John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 14/10/2026With a growing population and increasing wealth concentration in a small minority, and with few of those ultra rich showing any concern for the overall society that grows relatively poorer, society in order to survive should take steps to remedy it. Thus Prop 40 in CA. Flawed but necessary. 030 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026GOP candidates running, walking or quietly slinking away from Trump only proves how craven they are after years of slavish loyalty. They do not get a pass. They have to own their actions. But then, their new distance from Trump only shows that they are as selfish unprincipled as he is. 030 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026At this point there is no possible reforming ice. They have lost all credibility and trust and it is not retrievable. It has to be abolished and the mission completely re-thought.  2164 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter." - Dashiel Hammett via Sam Spade 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"The logic here seems to be that if anyone is going to cause a mass extinction event, it had better be an English-speaking AI, because it would be a huge loss to America if the planet were destroyed by one speaking a foreign language." - LA Times columnist Anita Chabria 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The GOP is a tainted brand. Distancing themselves from Trump only proves how cowardly and unprincipled they all are. 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What's gonna kill us all first - AI or the climate? I have not seen one word about how AI helps the climate. Indeed it looks to me to be part of climate denial since the tech overlords and their Trumpy enablers seem uninterested in doing anything that helps anyone other than themselves. 110 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The president of the United States works for the people. Trump thinks the people work for him. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 17/08/2026In case anyone wonders what a dumbass Jared Polis, the Governor of Colorado, is who pardoned this criminal. Now she's working for the most right wing county in California doing the same election-denying dirty work. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comElection denier Tina Peters gets alarming new elections job in deep red California countyPeters’ new gig will once again give her dangerous influence over elections, including the critical ballot counting process. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Taxation without representation was the summary complaint that motivated the American Revolution. By allowing gerrymandering of Congressional districts to restrict minority representation, this Supreme Court violates America's founding principle. 020 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Is there another time when world leadership was worse than it is now? Maybe the 14th century... 011 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The day Trump finally leaves office ought to be a national holiday. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Some GOP senators talk big about defying Trump before an important vote. But as Fecal Midas likes to say, they fold like an umbrella. Profiles in cowardice. History will not be kind to them. 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 31/07/2026What is AI going to do for the climate? This planet is burning up. I don't see any tech bros who even seem to care about it. 121 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"The Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman voted with Republicans to sink the measure, the only Democrat to do so." - The Guardian. WTF is wrong with that guy?? 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Maybe, hopefully, finally the American public understands how ruinous GOP policies are for the nation. Take from working and struggling people and hand the money to the rich. Make sure white men dominate public and private life. Endorse lies over truth when it suits them. Throw these bums out! 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Is it a coincidence that the tech bros driving the massive AI buildup appear to have no humanity at all? 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Heard on the Muzak at the dentist: Hit Me With Your Best Shot 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Just clarifying...there was election fraud in 2020 when the GOP was in charge and Democrats won but none in 2024 when the Democrats were in charge and the GOP won? 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 15/07/2026When I was growing up back in the 50s and 60s we used to say that we Americans don't start wars but we finish them. Now we start wars and don't finish them. 030 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 13/07/2026"If you ever knew what it took to get to this job you could never vote for the person." - LBJ to my father in a private conversation. (My dad was CA Democratic Party Chairman.) 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Could there be further proof of a mind devoid of any creative or critical thinking than reducing himself to calling his opponents "communist" as if this was 1954? I guess it assumes ignorance in his audience that they go for that tired old bogeyman. 100 0
Reposted by John CoateBlue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Now you're talking... 19018 0
