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Recovering journo, Champion of the Apostrophe Former: Your favorite neighborhood bartender Current: Librocubicularist Laureate Still pretty good at listening & libations Dogs are welcome here. Humans will be vetted.

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · Jan 26

" ... the soul-blighted Donald Trump and the satraps and lackeys who abet his nefarious behavior—are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. This must be stated clearly, and repeatedly."

Sadly, unbelievably, it must be stated again.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A Party, and Nation, in Crisis

The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy.

www.theatlantic.com

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1h

What's the deal?
open.substack.com/pub/theoffic...

Trump: What's the Deal? (Full 1991 BANNED Documentary)

The film was commissioned in 1988 by Leonard Stern. Donald threatened to sue any broadcaster or distributor that took on the film. It was screen only twice & subsequently suppressed.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

NEW: About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.

New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.

But Trump has halted those efforts.

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated

The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...

www.propublica.org

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 2h

Ask yourself: Why would the government need to aim our citizen soldiers at ... us?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h

The Pentagon is creating National Guard riot control forces in every state that could respond to civil unrest.

The new "quick reaction" units — with about 500 soldiers each — demonstrate Trump's push to expand the U.S. military's role in targeting U.S. citizens in U.S. cities.

Pentagon Orders National Guard to Establish Quick-Reaction Forces for Civil Unrest, Riots

The riot control units are a major shift, underscoring the Trump administration’s push to directly involve the military in responding to demonstrations and other domestic missions.

www.wsj.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

today i spoke to students at CUNY graduate school of journalism and the professor started things off by quoting my own words to me: “tom homan is a bitch.”

a landmark moment.

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 16h

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 15h

Never been so grateful to be a small town librarian in my life!

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 16h

DOJ submits new, air-brushed sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, scrubbing references to his role in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege and Trump's social media post that led him to go to Obama's neighborhood with weapons. Here's the first scrubbing
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

One of the most difficult things abt the Trump Admin.

It's beyond question he's corrupt and happy to harm the US.

What ISN'T clear is what he considers too scandalous to pull off.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Trump nominee at U.S. export bank withdraws amid scrutiny of Russia ties

Bryce McFerran is a senior executive at a steel-trading business co-owned by one of Russia’s richest oligarchs and is married to a member of a Russian family with extensive ties to the Kremlin.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 15h

Can't blame them, but this is really bad for a lot of smaller makers in the US 😕

inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 16h

Kevin, do you feel like some of these folks in your replies are actively working for a fascist America?
Because man, it sure feels that way to me.
Encouraging people NOT to do the one thing that can actually effect change in a democratic state?
FFS, why?

inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 16h

Since there are none, I would guess not.
At least, none that are honest and realistic.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

"Please help. Please help. Please help us. We have rights, we’re citizens here, please help us"

My god. This 911 call with a Chicago woman pleading for help as ICE pulls pulls people from their cars, aiming weapons at them is grotesque. Monsters have invaded our city. Monsters.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

911 Audio Reveals Harrowing Chicago Escalation talkingpointsmemo.com/news/911-aud...

911 Audio Reveals Harrowing Chicago Escalation

The Trump administration wants everyone to see what it’s doing in Chicago....

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

📌Every bill to help feed people in my long lifetime has been passed by Democrats.
Every bill to starve them has been passed by Republicans.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

It didn't take a Reichstag Fire to shut down Congress - the cornerstone of the Founders' plan for an American democracy. Just a useful idiot named Mike Johnson

My new column on a House disappearing act more about enabling dictatorship than about the Epstein File www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.

www.inquirer.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

Jason Odell @luminescentphoto.com · 1d

A quick reminder that the House is not in session because Speaker Johnson CANCELED it, not because of the current shutdown.

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d

As with everything else they consume, Musk and his cabal steal what appeals to their own egos and ignore the gestalt, certain their limited understanding is wisdom when in fact, it is wisdom's opposite.
What could they know about someone like Tolkien, opposite to them in nearly every way?

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voted Tuesday night to vacate a panel’s decision allowing the National Guard to deploy to Portland, and will rehear the case.

9th Circuit Vacates Trump Judges’ Ruling Allowing National Guard Troops To Deploy To Portland

The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voted Tuesday night to vacate...

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d

Yo #IOWA - let's keep (what's left of) our healthcare clinics & rural hospitals, okay?
@progressiowa.bsky.social has a couple of petitions we can sign to tell our MOC to fight for US. Here's one:
👇
progressiowa.actionkit.com/sign/eptc_20...

Tell Iowa’s Members of Congress to stop premium price hikes! Protect the ACA!

progressiowa.actionkit.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Terrific and important piece.

Filmmakers. Scientists. Academics. Police officers. Pastors. Ballroom dancers. Candle makers.

Two bearded guys in cargo shorts getting marriage licenses in Waco on a random weekday.

These are the normies.

The people in the Capitol who are obsessed with which bathrooms we use, what we do in our own homes, and what kind of art we make? The feds who want to strip away retirement benefits from trans Air Force veterans being forcibly removed from their positions?

Those are the weirdos.

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d

My first encounter with queer culture happened in Houston.
Went w/my friend to visit her Uncle Darrell - only she was now Aunt Wendy, a fabulous drag queen living her best life far from the cornfields & castigation of rural Iowa.
RIP Wendy Chicago 🏳️‍🌈

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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 2d

My eyes bother me, too. I probably have undiagnosed uveitis - and it'll stay undiagnosed b/c steroid eyedrops are pretty much the only treatment.
I found a curcumin formulation - Meriva - along with Vit D almost completely suppresses the inflammation. Good evidence behind it, too.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.

(Published Sept.)

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security

DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...

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