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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 14h

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 5h

(very calm and collected) go brewers

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 5h

when you're headed to the NLCS

Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 7h

when you check on your client's 401(k) and everything is on track and also you've hit a go-ahead home run.

Andrew Vaughn, looking less like a baseball player and more like a friendly neighbor than anyone in recent memory.

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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 7h

when you check on your client's 401(k) and everything is on track and also you've hit a go-ahead home run.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 22h

i want a "resistance ranking" for dems that grades them on how seriously they're taking this

something like support for:

1. prosecuting gop criminality
2. court reform
3. procedural agressiveness
4. end ICE
5. trans rights
6. calling this fascism

+ points for having taken personal risks

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao “do what we want or our brutalization machine won’t get paid” isn’t the threat they think it is

CNN @cnn.com · 20h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 20h

this isn’t even quality ai slop. we’re fucked folks. your family text threads are gonna be filled with the most obvious fakes and your most room temp iq cousin is gonna say “damn”

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 20h

reporters have a third arm for holding their microphones now? damn, the future is crazy

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah to both of those. The sensible thing to do is probably getting one of those arcade1up things, but it’s not quite like the genuine article

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 1d

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Mel, AnarcHochulist 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 1d

chat is it good. for my fascist coup. if my army doesn’t get paid?

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 1d

ro khanna, pizzagate fan

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 2d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

shut da fuck up

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

shut the fuck up

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

hathaway noa wearing overalls, going oshkosh b'gosh mode in his gundam all day every day

marulka @marulka.bsky.social · 2d

new character designs too!!

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

pulte/the DOJ lawyers involved not understanding which forms are actually part of the mortgage app is quite believable to me. spectacularly dumb people

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

are you all having a dissociative episode

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

you journalists have no honor

olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

we’re going to have to deal with so many people saying “just following orders“ after this and I want to be crystal clear: nope

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

i am increasingly convinced that everyone working for dhs belongs in prison

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

been grim on here this week

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olivier poplin enjoyer @verynormalguy.bsky.social · 2d

he could have just said "throws him in hell" but he made sure we knew it was a "living hell." that's the detail i expect from the great entertainment journalists

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