Reposted by John CoateChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/06/2026It’s important to understand that the Court is now just an arm of the oligarchy. This decision strips the people of the right to limit the role of money in politics. It gives billionaires special rights to buy our elections. A precondition of oligarchy. 14830151109 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Pack the Court ASAP. What SCOTUS is doing with full collusion from the President and the neutered GOP Congress breaks the system of checks and balances that make this government function. Instead we get a government dominated by a convicted felon whose main goal is looting the treasury and revenge. 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026One could argue that the real worst thing GW Bush did was nominate Alito for SCOTUS. Bu then the Senate did not have to confirm this cretin who belongs nowhere near any court. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Reading about our surrender to Iran, which is what it is and you all know it, and how the rest of the world is rewiring itself to route around us, could we have screwed up things any worse than electing Trump? His utter incompetence and dishonesty have ruined us in the eyes of the whole world. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 23/06/2026When Trump said shithole countries, who knew it was an aspiration? 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 20/06/2026American foreign policy: Now that we have completely fucked up in Iran, let's go do the same in Cuba. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Trump's UFC event has a lot of commercial advertising on display. This is not legal according to Section 5104 of Title 40 of the United States Code. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Maybe instead of an elephant the GOP mascot should be a toad as in toady, since this is what they all are now. 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Gov Whitmer gives her voters the finger..This kind of thing is what ruins the Democratic party's reputation and confirms that some Dem leaders are not on the peoples' side. 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 11/06/2026So now war crimes against civilians looks like US policy. Way to go Donnie. Will he next build a monument celebrating the My Lai massacre? open.substack.com/pub/phillips...open.substack.comWar Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy NowWe Will Rue The Day 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The world has begun to treat the United States as a bug and is routing around it. 061 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Money for the Jan 6 rioters and nothing for the Epstein victims. No sane society would do this. 062 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Could it be finally dawning on a majority of Americans that this President is as dumb if not dumber than the people he constantly calls out. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 25/05/2026A novel idea for the US military: instead of spending more, spend smarter. We, the people, are clearly not getting our moneys worth. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Today's federal government: disenfranchise black people while paying off the traitorous Jan 6 insurrectionists. This is making America great? Trump's description of shithole countries must have been about envy since that is what he is doing here. Ultimately Trump is just about personal enrichment. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 09/05/2026The GOP if it is honest, which of course it is not, will replace their elephant mascot with a crow and call it Jim.. 020 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 09/05/2026The GOP was founded to stop slavery. But now their way forward is to shaft black people into something not far from slavery. 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 09/05/2026And yet again, this time thanks to the morally bankrupt GOP, black people in America get the short end of the stick. Let's face it, we treat our minorities like dogshit. The idea that not doing it is somehow discriminating to white people is right out of 1984 and is complete bullshit. 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Trump must have felt envy when he described "shithole countries" given that everything he (and his chickeshit GOP enablers) does makes the USA into one. 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026As usual, Alito's uses bad data to support his racist decision. Institutional gaslighting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comSupreme court’s Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJExclusive: Data in justice department filing quoted by Samuel Alito in his opinion relied on questionable methodology, a Guardian analysis has found 110 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Gaslighter of the year award goes to John Roberts who says we the people do not understand SCOTUS and thus don't grasp that they are not political. Right. And I have a bridge to sell.. 010 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Does the Supreme Court majority responsible for walking all over Congress and the people in service of their bigoted GOP agenda really think we, the people, will believe that this mad rush to gerrymander minorities off to the sidelines is not racist but merely political? Roberts seems to think so. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 30/04/2026How is it within the authority of the Supreme Court to simply declare that racism is over in America and throw out a bedrock law that is the source of much of that progress? I call BS on that. This legislating from the bench tells me that this majority is illegitimate. Time to expand the court. 020 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Time to enlarge the Supreme Court. This majority seems to not even care about the Constitution when it makes life for their beloved GOP difficult. They must be stripped of their majority. 000 0
John Coate @johncoate.bsky.social · 29/04/2026This SCOTUS majority proves once again that it is simply a wing of the GOP since they seem perfectly fine with GOP gerrymandering but call it unconstitutional if anyone else tries it. A snake-shaped district? Look at Jim Jordan's and Mike Johnson's districts then. 000 0