Notices by Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)

The most coherent words I heard out of a counter-protester yesterday were “what don’t you Marxists get a job.” (The tech-woman standing with me retired with a $20 million nest egg). That’s what we’re up against. Fox News has created a nation of morons so my mind numbingly …

How much is the deck stacked against us, friends? This much ⏵

This is the front page of today’s #BrokenNYTimes, the page most people go to (not the /US/ page).

Notice anything missing?

(Hint: On what recent day was the largest one-day protest in US history?)

Nope. Gorbachev was one of the few leaders of any persuasion to voluntarily give up power. It just doesn’t happen. But most Americans get their history from TV shows and social media. They have few frames of reference for anything happening to us.

https://mastodon.social/@meltedcheese@c.im/115401849944620818

https://www.threads.com/@gtconway3/post/DP9q5-zkh0Z

While I applaud the effort, I never liked the name #NoKings Day. It puts focus on Trump. And he’s not the problem. It’s the MAGA movement, the @GOP, the lawless corpocracy behind both, and this preposterous party primary system that’s the problem. The event should be renamed…

You know the interest in #October18 its pretty high when the Speaker of the House is this panicked about it . Kudos to @indivisibleteam for being the only ones doing jack shit about any of this rolling coup of incompetent facists in a clown car.

I hope you all plan to show up for a change. Stop letting others try to save this democracy. It’s one fucking day out of your life. Not even a whole day. So shit-can your cynicism and show the fuck up. And drag your friends and families with you. …

Yes, we should be 50 million strong every goddamn weekend. But I’ll settle for one weekend at that scale.

https://www.nokings.org/

I’m not a fan of most political stunts but this one is brilliant poetry. My only criticism is that it’s too small. It should be 50 ft High and 150 ft long. I just hope they’ve got the ephemera ready to educate the media about why they’re doing it. Not that much media will care.

https://twitter.com/MilaLovesJoe/status/1975408856344977910 As her account is infamous for, @milalovesJoe makes another of her famous trite reworkings of an easily debunked premise.

It all sounds reasonable until you realize it’s a completely false equivalence. Flying, buying beer, or gambling are optional privileges. Voting is a constitutional right. Any barrier to exercising that right has to meet a much higher legal and moral standard.

“Voter ID” laws don’t stop fraud — which is statistically near zero — but they are …

days telling these lies because our media social media is so bad at debunking them. I’m not.

She won’t respond, because the people who fed her this nonsense don’t have a response.)

proven to discourage or stop eligible voters. Millions of Americans don’t have current photo IDs, especially seniors, students, poor, rural, and minority citizens. Getting one can mean taking off work, paying fees, or traveling hours to a DMV.

That’s why these laws are called regressive: they solve a fake problem by making it harder for certain groups to vote. In a democracy, the burden should be on the government to make voting easier, not harder.

(Propagandists like this woman spend their …

If someone “famous” said all this, folks would be all over it. But will your average celebrity repost it? Nah. So most of you won’t either. Because as @driftglass likes to say, I’m not in the club. And neither are you. You’re eyeballs that pay mortgages.

https://bsky.app/profile/shoq.bsky.social/post/3m2ff3e7key2i

https://www.threads.com/@shoqv4/post/DPZwcMvEklf

Much MAGA clout grew from from these mega-churches with their predators, and scumbags. Thesists have always been history’s greatest suckers, but white American Christians take it to a new level.

Texas megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-megachurch-pastor-sexual-abuse-oklahoma-0ca16aa31d9d8e5a810d1e1e3483dce4?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

If I was a better writer and had the time, I think the book I would write is:

Call: Tell me what fascism looks like.
Response: This is what fascism looks like.

YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle Trump lawsuit | CNN Business

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/29/business/youtube-settle-trump-lawsuit

Dems should havie public investigations every day. They don’t need Republicans. Official hearings don’t mean shit now. Public awareness is the goal. By any means necessary.

Armed Guards & Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Deets
https://www.wired.com/story/armed-guards-muscle-milk-senate-investigation-doge-takeover-details/

The right always exaggerated cancel culture on the left, but it’s pretty clear they were always projecting their wish to do the same. Sadder is that many on the Left had warned that the Right would eventually be better at it. And now they are.

https://bsky.app/profile/techmeme.com/post/3lzjn5iwsio2t

How Charlie Kirk Planned to Discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act.

“a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”

https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-tpusa-mlk-civil-rights-act/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

It astounds me how many people I know have never really listened to this song, nor seen this video. Eminem - The Real Slim Shady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJO5HU_7_1w