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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 10h

This. Less focus on Trump. More focus on the architects of his regime and exposure of their connections to literal white nationalist movements.

Some More News @somemorenews.bsky.social · 22h

Let's talk about this fucking guy. youtu.be/vlKDQ3fwI5w

The Making Of Stephen Miller - SOME MORE NEWS

YouTube video by Some More News

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 20h

Says the motherfucker who never saw the inside of a cell while countless poor women rotted in Rikers pretrial for half as serious crimes than the 34 felonies he was charged, and eventually convicted for.

Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social · 7d

Ending cash bail prevents criminalized survivors of gender-based violence from being held unnecessarily. Kudos to the anti-violence advocates in Illinois advocating for maintaining Illinois' bail reform law. 19thnews.org/2025/10/cash...

Trump says ending cash bail endangers women. Advocates say it protects them.

Recent reforms now require safety risk assessments when considering pretrial release from jail. These can benefit women on multiple levels, from those accused of crimes to survivors of gender-based vi...

19thnews.org

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 22h

I am most intrigued by the work that veterans are doing right now to reinvigorate the GI resistance movement.

Find ways to support About Face in your region.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

An embroidery that reads: just following orders in big block text and underneath in script - is not a defense

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 2d

Andy, can you point on the diagram where Barney hurt you?

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 4d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

They want violence. They fear mockery.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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Christopher Hudson @chrishudsonjr.bsky.social · 4d

Greta Thunberg is more of a freedom fighter than 100x Charlie Kirks

The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 5d

Second released flotilla activist confirms Israel beat Greta Thunberg

The rogue Zionist state's violence and humiliation of an activist like Greta Thunberg, known worldwide, can only backfire on it - surely?
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Second released flotilla activist confirms Israel beat Greta Thunberg

The rogue Zionist state's violence and humiliation of an activist like Greta Thunberg, known worldwide, can only backfire on it

www.thecanary.co

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 4d

Whatever, the warhawks needed a new nebulous enemy and ginning up moral panics about nebulous threats is their only trick. Just like the evangelical right was pro choice in opposition to the Catholics until Jim Crow was killed.

Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 4d

No one who has survived narcissistic abuse is unfamiliar with this pattern of behavior.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 5d

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city.

Troy and I were on the ground:

Federal tactics on protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...

www.opb.org

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 5d

Nazi loser rapist worshipers say what?

Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 5d

Wait, a bunch of narcissists rallied behind a narcissist rapist can't handle being told 'no'?

Shocking

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 6d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 6d

The somewhat more recent steam punk action comedies Tai Chi Zero and Tai Chi Hero are similarly awesome.

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 6d

As, if not more important than clocking the fascist propaganda that helped usher in the current situation is highlighting the kinds of propaganda that will help get us out. That Mychal was propelled into this position from blowback from rightoid rage baiting is a *Huge* W.

youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 6d

Impossible not to smile when watching this.

Brilliance Proper @brillianceproper.blackskycomra.de · 6d

New Reading Rainbow theme song.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER

In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

blockclubchicago.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 6d

This. More of this kind of thing. It sucks, but maybe it has to come more from outside the US given the current climate:

Focusing less on Trump and more on outing the propagandists and architects of the regime.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20d

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”

For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.

Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

Russell Vought: Das ist Trumps gefährlichster Stratege

Er organisiert vom Weißen Haus aus den Umbau der USA. Russell Vought ist Spitzenjurist, christlicher Nationalist – und die subtile Kampfmaschine im Auftrag von Trump.

www.zeit.de

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 6d

> The Republic as we knew it is over. The fight now is whether the new one will be a fascistic, competitive authoritarian regime or a pluralist democracy that, we can hope, is better than what came before.

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

The regime is not only reactionary, it is kleptocratic and oligarchic. New institutional arrangements cannot survive if the American people and its representatives fail to address the morally offensive concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the very few — or if they leave intact the grift economy that funnels money upwards while creating profound systemic economic risk.
The single most important problem for pro-democracy forces is that too many people — especially in position of power — seem unable to truly believe that we are living in a consolidating competitive authoritarian regime. Perhaps they are too habituated to the “rules” of the system that no longer exists. Perhaps they still cling to the drug of American exceptionalism, which makes it difficult for them to accept that “it can happen here.” Perhaps they understand it intellectually, but find it too difficult to make the necessary paradigm shift.

I say “seems” because it is possible that, behind the scenes, they are taking necessary steps. These include creating tight working groups — probably at the staff level — to develop contingency plans. And I don’t mean “contingency plans for how to handle another shutdown.” I mean plans for coordinating and leading massive civil resistance against an effort to nullify the 2026 (or 2028) election results, responding to a declaration of martial law, and reacting to a military coup.

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 6d

Gotcha, I figured that it had something to do with that meme, I was just missing the rest of the meta-context that led to people posting 'WAFFLES', meaning the Jay part.

And how Nazi tranphobes appropriated it to dogwhistle trans issues as a digression.

That all tracks now.

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 6d

Can someone please eli5 the whole WAFFLES thing for me?

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 6d

What a dark day for press freedom in the United States

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6d

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says

Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

Kristi Noem's on the roof at Broadview surrounded by snipers and Kat is still out there demanding to see what horrific conditions are going on inside.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

Join us Kristi Noem!

9AM Press Conference at 1930 Beach St

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · 8d

Getting treated in the ER is not a 'health benefit'.