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Ray Anselmo
@rayanselmo.bsky.social
Current "community associate," former tech de-escalator, onetime writer-editor, longtime father, flag designer, football supporter, cat servant. Outside the camp with Jesus.
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20 January 2025
FAIR WARNING (thread):

It's already bad. Starting today, it's going to get much, much worse. And based on historical precedent, it's probably going to be an absolute disaster before it starts getting better.

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Will Cain is a whole bitch who got wrecked in sports and had to go shake ass for racists for money
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."

He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Again, do you notice how insanely idiotic and insulting British politics is, almost every day of the year? Just affront after affront, it’s one towering Fuck You after another.
December 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Kristi Noem's ICE hiring chaos: Insiders warn illiterate, super obese and violent misfits recruited - Daily Mail

apple.news/AqEHtFQX6Qfq...
Kristi Noem's ICE hiring chaos: Insiders warn illiterate, super obese and violent misfits recruited — Daily Mail
ICE recruits with no experience are being fast-tracked into the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Georgia, where instructors are astounded at their incompetence.
apple.news
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk
Commander Greg Bovino led a group of Border Patrol agents on walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans this afternoon.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:

Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.

Idk, just spitballing here.
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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A Nativity display at a church in Massachusetts is sparking a debate after swapping Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus for a sign that reads "ICE was here."
Details: www.wpri.com/new-england/...
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Anyone who still supports Trump is a fucking racist.

No, wait, I take it back. As much as I disdain Trump, that's just not accurate.

What I meant to say is that anyone who ever supported Trump at any time is a fucking racist.
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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this clip encapsulates so much of what has been wrong about MSM Trump coverage for the past decade -- treating Trump's lies and bigotry as a valid "side" of a debate instead of calling it out, because calling it out makes it seem as though you're biased
MSNBC reporter presents Trump's shameful racism towards Somalis as merely "a different view"
December 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Trump crash omelettes
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air.

After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed.

Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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the gremlins around him would never allow that, but the mamdani meeting showed that if you got some handsome charismatic leftists in a room with him and let him put his name on it, I bet you could get him behind medicare for all
If he wants to do this bullshit stuff we should at least call it the Donald J Trump Medicare for All and see if we can’t just do that
Donald Trump wants to be recognized as a peacemaker.

His deputies obliged today by putting his name on the headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an agency that DOGE tried to kill.

The new name — the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace — "adds insult to injury," said a lawyer for USIP staff.
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
As if 2025 hasn't sucked ENOUGH!
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"How does The New York Times cover the fire hose of news from the Trump administration?"

Really, really badly.
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)

And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal.

www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...
www.imls.gov
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Its basically a constant through history, theyre all gambling addicts and theyre all in huge debt
does no one remember what Sean McElwee actually went down for? for all the hate Nate Silver gets do you not notice the gambling? cmon guys if we can internalize the existence of a widespread elite drug problem a widespread elite gambling problem is well within reach
December 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
SLAY QUEEN
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Christopher Rufo is just a white supremacist, and I think it’s silly that we’re still doing news stories where he’s called a conservative activist or some other harmless sounding term.
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Steve Bannon’s Surprisingly Key Role in the Epstein Scandal talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/steve...
Steve Bannon’s Surprisingly Key Role in the Epstein Scandal
We seem to be in another Epstein hiatus before the story and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Definite working hypothesis.
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The reactionary mind is incredibly neurotic about both being stolen from and being laughed at and that's part of why they're so consumed with anxieties about welfare cheats, fake refugees, fake disabled kids, etc. It's like an asexual version of their cucking anxiety.
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: fascist sock puppet.
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM