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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 4h

Like I don't particularly care about Jimmy Kimmel or Bad Bunny, but just in the sense that I'm not a "fan" of theirs.

I just think it's insane that conservatives DO care so much about this cultural stuff. It's unhinged to be angry about late night jokes and Super Bowl performers.

Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 6h

I think it's more the fact that the VAST majority of all people aren't weird creeps and are therefore made uncomfortable by the weird creepiness that conservatives try to insist is the true "culture" we should all want to live in

Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 6h

I think it's more the fact that the VAST majority of all people aren't weird creeps and are therefore made uncomfortable by the weird creepiness that conservatives try to insist is the true "culture" we should all want to live in

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 9h

In all seriousness: every public statement about Trump needs to begin by pointing out the obvious: that his brain is soup and he's not really running the country anymore. bsky.app/profile/crai...

Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 9h

Trump and whatever advisor last spoke to him.

Wormtongue and Théoden in Lord of the Rings

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 9h

Just insane

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 9h

I once saw a hawk pluck a seagull OUT OF THE AIR. Just an explosion of feathers

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 9h

Yo I need some of that antifa cash

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 11h

The next President, if we can get there

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 11h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 11h

Actually yes, because while they're all loosely part of the same project, the only thing holding it together even as much as it is now is fealty to Trump. You think GOP Senators will debase themselves for JD Vance?

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 16h

This is the part that kills me. Rs literally did this *mere weeks ago* and it was barely a one-day story, already forgotten to the mists of time

Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 16h

Every time a GOP Senator blames the shutdown on Democrats, a reporter should ask why they don’t just eliminate the filibuster for budget bills, like they just did for block confirmations.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 1d

What a shock

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 1d

It's almost hard to believe how stupid she is

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 1d

It's really hard to see this administration's "feeling itself" in the way that Bondi is here and Stephen Miller has been lately as anything less than a sign that we're about to witness a SPECTACULAR fall

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "Karoline Leavitt is one of the most trustworthy human being I know. And Sen. Schiff, if you worked for me, you would've been fired."

Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 1d

It's not impossible to understand.

The elite owners of corporate media prefer Trump to Biden.

They think fascism won't hurt them personally, but that socialism will.

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 1d

The windmill thing gets me every time

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 1d

Day after day of these terrible headlines from NPR. They're now just doing the work of normalizing totalitarianism.

Unfollowing. And I'll never donate again.

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 1d

It's should be the reason the administration ends

Shut it all down #generalstrike

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 1d

He thinks he's invincible.

The fun thing about learning history is it teaches us that he is most certainly wrong.

Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 1d

He's not delusional. He's lying. They know this is all a show.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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Mike @banditdekard.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly having him on CNN to just lie without any pushback or fact checking should be enough to get you fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Stephen Miller: "The Black people in Chicago are thrilled that we're getting the illegal aliens out of their communities who are stealing their housing, jobs, and resources."

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 2d

We need a news anchor to simply say "you're lying, Mr. Miller. You are telling bald-faced lies to the American people. Why are you doing that?" We won't get it, because networks are cowards and they will fire an anchor who dares do it, but it's the only sane and cogent response to this shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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