From @I Fucking Love Australia

"So France just ripped out every American tech platform from their entire government. Microsoft Teams? Gone. Zoom? Fuck off. Gmail? Au revoir, dickhead.

That's 2.5 million French workers no longer using American software. France is saving 30 million dollars a year that was flowing to Silicon Valley. Germany's ditching Microsoft, saving 15 million euros. Austria, Denmark, Switzerland - all jumping ship. This is BILLIONS walking out the door. *Sidenote* (this is set to take effect in 2027)

And why? Because you absolute muppets elected a guy so fucking unhinged that Europe decided depending on American technology is a national security threat.

Trump's whole thing was bringing jobs back to America, right? Making America Great Again? Instead, this spray-tanned dipshit has fucked American tech companies so badly that Europe's spending billions to build competitors. He's literally creating rivals to Microsoft and Google through pure incompetence.

He threatened NATO allies like they're real estate he can flip, and now they're building their own internet. Microsoft's desperately trying to calm everyone down while their biggest export market walks away.

China and Russia are fucking THRILLED. Putin's praising Trump's chaos. Trump's doing more damage to American economic dominance than any foreign adversary ever could.

And the worst part? Seventy-five million Americans looked at this dumpster fire and voted for it TWICE. You elected someone so spectacularly stupid that he convinced Europe to ditch American products and build their own.

Congratulations, Trump voters. You wanted to own the libs. Instead you owned American companies out of billions, destroyed American credibility, and handed economic opportunities to our competitors.

You voted for a Mango Mussolini Oompa Loompa motherfucker with the geopolitical sophistication of a swamp turd, and now American tech companies are paying the price.

France is giving America the finger. And honestly? Trump fucking earned it."

 

These are not just uniforms, they’re reminders. Reminders of how white supremacy has hidden itself behind religion, law, and state power, claiming God’s name while denying God’s image in black bodies.

From the hood to the pulpit. From the bench to the badge. From “law and order” to “Christian values.”

Too often, the Church has been silent, or worse, sanctified injustice, confusing power with righteousness and control with holiness.

But Jesus never aligned Himself with oppression. He stood with the crucified, not the crucifies.

Any Christianity that excuses racism, blesses brutality, or defends systems that harm the least of these is not the Gospel, it’s a distortion of it.

The Church must repent, resist, and return to the liberating Jesus who came “to set the oppressed free.”

 

                                                                                    ~Bishop Talbert Swan 

The MAGA cult wants you to believe that the people in the image do not exist. They want you to believe that gun ownership on the left is nearly non-existent, and that those on the left who DO own firearms are certainly not proficient with them. They don't want you to believe this to convince YOU — they want you to believe this because they are f***ing terrified of what's in this image.

This is a counterprotest organized by a John Brown Gun Club chapter. There was a MAGA demonstration going on, and they showed up and made their presence known. There was no violence that day. And if I had to make an educated guess, I'd say these folks being armed is a major reason there was no violence. Because again, MAGA is a movement for cowards.

The simple FACT is that most right-wing nuts only feel tough when they have the upper hand. When they see photos like this, they have to call them fake, minimize their meaning, or claim these people couldn't possibly know how to use firearms. Because when the field is level, those on the right are absolutely scared out of their miniscule, drug-addled brains.

Let's be honest, the entire conservative movement is about fear. They project masculinity and courage — particularly on Facebook — but every belief they have stems from a fear of something. They create their own reality. It's why elections are "rigged," news is "fake," science is "biased," education is "indoctrination," and protesters are "paid."

Are there tough guys on the right? Absolutely. But the feigned toughness and masculinity you see on Facebook? The little men claiming the folks in this image would be dispatched posthaste? The ones who slide into the comments and your inbox with threats — convincing themselves they're tough because they talked trash on FACEBOOK?

That makes up the MAJORITY of MAGA. For f*** sake, look at their leader: a flabby, old man who has to pay for sex and never had to work a day in his life. That's why they NEED this image to be fake. They NEED these gun owners to be inexperienced. They NEED those rifles to be .22s or "dildos" (yep, that's a common reply from them in my comments).

Furthermore, they need an armed left to not exist... because if one does, there's nothing that makes them more dangerous than us. And in their petrified little brains, that's more terrifying than a familial blood test at a MAGA themed wedding.

Get armed. Get trained. Stand back and stand by.

 

United States Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein owned a business together years after Epstein was found guilty of trafficking minors the first time in 2008.

