Socialist anti-imperialist activist, real name Steve Patt. Media commentary & more since 2003 @lefti.blogspot.com & Twitter. Birder, ultrarunner, 🇨🇺 activist

California (Bay Area)
Joined March 2009
These are Auschwitz-level pictures. Any comparison of Israel to Nazis, or of the genocide they’re carrying out in Gaza to the Holocaust, are entirely appropriate. And only someone who is a liar or willfully ignorant could fail to acknowledge the complicity of the West in this.
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This should be the headline in every major news outlet. Where is the coverage?
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2 days ago I checked out the pond in a nearby cemetery — empty. Today was a sea change (or a pond change if you will 😜). A Wood Duck (a once every few years occurrence here), along with Common and Hooded Mergansers, plus the (currently resident) Green Heron & Belted Kingfisher!
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The rest of the pictures (see previous and next posts if you're starting here!) @birdmoder @birdmotives
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And finally, from another pond just outside the cemetery, a Great Egret taken with my iPhone while I was out running an hour and a half later. I was no more than 5 feet from the bird; I assume he thought he was camouflaged by the reeds and that I couldn't see him!
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Trump is such a very small man. People used to make fun of his allegedly small hands. I don’t care about that. But he’s small where it really counts — inside.
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The continued subversion of democracy by big money. My friend Kathy Watanabe is running for Mayor of Santa Clara Clara, CA, pop. 135,000. Outside of a major city like NY, LA, or SF, have you ever seen a TV ad for a mayor on TV? I haven’t. But the 49’ers have $ to spend to do it.
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Bolsonaro calls for Brazil’s election to be annulled. A preview of what the US can expect in November.
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Donald Trump, relentlessly focused on the issues Americans are concerned about…like Bill Maher? 🤦🏼‍♀️
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El 25 de octubre de 1922, acababa la agresión imperialista contra la Rusia bolchevique, con la entrada del Ejército Rojo en Vladivostok, aplastando a los últimos remanentes del Ejército Blanco y las fuerzas imperialistas de 17 países capitalistas. Seguro que lo leíste en sus libros de historia occidentales, pero solo un año después de la Revolución Bolchevique, EEUU, Reino Unido, Francia, Checoslovaquia, Grecia, Rumania, Alemania, Austria-Hungría, Italia, Canadá, Turquía, Polonia, Serbia, Finlandia, Australia, China y Japón invadieron Rusia... pretendían acabar con la revolución obrera y devolver el poder a la burguesía zarista, en lo que se llamó como "Intervención Aliada" para restaurar el orden capitalista. 17 ejércitos con llegaron a tener a 1 millón de soldados invadiendo Rusia, en apoyo a la oligarquía capitalista y su ejército zarista, el cual también fue armado por todo Occidente... a esta flagrante agresión imperial de Occidente en Rusia lo llamaron "guerra civil" y murieron al menos 7 millones de rusos, hicieron todo lo posible para aplastar la revolución bolchevique que era un peligro para el capital mundial. El Ejército Blanco armado y financiado por Occidente, además empleó la brutalidad más infame, en los Urales, más de 100.000 campesinos fueron exterminados en campos de concentración por el Ejercito Blanco por el "delito" de apoyar a los bolcheviques, exterminó a 150.000 judíos en el sur de Rusia (pogromos que más tarde imitarían los nazis) e hicieron limpiezas étnicas de más de 300.000 indígenas... metían a los sospechosos de ser bolcheviques en las calderas de sus trenes blindados para que se quemaran vivos. La Rusia que quedó después de la cruenta agresión imperialista mal llamada "guerra civil", fue una de las naciones más pobres del mundo, sumida en el hambre y en las enfermedades... murieron al menos 3 millones de personas de hambruna y otras 2 millones de enfermedades como el tifus, la gripe o el cólera... en solo 40 años, esa misma Rusia devastada y con una guerra mundial por medio, seria una potencia mundial equipada con bomba atómica gracias al socialismo. No somos conscientes del sacrificio del pueblo ruso para defender su revolución, primero tuvieron que luchar contra 17 países capitalistas, más muchos otros que apoyaron indirectamente la invasión económicamente y con armamento.... pero no contentos con eso, unas décadas más tarde, Occidente le financió a Hitler para acabar con la URSS y le montaron una guerra mundial que costó la vida a 27 millones de soviéticos.... y ni así, tampoco pudieron tumbar la revolución, es el ejercicio de resistencia mayor de un pueblo que ha conocido el mundo.
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Um, why? What the fuck is it to you?
Nicki Minaj: We don't wanna be bombarded with sex changes
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As an Olympian who knows it’s important to have rules, Turek should know that (per @kirstimiller30) since the IOC created a rule for trans athletes to compete in 2003, over 81K people have been Olympians. Out of those 2 have been trans women; one finished last the other 37 of 42.
#IAPol: "No Iowan should face discrimination. As a Paralympian, I also know it's important to have rules. It's why I oppose males competing in female sports ... I'm against taxpayers paying for sex changes, too." Josh Turek is up with a new #IASen ad. Future reservations: 🔵$18.0M 🔴$15.5M
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Absolutely indefensible. Utterly inexcusable. In a sickening roll back of basic wildlife protections, a cruel new rule by the Trump regime officially grants trophy hunters the legal authority to bait and execute black and brown bears across millions of acres of Alaska’s national preserves. This isn't hunting — it is a point-blank slaughter. By allowing hunters to lure these magnificent animals with piles of high-calorie human foods like bacon grease, doughnuts, and meat scraps, the Trump regime has turned our protected public lands into personal execution chambers for wealthy hobbyists. This pathetic, lazy practice creates an extreme safety hazard by deliberately conditioning wild bears to associate humans with food, spiking the risk of aggressive encounters and putting park visitors in direct danger. Shamefully overturning a common-sense 2024 Biden administration ban, this rule change is nothing more than a corrupt political gift to cowardly right-wing trophy hunters at the direct expense of American wildlife and public safety. Our national preserves belong to the public, not to the special interests of people who need a pile of junk food just to kill a bear at close range.
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The NYT attempts to justify the original bullshit headline by claiming the US “has received intelligence”. No prize for guessing the source.
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22% of Trump 2024 voters disapprove of his performance …which means 78% approve of his racism, his war-mongering, his price-increasing tariffs & wars, his ridiculous renaming of geography, his obvious incompetence, & his rampant narcissism.
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Two good pictures (Northern Flicker) from a bird walk yesterday, & 2 fun ones — an out-of-focus Belted Kingfisher which Apple Photo ID had no trouble identifying, & a Say’s Phoebe fleeing the scene but not quickly enough! @birdmoder
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Israel First Mike Rogers’ career is cooked after this Abdul El Sayed ad. This is brilliant.
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Rubio can try to do all the CIA recruiting he wants in Cuba, but there are plenty of young Cubans who will "discreetly" line up to join and instead, work in reality for their Cuban Homeland. It's happened many times before. Just one example of a Cuban hero youtu.be/G1qezipvu5E?is=AIIi…
Cut it, frame it and hang it on a wall. Suggested title: Recognition of failure.
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The NYT attempts to justify the original bullshit headline by claiming the US “has received intelligence”. No prize for guessing the source.
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