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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh but it’s the DEMOCRATS waging lawfare and weaponizing our justice system!”

Why would anyone take the American legal system seriously under a Republican government?

#NoGOP #NoMAGA

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

BREAKING: A federal grand jury has indicted NYAG Leticia James. More details to come. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated Trump in court, indicted by Justice Department | CNN Politics

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted in federal court on Thursday as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two source...

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 2d

Soon! Assuming tech starts behaving, join us in the Abomination Vaults (5e)!

Featuring Ezren, Merisiel, Kyra, & Seelah!

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 3d

A death sentence for social media criticism is ridiculous, yes. It’s also dictatorial goals.

This is what MAGAGOP wants in America.

#NoGOP #NoMAGA

Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 3d

He's now been pardoned, but unbelievable that this happened at all in the first place: Tunisia sentenced a man to *death* last week for criticizing the president on Facebook.

www.aljazeera.com

Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 3d

The only hand to hand combat you’ll have in Portland is with the pot-bellied pig Steve down the street brought to the farmer’s market and is now a little rowdy.

#NoGOP #NoMAGA

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen Miller: "ICE officers have to street battle against Antifa, hand to hand combat every night."

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 3d

What’s the scoring rubric?

Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 3d

Finale of Devastation, no artifacts, Mox only
IYKYK

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 6d

Dear fellow writers and game designers(!), check the Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website to see if you warrant compensation from Anthropic stealing our work to power their AI bullshit.

They scraped at least 300 #WotC products, I think.

#NoAI #NoAnthropic

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Homepage | ANT

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 8d

Note: non-citizens are not eligible for Medicaid. This is yet another outright lie from MAGAGOP.

The democrats are holding the line to stop the MAGAGOP gutting our healthcare. They’ve already destroyed our international credibility and mortally wounded our economy.

Stop the GOP.

#NoGOP #NoMAGA

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 9d

Tonight! In five minutes!

The next episode of Abomination Vaults!

Come join us!

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 9d

Agreed.

Facts don’t care about our feelings, and since MAGA only care about feelings, facts are a threat to them.

The level of mental and moral cowardice it takes to be MAGA is just astounding.

#NoMAGA #NoGOP

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 9d

The thing that continually comes up in these sort of discussions is the Right’s conflation of fact and opinion.

Whether or not anyone might feel Coates promotes hate—and I’m sure there are plenty of people who do—he clearly does not.

Kirk DID promote hate.

Those are just facts. Not opinion.

White supremacist idiot Helen Andrew’s says: “the problem with [Ta-Nahisi] Coates is that he never turns his critical eye inward. Ezra should have said, “so you think Charlie Kirk promoted hate. Have you considered that some people might feel exactly the same way about you?’ “

Then in further self-aggrandizing waffle that k suspect she thinks makes her insightful, she goes onto say: “one punch I pulled in my review of his last book—which, let’s be honest, got me in enough trouble as it was—was a section I cut trying to get him to stop thinking about white people’s complicity in violence for a minute and start thinking about his own.”

Which just sounds like “I know you are but what am I” schoolyard logic, which is about par for the course with fascist apologists.

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 9d

The thing they continually comes up in these sort of discussions is the Right’s conflation of fact and opinion.

Whether or not anyone might feel Coates promotes hate—and I’m sure there are plenty of people who do—he clearly does not.

Kirk DID promote hate.

Those are just facts. Not opinion.

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 9d

We’ll see how it goes!

Which parent?

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 9d

Aww!

My first Realms novel came out twenty years ago, in 2005, and my first game design work in the realms was 2007, I think. So yeah, I’ve been a LONG time fixture.

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 9d

On the eve of a government shutdown, considering how ridiculous the federal government has been, mostly wasting taxpayer money on ICE and Nazi rallies disguised as memorial services, this seems like a good opportunity for state governments to step up.

#NoMAGA #NoGOP

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 9d

Man I hope not.

This is the best chance yet for us to defund ICE.

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 10d

That will take years, I suspect, but we should start as soon as possible.

It took Germany a full generation to recover from Nazi usurpation, and I suspect it will take America at least that long.

#NoGOP #NoMAGA

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 10d

Does this mean democrats are going to put forward a funding resolution that preserves healthcare, refunds USAID, defunds ICE, and re-establishes some basic norms for how the government is supposed to function?

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 11d

And on that note, I’ll stop bothering you.

Best wishes, and I hope people find the strength they need to protect themselves and others in our difficult world.

Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 11d

Sure, in theory, but the fascists currently ruling America are enemies of both faith and civic duty, and I think an alignment and alliance is valid.

Much like how the Nazis threatened the church and the people of Bonhoeffer’s day.

Jesus calls us to defend those in need. Politics is how we do that

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 11d

If you see this, quote repost with a GIF of your first ever anime:

(Pretty sure Techno Police 21c is too obscure for anyone to have made a gif of it!)

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 11d

This is the strategy.

Stop voting for people who always, always, ALWAYS work against your interests.

Stop voting Republican.

#NoGOP #NoMAGA

Top image is 1982: Koch brother behind pile of cookies points to brown man sitting across table from white construction worker with one cookie and says “careful buddy, that foreigner wants your cookie”

Below image is 2025: Koch brother behind massive hoard of cookies such that it’s not clear how he’s even sitting there points to brown man sitting across table from white construction worker with one cookie and says “careful buddy, that foreigner wants your cookie”

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 11d

And yes, they targeted a bunch of other groups, too. The Jews just hit that sweet spot for the Nazis. Same with trans people for the GOPMAGA.

Anyone and everyone they can convince you to hate while picking your pocket? Those are the targets.

Stop falling for it.

#NoGOP #NoMAGA

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 11d

GOP/MAGA uses trans people as their scapegoat and tool to advance their evil, much the way the Nazis used Jews.

Make up nonsense about some great conspiracy or cultural attack they’re supposedly doing, heat up simmering fear of the Other, turn it into hatred, incite violence.

This is fascism 101.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11d

Here's Michael Knowles a month ago once again calling for the "eradication of transgenderism" and here is a man who threatened to shoot up a gay bar because he wanted to "eradicate transgenderism." This was retweeted by prominent conservatives such as Chris Rufo.

This is stochastic terrorism.

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Erik Scott de Bie @erikscottdebie.bsky.social · 11d

This guy, I swear