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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 19m

Weirdly cathartic to just sit and pull all these off of uniforms this morning

Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 4h

USPTO is fee funded and people aren't even furloughed, but yeah, slow down the system for businesses so you can hurt a few dozen people in NOVA and ensure your GOP candidate in VA loses by double digits.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 7h

Aside from not giving a shit (which they don't), the admin is filled with true believers who are dismissive of the real threats the US faces (disasters, pandemics, RUS/PRC), and they actually do believe they have an easy button with AI that they'll be able to punch to fix literally everything.

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 8h

They really don’t give a shit. If they think it helps people or costs big business money, they don’t want it. They are ideologically opposed to the mere concept of collective action. Meanwhile the technofascists who want to head their own Network State fiefdoms are fully ob board.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 15h

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 1d

"HAVE FAITH IN YOUR GOVERNMENT" is one of your key responsibilities lol

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 1d

Officers are out here killing people in boats with no questions asked, putting their troops on American streets, and filtering their people by who loves Trump - pretty sure no doc at Walter Reed is gonna lose his career by telling Trump he's basically a vegetable.

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 1d

Government by downvoted Reddit comments you have to click on to actually read.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

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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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 2d

I know there was a fair amount of discussion a week or so ago about what our allies make of the whole "homeland and hemisphere" shtick, but they watch this stuff too and this is completely batshit. This is approaching Qaddafi levels of delusion and our allies don't think this is an act for the rubes

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 2d

Half of the fed civs supporting a military field exercise I'm working next week are furloughed, but the DHS shitposter is essential?

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

14:30 07 Oct 25 2.1M Views

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 3d

Legendary, named my kid after this band

Sleater Kinney Full Concert | NPR MUSIC FRONT ROW

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 3d

At this point I fully expect to see a photo of John Boehner at his upcoming local No Kings protest with a "Well, well, well, not so easy to find a GOP Speaker who doesn't suck shit, huh?" sign.

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 3d

I miss Car Talk

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 3d

He should've done his normal schtick and named it based on a single conversation he had with a Palestinian cab driver on the way from his Jerusalem hotel back to the airport.

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 3d

People who air their dirty laundry on the phone in a public place for now going on 3 hours possess an amount of Not Giving A Fuck I am just entirely unable to comprehend.

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 3d

I know it's trite but I'm a big believer in "what you allow, you condone" and you cannot just shoulder shrug behavioral issues and then shocked Pikachu an email to parents about how the issues that occur only at school are not resolved by parents talking to their kid 6 hrs after the behavior happens

Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 3d

Also why is my kid coming home with a dozen half-baked worksheets? Do kindergartners learn anything from worksheets with a student-teacher ratio of 28:1?

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 3d

I am 5 weeks into parenting with a kid in a well-funded public school system and boy howdy, WTF is going on with the schools?

I don't doubt the schools are filled with dedicated teachers busting their asses, but the whole thing seems so damn bootleg.

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 3d

"Please respond to this text with a 2 if you are no longer part of the TXARNG so we can update our accountability roster."

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 3d

Abbott: OK Pete they'll be wheels up in an hour.

Pete: Fuck yes, let's GOOOOOO! Time for some Texas judgement amirite? Some of those intimidating oil riggers and real cowboys laying down the law! Chiseled alpha men of the Wild West!

Abbott:...

Pete: You sent you fat ones didn't you

Abbott:...

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 4d

Wait, I'm that dad. Oh no

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe they're going for this vibe

dwight schrute from the office says " whenever i 'm about to do something i think " would an idiot do that

ALT: dwight schrute from the office says " whenever i 'm about to do something i think " would an idiot do that

media.tenor.com

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 4d

A few pics from this morning

Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 4d

Mature States in your geographic area are looking for love (and allies)

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 4d

I still don't fundamentally get it. Why is the military necessary? They have an effectively infinite budget for dudes in Army OCPs to terrorize cities, and 75% of the population can't tell anyway. And why provoke these cases and take the big Ls now instead of right when they make their putsch?

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 4d

My favorite was watching a medical platoon wander aimlessly into an ambush and the observer/controller tell them they were now all dead.

"But sir, there's not anyone to hand our patients off to."

"Yes LT, they're dead too."

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Clay Copper @claycopper.bsky.social · 5d

It's a stretch, but I think they could've tied it into early moral panic about kids getting obsessed with video games. They'd have to sell Worf's mental state or do something where Worf can't distinguish the game from reality and still thinks it's the game as he takes command IRL.

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