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Digital nomad riding the desert on a device with no name. Software engineer; past social software geek. Into democracy, martial arts, open platforms. Also at: https://mastodon.social/@jpanzer Also: https://abstractioneer.org, http://johnpanzer.com

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · Aug 26

The Trump junta continues to triple down on trying to torture and make an example of Kilmar Garcia. A judge ordered them to stop today. We will see if they defy the court openly now.

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · Jul 19

The Trump regime, continuing to ignore court orders regarding victims they kidnapped and disappeared to CECOT, has just proven they have also been lying to the courts when they said they had no control over them in CECOT. Proof: They just trafficked over 200 of them to Venezuela.

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · Jun 7

The Executive branch, after two months of lying to the Court that they had no power to bring Abrego Garcia back, just brought him back.

They’re now going to pretend that they didn’t spend two months defying this court order. (They are still defying court orders regarding other people!)

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 3h

Yep, it’s pure gaslighting at this point. To take any of his mouth noises as true requires unmooring your own eyes and ears from what is happening.

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 4h

I don’t know how to describe this other than organized evil. ICE is protecting and hiding pet killers.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 4h

I reconcile these statements by recognizing Johnson as a weaselly little liar who will say anything he’s ordered to by the Trump regime, truth and facts be damned.

spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 5h

If I were a DC reporter, I’d consider maybe pressing Johnson on how he reconciles these two statements.

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Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, l'm a very patient guy, but l've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ..."

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Mike Johnson: "People have got to stop framing simple policy disagreements in terms of existential threats to our democracy. You can't call the other side fascists and enemies of the state and not understand that there are some deranged people in our society who will take that as cues to act."

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 4h

These are the right questions.

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 4h

A reader recently emailed me a question I've been asked 100 times: How do we—the little guys—turn the tide. It got me thinking about a related but in some sense more challenging question: What would a national resistance that we could place our faith in look like? www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 4h

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery.”

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 4h

According to her standards of indictment this constitutes fraud

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 5h

Fractures:

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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stukrusell.bsky.social @stukrusell.bsky.social · 6h

This is very bad. I will be out on the 18th and I am a fmr GOP state comm member, GOP candidate, and worked for IRI. It is about freedom and democracy. The Speaker needs to face reality or be part of the destruction of the US.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 9h

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

Finally, Pritzker says more Dems must sound the alarm, though he notes some exceptions (like Chris Murphy).

"I am surprised that more leaders have not stood up," he says.

He urges people to join No Kings protests to let the country know something's wrong. 5/5

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

we have been working on this new polling aggregation website for a few months now, and are excited to share it with the world! plenty more features and polls to come.

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 1d

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11h

They're going to put an enormous lawsuit magnet in the sky.
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Prof. Sam Lawler (@[email protected])

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disas...

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 11h

Sweet.

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 15h

The offices within the jurisdiction of a state court relevant to the Presidency are the electors for that state from the Electoral College.

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 15h

We have vast reserves of strategic mockery. Test us at your peril.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 16h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 16h

“After our interview, the frogs were joined by a couple of unicorns, a polar bear, an axoloti, a raccoon and several more characters.”

EXCELLENT.

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“After our interview, the frogs were joined by a couple of unicorns, a polar bear, an axoloti, a raccoon and several more characters.”

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

I have come to the conclusion that the law is merely a suggestion for a certain class of Americans. I always knew "equal treatment" was more aspiration than reality, but Jesus, until this last election, I didn't think it was a lie.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 1d

This is the clearest sign yet that Democrats are winning this argument. Nobody is going to buy this desperate B.S. I’m honestly surprised, but the Democrats have managed to back Johnson into a corner.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 1d

He’s a lying PoS but also did he just rhetorically tie this to re-opening the government? Is Mike Johnson saying the House won’t come back until nonessential parts of the government are restarted?

Did he just imply the House is nonessential?

Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 1d

Mike Johnson is delaying Democrat Adelita Grijalva’s swearing in to block a House vote to release the Epstein files.

Republicans swore in their own winners the next day in April.

This is rank hypocrisy and totally shameless.

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 1d

Drag him.
At any time, 51 GOP Senators can vote to bypass the filibuster and pay our military.

Or four or five of them could join with Democrats to pay our military and also keep healthcare for everybody else, too.

They have many options!

John Panzer @johnpanzer.com · 1d

They are quite obviously working their way around to “Nazis did nothing wrong”. And they’re itching to say that quiet part out loud. We should get the stupider ones to say it early.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

I complained earlier that WaPo's story on Trump inviting PizzaGate guy to the White House was insane. Not so this Independent story.
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Not to be outdone, in came Jack Posobiec, one of the right’s weirdest hangers-on, who is perhaps most famous for the time he spread the “Pizzagate” theory and then got removed from the pizzeria in question by police for filming a child’s birthday party. Running with the major theme of the hour — that Antifa is definitely, certainly, really real despite all evidence to the contrary, and that everybody needs to stop saying it’s not real — Posobiec made a startling claim: Antifa is so clearly real that it “has been going on for almost 100 years ... going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.”

And look, yes, it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis. But it’s sort of difficult to position yourself as the good guys if you’re aligning yourself with the Nazis in your historical analogy. I’m just saying that, if I was Posobiec’s publicity guy, I might ask him to drop that soundbite from future public appearances.