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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

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Twitter exile, 🏳️‍🌈 and married 👨‍❤️‍👨, anti-fascist, Trans-rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️ News, politics, philosophy, religion, bourbon 🥃. 🇨🇦&🇺🇲, live on unceded land of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish). "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 55m

Facists do believe opponents are terrorists so that means the regime is fascist

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 1d

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 17h

Have you tried the Dispensary on Therlow 1/2 block from Davie?

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 19h

Hey y'all, I am headed back from a work weekend. Won't land until midnight, and then up early to make sure my kids get to school. I am already feeling under the weather, so I am going to skip the livestream tomorrow. I'll be back on 10/20 with The Gospel of Peter Thiel Part II.

10/20. 5:30 ET.

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Gay Bitterskeets @gaybitterskeets.bsky.social · 17h

Harrowing scènes from war-torn Chicago.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 23h

The joy cruising-you always want more

Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all are both handsome. I will brook no argument to the contrary

Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 1d

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Via Red Carpet John Steinbeck once did something few writers would ever dare. He hid in a migrant camp under a fake name — just to see if America would treat him like one of its own. It didn’t. It w...

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Tiina-Liisa 🇫🇮🇨🇦 @tiina-liisa.bsky.social · 1d

This will have a cascade of negative effects as fewer girls get involved in sports. Girls involved in sports have lower rates of teen pregnancy and are less likely to display other higher risk behaviours.

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According to provincial documents, if someone wants to challenge an athlete’s gender, they can do so.

Alberta’s new policy is forcing girls—cis and trans—out of school sports | Xtra Magazine

Gender forms mandated by Bill 29 are forcing families into tough decisions around whether to put their daughters in sports

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foghornleghorn1357.bsky.social @foghornleghorn1357.bsky.social · 1d

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

MAGA superfan finds out about Trump's fascism the hard way

Meet Eric Brakey, the executive director of the Free State Project. Those of you who’ve read the excellent book “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear,” by journalist Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, might ...

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doomandgloom 💙📚🚀🌈🌴🌺🌞🏖🏝🎶🌹🐈‍⬛🌹💐🦋 🌻🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @doomandgloom1951.bsky.social · 1d

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 1d

A succinct mission statement of those running the federal government

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

As Vought sees it: The "natural"/divinely ordained order manifests in sharp hierarchies of race, gender, religion, and wealth; this "natural" order was enshrined in the nation's founding; therefore any attempt at leveling hierarchies is unnatural, un-American, and fundamentally illegitimate.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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delfin @thedelfinclutch.bsky.social · 1d

And American history is dominated by caste, which went something like:

1) WASP straight cis conservative males
2) Those willing to bend the knee loudly and consistently to #1
3) Subservient castes who "know their place."
4) Anyone who doesn't.

Which is MAGA in a nutshell -- restoring that system.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Democracy Americana is a publication solely funded by readers. If you find pieces like this one helpful, you can subscribe for free – or, better yet: If you can, consider becoming a paid member. As an independent writer, I fully rely on your help to make this work possible. Thank you!🙏

Democracy Americana

A newsletter on U.S. politics and history - and the ongoing struggle over how much democracy, and for whom, there should be in America

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Vought’s ideology of “radical constitutionalism” captures the defining sensibility on the Trumpist Right: “The Left,” he believes, has command of America, there is nothing left to conserve, nothing short of a radical “counter-revolution” can now save the nation.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 1d

No apologies for being comfortable

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What happened at WaPo matters because it captures a broader rightward shift in elite business and media circles - a pervasive tendency of civic institutions to accommodate and acquiesce the regime, to choose appeasement and even active complicity.

That is how authoritarian rule is consolidated.

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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 2d

Paging the Anti-Christian Bias Task Force

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Ken Vynall 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @kvynall.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Coming Out Day! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Fit gAHHHymer @gaymer.fit · 2d

Happy National Coming Out day

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes….Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
—Anne Frank, 1943

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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