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Recovering journo, Champion of the Apostrophe Former: Your favorite neighborhood bartender Current: Librocubicularist Laureate Still pretty good at listening & libations Dogs are welcome here. Humans will be vetted.
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · Jan 26
" ... the soul-blighted Donald Trump and the satraps and lackeys who abet his nefarious behavior—are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. This must be stated clearly, and repeatedly."

Sadly, unbelievably, it must be stated again.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
A Party, and Nation, in Crisis
The GOP’s leaders are ​​attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy.
www.theatlantic.com
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h
today i spoke to students at CUNY graduate school of journalism and the professor started things off by quoting my own words to me: “tom homan is a bitch.”

a landmark moment.
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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 10h
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 9h
Never been so grateful to be a small town librarian in my life!
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 9h
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
rparloff.bsky.social Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10h
DOJ submits new, air-brushed sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, scrubbing references to his role in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege and Trump's social media post that led him to go to Obama's neighborhood with weapons. Here's the first scrubbing
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h
One of the most difficult things abt the Trump Admin.

It's beyond question he's corrupt and happy to harm the US.

What ISN'T clear is what he considers too scandalous to pull off.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Trump nominee at U.S. export bank withdraws amid scrutiny of Russia ties
Bryce McFerran is a senior executive at a steel-trading business co-owned by one of Russia’s richest oligarchs and is married to a member of a Russian family with extensive ties to the Kremlin.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h
The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 9h
Can't blame them, but this is really bad for a lot of smaller makers in the US 😕
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 10h
Kevin, do you feel like some of these folks in your replies are actively working for a fascist America?
Because man, it sure feels that way to me.
Encouraging people NOT to do the one thing that can actually effect change in a democratic state?
FFS, why?
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 10h
Since there are none, I would guess not.
At least, none that are honest and realistic.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19h
"Please help. Please help. Please help us. We have rights, we’re citizens here, please help us"

My god. This 911 call with a Chicago woman pleading for help as ICE pulls pulls people from their cars, aiming weapons at them is grotesque. Monsters have invaded our city. Monsters.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d
📌Every bill to help feed people in my long lifetime has been passed by Democrats.
Every bill to starve them has been passed by Republicans.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20h
It didn't take a Reichstag Fire to shut down Congress - the cornerstone of the Founders' plan for an American democracy. Just a useful idiot named Mike Johnson

My new column on a House disappearing act more about enabling dictatorship than about the Epstein File www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
www.inquirer.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h
The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown.

The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.
luminescentphoto.com Jason Odell @luminescentphoto.com · 1d
A quick reminder that the House is not in session because Speaker Johnson CANCELED it, not because of the current shutdown.
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 19h
As with everything else they consume, Musk and his cabal steal what appeals to their own egos and ignore the gestalt, certain their limited understanding is wisdom when in fact, it is wisdom's opposite.
What could they know about someone like Tolkien, opposite to them in nearly every way?
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d
The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voted Tuesday night to vacate a panel’s decision allowing the National Guard to deploy to Portland, and will rehear the case.
9th Circuit Vacates Trump Judges’ Ruling Allowing National Guard Troops To Deploy To Portland
The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voted Tuesday night to vacate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d
Yo #IOWA - let's keep (what's left of) our healthcare clinics & rural hospitals, okay?
@progressiowa.bsky.social has a couple of petitions we can sign to tell our MOC to fight for US. Here's one:
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progressiowa.actionkit.com/sign/eptc_20...
Tell Iowa’s Members of Congress to stop premium price hikes! Protect the ACA!
progressiowa.actionkit.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
Terrific and important piece.
Filmmakers. Scientists. Academics. Police officers. Pastors. Ballroom dancers. Candle makers. Two bearded guys in cargo shorts getting marriage licenses in Waco on a random weekday. These are the normies. The people in the Capitol who are obsessed with which bathrooms we use, what we do in our own homes, and what kind of art we make? The feds who want to strip away retirement benefits from trans Air Force veterans being forcibly removed from their positions? Those are the weirdos.
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d
My first encounter with queer culture happened in Houston.
Went w/my friend to visit her Uncle Darrell - only she was now Aunt Wendy, a fabulous drag queen living her best life far from the cornfields & castigation of rural Iowa.
RIP Wendy Chicago 🏳️‍🌈
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 2d
My eyes bother me, too. I probably have undiagnosed uveitis - and it'll stay undiagnosed b/c steroid eyedrops are pretty much the only treatment.
I found a curcumin formulation - Meriva - along with Vit D almost completely suppresses the inflammation. Good evidence behind it, too.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d
The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.

(Published Sept.)
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
www.propublica.org
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 2d
Imposter syndrome?
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d
BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d
ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital.

"I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!"

The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck.

Houston, Texas.
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