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Just Here

@cb81.bsky.social

Occasional traveler. Teacher. More rarely an opinion-haver on the internet.

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Nazi bullshit and demonstrably a stupid and taxpayer money wasting exercise.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Northern California are knocking on doors in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of an expanded, nationwide federal investigation into alleged noncitizen voting.

This is not how to ‘do’ journalism. This is how to write diarrhea from a dog’s ass. Get bankrupt CNN.

CNN@cnn.com

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political movement, during a heated exchange at a town hall. https://cnn.it/4s7r1TL

The right way to respond to racist ignorance. Shut it down with the obvious.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

What happens when you let white trash control the US. White fucking trash all the way down the line.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kid Rock on Fox & Friends: "It appears that El-Sayed is assimilated ... and I would like to make the point that there have been other people who have assimilated to this country. The Fort Hood shooter. Those extremists that became pilots and crashed into our World Trade Center."

It always annoys me when Americans are like “I DON’ CARRR WHUT CUNTRY UR FRUM OR WHOS U SLEEPIN’ WIT AS LONG AS UR PATRIOTIC HURGLGRLFLR” I actually do care about what country you’re from because I like hearing about your experiences and maybe some day I’ll come visit your family there with you.

Also I think it’s funny that Trump really is trying to incite destruction to California from Iran, as it shows his geographical ignorance. Bitch, Mar a Lago is much closer!

Okay folks. Time to wrap it up. We either do something now or we just shrug and let this detestable creature destroy us.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

Thank you Abdul El-Sayed.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

Pay teachers a fair wage. Pay paraprofessionals who help support our kids a fair wage. Make sure our schools are safe, clean, warm, and dry.

I’m so sick of these sadistic pieces of shit. They need a tribunal. Now.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

ICE brutally detain woman's gardener-right in front of her house. 4 goons drag and violently pull man out of truck head-first. Kneel on his back after pinned down to pavement. "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" he cries out. Incident occurred in Everett, Washington.

So glad we got rid of this subscription when they already showed their true colors way before this. Fuck Disney.

IGN@ign.com

Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo

I find it extremely ironic that we always imagined AI would be this super intelligent being that has autonomously decided that destroying humanity is the best thing for humankind and instead our version of AI is this weird guy who gaslights you about basic facts and bullshits to make you happy.

(And also has a schizophrenic side that probably still does want to destroy humanity but it’s kind of hard to do it nearly as well we do it to ourselves (we do, and that’s why it really hurts…))

Not that I really have an opinion besides that Ed Sheeran’s music sucks and has always sucked but sincerely, fuck you Ed Sheeran, you get what you deserve for being a fucking coward.

Yes. More of this.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Voters in a Missouri city have recalled their councilman after he voted to approve a data center in March. Independence City Councilman John Perkins is out of job due to the data center backlash sweeping Missouri, and the country. www.kctv5.com/2026/09/02/i...

Some day he will be dead. And the media will have to contend with their role in keeping him alive. And it will not be pretty for them either.

It is time. How long are we going to sit on our hands.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social

🧊🚸⛓️ ”ICE just arrested a 5-year-old boy on his way to a soccer game in my home city of Austin, Texas. His name, just like the name of the little boy from Minnesota, is Liam. And Liam should be starting kindergarten this week, but instead he’s sitting in a trailer prison right now in Dilley, Texas.”

This is sick and insane. What the fuck are we doing America. Why are we just letting these ghouls continue?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”

Had a nightmare last night that a good friend of mine (who is an American citizen) was snatched up by ICE. Really fucking hate that they haven’t been abolished and destroyed by now.

Mississippi Goddamn. When will those racist sick fuckers ever fucking change.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

A young mother of four was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Now a local council member is calling for a federal investigation into Tasia Fortune’s death. Her case comes as questions still surround the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Suri Crowe reports.

I have no sympathy for this man but very deep sympathy for his wife for having to have ever been married to him and of course for whatever horridness is happening to her now.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

"Nothing like this has ever happened to me. I have several businesses. I'm law-abiding and I pay a lot of tax."

