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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

Yup. Been saying whomever can break this story that his crew is sitting him in front of a TV while he gets his IV treatments before he has to go on TV or sign EOs is gonna save the fucking country

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 3h

why would you post this, my soul is already dead

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

If you wanna know why Miller and Vought and Vance are speedrunning the playbook it's because they know when he goes they no longer have the juice to finish the plan. No one is gonna listen to them and there will be a power vacuum.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 3h

I'm starting to buy into the theory that Miller's got control of all his devices and is just feeding him a steady diet of AI slop

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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hot dogs are charcuterie sandwiches @riothobbit.bsky.social · 4h

if you're worried your art is going to piss off the klan you are morally obligated to produce that art

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 5h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 7h

ChatGPT would have given Jack Torrence advice on how to punch up his "all work and no play" script

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say

Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ

The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

abcnews.go.com

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 7h

Bondi's performance yesterday is a good example, imo. That's the behavior of someone 100% sure her faction will be in power forever. I saw a bsky reactions of "she knows something we don't know!" but... seems more likely she and the admin are in an X-based echo chamber filled with their own farts.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 8h

I might be wrong, but I think their X bubbles have led them to overestimate their own popularity and how much power over the public they've actually consolidated

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 9h

wait I thought this was NC's race last year

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 9h

He was just your standard crook (which is kind of a standard trait for the I-95 corridor) without wild-eyed ideological crusades. Seems quaint, now.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 10h

a man in a plaid shirt and tie is sitting at a desk in front of a computer screen .

ALT: a man in a plaid shirt and tie is sitting at a desk in front of a computer screen .

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 10h

It's unrealistic to say "they should just QUIT" because that's not how all this works. But in the moment, if they're asked to participate in bloodsport, each person needs to say no. And if they see CoD cosplay douchebags doing so, they need to use their authority to step in. Be a hero.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 10h

I'm sympathetic -- but if they want to be treated like regular people who've been thrust into the middle of this through no fault of their own? They need to not participate in roughing up civilians. Hell, maybe even grab the ICE guys shooting clergymen and say "wtf are you doing you turdblossom"

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 19h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 11h

sometimes you do have to consider that American Indians largely fought on the side of the British in the Revolutionary War because they were of the opinion that the absolute worst possible scenario was to be left alone on the continent with the colonialists

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 11h

Grand juries are playing a much bigger role in the resistance to Trump II then I expected

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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 11h

All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22h

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23h

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h

It's a well-established global phenomenon: secret police organizations always recruit losers, mediocrities, people who can't succeed in a competitive environment, whether bureaucratic, academic or commercial. These are people who will follow orders and engage in depraved, violent conduct when asked.

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audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 12h

Ever wonder how many of these ICE dipshits are part of the Fandom Menace? Because I do, I do wonder that

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 17h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 20h

all this shit with the inflatable frog suit is fantastic. like the inflatable frog is literally winning the information war lol

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23h

i like Platner too but just a quick reminder that Janet Mills is the governor who yelled "I'll see you in court" at Trump to his face over the trans sports executive order, so if you wanna trash her please be sure you're sending the signals you intended to send.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 1d

ICE now very literally at war with Presbyterians

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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