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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson

@otherson.bsky.social

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Ky visual artist (posted work my own, all rts rsvd,-tap 'media'). Instrumental musician singer-songwriter. High voltage tramp lineman, 55 years IBEW union. Longtime supporting ACLU, SPLC, Amnesty Int, LGBTQ rts, fem ERA... living in the lunacy

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 7h

Forget "forgive & forget."—It always was a garbage cliché beloved by offenders. •There can be no reconciliation without TRUTH. •Truth can't be "reconciled" without remorse. •"Remorse" must remain suspect, without any attempt at recompense. •Forgive, if reconciliation is warranted. •Never forget.

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SCOTUS majoritY —CRIMINALLY DISHONEST ; MORALLY BANKRUPT ; SADISTICALLY INHUMANE— besides having proved themselves to be antiAmerican. (-R.E.) Read "In win for Trump, Supreme Court again allows deportation of migrants to countries other than their own" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8ADm10uA/6...

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In win for Trump, Supreme Court allows third-country deportations to resume (USA Today)

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court, for the third time, backed the Trump administration’s efforts to deport migrants to countries other than their own without gi...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO...?" Remember, tho— lot of 'em were victims of the AM commute-radio propaganda machine & Fox "news" addiction. They were kept from hearing about really important matters; maga voters were kept/nurtured like mushrooms, (respected like fungus, uh-huh) by their greedy overlords.

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

REMEMBER, DOGE (MUSK) SLASHED US TEAM THAT WAS investigating foreign electronic intrusions. AND Now hackers have complete personal data on all FBI personnel AND: Ex-CIA official: Trump risking ‘mass casualty event’ by playing ‘very dangerous game’" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8zSXchWM/7...

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Ex-CIA official warns Trump risking 'mass casualty event' by playing 'very dangerous game' (Raw Story)

A former senior CIA officer says the Trumpadministration is taking a dangerous risk by moving federal law enforcement off counterterrorism and onto immigrati...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WHY A BALLPARK IN GRAND TETON NAT'L PK? PLENTY ROOM FOR PARKING, AND... It’s tradition. W. BUSH had taxpayers build a new stadium for the team he owned…Any graft associated?—oh no surely not… they all perform christianity when they are being observed…

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The corrupt, perjury-felons in the SCOTUS majority need prosecution. Rulings they moved need to be reversed and expunged—fruit of the poisonous tree. Those rulings negated our constitution as it was ratified and legitimately amended. THAT repair must start first. Without that, no republic.

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

LEST WE FORGET Repugnicans surely do seem to love the torture of human beings—remember, during W Bush's (illogical) war of choice, his admin kept saying it's ok, not torture; just "enhanced interrogation techniques." Read "‘Tough luck’: DOJ brushing off judge’s l.smartnews.com/p-8ztlr5tu/v...

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'Tough luck': DOJ accused of brushing off judge's court orders (AlterNet)

One of the investigations likely to follow if Democrats take over the House concerns the extent to which President Donald Trump's administration ignored cour...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wonder if mass surveillance system, "Flock's" name choice reflects some benighted religious fanaticism, or does the company just regard the public as sheep? Read "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8yLYIVoY/G...

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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline (The Intercept)

Amid mounting concerns about its sprawling surveillance camera network, Flock Security told the press this summer that it operates more than 120,000 cameras ...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If the perjurious, felonious, SCOTUS majority aren’t successfully impeached, and their rulings (fruit of the poisonous tree) repudiated and EXPUNGED, our republic is doomed, regardless.

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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HIGHEST CRIMES —THE GOP LONG-CON had a SCOTUS focus since Nixon The rank cynicism of GHW Bush appointing the dishonorable C. Thomas as a token replacement for the esteemed Thurgood Marshall showed th...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Too many characters for bsky, check R.E. 's comment here, and thx.: substack.com/@othersonre9...

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SLIGHT KNOWLEDGE CAN BECOME GREAT PERIL—with fanatics, detail is unimportant. This nation; while never great, continually racist, and mostly ignorant, had real potential for the human animal in the w...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

DON'T CALL THEM PIGS. & CITE OTHER EXAMPLES OF HIS ABJECT COWARDICE. •Swine are sentient beings with integrity; •My own refusal to participate in USA's SE Asia bloodbath was patriotic. Drafted COMBAT vets i later worked with told me they wished they had had that courage, instead of complying.

