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As the train of fascism, steadily approaching the platform, slowly pulled in, the journalist traded clever ledes while the historians made notes and the politicians wrote letters.

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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 41m
I’m not sure people quite grasp what has happened. A president enricheber himself by $2 billion while he launch two, maybe three, depending on what you think about murdering people with no trial, illegal wars. One of which has driven the CoL further up on the back of his BS Trade Wars.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 45m
Huh, I guess we really do need some feminist Boondocks Saints. Or figure out where did all the cowboys go?
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 17h
The truth and objective facts have been shot dead by Trump and his party of fools. The line was crossed in 2016 over and over again, it’s cooked.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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NotCIAreally @stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social · 17h
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 17h
Not random, if you’re trying to understand the clown in the White House and his dumb fascism.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 19h
Next year? While people who have lived and worked in the States for decades and came here as children are tortured and held in criminal conditions in Liberia because judges ordered them not deported to their birth country. A reminder we are the #DumbFascist
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration’s Third-Country Deportations, for Now
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Perhaps the craziest thing about all these apps and the internet is that they crowd source intelligence. How many have you had a word underlined in red and it’s most definitely a word? Just not a commonly used word. Fuck all. Going up on a Tuesday.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did Trump tell the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party that the “nat’l security” monster ballroom is being built for him? Dedicated to him? FUCK Trump has always been the biggest fucking idiot imaginable. I just underestimated how idiotic America could be.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Domion-ism - fundamentalist Christian belief that, although they may be alive and living peacefully, whether they are a Palestinian or a chicken, God has given some of His followers the right to murder anything that isn't like them.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A CAMERA IS NOT A CRIME. ICE handcuffed a volunteer filming agents and pulled down her pants. Record EVERYTHING. Preserve evidence. Demand accountability. Know your rights: PAXIS.app Help keep PAXIS free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Elect a convicted felon, you get a criminal government.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re all counting on them following through after the midterms.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dynamic Pricing - when the purveyors of data know where you live, work, and what you like the most and can gouge you on the price. EX: I looked at buying a nice set of mixing bowls on my laptop at Amazon, price was $18.99. My friend looked them up on his phone and they were $15.99.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There was not ever any rational truth to the belief the United States would collapse. Maybe too many gun nutters watching The Walking Dead, but an authoritarian gov’t getting rich off the people’s labor and futures is now. Not one vision of the future by Republicans is tethered to reality.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our next cats will be named Mint and Chia, and then when I can't remember their names, I or my partner can say, "Yeah, that's da Mint 'n Chia."
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s fine, it’s fine, the tech baron idiots think a sentient self-replicating rogue system with access to every other system in existence is fine, they’re rich or early adherents of Roko’s Basilisk, which is to say, i wholeheartedly welcome a benevolent all-seeing and all-knowing robot steward.
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Rebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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AyJay @dcvet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The temerity, irony, hypocrisy, stupidity, and arrogance should have ended the run of this 🍊🤡💩🎪 a long time ago.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
120 schoolgirls bombed by the U.S. and it is “misaligned model activity” in the targeting AI.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After banning CNN, MS NOW & Politico from the White House, he installs State-Run television, just like they have in so many other countries... Sieg Heil, ya'll. #38Days 🌊
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The leader of the free world is wartime president under attack by a dictator, a dictator who has a U.S. president that is trying to help him, despite a century of success in democratic alliances. Past Orwellian and Kurbrik-esque, we are down the rabbit hole. #DumbFascism
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If we are following Chekhov’s Gun concept, then nobody is getting outta here alive. So let’s be nice to each other and try and have a little fun.
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skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A War Without the Name: The Billion-Dollar Cost of America’s Iran Conflict www.commondreams.org/opinion/cost...
