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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 2h

As opposed to Supreme Court packed with ra[p/c]ists, a mostly nuked filibuster, a refusal to seat duly elected representatives, people being rounded up or shot by masked unidentified secret police, and complete erosion of freedom of speech and protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Nate @natecook.bsky.social · 3h

Kind of difficult to read this as anything other than priming the pump to justify an aggressive military response. Stay strong, stay peaceful, stay safe out there friends

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 3h

Hope he pulls through alright! So sorry you and your family are dealing with all that. I hope it’s not a TBI and if so he’s able to get through it.

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 3h

It is a daily insult to open my Adobe apps and have garbage genAI tools stuck in my face... To have this software that played a huge role in my artistic development get so deep into this vulgar tech has been really dispiriting (do not tell me to cancel, it's an employer subscription)

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 4h

In case you’re wondering what they’re planning to use to justify murdering/imprisoning millions of Americans with…

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4h

Riiiiight. And Donald Trump is 224 pounds.

Tweet from Right Angle News Network reads: “BREAKING - FBI Director Kash Patel has just revealed that nearly 5% of Chicago’s 2.5 million residents, approximately 110,000 people, are active gang members.” Below, Kash Patel appears on Fox News’s Hannity with an on-screen caption: “FBI Director Patel on his visit to Chicago.”

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 5h

Nearly - Daphne AL

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 5h

Today on WTF real estate listings?

extremely weirdly cluttered bedroom with theater stuff, skeletons, velvet, and god knows what else

extremely weirdly cluttered bedroom with theater stuff, lots of jesus statues, and who knows what else

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 6h

Not to mention, as a queer person, I feel immeasurably safer in a city like New Orleans than I do in the suburbs or in rural areas… at least if I get shot here it would be random and won’t be preceded by the f-slur

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 6h

Yeah the ability to leave is immense privilege tbh.

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 7h

No uniforms, no arrest warrant, just two masked thugs trying to abduct a random citizen.

This is what Hitler’s Nazi State did. His henchmen were eventually tried and convicted. But too many innocent people were traumatized and died.

Tr*mp is running a Nazi State. The US is a rogue state now

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 6h

Very illegal even though we collectively decided the Hatch Act doesn't apply to Trump in his first term.

(I am so fucking tired of him being the American legal system's Very Special Boy.)

Nicholas Bauer PhD @bioturbonick.net · 7h

NPR this morning reported that DHS propaganda is airing in airports to blame Democrats for the shutdown.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15h

"As stewards of these American treasures, we urge you to prioritize both conservation and visitor safety and protect our national parks during a potential shutdown, and into the future. If sufficient staff aren’t there, visitors shouldn’t be either."

The letter:

Former NPS Superintendents Urge Secretary Burgum To Close National Parks if Government Shuts Down – The Coalition To Protect America's National Parks

protectnps.org

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 16h

This is why dozens of former national park superintendents wrote a letter begging Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to keep parks closed during the shutdown.

Squatters, illegal BASE jumpers invade Yosemite amid federal shutdown

"It's the Wild Wild West."

www.sfgate.com

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 16h

Having some of my earliest memories growing up in CA being Loma Prieta and later Northridge... my worst nightmares are definitely bridges and overpasses.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 16h

"why doesn't he just focus on the church" like... does this guy not know that the *vast* majority of migrants to the US are from central and south America and are more likely than not then also... Catholics?

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 16h

and always by the *worst* men

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18h

Unofficial list of Dems opposing the NDAA passage here:

Baldwin
Booker
Cantwell
Duckworth
Durbin
Kim
Markey
Merkley
Murphy
Murray
Padilla
Paul
Sanders
Schatz
Schiff
Smith
Van Hollen
Warren
Welch
Wyden

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Matt vs. the relentlessness of entropy @mcs-phd.bsky.social · 18h

Primary them all. We need to destroy this Democratic rot at the source.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18h

The Senate has just passed the military NDAA containing 2 anti-trans provisions: a surgery ban using federal funds (dependents too), and a sports ban on military academy spaces.

This will be the STARTING point for negotiations with the House, which has even worse provisions.

Only 20 Dems opposed.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 18h

creeper dudes who like to call themselves "alphas" but anyone who has ever had both male and female dogs knows the female dog is ALWAYS the boss

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 19h

I get a lot of “sedentary rocks”

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 21h

Tfw it’s 3 minutes til dinner time and the bowls ain’t filled yet

Two pit bull dogs staring intently at me waiting for their food

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 1d

"none of this is true but who gives a shit, because I am in charge"
-RFKjr in his own worm-eaten mind, probably

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 1d

That's not how science works. That's not how any of this works.

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 1d

Masked unidentifiable men in windowless plateless vans kidnapping people off the streets

And calling them fascists hurts their feelings?

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

"Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates."

Good work from @chicago.suntimes.com on how ICE is breaking Illinois law.

www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates.

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

www.wbez.org

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 1d

“What’s braincell?”

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