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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 3h

Ah yes, nothing says real activism like whining about how other people don't know how to protest properly.

Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 6h

This is where theory gets you

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

Lord North in 1775:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not about to let a man who enthusiastically supported the traitorous people who attacked the Capitol and tried to overthrow the US government tell me I hate America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 16

Honest question, (some of the most bad faith shit you've ever heard)

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry I’m gonna go back on my bullshit here: National Consersvatism’s entire ethos boils down to “this problem, that we created, exacerbated, and oppose any effort to combat, is very bad. We will solve it by making it worse”

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

I suspect populist parties bootstrapped their own political support by weaponizing the residual, ambient distrust present in all societies & MAKING MORE OF IT, spreading & intensifying it, by propagating narratives of distrust & corruption. By repetition & uptake by other political actors, it rose.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, now the person with an insurrection flag is concerned about the Capitol Police.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5h

these people have the self-reflection of a vampire

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sure this person's strategy of saying they are going to firebomb Walmart and then not firebombing a Walmart is working wonders.

Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 4h

I mean the libs I've met at some of the rallies I've been to are pretty rad so I don't know what this person is complaining about.

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 6h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 4h

He made them look like morons and that's reason enough for these goons.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 11h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h

It must have been traumatic for Speaker Mike to see naughty bits without having to circumvent his porn filter first.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 19h

And those who don't get charged need to be bankrupt and living under a bridge.

Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 19h

I want usto build new prisons just for this.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 19h

The higher the better!

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 19h

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 19h

This is what I like to hear! Time for these jackboots to face some consequences for terrorizing people.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 20h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 20h

Might put that on my sign for this weekend.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 20h

“This bullshit has to stop” is a quote for the ages.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 20h

The basic premise of effective protesting is that you want your movement to draw from as many corners of culture as possible, and the best way to do that is harmless jubilance.

Centrist grandmas don’t want to march next to shifty anarchists in balaclavas, but a big goofy frog works just fine.

XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 20h

I’m sorry I have been informed that this is cringe and therefore does not work.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 20h

I always knew an effective protest movement would need to be nonviolent but given a lifetime I wouldn’t have guessed ours would be led by inflatable frogs. People remain endlessly beautiful.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 20h

They really are eugenicists.

Democrats @democrats.org · 20h

7.5 million children with disabilities will be affected.

Graphic featuring Donald Trump with the following text:

UPDATE

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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