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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What were the Democrats up to during the political career of Trump hero William McKinley? They were nominating William Jennings Bryan, three times. Bryan never won—but he succeeded at destroying the Dems’ competition to their left, the Populist Party. There is a lesson to be learned.

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William Jennings Bryan and the rise and decline of the Progressive Era

A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin (Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2006), 400 pages

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Spotify is going to enshittify its music streaming service unless its subscribers pay a 50% tax for “premium” service—an extra $6 per month, for non-lossy audio. I wouldn’t mind if the money were going to artists not named Taylor, Beyoncé or Kendrick. archive.ph/q6Yz0

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Anyone who uses the demeaning, retrograde “hard R” will be blocked immediately. Be creative and find an insult that is not a slur.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Everyone should call their local bank to ask the branch manager exactly how the bank is protecting your funds from a “DOGE” smash-and-grab theft. NYT report: “FEMA Seizes $80 Million in Approved Funding for N.Y.C. Migrant Shelters” 👇 archive.ph/bWKSl

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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Oh, noes! Sharing this will make Elon sad! Don’t do it!

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

1/ “None of this is to invite into [“out” Treasury Secretary] Bessent’s life the scorn the LGBTQ community is facing ... It’s to name him as a collaborator in the dangers his boss is heaping on vulnerable people. No dominant group survives…

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that Bad Company is *officially* available for preorder wherever you buy books. (I am linking to Bookshop but buy it wherever!) I worked so, so hard on this book, and it would mean a ton to me if you ordered it. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

The cover of my book Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, which shows an abandoned Toys R Us under an ominous sky.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social We know it is a scheme. We even know the scheme’s name: Project 2025. What’s the strategy to defeat it? What tactics will you deploy to defeat it! Wake the F up. ☕️ ☕️ ☕️

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

UrbanDictionary.com “Word of the Day” … the editors seem to be sending us a message

Screenshot of the Urban Dictionary “word of the day”

* paper tiger *

a literal English translation of the Chinese phrase zhǐ lǎohǔ (simplified Chinese: 纸老虎; traditional Chinese: 紙老虎), meaning something that seems as threatening as a tiger, but is really harmless.

"All reactionaries are paper tigers."
- Mao Zedong

by fettfan91 April 27, 2010

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I am BEGGING the Washington, DC, corporate media to do more of this. Much, much more. thenewamerican.com/us/politics/...

Excerpt from an independent journalist’s report on the February 4, 2025 White House news conference with Trump and Netanyahu:

“When questioned about whether Palestinians would “have the right” to return to Gaza after its reconstruction, President Trump dismissed the possibility. He seemingly deflected: ‘Why would they want to return? That place has been hell…. Nobody could live there.’

“One of the reporters is heard to interrupt Trump, ‘It’s their home, sir! Why would they leave?’”

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

@artsymarxist.com I saw on the other place that you’re in Twitter’s time-out corner temporarily as well. Elno must have ordered a cyber-roundup of suspected scofflaws who offend the indecent. The time-out is a badge of honor. 🏆

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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

White House Announces Appointment Of Virus As Head Of Pandemic Response

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Got dinged on Xitter for my Jan. 7 satirical comment about Greenland. Suspended for twelve hours. Suspended hot satire on Elon’s online cesspit, which white-lists actual Neo-Nazis. The shame! Maybe I can get a pardon from the President—or his best friend, the person who really calls the shots.

Screenshot of the post for which I was suspended from that pestilential, neo-Nazi cesspit “X.”

It reads:

Wally Ballou! still isn't voting for #Genocide @Jazz_Phan

Can someone at Mar-a Lago please punch Trump in the neck? Asking for a friend who says he wants everyone to keep calm.

https://t.co/lpxoCEX3ql

Jan 7, 2025, 1:34 PM

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The article at the link is a report on a statement by the Danish prime minister, in which the PM tells everyone to “keep calm.”

