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Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 16d

On political violence: For a very long time gun culture has understood it can mask its armed intimidation as free speech.

It was 2015 when Kory Watkins and Open Carry Tarrant County intimidated the TX Legislature so badly panic buttons were installed.
www.chron.com/politics/tex...

House OKs panic buttons in wake of open carry confrontation

The Texas House approved rules Wednesday to be able to install panic buttons and eject...

www.chron.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

“This is not sustainable”

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

IT'S FASCISM!!

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Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 4h

There is only one *root* cause of American gun violence.

It's the guns.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 10h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 5h

Were I a Democrat "leader" I'd already have produced a comprehensive fly-over video showing all of Portland in its relative tranquility and I'd have delivered it to every media, every platform. I would frame it as a relentless in-your-face throw down to Trump, Miller, Noem et al.

Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 16h

Fair enough. But so-called conservatism is precisely what thrust Trump on the country and it's what sustains him today. I purposely used the word in recognition of the Trump enabling "conservative" machine that claims it.

Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 18h

"spite" is a funny way to spell "a purposeful disabling of the federal government by conservative American leaders".

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Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 19h

This is the POTUS equivalent of smearing yourself with feces while running naked down the street. It's insane. It would be comical if it wasn't so dangerously reckless. Shit's unreal.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 21h

Release the Epstein Files.

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Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 20h

Typo... Oct, 04... 2004.

Editing please.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

-$33 BILLION in military aid over 2 years
-$45 MILLION every day
-$144/month per every 🇮🇱 citizen from 🇺🇸

As 🇮🇱 has free health care, free college, subsidized child care… and we do not.

Study: costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/AidToI...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.

"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."

newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Burr offered one of these "we went as ambassadors!" excuses and all I heard was "flying helicopters is really expensive!"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 1d

This country, I swear. It was Oct, 84 when cops assassinated Victori "Torri" Snelgrove, because The Red Sox won the world series. She was killed by a "less lethal" round.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

Killing of Victoria Snelgrove - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 2d

He's a fuckin' crook. The evidence in his impeachment over bribery and obstruction was irrefutable but he wasn't held to account because it's a political process, and megadonors legally literally paid state Senators and Patrick to acquit. His tawdry affair wasn't even in dispute 🤣

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catsandbuds.bsky.social @catsandbuds.bsky.social · 2d

The US will be a banana Republic b4 it celebrates its 250th!We're practically there,bc B4 Trump:Women had the right 2 choose,ppl cld protest,the president wasn't above the law,ICE wasn't kidnapping random dark ppl&the GOP didn't give away their authority 2a Kremlin puppet Jackoff& business failure

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Huge, huge swathes of *Trump voters* will effectively have no health care available except for emergency ER.

It is simultaneously a) the worst way to maintain public health and b) the most *expensive* way to do it.

Idiocy from moral degenerates. That's our country now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 2d

This video should have a potential seizure trigger warning.

Vintage Glass @tubetone.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't intuition the brain function that prevents walking into traffic, while counter-intuition is the brain function where thoughtful deliberation takes place?