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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about the @lindsayellis.bsky.social video where she noted how white nationalists co-opted American history X and all these other “strong” critiques but can’t handle “Springtime for Hitler” because of how ridiculous it makes them look

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d

Portland never stops being Portland.

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 7h

Excited for Allison Hannagan’s eventual disbarment over this

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 10h

Alleges “ill-gotten gains” of $18,000 and change over the life of the Virginia home loan. (Which would be $600/year if a 30-yr loan)

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10h

NEW: Here's the two-count indictment against NY AG Letitia James. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11h

Worth emphasizing that there are serious questions about whether or not Lindsey Halligan is even legally in her job

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Chat is it good when a lawyer for DOJ says this

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 13h

Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 20h

I do find it funny they negotiated this historic and pretty incredible deal 6 days before the military doesn’t get paid and nobody will remember it

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 20h

Let me help you out here it’s because Jack likes Nazi’s

Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 23h

I am stunned. Trump’s own antifa round table draws a parallel between antifa and the resistance to the actual Nazi regime.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

X. The Defense requests all DMs sent by the President of the United States to his principle officers.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

Paging Mr. “I like beer”

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 1d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

Clown car operation is being too nice

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Orgrim Doomscroller, City of Criminals resident @californiascroll.bsky.social · 1d

Please welcome CBS News Deputy Editor-in-Chief Bill Belichick

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn’t help that one side is completely delulu about the optics of the shutdown, where they claim they holding three branches of government are just smol beans as they invade American cities

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

I gotta say, the fact that people are banking on the military pay issue to break this seems to be a fundamental misread

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

Every day I want to text my mother and ask her why she voted to have her grandchildren grow up in a worse world

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

The doctor also makes that because med school is $500-700k to attend

Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 2d

The doctor makes $200k a year because they charge thousands of dollars more for a procedure than they should. The health insurance CEO doesn’t want to pay it and tries to dump it on you. You fight with the health insurance over *who* pays the high cost and not *why* the cost is high.

Coonbaya My Lord @powdercuff.bsky.social · 2d

The doctor making 200k a year is not your enemy. The health insurance CEO making millions per year is. Let’s focus up.

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 2d

“Restoring trust” meaning “repeat federalist society talking points.”

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 2d

I realize now I grew up in a world in the 90s, 00’s, and early 10’s that will be fundamentally different than the world my children will know

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2d

"No no, I meant a government so small that all it does is drown women in bathtubs."

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 2d

The military has always driven social change: see one Lt Robinson and his acquittal for the same offense 12 years before Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Chris Caldwell (right-wing hack) argues that with Heg's speech "the Trump administration would no longer use the military’s structures to drive social change," arguing that "Institutions like the military have only a limited capacity to take on responsibilities/

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 3d

I have a sneaking suspicion that the government has not shut down actually or that there has been direction to “activate” certain things outside the public view to blunt the pressure.

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 3d

People don’t seem to understand: we’ve already missed it. DFAS needed the government to reopen or the military pay bill to pass by the 7th. That isn’t happening.

Lindsay @alatriyana.bsky.social · 3d

I see *several* food banks and drives for military-related folks all the time. There are constant questions about how to get WIC and SNAP in spouse groups.

If we get to the 12th with no confirmation of military pay, it will not be good.

Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 3d

“Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues”

There isn’t a failsafe for military pay this time

1 in 3 “military families has less than $3,000 in savings,
[and]… nearly 1 in 4 service members has trouble putting food on the table.”

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 3d

I’m stewing that none of them have had the guts to go public with this. Did we learn nothing from the torture memos.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 3d

"At the Pentagon, some military lawyers, including international law experts within DoD’s Office of General Counsel, have raised concerns about the legality of the lethal strikes on suspected drug traffickers....

Multiple current and former JAGs ... told CNN that the strikes do not appear lawful."

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...