2026-03-20T15:51:37Z https://yabu.me Matthew Sheffield https://yabu.me/npub1t4p0etmcuzf0mxhw4s76mjrjngr7zcwdefp8n9y0e8sjfj0tvu3ql25qhu https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/478/299/original/97240df961a44d3b.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/478/299/original/97240df961a44d3b.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdpxrdn730zle57fp2qkl3sgmtv8r9a95fna6hqupd7zy2jvd0wtgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjypze796 Trump&#39;s poll numbers are the lowest ever. Even Republicans are admitting the obvious now that the country is on the wrong track. <br/><br/>He&#39;s killed the economy, killed our respect around the world, and declared war on freedom of speech. <br/><br/>2026 looking like a blue wave. Never stop attacking and stay vigilant. <br/><br/><a href="https://apnorc.org/projects/pessimism-about-the-direction-of-the-country-is-growing-among-republicans/">https://apnorc.org/projects/pessimism-about-the-direction-of-the-country-is-growing-among-republicans/</a><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/232/858/106/547/142/original/0734996b3eb66b0d.png"> <br/> 2025-09-19T20:30:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs90c4pdeu5srf0hvegsm490vumg534ek7v6fkg6yuugq6wtnnl24szypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy8vqjs6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs057skxk97f409vtsg8vz3avfj8gyp0vgzzvcceqhd8dmwrf9yp0s0eg5wp'>nevent1q…g5wp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Murder is wrong. Capital punishment is wrong. No one has the right to take another human being&#39;s life.<br/><br/>But Charlie Kirk didn&#39;t care about human life. He was cavalier about people being shot in public settings. Said it was just breaking some eggs to make an omelet: <br/><br/>&#34;I think it&#39;s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the 2nd Amendment.&#34;<br/><br/>Charlie Kirk did not deserve to die. But he was a terrible person.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/203/685/345/806/374/original/11b866789a3866a0.mp4"></video><br/> 2025-09-14T16:53:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw5eqdp9s8gyw58xu5lcs2rdp2ec0ywxyqfy4tgxw9qnycjrq5vuczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyfzmcqr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswg35ey3mw7mkl3ezk58g3tce2gek8hrrpckk347p4ayl0q3l8wsg93hcte'>nevent1q…hcte</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And of course, we cannot forget that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who tried to shoot Donald Trump, was also a registered Republican <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-shooter-republican/">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-shooter-republican/</a> 2025-09-11T22:22:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfknk3cdy3nyws25ej92p9mz8rm7wgwkqtwm7gu3458rcxl05nqmqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjypw4kzz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstcnl2wz9f6derspksr3xcfg4pnq8d5cm0sdarktxvsxp3ql3cvrqj33drj'>nevent1q…3drj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Steven Carrillo, another boogaloo boi, pleaded guilty to murdering an Oakland security guard at a BLM protest in 2020. <br/><br/>He had posted on Facebook about wanting to start an anti-government revolution. <br/><br/>The right loves committing violence and pinning it on the left <a href="https://apnews.com/article/us-air-force-san-francisco-oakland-police-government-and-politics-54ee0fa4316354d893b691c5f8d44023">https://apnews.com/article/us-air-force-san-francisco-oakland-police-government-and-politics-54ee0fa4316354d893b691c5f8d44023</a> 2025-09-11T22:08:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvnp7vscgdzmpl220pg5cys4ly6k7p9ftapjsddaugp7k4wegtqgczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy732v2y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqfsnxmrh9xye3gsdq5wuevfatttsfqcptdmazkavk8ha3azu60ssew6jds'>nevent1q…6jds</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This reflects a pattern of behavior by far-right activists. They have been trying to terrify their fellow Republicans to believe that trans people or liberals were trying to kill them.<br/><br/>Fox News almost every week for the past 20 years has exaggerated crime incidents in Democratic-voting cities. This is what Trump is drawing upon when he illegally sends soldiers into civilian areas. <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/study-fox-prime-time-hosts-turn-crime-political-weapon-against-democrats">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/study-fox-prime-time-hosts-turn-crime-political-weapon-against-democrats</a> 2025-09-11T20:28:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdlqvjv3ftkzw9szc7rjhy7a2vjy4zksuzeq6m0mrqxjxlxp0glfszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy2ctk3m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswtlpxceszufp3e62s3wgmxupxkel34crjg4rfudw0lap9xq84jcc7lz60r'>nevent1q…z60r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One of the prominent leaders of this group of Republicans is the neo-Nazi activist Nick Fuentes. He became famous within the ultra-right for organizing followers to show up at Kirk events in order to intimidate and embarrass Kirk.<br/><br/>I wrote about it in 2019. <br/><br/>They never stopped trying to harass Kirk.