The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026How convenient that an American president who has long expressed interest in withdrawing U.S. forces from Europe now has an excuse to do exactly that. 100
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Execution survivor.” Words you never want to see together in a headline. 010
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There’s a lot going on in the world, but right now it’s a perfect fall evening in the PNW—courtesy of “Eternité” by Croquet Club and Mother Nature. 030
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Mountain’s out, as we’re required to say in the PNW. (But really, why wouldn’t you?) 020
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Not to brag—but I knew there was some fascist shit coming when Ronald Reagan started testing our physical fitness in elementary school. 020
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Aaaand scene. 🎭 apnews.com/article/trum... 200
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 09/06/2026In 1996, I ran for office as a gay Republican. It did not go as expected. I just posted a story that I told at The Moth about what I discovered in that race here: youtu.be/NXpO0Pfh3to 030
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 23/02/2026My husband knows I’ve been feeling a little down thanks to our Pacific Northwest winter—not to mention the steady rise of fascism in America. So he made this chicken pot pie and it’s just what the seasonal-affective-disorder doctor ordered. That said, I remain very concerned about the fascism. 🥺 070
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Since the average American won’t live 50 more years after 25, who exactly are these mortgages for? P.S. Even if 50-year mortgages become “conforming,” the monthly payment on a $500k loan at 6.75% is only about $200 lower than a 30-year at 6.5%—but you’d pay roughly double the interest over time. 052
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 16/10/2025And Johnson didn’t even need a Reichstag fire to clear the building. 011
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Undeclared martial law in three screenshots. P.S. We’ve already gotten used to it. 🥺 020
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 11/10/2025What the f’ is seeing a movie in 4D? You mean they aren’t going to play every frame simultaneously?! 020
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 11/10/2025As I’d worried, Republicans let Democrats filibuster their own budget bill on purpose… setting them up to take the blame for everything that followed, including the layoffs Republicans already had planned. Not everyone will believe the GOP’s narrative here. But the optics are clear. 000
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 06/10/2025MAGA Brownshirts showing up at Portland’s ICE protest last night chanting about Kirk’s death marks a significant but predictable turn in the scripted Project 2025 meta-narrative—one that I’m afraid will play out in Blue cities across America in the weeks and months ahead. 030
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Trump didn’t even need to appeal yesterday’s order blocking his federalization of the Oregon National Guard. He just grabbed them from California. He’s got 50 states to freely choose from, but he picked California to rub it in.apnews.comCalifornia governor says Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to OregonCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom says the Trump administration is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon. 021
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 05/10/2025As NPR found in Memphis, many well-meaning Americans wouldn’t mind “a touch” of fascism to clean up their streets. An NPR/PBS News/Marist poll earlier this week found 52% support Trump deploying the National Guard in cities to fight crime. But fascism never stops at just “a touch.” 001
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Portland’s naked bike ride protest could spotlight the deployment of National Guard troops into Blue cities. But it could also create viral videos of federal agents dragging naked “Antifa” protesters off their bikes for the administration to blast on Fox News and Truth Social. Stay tuned!koin.comEmergency naked bike ride planned amid Portland troop deploymentAfter President Donald Trump announced plans to deploy the Oregon National Guard to Portland, the Portland World Naked Bike Ride said Wednesday the group is planning an emergency ride in protest. 000
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Could there be a more fitting image of religion in America today than a man carry the burden of the cross on wheels? At least I now understand why they’re called “holy rollers”. 120
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 22/09/2025The moment in the group message thread when you forgot “The Rapture” is playing at the music festival. Anyways, everyone meet up at the chicken tomorrow! 🐓 020
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Me: “How’s the battery life?” Apple: “Oh, it’s the same.” 030
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Of all people, you’d think farmers would understand that we reap what we sow. 🤷🏼♀️ 081
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I have a feeling Vance won’t be telling Kirk’s viewers to “stand back and stand by.” 123
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I have a feeling Vance won’t be telling Kirk’s viewers to “stand back and stand by.” 123
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Here it comes for the Blue cities in Red states.abcnews.go.comTrump says he'll send National Guard to 'deeply troubled' MemphisPresident Trump announced in that the federal government is planning to surge federal forces, National Guard and even "the military, too," if needed into Memphis. 001
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The tragic irony of Kent State in 1970 is that the Vietnam War might’ve ended years earlier if Nixon had not been reelected in 1968. But he won after the far Left sat out the election or voted third-party in protest, insisting the Democrat wasn’t anti-war enough. Sound familiar? 141