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

—THE WHIFF OF SUMPIN' TRUMPIN'— Where cruelty replaces a sense of humor; where there is no curiousity except about other people’s privacy, you find this specimen and his tail-lickers, performing righteousness, poorly.

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NOW FLOCK HAS RIGHTS; PEOPLE, NO? 25 foot radius boundary, that cretins are free to move, and move again— Hurrah, Memphis, Tennessee (resistance), USA!!! (-R.E.) Read "Memphis Task Force Arresting Activist Already Suing It for First Amendment Retaliation": l.smartnews.com/p-8w1PDoaY/N...

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Memphis Task Force Caught on Video Arresting Activist Already Suing It for First Amendment Retaliation (Reason Magazine)

Newly released videos show a police task force in Memphis, Tennessee, arresting a well-known local activist who's also the lead plaintiff in a First Amendmen...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HIGH TREASON update Taxpayer Funded J6 Rewards MOOT?— evidently not, but the People don't need to know any details, according to our "Justice" Dept." (-R.E.) Read "Trump DOJ defense crumbles after federal judge tears apart plot" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8wmpWa2Y/x...

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Trump DOJ defense crumbles after federal judge tears apart plot (AlterNet)

A federal judge intends to let lawsuits proceed against President Donald Trump's so-called "Anti-Weaponization Fund" after reports this week that it remains ...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

MORE! FASTER!—PENTAGON AI POLICY Little-Peter needs artificial intelligence because his mind / character lacks any. He's an "end times" bible-humper so it's all rapture to him anyhow. He's got no responsibility; it's GOD'S PLAN, any way the wind blows, so... l.smartnews.com/p-8wkUlsNG/U...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say (CNN)

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the mi...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A LITTLE CLARIFICATION of Lincoln-era English: The governing OF the people must be done BY the people, FOR the (benefit of) the people. (Please excuse the pedantry, but the widespread evident misunderstanding of the phrase has been bugging this fool.)

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ANTI-AMERICAN GOVERNMENT of the people, by the filthy rich, for their own benefit,... Blatant, intentional, with malice aforethought, crippling of the duly legislated and presidentially endorsed USA federal government—how is that not treasonous?: l.smartnews.com/p-8vtcnoGI/f...

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Federal employees paid $9.5 billion not to work in 2025: GAO (ABC News)

The federal government paid federal workers $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 amid President Trump's push to shrink the federal workforce, according to a new ...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ON STRIKE —AGAIN Little Johnson, of the labor union hating repugnican subset, initiates another wildcat walkout: Read "Speaker Johnson sending House home early, staving off Hegseth impeachment vote over Iran war" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8vwoZL3i/p...

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Speaker Johnson sending House home early, staving off Hegseth impeachment vote over Iran war (CNN)

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know, from experience: AI or editors need to learn that the word is "whupped" (from 'whipped')— definitely not "whooped"—a (mere) vocalization.

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

R.E.'s SubStack:

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION —Explored and explained by American treasure, Thom Hartman: Read "Trump broke a 3,000 year-old law — and triggered a global crisis" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8uJnXz3O/T...

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Trump broke a 3,000 year-old law — and triggered a global crisis (AlterNet)

When you see Christopher Nolan’s epic film The Odyssey, you’ll be bathed in the revelation that Trump and his military lickspittles are breaking the most anc...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

'SO SORRY; STILL CLOSED' -FEC FEC (elections info & oversight) CANNOT ACT (say anything) WITHOUT A QUORUM —due to GOP being on strike, office shut down since 10/25 (-R.E.) Read "Trump’s desperate move to kill the law that could finally put him in jail": l.smartnews.com/p-8uiGZI4M/4...

