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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 8h

It's smaller than this photo makes it look, which is actually good. At 2' x 1.5' it's small enough to put on the end of a stick and carry as a sign.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 9h

This is the stuff. www.etsy.com/listing/4320...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 8h

I might have to get one of these for Oct 18. Though mine will be carrying an American flag.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14h

They hate us for our freedoms, man, I dunno what else to say

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 8h

I guess there's plenty of Portland video already, but never hurts to have some more video of the war for the folks back home, so I hope you have some video posts for us to show us the horror.

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 8h

Do you have a Citi card or is there another way to get tickets this early? I signed up for a presale but tickets aren't available until the 13th for that.

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 8h

The strongest curse I can utter against Republicans is this:

May it be done to them as they do unto others.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

"We have to let the voters touch the stove!"

"No! We have to deliver results on healthcare!"

This is what is going through the minds of the people you are trying to strategize around: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtL_...

Patrick on a seahorse listening to fly me to the moon

YouTube video by SystemFormat

www.youtube.com

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly this. If voters are effectively random, or chaotic, then all of our strategies are just forms of yelling “Come on six!” at the craps table.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think this is the key insight. Nobody here is capable of generating a theory of mind for the "moderate" Trump supporter or the indifferent in late 2025. It's like trying to see the world through the eyes of a turkey with brain damage. We're all feeling our way through the dark.

Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone is having a hard time answering the question, "why on Earth did anyone vote for Trump is they literally hate everything he does? How do we stop them from doing this dumb shit again?" and one theory is clearly, "we have to make people realize the GOP is not an option."

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 12h

I suspect Me Too played a role also. The idea that they could be held to the same rules as the little people or, worse, that they could be brought to account by an underling, was intolerable.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 15h

Hard to understand how the origin can be unknown. Harder to understand how the origin can be unknown yet the fact that it's a nuke is known. Maybe they explain all of this somehow, but it's put me on a skeptical footing already.

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 15h

If you bring contributions they will sanctify you.

Also, you don't actually have to tell them you are fake. A wide range of vaguely diest sentiments can get you by in all but the most fundamentalist or pentecostal churches.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 17h

We long for tree roots that look like coral reefs.

Conor Nolan @nolanillustration.bsky.social · 19h

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 20h

It's amazing how deeply and fundamentally dishonest the GOP is at every level. Just a party of rank liars.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 21h

Genuinely kind of funny how many people argued that criticizing US corporations playing ball with the PRC's censorship requirements to get access to that market was sinophobia when that turned out to be the blueprint for how they'd react to authoritarianism here

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 21h

Similar vein, the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane was designed to be too fast for Soviet missiles to catch. To do that, it needed to be made from titanium.

In the 60s the biggest source of titanium was… the USSR. So the CIA had front companies acquire the titanium, often claiming it was for pizza ovens.

Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 22h

In 1956 the US flew hundreds of spy balloons over the USSR. They carried specialized Kodak cameras and film to record everything they flew over. The USSR shot most of them down.

In 1959, the USSR sent Luna 3 to photograph the dark side of the moon - and just used American film from the balloons.

Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know Kodak was a military contractor? grist.org/accountabili...

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 22h

After weeks of waiting, California's governor signed a bill that will allow mid-rise apartment buildings near major transit stops in California's biggest metro areas. https://cal.news/4n3hzge

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Passengers look on as a BART train didn’t stop at the Rockridge BART station due to a systemwide closure that affected all BART stations, in Oakland on March 9, 2025. Photo by Ray Chavez, Bay Area News Group

Hed: Breaking: Gov. Newsom signs massive California housing overhaul

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 20h

If anyone following me called the Governor and urged him to sign SB79 I want to thank you. We may never know whether it mattered but it might have! It gives me hope for all sorts of things if we can change something so entrenched as CA housing policy.

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 22h

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 22h

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22h

I SAY IT AGAIN: GET IN LOSER WERE URBANIZING CALIFORNIA

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 22h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Gluon Spring @gluonspring.bsky.social · 22h

I keep seeing people describe Johnson as a coward or weak as though he believes in something but is too weak to stand up for it, but Johnson is fully evil all on his own. If Jesus is real, Johnson is destined for the eternal fire.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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