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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 1d

@alicefraser.bsky.social
Terribly sorry (and enraged) for your publisher's collapse (and fuckery) I hope you eventually get the money for the Passion For Passion books (including the one I bought).
I've purchased your audiobook today. I hope others do too.
www.thebuglepodcast.com/news/we-are-...

A Passion For Passion: the Audiobook — THE BUGLE

Alice Fraser has voiced the new audiobook from The Bugle

www.thebuglepodcast.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 4d

You know when your mother tells you that you can't ride your bike down the stairs in the house, so you grab your sister's bike and try to ride down the stairs in the house?

Childish, right?

That's what Our President is trying to do with the National Guard.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 5d

All the videos we see of ICE/police/military assaulting people on camera are happening because they know they will face no consequences for their actions. They're breaking the law because they believe the law no longer applies to them. What kept them in check before was fear. Now they have none.

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 7d

Complete nimrods!

Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 7d

What about ICE. How many Dollars are they wasting on immigrants? In the "Big Beautiful" Bill Congress gave ICE $75 billion over four years, approximately $18.7 billion each year.

Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 8d

Official Propaganda in its simplest Form

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 8d

It’s remarkable. You can assign current names to her 90 year old pseudonyms.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 9d

Our President designated Antifa a 'domestic terrorist organization': I guess he should go after all these people spouting Anti fascist rhetoric:

Trump on Harris: "She’s a fascist, OK? She’s a fascist.” October, 2024
Trump on Democrats: “Fascists. They are fascists,” he declared. September, 2022

Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 9d

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 10d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 10d

Trump to a room full of Generals : “I've never walked into a room so silent before...."
"This is very...Don't laugh. Don't laugh. You're not allowed to do that..."
"If you want to applaud, you can applaud,” Trump told the officers. “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room—of course, there goes your rank and your future."

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 11d

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 12d

More like this guy from Rocky and Bullwinkle show.

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 14d

But other times....

a close up of a woman 's face with the words all shall love me and despair written in yellow .

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the words all shall love me and despair written in yellow .

media.tenor.com

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 15d

He should at least have to pay for his own defense in court.

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 15d

Post-op update foot:
Saw the doctor again today to see how the healing is going.
He removed a few sutures, but most of them remain and he says it's healing well, if slowly.
Looks very Frankenstein-y
I'm to continue to keep off my feet as much as possible
2 more weeks until my next appointment.

Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 17d

I’m not a Christian, but I do know that the rapture isn’t in the Bible.

Also regarding the second coming:
“ But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” (Matthew 24:36)

Are they gone yet?
Still waiting on the rapture

Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 18d

There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society ... We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.
ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI

HE DID NOT HATE HIS OPPONENTS. HE WANTED THE BEST FOR THEM. THAT'S WHERE I DISAGREED WITH CHARLIE. I HATE MY OPPONENT AND I DON'T WANT THE BEST FOR THEM. I'M SORRY
Donald Trump

OK Bondi... your move.

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 18d

How about merch? I've heard they were selling merch there.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19d

So:

Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime

And also:

It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 19d

If you've got time left on your Disney+ subscription and haven't watched Andor yet, I recommend it.
It's really Ironic that one of the first media company to fold to the threats from the government also made a really excellent show on the rise of Authoritarianism and what people can do to resist.

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Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 26d

Tomorrow I see the doctor for my first post-op appointment. Hopefully he'll lift some of the walking/standing restrictions.
Using a walker and/or knee scooter is incredibly tiring and our house is definitely not ADA compliant.

Thanks for listening to my complaining.

Ken Larson @modhran.bsky.social · 26d

They believe they have a solution for homelessness. Unfortunately it's a Final Solution.
How is he still employed, advocating murder‽‽

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