<br/><br/><a href="https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2019/11/conservative-establishments-nightmare-only-just-beginning">https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2019/11/conservative-establishments-nightmare-only-just-beginning</a> 2025-09-11T20:21:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy4nxx08r2wvhqudhugfr5jmaf3cfw2wn4ekx4ngf2ef4hjjcvksczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjycvr9f2 🧵 Since the shooting of #CharlieKirk, radical Republicans have been pushing violence-inciting claims about the shooter. The police have not apprehended the person and don&#39;t know his name.<br/><br/>We don&#39;t know what the motive is, however, I think given the miasma of claims that &#34;of course&#34; a left-winger or trans person did it, it&#39;s worth exploring why the shooter very easily could be a right-wing extremist.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/187/496/558/226/044/original/1310b86dfa39e17e.png"> <br/> 2025-09-11T20:16:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq27s7adpvehcmyzgz8gg5ww4q4z67tngq2hppnhlyqtzym3594zgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyjcq4qa 🧵Tech oligarchs took over the Republican Party and now they are using Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson to take over the Democrats by co-opting progressive YIMBY movements. <br/><br/>Please read and share: <a href="https://newintermag.com/abundance-big-techs-bid-for-the-democratic-party/">https://newintermag.com/abundance-big-techs-bid-for-the-democratic-party/</a> 2025-09-05T23:52:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfkdlkzhhuzgugpe9skrjlarusf3l2vu4z4vvem5gm2zvz4lzhn0szypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy6dxau2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrf9aylqrpvjhg7qvhnd2ye5fm63f6eg4glv7fpzqxevprd79t3nsflqg3y'>nevent1q…qg3y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>9/ In his second term, Trump has been far more censorial than any modern American president. <br/><br/>He signed executive orders banning &#34;improper ideology&#34; from museums. He&#39;s removed thousands of web pages honoring historical figures--simply because they were not European Americans.<br/><br/>Republicans love censorship. It&#39;s their primary intellectual vehicle. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-targets-improper-ideology-smithsonian-museums-executive-order-rcna198503">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-targets-improper-ideology-smithsonian-museums-executive-order-rcna198503</a> 2025-08-08T01:19:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8gng0z0s3u9545uypll5ahjysvj3tqxjxs3dc3pvjp8r20ehtsqszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyfeag49 🧵/ Right-wing extremists like Libs of TikTok and Charlie Kirk totally concocted the Sydney Sweeney &#34;outrage.&#34;<br/><br/>The supposed left-wing outrage at Sweeney never happened. Republicans made it up.<br/><br/>Republicans have been inventing people to rage against for decades…<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/990/441/238/030/276/original/ff0461655634b5e7.png"> <br/> 2025-08-08T01:02:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd8wf7r4pmk9jursuq7ejae0xqrr36e30zhlum8txz4p8l5zpx0pszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy9xek30 1/ Donald Trump&#39;s obsessive defensiveness about Jeffrey Epstein is causing a deep rupture within his far-right base.<br/><br/>It&#39;s an echo of the last time this happened, when he tried to tell MAGA to get vaccinated. They didn&#39;t listen.<br/><br/>This episode is also related to Elon Musk&#39;s chatbot Grok going into a &#34;MechaHitler&#34; rant.<br/><br/>Reactionaries have built an anti-epistemology and the leaders can&#39;t control it 🧵<br/><br/><a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/epstein-grok-and-the-rights-epistemic">https://plus.flux.community/p/epstein-grok-and-the-rights-epistemic</a> 2025-07-19T19:52:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst0amnkn9jxvpy65md5xdn5uqcfxgt5uf4ywqu8mwhtwejjllc7yqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjymp7c3j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9fnhrm8myse34pmgghvu45tklp37uspva2rp22nayggw5alywetqnkkylj'>nevent1q…kylj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>3/ People don&#39;t watch TV ads anymore. They fast-forward, mute, or just skip them. Everyone hates ads, especially from politicians.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Republicans are creating memes, culture, &amp; micro-influencers who shape perception. Trump and his people aren&#39;t campaigning, they&#39;re building a reality for fans. 2025-07-16T18:45:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs90rmpm0flq3eaze80vw6z7l8m0g2n8rf2qk22g7j6l7csezav7wqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy8axqt5 🧵1/ Social media permanently changed American political campaigning, but only Republicans have changed with it.<br/><br/>Donald Trump won the 2024 election, not because people liked him, but because his party understands network marketing in the social media age. <br/><br/><a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/republicans-treat-politics-like-viral">https://plus.flux.community/p/republicans-treat-politics-like-viral</a> 2025-07-16T18:41:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgg5t68x24t7j7g2xnyxdk3l4nnrlvvdvfrmgyka5vaz4c274vfggzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyufkdws Incredible data work!<br/><br/>Someone has gone through and run the numbers on molestation crimes against children.<br/><br/>67% of politicians accused or convicted of child abuse nationwide were Republicans.<br/><br/>QAnon needs to look in the mirror. <br/><br/>Out of nearly 11,000 USA cases examined, just 1 offender was a drag queen. Only 5 were trans. 846 were religious figures. 301 were police.