“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”
Trump got his PR stunt with the Artemis crew and a complete distraction from the Epstein-Trump files. He lied that the Artemis mission was his (it was started with Biden).
One week later, Trump wants to cut 23% from the NASA budget. Can't make it up.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
This is extremely key: when sweeping away fascist regimes, act *immediately* with the momentum of democratic legitimacy to excise the accumulated illegitimate power structures.
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.
He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.
The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
Magyar calls on the figurehead head of state Tamás Sulyok, as well as all high justice officials and other high officials appointed by Fidesz to resign immediately or they will be removed by the new government.
He also announces a constitutional reform and that Hungary is joining EPPO.
While you're enjoying life, people in Kherson are being chased daily by Russian FPV drones.
Could you deal with it (and with such humor) like this brave Ukrainian woman?
www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWar...
America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela.
It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps
Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe
But it never goes to help Americans
I would rather that my tax dollars NOT go to supporting a foreign dictator and Putin ally. -- Sigh.
And then revoke Citizens United, make stronger guardrails on the presidency/constitution and introduce term limits in congress right? RIGHT!?
He. Runs. A. Crime. Syndicate.
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Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽♂️
It is deeply ironic that Europe's most blatant traitors dare to name their faction "Patriots for Europe."
Taking orders from Russia while claiming to defend European sovereignty is a sick joke.
They are fooling way too many
Screenshot from NASA livestream showing the Orion spacecraft on the left, with a crescent moon in the foreground and in the distance on the right the crescent Earth
From #ArtemisII right before they lost signal going behind the moon: “As we prepare to go out of radio communication, we’re still able to feel your love from Earth. And to all of you down there, on Earth and around Earth, we love you, from the moon.” Godspeed Artemis 🫡 ❤️ 🔭🧪
Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space.
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/
What a beautiful moment.
Screenshot showing the Orion capsule being 406 thousand kilometers from earth
Screenshot from the NASA livestream, showing how incredibly close the Orion capsule is to the moon now.
They did it! The Orion crew is now further from Earth, than any human has been before
Trump admits on camera that at his request, the U.S. is now stealing Venezuela's oil to fill the American war chest.
This is the world's richest country, plundering a country where 80 percent of people did not have enough food to eat in a 2017 survey, according to Human Rights Watch.
It’s probably nothing. 🤡
@dkthomp.bsky.social
“Trump’s comments persuaded the Danes to prepare for an American invasion. Danish leaders had to think about whether their military would shoot down American planes, kill American soldiers, and be killed by them, an exercise so wrenching that some still haven’t recovered…”
Worth reading ⬇️
Okay, again... this is how TF you write a GD'ed headline!!!
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
Way better angles of the Artemis 2 launch, compared to what they sent during the live stream
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the super-rich control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
Unique daily likers as a graph over the last year. It's down from about 1.6 million a day a year ago to 1.1 million a day now.
I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem.
The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Then he literally led an insurrection ON TV, stole a bunch of government documents, and faked an assassination, then won again 🫠
We might be going to the Moon in just three days 🌕🚀
Our teams are setting up remote cameras 🎥 ahead of the Artemis II launch so we don’t miss a moment. Stay tuned for updates 👀
📸: @esa.int-M. Cowan
