Bark
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Bark
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Easy to be so glib about doing something you know the department will get sued over when it will just come from dc tax payers and never touch your pension
NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org

One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out.

Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court.
MPD: Yea we figured that.
December 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Didn’t get a picture but saw an anti ice protest just on the side of the road this random Wednesday in Honolulu, about 8 ranging from a guy in his 20s to a woman about 70? Also had someone in one of those inflatable dinosaurs
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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It is actually pretty impressive how the worst elected Dem is still better than the best elected R.

Like, can I actually think of any currently elected Rs that Fetterman is worse than? I don't know that I can!
December 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.

Just fucking pathetic.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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for the record, it is extremely fucked up how much we reasonably fear reprisals against civilian populations if anyone harms the armies of criminals occupying our cities
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
simultaneously terrible headline and also a plain reading of the subhead is directly stating a massive violation of the posse comitatus act
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I’m sorry, what’s going on with the last line of the latest Lizza drop
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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ok this is flat-out bad.

Mamdani needs to fire Katz tonight.

No palling around with red-brown fascism.
And, like, while that quote can maybe be defended as stumbling while trying to walk a balanced line, if parsed carefully

RTing Ryan Grim's red-brown dreams is a lot less defensible
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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not beating the allegations
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Holidays are coming up, a perfect time to remind your MAGA family members that Epstein is only part of the story, Trump has been importing foreign sex traffickers and giving them special protection.

Then ask, "so did Trump bring the Tate brothers here as a replacement for Epstein's services?"
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Journalists will only defend each other when it comes to one of their own facing scrutiny for mundane things like unethical sexual conduct
…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues?

Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened!

Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week.

people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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i think that it is critically important to retaliate.
Trump will not just be four years of bad management. The culture of these organizations will be fucked for a long time. The pressure to retaliate and clean house will be strong, and no-one wants to work in a war zone.
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
After talking about mamdani my lifetime dem, boomer, mom said unprompted said she’s thinking about joining the DSA

Im honestly surprised she even knew the dsa was a full fledged organization and not just candidates self iding as socialist
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
this really clicked something in my brain about how, for lack of a better term autistic, the centrist strategy is. Its aping the most charismatic politicians of all time, without an understanding the part of human communication that matters for the "make them trust you" step
Any triangulation requires you to have the ability to lie to every single interest group at the same time (making wildly contradictory claims) and make them believe that you're telling the truth to only them.

This requires a level of charisma that zero elected centrists have.
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
just remembered that other people are actually seeing a mental image of trump draining bills swamp
I envy those with aphantasia atm
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Bill Clinton should take one for the team and say it's real, especially if it isn't
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
being TEMPORARILY banned from blue sky dot app is not being disappeared, its psychotic to using this phrasing while people living in america are genuinely being disappeared, taken from their families and sent to countries foreign prisons
BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
cursed timeline that trumps only good cabinet pick was saved from being thrown out by Jeffrey Epstein
jeeeeeesus christ, Epstein was setting policy for the 1st Trump Admin, and "[Epstein's] nerds" are these foreign agents he's describing?
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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LA:
- black mayor
- majority non-white

DC:
- black mayor
- majority non-white

Chicago:
- black mayor
- majority non-white

Charlotte:
- black mayor
- majority non-white
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Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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NYT journalists: how dare you accuse me of belonging to an organization that systematically demeans women and victims of sexual trafficking

NYT today: this greedy kid wanted money for braces and so ended up becoming sexually trafficked. The real victim? Matt Gaetz
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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“Wanted money for braces and ended up having sex with powerful men for money, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz” whoever wrote this should kill themselves. I mean that genuinely.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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A sitting congressman trafficked and raped a teenager
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM