Notices by Spocko (spocko@mastodon.online)

Marcy @emptywheel says the anti-Trump pundit class are missing what's happening because they're immersed in media that spends their time complaining about Chuck Schumer.

Watch live 5PT https://youtu.be/STCWDD9vsRU?si=RoR6Nva0EdwQb8GG or go to nicolesandler.com @nicolesandler so YOU know what is going on!
@lolgop @GottaLaff

No Kings, in the US.

#MontyPython

@steter Agreed.
The strategy that I'm working is to use the goals of the people working for corporations (make money) and show that NOT KILLING PEOPLE, is good for business.
What is the bizarre balancing act now, is that even though NOT KILLING PEOPLE AND making money are on the same page for them, they are afraid to say it when it goes against what Trump wants.

@GottaLaff

People dying in plane & helicopter crashes is a BAD thing.
But for Musk, #starlink, SpaceX & GrokAI it's a GOOD opportunity to take control of the FAA, cut regulations & make money.

So why aren't the airlines, the pilot's union, & corps like Verizon, publicly trying to stop Musk & #DOGE? Fear of retaliation.

How do we get corps & their lobbyists to publicly stand up to Trump? Show that passenger deaths are BAD for the stock market & airlines' bottom lines.

https://digbysblog.net/2025/05/07/creating-stories-in-a-world-where-fear-of-retaliation-is-real/ @GottaLaff

This Onion story, that MUSK and #DOGE are assembling a revenge porn database, is hilarious!

Plus, it has no parallels in real life with DOGE & Musk gathering all our personal data and financial information.
#TheOnion

My new morning ritual involves only watching funny videos or dance videos.
This is why I also post #Funny things here. Or photos Io Grace Kelly.

@GottaLaff Yesterday
@nicolesandler hosted
Weird Violet, who is an Arizona activist for the 5051 Movement.
https://www.youtube.com/live/ZGY3SQBPP70?si=ysu_6ubB6So3_Vya&t=1100

She suggested people go to
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events to find a local event for #MAYDAY2025
I'll be at mine!

This Bond villian was an industrialist who owned a spaceplane manufacturer.

He hired dozens of genetically perfect young men & women & hid them on his space station.

He planned to kill the human race, using a deadly nerve gas, delivered by his satellites.

When the humans died, he planned to repopulate the planet with his master race.

#BondVillian #MoonRaker

It's been a rough day. I can only handle fun #dog videos like this one.
#DogsOfMastodon

I'm getting my 2000 Toyota Camery smog checked. I'm happy to do it.

Passing laws to reduce smog worked, & I helped!

That DOESN'T MEAN we should get rid of those REGULATIONS now.

We saved the ozone layer by regulating chlorofluorocarbons.
We doesn't mean we stop those regulations now.

This is obvious to me, but some people don't know. Others take it for granted.

Before people break out the "Yah but..." on what still needs to be done, talk about the successes! We did these things!

It's not a school bus, it's a COOL bus.
I'm guessing this bus is LEAVING school.

The Circle of Life under Trump.
h/t @nicolesandler

Musk & DOGE are disrupting Federal computers on purpose & people will die.

We'll be told it was "an accident" a " mistake" & they'll fix it promptly.

But they won't stop.

The GOP will say DOGE is Necessary,
Tech Bros will defend the use of AI in DOGE.

The media will give #Musk the benefit of the doubt.

Then more will die.
"It wasn't intentional!" Fox will say & downplay the deaths
I'd ask JD Vance, "How many have to die until you stop Musk, #DOGE, & Vought to complete Thiel's plan?"

Corporations will not publicly complain about #Tarriffs to the media because of fear of retaliation.
But they WILL complain to Trump, to ask for a deal.

@juddlegum called 100 of the largest American companies & asked

Do you support the tariffs announced by President Trump on April 2?

These are tariffs that have already destroyed trillions of shareholder value

NOT ONE COMPANY WOULD ANSWER THE QUESTION
https://popular.info/p/trump-tariffs-corporations-cower

How do we use this information?

On the #SanFrancisco bus on the way to the #HandsOff Protest.
Hands off of
Our Freedom
Our Democracy
our Bodies
our Rights

Nerd Reich

#HandsOff Protest in #SanFrancisco
April 5, 2025

@spocko holding a sign that reads,

DOGE Boys, Hands Off
ALL our computer systems

My favorite sign read:

Even the Buddhists are upset.

I loved how his companion gave the Vulcan salute!

This is what I'll be wearing at this Saturday's #HandsOFF rally.

My sign will be:

DOGE: Hands Off Social Security Computer Systems.

Find your rally here;
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

#HandsOffSocialSecurity
#StarTrek #TNG #MaskUP

I always heard that "touching Social Security was the third rail of politics". then why is #Musk
& #DOGE not being electrocuted?

I think part of it is how cuts are started, then stopped after a backlash, so people think the problem has been fixed. But it just let's them adapt their approach.

If I called my MAGA Rep to complain they could say, "Your Social Security benefits won't be cut." (What is not said is "yet." or never)
So we need to keep pressuring them.
https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/26/nobody-voted-to-cut-social-security/

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

via Matt Novak @paleofuture
#Tufts

It's time to give #PeteHegseth the axe!
(No, not like last time!)

From Jan 15, 2025, A Closer Look on
Late Night with Seth Meyers
written by @salgentile

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxj6trM5Vxn1NjGFVoSrnROKolioj9FKhK?si=wbGFoOYVdku7ZGOq

@nicolesandler read the Atlantic story by Jeffrey Goldberg on the show The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in #yemen
https://www.youtube.com/live/WeFDr3bmg-A?si=Pt3RFPBEIW5Bg6qT

Read #Atlantic Archive link:
https://archive.ph/Y97wY