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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5h

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 3h

Architecture and urban design are common fixations for strongmen. People keep posting Hitler’s Germania, but lots of more contemporary examples exist, like Orbán’s projects in Budapest.

Here’s an essay I wrote on this for @liberalcurrents.com last year www.liberalcurrents.com/magic-kingdo...

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 10h

@damienmiller.bsky.social just asked if 'Biblically accurate' having so many eyes means that angels were spiders.

Lloth worshipping ancient civilization theory confirmed. :|

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 17h

Always pictured Miller as more Mouth of Sauron rather than Grima Wormtongue, but this makes sense.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 18h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?

chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨

Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 18h

We've all seen Chicago dude. Take your Temu Barad-Dur ass tower and leave our city if this is how you feel.

San Francisco doesn't need military occupation, and it doesn't need people begging to lick the boot either.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 19h

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 19h

This is great; any chance of larger sizes?

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 21h

You may have noticed I’ve been writing every week at @liberalcurrents.com lately. Well, @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and I can make it official: it’s a weekly column.

You can catch me there every Thursday (unless someone thinks we should change the day)

www.liberalcurrents.com/author/alan/

Alan Elrod - Liberal Currents

Alan Elrod is the president & CEO of the Pulaski Institution, an Arkansas-based think tank. He is also a columnist and Contributing Editor at Liberal Currents and an adjunct instructor at Arkansas St...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 23h

Don't tell the people on my Nextdoor, heh.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

So many things wrong here, but it's rough because it's upsetting to call Thunberg a 'legionnaire of the Antichrist', but somehow so much cooler than Yudkowsky deserves.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

new daft punk music video just dropped. - many reviews

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Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · 1d

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

I imagine it's roughly the same as the set of simple infosec questions.

None of them are actually simple, but some of them have bounded costs. "Simple".

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

How much of that is being a crypto lickspittle? :P

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

Having a stroke would be a better explanation than this being real.

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 1d

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

Of course it haunts me when I see people from my family's church and what they post on Facebook now. Did they not understand the assignment?

But it stuck with me, a non-believer, that this was a great big idea. You are to be a neighbor to everyone.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

Basically the only moral lesson from myevangelical Southern Baptist upbringing before they got consumed by terribleness was that the point of our religion was that God's gifts were for every one of every race and every gender. And they cited the parable about your neighbor to prove it; telling.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

“King Donald The First. F*ck that.”

Robert De Niro wants to see you in the streets on October 18 to show the world that America has no kings, and power still belongs to the people: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

He's living in a fictional world with fictional opponents who aren't snatching people off the street.

Maybe he thinks things will get better if some shitty Christofascists debate college kids, but the rest of us know better.

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

Years of Republicans beating their chest about states rights and being the party of small government. I have known they were lies for a long time now, but they also preached fantasies about Democratic and liberal authoritarianism.

They were all just projection. This is what they wanted, all along.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

This was predicted.

ID Verification for the internet and its many websites is a mistake.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 1d

Prisoner's dilemma ass game.