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A War Without the Name: The Billion-Dollar Cost of America’s Iran Conflict | Common Dreams
​Military operations, the consumption of munitions, the deployment of forces, equipment losses, and economic consequences do not disappear because of a change in terminology.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What the fucking hell is wrong with the Fourth Estate in this country? FREEDOM of press is a “privilege and right” and that’s why it’s the first enumerated right in the Bill of Rights. Time to bury the guns in the backyard. The Redcoats and tyranny is here, now. #DumbFascism
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I remember some orange child raping felon saying that some other countries were "shitholes". Sometimes our own country seems like the real shithole.
nytimes.com
Technical Problems Ground Flights at Major East Coast Airports
Operations had resumed by Monday evening, with delays. The incident revived concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration’s aging air traffic control infrastructure.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The in-fucking-sanity of a gov’t so captured by an infantile imbecile that when the makers of a deadly weapon caught in an unbridled weapons race under unrelenting AI vs AI hacking attacks that when the manufacturers themselves say this shit is going to kill us all, they say go faster. #DumbFascism
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Then, is conveniently "forced" to ask Ukraine to stop bombing Russia's infrastructure so prices will stay down despite Russia having destroyed Ukraine's. I am just saying, try looking at every blunder and mistake he's made in his 6 years and there's always been one winner. #DumbFascism
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Of course, and with some discussion and clarification, I completely agree. Context matters here. Voting in the lunatic idiot short-term greed know nothing nuclear security fascist states of America has a lot different meaning than voting in Norway.
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Anthony Torino @torinoentertainer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When I see an adult male in a cowboy hat, large belt buckle, and boots I think, "Someone likes to play dress up!"
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Credit to Seth Meyers, but Trump really is the creeper in the van promising candy if you’ll just get in. This would make a great political cartoon or tik tok. No promise to his voters has been kept, but lots of him fucking the American people over.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When the tech barons embraced Elon's theory of "move fast and break things" they were definitely including the lives of people they don't know or care about. They saw the dystopian movies we all watched in the 1980's and 90's and they chose to be the villains. We are fucked.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I need the idiots to stop talking about the Nuremberg Trials for the Trump Regime and start talking about voting.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Incorrect.
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America: Birth Of A Nation
YouTube video by The Onion
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is untenable. The short-term greed has the assumption that if you make enough money breaking the economy you will still come out the other end on top
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Donald Fucking Trump is and always has been a wannabe gangster, a stupid asshole, a menace, a monster who thinks women are meat, AND a huge fucking racist! Hell, it is how he got elected, Southern Strategy writ large for the whole nation. #DumbFascism
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"the removal plan targeted 15 artworks in the African Lounge, an events space... that was locked after Mr. Trump took over. The lounge’s textiles, artwork and a carved wood sculpture from Ghana representing Africans’ grief over Kennedy’s death were removed without public explanation."
nytimes.com
How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
3. Boone even suggests that the press stop covering Trump for a couple of days — don’t attend his press conferences, don’t ask him questions and leave him to experience what Boone calls “the deafening roar of silence.” “I say this as a friend…try for just a little while to be quiet,” Boone says.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They are currently using Claude to design the next Claude, so it’s game over. I welcome our new robot overlords and hope there stewarding of humanity will be of the R. Daneel Olivaw level. This would assume there’s some guardrails like the three laws.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s the Russian model of warfare. Putin has been demolishing places, from Chechnya to Syria, and Netanyahu is made of the same stuff as him. Mean evil men who claim to be your only safe bet, but don’t they actually suck at the job?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Apocalypse is going to have US funding and hardware, for sure.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Mitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies Sketch
Alt: Mitchell And Webb: Are We The Baddies Sketch: two guys in Nazi SS uniforms and one is asking the other, "Are we the baddies?"
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The AI Claude is helping design its next version. THIS IS HOW HUMAN CIVILIZATION ENDS.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interesting story about decades old technology that has become more available for non-military uses, that it is hard to believe Israel didn't have aimed at the border between them and the tiny Gaza Strip. Fascist Likud leader Netanyahu should answer for his failures and criminality.
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The Ruins of a Long-Lost Medieval Convent Have Been Discovered Just a Few Feet Beneath a Soccer Field
St. Clare's Convent closed in the 16th century, and researchers assumed all traces of it had been lost. But a new ground-penetrating radar survey revealed surprisingly intact remains of pillars, rooms...
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He’s so stupid.
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Progress or Backwards @progressornot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It should probably unnerve more people how wildly “successful” and rich somebody like RFK JR has become being a complete menace and scourge to society. #DumbFascism
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