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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 9h

I truly think a bunch of pundits and consultants have told them “democracy messages didn’t work in 2024 so you shouldn’t use them”

This ignores the extremely different contexts imo. In 2024 Biden was president and people had sanewashed trump 1. Now there are violent secret police in the streets

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 9h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 11h

Words cannot express how furious I am

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 11h

Parents at the neighborhood public school are lining the streets and offering children escorts home because of the very legitimate fear that our federal government will kidnap them

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

“I’m a very patient guy. I mean you should just see how long I go between porn sessions. I really wait a long time. Incredible patience. Just ask my son!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

It’s precisely because of how serious it is that I believe it is important to continue to try and assert the power of the law (deeply flawed and broken though it is).

Trump and Miller say the law is dead. Agreeing with them only helps them make it so.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

White people still not understanding how serious this and STILL not listening to black people should be a humanities study...

What's wrong with y'all... For real?

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

It’s precisely because of how serious it is that I believe it is important to continue to try and assert the power of the law (deeply flawed and broken though it is).

Trump and Miller say the law is dead. Agreeing with them only helps them make it so.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

White people still not understanding how serious this and STILL not listening to black people should be a humanities study...

What's wrong with y'all... For real?

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12h

It’s precisely because of how serious it is that I believe it is important to continue to try and assert the power of the law (deeply flawed and broken though it is).

Trump and Miller say the law is dead. Agreeing with them only helps them make it so.

Derain Collier @deraincollier.blacksky.app · 1d

White people still not understanding how serious this and STILL not listening to black people should be a humanities study...

What's wrong with y'all... For real?

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 1d

It’s under grave threat; it’s not entirely dead.
Mostly dead is different

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 1d

No I’m using it right here! The speech act makes it real!

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 1d

Performative defeatism

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

Rule. Of. Law. Is. Dead.

You need to grow up and accept that.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

Our constitutional order.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

This guy butt-dialed a constitutional crisis. Amazing.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

And, they failed upward! These same people are now the ones with some of the biggest audiences that Dems are listening to for strategy.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Or swear in a new member of Congress who was elected two weeks ago

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

"Pritzker and Newsom see it as a defining challenge of this moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily, and using it to subjugate and dominate Blue America as if it’s akin to an enemy nation within."

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

Harvard (and all universities) must take a stand against Trump's extorionary "compact". Enos and Levitsky.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 1d

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Section38 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

Sexuality and Politics (Section 38) The objective of the Sexuality and Politics Section is to bring together scholars working in a variety of areas within

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 2d

Quite a headline
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

www.nbcnews.com

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

If every field had to have all of the subfields that sociology does tho boy howdy

(We do tho have this one though)

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

Yeah you are right, probably extremely not a virgin

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

"He charged Trump for official acts he took as president" is completely false, Roberts lying about that notwithstanding. He was not prosecuted for an executive order, or vetoing a bill, or issuing a pardon, etc. He was prosecuted for crimes he committed while president, but in no way *as* president.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

In all likelihood what’s happening all over the country is ICE getting a list of names and running a data broker search then scooping up every random Frank Miranda or Maria Lopez who might fit the details close enough. And that’s why they’re supposed to get fucking warrants.

Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 2d

Masked ICE agents threatened an American citizen, put him into an unmarked van, held him for several hours, and dropped him back off at his workplace, without ever explaining why they abducted him

VIDEO: ICE detains, threatens Oregon man despite U.S. citizenship
www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

James Buchanan was a virgin

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

i think we need to start doing preseason football rankings before the prior season is over

i need a “Way Too Early 2026 College Football Preseason Top 25” stat

@sickoscommittee.org @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 2d

Did you not see the cursed thing I’m referring to?

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