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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they)

@bluefuture.bsky.social

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Thinker, Democrat, intellectual, autistic math geek, writer and artist, explorer. Anticonservative. Creator of "Republicants". Working on "The Case For Thinking Bluer" about why a permanent Democratic majority would be a good thing.

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 5h

These are the elections on the ballot in 2025.

I will be reminding you all EVERY DAY about this.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Chris H @biscuitsmom.bsky.social · 19h

The first term we were a world laughingstock. This time, most of the world is pissed. First because we were stupid enough to let it happen again, and because this time his incompetence is harming the entire planet. We are running out of time to win our former allies back.

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 2h

This redistricting stuff is scary.

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 5h

These are the elections on the ballot in 2025.

I will be reminding you all EVERY DAY about this.

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 3h

As a man, I would like to say that women are smarter on average because women are less likely to vote conservative around the world.

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 3h

This is happening NEXT WEEK.

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 3h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Park Slope Brooklyn” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Park Slope Brooklyn · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** We're holding the No Kings Park Slope event to accommodate local people who can't get to the main event in Manhattan. We encourage you to go to th...

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 5h

These are the elections on the ballot in 2025.

I will be reminding you all EVERY DAY about this.

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 5h

I totally agree.

Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 9h

People like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk aren’t tech creators — they’re tech colonizers.
Rich white men who used privilege and capital to seize an industry built by real innovators, exploiting the minds and labor of creators while branding themselves as “visionaries.” #Pinks

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 12h

Yesterday confirmed something that most financial experts knew: almost nothing is safe from stock market shifts or even a recession, including cryptocurrency.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 8h

Trump is going to go down as the worst president ever and one of the only presidents to have ever tried to classify the opposing party as enemies of the state.

energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 20h

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 8h

Trump is going to go down as the worst president ever and one of the only presidents to have ever tried to classify the opposing party as enemies of the state.

energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 20h

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

As to the second, Judge Perry examines what “unable” means, what it means to “execute the law,” and what the reference to “regular forces” means.

She concludes that it requires a situation where civil law has broken down and the military is unable to handle the situation.

Altogether then, the phrase "unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States" means that in order for the President to call forth the militia to execute the laws, the President must be incapable with the regular forces-that is, lacking the power and force with the military alone—to execute the laws. This understanding of "regular forces" is not only consistent with the ordinary meaning of "regular forces" at the time Section 12406's operative
language was initially enacted, but it makes sense given the evolution of the Army over time.

Here, there has been no showing that the civil power has failed. The agitators who have violated the law by attacking federal authorities have been arrested. The courts are open, and the
marshals are ready to see that any sentences of imprisonment are carried out. Resort to the
military to execute the laws is not called for.

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 12h

Yesterday confirmed something that most financial experts knew: almost nothing is safe from stock market shifts or even a recession, including cryptocurrency.

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 19h

One plays by the rules other democracies do and one doesn't and acts like a dictatorship within its sphere.

Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 23h

But there are differing rules for both political parties…

Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 23h

Every Democrat that endorsed Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey deserves to lose their primary. Same with those who endorse other Republicans.

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

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 1d

We are voting at higher rates than in 2021. Let's keep it going in every state.

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 1d

Turkmenistan is Russia's future.

youtu.be/mU_XUaJnWUQ

Earth's Most Absurd Dictatorship

YouTube video by OBF

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 1d

These tech CEOs and others are the ones who really make the decisions in America.

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5 Reasons Why America Can't Be Saved

YouTube video by Large Man Abroad

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 1d

2028 could be brutal for Republicans with their gains with Latinos in particular evaporating.

Polling data, despite inaccurately predicting such shifts before accurately predicted Harris was going to lose a lot of ground. And now many of those polls show Latino Republican support at pre-2020 levels

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Along with the Antifa nonsense, the goal here is to reclassify any dissent as dangerous. Which is not something elected officials in a democracy do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Furious Femme @terrifiedintersex.bsky.social · 1d

DID YOU MOTHERFUCKERS OWN THE LIBS? 🖕🏻😡

It has always been the same with those ignorant shitheads. The flat fucking refuse to listen to anyone who knows anything, waddle around acting like abusive, entitled assholes, and consistently side however it will hurt the people of this country

20 YEARS NOW

Shannon 🦇💩🤪 GOOD TROUBLE 💙💙💙 @shannonmaebreen.bsky.social · 1d

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Thinking Bluer (he/him/they) @bluefuture.bsky.social · 1d

There should be more No Kings protests in places like Louisiana.

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

I just went to the No Kings website and counted 11 No Kings protests planned in Johnson's home state of Louisiana. Is he calling his constituents pro-Hamas?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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 ... "