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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1h

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 15h

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Charles Sumner @charles-sumner.bsky.social · 12h

"Ich bin ein Berliner" - uncool. So last century.

"Ich bin ein Acht-Und-Vierziger" - slick, modern, infinitely cooler.

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 16h

"please don't go forty-eighter mode in front of my parents"

me:

An engraved eagle from a recruit poster for the Union army aimed at Philadelphia area German speakers. The eagle flies downward witha radiant pattern behind him, as well as an American flag on a pole topped with a Phrygian cap. In its mouth, a German language inscription in Fraktur font, translated as "Union and Freedom forever! 👉 Death to the Traitors!"

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 16h

"please don't go forty-eighter mode in front of my parents"

me:

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2h

have some goddamn courage

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

And two more decals, to finish up this latest wave of merch. One is just a decal version of the "Fuck You, Make Me" piece

The other doesn't fit the vibe of the shop at all, but I felt compelled nonetheless. An iguanadon stabbing its would-be predator, "GET THUMBED, IDIOT" wideawakes.army

Fuck You, Make Me decal (We the People font) on a skateboard

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

*shoves the oracle at Delphi out of the way, huffs deeply the stygian vapors*

The game went for 15 innings. The shutdown will go for more innings still.

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE

This personal appeal from the mayor to the people of Salem, Massachusetts, with its ornate frame, called out to me.

AND ALSO: this remarkable Philadelphia area broadsheet, appealing to Irish immigrants to join with the 144th Penn. Vols.

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A very long recruitment poster in an ornate typgraphic frame. The upper third of the entire poster is taken up with this very large:

"THE WAR
FOR THE
CONSTITUTION and the UNION!"

It's framed as an appeal to the people of Salem, Massachusetts to the people of Salem

A safety green long sleeve tee, featuring an abbreviated version of that poster: it just has the enormous "THE WAR FOR THE CONSTITUTION and the Union", along with the ornate frame around it

A context model wearing a short sleeve unisex tee featuring the abbreviated design, white on red

A restored recruitment poster for the "BRIAN BORU UNITED IRISH LEGION", which was attached to the famed Corcoran's Brigade. It's in red and green ink (the latter being unusual among broadsheets at the time, but makes sense for the Irish theme)

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

Beyond this "restored ephemera," I restore several posters: an 1848 Seneca Falls convention poster that to modern sensibilities a music festival flyer, to a long appeal to the black men of Philadelphia to enlist, signed by a veritable who's who of Black abolitionists

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A mockup of a restored 19th century broadsheet. In varied fonts, it proclaims:

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION! TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20th, 21st, at 10 A.M., and 3 and 7:30 P.M. AT TWEDDLE HALL. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, FRED'CK DOUGLASS, LUCY STONE, PARKER PILSBURY, C. L. REMOND, Frances E. W. Harper, REV. OLYMPIA BROWN, AND OTHERS. Admission to Day Sessions, FREE. Evening Sessions, 25 Cents.

That same broadsheet (abbreviated, ends at Parker Pillsbury), black on a pink sweatshirt

A restored 19th century broadsheet, encouraging Black Philadelphians to enlist with the US Colored Troops:

Men of Color To Arms! To Arms! Now or Never
This is our golden moment! The Government of the United States calls for every Ablebodied Colored
Man to enter the Army for the Three Years’ Service!
And join in Fighting the Battles of Liberty and the Union. A new era is open to us. For generations we
have suffered under the horrors of slavery, outrage and wrong; our manhood has been denied, our
citizenship blotted out, our souls seared and burned, our spirits cowed and crushed, and the hopes of
the future of our race involved in doubt and darkness. But now our relations to the white race are
changed. Now, therefore, is our most precious moment. Let us rush to arms!
Fail Now, & Our Race is Doomed
On this the soil of our birth. We must now awake, arise, or be forever fallen. If we value liberty, if we
wish to be free in this land, if we love our country, if we love our families, our children, our home, we
must strike now while the country calls: we must rise up in the dignity of our manhood, and show by our
own right arms that we are worthy to be freemen. Our enemies have made the country believe that we
are craven cowards, without soul, without manhood, without the spirit of soldiers, Shall we die with this
stigma resting upon our graves? Shall we leave this Inheritance of Shame to our Children? No! a
thousand times NO! We WILL Rise!

