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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 1m

Yeah, I have critiques but treading lightly makes sense here, when its an issue of congressional oversight and federal crimes.

Its like "have state police arrest them!" Even if they wanted to, how, for what? Individuals would have to commit state crimes.

Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 3m

Aw shit that's their only constituency

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 4m

And members of congress are already being turned away. A much bigger deal! What are we to do about it?

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 5m

I mean sure maybe Pritzker should walk up to an ICE facility and demand to be let in. Good stunt but they'll just say you have no authority to enter here goodbye and he will leave.

Pols need to be creative but being smart should be the first order.

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 7m

People who say this to being told something true and realistic are the actual doomers. Believing in a fantasy isnt having hope, its having delusions.

Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 3h

I guess we should all just throw up our hands and scream into the void then.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 29m

Trying to posture himself for high $$$ speaking gigs and probably a spot in the next Dem administration. Truly a monstrous human being who, in a just world, would be making these arguments while defending himself at The Hague.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 40m

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 13m

Yes I do have ideas but we need you people to live in fucking reality for them to work. "Ideas" that have no basis in fact aren't worth shit.

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 14m

There is no mechanism for states to withhold federal tax dollars. If you dont like my attitude then learn something, admit error, or shut your fucking mouth

Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 39m

Why are you excited about something that's impossible and makes no sense?

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 1h

A lot of people in congress seem to think their job is reading headlines to their constituents

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 1h

He said "bitch, you live like this?!"

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 1h

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
October 11,1954

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
P1- WE SEE A BURGLAR ENTERING THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW

P2-THE BURGLAR HAS ENTERED SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WHO IS SOUND ASLEEP, THE BURGLAR SEES THE POOR LIVING CONDITIONS THAT SLUGGO IS STAYING IN.

P3- THE BURGLAR HAS COMPASSION AND EXITS OUT THE WINDOW, BUT BEFORE LEAVING HE DROPS SOME COINS IN SLUGGO’S PIGGY BANK.

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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 2h

Elgin, Illinois. ICE is placing undercover agents with folks exercising their first amendment rights.

Expect them to incite violence next.

Beware the agent provocateur.

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 1h

He's spittin', and it ain't pea soup!!

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1h

israel held 1,700 people alleged of no wrongdoing hostage, killed at least 65,000 people, and turned the entirety of gaza into rubble and these fuckers still want to assert that palestinians, not they, are barbarians

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 1h

"Hey Google, play my Playlist 'The Boss'"

"Sure, here's the album The Best of the Boston Philharmonic, 1987--2006."

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2h

Cait Derangement Syndrome

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2h

This would blow Mike Johnson's mind

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2h

Not AI but this is the relationship I have with my Google Home. It refuses to play the music I ask for, I berate it until it whines about not having feelings. And around we go.

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2h

I know its not just a Canadian thing to be belligerently, intentionally illiterate in order to avoid admitting error, but if youre going to lecture people, you should know what youre talking about. Try having the humility to admit you were wrong.

Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2h

Dude this is embarassing.

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2h

Warren gets a B and is currently on another 4 day weekend and has never said "no" to unanimous consent.

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2h

Fun diversion i guess but all of these people have held power since the first Trump administration and things have only gotten worse and worse and worse. Theres no "passing grade" to give out when the fascists continue to win unopposed.

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 9h

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems

criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

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Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2h

They all get an F, dont care about the rubric.

Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2h

I didnt care when I assumed he said something more direct but this so fucking shameful. Sick of this lopsided false naivete. People are actually fucking dying and these freaks are helping the culprits pretend they are the victims.

Capt. Dustos, Vampire Hunter 👻 @dustinheron.bsky.social · 2h

Youre just babbling incoherently. There is no method for stated to withhold taxes from the federal government. Im begging you to learn something before speaking.

Could California really withhold tax money from the U.S. if Trump cuts federal funds?

As Trump administration weighs cutting federal funds to California, Newsom suggests withholding taxes from federal government.

calmatters.org

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