It will be like that scene in Scrooge (1970) in the future when town finds out he's dead, times a billion. Thank you very much! <breaks out into song and dance> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkq7...

We're officially a member of "The Axis of Evil" now. 🤬😠 It's amazing for far The USA has fallen in just 5 months. 😱😢 It's even worse how so few people have even noticed. 1/3 the population desire a "1984" society and another 1/3 are hiding in a "Brave New World" worldview. 😠😢

What scares me about ICE (well, one of many things) is that a serial killer can mask up, not show a badge, & straight up abduct their victim in broad daylight in front of witnesses & no one would think it was a serial killer. Fortunately, they are far rarer than TV cop dramas would have us believe.

After 30 years of trying to figure out why ST:TNG is my least favorite Star Trek, I have finally figured it out. ST:TNG society is a little too close to "Brave New World," by Aldous Huxley for me. There are differences (sexuality, drugs), but a lot is too similar: conformity critical thinking 1/2

Something for NYers to keep in mind. NY is a one-party consent state when it comes to recording conversations. This includes legally using those recordings in criminal proceedings (but not necessarily civic suits). BE CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU SAY IRL & TO WHOM YOU SAY IT REGARDING THIS REGIME!

I say again that Biden should have issued an EO reinstating a modern version of the Fairness Doctrine that also applied to cable and the internet. That pesky 1A getting in the way? Do what republicans do: have 10+ states with D trifectas (there are currently 15) pass different bills that 1/🧵

This reminds me to tell everyone to look at Texas & stranglehold republicans have there. There are more people there wanting to vote blue than red, but voter purges, restrictions, & disenfranchisement have kept republicans in power for 25 years with no sign of letting up. This awaits all of us. 🧵

I am inceasingly worried about NY. 🧵 NYC is being forced into choosing between a criminal and scandal-ridden in the democratic primary and thaat winner and a republican in the general. Meanwwhile, our congress people are letting Rs waljk all over them. And next year we will have 1/3

So am I. If I were a lawyer, could I prove it in a court of law? No. All of the evidence is circumstantial. But if I were a cop, that amount of evidence would be plenty to get me lots of search warrants to find the smoking gun. So why didn't democrats after the election & before the inaugaration?

Here's the problem. And most are as bad and crazy as FLATUS, but some are far less incompetent.

Autistic sensory anxiety & the PAIN / FEAR / SURVIVAL response #AutismAwarenessMonth

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

This is the most comprehensive list I've seen to date.

Iranians (especially Iranian women) refused to believe the religious and conservative backlash of 1979 would be premanent or negatively affect them. 46 years later and they still cannot openly protest. DON'T BE LIKE THEM AND THINK THIS CANNOT HAPPEN HERE! IT'S HAPPENING AS WE SPEAK!

Think of it as a "good cop/bad cop" scenario with the country as the prisoner. Then it makes sense. D leadership are the good cops, Rs are the bad. The good cop pretends to sympathize/emphathize with the prisoner, but his goals are the same as the bad cop's.

You left out a few: THE MEDIA PODCASTS ELOFF / STARLINK DOMINION BACKDOOR ACCESS And going further back: SCOTUS CITIZENS UNITED THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE NIXON ALLOWING LOBBYISTS ACCESS TO CONGRESS REAGAN'S REPEAL OF THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE TEXAS B.O.E. SOUTHERN STRATEGY DEMOCRATS BEING WUSSES

As far as I'm concerned, this is the best quote I've ever made. I want a T-shirt that reads, "There's no such thing as a free-range billionaire." It can be taken both literally (added plastics, narcotics, prescription meds, etc.) and philosophically (got his money off the work of others).

I don't usually share this, but I go to physical therapy. Why am I sharing this now? Because I'm fed up with the seniors (who are all on medicare/medicaid) talking positively about FLATUS. They don't know he & Eloff want to cut those programs or that he'd already tried to once. 1/?

I'm now taking bets on how soon the administration starts openly using the "N" word.

Now taking bets on whether Musk and FLATUS will not only openly admit they cheated, but will even tell us how they did it, once they've completely solidified their power and can't be touched.

Those one-issue voters who think being pro-Palestine is more important any anything else and refuse to see the big picture of not voting for Harris are as bad as MAGA. Both groups suffer from the the belief disconfirmation paradigm and I'm not going to debate either here on out.

I can't tell you how many misspellings of my last name there have been over the years, but "Demo" is the most common. I'm not a demo, dammit! I'm the final version! 😁 My personal favorites are "Demon" and "DeMon." 😈

To paraphrase Monty Python, they should remember that "No one expects the French Revolution."

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RESIST TRUMP 12.9.24 After 2016 the “resistance” confronted Trump’s administration. Since Election Day, cynics dismiss it as naïve and without impact. Our democracy needs a STRONG opposition for people to exchange, debate and disagree over problem solutions www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...

This would be my pinned post if I didn't already have one of my own. It's not just an ignorance problem, it's a privilege problem. They think that hardship means that their smart phones are taken away or they can't stream their shows. Even COVID wasn't a wake up call for them. They will learn. 😢

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In the run up to the election, I was apprehensive. Everyone was telling me not to worry, and I wasn't worried about the election itself. I was worried about how Grump was going to cheat and what we could do to prevent it. I didn't realize the cheating would happen during the election rather 1/