Rit Fuller
Grumpy ol' Marine Vietnam vet.
Misspent youth in saloons/pool halls drinkin & chasing women[chaste and unchaste], worse yet - was a damned Republican until a couple of decades ago - Sorry about that last one.
- Back-to-back headlines on Washpost homepage tonight
- Imagine writing headlines while missing the real story.
- If Barack Obama had appeared in a photo like this, Republicans would have impeached him and then someone would have assassinated him.
- Trump has no principles that guide him other than 'what is good for Trump'... no interest in any of the things he does other than 'what is good for Trump.' The only thing he is thinking is 'I want a Nobel.' He'll scattershot his efforts hoping to hit something that will get him that Nobel.
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- You prove my point. And do remember that your replying to a Husky fan. How many is that we have??? Hmmm, an even dozen.
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- All true, but her real interest is in clicks, not points, not blocks... her rebounding record has already been shown to have been cooked. Rebounding one's own misses and extra time on court to pad stats is not what real bball players do. People like Reese only slow the WNBAs ascent.
- Been a fan of women's bball years before Geno walked onto UConn's campus. I am a husky fan thru and thru, but I'm even more a fan of women's sports. Which is why I dislike those like Reese that make a mockery of women's sports... they produce more clickbait than blocks, steals, passes, or points.
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- Vought is a truly evil person. Hope we survive to see the day when he and his gang of goons stand trial.
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- Do not welcome these white supremacists.
- BREAKING: Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case, allowing charges to continue
- The judge repeatedly made it clear that the agents were not to make the arrest in the courtroom. This judge sent the target out another door that led to. Da da da dah,,, the very same hallway that the majority of the agents were already standing in. One agent rode the elevator down with the target.
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- Exactly. Dems have seemingly abandoned the notion that they too can affect the issue through constructing their own story that binds together the principles Dems value. Then each daily 'fact' tossed out there would be in support of that larger story. Instead, Dems argue on turf prepared by MAGA.
- my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
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View full threadWe've forgotten that we can draw a big picture too. MAGA's narrative on immigration tells a story of immigrants destroying America / killing your loved ones. Every 'fact' they toss in supports that narrative. We've no counter narrative that tells a story of USA thriving w/ increased immigration.
- Dems have no overarching story that encompasses decency, empathy, compassion, success through publicly funded preparation, and the ties that bind us. We can't even explain why fascism is bad for the very people that are supporting it & that is because people don't know who we are and what guides us.
- part of my frustration is that this proscription doesn’t really take account of our fractured media environment and the inchoate nature of “moderate” as a label.
- I'd ask Dems - why are you ceding the narrative to MAGA? Instead of shaping the issue, Dems seem ready, if not eager, to acquiesce to the MAGA narrative on every topic leaving Dems to fight on turf prepared by MAGA - a sure loser. Take immigration - why not reset the narrative w/ our own narrative.
- I'm tired of writing it... you're tired of reading it... but here goes again... these people are fucking fascists.
- BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
- These people are the exact opposite of the immigrant we should be encouraging to come to our country... the exact opposite of the immigrant we should be allowing into our country. In direct contrast to other immigrant populations, these people should not be welcomed.
- Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House with David Yaffe-Bellany www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
- You don't say... "Creates a Foreign Influence" OPPORTUNITY... really? An opportunity? Tell me it ain't so, Joe! Your word choice is an example of 'washing.' It would be generous to call it anodyne. Language matters Eric, word choice is important. You are blowing it. Report and explain honestly.
- Anduril founder Palmer Luckey says the US should “expand our naval base on Guantanamo Bay into Liberty City [ie, a ‘freedom city’], an American Singapore of the Caribbean.” Anduril is backed by Tech Bros Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen who support aspiring “network states” via Pronomos Capital. 1/
- Palmer Luckey? Seriously? For anyone out there that doesn't know who Luckey is, please look up this lunatic. Dive deep... He's a real beaut.
- CREW spokesperson Jordan Libowitz: "At this point, it’s impossible to tell the difference between decisions being made by the White House for the good of the country and for the good of the Trump Organization." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
- No, it's not. It's been clear from the earliest days of Trump Regime 2.0 that there have been no decisions made by this White House for the good of the country.
- Further flirtation by the administration with the unlawful misuse of wartime authorities to deal with migrants—already a reoccurring theme of Trump 2.0. www.crisisgroup.org/united-state...
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- Agreed. One look and it's obvious that these are larpers who've been handed badges... or at least allowed to supply their own homemade badges, surplus store tactical gear, and fishing gaiters. Regardless of who they are, we need to identify them for future court appearances where karma shows up.
- A key element of the administration’s repurposing of wartime and counterterrorism framings to other ends is aesthetic. Here ICE agents are kitted out like wannabe GWOT operators while conducting a raid in the badlands of the Berkshires. www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/ice...
- Can someone identify these agents? We'll need their identities when accountability visits them as they stand trial in a court. Nuremberg.
- Donald Trump just ordered the Department of Homeland Security to add 20,000 officers to the country's deportation forces. You can expect more of this—in neighborhoods across America. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Does anyone recognize these men? We will need their identities in order to hold them accountable in court once fascism has burned itself out or we stamp it out. Nuremberg.
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- If Donald wasn't wealthy, she'd be loath to be within a mile of him, she'd more likely be getting her 'expenses' paid by Elon to mother his legion of white male babies.
- “Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
- “Abolish ICE” was the moderate position a year ago. “Prosecute every ICE employee under RICO” was radical position a few months ago... now it's the moderate position, moving quickly into the only rational position.
- "Corgis rule everything around me."
- "can I bum a smoke?"
- Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
- Good grief... she doesn't understand much about anything, does she?
