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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 9h

So even in a comfy jail, the child sex trafficker still gets extra privileges.

Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 9h

Ask every Republican acquaintance in your life to watch this. And if they don't believe these agents should be in jail, cut them off immediately. You won't lose anything.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 15h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 11h

open.substack.com/pub/hueyli/p...

The Chinese political earth quake I slept on

What to make of the half-empty Central Military Commission

open.substack.com

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 11h

A short excerpt of my Substack video on a Chinese political earthquake that I slept on.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 22h

Governor Ronny Meatball will face a reckoning soon.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 22h

Also, for the record, the "sleepy Southern towns" rebelled pretty hard to keep slaves.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 1d

How about his "ankle age"?

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 1d

So Hegseth's beauty standard also applies to ships.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 1d

Just dug up this old tweet again.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 1d

IYKYK. Don't make me explain it.
这张照片让我想起了一个老梗。再喊“续一秒”已经晚了。

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 1d

What the heck, man? Germany at the end of the Weimar Republic had quite a lot of free talkers. "Fascism" was the foundation of the Enabling Act, not the result of it.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 7d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 7d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 1d

Harvard, of all places, doesn't have a few game theory people who understand credible commitment problems?

This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

Mary mother of Christ, these people are overpaid fools.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 2d

So this guy does know a little about confounding variables... but only when it comes to the precious circumcisions.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 2d

Some showed me a TikTok of a literal earth worm crawling out of this guy's ear.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 2d

No way that message was meant to be private. Do they communicate through Truth Social DM now? Or is Donald demented enough to not know which app he's typing in?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 3d

See for yourself.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 3d

This logical gymnastics is turning my brains into pretzels.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 3d

If Trump had been President during 911, you'd have seen gas chambers set up all over the country, if not a nuclear war. If you can't see the difference between how they wield power, I don't know what to tell you.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 3d

By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Mike Johnson is pulling a mini insurrection. He didn't scale the Capitol wall, but he's overthrowing electoral outcomes from within.
Btw, this pedo "adopter" should've rotted in jail a long time ago.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 4d

From their angle! They actually posted this?? Why?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, the guy who was arguably good at it ended up shooting himself in a bunker. Intelligence is not a necessary qualification of fascism.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 4d

W/o differentiation of evils, there won't be differentiation in responses. I suppose that's your plan?

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 4d

I agree. But your focus on "easing the needless suffering" often blinds you to the possibility of NEW and WORSE suffering. We don't differ on value, but we differ on imagination. I lived in a dictatorship; you probably haven't.

your weirdo friend @yourweirdofriend.bsky.social · 4d

you're clearly unaware of "the anti-establishment left"-- or whatever that word salad means. these are people largely concerned with politicians across parties who grift instead of easing the needless suffering everyday people. they're out there protesting fascism + organizing while you podcast.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 4d

If the anti-establishment left admits that Trump is the worst, logically, they'll have to admit that the past admins weren't as evil as they could've been, and that electoral politics did place constraints on politicians. And that wouldn't fit the narrative.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

The thing about Iran-Contra and Watergate was that they WEREN’T flagrant: they had to be exposed.Trump literally does stuff five times worse than Watergate every day, and then tweets an openly neo-Nazi meme about it from the official White House account. It’s a difference in kind, not just degree.

Emcee Hammerpants @emceehammerpants.bsky.social · 4d

I dunno, man. Iran-Contra and Watergate were pretty flagrant. I have a hard time believing they haven’t been heading down this road where the executive is all-powerful and power is the end, not the means, for a long, long time. Whether that alone qualifies as fascist I don’t know for sure.

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · 4d

Or maybe that imperium is gone.

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