Notices by Spocko (spocko@mastodon.online)

Question: I just saw a video of a politician lying. He made specify lies about NIH funding, SNAP funding & cuts to his state's rural healthcare.
If someone was there, who knew the topics & situation, they could question him in real time.
But these days politicians spin & lie without consequences.

Pointing out the lies isn't enough, someone needs to connect his support for Musk & DOGE to the NIH cuts, which were NOT RESTORED, like he said.
I don't want to do the work, but someone should.

Remember the movie Dave? The President had a stroke and his staff covered it up & used a body double to fool people.
That movie came out in 1993.

In an era of social media, where everyone has a camera in their hand & access to the media, you would think it would be harder to hide something like that. But people will do a lot to hold onto power.

You might have seen the RW extremist group Patriot Front, wearing their face masks & khakis, march in DC. They are a horrible group but aren't stupid. They use the law & law enforcement’s fear of prosecuting them to get away with the crimes they commit. I learned of them from Task Force Butler. They work all the angles to hold them accountable. @TeamTFButler really understands how to fight this RW group. In 2024 I talked to @MattBinder about them & how to defeat them. https://www.spockosbrain.com/2024/01/24/2-ways-to-defeat-the-white-nationalist-morons-in-the-patriot-front/

Former Miss Switzerland reveals she was sexually assaulted by Trump in 1993.

EXCLUSIVE: Beatrice Keul says #Trump sexually assaulted her after a 1993 beauty pageant, then warned her not to speak out. https://thepunchup.substack.com/p/trump-allegedly-threatened-beauty/

Keul says Trump first “jumped” on her, kissed her, & tried to lift her dress. “He was grabbing & touching my body everywhere he could,” she claims, adding, “It was violent, it was quick, it was intense. I was screaming for help, & nobody came. It was bad.”
@ktdoggett

A beautiful family reunion in the Mission.

#SanFrancisco #CyberTruck

A little girl feeding a hummingbird.

#BirdsOfMastodon
Found at Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1udtv6c/shell_never_forget_this_moment/

Free Bird Energy from A Cat Named Calvin.

From this YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@catnamedcalvin
#CatsOfMastodon

"The government's being run by Stephen Miller, who is a white supremacist.
Close to the election he'd ask me for retweets almost every day..
He sent me a text 'We need to get the white men out to vote. This will be white boy November revenge of the Kens.'
I have those texts." Ashley St. Clair, brand ambassadors for MAGA.
She's since renounced her actions & is exposing the movement & #ElonMusk , the father of her youngest child.
The whole Wajahat Ali interview is GREAT!
https://open.substack.com/pub/thelefthook/p/how-elon-musk-and-the-maga-hate-machine

"I was doing okay until I woke up."
Nancy speaks for me.

with a shout out to @Mrfunkedude and this thing we call #Life
#comics #Nancy

#Jan6th Cop beaters like Daniel Rodriguez, who tased Officer Fanone, are eligible for the #SlushFund
Do Republicans like #Nebraska Rep Don Bacon approve of that? He said there should be accountability for people who hit cops on Jan6th. But Trump pardoned them. #ToddBlanche say they can apply to get money.
Today on the @nicolesandler show @emptywheel explains how the slush fund started & how to get GOP Reps to oppose it publicly.

On YouTube 3PM ET to 415ish https://youtube.com/@nicolesandler?si=pb6c8RAcQHTpOFB-

When is it time to arrest #Trump & put him in handcuffs?
The 1st answer was 2017, when I posted this. The 2nd answer is NOW!!

“The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy,” he told lawmakers. “If y’all could give us less than zero seats, you would do it.”

“There will be no more of your party,” he said. “The midterms gonna come, y’all gonna get wiped out,”
A #Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivers a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing GOP of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/P58otkVgZ2U

@skinnylatte if you go all the way to Pier 45 you can go to the Musee Mecanique cool things to photograph!

People probably aren't seeing it here but on X & Facebook there's a Troll campaign to blame Warren & Buttigieg for #Spirit shutting down. They don't want to acknowledge it's Trump's war in Iran & blocking the Strait of Hormuz that's causing the spike in the price of jet fuel.

@emptywheel is mocking them there reminding them that last week Trump said he wanted a bail out because of Competition & jobs.
Here's the clip. 59sec
"I like having a lot of airlines, so it's competitive."

I love SciFi. I really liked The Boys, but I'm having a hard time with this season. TO MUCH LIKE REAL LIFE!

When I say #TheBoys this season is too much like real life, I mean how it is portraying the way powerful people are operating in America. The storyline from last season, where they were planning to put people in private prisons started it. But now they are doing it.

The Pope is Woke! When I saw the Chicago White Sox had a Pope hat giveaway, I wanted one, but I can't get one yet, so I photoshopped one on my head.
#StarTrek
https://zerelam.com/product/2026-white-sox-pope-hat-giveaway/

Someone said they wouldn't want to sit behind a guy wearing one at a game, & #PopeLeo agrees, here he is in a #WhiteSox hat! Such a considerate Pontiff!

What does this #Iran agreement mean? #BarronTrump has 2 more weeks to enlist!

 (Also, new rules allow enrollment in the military for people 42 years old, so Eric can fight for freedom wherever there's trouble, GI Dough is there!)

Can we use the #25Amendment to remove a President?
My friend Barbara Hall produced this Madam Secretary episode in 2018. It explained what has to happen & who has to do it.

In 2018 Rep. Jamie Raskin tried to update the law so Congress could be involved & informed about the President's health, but it failed. We need it now.
#Iran #TrumpIsInsane

I have clips from the episode in my piece. Unlike our current REALITY, the #TrumpCabinet won't follow the Constitution. https://crooksandliars.com/2018/01/tutorial-how-remove-president-25th

I read a report the F-15 WSO was recovered alive. It's NOT verified. However, I asked @glennkirschner2 & @emptywheel if the Iranians HAD captured him, could they kill him?

OR would he have rights as a prisoner of war, based on the #GenevaConvention ?

Whiskey Pete said "no mercy, no quarter to our enemies" which, if followed, means POWs can be killed.

When the US blows up a boat, we kill the survivors. If the US doesn't follow intl law, & no one enforces it, does it matter what we do?