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Ace Hoffman

@acehoffman.bsky.social

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Computer programmer for nearly 50 years...blogger mostly about nukes (I knew three Manhattan Project scientists). Animator (mostly technical animations). Some comedy bits were played on the Dr. Demento Show & Pacifica stations, years ago. Comic-Con 25+yrs.

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is the most disgusting thing I have EVER READ.

Fuck Trump and Fuck Putin too.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 6

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’

Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

www.thetimes.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 3h

Not sure who needs to hear this but your “physical” isn’t “annual” if you need it twice in six months.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Mike Maguire @mike-m1967.bsky.social · 14h

#solidarity

The hilarity being produced by the Portland protesters in the face of evil. Is showing the beauty of the human spirit.
Vive la Resistance

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Daryl Elliott @darylelliott.bsky.social · Nov 23

Fellow #Resisters, #NAFO, #BLM, #WomensRights #SJW, #vegans, #Environmentalists, let's follow each other. Drop your links so others may follow you, too.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC
#ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

"We have no king," Illinois says, updating the court on all the authoritarian things Trump has said since Monday.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since Plaintiffs’ Monday morning filings and the Court’s initial hearing that afternoon, the
Trump administration has continued its purposeful defiance of the lawful bounds of its power to
create a federal military occupation of Illinois.1
Indeed, in the past few days, the President has
repeated his disdain for any guardrails on those powers. A few hours after the Monday hearing in this case, Trump issued an after-the-fact memorandum invoking 10 U.S.C. § 12406 to federalize
National Guard troops that Secretary Hegseth had already deployed into Illinois. That same day,
Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller asserted the authoritarian view that the President
has “plenary authority”—sweeping and unlimited power—to federalize National Guard troops and
dispatch them to American cities like Chicago. The next day, Trump told press in the Oval Office
that he might just invoke the Insurrection Act to “get around” judicial orders blocking his unlawful
troop deployments, like the one last weekend in Oregon. Then just yesterday, Trump himself
posted on social media that the Governor of Illinois and Mayor of Chicago should be jailed.
These were not empty threats. They were made even as defendants dispatched a third state’s
National Guard to Illinois in federalized status, this time from California, and without any new
deployment order specific to Illinois. This lawless targeting by the President and his administration
of people and places he does not favor will not stop without court intervention.

The Court can and should stop this authoritarian march. We remain a nation of laws, we
have no king, and the President has no such “plenary authority” to federalize National Guard troops
and deploy them into the streets of Illinois. The Court should enter a preliminary injunction against
defendants’ federalization and deployment of any state’s National Guard, or deployment of U.S.
military, into Illinois over the objection of its Governor.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
lithub.com/irish-noveli...

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

lithub.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 1d

Kash has a cover-up in process...

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Kash Patel's FBI just fired special agents who worked on Jack Smith's investigation of Trump.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

The agents were fired after Kash Patel disclosed that Smith's team obtained phone records of members of Congress, which the Smith report itself referred to.

www.nbcnews.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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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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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Chump's Regime is Losing This
Battle At The Polls......

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 🌊 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 1d

Timeline Cleanse ❤️🥰❤️

I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · 1d

Current mood...

😩😩😩😩😩😩🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

#bluesky #animals #wildlife #nature

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 1d

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 This is protecting the American people. “Full force” is not defined by the military. More of this!

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like Eric is committing libel because he's desperate to prove his father is NOT the biggest criminal in American history, AND a traitor, AND an incompetent fool

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 1d

Masked and armed, demanding IDs for no legit reason. Abducting people without a warrant or a cause.

They're fascists. They'd probably even realize they are if they thought about it. AND if they paid attention to history in school.

Then they'd know they are on the wrong side of history now.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

In a Chicago suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE goons and a cameraman surrounded a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demanded his ID and threatened to arrest him for impeding their audit.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Masked agents snatching people at work, church, their child’s daycare. A return of family separations. States are lining up to run their own detention centers.

Anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

We report from inside the American gulag.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

www.motherjones.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries to Lawler: "You're a complete and total embarrassment. You're embarrassing yourself and your district right now. And you're going down to defeat next year."

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1d

Constitution controls thee and not me - Donald Trump

Your reminder that SCOTUS has never held Constitutional authority to end fundamental rights without an amendment existing to enforce. The fact they are is authoritarian law and why we shouldn’t wait on SCOTUS to defend

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Ace Hoffman @acehoffman.bsky.social · 1d

Children who only knew war...

Peter Tatchell Foundation @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social · 1d

18,457 children. Gone. 💔 Each one a story, a laugh, a life stolen in Gaza

There is no justification, no silence deep enough to hide this horror

The world cannot look away 🕊️🌍

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 1d

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Canada vs. America

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 2d

Speaker Mike Johnson confronted by Sen. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego about his refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva. According to him it has nothing to do with the Epstein Files.

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