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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 36m

You are a living joke if you are more concerned about “the thought-police” than the secret police

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

HOLD THE LINE EGGHEADS

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, everything might be getting worse all the time, but at least we will be poorer forever

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 2d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 2d

In the late 1980s, there was an anti-authoritarian protest movement in Poland called The Orange Alternative where people would wear "dwarf hats," and it made arresting them look ridiculous

Orange Alternative protest in Poland with people wearing dwarf hats

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone in Chicagoland is entitled to one (1) hour of libbing out this evening over the ruling against national Guard deployment

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

Anyway Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are both New Yorkers and the top Democrats in the House and Senate, respectively, and any point they could learn how to use a shutdown to make the point that we’re living in fascism.

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 2d

I get that the point of all this is to drill down that they can do whatever they want to us with total impunity and we can’t do anything about it, but man fuck these people.

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe we have to beg these people not to be forcibly occupied and held at gunpoint by our own army

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · Apr 6

I'm not keen to fully swear off any airline, but Avelo's calculation here that the deportation flights will backfill lost scheduled service is an interesting one.

Definitely reduces the odds I'll be booking anytime soon.

Perhaps FAs or pilots will be sick more often than usual.

Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears @maestraoogway.bsky.social · Apr 6

🤬https://www.azfamily.com/2025/04/04/avelo-airlines-carry-out-deportation-flights-mesa-gateway-airport/

Avelo Airlines to carry out deportation flights at Mesa Gateway Airport

Avelo Airlines has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration Control and Enforcement to carry out deportation flights at an Arizona airport.

www.azfamily.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · May 31

How embarrassing to work for the organized kidnapping ring known as "ICE." Rolling out of bed every day to be a brainless goon. You are lower than a worm to me

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Apr 28

A huge group of people are in a giant hole in the middle of a rolling field. There is a large sign with an arrow pointing to the hole that says "HOLE." Suddenly the group's attention turns to a new hole, complete with a giant sign with an arrow pointing to it that says "NEW HOLE." One person points to the new hole and says "hey look! Someone made a new hole!" The mass clamours out of the old hole and makes a bee-line toward the new hole. It's chaos. One person, now situated in the new hole says "this feels like how the old hole used to feel." Another person nods in agreement.

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 4d

Otherwise it will be like stomach cancer - by the time it hurts enough to notice and identify the issue you’re already dead

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 4d

Unfortunately it feels like the only thing likely to save us from looming autocracy is these wannabe dictators’ spectacular mismanagement cratering the average American’s quality of life severely and quickly enough for them to notice

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 4d

good morning to the intern doing @schumer.senate.gov’s clips

Every time Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York-the Democrat with the most power in a shutdown because his withholding of seven senators toward a procedural vote keeps Republicans from proceeding-says that Democrats are looking to open the government through a negotiation around and deal on Affordable Care Act subsidies, he is acquiescing to the idea that a government in which Border Patrol agents paid with our tax dollars can shoot real bullets at protesters in Chicago after screaming "Do something, bitch!" can and should be deemed legitimate.
The truth is that Democrats can pay a million consultants to come up with a million different talking points on health care subsidies. They can keep holding press conferences in the Senate studio like every other press conference before it, talking to the same reporters, pretending like we live in a redeemable timeline where if they just keep on acting like it's 2007, we might fall through a time portal that makes it so. But we live here in a country with a co-opted executive branch led by racist, xenophobic idiots who do not believe in law, empowered by a slavishly devoted Supreme Court that has decided shoveling unlimited power to said executive is more important than the law it disregards, and where the president thinks he can send national guardsmen from red states to blue states just because people of color live here and Fox News hosts hate that.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4d

i appreciate @meredithshiner.com’s wisdom, as well as her refusal to let the coons-valentine’s day story fade from public memory

It is certainly self-evident that Democrats do not care to "do democracy," but what I would argue is that speeches about democracy do not carry the weight of collective action in support of democracy. In 2024, President Joe Biden told us repeatedly that "democracy was on the line," and yet three years earlier, Senate Democrats prematurely ended the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump because top Biden ally.
Chris Coons of Delaware wanted to go home for Valentine's Day. Congressional Democrats, despite their supposed 2024 warnings that democracy was on the brink, almost all attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2025 as if it were normal and acceptable, and Biden himself welcomed the Trumps back into the White House with open arms.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 4d

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 4d

She better have tipped them GOOD

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 4d

I’m tired of the bad people winning

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 4d

They aren’t turning on the GOP. They’re going to use this to argue that not voting for a CR is irresponsible and blame the dems.

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 4d

What do you want him to say? That he bought $50,000 of delicious McDonald’s Hamburgers? That he looks like Grimace because he spent his entire $50,000 bribe on 3 months worth of double quarter pounders? You liberals make me fucking sick

Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 4d

We’d also love to know what happened to the $50,000 Tom Homan allegedly took from FBI agents.

Luckily, we’ve sued for the receipts.

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 4d

They should give me an extra biweekly paycheck for being pure of heart

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4d

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 4d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Gengar @c0nn0rpl3as3.bsky.social · 5d

Birthday trip in 40 days 😬

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 5d

i don't think they should reopen the government. it's funny that they're already talking about figuring out how to pay the soldiery. your majesty the mercenaries are beginning to grumble about their wages but im sure it will be fine

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