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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 6h

I always roll around laughing at the notion that Trump believes in an afterlife, or the Christian God, or anything really.

He operates 100% on impulse, doing and saying anything to get a bit of the dopamine a narcissist craves.

CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 6h

Wait...so he's saying he is anti-religion? Does the Christian Nationalist base know that?

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James Van Fleevil Dead @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 10h

Impotent losers, need to ChatGPT an underage girlfriend who won’t judge them for joining the Diet Gestapo.

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James Van Fleevil Dead @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 10h

Someday all these cowardly fucks in masks are gonna say they never did this.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 11h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 10h

The Central Park Five—whom Trump wanted executed for a crime they did not commit—were 14 to 16 years old.

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 13h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 10h

When the Nazi reign ends we should use the ballroom to house immigrants seeking asylum.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 11h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Sy Nakamura @electricaikido.bsky.social · 13h

Remember: only the cool kids are allowed to protest, and cool kids are by definition joyless scolds

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

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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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 10h

Nice, but might be too subtle...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

This is what Elon Musk looked like before he took hormones, had a hair transplant and plastic surgery.

All stuff that he wants banned for Trans people.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

Elon Musk is a mass murderer.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11h

'“I will provide a propagandistic casus belli,” Hitler told his generals on Aug. 22, 1939. “Its credibility doesn’t matter. The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth.”'

History doesn't always repeat itself, but it does often rhyme.

How Chicago became ground zero for Trump's military crackdown

"This has never happened before," said Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

www.axios.com

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 13h

"Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court."

"...bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to court proceedings. It includes arrests inside courthouses and in parking lots, surrounding sidewalks and entryways."

#USpol

County judge in Chicago area bars ICE from arresting people at court

Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court. The county includes Chicago, which has seen a federal immigration crackdown in recent months.

apnews.com

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 15h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 15h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

It’s because absurdity captures attention, highlights the lies of the Trump administration, and makes it profoundly clear that those lies are being told with authoritarian intent

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

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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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 11h

And shit news outlets like Reuters fail to convey those most important facts to their readers, leaving the impression that Vought has the authority to do this, which he does not.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 13h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h

Related: The Chicago Sun-Times, in its partnership with WBEZ, is doing stellar work right now.

Including this piece about the downstream effects of ICE enforcement on stuff like apartment rents and maintenance

chicago.suntimes.com/real-estate/...

The fear among residents and workers, both documented and undocumented, is palpable, he said. Residents are scared to open their doors for maintenance workers, and it has become harder to schedule repairs with his work force.
Other property managers and owners said workers are not showing up at job sites - frightened by ICE — and it's causing delays on building repairs and maintenance. Some residents are not able to pay rent on time as they are holed up at home, too afraid to go to work with federal agents popping up throughout the city.
This adds to the already rising business costs for building owners and managers, some who say they are eating the increased expenses connected to ICE raids. But if the enforcement activity continues into the busy spring moving season, property managers and owners like Warren said they may have to increase rents to recoup some of their costs.
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CRobertBuchanan @crobertbuchanan.bsky.social · 11h

"Nazis do Nazi things"

#evergreen