It goes on for a lot more than that

An abbreviated version of that poster, white on folded navy hoodie. It reads:

"MEN OF COLOR
To Arms! To Arms!
NOW OR NEVER
This is our golden moment! The Government of the United States calls for every Able-bodied Colored
Man to enter the Army for the Three Years’ Service!
And join in Fighting the Battles of Liberty and the Union. "

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

Oh absolutely hell yes.

“Agency leaders who direct this work and Human Resources employees who conduct this work run the risk of being prosecuted under the Antideficiency Act, which could result in fines or imprisonment.”

democrats-budget.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 12h

Ah yes from noted firebrand *checks notes* Brendan Boyle?

George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

Oh absolutely hell yes.

“Agency leaders who direct this work and Human Resources employees who conduct this work run the risk of being prosecuted under the Antideficiency Act, which could result in fines or imprisonment.”

democrats-budget.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 5h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23h

Just finished up work on the next run!

Gonna start listing, so I figured: why not start with the beloved Portland Frogs?

Rolled poster, foam board poster, plastic sign, vinyl decal, and, yes, even apparel. All in that halftone WW2 propaganda poster style 🫡

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Mockup: Vinyl decal of the Portland Frog in a halftone print style. This image replaces the usual subjects of the famous "This man is your FRIEND" series of Allied WW2 propaganda posters.

A context model wearing a white sweater bearing the same design

A context model wearing that same design on a pink Comfort Colors shirt

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23h

You want paper, or foam board?

Portland Frog foam board WWII-style poster mockup

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 19h

So this is my most current events / "newsy" set of listings from this most recent run

In general, I return to form by restoring some genuine Wide Awakes iconography. First: this Lincoln Hamlin Parade Banner

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Lincoln Hamlin parade banner. The whole thing is roughly in the style of an American flag. The upper portion is a blue square, with four gold stars around an oval emblem, upon which was drawn an eye (with lids and lashes) and the words "WIDE AWAKE," with some flourishes either side

The bottom portion is a white stripe between two red stripes. On the white stripe, in a sort of cascading/falling arrangement, are the words "LINCOLN" and 'HAMLIN". Tassels are at the end of this banner.

A detail from the banner as a vinyl decal (that oval shape in the blue field, with the eye and "WIDE AWAKE")

The emblem detail as a design on a sport grey sweatshirt

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 18h

Continuing the "restored ephemera" theme: this campaign ribbon for the Seneca Falls chapter of the Wide Awakes

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Photograph of a ribbon. At the top, in an incised blackletter typeface, it says: Seneca Falls

Below that, there's a detailed image on a right eye and eyebrow, with a radiant pattern encircling. Above that, it says "WIDE" and below "AWAKES," in a simple sans serif. Then there's a text divider. Below that, stacked, in a compressed Grecian font: "LINCOLN & HAMLIN!"

The eye design from that ribbon, on a sweatshirt, black on white

context model wearing a mockup of that hoodie, black on pink

mockup of a long sleeve tee with that design, black on gold

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12h

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 10h

"In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress"

(Fort Ticonderoga, upstate New York)

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 5h

Really seems like a thing that a consortium of blue states could set up in exile, maybe with corporate donation help.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 5h

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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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14h

stick figure meme where a guy in a group of people minding their own business gives a big thumbs up to a separate, lone, stick figure person who is intruding on the group

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 14h

we're going to be looking very strongly into the end of the tunnel. I see a light. I see a light there. I see people waving . they say, folks, they say there's no light at the end of the tunnel, but I've seen the tunnel, and it's tremendous, and there's light, so much light you wouldn't believe it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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