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Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · Mar 25

I made a thing that you can buy. I'll donate all proceeds to the @aclu.org.

www.zazzle.com/no_kings_sti...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

Matt Walsh and MAGA have been citing this "study" all day to claim "total cultural victory" over trans people. Claiming that it shows less people are identifying as trans because it's a socially influenced phenomenon.

This is a great 🧵 debunking all of it

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 21h

You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 21h

Frying brains online

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Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 12h

This is the main problem with our rapid descent into fascism.

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 16h

There’s a reason for that. And all they’re doing is encouraging it even more.

And still we get brain dead centrist/median voter takes about “both parties.”

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 16h

In the 2000s, Republicans used to argue that “not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.” It wasn’t true then, of course, but there’s a corollary for the Trump era:

Not all Republicans are Nazis, but almost all Nazis are Republicans.

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Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 17h

Stop “suggesting” you “might” do the right thing and FUCKING DO IT.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h

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

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 17h

How is the Second Amendment sturdy? What do you think would happen if a civilian bore arms to prevent kidnapping by masked agents of the state?

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 22h

Waymo is magic. This is going to save so many lives.

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 22h

The next step in fascism: privately funded military. What could go wrong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 22h

Your daily reminder that the Free Speech™️ campaign on the right was only ever about the freedom to say the worst things imaginable without any social consequence.

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t think we’ve really reckoned with the fact that a significant portion of our population would gladly usher human beings into gas chambers, and they’re literally organizing the government on the road to that end.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 1d

Already today, Israel has:

-Conducted a drone strike on Khan Younis in Gaza

-Shot & wounded two others near Khan Younis

-Killed 5 Palestinians in Gaza City

-Fired on & wounded a several others near Jabalia

All in violation of the “ceasefire.”

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Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 1d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 1d

Why is it not a flippable seat? It is decided by the same voters who made JBE governor for two terms.

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Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 1d

I don't own any yellow! 😭

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 1d

#12yearoldrule

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Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 2d

Kamala gets it. #107Days

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

‘Wait, this is happening to ME so we need to do something about it.’ -ancient Republican mantra

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 2d

Baker is a cheat code

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 2d

I thought Trump got rid of abortion 😭

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 3d

aka, we’re allowing a fascist dictator to claim all these powers that we will eventually rule against on the merits if a Democrat ever takes office again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 3d

Christina.

Matthew 8647 ❌👑 @authoridad.bsky.social · 3d

Federal law barring ICE employees between 2025-2028 from being in law enforcement at any level.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

There are no clean hands in a criminal enterprise.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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