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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”

… but what is plenary authority?

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 15h

And their less data-dense counterparts, presbiterians

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 20h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 17h

Irrelevant fun fact: the Constitution once had an emoluments clause, to prevent the president from using his position to enrich himself in a way that would be corrupting to the public interest of the office. Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

Anyway...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Not for nothing but if you're high profile and need to flee the US, don't tell anyone in advance. It's also most certainly better to leave via a smaller land border crossing and catch your flight from Canada or Mexico. Much less ability for the feds to prevent you from leaving that way.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

A healthy democracy, where the leader and his followers spent a week threatening the destruction of the UN because the president fucked up an escalator briefly, and we all just moved on largely because the president was busy invading his own people’s territory in part because he got mad at a tv

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Kat Mahoney @kmahoneylaw.com · 2d

The dance party and inflatable costumes are doing more than just making the narrative from noem and trump look stupid. It’s also debunking years of the Aaron schmautz, Gonzalez, PBA/PMC and others blaming protestors and calling them violent. Keep it up.

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 2d

Not quite at "look I dialed in the holosun on my nerf gun" levels of dumb, but getting there.

Less useful than a scope on a shotgun, certainly.

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 2d

Yup. any of several pretty common magazine-fed 68cal "markers" with the air tank mounted along the barell.

Pepperballs and paintballs use the same guns. drum mag means they're likely shooting First Strike rounds. More plastic, slightly flatter shot trajectory. A red dot sight is still SO DUMB.

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 2d

Did... Did the Fed put a red dot on his paintball gun, or do they issue them like that at chucklefuck hq?

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 2d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

Weiss's ascendance represents the need for the wealth class to continue moving rightward as capitalism requires fascism. Individuals like Klein are there to help moderate white liberals begin to accept that "necessity." That's how this whole thing works and has always worked.

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Debby33 ❌ 👑 @debby33.bsky.social · 5d

This is how we roll in Portland ⤵️

Which is why, of course, I mean you can see why, Pete Hegseth wants the 82nd Airborne to parachute in and get this under control 🪂

BTW: the brave ICE Agents here are so terrified of this Evil Frog that they shoved pepper spray into the costume's airhole
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

The Frog mocking ICE GOONS 😂

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 6d

It is one of the most absolutely insignificant of the horrible things about the last 2 years of genocide, but it sure does seem bad that Israel has been completely successful in convincing people that the phrase "release the hostage" can be used to describe handing over a dead body.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d

Breaking News: Hamas said it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of President Trump’s proposed Gaza peace deal. Follow live updates.

Live Updates: Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Hostages in Gaza

The militant group responded to a proposal by President Trump to end the war in Gaza.

nyti.ms

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 6d

Pictured: the circles being run

a black and white image of a loading wheel on a black background

ALT: a black and white image of a loading wheel on a black background

media.tenor.com

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 6d

And why is it snotting out a centurion helmet?

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 7d

Why does the skull with a tuning fork for incisors have ticks in its eyes?

The tick in the eye of the gun-skull-bug challenge coin issued by the head of the FBI

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 7d

Why does the chtulu-bucktoothed skull have ticks for eyes?

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 7d

You also couldn't submit the plot of the movie Halloween.

Prominently featured Halloween on the Horror Zine homepage

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 8d

Every city Trump is targeting is an economic hub upon which this country depends to survive. That's where the money they're spending on ICE comes from

They are depending on us to keep handing them sacks of cash while meekly submitting to authoritarian rule, and we can simply not

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