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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It seems that cowardice, this time on the part of the Smithsonian, is contagious. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/a...

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Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Finally, a pro-Trump message I can get behind. But please don't share this widely. Donald would hate that. youtu.be/Afetnw70S04?...

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The PSA contains synthetic media

YouTube video by South Park Studios

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The blood of 50+ people, including children, in Texas is fully on the hands of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and we should never let them forget it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This is truly disturbing. If AI is now outputting its own music, how long will it be before most, or all, of creative content is developed algorithmically? We need to oppose this now if we value art at all. www.wired.com/story/from-s...

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From Sensual Butt Songs to Santa’s Alleged Coke Habit: AI Slop Music Is Getting Harder to Avoid

Even listeners who hate the idea of AI music are getting served tracks like “Taste My Ass” and “I Caught Santa Claus Sniffing Cocaine” on Spotify and other streamers.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This is a great article about TACO Trump's malignant narcissism and how that mental illness drives everything he does, specifically his recent unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran. It's an insightful look at our most cognitively deranged president. www.salon.com/2025/06/22/w...

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With strikes on Iran, Trump has chosen a path of insanity

It's time to ask: Is a mental condition driving his foreign policy?

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Great. So now, thanks to the TACO-in-Chief, we can all start looking over our shoulders for the terrorist attacks that are sure to come as reprisals for bombing Iran (for which we are at fault). And what, exactly, was the point?

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Go, Canada! Shoe the rest of the world how this loathsome felon deserves to be treated!

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

What a shock. A Democratic, Hispanic senator roughed up by TACO Trump's Gestapo for daring to question Kristi "Puppy Killer" Noem. Just imagine the Reich-wing outrage of those RepubliKKKans who childishly heckled Biden during his SOTU speech (MTG) were treated this way.Not a good look, brown shirts.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The authoritarian regime advances. This is one small step away from a loyalty oath in which government employees will have to swear fealty not to the country, not to the Constitution, but to TACO Trump himself. Democracy is doomed. www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

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New federal employees must now write essays praising Trump's policies

A new "merit hiring plan" from the Office of Personnel Management asks candidates how they will advance Trump's policy agenda.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Here's a suggestion: When someone bans a book, go right out, get a copy, and read it to find out what they want to hide from you. getpocket.com/explore/item...

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10 Controversial Classic Books That Have Been Banned

From the obscene ‘Ulysses’ to the satanic ‘Harry Potter’.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

This report of terrifying and deserves to be much more widely circulated as RepubliKKKans become more adept at successfully blocking the votes of POC and others suspected of voting for Democrats. They must be stopped, and elections returned to the people! hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost...

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TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won.

Here are the numbers from investigative reporter Greg Palast...

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The recent elimination from the Armed Forces of honorable, decent service people who happen to be trans proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Trump administration has no interest in "meritocracy," only in purging non-white, non-heteronormative people from society. This is not America.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Bobby "BrainWorm" Kennedy is now set to investigate the insidious plot to do... something... by adding toxic chemicals to jet fuel, which is then released into the atmosphere. Just one more idiotic conspiracy theory spread by this moron. What's next? Flat earth? www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

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Fact-check: RFK Jr. claim that DOD arm is spraying chemicals

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a defense department arm is spraying the sky with chemicals in jet fuel, building off of chemtrail conspiracy theories. He provided no evidence to support the ...

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Not surprisingly, the Trump DOJ just quietly lifted a desegregation order in LA, most likely a harbinger of more far-ranging actions to come in order to "Make America White Again". Can "Whites Only" bathrooms and water fountains be far behind? apnews.com/article/scho...

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The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Don't know how may know this, but Public Square (www.publicsq.com) is a site that promotes MAGA businesses. Just put in your zip code and you can find the businesses to avoid in a moment! I found my insurance agent on there, so it's time to move my insurance elsewhere to a non-Nazi company.

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Shop on America's Marketplace | PublicSquare

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Here's my question: When Trump posts hateful, aggressive, intolerant messages like this in the guise of celebrating a Christian holiday, where are all the "good Christians" denouncing him for it? It sure seems to me that there aren't any, and that tells me all I need to know about religion today.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The Fascist Trump administration takes another page from the Nazi playbook, this time banning books on solely ideological grounds. If they can do this to the Nimitz Library, they can do the same thing to the library in your town. The Nazification of America continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Why is there no mechanism under the law to prosecute government officials who repeatedly and deliberately lie to the American people? Everything Leavitt says here is a lie, unsupported by even the flimsiest evidence. Why is she allowed to get away with it? Why isn't she held to a higher standard?

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Oh my god. Karoline Leavitt just had a full blown meltdown of lies during her press conference and accuses Abrego Garcia of “human trafficking” despite zero evidence.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This pretty much sums up the MAGAts, the White Supremacist RepubliKKKan Party, and the despicably vile Christian Nationalists.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We need to stop calling CECOT a prison and talk about what it truly is: an extra-judicial concentration camp in which people are imprisoned and abused without the benefit of due process or representation. This is not about law, it's about fascism. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

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Concentration Camps, 1933–1939

Learn about early concentration camps the Nazi regime established in Germany, and the expansion of the camp system during the Holocaust and World War II.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Another despicable example of America's continuing Nazification. A 19-year-old here legally with no criminal record or gang affiliation abducted and sent to a foreign concentration camp by ICE. Be afraid, America, be very afraid, and make sure this story is told. www.newsweek.com/merwil-gutie...