Forgot to mention, did a little seven day road trip around Iceland a few weeks back. Already started daydreaming about the next time we’d make it out there before I even got on the plane to my next travel destination.

Forgot to alt text: photograph of the gorgeous eastern coastline from the ring road in Iceland. Green mossy landmass dramatically breaks away to beautiful blue ocean.

And this a is a cool shot I got on the last day I was in Nice, France. It finally rained after the crazy heat wave and we were treated to some pretty spectacular clouds and ocean views.

In honor of the Bluesky mods finally being nice to me and taking the rude designation off my account, here is another shot from my trip to Iceland this summer that exceeded my wildest expectations.

Anyhow here’s a better more nuanced article, from the Guardian - natch. I guess I shouldn’t get hung up on his name but COME ON MAN.

Ed@ed3d.net

people are being weird about this. as the Guardian article (which is actually good) says, the guy put himself through community college and has been a local councilman for five terms and is a union organizer that's Normal. you want that shape of guy, which isn't the same shape as oyster guy at all!

Burn this fucking thing down Americans. This is not democracy.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.

As a progressive leftist I am content in the fact that I never supported Platner, from the moment he said with his own mouth “Hello everyone I am a psychopath who lives for the glory of mowing down civilians with a machine gun” in so many words I thought “Hey you know what? Not for me.”

Our country is a joke.

Spencer Gray@spencerdgray.bsky.social

Nothing says ‘freedom’ like burning taxpayer money on dirt bikes at the White House for a billionaire’s birthday party. Bread’s expensive, rent’s worse, but sure, let’s fund a midlife crisis with fireworks and motocross. Peak empire decay. America is not a serious country.

This shit is why we need a worldwide revolution against the billionaire class and oligarchies.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social@lorennacleary.bsky.social

There’s some serious shit happening in Albania right now and it has a lot to do with Jared and Ivanka Trump. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...

Let’s get this going ASAP in increasingly oligarch owned California!!

End Citizens United@endcitizensunited.bsky.social

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

I’ve literally been saying this since it happened.

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com

I read a very compelling argument that when this weasel chewed through a cable and unexpectedly shut down the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile particle accelerator in April 2016, that’s when our reality went haywire. I have yet to hear a more persuasive explanation. Not even really joking.

Deeply ironic and unfortunate that the second season of Jury Duty is on Amazon Prime (and that the first one was on Amazon to begin with). It deserves a better place to be seen.

This is a stupid statement to make, and rightfully angered a lot of people internationally. If you are American, the reality is you are responsible. I am responsible too. We need to actually do more than our massive protests. They’re good for visibility but they’re not going to stop these demons.

PaulaBehnken@phbehnken1234.bsky.social

I, for one, refuse to apologize or take responsibility for the insane violence our president is foisting upon the world. What he's doing is not American. It's Trumpian. More than 2/3 of Americans do not support him. The rest are trapped until we can figure out a way to get out from under his shit.

Still playing and loving Crimson Desert. And the story got a lot more interesting and a bit more cohesive finally. I also love the cool gear you pick up as you progress further in the game. Overall it’s just a really enjoyable game, at least to me. I like how unpredictable it is honestly.

Unpopular (but true facts) opinion: Crimson Desert is 500% less tedious than GTA V & RDR 2 combined. This is around 20+ hours in now. I said it.

I feel like Crimson Desert is one of those games that if it had been released way back when it was first announced, it would have done gang busters. Especially if it was released during the pandemic in 2020. Instead it was released in a very saturated open world rpg/action game market.

Crimson Desert is 100% my jam. It’s a little janky and weird and the control scheme is a little complicated for its own good, and the story manages to be both completely nonexistent and nonsensical as hell. But you know what? I love inhabiting this world. I love the interactivity of it.

Watched One Battle After Another on the plane to Florida (family thing, wouldn’t normally go there at all). It was okay. As I told my husband, the depiction of insane murderous racist creepy white people was spot on. Everyone else was painted in broad stereotypes and caricatures though.