This is a screenshot of the headline that U.S. linked in my censored post on “X.” It reads;

THE LOCAL

GREENLAND

'Let's keep calm': Danish PM responds as Trump Jr lands in Greenland

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday stated the Danish government's view after intensified calls by incoming US President Donald Trump for an American takeover of Greenland.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/02/2025

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Told you about liberals and y’all skewered me in the comments. I will be vindicated

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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Already rampant inequality about to go off the charts so the #RulingClass - who already pay less taxes than the average worker & who hide wealth in untaxable off-shore accounts - can have more tax cuts. USA is not a democracy. It's an #oligarchy - and government of, by & for the #RulingClass.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk is terrified of everyone knowing the names of the people who work for him. So do your work.

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

President Elmo & his teenage minions have breached the personnel file of every federal employee, personal information of every American & confidential information on every gov vendor. How does this end well for anyone? #DemVoice1

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Contrary to some info I've seen, 19-yr-old Doge staffer "BigBalls" Edward Coristine did not delete his X account, it's just renamed and is private. Wired reported that govt tech workers had to defend their work to the Neuralink intern in an Office Space-esque scene. / more for Canadians

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · 03/02/2025

Don't threaten me with a good time

Picture of Luigi perp walk with text over layed "Experts warn Luigi Mangione could walk free" Mayor Adams has been made up like a clown.

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

HAPPENING NOW: members of Get Free are blocking traffic in front of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the main agency where the Trump Administration and its billionaire backers like Elon Musk have been spearheading efforts to implement MAGA’s Project 2025 agenda.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Musk has had no problem naming individual federal employees he thinks should be fired (see article). Now he wants anonymity and zero oversight for his officials who are creating a constitutional crisis. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

Musk tweet where he criticizes a federal worker for having a "fake job"

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Where are the defenders of the US as Elon and nameless private agents infiltrate US agencies, commandeer US servers, steal US data, seize US money, march US officials from US buildings? Who sallies forth from the FBI? The CIA? Congress? DoD? The media? This is a coup—and America appears defenseless.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

@wyden.senate.gov Akash Bobba Edward Corestine Luke Faritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaitran Call the Capitol Police on them. Have them arrested.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

@wyden.senate.gov As noted earlier: Time us if the essence. You have more Constitutional authority over Treasury than Musk. The time to use it is NOW “Now” means Immediately. Tomorrow may be too late.

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thecoachman.bsky.social @thecoachman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

You are experiencing a version of what we in South Africa experienced.... We called it State Capture. It is devastating and will take decades to correct. You (and us in the Western World) are in for a rough ride.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

@wyden.senate.gov You are ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee. You MUST gather the Capitol Police walk over to the Treasury, and demand IMMEDIATE access. Musk has snot-nosed teenagers hacking the US financial system.

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Colorado Socialist ☭🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ♿ @leftwardswing.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

China is light years ahead of the United States & this is a great example showing that. The price points between China EV's & American EV's is massive. In China, working class people can afford a brand new EV. In America, they can't. #climate #climatechange

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

404media.co

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

@leecamp.bsky.social mentioned this dystopian incident during his live stream yesterday. It happened a couple years ago. Lee is 🎯💯 If we do not put some very serious guardrails on AI, and soon, AI will threaten all life on Planet Earth. gizmodo.com/gpt4-open-ai...

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Chat-GPT Pretended to Be Blind and Tricked a Human Into Solving a CAPTCHA

“No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service,” GPT-4 told a human.

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Are you an escort in the DC area that recognizes this man? If so, I bet Steven would love to talk to you.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The Trump cabal’s new favorite verb is “pause.” They think they aren’t violating the Constitution, federal laws and regulations, and labor contracts if they redefine “permanent cancellation” to mean “indefinite pause.” Fck that semantic fascism. The Constitution has priority over their thesaurus!

