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ceartas

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Former šŸŽ„ and šŸ“ŗ craftsman. IATSE Union Man. Old, queer and always antifascist. Happily married to cindyyusa@mastodon.world #Atheist #TransRights

Profile pic: Me, in the late 60ā€™s, at Vazquez Rocks, where Captain Kirk defeated the Gorn.

Header: 4 guitars, a mandolin and a diddleybow.

Enjoy: Music, Science, Sci-Fi, Outdoor Activities, Cinema

Religion: Nope

Politics: Lefty Democrat, commie sympathizer

Locality: North Los Angeles County, about 5 miles from where the profile pic was taken.

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tzimmer_history , to random
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There was a wave of ā€œItā€™s actually a 3-3-3 Court!ā€ takes in 2021, when the rightwing supermajority decided it was best to wait another term before going full berserk on democracy and the modern state. That was just regular dumb.

Resurrecting them now is next-level bizarre. Remarkable stuff.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/02/supreme-court-justice-math-00152188

Screenshot of a graph in the Politico piece, presenting Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh as centrists

ceartas ,
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@tzimmer_history

Politico is garbage.

flexghost , to random
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Llibertarian Jeff Yass is a top donor to republicans

He's also a top Trump donor

Heā€™s also-also thee owner of 15%+ of ByteDance, the company that operates TikTok

So just about everyone and their mother could have predicted thisā€¦

ceartas ,
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@flexghost

We have always supported tik-tok enthusiastically.

We have always been at war with Eurasia.

Ignorance is strength.

GottaLaff , to random
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#TrumpTrial started earlier than I did today. Grabbing coffee, starting THREAD HEREšŸ§µ1/ā€¦ #Trump #legal

Hereā€™s the list of Trumpā€™s allies attending his trial today:

AG Alan Wilson
Rep. Eric Burlison
Rep. Andrew Clyde
Rep. Mary Miller
Rep. Keith Self
John Coale
Alan Dershowitz
Will Scharf
Steve Witkoff
Bernie Kerik
Kash Patel
Vernon Jones
Jerry Kassar
Chuck Zito

ceartas ,
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@GottaLaff NFL šŸ˜¢

StillIRise1963 , to random
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Each non nazi white person needs to convert 5 white nazis.

ceartas ,
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@philip_cardella @jessamyn @StillIRise1963

Just ask them if they have ever experienced a situation where things improved when cops showed up. Iā€™m 74, and canā€™t think of a single instance, including a backyard barbecue when they arrived as guests.

flexghost , to random
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Martin Scorsese
Francis Ford Coppola
Peter Bogdanovich
Ron Howard
Jack Nicholson
Robert DeNiro
William Shatner and so many othersā€¦

all got their start because of one visionary

Roger Corman

RIP

ceartas ,
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@flexghost

James Cameron, too.

GottaLaff , to random
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starts HERE.
Please remember I donā€™t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.

1/ā€¦ Bower:

Trump enters the courtroom. Before arriving, he lingered for a moment in the doorway, talking to his lawyers, Emile Bove and Todd Blanche. He had a piece of paper in his hand, which he waved around as he spoke.

Wait for itā€¦.

ceartas ,
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@GottaLaff

NFL

Searching for Stormy Swag as we tootā€¦..

flexghost , to random
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Here is a list of the 112 Republicans who voted against Ukraine aid

Or as we say in my country: ā€œtraitorsā€

How many did you guess right?

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024151

ceartas ,
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@flexghost @soc_i_ety

I guessed 13, but thatā€™s only because I know who all the excremental loudmouths and shameless sycophants are:

Biggs, Boebert, Comer, De La Cruz, Gaetz, Gosar, Greene, Higgins, Jordan, Luna, Massie, Roy, Stefanik.

Kinda surprised by Van Drew, but if you can so easily betray your party and your constituents, treason is just a small step away.

breadandcircuses , to random
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How many people alive today have read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair? Less than 1%, probably.

How many people have seen "Our Daily Bread" from 1934, or similarly subversive movies? Less than 1%, probably.

How many people have read "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn? Less than 1%, probably.

Almost everyone is traveling blind.

The education we receive and the cultural literacy we are allowed has been carefully crafted and controlled to serve the interests of our capitalist masters.

ceartas ,
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@breadandcircuses

I read ā€œThe Jungleā€ because my teacher made me. I read Zinn because approaching 50, I started to think that I had been lied to. I have not seen ā€œOur Daily Breadā€, but I can report that it is on both Freevee TV, and my viewing list.

GottaLaff , to random
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jury

ceartas ,
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@GottaLaff

SHRINKAGE!!

futurebird , to random
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Trump is upset he may miss his son's graduation because he's on trial.

Yeah, we do treat people in the criminal justice system harshly. People you have never thought about, people who have kids, and graduations, and moments missed forever.

But it's different now. He cries. It's happening to ME. To Me!

Nothing, no one, exists beyond the tip of some people's noses. They cannot see pain unless they feel it. Cannot recognize suffering unless it's their own.

What a stunted perspective.

ceartas ,
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@futurebird @shekinahcancook

Might that be the same infant son who was home with his mother while he and Ms. Clifford were having it off? NOW heā€™s interested in him?

wdlindsy , to random
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"On March 24, on Washington Week, foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum said: 'Trump has decided that he doesnā€™t want money to go to Ukraineā€¦ It's really an extraordinary moment; we have an out-of-power ex-president who is in effect dictating American foreign policy on behalf of a foreign dictator or with the interests of a foreign dictator in mind.'ā€

~ Heather Cox Richardson


/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-2-2024

ceartas ,
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@wdlindsy

Sounds like a clear violation of the Logan Act:

ā€œThe Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. Ā§ 953, enacted January 30, 1799) is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized American citizens with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government's position.ā€ - Wikipedia

wdlindsy , to random
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"If Kevin Roberts and the Project 2025 people have their way ā€¦ a second Trump government will lurch the country into a fascist model of the kind imposed by Viktor OrbĆ”n in Hungary. Brynn Tannehill calls it 'minoritarian rule.' The extremist religious beliefs of one subset of Americans will be foisted on the rest of us."

~ Greg Olear

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/from-cowboy-state-to-christofascist

ceartas ,
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@wdlindsy @deborahh

My county supervisor represents more people than many senators.

-Los Angeles County- 10M population, 5 County Supervisors

GottaLaff , (edited ) to random
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1/...

ā³N.Y. district attorney supports a 30-day delay in Donald ā€™s hush money trial

The trial was scheduled to begin on March 25.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-trial-delay-rcna143481

ceartas ,
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@GottaLaff @kristen_d

Iā€™m not a conspiracy theorist. This, like the Garland decision to delay investigation and prosecution of Trump, like the Fani Willis hearing and subsequent decision, like Jaredā€™s $2B and now his new investments, like Jeffrey Epsteinā€™s ā€œsuicideā€, like the Barr/Mueller report and so many, many other things, just STINKS.

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@GottaLaff @emptywheel @Teri_Kanefield @kristen_d

I read all that stuff. Things stink, but not because of a conspiracy.

Americans are losing faith in our institutions (particularly the justice system), and our institutions keep reinforcing the perception that they serve the rich and powerful first, people who can afford to mortgage their entire lives to squeeze out a modicum of justice second, and working class folks not at all. Because that is precisely what they are designed to do.

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