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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 20h

I’ll be damned if I’m ever paying ICE for anything

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 21h

Can we identify and target Heritage board members and donors?

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

“Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors ***
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat [alleged] antisemitism” 1/7/25 … 1/ forward.com/news/686797/...

Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.

forward.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22h

Everything else aside...Dems should not be running 77 yos for Senate

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

The bleakest thing about this video is that all the things this guy loves about the UK are relatively cheap and easy to build. Alabama could have a better train system than England inside of 10 years if we decided that was a priority. We are a rich country that chooses to live like a poor one.

Kelly C @kacphl.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. This guy nailed it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Qv...

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

www.youtube.com

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 1d

I’m still taken aback by the way they haven’t run into anyone willing to use their second amendment rights. You feel like they’re playing a game of really high stakes minesweeper.

brent is Saw Gerrera-pilled @therealbrent.bsky.social · 1d

No point in trying to own them for their hypocrisy because they don’t care but still remarkable the Jade Helm people have fully embraced a police state where masked, anonymous federal agents kidnap and abduct people at will.

Can’t even imagine the reaction if a Democratic administration did this.

Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

And we should drag into the street anyone who approves of it.

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

we need to abolish this shit

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

I totally agree, all I’m saying is it feels less like malice and more like paralysis.

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

I think they’re all terrified. All the networks. Capitalism is risk averse. They’re going to try to control what they can until they’re controlled.

I don’t have a good solution. I don’t think they have a solution. They’re trying to thread a needle that’s not a needle, it’s a sword pointed at them.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

Have we all talked about how bad the SNL political sketches have been this season?

It is really really eerie how all the media is normalizing literal civil war.

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

I would literally rather stick a gun in my mouth than endorse this kind of plan.

Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 2d

Are you fucking kidding me

THE HILL
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN
AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
OPINION > HEALTHCARE
How to reopen the government:
Rebrand Obamacare as
"TrumpCare'
BY BLAKE NARENDRA, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR
10/11/25 09:00 AM ET

A bill could restore premium tax credits but require the Affordable Care Act exchanges to make it clear that one man saved enrollees from exploding costs.
The enrollment website could read: "Check to see if
you are eligible for TRUMP CREDITS."

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 2d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

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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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

One thing I’ve never understood about big tent theory is that if we acknowledge that horseshoe theory is real, and we can’t seem to find more voters in the center, why are we not trying to reach across the left to find populist right voters whose social views would be in a deep minority here?

Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

I've been doing this for the last four days. I can't stay asleep.

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 2d

desperately needed to catch up on sleep

woke up at 4am inexplicably

Help

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

I have been having a nearly two-week continuous conversation with my dad about trying to find places where we agree.

I can't stress to you enough that the most consistent point of agreement is that money in politics is not just bad but that it is the most consistent evil destroying the country.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

Literally not even once did @jonfavs.bsky.social or @ezraklein.bsky.social talk here about how politics is entirely driven by money and maybe this is why people hate it.

Opinion | Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right

www.nytimes.com

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Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.bsky.social · 2d

By now it is an old man yelling at the clouds, but without guys around him telling him shut the fuck up or men in white lab coats coming to take him.

Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 2d

Trump may have forgotten that he was the president at the time, not Biden

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Tbf that’s insane behavior in January

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 2d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov what are you doing to protect the protestors you told to be out there?

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Arvell Reese is going to look great for Brian Flores in Minnesota.

Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Ohio State’s defense is un-fucking-real. They’re so good.

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Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social · 3d

There are only two paths forward: trying and sentencing Stephen Miller for crimes against humanity (in this world, it's a capital punishment) or no humanity. That's it!

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Brian Hegseth is as much a clown as his son, and priorities like these are why his son is an alcoholic and our football team sucked while he was the AD.

Pete Hegseth’s dad Brian tweets absurd policy ideas and I respond insulting him professionally.

Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so tired of seeing this fucking clown Dave Portnoy on my TV

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Ryan @sweetcainmusic.bsky.social · 3d

We talk a lot about Twitter being a Nazi cesspool but Threads is just as bad.