Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

House Republicans are working against the American people.

They sabotage progress & sow chaos.

They take orders from Trump, for the delight of Putin.

They are destroying our country from the inside.

They are traitors.

Vote them all out.

Throw them all in prison.

@ProPublica
What ever happened to ex post facto law?

@froomkin

As historian Rick Perlstein wrote recently about the New York Times, “By not naming it ‘fascism,’ when others responsibly name it that, the Times is, effectively, naming it ‘not fascism.’”

“The U.S. Supreme Court behaves like a national policymaker and not enough people care”

Trump Boys Help Father Raise $83 Million By Asking Their Dad For The Money https://www.theonion.com/trump-boys-help-father-raise-83-million-by-asking-thei-1851206108

hi mastodon, which of these things would you like to toss into a volcano?

you can only pick one.

Guillotines are far too good for these motherfuckers.

@AnthonyJK like, I know Hamas is queerphobic, and why the fuck should that make me not care about Palestinian civilians? If Israel managed to kill all of Hamas without harming a single civilian I'd be like "well that was harsh" but I wouldn't be 24/7 angry and sad about it like I am. Because that's not what's happening, that's not their goal. How am I supposed to lose empathy for innocent people over someone else's crimes? People still cared abt me when Trump was president 🤷

Whenever I see a headline like this I now assume they’ll have layoffs in a few months because not enough people quit.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth is fed up with those defending the Jan. 6 rioters so during a sentencing hearing for one of the J6 defendants, he let loose...

via https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/29/judge-jan6-riot-insurrection-trump/

Billionaires shouldn't exist. That said, Taylor Swift really seems to be one of the world's least-shitty billionaires

I’m sufficiently eager for Judge Engoron’s decision in Trump’s civil fraud trial@that I just set up an RSS feed to regularly search for news of it.

I need people to label whether the art they post is AI-created or human-created...

Pillaged from BlueSky:

US historians sign brief to support Colorado’s removal of Trump from ballot…if SCOTUS ‘originalists’ decides to wrap up the 14th Amendment in some legal word salad, they’ll render the law helpless in addressing abuses of power by the executive branch, which will become the despot branch of government. #News #democracy #14thamendment #politics #history https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/jan/28/us-historians-sign-brief-to-support-colorados-removal-of-trump-from-ballot?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I dont know who needs to hear this.. but you can actually disagree with someone, have a debate, remain peaceful, and if you still disagree in the end you dont have to actually rage quit and block them. You can.... wait for it.... just disengage and walk away.

Not everyone has to agree with you about everything.

Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers.

It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”.

It started with intolerance and hate speech.

It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.

Remember.

Hi GOP Fascist Party who want to stop helping Ukraine:

“#Hungary's far-right Our Homeland party would lay claim to a western region of #Ukraine that is home to about 150,000 ethnic Hungarians if Ukraine loses its statehood due to #Russia's invasion, the party's leader said late on Saturday.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-far-right-would-lay-claim-neighbouring-region-if-ukraine-loses-war-2024-01-28/

TFW you realize that Star Wars is the story of an orphaned boy who became radicalized after a military strike kills his family. He is indoctrinated into an ancient religion, joins a band of insurgents, and carries out a terrorist attack that kills 300,000 people.

US Economists gloating that it's "as if COVID never happened at all" because share price are up and I don't think it could be any clearer that Human Life is not actually valued in Western societies and that's why we're all fucking miserable.