Ewepinko
@scdemandred.bsky.social
Bald Bearded Dads Club card carrying member; reading/writing, the occasional pc game. Seeking.
All views expressed are solely my own.
All views expressed are solely my own.
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they don't have enough guys, and if the response in Minnesota shows anything it is that trying something like this is going to drive a much larger backlash than anything they hope to gain out of it
"oh well I guess we'll just stay home" is not how this is going to go
"oh well I guess we'll just stay home" is not how this is going to go
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:49 PM
they don't have enough guys, and if the response in Minnesota shows anything it is that trying something like this is going to drive a much larger backlash than anything they hope to gain out of it
"oh well I guess we'll just stay home" is not how this is going to go
"oh well I guess we'll just stay home" is not how this is going to go
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We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
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I know this seems like a really trivial detail to get stuck on but this degree of escalation of force combined with zero warning is something I've never seen. For that to get unleashed on normies just moving along in broad daylight? Christ.
February 4, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I know this seems like a really trivial detail to get stuck on but this degree of escalation of force combined with zero warning is something I've never seen. For that to get unleashed on normies just moving along in broad daylight? Christ.
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Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
February 4, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
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You may not have heard, but it’s important. Dems are holding shadow hearings on ICE crimes. Witnesses provided harrowing and explosive accounts yesterday. I provide some highlights from the day, and I urge everyone to watch and amplify them. Link in the replies.
February 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
You may not have heard, but it’s important. Dems are holding shadow hearings on ICE crimes. Witnesses provided harrowing and explosive accounts yesterday. I provide some highlights from the day, and I urge everyone to watch and amplify them. Link in the replies.
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People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Context: one of the speakers at a packed Surprise, AZ city council meeting after it was revealed that ICE has purchased a massive warehouse in town to use as a detention facility. The City Council has said they didn't know about it, and have no authority to stop it.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Context: one of the speakers at a packed Surprise, AZ city council meeting after it was revealed that ICE has purchased a massive warehouse in town to use as a detention facility. The City Council has said they didn't know about it, and have no authority to stop it.
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
Again, there are over 146,000 voting precincts in this country. This is physically impossible.
we should all yell about this loudly but just saying it is a scare tactic, they do not have the bodies to do this widely even in just one area. we should yell loudly about that too to decrease intimidation.
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
February 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Again, there are over 146,000 voting precincts in this country. This is physically impossible.
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journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
February 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
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Councilor Sameer Kanal calls tear gas a threat to public health, the environment and the First Amendment.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/02/portland-lawmaker-pushes-tear-gas-ban-after-ice-protest-crackdown.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/02/portland-lawmaker-pushes-tear-gas-ban-after-ice-protest-crackdown.html
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Councilor Sameer Kanal calls tear gas a threat to public health, the environment and the First Amendment.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/02/portland-lawmaker-pushes-tear-gas-ban-after-ice-protest-crackdown.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/02/portland-lawmaker-pushes-tear-gas-ban-after-ice-protest-crackdown.html
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I don't actually know why Dril has been banned, but I know capricious mysterious moderation is the very opposite of what had attracted me to Bluesky, as originally pitched.
February 4, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I don't actually know why Dril has been banned, but I know capricious mysterious moderation is the very opposite of what had attracted me to Bluesky, as originally pitched.
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Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]
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Every day the mods on here:
![wint @dril
(accidentaly fires entire ar15
magazine into my foot & leg with 100% accuracy rate) alright. thats fine. heres what i think happened,
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February 4, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Every day the mods on here:
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This is like suspending Santa Claus, it’s almost certainly an incorrect action on its face and all you’re gonna do is make everyone mad at you on behalf of Santa Claus because they like him
Lol they suspended dril, great work to the morons running this place
February 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
This is like suspending Santa Claus, it’s almost certainly an incorrect action on its face and all you’re gonna do is make everyone mad at you on behalf of Santa Claus because they like him
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Lol they suspended dril, great work to the morons running this place
February 4, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Lol they suspended dril, great work to the morons running this place
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ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational
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this is exactly right. "popularism" in practice amounts to an abdication of political leadership!
This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 AM
this is exactly right. "popularism" in practice amounts to an abdication of political leadership!
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This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM
This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
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Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
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Incredible cowardice.
To be clear: a zoom call with the employee’s webcams disabled so they didn’t have to see any of their faces while they laid them off.
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
February 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Incredible cowardice.
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Former race and ethnicity reporter for WaPo:
“This wasn't a financial decision, it was an ideological one.”
He also says “hundreds of people” were laid off today, and I’ve seen it reported elsewhere that layoffs affected one third of the staff.
“This wasn't a financial decision, it was an ideological one.”
He also says “hundreds of people” were laid off today, and I’ve seen it reported elsewhere that layoffs affected one third of the staff.
February 4, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Former race and ethnicity reporter for WaPo:
“This wasn't a financial decision, it was an ideological one.”
He also says “hundreds of people” were laid off today, and I’ve seen it reported elsewhere that layoffs affected one third of the staff.
“This wasn't a financial decision, it was an ideological one.”
He also says “hundreds of people” were laid off today, and I’ve seen it reported elsewhere that layoffs affected one third of the staff.
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"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years