Notices by Simplicator (simplicator@federate.social)

@inthehands & even when Trump & co. do cross Dems’ red line? 🦗🦗🦗 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/23/2318203/-Trump-crossed-Schumer-s-explicit-red-line-on-ending-democracy-Schumer-crickets

“This was a deal between Schumer and Thune to allow a brief performative episode to throw Democratic voters off the scent while the Democratic caucus allowed the bill to pass. The deal is this: Democrats agree to give up the 60 vote threshold in exchange for being allowed to offer amendments to the House bill. … It doesn’t even matter what they are. But this is all for show. Once you give up the 60 vote threshold the whole thing is over.” #USPol https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-kabuki-cave

@AnarchoNinaWrites In addition to people never fundamentally questioning inculcated capitalist ideology, in conversations with several people I’ve found that what it comes down to for them is existential fear of the wealthy flipping the table on society, so they comply in advance. & they get mad at anyone who doesn’t.

@Mabande @thelinuxEXP @aral

@QasimRashid Gotta say, like #EmmaVigeland said on the #MajorityReport, disappointed to see #AOC Mon. toe the Biden/Harris admin. line on Gaza. I know that’s the price of speaking on stage, but wish really she hadn’t agreed to validate the admin.’s genocidal policy.

@inthehands Huh. I think something like that happened with him supposedly getting out in front of Obama on support for gay marriage

@rayckeith Minus tracking crud :) https://x.com/sarahtaber_bww/status/1813656180528755061

@thejapantimes No more environmental destruction

@mekkaokereke Exactly, it was obvious at the time, Fauci et al. worked backward from “shortage of N95s, save them for health care workers” to “the general public wouldn’t get any benefit b/c they don’t know how to wear them properly” all the way to “if you’re not a health care worker, you don’t need one.”

@jalcine A horrific follow-up to US agents using a vaccination program as a cover for finding bin Laden in Pakistan :( https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/05/20/314231260/cia-says-it-will-no-longer-use-vaccine-programs-as-cover

@WarnerCrocker Will be voting for Dems, but they couldn’t be bothered to protect the oh so holy Constitution either, focusing on “kitchen table issues” (read: running the empire) & only impeaching Trump half-assed after they were politically forced to, twice. Heard it in almost so many words directly from a Dem leadership staffer. Oh & the Constitution is rigged against the public interest, it’s not democracy

@SallyStrange @aral @lhgmk2 @Kierkegaanks
🎵 Home, home on the range
Where the cows and the chickens share hay
Where seldom is heard
A pandemic-precaution-ist word
And denial keeps the inspectors at bay! 🎵

#BirdFlu #HomeOnTheRange