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cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 1d

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2d

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 1d

They're enacting 'survival of the fittest' eugenics on citizens because maga and maha were never about improving people's well-being.

cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 1d

Oof.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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NWresistance @nwresistance.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings 2.0!! 10/18 Get somewhere! WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbhubbell.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @ctmirror.org

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cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 1d

This foundational anti-democratic aspect of the Senate gets my goat so badly because it's a so hard to fix. And yes, it's broken and contributes greatly to the brokenness we're living through rn.

Airbag Moments resists 🇺🇦 @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 1d

This one actually uses the word "Republican!"

Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 1d

15 small states with 41 million people elect 30 GOP senators

California with 39 million people elects 2 Democratic senators

Listen to how US political system violates one person, one vote & how voting rights under attack on new episode of @npr.org Code Switch www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

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cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 1d

This is worse than accidentally sexting your grandpa

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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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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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 1d

From the memory hole: There was a hostage release and ceasefire deal in place by the Biden administration 10 months ago. It was allowed to expire in March, under Donald Trump, and now it's been revived and rebranded, with Donald taking full credit like always.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

We all need to understand a key facet of fascism. There is no end, but also there is no plan. Just an endless string of opportunities to exploit and suppress people when they do not stand up for themselves. Fascists are big dogs that look scary, but run scared when faced with a real fight.

etherkay.bsky.social @etherkay.bsky.social · 1d

What is the end game for these madmen?? World dominance? Hatred and poverty rife everywhere? That doesn't sound like a good world

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

Context matters

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Butch O'Blivion @fivemanjob.bsky.social · 3d

Weird how an insurrection was "just free speech"
and now free speech is an "insurrection"

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 3d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 3d

If true, using ICE raids to evict people and flip affordable housing into luxury rentals, it unlocks a new level of evil.

Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 3d

Wow. This is a must-watch.

Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 6d

It’s all connected. Follow the money‼️

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cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 4d

Insightful if chilling comparison of our current SCOTUS to Nazi Germany's attempt to preserve the illusion of law while letting their dictator violate it over and over.

Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 4d

“The reality is that the court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.”

To understand the Supreme Court's role in Trump's authoritarian project, I turned to the idea of a dual state: an authoritarian regime that keeps up a facade of normalcy

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 4d

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 4d

I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses.

You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 4d

Can AI and robotics help us in many ways? I am not a Luddite — I believe they can.

But we must make sure these new technologies benefit all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed in Fox News. Let’s start the debate.

cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 4d

The dual state strikes again.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 5d

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5d

Where are the commanding officers of those sailors in the background. How are they letting this happen?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is praxis

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24d

Join me in condemning this kind of statement and this kind of hate.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24d

Just read the indictment. Gonna guess this is the most detail we get about why this happened.

Presuming these messages weren't some sort of misdirect, he hated Charlie Kirk because Kirk was hateful. Honestly doesn't sound like he had a super clear idea why he inscribed the memes on his bullets.

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cool kevin @berrey.bsky.social · 25d

Chilling is the way vengeful, authoritarians will spin the event to meet their desired ends. We're veering into politicide -- the destruction of one's political enemies. Oct-7 has been used as a similar pretext and look at the carnage that has followed.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25d

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*.

There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25d

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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