Reposted by David ClementGONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025(one comment because people can be stupid: the United States are the Germans here, we as a nation are the Nazis, and that is fucking sickening) 82109
Reposted by David ClementGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate! 240120793713
Reposted by David ClementPop Base @popbase.tv · 10/02/2025Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including: • Pride Month • Black History Month • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Jewish Heritage • Hispanic Heritage • Indigenous People Month 48056393005
Reposted by David Clementjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations? 467243306364
Reposted by David ClementMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/02/2025If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes. 687116943816
Reposted by David ClementGod @thegodshow.com · 05/02/2025Thou shalt impeach the motherfucker. 1272462337019
Reposted by David ClementJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons 16665204110687
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Barthel Gilles, "Ruhrkampf." The Kapp Putsch of 1920 was defeated by ordinary Germans who mobilized for democracy. The lives lost in the Ruhr weren't lost for nothing; representative government survived for another twelve years, until the second year of the Great Depression. 010
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Of course it’s a coup open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...open.substack.comOf course it’s a coupMiss the obvious, lose your republic 021
Reposted by David ClementMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/02/2025if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all 700399798512
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 03/02/2025What is happening beggars belief, but it's happening. 000
Reposted by David ClementAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US" 316512425034268
Reposted by David ClementMythworks is making the Myth Work @mythworks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Hey remember when George Lucas was like “hurr durr Trade Wars” and we were like that’s so silly and he was like no wait that’s how Emperor Palpatine comes to power and we were like you are obviously dumb Jorge. 575305670
Reposted by David Clement Most Excellent Theophilus @optimetheophile.bsky.social · 02/02/2025How long, O Lord, must we suffer the perfidious Boer? 1025944
Reposted by David ClementAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO 413414532224034
Reposted by David ClementAustin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025May just buy a bunch of these books and give them to some of the students in my civil rights class lol 1809
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Excerpt: "If only we had a body, with democratic legitimacy and powers conferred by a Constitution, that could overrule a president who seeks to impose arbitrary tariffs and to deport people who fled here to escape oppression." "It could be called the Congress of the United States." 000
Reposted by David ClementMississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 02/02/2025OPINION: "People from most declining democracies and republics throughout history must have felt something similar. I’ve read letters from pre-WWII Germans who moved from 'we’re worried' to 'we’re scared,'" Kimberly Griffin writes. buff.ly/3EcUw1B 14410116
Reposted by David ClementSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 01/02/2025NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it. 58832869012988
Reposted by David ClementMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/02/2025These are scary times. Maybe it wasn’t a bright idea to elect a vindictive simpleton. 441244246
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Fortunately for us, when the tariff folly brings the grid down, we'll be walking in the footsteps of Jesus. www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...irishstar.comKaroline Leavitt tells press 'Jesus didn't have electricity either'When answering a question about the tariff war going on between the United States and Canada, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt referred to Jesus Christ. 000
Reposted by David ClementGONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Hek yah! Preech it, Sandals! 748624
Reposted by David Clementjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2025it is honestly kind of striking to me that the founders were basically on target re: “things that could end our republic” 199168542509
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Tmurpf merch, sold direct from the Oval Office to your home address. What a sleazy piglet he is. 020
Reposted by David ClementT. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again! 13485820926198
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Meryl Streep's escape from the LA fires. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...theguardian.comMeryl Streep cut a car-sized hole in her garden fence to escape LA firesThe actor’s nephew has described his aunt’s determined efforts to flee her Los Angeles home during this month’s devastating wildfires 010
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 29/01/2025"I lift my lamp beside the golden door," says the love of Porky Pine's life. 000
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Danish kvaje kage. I would never be able to swallow any of it. 010
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 28/01/2025When Reagan was elected in 1980, one of my grad school professors (eminent in his field) told me that the silver lining of this cloud was that conservatives always funded research institutions. Within a year the Reaganauts had started stripping US universities for parts. And down the tube we go. 020
Reposted by David ClementDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27/01/2025A memo leaked to the Associated Press reveals that the White House has told the U.S. CDC to stop working with the WHO immediately. This breaks protocol which requires the approval of Congress and a one-year notice to leave the WHO. 525124044726
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Bullets are cheaper than TSA pensions, aren't they? www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g...npr.orgSenate confirms Kristi Noem as Trump's Secretary of Homeland SecurityNoem will be in charge of executing one of President Trump's biggest priorities in his second term: cracking down on immigration. 220
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 25/01/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comTrump again demands to buy Greenland in ‘horrendous’ call with Danish PMSource says: ‘The Danes are in crisis mode’ after US president’s call with prime minister Mette Frederiksen 020
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Tiedrich's review of the Big Orange's lunatic speech to the World Economic Forum is excruciatingly funny, as in, laughing 'til you bleed. 010
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 24/01/2025HCR mentioned this. Good grief, how utterly creepy the GOP has become. 010
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Oh well, things aren't all that bad, if teaching evolution has a "bright future".... 010
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 24/01/2025LBJ told Bill Moyers that the 1964 act had lost the South for the Democrats for a generation, and really it was for at least sixty years. 000
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 23/01/2025John Scalzi tells us that ChatGPT is down. I am so fortunate that I spent seventy years developing a one-person language model of my own! Whew! Dodged that asteroid. 020
Reposted by David ClementScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Hiring freeze ordered at US Dept of Veterans Affairs, which operates dozens of hospitals, 100s of clinics and veterans benefits programs nationwide 1243142605515
David Clement @davidclement.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Gonzo the Ca'at reposts AOC and since he has been a Very Good Ca'at lately I repost Gonzo. 020
Reposted by David Clementjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/01/2025i said a few times here and there before the election that we’ll see what the mass deportation plan looks like when it’s ICE agents dragging grandmothers out of churches and, well, here we are 585168204621
