@QasimRashid And even if that was the case (it’s not, but let’s roll with it), why would that still be relevant 200+ years later? Times change, values change.

A warning about NH, expressed in two links:

https://newhampshirebulletin.com/briefs/bill-allowing-trans-people-to-be-kept-out-of-bathrooms-locker-rooms-heads-to-ayottes-desk/

https://newhampshirebulletin.com/briefs/gov-ayotte-signs-two-anti-sanctuary-city-bills/

If you have the ability to leave here, please leave. If you have the choice to come here, don't. It's North MAGAstan up here, and increasingly unsafe for anyone not a white supremacist. NH has always been a bit of a shit hole, but it's going to get a lot worse very quickly. Save yourself if you can.

#FuckTrump #resist #uspol #nhpol #newhampshire #nh

"The idea that some areas of life are too precious, vulnerable, sacred or important for the public interest to be subject to commercial exploitation seems to be losing its influence. Indeed, the very notion that there is a public interest, a common good that transcends our individual self-interest, is slipping away. Increasingly, we are told, commercial potential is the measure of all value, corporations should be free to exploit anything and anyone for profit, and human beings are creatures of pure self-interest and materialistic desire. These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced. For in a world where anything or anyone can be owned, manipulated, and exploited for profit, everything and everyone will eventually be.”

― Joel Bakan, "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power"

they ban us from sports as precedent

they ban us from bathrooms so we can’t be in public

they classify our existence as porn and then make porn a crime

they allow employers to discriminate against us

they make our healthcare illegal to force destransition us

WHEN WILL YOU FIGHT TO HELP US?

I’m still alive (even if signs seem to tell me otherwise… it’s never too early for a Tool reference 🤣). Still keeping track of the news and crumbling society. Been distracting myself with a MUD I used to play back in the 1990s — Dragonrealms. It still exists and is a decent time waster.

Don’t have much else to say, really. Physical health is meh. Mental health is meh. Doing my best to not completely lose my shit in the middle of northeast MAGAstan.

Keep fighting the good fight. Keep resisting. Keep finding joy and strength in the face of all this. Take time for yourself - like I am - to not be overwhelmed. Give yourself grace and forgiveness. You’re not alone.

#FuckTrump #resist

WSJ - DHS employees summoned for polygraphs in an attempt to find those suspected of leaking to the media. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dhs-kristi-noem-employee-polygraph-tests-7249fc38?reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis
Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a temporary' detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps.
She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn't realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn't handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A.
Single. Difference.

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y'all can shut the fuck up with that "stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.

Its also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.

Media sources have obtained a March 14th Department of Justice memo the Trump regime released after a FOIA request, revealing that the Pork Reich wants ICE agents to ignore the Fourth Amendment to fight a fake war against "narco-terrorist gangs." If they get away with this, we'll truly be in the V for Vendetta era of Trumpism.

Nina-Bytes: Jackboots at the Door

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/29/nina-bytes-jackboots-at-the-door/

"As someone who has spent many years studying fascism, authoritarianism, and police states however, I’m pretty sure you don’t issue a Department of Justice order like that unless you intend to use ICE to start going house to house in American communities; and once a fascist government grants itself the power to do that, it really doesn’t matter why they claim they’re doing so anymore. This is quite literally the beginnings of the dystopian police state winger prepper reactionaries are always going on about guarding against, and in anything resembling a functioning democracy US Attorney General Pam Bondi would be arrested immediately for even signing it. As both the article and your middle school civics class will tell you, absolutely none of this is legal no matter what ancient laws Trump tries to invoke and Bondi’s Justice Department is basically telling ICE to ignore the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, “because we say so.”

#Fascism #Trump #ICE #PoliceState #DoJ #PamBondi #FourthAmendment #USConstitution #WhiteNationalism #MassDeportations #AlienEnemiesAct

NO ME GUSTA 😡

celebrate tonight’s victory but put on your working boots tomorrow. y’all have a lot of political cleaning to do.

the NDP lost 17 seats while the Conservatives gained 12?

ohellnah.

don’t take this win for granted Canada. don’t let the kakistocracy of political consultants take over your politics.

#Canada #cdnpoli #cdnelxn2025 #elections2025

Meanings of the smoke for the upcoming papal conclave:

Black smoke means they're burning oil, which could be a sign of piston ring or valve stem seal wear

White smoke means they're burning coolant and the papal head gasket has blown

There it is, in a nutshell.

Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/post/3lnvt3ehgjc2v

Me when my wife asks what I accomplished at home while she was away for three days

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lnw6jchv7c27

@noiseician How else are they supposed to campaign on virtually the same issues for 60 years?

I wrote this nearly two weeks ago. I sincerely wish I was wrong, but, well, here we are: https://mindly.social/@KevinM1/114339570296785782

And to again parrot my IRL friend - why vote for the lesser evil if they're simply going to help the greater evil?

I'm really, truly, honestly not trying to be defeatist. I'm not a troll account or secretly MAGA. But I think it's the height of naivety to demand everyone vote blue because it'll totally be different next time. And more than a little insulting to chastise those of us who don't buy it. Especially by those who don't have skin in the game (read: aren't a member of a marginalized group).

Chuck Schumer makes it to the New Yorker cartoon section. And not in a good way. Chuck, this is your legacy unless you seriously step up.

"Quick! Somebody get Chuck Schumer to write a strongly worded letter."

You mean the filibuster and sit-in were just stunts? And the Dems are still enabling fascism when the attention isn't on them? This is my surprised face: 😐

https://bsky.app/profile/jonathancohn.bsky.social/post/3lnvut4olgs2v

Here's the thing: I voted for Harris. I voted for Shaheen and Hassan each time they were up. I was a good boy who did my civic duty and voted blue, even if I had to pinch my nose while doing it.

My reward? A second term of Trump (in part because of the staggering amount of misogyny and racism in this country, in part because her campaign decided to pal around with Liz fucking Cheney and a bunch of celebrities instead of meeting people where they were in blue collar areas of battleground states) and two senators who seem awfully comfortable - as one of my IRL friends put it - greasing the tracks of fascism.

Forgive me if I feel betrayed. Because I fucking was. And so was everyone who voted blue - especially those of us in marginalized populations. And forgive me for not thinking that voting blue again - assuming we even have fair elections moving forward - is the way out of this mess. The Dems have PROVEN they're, at best, ineffectual as an opposition party.

Sending sternly written letters? Pulling stunts to dazzle the media while voting in fascists? Wasting the months before the inauguration and being utterly disorganized after?

LMFAO.