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 06/09/2025The fishermen’s families are probably still unaware of their fates. Meanwhile, the soldiers who did this have been back home, sitting at IHOPs and at Chili’s beside diners unaware of their crimes. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ewi... 010
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 27/08/2025A literal cracker barrel. 011
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 26/08/2025With Trump deploying Project 2025 troops to Blue cities across America, today’s a good day to remember Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Overnight, a modern middle-class society fell under the thumb (and gun) of a militant theocracy. Almost fifty years later, they’re still under it. 051
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 22/08/2025The thing about the bully pulpit is you should never elect a bully to the pulpit.pbs.orgTrump warns of ‘harsh measures’ if Colorado clerk convicted of election data-breach scheme isn't freedTina Peters was sentenced to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race. 020
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 21/08/2025It’s sad to think America’s final contribution to world history might be our Confederate Nazis. 023
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 19/08/2025You can see how executive power becomes limitless when discretion is vested by voters in authoritarian hands. With courts most often deferring under “rational basis,” nearly any pretext will do. Nothing is more dangerous to a democracy than a bully at the bully pulpit. 011
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Are people starting to get how this is going to work yet? It will be the National Guard from the Red states in the Blue states and Blue cites.reuters.comThree Republican-led states to deploy National Guard troops to US capitalThe state's National Guard received an order to send equipment and personnel to D.C. late on Friday. 132
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 16/08/2025On the heels of whatever was said in private between Trump and Putin about the future of the free world, I hope everybody’s ready for how weird this timeline is about to get. And I mean even weirder than it’s already gotten since Bush was inaugurated in 2001. 050
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 15/08/2025We have many Ukrainian refugees here in Vancouver, WA. I often see their big families on evening walks by the river. I can’t imagine how crushing this must be—knowing they’ll be ICE targets the moment their legal status expires. Where can they even go? 🇺🇦wsj.comUkrainians Who Fled War Are Losing Their Legal Status to Stay in the U.S.The Trump administration is letting a makeshift Biden-era program lapse. 110
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Bought a set of great microfiber towels off Amazon in 2022 to wipe my dog’s paws, so I bought the exact same ones as a replacement. An old towel (left) is 30g. A new one (right) is 23g. The worst part is 20k 4-star reviews hide tons of 1-star reviews about how thin they’ve become. #Enshittification 020
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 14/08/2025“The Supreme Court… affirmed a Mississippi law requiring users to verify their ages before using social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.”npr.orgSupreme Court allows Mississippi social media law to go into effectThe law requires all users to verify their ages before using common social media sites ranging from Facebook to Nextdoor. 010
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Fun fact: The grandfather of Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the 19-year-old DOGE computer wiz kid who sells AI Discord bots to Russia on the side, was a KGB spy stationed in DC who defected to the U.S. but then went back to Russia (and was later executed). DOGE is up to way more than saving money. 🇷🇺independent.co.ukElon Musk’s protege ‘Big Balls’ is grandson of executed KGB agent, report saysDOGE staffer Edward Coristine, best known by vulgar nickname, related to late Soviet spy Valery Martynov 032
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 13/08/2025I’ve warned folks since the day Trump was elected: Only Congress has “standing” to challenge executive overreach in court—like firing federal workers or blocking budgetary spending. With Republicans running Congress, does anyone believe they’ll sue Trump to stop him from doing their dirty work?cnn.comAppeals court allows Trump to continue ending foreign aid grants | CNN PoliticsOnly the legislative branch can sue a presidential administration for making changes to congressionally approved budgets, the federal appeals court in DC ruled after looking at President Donald Trump’... 0197
Reposted by The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Trump nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner is very Orwell meets The X-Files. God help us. “Antoni is the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, and his candidacy for the BLS spot had been promoted by former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon.” 001
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 12/08/2025What sets American capitalism apart from its Western peers? The wanton avarice. 010
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Trump nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner is very Orwell meets The X-Files. God help us. “Antoni is the chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, and his candidacy for the BLS spot had been promoted by former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon.”cnbc.comTrump says he's nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissionerPresident Trump, who claimed former BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated jobs data, said Antoni would release "honest and accurate" numbers. 030
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 10/08/2025The Dark Ages weren't called "dark" because the sun was less bright. It was because the people were.washingtonpost.comThe anti-sunscreen movement and what to know about its claimsA growing anti-sunscreen movement on social media is causing concern among dermatologists, who warn that avoiding sunscreen increases long-term health risks. 020
The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adam-ross.bsky.social · 10/08/2025In a world of Dean Cain’s, be a George Takei. 030