Randy Cauthen

@cauthen.bsky.social

Rhetorician, Mets fan (it builds character), and Poet-in-Residence at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

@gtconway.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.

@drjackbrown.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

If you're in the U.S. military, and you're given an illegal order, you are *required by law* to NOT follow it. This includes ANY armed presence at polling places/voting centers.

@bstnboy.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

lardass had filed a defamation lawsuit against BBC for a documentary they televised. lardass' complaint was BBC spliced video of his Jan 6th speech from the Elipse. lardass assumed the BBC would settle, they didn't. Federal Court has now ordered depositions from Ivanka, Junior and Kushner. 🤣🤣🤣

@bad-boy-bobby.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

Never forget that Hegseth was a LEG infantry officer, was relieved as a platoon leader, was not selected for company command, was dropped on Day 2 of The Air Assault School, failed to complete Ranger School, and was kicked out of the Army ... he is the very definition of a failed officer.

@silvermansecurity.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

The real important take away here is that Green & the other elected & appointed officials, especially the Republicans, know that Trump is the source of a lot of the threats & he could stop the bulk of them. Which is why she asked him to stop & he said no. 1/

Her breaking point came after the president called her a “traitor.” Of the torrent of threats that followed, one stood out. It was aimed at her son. “That’s the one that bothers me on a visceral level,” she said. Ms. Greene reached out to Mr. Trump, hoping for compassion from a president she had stood by for years. She forwarded copies of the threats to him, hoping that seeing the threats against her family would be enough to tone down the attacks. She got a five-word reply from the president: “Your fault, you deserve it.” Weeks later, Ms. Greene announced her retirement from Congress. “I looked at what are the risks and what is the reward,” she said. “And for me, it was, I’m not going to be treated that way, and I’m not going to have my children’s lives threatened.”
@professormusgrave.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

No words better express Orwell’s argument about the deadening effects of political cliches than the repetition of “accountability”, “transparency”, and “raises questions” instead of calls for specific redress for particular harms

@mcopelov.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️

@pguist.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

Zelensky kicked the leg out from under Elon and tRump’s election interference fascist bot strategy. We are getting by with help from our friends, you are giving a weary nation hope. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

@billcorbett.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

“That's just not what we do here in this country." Translation: I’ve been politely pretending not to notice my racist, fascist political allies for my whole career, and I fucking expect you to do likewise.

driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social

"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this

@ericumansky.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

abc7.comICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEOSurveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
@brenttoderian.bsky.socialReposted by @cauthen.bsky.social

Please don’t assume anything, Alberta. Vote against the Russian and American-fuelled separation self-sabotage. Send a strong message to the rest of Canada that we’re in this together. Foreign actors want you to vote for your own Brexit or Trump… or to help them win by just staying home.

bbc.comUS and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report saysResearchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
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