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JIll Kent @jillkent.bsky.social · 7h

They all act like they’re part of a sequestered jury with only VHS tapes of Knot’s Landing and Chicken Soup for the Soul books as links to the outside world whenever they are asked about Trump.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 12h

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 13h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13h

This is, in all seriousness, probably a fatal blow to American democracy, even if it ends up taking a long time for the consequences to finish playing out. But once you get into the pattern of ruling by decree, it's very hard to get out.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Believe it or not, it used to be taboo for a US president to go abroad and cozy up to dictators to trash domestic political opponents in a press conference. Pretty much never happened. Republicans would have demanded Obama be arrested for treason.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 18h

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16h

I doubt anyone can keep track of it all. Trump racks up more scandals in any given month than most administrations manage in eight years.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16h

I’m part of the problem because I completely forgot about this

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 23h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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🐸👻🎃 @jamesdena.bsky.social · 17h

I have zero idea what this is about but I feel it’s important.

Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 17h

They 100 percent cooked that entire turkey on the hot dog rollers in the press box.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 17h

these wild fishermen do not, as a general thing, and according to the great military maxim, make the enemy defray the current expenses of the war

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17h

Libs have organized the largest nationwide protests in American history, with increasing frequency, while the most miserable people on the left whine and tell them they are doing it wrong.

Kronos @progressiveknife.bsky.social · 20h

nobody wants to organize a social movement, they just want to vote scold.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 21h

either you are organizing for elections, or organizing a social movement, or sitting on the outside impotently Posting. a Woke Army of the Working Class is not on the table

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🐸👻🎃 @jamesdena.bsky.social · 18h

Man that Jack Smith is sneaky.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 19h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 22h

Some good news! After all that, only O.03% of families opted out of LGBTQ+ Education in Maryland after the Supreme Court gave them the ability to do so. Not just a majority, not just most families, nearly all families want their kids to have access to this education. We are the majority

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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🐸👻🎃 @jamesdena.bsky.social · 21h

King Ketamine has ideas.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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area king size candy bar man @professorbutts.com · 22h

absolutely the fuck not

Dear Parents,
If students wish to take part in this National Day of Remembrance, they may wear red to honor the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk. Red shirt on top, uniform on bottom.
Thank you!

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 21h

Ben Shapiro: "You guys won't believe what this fucking scorpion just did to me."

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 3d

Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media

Ben Shapiro is warning that the Jewish people are being regarded as a "conspiratorial force" by a certain faction of right-wing conservatives. The post Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media first appeared on Mediaite.

dlvr.it

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 22h

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 1d

I'm happy about the cease fire. It took levels of corruption a normal government could not possibly undertake. I'm just skeptical that this is sourced in anything real.

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BlackBiJewess @blackbijewess.bsky.social · 1d

No one is perfect
No one is perfect enough for the leftists

From this attitude
You can see how we got here

Implying that Dems fucked up & Dems better suck leftists nut *just* right-

Or they'll fuck the country over again

They REALLY don't get it

Concerned Chicagoan @c25kg.bsky.social · 1d

We better put up a damn excellent candidate next time 🤬

BlackBiJewess @blackbijewess.bsky.social · 1d

MASK OFF MOMENT

Trump 3rd term
After midterms
They will be seeking to destroy the 22 amendment

If you voted for anyone except Kamala Harris?

You own this

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

In fairness, Jones warned everyone about the frogs.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Will I be able to follow the plot of World War 4 if I haven’t seen 3 yet?

Alex Jones
@RealAlexJones
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WORLD WAR 4 HAS BEGUN!
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 1d

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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