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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 39m

I don’t think GOP behavior (whether legislators, or executive lackeys) is indicative of them counting on ever having to be reelected in free and fair elections again

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 45m

Mikey might want to Google “Janissary revolt”

CNN @cnn.com · 6h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 21h

(Col. Nathan Jessup voice)

"I'll respect your basic human rights... but you have to define them nicely"

Fr. Peter Totleben tweet: "The problem is that this doesn't answer the question. Everyone agrees that human dignity is inviolable (provided that it is a well-defined concept to begin with). The question is whether a particular form of killing is a violation of that dignity" quote tweeting Vatican News that said: "The Holy See calls for universal abolition of the death penalty, noting that the unchallengeable, God-given dignity of every human person is immutable from conception to natural death."

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 47m

I know Stephen Miller is our Beria; what I want to know is who will be our Marshall Zhukov

Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 52m

“We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately”

(Ben Franklin)

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 1h

WIDE AWAKES

👁️

STAND BACK AND STAND BY

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 55m

I can empirically second this when it comes to dish detergent. Brand name > store brand

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 58m

Although, as my friend @galffy.bsky.social points out, SCOTUS isn’t bowing down before Fascism so much as actively, consciously and premeditatedly building it brick by brick

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 1h

the fuck is the matter with american Dominicans

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1h

I never thought Romania’s political and judicial system would one day successfully repel a Fascist takeover at the same time as the U.S., its Supreme Court and much of its business community, Big Law and academe would bow down before it

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1h

Reconstruction 2 will have to come with a little more muscle

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1h

Sed contra—Respondeo: The WOKE MOB has not gone NEARLY FAR ENOUGH

The Amish Anglo-Catholic @amishcatholic.bsky.social · 1h

The WOKE MOB has gone TOO FAR

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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 4d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Sherman's Ghost @popoffvalve.bsky.social · 1h

Obama: Hey Donnie, wanna hear a joke? Nobel Peace Prize.
Krasnov: I don't get it.
Obama: That's right bitch, you don't.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 1h

“After Trump got his.”

A useful, replicable phrase.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Mr Autumn Man @hartsunknown.blacksky.app · 1h

For context, Norway’s men’s ⚽️ team is playing Israel in a UEFA World Cup qualifying match today.
UEFA considering banning Israel for all competitions might’ve gotten Israel to the ceasefire table more-so than any DJT “diplomacy.”

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1h

These Norwegian fans rose to the moment.

Giant Palestinian flag held by Norway fans and another flag that reads “Let Children Live”

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 4h

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 7h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

A trend I’ve noticed after having watched too many of these despicable ICE arrest videos is when bystanders demand they let detainee go, an officer suggests they’re being picked up for a serious crime to try and deter help. But we know that’s not true of a vast majority of people and the jig is up.

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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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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1h

These are gratuitously evil, sadistic people who get off on seeing the most helpless suffer. It’s little wonder the administration is packed with serial divorcés, rapists and domestic abusers

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 4h

“Read the EULA” skill issue. Obedience is the supreme, one might even argue the only true, virtue in Roman Catholicism, including obedience to basic definitions of observable reality (cf Ignatius Loyola’s 13th Rule of Thinking with the Church)

Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 10h

I'm struck by how contemporary Catholicism is stricken by a resistance to obedience. You are not being obedient to the Church of yesteryear if you are not obedient to the Church today. If the pope today says the death penalty should not be pursued, you have no recourse to popes past

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2h

Kostiantynivka today, where russia attacked a church, killing two people.

Famous russian “Christian values” on full display.

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