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Selena in TN @selenawrites.bsky.social · 26d

New at We The People: "When entities remove employees or students solely for speech, soon or immediately after the very public and documented request of government, those actions must be deemed as unconstitutional." It's free to subscribe.

The Marketplace of Ideology

Political expression and the Constitution

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Rules For Titans @rulesfortitans.bsky.social · 12h

They don't take the guns. They take the gun owners.

They take them in stages. Start with "criminals" and the list of anti-gov offenses is already growing. Then non-U.S. born citizens, then Black people...MAGA would cheer it all.

Soon they only have to face a 30% armed populace, rather than a 90%.

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CoyoteInLa @coyoteinla.bsky.social · 6h

Here's a link that came up as the first item on my "republican gun owners list" search:
ogmnews.com/pam-bondi-fa...

Pam Bondi Faces Conservative Backlash Over Alleged ‘Gun Owner Registry - OGM News

Pam Bondi, a senior legal figure in current U.S. president Donald Trump’s second-term administration, is at the center of a political storm after securing a

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Susan Ovans @susanovans.bsky.social · 6h

And now they're learning that Trump directed Bondi to go to court and get a list of gun owners so his tech operatives can formulate a gun registry. They want to know where the armed opposition will be when Trump implements his permanent takeover of the country.

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Kelvino Cella @aldocella.bsky.social · Jun 4

They want to have a national list of gun owners; names, addresses, registrations, purchases, etc.

Authoritarians ALWAYS disarm the public! ALWAYS!

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

"Trump flipped on us": MAGA reacts to potential national citizen database

"Seriously, if Palantir isn't the deep state, then what is?" wrote Trump supporter Nick Fuentes.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · Feb 23

They were so afraid that the government would put them on a list of gun owners. Looks like that got done by the private sector instead.

ProPublica @propublica.org · Feb 23

“Why is my information in there?” asked Kathy Gavin, one of millions of people whose data was collected by the gun industry. “Why did you need it or want it? Yes, you could use it to pummel me with postcards, but what else are you doing with it?”

Gun Lobbyists and Cambridge Analytica Weaponized Gun Owners’ Private Details for Political Gain

Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions…

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Selena in TN @selenawrites.bsky.social · 1h

If lobbyists have lists of gun owners, so does this government.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Sep 2

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.

By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social
(Published Oct. 2024)

Gun Companies Gave Customers’ Sensitive Personal Information to Political Operatives

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 5h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 9h

Need something to reboot your Sunday?
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Joan Jett Mary Tyler Moore Theme (LOVE IS ALL AROUND)

YouTube video by Silver Eagle Audio

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12h

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Selena in TN @selenawrites.bsky.social · 9h

Mike Johnson as VP is just real a possibility.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10h

Kristi Noem’s America, folks. That poor dog. That poor family.

Tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “Border Patrol reportedly shot a dog and then the agent fled rather than deal with any kind of accountability whatsoever.”
Below is Keith Edwards’ tweet: “BREAKING: A family in El Paso says ICE shot and killed their dog, Chop. The agent who fired reportedly ran as the family screamed for help. No one came.”

Photo of a large black and brown Rottweiler sitting calmly on a tiled floor next to a white chair and a window with blinds.

A black-background screenshot of text describing an incident: the sender says no Border Patrol agents rendered aid after their dog was shot, and that the responsible agent fled the scene with help from others. They emphasize that the agent’s name was never released and that their family lost a member “for no lawful reason.”

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Selena in TN @selenawrites.bsky.social · 10h

If Mike Johnson never spoke, or didn’t have to heard the cats in Congress, he’d be Vought.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 14h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

Conspiracy theorists talk about the media running psy ops but my one and only psy op in this life is convincing my law school friends to be public access advocates in case they ever get appointed to the bench

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

“No public access line”

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 10h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"New Manhattan Institute article"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Evans Donnell @evansd.bsky.social · 1d

16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, the sheriff says
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16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, the sheriff says

Authorities say a blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors.

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Call me Krazi @krazikrone.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know Nixon never served a day in prison because he was pardoned?
But his Attorney General did.
His Chief of Staff did.
His Domestic Affairs Adviser did.
His Special Counsel did.
His campaign chairman did.
Even members of his re-election committee did time.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 1d

Time to found some new institutions. How about a national media company called The Herald that picks up the best talent that’s been pushed out of the legacy papers and permanently employs the key members of the Mamdani press team.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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AltReclamation 💦 @altreclamation.altgov.info · 2d

Despite it being a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act, the RIFs (reductions in force) have begun.

Reclamation staff: feel free to DM me to share your story if this is impacting you, and you want to share anonymously via this account.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Vought sounds layoff siren: ‘The RIFs have begun’

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

www.politico.com

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