<br/><br/>Date range: February 10, 2023 through May 23, 2024<br/><br/>Source: <a href="https://www.whoismakingnews.com/#who-are-the-real-predators">https://www.whoismakingnews.com/#who-are-the-real-predators</a><br/><br/>#notadragqueen #lgbtqia #trans #TransRights<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/717/264/030/986/876/original/34d2912f32e94351.png"> <br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/717/281/681/870/676/original/c6742f8e84b8f00b.png"> <br/> 2025-06-20T19:15:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2j4r8xd8vmrs9vk7nnaqjfld8u845lel8qvpsdx84vse38zwnpcczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyehe3qj 🧵Donald Trump just federalized the National Guard in California—the first time a president has done so against a governor’s will since 1965. But what’s even more alarming is how he&#39;s promising much worse. <br/><br/>&#34;The bar is what I think it is,&#34; he said when asked about his threat standard for deploying active-duty troops.<br/><br/>America is in deep Schmitt. Trump is trying to enact the Nazi legal scholar Carl Schmitt&#39;s philosophy of dictatorship.<br/><br/>Continue here or click through... <a href="https://plus.flux.community/p/donald-trumps-state-of-exception">https://plus.flux.community/p/donald-trumps-state-of-exception</a> 2025-06-09T17:18:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvuenfkclms567yc2clt345wuk4yfkw7esqkgpas499jv8hjwvcvczypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjywvd5pz 1/2 Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admits that he wants robots to replace manufacturing jobs.<br/><br/>The last lie that Trump was selling to his supporters was that trashing the US economy would somehow bring back manufacturing jobs to Americans.<br/><br/>The oligarchs don&#39;t want this though. Instead, they&#39;re having Trump tank stocks and other assets so they can scrap America.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/282/860/523/863/732/original/0b0cb4965e3f7590.mp4"></video><br/> 2025-04-05T01:54:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspxkpucuvnzsmzscxfuwv2f45a0k2e49natsgemv6g943ra69gf2qzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjycmslzl Strength is the ability to bend but not break, to change while cohering.<br/><br/>#philosophy 2025-03-25T04:36:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdhe68w978ppnr99hgxzwg73luec8wt5hnq5w7v32u6dsen9lumlgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjy8thszt Nikki Haley just accused Donald Trump of spouting &#34;classic Russian talking points. Exactly what Putin wants.&#34;<br/><br/>She should have listened to Trump&#39;s favorite poem, &#34;The Snake&#34; from during his 2024 campaign. <br/><br/>Lots of comparatively more moderate independents and Republicans lied to themselves about Democrats being &#34;extreme.&#34; We&#39;re paying the price now.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/034/230/949/937/120/original/1dc12c34813c6a57.mp4"></video><br/> 2025-02-20T04:05:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs94cv5nr26j5ps0hlyqym3uccc5st2at8vf2eu5dwu8llzrtw5z7szypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjygnfn3j Besides the recrudescence of reaction, the second-biggest problem of our times is that too many of the smart people just want to watch documentaries on Netflix, laughing sardonically while fascists pillage. <br/><br/>They&#39;d rather be saying &#34;can you believe this guy&#34; on the way to the gas chamber than actually organize and engage in politics. 2025-02-01T15:02:27Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfx7aaqwk2qwjcrx3hcavvzlp5m3547vczs2tnjp8zscwt9c0ltcqzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjyp4vrz0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf8d5x5zrwjg3l8g70un3dmmn2cslazrx6ggey3ycf0u77pgx78fgh9svxn'>nevent1q…svxn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>They certainly do not. And if you listen to this video, you can see that Thiel is not particularly intelligent at all. He&#39;s got viewpoints no different than your average lunatic parading around with a sandwich board sign that the world is ending 2024-12-20T20:47:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqglfxw4a4ehc0ttrdnr78l8z2mrus2pp2hqh3fkwwr44auxtmwxszypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjykd7fkz After lying that he&#39;d be &#34;great for women and their reproductive rights” and pretending to favor free IVF, Donald Trump says he won&#39;t vote to overturn Florida&#39;s extreme 6 week abortion ban.<br/><br/>This is why you can&#39;t trust his Project 2025 denials. He&#39;ll say anything to win. No denial or promise he makes can be believed.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/057/514/219/560/469/original/b208f48b1a2083a6.mp4"></video><br/> 2024-08-31T16:13:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsth8d4g09uaxkle7p3cklh7977d0lueumt60j6dqmt7r839z6m8cgzypw59l900rsf9lv6a6krmtwgw2dq0ctpeh9yy7v53ly7zfxfadnjykr9266 This is a wild story that says a lot about right-wing evangelicalism: <br/><br/>1) Matt Bevin, the Republican former Kentucky governor, adopted a boy from Ethiopia for PR purposes<br/>2) Bevin and his wife decided they don&#39;t like the boy so they ship him off to an abusive &#34;troubled teen&#34; facility in Jamaica<br/>3) Jamaican government shuts down the horrible group<br/>4) Bevin family abandoned the boy in Jamaica after the facility was closed<br/><br/><a href="https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/08/04/former-ky-gov-matt-bevins-adopted-son-reportedly-removed-from-abusive-facility-in-jamaica/">https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/08/04/former-ky-gov-matt-bevins-adopted-son-reportedly-removed-from-abusive-facility-in-jamaica/</a> 2024-08-05T14:35:23Z