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ritchietorres.bsky.social
The Christian right’s deification of Donald Trump amounts to idolatry.

Trump’s malignantly narcissistic response to the murder of Rob Reiner reveals a deeply demonic figure: one callously indifferent to any life but his own, the antithesis of a true Christian.
December 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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ericblyler.bsky.social
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jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 1d
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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joshuaeakle.com
The Epstein timeline, perfectly summarized.
December 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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coreyryung.bsky.social
I remember when the right wing had a years-long freak out that informative trigger warnings gave students veto power over their courses.
charlottegarden.bsky.social Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 15d
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
“During the course of the debate, it was disclosed that it is now policy of the university to suspend any faculty member with pay against whom a student has lodged a complaint. The faculty member is suspended under the Title IX program,” Schmeltzer wrote. “This was new information to everyone in attendance.”
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Confession: socialists make me anxious because I find it hard to figure out whether they are making fun of themselves or me
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: Republicans in the Indiana Senate defied President Trump and joined Democrats in voting down a congressional map aimed at adding GOP seats.
Indiana Lawmakers Reject Trump’s New Political Map
Republicans hold an overwhelming majority in the Indiana Senate, but more than a dozen of them defied the president’s wishes, voting against a map aimed at adding Republicans in Congress.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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normative.bsky.social
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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normative.bsky.social
One of a handful of essential books for understanding the current era is the social psychologist Leon Festinger's "When Prophecy Fails."
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20d
NEW: Right-wing media spent years insisting the Jan. 6 pipe bomber was a deep-state plant. Now that the suspect looks to be a Trump-supporting election denier, the conspiracies are only getting louder.

@willsommer.bsky.social explains why in the latest False Flag: lnk.thebulwark.com/4rLHz32?utm_...
December 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 on X: "ICE violently detains mother driving daughter to school—for not having social security number memorized. "Agent became flustered when she couldn't repeat the number... then just lunged at her," said daughter. She showed agents work permit, social security card, drivers license, https://t.co/folOS9Lir0" / X
ICE violently detains mother driving daughter to school—for not having social security number memorized. "Agent became flustered when she couldn't repeat the number... then just lunged at her," said daughter. She showed agents work permit, social security card, drivers license, https://t.co/folOS9Lir0
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October 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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kjephd.bsky.social
This is the kind of blatant abuse of fiscal discretion that Charles I used during Personal Rule, when he tried to govern England as an absolute monarch without ever having to call parliament again.

IOW, it's king shit & represents the most dangerous possible breach of the constitutional order
bbkogan.bsky.social Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Oct 29
The White House says it’s going to use procurement dollars to illegally pay the troops for rather than do it the legal way of enacting a military pay bill.

You cannot w/ a straight face tell me using procurement dollars to pay the military adheres to the purpose statute and the Antideficiency Act.
Zoom in: Earlier in the week it was unclear whether the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) could find roughly $5.3 billion to make the military's payroll by Friday, but two White House officials tell Axios the money was found at the last minute. The OMB found: $2.5 billion from a military housing fund specified in Trump's "big beautiful bill" to continue paying housing allowances for military personnel. • $1.4 billion from the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation fund, which largely will cover U.S. Army and Air Force payroll. The account normally funds military research and was heavily relied upon two weeks ago to cover military paychecks. • $1.4 billion from a Defense Department procurement account for building U.S. Navy ships, largely to fund the Navy and Marines.
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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walterolson.bsky.social
New from me at Cato: The Trump administration lately has falsely asserted that ICE / CBP agents are immune from state law no matter what they do, and also that citizens have no right to videorecord, photograph or identify the agents. There's a pattern that links these two stories! /1
There's a Right To Record ICE Raids--and There's No Blanket Immunity for Raiders
Notwithstanding pronouncements from leading officials of the Trump administration, the consensus of federal courts is that the Constitution protects the right to record immigration raids, and federal ...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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October 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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espiers.bsky.social
This kind of misogyny and sense of entitlement starts early and the fact that no one involved did anything about the clear red flags is disturbing www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...
2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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nslayton.bsky.social
The assault is horrifying on its own, but then there's the other agent shouting "...or else you're next" while another fixes their face shroud.
lordnad.bsky.social Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · Oct 4
@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.
October 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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tj-stiles.bsky.social
Listen to the full audio. Everything he says is 100% wrong, including “tariff was not a word until the 1870s.”