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

As terrifying as it is my god this shit is so pathetic. Dressing up like you're a space marine to go storm the apartment of some random construction or restaurant worker or any kind of job you can imagine. Keeping the real Americans safe from tables of fresh fruit. I'd rather turn the gun on myself.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

When one has a half-trillion dollars one can burn cash commissioning a piece of so-called art he stupidly think is a Great Symbolic Statement but actually is as shallow and tasteless as a middle finger with a booger on it; then use that vacuous, infantile gesture to threaten people. Congratulations!

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Maybe Kamala Harris should not have hid to avoid having to cast that tie-breaking “yea” vote in the Senate that would have filled an NLRB vacancy with a Democratic nominee just before the election. #Failure www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump fires senior labor board official in ‘unprecedented and illegal’ move

Gwynne Wilcox pledges to challenge decision after dismissal in effect paralyzes National Labor Relations Board

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Trump is doing so great that leaders of EU nations are meeting to form a military alliance to defend Denmark and Greenland against the US. France already has offered to send troops to Greenland to defend it. Winning!!! www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...

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Jeffrey Phillips @11thjeff.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

News flash: that should have been last years playbook when you were all in on feelies Now that you lost, we're hurtling toward real humanitarian crises, and the playbook has to be full opposition to the entire agenda. What happened to anonymous holds? Delay tactics and filibusters? Make some noise!

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This brutal frestmebt of @aliabunimah.bsky.social by Swiss police and intelligence officials is utterly outrageous Thank the gods Mr Abunimah finally has been released safe and alive. Switzerland used to take seriously its self-appointed duty of final defender of international rights. No longer.

Ali Abunimah post on “X” (part 1 of 3):

Ali Abunimah post on “X” (part 1):

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being…. (Continued)

Ali Abunimah post on “X” (part 2 of 3):

…All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor…. (Continued)

Ali Abunimah post on “X” (part 3 of 3):

…More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

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Nol Malone ☭ @nolmalone.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Burn. It. Down.

Image of Luigi Mangione. The text reads, I am once again asking you to recall that on average empires survive 250 years and that this July the US will be 249 years old.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

OMFG. If Democrats insist on nominating Fetterman in 2028, they will be the first major party to lose all fifty states. I am old enough to recall the abattoir that was the 1984 campaign, when Mondale won thirteen (13) Electoral College votes. This will be worse. Fckng idiots.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

1/ If I had to pick one film to show how reactionary and insane Hollywood is, it would be My Son John (1952). Its scriptwriter. John Lee Mahin said of its director, Leo McCrary, “McCarey was a brilliant man who let the Communists drive him absolutely crazy. He actually went crazy."

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My Son John and The Red Scare in Hollywood – Senses of Cinema

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

SELECT LIST OF IMMIGRANT/DEPORTATION RESOURCES: Immigration Advocates Network (www.immigrationadvocates.org) Their legal directory allows users to put in a zip code and receive listings of nonprofit organizations that provide free or low-cost immigration legal services in their area 1/n #LaMigra

leftyhooligan.wordpress.com

Resist!: “Lefty” Hooligan, “What’s Left?”, December 2024

War is the health of the State. Randolph Bourne Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We’re finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Ohio,…

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A great nations does not exile its own citizens to validate its leader’s ignorance and prejudice. It would not cleave families in half, or throw children in those families who are citizens to the wolves, just to reaffirm that leader’s stupidity and venomous hatred. SHAME on the U.S.!

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School leaders reassure families as fears spread over feds' immigration crackdown

The move comes after Trump rescinded a policy that kept schools off limits from immigration raids and arrests.

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Wally Ballou! @wallyballou.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Things are going great in Trumplandia. So great that there just was a 3.9 magnitude earthquake in New England. I am ready for the locusts now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/27/m...

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Earthquake off Maine coast rocks New England - The Boston Globe

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Maine rocked New England on Monday morning, shaking homes from Boston to Cranston, R.I.

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