Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge 1-🏁 Ministry Jesus Built My Hotrod youtu.be/GXCh9OhDiCIyoutu.beMinistry - Jesus Built My Hotrod (Official Music Video) | Warner VaultYouTube video by Warner Records Vault 0180
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 01/07/2026OK, but I see a narrative that is nauseatingly similar to the shibboleth that German conservatives resorted to after 1945: "The Nazis took power in Germany because the stupid Social Democrats failed o stop Hitler. We conservatives had nothing to do with the rise of Nazism." Germans bought it. 020
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Kavanaugh’s impaired imagining of “exceptions” to black-letter constitutional rights and limitations on government power are the makings of standard authoritarian rule based on endless modifications of an existing constitution until the latter becomes functionally null and void. 021
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 19/06/2026In other words, every mistake we made in Vietnam, but in 100 days, not ten years. 040
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Bluff or not, this is yet another example of a Trump apparatchik flirting with a policy that not so subtly endorses secession. It is also a part of a larger Republican project to delegitimize and undermine federalism. 130
Reposted by Kid RioKid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Hitler's field marshals called him "the Greatest Commander of all time" (Größter Feldherr Alle Zeiten"). The less impressed rank and file shortened this, as Germans do, into "Gröfaz." It was not complimentary. 072
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Hitler's field marshals called him "the Greatest Commander of all time" (Größter Feldherr Alle Zeiten"). The less impressed rank and file shortened this, as Germans do, into "Gröfaz." It was not complimentary. 072
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 20/04/2026If the foundation of U.S. wealth and economic strength begins to crack, like the abandonment of pricing global commodities trading in dollars (especially oil), we are seriously fucked. Our adversaries have been trying to ramp up alternatives to dollar pricing for decades. So much winning … 020
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 05/04/2026 Also keep in mind that even a tactical nuclear weapon, depending on how the explosive yield is dialed in, has roughly 10 to 20 times the power of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. It constitutes a “restrained “ option only relatively. 010
Reposted by Kid RioDr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 30/03/2026“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray on the street corners, that they may be seen by others." Matthew 6:5 891968456
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 11/03/2026A tight, cogent piece of commentary. The U.S. attack on Iran is groping for a solution to a problem that only exists in the addled thinking of the political leadership. This is the sad story of American war making that began with Vietnam. 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Hitler came to power in 1933 largely because “traditional” conservatives believed they could harness his extremist populism in order to destroy what was left of the democratic Germany established in 1919. They obviously miscalculated. 010
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 15/02/2026In 1938, Herman Rauschning, an anti-democratic conservative politician who broke with Hitler before fleeing Germany, wrote a book analyzing the rise of the Nazis titled “The Revolution of Nihilism,” which heavily influenced (albeit in problematic ways) the first generation of Hitler‘s biographers. 000
Reposted by Kid RioBea @autiebea.bsky.social · 25/01/2026when the donald agrees with your message, you can stage armed protests and his government won't murder you. funny how that works. bsky.app/profile/auti... 065
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 24/01/2026‘Into the storm and through the storm …” What other choice do we have? I’m 66 and I know my time is coming, too.” 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 18/01/2026The other effect of the DHS terror is confirming the complete refusal of police departments, sheriff’s offices, and state police to protect the citizens who pay their salaries. There has been zero pushback from local LEO. You would think some LEO leadership would recognize how dangerous this is. 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 10/01/2026This is the “terror state” announcing its arrival — the birth of what Franz Neumann called “Behemoth.” ”If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” Orwell, 1984 (1949) 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Another way to undermine and discredit higher education. 010
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 21/12/2025This is Vance‘s opening maneuver to get the 25th Amendment process rolling or the start of his presidential campaign, whichever comes first. 020
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 03/12/2025The Nuremberg Laws (1935) formalized the "legal" persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. The centerpiece of these "laws" was the provision that stripped them of their citizenship. All the subsequent horrors flowed from that. 010
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Now, a new generation of social scientists and archivists are working to figure out how to catalog, add to, preserve, and search this vast trove of information, the scale and volume of which is unprecedented. 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 05/11/2025And, I would argue, the unifying effect of focusing on how an unbalanced economy and the cross-cutting effects of inequality degrade civic and political participation, might nudge the Democratic Party far enough away from identity politics to win sustainable governing majorities. 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 23/10/2025“SHOW YOUR FACE, PUSSY!” should be on shirts, signs, hats, billboards, memes, and ads (especially for those Democrats running in 2026). 010