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ICE agents realize they arrested wrong teen, say 'take him anyway'

Merwil Gutiérrez, was deported to El Salvador's notorious super prison, despite his family's insistence that he has no gang ties or criminal history.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Another example of Mump's effort to Make America White Again. What's next? Overturning the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Is this really the America any but the most diseased, deranged, and despised among us want to live in? www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts

The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Given the explosion of needless cruelty in Texas recently, this is particularly disturbing, especially since none of the Gestapo agents in Fuhrer Abbott's administration will explain why it was necessary. Just change "trans people" to "Jews" to see where this is heading www.kut.org/politics/202...

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Texas collected information on transgender drivers. It won’t say why.

Internal agency records show employees with the Department of Public Safety, which issues driver’s licenses, reported each time someone requested to update the sex listed on their state ID.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Chuck Schumer will go down in history as the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century, aided and abetted by John Fetterman playing the part of Charles Lindbergh.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

What Musk stated by doing to his customers, he's now doing to the entire country. Thanks a lot, "genius." philkoopman.substack.com/p/people-are...

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People are still being burned alive in Teslas

Tesla manual door releases are a deadly problem. It just happened again.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My biggest problem with RFK Jr is that I'm more qualified than him to be the head of the HHS. I have a Master's Degree, have never been a drug addict, and have seen every single episode of ER, St. Elsewhere, and Chicago Med. Right there, I know more about medicine than he does. We're all doomed.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Notice that Trump and his Nazi staff never tell us exactly what Waste, Fraud, and Abuse they've found. They never produce records or documents or anything else to back up thier findings. They're clearly just making it up as they go along and expect us all to fall for it. Fascists.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

AGAIN, KINDLY, GO FUCK YOURSELF. YOU HAVE ZERO COMMON SENSE. WE ARE A NATION — NOT A BUSINESS— BUT YOU’RE BANKRUPTING JUST LIKE EVERYTHING YOU’VE TOUCHED.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It seems to me that those hypothetical questions about "If you had the opportunity to assassinate Hitler in 1933 or '34, would you?" aren't so hypothetical anymore.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is exactly how I feel right now.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I know so many, many people who need to see this.

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Emil Spieler @emil-thelonius.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

No article has captured my recent feelings better than this one. Absolutely. On. Point. → This weeks MUST READ “Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine. Looking up to any of these men for how to live your life is even sadder.”

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I don't know what to say. I'm deeply honored, because I've been soooooo supportive of the RepubliKKKan Fascist Party. Does anyone really fall for this crap? Are MAGAts really this stupid? I have to assume that the answers to the above questions is a resounding "Yes."

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

For anyone who's still not clear on the way Trickle-Down Economics works, this is as good an explanation as I've ever seen.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Just saw Eggers' Nosferatu: Pretentious, self-consciously "artsy," awkward dialog, poor performances (especially from Lily-Rose Depp), weak cinematography, and no emotional build to the climax. Orlock looks like a diseased, rotting Borat, which is not a good look. See on streaming if you must. ⭐

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This is a fascinating essay that strips away the myths and lays bare the facts about Elon Musk, and it's not pretty. If you admired, or even ignored Elon up until this point, read this and find out why you shouldn't. Congrats to Seth for an excellent, and well-researched, piece about this sleazeball

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Abbott never intended to "eliminate rape." He only said that to shut up his opponents who raised a valid concern regarding his inhumane abortion ban. Following up on that would mean doing something to benefit his constituents, which won't ever happen. www.texasstandard.org/stories/slav...

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Texas Mom Calls Out Textbook Calling African Slaves ‘Workers’ and ‘Immigrants’

Pearland High School freshman Coby Burren and his family have been having conversations about identity and the significance of race relations in the news. Just last week, in the middle of class, he no...

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Elon isn't just "on the side of fascists and Neo-Nazis," he's a proud, card-carrying member of both groups himself. It's not a surprise that someone who was raised with privilege in Apartheid South Africa would turn out to be so morally repellent.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I know this has been discussed previously, but if you haven't read this incredibly prescient novel by Sinclair Lewis, get a copy today. In it, Lewis tells the story of America's election of a fascist president and the incredible turmoil that follows. It's more relevant now than when it was written.

Cover of Sinclair Lewis's amazingly predictive novel, It Can't Happen Here.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This would be laughable of it wasn't so pathetic. What kind of immature, posturing, low self-esteem, delusional dick weasel says this kind of thing? He needs to be laughed out of the country immediately.

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John Petty @johnpetty.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I'd support a Constitutional amendment that charges each member of Congress $2500/day, withholds paychecks for them and their staffers, and freezes their health insurance and all of their perks for every day the government is shut down. This would never happen again! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/u...

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Elon Musk Flexes His Political Strength as Government Shutdown Looms

The world’s richest man led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by promoting false and misleading claims about it.

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