The problem? Lutnick has now been caught lying about not only his dealings with Epstein but clearly never "parted ways" like he has claimed on camera, has also been to the island and has spent significant time with Epstein. Thanks to the files he has been now caught lying about all of it.

Lutnick and Epstein each signed on behalf of limited liability companies on Dec. 28, 2012. They acquired stakes in a advertising technology company called Adfin.

Epstein and Lutnick continued to maintain their relationship for years after this including emails showing them making plans and meeting up. In December of 2012 Lutnick brought his family including their four children to visit Epstein Island.

As a Reminder Epstein also used apps like Signal and WhatApp that delete your messages within hours of being read. We are also waiting on 3 million more Epstein documents from our DOJ as well.

Lutnick needs to resign immediately and our DOJ and FBI are comromised.

 

Senator Ruben Gallego just laid out the most powerful plan yet to stop Trump from stealing the 2026 midterms—and it's breathtaking in its simplicity.

If Trump tries to "nationalize the vote" and rig our elections, Gallego says we shut it ALL down. A general strike. Nationwide.

"If you're a pilot, do not show up. If you drive a train, do not show up. If you're a teacher, do not show up. We grind the country to a halt."

And here's the part that should make every billionaire nervous: "If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that. The richest and most powerful people in the world need to understand that that is a real possibility. There is no economic stability without democratic stability."

This is what real resistance looks like. Not just protest. Not just hashtags. Total shutdown.

The message to Trump is clear: Try to steal our democracy, and we'll make sure you have nothing left to rule over.

Senator just unveiled the plan to SHUT DOWN THE COUNTRY if Trump rigs 2026:

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/.../sen-gallego-calls-for...

 

 

While discussing the SAVE Act among the right wing, they are very dubious that it is designed to disenfranchise voters.

 

To briefly recap, the SAVE Act will add a hurdle particularly to married women, who will need to trace their name change to prove citizenship.

 

This hurdle is designed to lower voter turnout among women, because over 50% of women vote Democrat.

 

How do I know this is their intention?

Gerrymandering efforts tie into this.

 

Thomas Hofeller was a GOP strategist. When he died, his daughter released all of his files.

Those files revealed the methods and intentions of GOP gerrymandering. They use demographics in this exact same manner to disenfranchise voters in red states. Demographics are everything if you want to steer the outcome of a vote.

 

If you spend the time to understand the contents of the Hofeller Files, and the GOP strategy when it comes to targeting demographics, the SAVE Act fits perfectly into their ongoing strategies.

Polling locations central to the Black demographic were closed in red states leading up to the 2024 election because over 80% of Black voters vote Democrat.

This is all fairly simple math and statistics.

 

The right likes to call me misogynistic and racist for implying Blacks are too lazy to go to a different polling locations, or that Women are too lazy to gather paperwork.

This is just basic human nature, and the road map to exploit that human nature was laid out in detail by Thomas Hofeller.

 

Republicans are digging a very deep grave for themselves.

 

Chelsea Manning revealed what modern war looks like when the cameras are not invited.

In 2010, she leaked classified military files that documented civilian deaths, torture, and rules of

engagement that contradicted public statements. The footage later known as Collateral Murder

showed civilians and journalists killed from the air, followed by laughter. The reports showed

patterns, not accidents.

The response was swift and severe.

Manning was arrested, charged under the Espionage Act, and sentenced to decades in prison.

She spent long stretches in solitary confinement. Her treatment was condemned by human

rights groups as cruel and degrading. The state framed accountability as treason. Transparency

as danger.

Public debate focused less on the evidence she exposed and more on punishing the person

who exposed it.

She was misgendered. Mocked. Reduced to a symbol rather than recognized as a

whistleblower who forced the public to confront realities hidden behind official language. The

dehumanization was not incidental. It was part of the deterrent. Make an example so others stay

silent.

The disclosures mattered. They reshaped journalism, fueled global conversations about war

crimes, and forced institutions to answer questions they had avoided for years. The cost was

not abstract. It was lived, daily, inside a cell.

Chelsea Manning did not profit from exposure. She lost freedom, safety, and privacy. What she

gained was not redemption. It was proof that truth telling carries a price precisely because it

threatens power.

Her story is not about perfection. It is about consequence. When the truth is treated as the

crime, punishment becomes the policy.

If exposing violence is labeled betrayal, what does loyalty demand we ignore?