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Trump's desperate move to kill the law that could finally put him in jail (AlterNet)

Trump just took steps to make it very difficult to prosecute money laundering, a crime he and his real estate buddies may well have been committing much of t...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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AMERICAN GREATNESS

Taking the (post-racial) "lead" in 2026

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Greed being the only dependable human emotion besides fear —that's the one that keeps the premiums rolling in— , private enterprise "lets the market decide" morality. Check out capitalism's finest hour (besides tax-exempt mega-churching, obviously): l.smartnews.com/p-8u2y1bqg/O...

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After Blue Cross denied man’s prescription, all he could do when electric fire ripped through his building was sit still and smell it get closer (We Got This Covered)

For most people, a fire alarm is a trigger for action: evacuate and call for help. Concern for belongings aside, for millions around the world...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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“AN INFLUENTIAL CONSERVATIVE LEGAL FIGURE,” Luttig, according to wikipedia —Appointed to the federal bench by President HW Bush— Michael Luttig explores the details of the treasonous, possibly final,...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

MORE REASONS TO REMEMBER that pistaccio nuts provide the full range of amino acids to make up a COMPLETE PROTEIN, as does a combination of a WHOLE grain (like unprocessed, basmati or other, brown rice) combined with a legume such as peanuts, beans, or peas (-R.E.): l.smartnews.com/p-8taYuBPy/9...

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What Trump just approved is already hiding in your grocery cart (AlterNet)

In Monday’s New York Times, Eric Schlosser — the guy who freaked out a nation with his book Fast Food Nationa quarter century ago — published an article that...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bourgeoning international fascism, embraced by tech-oligarchs involved in AI-development's"race to win"—WHAT IN HELL COULD GO WRONG? (-R.E.) Read "Opinion: This Is the Sinister Warning About What Comes After Trump" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8t61Z1G8/X...

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Opinion: This Is the Sinister Warning About What Comes After Trump (The Daily Beast)

Saxony-Anhalt is a mid-sized state in Eastern Germany that has not really commanded much international attention since roughly 1517. In that year, on Octo...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ON BEING A HEALER —repugnican style (-R.E.) Read "GOP Senator Built Fortune Suing People Who Couldn’t Pay Health Bills" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8soE2Rzi/b...

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GOP Senator Built Fortune Suing People Who Couldn’t Pay Health Bills (The New Republic)

Before entering politics, Republican Senator Roger Marshall, an obstetrician-gynecologist, routinely sued his patients for medical debts, charging exorbitant...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

MIDTERMS...GENERAL?...ANY? We can hope. But GOP has planned a Constitution- "suspension" over a DECLARED nat'l "emergency" due to "terrorism" (2 of their favorite words, in quotation marks). It's been their contingency plan since Iran-Contra beneficiary, Ronald Reagan's, WH tenure.

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"POST-RACIAL", They Say... ANTE-BELLUM Is their fantasy (-R.E) Read "New Arlington sign change signals Trump’s support for Confederate ‘pride’" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8s6N0oFO/u...

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New Arlington sign change signals Trump's support for Confederate 'pride' (AlterNet)

The Trump administration has removed a sign criticizing slavery at Arlington National Cemetery. The change was reported on Monday by the Washington Post, whi...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A SIMPLE REMINDER FOR MAGA-LEANING family, friends, & neighbors as to why "foreigners" might feel like a laugh at our fearless leader's expense— ●Trump "renamed" the Gulf of Mexico & Lake Ontario after an ITALIAN from the Vespucci family, ...uh huh.

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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AMERICAN GREATNESS

Taking the (post-racial) "lead" in 2026

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Right?…ignorant whites, born on 3rd base, insist they hit a triple, then moan, pitifully, “Not fair!!” about every righteous off-base tag. Lying, educated whites use it to manipulate them?...Right.

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Why treason? TRUMP & PUTIN—ADMIRATION, FEAR, — BOTH? Likely kompromat target follows despotic tyrant's footsteps: (-R.E.) Read "Wondering where Trump’s America will end up? This broken country [Russia] is already there" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8rdRMpj2/N...

