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@synthaholic.bsky.social

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Keyboardist and vocalist. I've been alive forever and I wrote the very first song. Baseball fanatic. Decent cook. Animal lover. I prefer dogs to people. Sorry people.

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Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · Sep 5

Posting this in order to pin it for the dopes:

I follow corrupt VP Vance on Bluesky bc I can't very well refute his lies if he's blocked. If that upsets you, then by all means block me. I had to unblock 1000s of MAGA accounts bc VP was on block list. @support.bsky.team should fix, allow overrides.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

I have one slight disagreement with this post.

There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy.

And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

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Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 7h

It would also seem like now is the time to test this Federal judge option and not wait until November, 2026.

Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 7h

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should appear with @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social in front of a Federal judge to swear her in, with lots of news cameras. Then what is Mike Johnson's move? Then it's no longer "I've been too busy" as an excuse. Democrats should apply pressure wherever they can.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat Adelita Grijalva is bigger than just Epstein files. He’s laying groundwork to attempt to prevent winning Dems from taking office if House majority up for grabs in Nov 2026, as I told @briantylercohen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSRY...

🚨 Trump caught in INSANE scheme to RIG next election

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe it's time for other governments, or at least some of their more high-profile politicians, to start calling out the Republican do-nothing Congress and tell them to reign in Trump and take back taxing authority. Start restricting them in intel, and travel.

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Builder of Spine one call at a time!! @oldfraildems.bsky.social · 8h

ELBOWS UP CANADA!!!

Take this big baby to the woodshed and beat his ass like it should have been done 70 years ago.

If you don’t he’ll never stop trying to get more out of you it’s in his criminal blood!!

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The Ontario anti-tariff ad which led Trump to end trade talks with Canada

YouTube video by Global News

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Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 8h

“You may choose one person to tell you the Aristocrats joke.”

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 9h

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

Glass storefront door in Brighton Park, with sign in English and Spanish, reading: ATTENTION ICE/CBP
AGENTS
STOP
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED ENTRANCE INTO THIS BUSINESS WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT
ATENCION AGENTES DE
ICE/CBP
STOP
NO SE LE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A ESTE NEGOCIO SIN UNA ORDEN
JUDICIAL VALIDA

Glass storefront door with sign reading:

PRIVATE PROPERTY
NO ICE

YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER NON-PUBLIC AREAS OF THIS SPACE
WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT SIGNED BY A FEDERAL JUDGE

and a second sign:
PLEASE USE DOOR
ON 47TH ST.
BACK OF THE YARDS

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Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 8h

Is this appropriate for an above-the-fold news article? It reads like opinion to me.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

y Sarah Ellison
and
Michelle Boorstein

NEW YORK — In the most Jewish city in America, debates over antisemitism have exploded in the final days of the mayoral race as New Yorkers appear close to electing a 34-year-old Muslim who does not believe Israel should exist as a Jewish state.

Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 1d

We will only get them all back with a Democratic president, after Democratic super-majorities write a ton of new laws to prevent anything like this from happening again, along with a revamped SCOTUS.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

people chant "we stand with you!" as Letitia James tries to speak outside a courthouse in Virginia

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Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 1d

I keep wondering if any members of Congress could be charged with being accomplices. Something!

Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 1d

Another BS headline from WaPo. No indication that this is another step in consolidating and controlling the message, this time from Elon Musk. Cancel your WaPo subscriptions, folks. Nothing in it is worth it in the face of this propaganda and gaslighting. And donate to @wikipedia.org

One of the world’s most popular websites is under attack for liberal bias
Larry Sanger’s claims of a liberal slant and mismanagement at Wikipedia are being enthusiastically embraced on the right.
By Will Oremus

Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 1d

No WaPo sub for me, but I would have to guess Chicago. Not only for it's teams, but the close proximity to Milwaukee teams. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Opinion | What is America’s best sports city? Nine compete for the crown.

Grit, glamour and green energy define some of the nation’s top sports towns.

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Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 1d

I mean . . .

Bret Baier with the obvious plastic surgery.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 2d

Those who'd sneer at outrage over the White House fancy themselves slick. Ears to the ground. They don't concern themselves with frippery when there's a war to be won. Well they don't know a goddamn thing. Symbols are powerful, and politics is a game of using them to your advantage.

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Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 1d

I canceled all cable news, so I haven't seen Bret Baier in almost a year. Whoa! He has obviously gotten a face-lift and eye work. He looks like Matt Gaetz did.

Pedophile Matt Gaetz, before and after his face-lift, in an attempt to appeal to even younger girls.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Update: The Chicago clergy letter decrying ICE's actions and voicing a willingness on the part of clergy to put their "bodies on the line" to protest ICE has reached 250 signatures — and now includes multiple evangelical pastors/leaders of evangelical institutions in the area.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a list of the dozens of CEOs, real estate moguls, defense contractors, telecom companies, Big Tech companies, crypto guys and otherwise really rich people financing the construction of Trump's ballroom as he demolishes the White House www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

All The Donors Financing Trump’s Ballroom As He Demolishes The White House

Trump may have destroyed American history by razing the East Wing, but at least these corporations and rich people get to buy access to the president.

www.huffpost.com

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Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 2d

Disgusting the way animals are abused. Foie gras should be illegal.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve watched @radiofreetom.bsky.social fight this battle for weeks (months?) now. Can we just agree that democratic backsliding (towards fascism/authoritarianism) is a process, that we are farther along than five years ago, but not as far as some other places?? Binary thinking is just…just don’t 1/

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

Freer than Greece under the junta, freer than China right now, freer than most countries in the world. Important not to lose sight of that.

Lynn Gazis-Sax @empressnorton.bsky.social · 2d

A reasonable distinction. We're a country sliding into competitive authoritarianism, but as long as we're still freer than Greece was under the junta - and we are still freer than that - I'm with Tom Nichols on _Trump_, not (yet) the country as a whole, being fascist.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

Odds are this aggressively did not happen. But it would of course be just as unconstitutional to spend money donated to the government without a duly enacted appropriation as it is to spend tax money that way.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."

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Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 2d

But why won't they? How do you get nearly 272 GOP to act as one, even to the point of giving up their own power and relevance? Have they all been threatened, at one of the speeches at their fancy retreats? Blackmail would only work with some. This is where investigative reporting has failed us.

Synthaholic @synthaholic.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to once again say "Fuck the New York Times".

Many U.S. leaders have renovated the White House. Here's how Trump's ballroom compares.