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- The police in America are certainly not our best and brightest... neither are they capable of empathy, honesty, or good will towards their fellow human beings.
- 🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement. This is child abuse. This is state terror. Worcester police are complicit.
- Cop riot. Identify them so that they can be held accountable in a court of law. -- violating constitutional rights is a sure path to losing qualified immunity in court.
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- Is there anyone out there that can identify those agents? When this iteration of fascism burns itself out, we'll need the identities of those involved in order to hold them accountable in a court of law. Nuremberg!
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- She's also bullish on sulfur & methane ice cream. Just another case of greed outpacing honesty.
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- The era of the grift.
- Israel laid out its harrowing plan to take Palestinian territories in 2017. Now it is happening | Ofer Cassif
- Won't be surprised to discover that Bibi and goons like Smotrich had a hand in 7-Oct. We know that Israeli intelligence warned Bibi & gang of a Hamas build up of arms and of movements that were indicative of an impending assault. What else did they do to move to the destruction of Palestinian Gaza?
- Several Columbia Univ student journalists are suspended after covering protests (while wearing press ID) in the main library. Their access to campus is blocked, and they can't take final exams. Also: Columbia's acting president is a former ABC journalist www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...
- Vichy Columbia! When this era of Fascism comes to an end, courtroom accountability will visit those who collaborated.
- THIS IS NOT NORMAL Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation #immigration
- Everyone needs to break out their cellphones to capture the faces[or any body features if masked] of those agents/officers that go hands-on in order to identify those who will need to face accountability in a court of law ala Nuremberg. "Just following orders" won't cut it.
- these agents and everyone up the chain of command need to be investigated and prosecuted
- THIS IS NOT NORMAL Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation #immigration
- We'll need the identities of every person that played a role in this...we know the big names, it's the front line, hands-on goons identities we'll need for trials ala Nuremberg. If anyone out there knows these people, keep a list for later prosecution.
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- Those that spoke the truth, those that sought the truth, those that followed the law, all have reason to fear persecution.
- This is so insanely stupid. Every group excluded means we miss out on the top tier talent each group has within its ranks.
- Disney strikes distribution agreement with Newsmax, will add cable news channel to Hulu with Live TV in July.
- Inching closer to dropping my subscription to Disney streaming. It's pretty simple; I want less fascism, not more.
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- Well, he blew up supply chains last time through his unimaginable incompetence in handling C19. In this buffoon's mind, a second time will be a charm.
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- Having spent my life developing compilers, OSs, VMs, DBMSs, and such, if search engines continue their downward slide into bellybutton lint, I will use them less. If AI search engines become the norm, I will have been forced to abandon the net altogether. Don't need a mountain of rubbish in my life.
- One America News, the amateurish far-right TV outlet best known for promoting Trump’s 2020 election lies, is going to provide “newsfeed services” to VOA and other US-funded international broadcasters, Kari Lake says. It's a big step toward turning the Voice of America into the Voice of Trump.
- Well, this will certainly boost our allies efforts to disconnect from an unstable, propagandistic America.
- Report: Sue Bird to become managing director of USWNT reut.rs/4d1Jfyq
- I remember when she was recruited by UConn. It was clear very early on that her ceiling was stratospheric. Count me as unsurprised that she has become the directer of USWNT. Well earned.
- As someone who has several upcoming plane trips, this does not fill me with confidence
- As a pilot: these are the last people I want tinkering with the National Airspace System.
- Same. I dropped my ticket some time ago, but this gang of knownothings is pretty much the last bunch I would trust to tinker with the system. I'll be flying Crusaders, Corsairs, and Phantoms in Il Sturmovik until further notice.
- really good piece from @anamariecox.bsky.social on how "content shaped by data, optimized for clicks, intellectually bereft, and emotionally sterile" is undermining the arts and creating space for hard-right politics: newrepublic.com/article/1935...
- It's always been messaging. The hard RW created the perimeters of a narrative where all twisted facts support the needs of the right wing storyteller. Everything else is discarded and demonized. This leaves the left to right on turf created by the right. That's always a loser. The left has no story.
- The maddest tweet you'll see all day
- This is a positive... when quacks realize that venerable awards are not for quacks, the sun shines a bit brighter.
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- Some sanity enters the building. Punishing people who are protesting the annihilation of their families is a dangerous step to take if one believes in decency, honesty, and the rule of law. Their is no room in rule of law for political prosecutions.
- An online fundraiser purported to be for a woman in Minnesota who admitted in a viral video to calling a child the N-word at a public park has garnered more than $675,000 in donations, many of which came with comments espousing white supremacist views.
- Yup, America is a very, very sick nation. But then we already knew that because this nation elected Trump twice. That stain will never wash out.
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- Angel Reese is not a BBall player, she is a self-indulgent media chaser. It's not about points or blocks for her, it's about clicks and ridiculous stories mentioning her like this one. Hey, CT, do better.
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- Has there ever been a more overrated player? If you would like a good chuckle, watch her shoot. The play in the WNBA is damned good with many great players, but this nonsense surrounding attention craving Reese is getting old.
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- We are where we are at today in large part because of News media reporting on Trump as a ratings machine rather than reporting on him honestly. The news media has failed America... Will it ever shoot straight? Hard questioning of both sides is rubbish if one side is doing damage and the other isn't.
- An email containing plans to slash 150 Health and Human Services research projects was mistakenly sent to grant recipients.
- Cruelty and incompetence... what a wonderful combo.
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- Got a problem with prisons,.,. MS-13 gonna gitcha! Got a problem with polling numbers,.,. MS-13 is gonna gitcha! Got a problem with the economy.,., MS-13 is gonna gitcha! Got a problem with a moron blurting our something stupid in a nationally televised interview.,., MS-13 gonna gitcha!
