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Rudely Van Gelder

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Entertainment Coordinator for Antifa, LLC Columbus, Ohio / USA / C-53 “The product is thoroughly pizzled.” - Philip K. Dick "Ain't no such things as halfway crooks." - Mobb Deep “Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.” - Ani DiFranco

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 5h

*Cries in American* 😭

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 3h

Translation: “There just wasn’t enough money in that old gig."

See also: Candace Owens

Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile...

Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 3h

Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger (D): "she does not think that gay couples should be able to marry...she thinks it's ok for someone to be fired from their job for being gay"

Winsome Earle-Sears (R): "that's not discrimination!"

Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 4h

A tale as old as time. Now it's all the tech bros spending half their time stroking AI with one hand while trying to insulate their riches from an inevitable crash with the other.

Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 4h

Can’t tell if Trump’s going for a basic Pharaoh City or a full Welthauptstadt Germania.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 6h

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 4h

Sounds like more of a Hegseth move, to be honest.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 7h

Beauty Pageant "Miss Uncongeniality" winner screws up again #LindseyHalligan #BrooklynAintInNewJersey 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 5h

Do people in a cult know they’re in a cult?

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 8h

we told you, vivek.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 5h

this isn’t funny portlanders only turn into inflatable frogs when their neighbors are being kidnapped by a fascist secret police force

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 5h

America’s fossil-fueled oligarchy never sleeps...

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 6h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 6h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 5h

Do Comey’s people have access to the grand jury transcripts?

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h

He was definitely hired *because* he's this kind of person, not in spite of it.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 9h

Welcome to heaven, Chuck...

Group shot of all the My Little Pony characters.

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Conveniently choosing to pull this stunt just as airports across the country are reducing operations due to controller shortages.

“See? All the chemtrails are gone!"

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 2d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 10h

DOJ is basically arguing in Court that if the President "determines" that literal martians have landed from Mars and are attacking the United States, Trump can invoke any emergency power he wants and the judiciary can't question it.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 11h

👀A Rutgers professor who teaches an anti-fascism class was blocked from leaving the US hours > Trump’s “Antifa” roundtable w/ Jack Posobiec who has called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor.” TPUSA at Rutgers has called him an “antifa member,” a claim he denies. He’s received death threats. 1/

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 11h

Hans and Franz are gonna “Cover It Up!"

“Hans and Franz” (Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon) from SNL

Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 11h

Certainly not for the petty crap they’re being put through right now.

Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 11h

And disrupted without pay, as I understand...

apnews.com/article/shut...

AP reader question: How does the shutdown affect National Guard troops?

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: How does the shutdown impact National Guard troops?

apnews.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 11h

I have to imagine half of Gummo’s brain is saying “Just one little push and it could all be mine...” while the other half says “Dumbass - without Daddy around, you and the rest of the litter aren’t shit."

A real “Smeagol’s Choice"

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 11h

And Ohio’s GOP lege currently have two bills in the pipeline to try an end-run around our newly protected constitutional rights.