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Tech writer. #Leguminati. Remember Tim Snyder's first rule: do not obey in advance. Moscovia delenda est.

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Ordinant 🇺🇸🇺🇦 🫘 @ordinant.bsky.social · Jul 10

Dr. Snyder says it's a coup, so it's a coup.

substack.com/@snyder/note...

Of course it’s a coup

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 6h

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 4h

When we win next November, it will be thanks to a whole lot of rooms like this one in Monroe County (shoutout Dems of Monroe and UA Pipe Trades 671).

Let's do this 💪

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Ordinant 🇺🇸🇺🇦 🫘 @ordinant.bsky.social · 7h

Very funny thread of puns about, I dunno, America and beauty or something.

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 14h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 11h

This absolute emotional rollercoaster of a post

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Ordinant 🇺🇸🇺🇦 🫘 @ordinant.bsky.social · 10h

This is how it's done: just speak up loudly.

Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 13h

1/ Small acts of defiance…✊

Yesterday, my husband and I went out to dinner with our BFFs to a local diner. It was still early bird special time so you know it was filled with old white people.

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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 11h

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Ordinant 🇺🇸🇺🇦 🫘 @ordinant.bsky.social · 11h

Almost every morning.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 16h

You guys may not be aware of it but there’s a silent struggle being fought between my competing desires to remain in bed, my need for coffee, and my urge to pee.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 16h

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 16h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

$47. And that’s if the government isn’t lying about the interest rate. Plus, they will have to prove she intentionally schemed to swindle $47 from the bank - as opposed to just not knowing the difference between a second home and an investment property. Good luck, Lindsay.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

The grand jury indictment against New York AG Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased.

James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, the indictment alleges.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Letitia James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, indictment alleges

The grand jury indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased in Norfolk, Virgini

www.nbcnews.com

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 14h

More than half of ALL government shut down days in the history of America have come under just one president.

Simply put, the man is a terrible leader.

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 16h

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 13h

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 1d

The military aren’t even getting paid during the government shutdown, right? The National Guard who was deployed to California n Portland they didn’t get paid cuz Taco only deployed them for 29 days, right? Military shouldn’t have 2 go 2 food bank. Our gov should b helping them! #arresttrump

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Imagine that

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

NEW: So it IS a second home and not an investment property. Motion to dismiss for abuse of the grand jury process in 3...2...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.

www.nytimes.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 14h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 17h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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No To Trumpism @no2trumpism.bsky.social · 12h

Wake up, America! Get the criminal felon and his entire evil regime out of office!
youtube.com/shorts/ytHW7...

Gavin Newsom releases POWERFUL ad against Donald Trump

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 15h

They must be exhausted.

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