PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 30/09/2025“Pete Hegseth spent millions to fly in all of our generals and admirals to rant about facial hair and brag about how many pull-ups he can do, and have Donald Trump sleepwalk through a list of partisan gripes.” – Retired Army Maj. General Paul D. Eaton 010
PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 30/09/2025We were all taught that this was evil. And now we're told we can't even say we are against it. 000
PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Hmm, I wish there was a word that could easily describe someone like this... 🤔 000
Reposted by PapaTSteven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10/03/2025“We are watching the authoritarian playbook unfold at an intense pace, often making it hard to grasp how interconnected the antagonistic acts are…If they succeed at blocking free speech & silencing dissent, the ability to know what’s true & false will grow dimmer.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...open.substack.comThe Expanding Attacks on SpeechBlocking legitimate journalists, deleting language, canceling GOP town halls, cutting university funding—these are all connected 24670253
PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 08/03/2025FASCISM. KLEPTOCRACY. OLIGARCHY. I'm sure some think Liberals like myself have used these words a bit too… um, liberally. BUT, the warning signs are real. I tossed these cheat sheets together to highlight the patterns used throughout history to undermine democracies. 142
Reposted by PapaTJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Tariff Canada: Smart! Tariff Mexico: Super smart! Smaller tariffs on China: Super-duper smart! Pause Canadian & Mexican tariffs: Smarter! Tariffs back on Canada: Smartest! Tariffs back on Mexico: Smartester! Pause Mexican but not Canadian tariffs: Smartest-er-est! Pause Canadian tariffs: F**g smart! 2443394513
Reposted by PapaTBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/02/20254.5 million views for an outright lie. 584119252770
Reposted by PapaTAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest." 424211436751
PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I wondered myself. Doesn't seem to appear in Project 2025 but has been stated by one of its architects, Russell Vought: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Russell Vought: Trump appointee who wants federal workers to be ‘in trauma’theguardian.comRussell Vought: Trump appointee who wants federal workers to be ‘in trauma’The Christian nationalist head of the office of management and budget was central to the Project 2025 blueprint 061
Reposted by PapaTSabbath, RN @sabbath-schrader.bsky.social · 24/02/2025There are some actionable steps in this post. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE - oppose and be vocal about that opposition in as many ways as you can be. This is not the way. We don't want to be the state that got rid of a protected class. 022
PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Trickle is such a gross word. A trickle of sweat down your back. A trickle of pee down your leg. A trickle of stagnant water from a rusty pipe. The idea that anyone heard "trickle-down" and wasn’t immediately repulsed—just by the name, let alone the policy itself—is mind-boggling. 010
PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I will never not think of @ifycomedy.com, @vornietom.bsky.social, and @mikewtrapp.bsky.social every time I think of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (which obviously happens a LOT). @dropouttv.bsky.social @gamechangershow.bsky.social 130
PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025LITMUS TEST Fact: Russia attacked Ukraine. If your "news" source is saying otherwise, or is bending over backwards to justify what the President claimed, it's not news - it's propaganda. 010
Reposted by PapaTTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"thelondoneconomic.comEuropean Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on XThe EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries. 15496537937
PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Ann Selzer about her Iowa poll: “We just didn't get the cooperation from those Trump voters that in hindsight, you know, could have perhaps been more telling,” “people who didn’t complete the call, but instead just yelled “Trump” and hung up the phone.” www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...iowapublicradio.orgAnn Selzer clarifies her exit from political pollingSelzer said the 2024 polling miss didn’t lead her to leave the polling company. 000
Reposted by PapaTTheGratefulDeadpool @gratefuldeadpool.bsky.social · 25/11/2024This needs to be said, loud, and often. 21959222425691
Reposted by PapaTJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m old fashioned, but I’m pretty sure our president shouldn’t be a rapist, our DNI shouldn’t be on a TSA watchlist list and our head of counterintelligence should probably be able to pass a background check. Right? 1071222633725
Reposted by PapaTJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I’m pretty sure that if some CEO got fired from his job & on his way out he told a mob of crazies to show up with zip ties, flag poles and tasers and to bash in the windows & smear poop on the walls, that he wouldn’t get hired back a few years later, but what the hell do I know. 1057384505501
Reposted by PapaTRAYGUN @raygunsite.com · 19/11/2024big morning: Mike applied for a new job. #raygun #DOGE 1011518
PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024At least history has shown this isn’t a devastating step towards authoritarianism. Oh wait 😖 000
Reposted by PapaTBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The thing about Twitter versus Bluesky is that the right needs liberals on Twitter to make it feel worthwhile, whereas the left doesn’t need conservatives on Bluesky to make it feel worthwhile. 1309415695727
Reposted by PapaTBrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The name and acronym are much more accurate. 360122071908
PapaT @papabrigs.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Good point! But keep in mind the na*i party in Germany had only about 37% of when they took control. 😬 010
Reposted by PapaTHuman☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 15/11/2024 1/8: Folks, Hamilton warned us. He laid it out in the Federalist Papers, a system meant to block crooks, con men, and tyrants from the highest office. And yet, here we are, living in the man’s worst nightmare, courtesy of billionaires who turned democracy into their personal ATM. 1216760
