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Rustbelt Radical @rustbeltradical.bsky.social · 1d

He said right after bullying trans kids who want to play softball and before his scheduled ride-along to clear a homeless camp

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Rustbelt Radical @rustbeltradical.bsky.social · 1d

Ron Johnson is really giving Joe McCarthy a run for his money for worst Wisconsin politician of all time

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

talked the whole neighborhood into putting HGH in halloween candy to create a generation of children powerful enough to survive the coming water wars

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙 @dungeonlust.com · Oct 27

Art by • Frank Frazetta

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Rustbelt Radical @rustbeltradical.bsky.social · 3d

Nicotine's already incredibly addictive but when you make it taste good, can do it inside, and it doesn't affect your appearance you can do it way more. Then your tolerance goes up. Then you need more. And more. Smokers often have to plan it around breaks from work, going outside, and ppl hate it

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Rustbelt Radical @rustbeltradical.bsky.social · 3d

If you want to throw trans people under the bus in an attempt to win power I certainly wouldn't view you as an ally.

We all apply litmus tests to politicians, it's just clear that human rights for trans people isn't a test that you care about.

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Rustbelt Radical @rustbeltradical.bsky.social · 3d

Telling a kid your very existence is wrong, dangerous, and unwelcome is in fact life and death considering the teen rate of suicide. You're so different we can't even let you play JV softball with us is dehumanizing

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Rustbelt Radical @rustbeltradical.bsky.social · 3d

I voted for her but I don't think there was anything clear about her position on Israel/Gaza, and coming from the "Hug Bibi" administration she would have had to create more daylight between her and Joe which she did not do

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 5d

There’s a @briancassella.bsky.social shot for this from just today!!

Greg Bovino and his CBP team in their car leaving the federal courthouse with the reflection of a Chicagoan giving them the middle finger in the car window glass

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

support whomever you’d like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue — the thing critics have identified as the problem — isn’t the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it.

Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 6d

I think political writers actually should have an opinion about a guy in his 40s having a Nazi tattoo. The decision to keep it on their body may tell us more than their website.

But although I know I'm supposed to have a take about the tattoo designs chosen by a drunk 21-year-old Marine while on leave in Croatia, my best guide to what this person would do in office is, well, what he says he will do in office. And that platform leads with the affordability crisis and the dangers

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6d

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump’s orders unnerved many in the industry and appear to have discouraged some large firms from taking on cases they would otherwise have backed, lawyers say. That has dried up a formerly reliable supply of help from large law offices for people and institutions challenging government policies.

The American Bar Association, which joined or filed four lawsuits against the Trump administration, “has experienced difficulty finding previously willing law firms to represent it,” its attorneys wrote in court papers. In one case, the organization said, it was unable to join a lawsuit challenging the administration because it could not get attorneys in time.

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙 @dungeonlust.com · 7d

Cover art for Monster House | 1984

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 7d

This was a punchline 15 years ago and now it’s a third of the electorate

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spacegooose 🚀 @spacegooose.bsky.social · 7d

Yay!!!! i finished #shiptember2025 here they all are

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙 @dungeonlust.com · Oct 13

Art by • Matt Stikker

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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 8d

To think that she started out as a member of the Green Party

Brahm Resnik @brahmresnik.bsky.social · 8d

Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.

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Rustbelt Radical @rustbeltradical.bsky.social · 8d

And it will be called that until the day we tear it down for the illegal gaudy symbol of authoritarianism it is

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

The least surprising news of the day.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8d

all I'm gonna say is that these posts are hours apart

screenshot of a Jacobin post saying "Ironic fascism is a disturbing symptom of the Trumpist right’s mounting ethnonationalism and authoritarianism." with a link to the article "Take the GOP's Nazi group chats Seriously"

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Rustbelt Radical @rustbeltradical.bsky.social · 9d

Trump has big Sulla vibes

Rustbelt Radical @rustbeltradical.bsky.social · 9d

A little on the nose but ok

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 9d

The White House's East Wing construction rubble was taken to East Potomac Golf Course. It was reported that the rubble will be used to create mounds on the golf course.

Read more: bit.ly/4oa2tXA

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

a photo of Taki Allen and a bag of doritos

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d

It makes no sense to build a White House ballroom with capacity for 999 people. Unless you're going to shake down all the people who otherwise could never have been invited to a state dinner or other big function.

Oh wait, it makes a lot of sense now.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10d

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting

The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

www.nbcnews.com

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 11d

Goodnight everyone, and if you accidentally got an extremely recognizable Nazi symbol tattoo years ago and keep forgetting to get it covered up, maybe do that tomorrow and don’t spend any more extra years with an extremely recognizable Nazi symbol tattooed on your body

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