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 22/10/2025There is a non-zero chance that this is being pursued as a means of *permanently* nullifying Congress’s ”power of the purse” and, even, eliminating the necessity of Congress convening at all. Subject, of course, to SCOTUS ratifying Trump’s definition of an “emergency.” 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 21/10/2025As the shutdown drags on, as Trump illegally raids funding to reward his supporters (and punish his opposition), the more alarming the Republicans‘ refusal to negotiate and return to regular session becomes. Is it a trial run of ruling without the consent of Congress pending SCOTUS endorsement? 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 02/10/2025German SS and police “clearing” the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. These Jews were then transported to one of the extermination centers. 030
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Check this out — Narducy is in Bob Mould’s band (no higher recommendation needed), plays with Michael Shannon in their REM reconstruction project, and is an incredible musician and songwriter in his own right. He’s got stories. 000
Reposted by Kid RioShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative 285308707703
Reposted by Kid RioKid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 11/09/2025It’s not that I fear Kirk’s murder will be a Reichstag Fire inflection point; Congress has already nullified itself if its own volition. Rather, I fear that Kirk’s assassination is probably closer to the murder of Kirov, which provided much of the impetus for Stalin’s “ Great Terror.” 111
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The scourge of political violence is that, as the widening gyre of retaliation accelerates, both sides become enmeshed in lies about who or what started it. And, soon, the original sin is forgotten and the only meaning that remains is in the acts of violence themselves. 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Roberts is methodically and deliberately resurrecting the jurisprudence of the Taney Court. However, if the reactionary conservative ideologues on SCOTUS have their way (and voters continue to allow Congress to nullify itself), there will be no Reconstruction and Jim Crow will be imposed nationally. 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Invoking Niemöller on the moral necessity of speaking out against tyranny ignores the fact that those speaking for the Jews, the Communists, and the trade unionists were stripped of their property and livelihoods, exiled, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The fascist has no conscience to appeal to. 000
Reposted by Kid RioKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/08/2025“We don’t erase history” says the sentient can of body spray who took Medgar Evers and Harvey Milk’s names off Navy ships 312175469
Reposted by Kid RioMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/08/2025The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources: 1. Federal grants 2. Private gifts/endowments 3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students) 4. State $ For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear. 20644332
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 06/08/2025By eliminating the representation of citizens in red states who vote for the Democratic Party, this strategy of partisan gerrymandering is, in effect, aiming at the incremental and de facto dissolution of the federal union. In short, secession. 000
Reposted by Kid RioAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/08/2025She's right. Once SCOTUS closed the door on constitutional challenges, unilateral disarmament on redistricting became political suicide. 231440272
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Capital doesn’t care about Trump’s lies. The national economy is not a time-share condo in Orlando he’s trying to unload. 000
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Allowing policies to be implemented without discussions and conclusions about their “merits” is authoritarianism plain and simple. It is the antithesis of rational self-government. It is a repudiation of the Enlightenment. It denies that improvement of the human condition is possible or desirable. 012
Reposted by Kid RioRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/07/2025The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it 812593945
Reposted by Kid RioPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/07/2025/7 This administration, from top to bottom, is ABSOLUTELY capable of getting Maxwell to clear Trump and implicate Trump’s political enemies in exchange for some commutation or pardon of her sentence. If you say otherwise you’re a liar or a fool. 331755382
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Soon, the only Article in the Constitution left standing will be Article II. And the Second Amendment. The remainder of our laws will become so much toilet paper. Many thanks to all those who just couldn’t vote for a woman. 010
Reposted by Kid RioRiver Tide @eastslope.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Hate's a math problem for the Trump regime. This remains underappreciated. These figures seem huge, but they will never even be sufficient to do more than provide a theater experience of vindictive racism. Need to look at this more as finance and economics. Time will eat money. Failure is certain. 031
Reposted by Kid RioPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15/07/2025I keep referring people back to this because it keeps coming up. People ask me how long things this regime does will be allowed or tolerated and I keep asking “by whom”? Dad is not getting home later. The most charitable view of SCOTUS is that they have decided to be hands-off…. /1 12245131198
Reposted by Kid RioCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 14/07/2025The Supreme Court's disdain for Congress, the statutory design of agencies, and the public services they provide to millions truly astounds. Destroying a 50-year-old Cabinet-level department may be the biggest violation of the Take Care Clause in U.S. history—and six justices simply ... don't care. 552111719
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Said out loud, the word “ICE” has acquired the same sinister sibilance as “SS.” And, like Hitler’s army of terror, it is muttered in the same tones of dread and horror. Its members, and the crimes they committed, will also be similarly execrated when the history of these times is written. 020
Reposted by Kid RioElissa @elissa4.bsky.social · 07/07/2025I don't know if Dems will have the nerve but super rich assholes are breaking the law and stealing from you seems like a powerful political argument. 061
Kid Rio @kid-rio.bsky.social · 07/07/2025C.S. Lewis: "Only by being terrible do they avoid being comic." 000
