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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 1h

would be an improvement on what Idaho mostly has: dangerously icy parking lots, and people just religious enough to want to see everyone around them burn in hell, but not enough to be kind to their fellow man

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2h

It’d in fact slap if Idaho had more mosques and camels in it.

Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 2h

Call me old-fashioned by I think race-baiting like this is bad and any account engaged in it is suspect as hell.

jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 1h

i like how dawning awareness of his mortality and the idea of morality in general will not make him hesitate for a second about continuing to be one of the most evil men of the 21st century

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

there is a kind of person who does not think any non-violent protest is legitimate and more often than not, they are the kind of person who will not show up to any protest, violent *or* non-violent

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

oh things must be bad bad

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

Crazy week.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 15h

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 4h

EVERYONE needs to get involved.

Everyone.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

a reminder that the reprehensible, inhumanly cruel aspects of our immigration system are not new, just more excessive and gleefully vicious than usual right now

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

Okay, I’m going to take a mea culpa on this one, as initial reporting suggested he was ONLY facing removal because of the murder conviction he’s been exonerated from. But there’s more; at 19, he pled guilty to dealing LSD. And in immigration law, that’s its own “aggravated felony” ground of removal.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

the thing about the videos coming out of both chicago and portland is that if you’re not an insane fascist, it’s obvious who the good guys and the bad guys are

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5h

🚨About 2 hours ago in Chicago. You see peaceful protestors across the street from armed, angry, geared up Trump enforcers. He wants violence. He is getting none of it. ✊🏼 Power to the People ✊🏼
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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

derek guy is an hero

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

i think this might be the best—if not only good—use of sora

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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h

Listen we need to use Sora 2 to generate a version of A Christmas Carol where Trump is Scrooge and one of his old dead friends are Marley and then post it at him on Truth social.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7h

“Trump haunted by visions of hell” is my favorite Trump, although I’m not totally sure what’s going on with the dude

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

viscerally unpleasant smug guy with less than 100 followers who wrote a “free book” about how to save the world is and likes to show up in your mentions and be weird and condescending is, based on the fact I’ve encountered two of them here, a “type of guy”

jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

oh, you’re telling me my neighbor who shovels my snowy driveway when he feels like doing something nice and asks me to feed his cat while he’s gone and whose kids laugh as they play on a community jungle gym didn’t fill out some paperwork 12 years ago? ok??? and????

jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 11h

who gives a shit how anyone got into this country. like who the fuck cares? what a weird little thing for weird perverts to get obsessed with.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15d

Area man, who decided George W. Bush being President was more important than counting everyone’s votes, has concerns about the survival of democracy in 🇺🇸

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 9h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 9h

so, murderer. tyrant. bigot. idiot. terrorist, agent of chaos, all-around villain. but yeah, a peacemaker, sure.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

Good for them: it is a violation of the Hatch Act that limits the use of public assets for partisan messaging. Orgeon has its own version of that law, and covers those who run the airport. Other airport administrators should look to see if they are in the same position.

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 9h

PDX continuing to show why it's the best airport in the country.

PDX chooses not to air video of Sec. Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown

The Port of Portland is choosing not to broadcast a new video that shows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown."Democr

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 9h

dude also has basically rebuked nato, started huge trade wars with friends and rivals, threatened invading allied nations, does most "diplomacy" with threats and insults, humiliates the us with his lack of knowledge and decorum, and has never shown a real human emotion about people being killed

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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J H @jpjh88.bsky.social · 12h

People need to start highlighting that Miller is actually the shadow President and the one calling the shots. When it was Musk who was doing it, it caused a rift between them so big that after he was out, Musk was bashing Trump claiming he is in the Epstein files.

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Tegiminis @tegiminis.bsky.social · 10h

Fucking vile. These people have no shame, no conscience

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 10h

no, it's not. it really isn't. states and households work very differently.

and your "beer" schtick is obnoxious. and you seem to be relishing how obnoxious you're being.

i'm leaving this up long enough for you to hopefully see it, and then i'm blocking you. because you're annoying on purpose.

jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 10h

my neighbor is my neighbor, and i'm never going to say "they deserve their life being destroyed and immense suffering visited upon them and their children because they overstayed a visa or they couldn't get a green card interview until 2027."

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 10h

yes, absolutely. there is no virtue inherent in being born here or having parents who were citizens.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 10h

Dems on Twitter we’re still saying Curtis was gonna be okay and John was a good guy AFTER this post with Phil Lyman

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