This is bespoke historical fantasy, unsupported by anything any historian has ever written. The arrogance required to be this wrong is astounding. And he’s basing public policy on it.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 25
Trump on tariffs: "We were richer then proportionally than at any time in the history of our country, and then stupidly in 1913 then said 'let's go to the income tax.'"
August 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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aaronrosspowell.com
This is top notch book cover design.
July 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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dailynous.com
The American Philosophical Association has established a pair of new paper prizes...
APA Establishes Two New Prizes - Daily Nous
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced that it has established two new prizes for papers in two sets of philosophical areas. The prizes are named in honor of Milton K. Munitz and L...
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July 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now.

www.latimes.com/california/s...
A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was tackled to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents at Home Depot on Thursday said he was held for more than an hour near Dodger Stadium, where agents boasted about how many immigrants they arrested. "How many bodies did you guys grab today?" he said one agent asked. "Oh, we grabbed 31," the other replied. "That was a good day today," the first agent responded. The two high-fived, as Job Garcia sat on the asphalt under the sun, he said. Garcia was released on Friday from a downtown federal detention center. No apparent criminal charges have yet to be filed. He is one of several U.S citizens arrested during enforcement operations in recent days. Department of Homeland Security officias sav some trave ilegaly 11:04 C •ll 5G+ 824) latimes.com "You wanted it, you got it," the man yelled. An agent handcuffed him so hard "that there was no circulation running to my fingers," Garcia said. Pinned down, Garcia had difficulty breathing. "That moment, I thought I could probably die here," he said. The agent put Garcia's phone back in his pocket. The recording kept running. As Garcia was put into a vehicle, his video captured an agent twice saying: "I've got one back here." "You got one what?" Garcia shot back. "You got one what?" He said an agent told him in broken Spanish to "wait here,' though it could not be heard on the video. - 11:04 € • 5G+ 824) latimes.com "I f- speak English, you f- dumbass," he clearly shouts back. No agent asked if he was an American citizen, he said. Nobody asked for identification. "They assumed that I was undocumented," he said later in an interview. The video ends after about four minutes, while he is waiting in the van. CALIFORNIA Raid at a Home Depot in Hollywood shatters an immigrant refuge June 20, 2025 Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed. They were so tight, his hands hegan to swell. Garcia asked an agent to get his wallet from his car, so he could prove he was a U.S. citizen. Another agent retrieved his ID, but he remained handcuffed. They were so tight, his hands began to swell. The agents switched him to handcuffs that looked like shoelaces. They took off around a corner, stopped to shuffle him into another van and sped off down the 101 Freeway. "I smeared my blood in their seat," he said. And he thought, "They're going to remember me."
June 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail
in Jamaica.

Do you get it yet?
June 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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motherjones.com
A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference.

But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.
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June 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.
June 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to “liberate” a state or city from its elected government.
June 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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walterolson.bsky.social
"In an essay published on the website of @cato.org , Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the institute, wrote, 'For the Trump admin, turning masked raids into standard practice fits into a wider effort to dodge accountability for potentially illegal and unconstitutional actions.'” [E.J. Montini]
Call masked ICE agents arresting immigrants what they are: secret police | Opinion
Donald Trump wonders what masked protesters have to hide. The same could be said for masked ICE agents arresting people at court hearings.
www.azcentral.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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nikkimcr.bsky.social
MSNBC with a great speed debunk of DHSs justifications for tackling and handcuffing Sen. Padilla.

Padilla is the top Dem on the Senate Judiciary immigration subcommittee -- there's no way Noem (who meets regularly with senators on this topic) didn't know who he is.
June 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM