The Sleight Doctor 🃏
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Purveyor of the Apparently Impossible. CO₂ 333.73 ppm.
Card mechanic and conjurer posting regular demos and tutorials. I also discuss anything related to the deceptive arts, whether sleight-of-hand or stage illusions, scams or psychological trickery.
On the more whimsical evenings, expect me to share whatever is bizarre, grotesque, strange, uncanny, surreal, esoteric or arcane.
Lifelong environmentalist, anti-racist and antifascist. No pasarán! ✊🏼
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉Oh my god Facebook is awful. Why are people still there?! It's like a digital desert filled with NPCs. Nothing is real.
Speak to your friends who are still drinking that Zuck Kool-Aid. It's no wonder our politics is fucked.
Step out of the corporate echo chamber.
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉Your German word of the day is Gleichschaltung, meaning "synchronization" or "coordination".
It's what the President of the United States is doing right now.
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉Cassandra wasn't only cursed with never being believed. She was also cursed with always being right. Those who said fascism was already here weren't being alarmist.
"The Trump [admin] is evaluating plans [to] establish a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” composed of hundreds of National Guard troops tasked with rapidly deploying into American cities facing protests or other unrest, according to internal Pentagon documents reviewed by The Washington Post"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/12/national-guard-civil-unrest/
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Exactly. How can anyone think that projects such as a $200 million gilded ballroom larger than the White House itself, and a plane from the Saudis that will need at least $1 billion of modifications before its even ready to be Air Force One - neither of which will be completed during Trump's current term! - are presents for the next guy after a peaceful transition? Republicans aren't known for their generosity.
They plan on clinging to power forever. The USA is now a dictatorship.
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Plus, the last time Trump was voted out in a national election, he incited a violent insurrection to seize the Presidency by force. Had it gone according to plan, pipe bombs would have gone off, Nancy Pelosi would have been murdered on social media livestream, and Trump would have been there in person to announce the restoration of democracy. Only the Secret Service stopped him.
Adjust to the new reality: the Republican Fascist Party will never leave unless dragged screaming.
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉Great article.
"The two-page memorandum reveals that...federal agencies had searched everything from databases to hard drives to locked cabinets and closets for documents pertaining to...Jeffrey Epstein...DOJ/FBI said its extensive searches had turned up 300 gigabytes of Epstein-related data. (For an idea of how much that might translate into if converted into Microsoft Word documents, it comes out to approximately 19.5 million pages or 65,000 pages per gigabyte...)"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/11/the-billionaires-in-the-epstein-files-and-their-ties-to-israel/
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉How long can this zombie company keep on walking, despite it being increasingly obvious that it's already dead? Most of its sales in Europe are fulfilling already-agreed contracts for businesses, not consumers.
"What’s going on at Tesla? The electric vehicle manufacturer, navigating a challenging business landscape marked by increased competition and evolving consumer sentiment, also appears to be facing a significant internal crisis: a rapid exodus of top talent."
https://gizmodo.com/whats-going-on-at-tesla-a-wave-of-executives-is-heading-for-the-exits-2000641630
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉Difficult not to speculate that imposing effective martial law on DC might have a simpler explanation than some are proposing. The Epstein files are still the biggest threat to the Presidency, and there are currently at least 1,000 federal employees who know what's in those files, because that's how many were tasked by the Trump admin to expunge any mention of the POTUS. The likelihood of an anonymous leak - perhaps, to a foreign outlet such as The Guardian - is high.
Is Trump just scared?
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social , a friend sent me this and I thought of you.
Yikes. 😱
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉Israel destroyed farmland in Palestine because a population able to grow some portion of its own food is somewhat more resilient to food scarcity. Note "somewhat". Don't mistake everyone urging those who've access to a little land for doomsday preppers who think they can be 100% self-sufficient. Most can't.
But growing your own potatoes? That's doable without much expertise. Don't listen to the preppers; it's hundreds of tiny actions combined that strengthen a community...and vice versa.
The Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉The Committee to Protect Journalists says 186 reporters have been confirmed killed since the start of Israel's offensive in Gaza in October 2023. These deaths weren't accidental.
This now includes Al Jazeera's Anas al Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. In May 2011, Al Jazeera’s media offices in the Gaza Strip were completely destroyed by an Israeli air raid. The building also housed Associated Press (AP) reporters.
Tell me again how this is about Hamas.