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Deirdre Donovan's avatar

It is frustrating as hell. I will continue to try to inform my family and on BlueSky. I left twit over a year ago. Deleted my Facebook account, Instagram and Threads. While I am poor as fuck I will continue to support you. I hope they don't achieve their mission.

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MOH's avatar

Your frustration and disbelief are shared by many. I'm glad you refuse to surrender while you still have breath in you. Huge respect.

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Jessie Ayani's avatar

Democrats need to learn how to long-term strategize but act in the short term with accurate bomb-throwing. We don't need shock and awe 2026-27 since the country will probably be beyond panic-struck and anxious, so more likely desperate for well-thought -out solutions with immediate results instead. We need to operate with a Big Picture vision instead of this week's talking points.

I observe, drawing on Jim's genius Tribal Council post, that we have all four survivors in the Executive Branch right now, with their very diverse agendas. They will be playing off each other soon and that could provide some ammo for the dems who sit off-site with immense opportunities for observation, analysis and the freedom to build a new democratic republic, while throwing their well-aimed bombs.

Because of this, Musk and the Muskrats look to me like they are industriously preparing the government to be privatized into the hands of the Tech Oligarchs - perhaps as the next-to-go, deeply oblivious survivors depart(Trump/MAGA). The Musk band seems hell-bent on speed instead of accuracy - to say nothing of safety, so time might be of the essence. We might then see a real uprising in the Vought/Vance/Thiel/Christian Nationalist/Neo Nazi/Bannon survivors taking on the Oligarchs.

Can't help myself, I write fiction.

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Eric Schlecht's avatar

Gaze into the palantir to see dark webs for us to fear

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Ruthy Wexler's avatar

Let us keep supporting Jim. Support the Meidas network and all those other truth telling independent journalists. Send love emails to Chris Murphy and Jasmine Crockett, thanking them. Send angry emails to those idiotic, treasonous Republican politicians. Huh. If we all decide to give an hour a day to this—sending emails/ calling politicians/ holding up a sign on a corner and standing there for a half hour like I saw someone in downtown Denver do—WHILE WE STILL CAN!!! All the above. At the very least.

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Ruthy Wexler's avatar

The great news for today—I saw it—is that Meidas Network (independent journalism, like Jim here) is the top podcast, beating out Joe Rogan. I’ve never listened to Joe Rogan and I don’t understand podcasts but I do understand a whole BUNCH of people are listening to

Ben Meiselas pound the truth out on Meisdas podcast. That’s something. It is taking us ALL. A while to believe what we’re seeing. We’ve been abused. We’ve been groomed by a master conman. All the while enjoyi8ng our relatively comfortable lives. Now the bill has come due. I do think that it will take a while for MORE Americans to become outraged, besides those of us sharing our grief and anger here. But I think they’re coming. We can’t give up now.

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Spank Flaps's avatar

OK we need to build a Death Star and make the Ewoks pay for it.

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Jim Stewartson's avatar

lmfaoooooo 💙💀

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Michael Siebielec's avatar

Thanks, Democrats, for not showing one ounce of fight over the years and for making the idea "when they go low we go high" the epitaph on the Democratic Party's and democracy's tombstone.

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Barnation Station's avatar

Any advice on how a DOS educated computer F up like myself can protect my outgoing and incoming e-mails, communications, back ups, password apps, best malware? I have no idea how to monitor anything like a criminal would. What is 4/8 chan I asked long ago and still don't really.

Any advice would be appreciated because that is critical when nothing is anywhere someone can look who wants to be a part of the solution.

Hell, I still think I made the best radical idea suggestion, for the 2024 election to be delayed, by immune BIDEN, as the SCOTUS , TRUMP, CANNON delayed information the voters needed to swing a certain part of the electorate. May I go down as Liberal Alex Jones!!

The SCOTUS must reverse course immediately, as We The People, demand their Oath be taken to task for giving a known felon immunity. This will assist in slowing down the lackeys harm now that part is complete.

In oral arguments, the immunity for Trump, didn't much talk about the crimes themselves. ACB asked if she should watch the J6 tapes. I was stunned. It is novel, it is without precedent so yeah, Amy, watch the F'ing tapes. But, this is not advancing the unitary executive and in those oral arguments, in Trump's case and in Fisher, the justices, the 6 pillars of tyranny, seemed awfully concerned about "overzealous" prosecutions. How would they define this administration's goal of doing nothing but overzealous prosecuting, investigating, etc? They also would be able to exert backbone into the docs case as I know, in my gut, Musk was in our systems long before any EO or election or election lottery was ever done while on his Ketamine cocktail he speaks openly of.

How we get them to do this is beyond me but I know it can be done.

Thanks Jim! Please keep safe and keep talking!

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GhostoftheWhiteRose's avatar

Civilians need war and weapons training, like now. Time to secure all communication channels, etc. Beach time is getting close

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McLain's avatar

Surreal is the word. I've taken up the ukulele--in a desperate attempt to keep myself from completely disassociating. This is the most terrifying mess I've ever seen (both my ukulele playing and the state of the world).

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Kate Lila's avatar

The ukulele is probably worse--haha, not.

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Kay G's avatar

2026 is probably too late.

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