Jackie 🕊️

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Refugee from Broligarchistan. Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-human rights & human dignity. Curating the weird & wondrous in psych, science, society & politics (mostly weird & worrisome these days).

Shocking how bad this bill is: - 17 million would lose health care - 30% higher electricity costs - Millions of manufacturing and construction jobs destroyed - Biggest ever cut in food assistance for families, kids, veterans - S4 trillion in deficits - S1 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires & billionaires People should be on the phones, in the streets, and telling everyone who'll listen
Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne
The Most Dangerous Sentence in the Merit Hiring Plan HR Page 1, bottom paragraph, Item #2: "Prevent the hiring of individuals based on their race, sex, or religion, and prevent the hiring of individuals who are unwilling to defend the Constitution OR to faithfully serve the Executive Branch;" Emphasis on OR! I'm calling this the "fascist exclusion" clause. So new hires have a choice: defend the Constitution or follow orders and defend the Executive!
Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchina was tortured in Russian captivity, and her body was returned without eyes, brain and part of the larynx. They wanted to hide the traces of torture. - Important Stories
Pete Hegseth White supremacist Christian tattoos.
Trump criminal mugshot jail. We have a convicted felon in the White House that fits the bill. And our Secretary of Defense’s tattoos could be considered more extremist than the soccer player’s soccer team tattoo.
Trump is intentionally tanking everything so he can declare a state of emergency, which is his doorway into dictatorship. He knows exactly what he's doing. It's important not to be fooled by the veil of idiocy. What he is doing is exactly what Hitler did. Trump is a great con artist, one of the best. That takes skill. Don't underestimate his abilities.
HARD TIMES CREATE STRONG MEN STRONG MEN CREATE GOOD TIMES GOOD TIMES CREATE WEAK MEN WEAK MEN CREATE HARD TIMES
Chinese Embassy in US * @C...• 47m X • • • If the U.S. truly wants to solve the #fentany! issue, then the right thing to do is to consult with China by treating each other as equals. If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end. Spokesperson发言人办公室 16h The fentanyl issue is a flimsy excuse to raise U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. Our countermeasures to defend our rights and interests are fully legitimate and necessary. The U.S., not anyone else, is responsible for the #FentanylCrisis inside the U.S. In the spirit of humanity…
JD Vance looks like serial killer John Wayne Gacy
Outside of internal challenges, the order could derail some of the command's most high-profile missions involving a top U.S. digital adversary, including in Ukraine. The command sent "hunt forward" teams to Kyiv in the run-up to the Kremlin's assault to harden its digital defenses. It has since paid close attention to how Moscow uses its digital capabilities, especially for intelligence purposes. Russia is also a bastion for cybercrime, with state-linked and criminal ransomware actors striking targets around the globe. The command has become a key player in countering the malicious activity. In addition, the stand-down order could expose private sector entities in the U.S. and around the world to greater risk if the command is not keeping Moscow's intelligence and military services, which both feature notorious hacker groups, at bay. Late last year Microsoft found Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) had targeted government employees and others in dozens of countries to gain access to their devices and systems.
If Elon was actually looking for fraud, he'd be hiring forensic accountants-not a bunch of programmers. Trump Musk Coup
Venn diagram of dystopian novels, including: 1984 BRAVE NEW WORLD THEY LIVE THE MATRIX FAHRENHEIT BRAZIL 451 ANIMAL FARM YOU ARE HERE LORD OF THE FLIES SOYLENT GREEN IDIOCRACY MAD MAX Hunger Games as commentary on what’s happening in the United States. Broligarchy, kleptocracy, tech bros, Musk coup, Trump Admin, Project 2025, disinformation.
who say Elon Musk's neo-Nazi ideology is just a troll and not a deeply held belief, I give you the reality of what happens when you give him this kind of unchecked power. This is who he is, and it's also who he associates with. Essential we discuss it as it is instead of whitewashing. Chad Loder @chadloder.... • 14h NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev
Michael McFaul @McFaul In 2012, when I was the US ambassador to Russia, Putin shut down USAID inside Russia. Why? Because their work supported free markets, democracy, human rights —ie causes that threatened Putins dictatorship. Shutting down USAID is exactly what autocrats all over the world want.
Ambassador McFaul: In 2012, when I was the US ambassador to Russia, Putin shut down USAID inside Russia. Why? Because their work supported free markets, democracy, human rights —ie causes that threatened Putins dictatorship. Shutting down USAID is exactly what autocrats all over the world want.
Yes, Musk Once Posted It Would Take Airplane Crash To End 'Crazy' DEI Hiring Policy Users resurfaced the year-old post after U.S. President Donald Trump baselessly blamed DEI for a deadly midair collision in January 2025. Elon Musk posted on X in January 2024, regarding aviation hiring, "It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE." A claim circulating online in late January 2025 alleged Elon Musk, the tech entrepreneur heading up the new U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, once posted on X that it would take an airplane crash for the government to end a "crazy" hiring policy involving diversity, equity and inclusion. Users on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and X shared the claim about the purported Musk post, which read, "It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE." The text featured a misspelling of DEI. The rumor Musk created the post was true. He posted (archived) the message on Jan. 9, 2024, in response to a user who, according to NBC News, speculated United Airlines pilots who went to historically Black colleges and universities would score lower than the average of IQ of Air Force pilots. That user later deleted their post.
Photo: Insurgents at the White House on January 6th. Putin’s loyalists don’t just jail journalists, political opponents and critics. Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered on Putin’s birthday. Boris Nemtsov was visibly executed near the Kremlin. Others were poisoned, etc. This is the slippery slope America must NEVER slide down. #politics #tyranny
PayPal was founded by Max Levchin- not Musk. Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning- not Musk. SpaceX is successful because of engineer Tom Mueller- not Musk. Elon Musk has never invented anything. He's never designed anything He's never been an innovator for anything.
“The Crisis” by Thomas Paine December 23, 1776 “THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.”
Trump desires the same treatment from Americans that Kim Jong Un receives from North Koreans.
“I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. “ So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” -Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
Putin's spy chief Nikolay Patrushev says Russia helped Trump win the Presidential election and makes a veiled threat that Trump must now deliver the agreed-upon quid pro quo.
Russia elated with Trump’s win and expect a debt to be paid back.
Do not obey in advance. Resist. Do not offer an oppressive government what it wants. Do not anticipate its needs and offer up what you think it wants. To do so teaches power what it can do.
Allowing the participant to instruct an assistant to press the shock switches diffused personal responsibility and likely reduced perceptions of causing direct harm. By attributing the actions to the assistant rather than themselves, participants could more easily justify shocking to the maximum 450 volts, reflected in the 92.5% obedience rate. When there is less personal responsibility, obedience increases. This relates to Milgram’s Agency Theory.