is an historic moment, and once again, the US corporate-owned press is missing the boat. Ask yourself, Where is Qeshm Island? Why is the US bombing it so fiercely? Why are thousands of Marines just offshore? You won't like the answers.
Photo from a French-language source off Qeshm Island, Strait of Hormuz: an Iranian naval vessel explodes. I'm still saying it's likely Trump means to land troops to hold the Strait against Iran. I still hope I'm wrong.
This is part of the Trump plan to deny democracy in November. archive.ph/RaFQh
The 82nd Airborne is deployed near Iran--that's maybe 25,000 troops?--plus 1100 Maines and their hovercraft on the USS Tripoli, & another 1100 on the now-arriving USS Boxer with their VTOL Ospreys ...Gee, I wonder what Tr*mp plans with them all?
I want to remind anyone who will attend: The US government is now using passports to steal the identity of trans persons. Imagine: you approach a customs kiosk, and your passport says 'M' when it should say 'F' (or 'X'). Eventually, something bad will happen. Where and when, you can't know.
I think it is quite possibly not a coincidence, that US attacks have escalated, just as the USS Boxer and its retinue have arrived, to pair with the USS Tripoli for Marine-landing capability. A bloody push to seize the Hormuz area would provide an effective diversion to the Epstein files.
WOW this is going in a collector's case! Mamdani, Mystal, Sanders, Goodman...incredible!
GLBTQIA pride allows humanity to embrace ALL of its natural gender and orientation. It is logical and compassionate, and thus strengthens us all. These aspects of our lives evolved for good reason, Let love prevail!
There's no such thing as freedom and democracy under billionaire rule. And if billionaires are allowed, they are ruling. You can't unsee that. So I have a mild suggestion: limit wealth via progressive (actual) taxation and, YES, CONFISCATION. ("Oh the horror! only $5 million left!")
What's the difference between the brownshirts in 1933 and ICE troops now? ICE is better funded.
When you're wondering why MAGA/P2025/Trump/Thiel/Musk are destroying the USA, turn to their words. They need democracy out of the way. Their world will have a few servants, a lot of AI robots (really), and beautiful lavish bunkers in the few safer places. One of which is on the Greenland coast.
What an awesome time to be alive. We have the opportunity to confront tyranny, and to defeat it, and to rout it from the USA. Our victory will be an awesome inspiration.
After the victory, I think the first bloom of reparations should last at least a generation. Education, health care, housing for all! 20 years to take the trillions in (former) billionaires' offshore stashes, & to distribute to their victims. That'll go a long way toward building a democracy.
Imagine you're pregnant, prone to miscarriage, living in Texas. Or you're Black or Brown and have to drive through a White suburb at night. Or you're trans and need a restroom in Kansas. We need an Operation America Freedom.
Some engineers have created "people's tech," i. e., countermeasures to repressive technologies. So, e.g., we have Faraday sleeves for phones & credit cards, IR-reflective glasses, etc. Counter-drone tech must now move forward swiftly. The oligarchs will use drones to imprison us, otherwise.
What if, some day soon, we decided collectively to remove our cars' license plates? What if we had a mass no-cellphone weekend party? Freedom days. Potluck in the park. They couldn't stop us. What if freedom, liberty, and democracy just broke out and partied?
Here's one of the Portland (Oregon) May Day marches--this one just getting started at about 3:10PM, downtown.
Golly but these US ships that are absolutely invulnerable to Iranian missiles sure are having a lot of fire and damage...
Hey Democratic Party leadership, we the people have awakened. The good news: we're voting you in. The hard news: We are no longer tolerating your fealty to our parasitic corporate overlords. Think AOC. Not Schumer. The rage that will drown MAGA will also be directed at corporate collaborators.
The bathroom ban is sneaky in its cruelty: if it were a prohibition on some other bodily function, such as eating, there would be an outcry. This way MAGA can pretend it is a necessity against evil predators. Found this on Reddit: a report from Idaho.
