Notices by Lurkle DEI makes life great (lurkle@mstdn.social), page 3

"It’s tempting to compare Republicans to Prussian aristocrats in 1930s Germany. But Prussian aristocrats were more responsible."

https://digbysblog.net/2025/02/20/those-leopards-are-just-so-damn-hungry/

"“In private, Republicans talk about their fear that Trump might incite his MAGA followers to commit political violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions,” Sherman continues"

https://digbysblog.net/2025/02/20/trump-is-a-russian-puppet/

They are LOSING. Don’t give in now.

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/02/russia-turns-donkeys-amid-vehicle-shortage

@incoherentmumblings @Jimijamflimflam @HistoPol

“As with the presidential memorandum, the guiding concept of the Izborsk policy paper was that Russia should seize some Ukrainian territory and then wait for the state to collapse.”

— The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
https://a.co/cTFOdBN

@incoherentmumblings @Jimijamflimflam @HistoPol

“Even as Russian troops were mobilizing to invade Ukraine and overturn its government, Lavrov presented Russia as the victim. The true aggressors, according to Lavrov, were the international gay lobbyists who “propagated with missionary insistence both inside their own countries and in relations with neighbors.” Surkov left Kyiv on February 15.”

— The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
https://a.co/dhcexei

@incoherentmumblings @Jimijamflimflam @HistoPol And blocked.

@incoherentmumblings @Jimijamflimflam @HistoPol

“The Izborsk Club also proposed that Russian television channels justify the intervention in Ukraine by the deliberate, premeditated fiction that “a fascist coup is coming”; this would indeed be a major line of Russian propaganda once war began.”

— The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
https://a.co/cpqG2ZP

@incoherentmumblings @Jimijamflimflam @HistoPol This was not a spontaneous uprising in Crimea.

@incoherentmumblings @Jimijamflimflam @HistoPol Crimea was in fact invaded by Russia.

@steter

@HistoPol The clear message of the United States under Trump is that your only hope for sovereignty is nuclear weapons.

Trumpism: “We must drain the swamp and end government corruption.”

*Trump charges Secret Service millions at 5x going rate to stay at his hotels.*

*Trump minions destroy free tax e-filing.*

*Trump books military flights for deportations that cost 100x a chartered flight.*

*Trump makes citizens pay $15M so he can see half the Super Bowl.*

*Bannon pleads guilty to bilking donors out of millions of dollars.*

Trumpism: “We must drain the swamp and end government corruption.”

The people accessing your most personal financial records illegally but with Musk’s enthusiastic backing are digital droogs. // @briankrebs

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/

#PresidentMusk

Sorry, folks. He’s your president now.

“Republicans who want Musk and Doge to have ‘a lot’ of influence dropped from 47% post-election to 26%”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/trump-musk-support-poll

Fucking geniuses.

https://www.latintimes.com/irs-employees-who-took-trump-buyout-ordered-stay-told-their-work-too-essential-574822

Reminder: the money President Musk is “cutting” from the government is going straight into his pocket via Trump’s tax cuts. YOU aren’t saving a dime.

Maybe you think it’ll trickle down to you? Sorry to tell you, but economic inequality is near record highs and is only growing. More money just makes it more possible for them to drive in the wedge.

Meanwhile, Waffle House is charging extra for each egg you eat.

You can still wake up and see reality.

The brownshirts are on the move.

"In South Carolina, Sean-Michael Johnson, 33, was charged with kidnapping and impersonating a police officer after allegedly detaining a group of Latino men along a Charleston County road. Johnson is accused of “willfully and unlawfully presenting himself as an ICE Agent and detaining a vehicle of individuals from moving,” according to court records."

https://www.kcci.com/article/ice-impersonation-arrests-migrant-fears/63678839

"Previous posts reveal that Righini had been unemployed and unable to find a job for a long time and that he had been attempting to start his own Trump-themed cannabis seed line."

If you haven't watched "The Insurrectionists Next Door," I really recommend it -- there's a very particular kind of vulnerable person Trumpism has been cultivating, and it is scary as hell.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/trumpist-dies-simultaneously-shooting

@shansterable @MxVerda I'm old enough to remember when quality masks were hard to come by at the beginning of the pandemic. And I imagine what it will be like when bird flu starts and this ostrich administration is in chage of responding.