If you can’t fight, and you can’t flee ...flow. wallyballou (dot) bsky (dot) social

Joined February 2020
Leaving this here because the #FirstAmendment says I can. See Texas v. Johnson, 491 US 397 (1989). oyez.org/cases/1988/88-155
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The death of Dick Cheney, who, like Kissinger before him, never spent a day in prison for massive crimes against humanity causing the destruction of whole countries and the deaths of millions, is a symbol of the impunity that is at the root of much of the violence in our world today. Trump, Biden, Netanyahu, and countless other ruthless criminals have so deeply absorbed this lesson that they have openly perpetrated a live-streamed genocide, confident that they will never be punished. It is the duty of all decent people, if we are not to sentence the world to generations of further horrors, to hold these blood-soaked monsters accountable.
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This is so f’ed up. We have a president who is fighting for the right to starve Americans. If you’re not furious, there is something wrong with you.
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It’s wild that the minority leader is voting no but is letting a vote happen AND there’s apparently zero whip to stop others from breaking rank. Absolutely useless party.
America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it. I am voting NO.
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Orwellian: Zelensky gives awards to soldiers, who have insignia of Nazi SS & Trident of Melnyk faction of OUN, which collaborated with Nazi Germany in organizing SS Galicia Division. He also awards neo-Nazi-led Azov soldiers wearing Nazi/Neo-Nazi Wolfsangel insignia. Photos from President of Ukraine site from his visit to Pokrovsk area.
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Nothing Good Is Possible Party 🤝 Only Evil Is Possible Party
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We don't have an opposition party in a moment where it can't be overstated how crucial it is to have one. This is what we mean when we say establishment Democrats enable Trump and his billionaire, corrupt agenda. We deserve better than this.
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Republicans understood there is no opposition party, just a grifting machine that exploits and then betrays its own voters over and over again
Replying to @peterbakernyt
Republicans had predicted that Democrats would cave on the government shutdown as soon as the election was over because they were only keeping the standoff going to motivate their base.
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This country is so far gone people have to beg Democrats to fight to extend subsidies on a for-profit, conservative health insurance system. What we really need is a nationalized health care system, but we will never get it as long as these two capitalist parties are in charge.
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The vote centrist Democrats took tonight will make today's statistic of 100M Americans owing medical debt look like the glory days — because when health care premiums double/triple, tens of millions of families will fall into debt and go bankrupt and thousands will simply die.
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Very cool that Dems had all the leverage in the world after Tuesdays elections and they just decided to completely cave to nearly all the Republicans demands in exchange for what amounts to a pinky promise.
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It is stunning how much the leaders of the Democratic Party despise Democratic voters. web.archive.org/web/20251109…
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Our ruling elites have never been kind, but they’ve reached a new level of cruelty. The genocide in Gaza raised the threshold for what’s acceptable and for how much barbarism the public will tolerate. Once genocide becomes the norm, nothing is too cruel. So you get the intentional withholding of food aid from tens of millions of Americans, ICE kidnappings and disappearances, the bombing of fishermen in the Caribbean, a fake “ceasefire” in Gaza, ratcheting up the massacres across Sudan and Congo, and on and on.
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One of the prerequisites for being an opposition party is to not cave and rubber stamp your opposition’s wildly unpopular healthcare and SNAP cuts. Dems get absolutely nothing in return, except for the satisfaction of knowing they helped protect Republicans in the midterms.
An end to the shutdown is in sight. A senior Dem Senator tells me there will be more than enough Democrats to vote in favor of re-opening the government tonight. They’ll get a promise of a vote on health care — but nothing more. Most of the Democratic leadership will likely vote against it.
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Has there ever been a man who’s failed to meet the moment more than Chuck Schumer? Relentlessly, incessantly, unstoppably wrong at every turn, Schumer is going to go down in history as the worst Dem legislative leader in modern times, and it’s not even particularly close.
And this does absolutely zero on Obamacare. The most Democrats get is a Senate vote. After 40 days.
Random fact: Mark Twain and Nicolai Tesla were close friends. Imagine spending an afternoon with Twain and Tesla. grunge.com/1353113/mark-twai…
hit me with a random fact
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This is the BBC editor suing over our story that suggested he operates with some bias toward Israel. He claims he does not operate that way. Here he is:
🚨BREAKING: BBC Middle East News Editor Raffi Berg ADMITS the MOSSAD makes him proud and give him GOOSEBUMPS. REVEALS he is an ADMIRER of Israel and in the CIRCLE OF TRUST with the MOSSAD😲
There never has been a political organization that despises its voters more than the neoliberal Democratic Party in 2025. It’s not even close,
So Dems dominated Tuesday, during a government shutdown, with a message of standing up and fighting this unpopular administration, and their first response is to fold to that administration’s unpopular budget demands for zero concessions? Am I getting this right?
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Another day, another video of ICE unlawfully demanding that a U.S. citizen “prove” their citizenship in the Chicago area. Reminder: In Illinois, U.S. citizens are not required to carry ID. Demanding proof of citizenship… or detaining anyone for not having it… is illegal.
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US citizens do not have to carry proof of citizenship. US citizens do not have to prove their citizenship. US citizens have a constitutional right to be left alone.
Another day, another video of ICE unlawfully demanding that a U.S. citizen “prove” their citizenship in the Chicago area. Reminder: In Illinois, U.S. citizens are not required to carry ID. Demanding proof of citizenship… or detaining anyone for not having it… is illegal.