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Wondering where Trump’s America will end up? This broken country is already there (The i Paper)

I love America. And I love Russia. I speak their languages; I know their histories and their people; I admire their cultures. I was a student at Harvard; I w...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

VITAL HISTORY—VITAL CONTEXT Hartman's info & analysis serves America's best interests— with THE TRUTH —without which the people"s freedom is fast becoming a fragile, misguided, illusion. (-R.E.) Read "Trump’s crazy new cheap scheme: l.smartnews.com/p-8r7CI6EU/4...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

SNEER-REVU-ED, FAUX SCIENCE rules our health in the "greatest nation" that never lived... (-R.E.): Read "RFK Jr.’s HHS Is Under Fire After a Judge Discovered the Agency Based Its New Policy on Scientific Studies That Do Not Actually Exist" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8qMfj0Fq/L...

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RFK Jr.’s HHS Is Under Fire After a Judge Discovered the Agency Based Its New Policy on Scientific Studies That Do Not Actually Exist (The Mary Sue)

A federal judge has slammed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This, from Ben Urban on BlueSky, is important to copy, fwd, and spread widely as possible: If $1=1 second ●In seconds, most of us are worth less than one or two days. ●An oligarch worth $272 billion is worth 8,636 years. Take away 99% and they're still worth 86.4 years. ●86.4 years vs. >2 days

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"President" DJT says, "DC is dirty and crime infested." I say, "DJT and his cabinet-and-clique are dirty and crime infested." I also say, —and it’s likely more permanently important— that the majority bench on the Supreme Court of the United States of America is dirty and crime infested.

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"WE REALLY HAD TO DO IT—to cut costs, to be totally honest this time; we're really really the values party...you should know this already...moving on..." Read "Talarico Protests as Texas Swing County Plans to Close 92 Polling Places" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8pjZmh6V/z...

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Talarico Protests as Texas Swing County Plans to Close 92 Polling Places (Common Dreams)

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is pushingfor one of Texas' most important swing counties to drop plans to close nearly a third of its polling...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

On comparing: Swine, when confined with enough space, will shit in one corner, not decide to “flood the zone” like the GOP. A matter of sense and integrity. Take it easy on our sibling mammals, already— rats, too.

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

HOW'D WE WIND UP HERE? Like a labor union contract, a Constitution is only words on paper if people don't INSIST on its terms. Pressure capitalism, rewarding only greed; relying on need; guarantees that vultures will ALWAYS be waiting—willing, and able, if folks ain't WOKE up and paying attention

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What good are billionaires? —"jobs! JOBS!! JOBS!!!" (supply-side, trickle-down B.S.): Read "Mark Zuckerberg sends shocking message to Meta employees" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8ouSNjHy/O...

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Mark Zuckerberg sends shocking message to Meta employees (TheStreet)

In January, Mark Zuckerberg and his top executives gathered at his Hawaii compound for their annual leadership retreat. What they planned there never made it...

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Reagan's crony-clique introduced "supply-side, job-creator, trickle-down" economic theory, and the GOP has had a piss-on-you approach to the needs of the people and the nation ever since.

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Run it like business"...? We get a mafia-style protection racket; it includes POTUS, admin, SCOTUS, & GreedyOverlordsParty (not to mention the insurance "industry").

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

CORRUPT COURT CRUSHING OUR CONSTITUTION Read "Supreme Court justices ‘breaking the law’ to deliver for donors installing them: expert" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-8of0P8Wt/s...

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Supreme Court justices 'breaking the law' to deliver for donors installing them: expert (Raw Story)

The hosts of the Legal AF podcast are sounding the alarm over what they call a corruption crisis at the Supreme Court, arguing the justices have been capture...

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Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The other day, more murder on the high seas, eastern Pacific; "narco- terrorists," by designation ... From my sketchbook:

Anti AI, anti-fascism, R.E. Otherson @otherson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

ROGUES IN ROBES RAVAGING YOUR RIGHTS Daddy Bush's cynical token DEI appointment —to replace the great Thurgood Marshall, our historic, first Black SCOTUS Justice,— was this demonstrably corrupt creep; he has been criminally on the take ever since: Clarence Thomas: l.smartnews.com/p-8n6WrLOM/t...

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Clarence Thomas still stinging about his undisclosed gifts getting outed: report (AlterNet)

Justice Clarence Thomas does not do podcasts, or, really, much media of any kind, said Above the Law journalist and litigator Kathryn Rubino. So, it clearly ...