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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 3h

Sharing this that I saw earlier… bsky.app/profile/neur...

Foxtrot Delta Taco. (Lauren/Melusine0811) @neuroarborescent.bsky.social · 22h

I love this frog. The dude inside was sprayed but is ok.
This is what we are- joy in the face of destruction. We are love in the face of hatred. They will NOT take our joie de vivre. They will not get our silence or our compliance. However they can be invited to our rave if they stop being dicks.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Foxtrot Delta Taco. (Lauren/Melusine0811) @neuroarborescent.bsky.social · 22h

I love this frog. The dude inside was sprayed but is ok.
This is what we are- joy in the face of destruction. We are love in the face of hatred. They will NOT take our joie de vivre. They will not get our silence or our compliance. However they can be invited to our rave if they stop being dicks.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 4h

I'm kinda thinking that the actual "Sister Souljah moment" that Dems need is throwing guys like Yglesias under the bus and saying clearly that Dems aren't going to abandon vulnerable people just to validate the feelings of pundits.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 8h

I think that Democrats winning more elections would be extremely beneficial on net for all the relevant groups, even if what it took to get there was some moderation on specific positions.

Justin T. Brown-Ramsey @brown-ramsey.bsky.social · 8h

You’ve been on every major platform imaginable saying in one way or another that the democrats can function by cleaving random marginal groups because doing so would be electorally advantageous. This is the right’s fault, but it is also YOUR fault for trying to get in on their game, too, *******!

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve commented on this being a Kavanaugh Stop, but I also want to take a moment to note the irony of detaining a guy for no reason whatsoever and assaulting him and his name is Miranda. Didn’t we already do this legal case? Am I experiencing déjà vu?

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 4h

When I initially saw this reply, I thought it might be in response to something I'd said about Stephen Miller... 😂

Great movie, though.

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 4h

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/coll...

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 7h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 5h

Cinema Paradiso

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 5h

Mamdani saying “truly, you need to stop.”

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 5h

Ah yes, let's give the Nobel Peace Prize to the guy sending troops into the streets of American cities and murdering people in the Caribbean. You've completely cooked your brain, Chris.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 5h

The “behind-the-scenes information” that Trump has is b-roll from Portland in 2020 that’s constantly running on Fox News. It’s not some big secret.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 8h

Judge Nelson says the determination is "not all driven by what we see on the streets," suggests that there is behind-the-scenes information that we don't have.

Chaffin: on this record, there was not evidence that sporadic violence was a rebellion to justify federalizing the NG.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 6h

Dementia Don telling the same story he tells every time he gets his cognitive exam.

Trump makes me think about my grandfather, who always returned to the same set of stories over and over as he declined cognitively. My granddad’s stories were much better, though.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

asked why he's going to Walter Reed tomorrow for his second physical exam since the start of the year, Trump brags about the cognitive exam he took in 2020, which he describes as "not the easiest test ... there aren't a lot of people in this room that would get every single question right."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 6h

John Thune out here doing his best Wimpy Wellington impression…

Wimpy Wellington from Popeye is holding a hamburger and says “ILL GLADLY PAY YOU TUESDAY FOR A HAMBURGER
TODAY.”

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 8h

When does he think babies are “formed?”

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 8h

Trump: I believe in a lot of vaccines. But when you give 82 vaccines and a shot to a little baby that hasn't even formed yet, it's a lot of vaccines.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve been assembling a thread of Kavanaugh Stops as I come across them. bsky.app/profile/clay...

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 11d

“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh

Melissa Gomez @melissagomez.bsky.social · 13d

Army vet George Retes Jr. was trying to get to work on July 10 at Glass House during an ICE raid. He was handcuffed and jailed for 3 days without explanation. After he wrote about his arrest, DHS accused him of assault, which he called a baffling accusation.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

I’m still kinda pissed that back in 2021, Luttig acted like it it would have been horrible if Trump tried to adjudicate being disqualified from office and gave cover to Republicans pretending like they didn’t need to do their constitutional duty. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Once Trump leaves office, the Senate can’t hold an impeachment trial

The Constitution only allows for the impeachment trial of a sitting president, not a former president.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

The Republican justices are partisan operatives who are pretending to act as impartial interpreters of the law and the constitution, and I think we need to understand that we’re way beyond that now. SCOTUS is a political entity, and has been for a long time.

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

A court that kept people in their jobs while they figured out how they wanted to decide that Humphrey’s Executor was no longer valid could be considered to be legitimate, but doing it in the judicial dark of night with no agreement among themselves as to the actual legal reasoning is clown shit.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

In an era when the filibuster wasn’t what it is in the modern era, why create an exclusion for people appearing on the ballot that requires a supermajority to overrule? So a bare majority can impose a constitutional “disability” that a 2/3 majority is required to overrule? It makes no sense.

Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 18h

But that’s actually the very situation that was created by the decision in Trump v. Anderson. A majority in Congress can declare anyone an insurrectionist and ineligible to run for office and SCOTUS’s decision would embrace that outcome.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 19h

Momentary weirdness that seems to have passed.

Bluesky outages reported in the last 24 hours

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 19h

I Want You To Get The Word Out There That We Back Up The Wire GIF

Alt: I Want You To Get The Word Out There That We Back Up The Wire GIF

media.tenor.com

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 19h

It’s this sharpiegate, which is even dumber.

Trump in the Oval Office with a map of a hurricane showing a sharpie bulge in Alabama which wasn’t in the current hurricane path cone

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 19h

Is Bluesky down?

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