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Cassius

@battleofdemocracy.bsky.social

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Sarcasm connoisseur • Purveyor of sharp wit & reckless honesty • Running on caffeine, ADHD, and half-baked brilliance • Ocean junkie, farmer, and sworn enemy of stupidity • Democracy or bust • Facts • I still believe — 🇺🇸 🟦 🌈 🫘 —

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · Jul 13

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. If you want to change the world, you have to change yourself first. Don’t become like the people you’re trying to change.”
— Gloria Steinem

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Tomorrow the Epstein survivors will storm Capitol Hill to demand release of the files. I hope new Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is sworn in at their press conference by another judge or official who is authorized to do so (doesn’t have to be the Speaker).

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a physical tic born from adrenaline and insecurity colliding like bad chemicals mixed by Walter White. The toe-bounce is body armor for hollow rhetoric—a desperate way to summon authority from motion when words alone can’t carry the weight. Performative conviction. Biological bluff.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

Kerry Kennedy dropped word that Stephen Colbert, ringmaster of The Late Show, will get the 2025 Ripple of Hope Award. The man’s turned satire into a civic weapon—grinning through chaos, torching hypocrisy, and somehow making the whole circus feel worth watching.

Stephen Colbert to Receive 2025 Ripple of Hope Award from RFK Human Rights - Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights

The Emmy-winning host will be honored alongside Magic Johnson, Martin Cabrera, Jr., Stefano Lucchini, and Darren Walker at RFK Human Rights’ December 9 Gala in New York.

rfkhumanrights.org

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

Napping #Caturday away seems like a good thing.

≠ doom scrolling

A blissed-out little Devon Rex cat, soft curls pressed into a storm-gray blanket like it’s chasing dreams in velvet darkness. One ear cocked, nose buried, paw tucked close—pure feline abandon, the kind of tender chaos that makes the whole mad circus of life briefly worth it.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

We’ll take the people of Memphis over wannabe fascists & hate mongers like Stephen Miller seven days a week. Twice on Sunday. 🇺🇸

📸 via @indivisnashville.bsky.social

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 8d

Driving by Mar-a-Lago, my driver slowed down amazed. Trump was pointing at a roadkill on the asphalt and christened it road pizza. JD Vance tears off the first bite, then offers the rest to the GOP like a holy sacrament. He checks his eye liner and wipes his chin: Please, sir, may I have some more?

Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 8d

We were warned: Dice Medicaid & rural hospitals bleed. Trump gutted them, tossed coins in a golf course coffin, and Marshall whines like the knife’s not in his hand, the corn cob not up his…, the blood not in his coffee.

One thing about living in DC I never could stomach… all the damn vampires.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "It seems very disingenuous for the Democrats to be blaming President Trump for these rural hospital struggles. The reason rural hospitals are struggling is because of the bad economy."

Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 13d

Pity Halligan, that jittering priestess at the feet of Louis XIV reincarnated in spray-tan & cheap cologne, Trump in golden sneakers, stomping loyalty. She bent the knee, and now it’s breakfast time: monarchy chewing through its own disciples, blood sausage and cheap eggs. Loyalty ≠ pay.

[rise up]

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 14d

Hegseth’s “warrior ethos” and preaching no beards, while wearing more makeup than a Studio 54 drag queen. Great days of glory when the mirror ball shined a thousand points of light, pink boas flying, lashes sparkling. He’d have been drinking cocktails and chasing… well… lines.

[rise up]

If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid

Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.

www.motherjones.com

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 14d

Celebrating 50 years of the iconic "Bohemian Rhapsody" 🎂

Making the most-streamed song from the 20th century took ambition, hard work, and a dash of opera.

Roger Taylor and Brian May sat down with Rolling Stone to reflect on Queen’s masterpiece: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 16d

Bella glued ANTIFA stickers on the White House walls while Bondi cried like a chastised child, Trump howling orders, Homan weighed down w/ $50K in greasy bills, and the FBI strangled. The whole thing buried alive in bitcoin, a digital coffin for a justice system rotting in the sun on RFK Jr’s hood.

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 16d

@democrats.org — what the hell are you doing?! Betting on 2028 like junkies waiting for a fix while the machinery of free elections is gutted in broad daylight. Normal is a corpse buried under the Rose Garden cement. J6 is over. Stop hiding. Where are the roses? 🥀

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 17d

100% agree. Nothing to add. On point.

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17d

📌I'm sorry but it is patently stupid, insane, and insulting that Chuck Schumer is STILL the face of the Democratic "leadership" in the U.S. Senate.

📌I can think of 40 other Senators who could do a FAR better job of putting our case to the American public.

📌This shit makes me furious.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20d

Federal officers took 11 Democratic officials into custody inside a federal building in Lower Manhattan after the group demanded entry to Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding cells where migrants were being detained.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20d

So if anti-fascists are Trump’s political enemies, what does that make Trump?

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 24d

DC soldier threatened to call cops on Jar Jar Binks playing the Imperial March. Survived basic training but got defeated by the most annoying character in Star Wars wielding a speaker. Mesa thinks our defender needs backup.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24d

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 28d

Anyone asking senators who voted to confirm the wholly anti-qualified Kash Patel how they’re feeling about their vote today?

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · 28d

It’s 3 a.m. I’m behind a palm tree near Mar-a-Lago. A coked up poodle w/ collagen lips panted that Trump had iced Kirk to smother the Epstein archives. The kicker: she’s hustling RFK Jr. stamped vaccines to anyone that isn’t a zombie. She fades into the darkness. I hear a bark in the distance.

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Time to rename the game of Golf to War - it’s literally people battling to get balls in holes using sticks as weapons. End this woke “golf” nonsense and call it what it is: suburban warfare with overpriced carts and beer. Rich guys declaring victory over landscaping while wearing pastels.

Defense Department Scrambles to Pretend It’s Called the War Department

President Donald Trump said the so-called Department of War branding is to counter the “woke” Department of Defense name.

www.wired.com

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · Sep 6

East Coast Gerbera Daisy.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Sep 6

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to stop my simpleminded nephew from destroying your country."

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · Sep 5

Trump's so terrified of batteries and sharks that he raided the Hyundai plant, thinking they would be making batteries and farming sharks. Now Donny can sleep better, snuggling with Stephen Miller and rubbing his shiny skull as he dozes off thinking about his lost marbles.

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Cassius @battleofdemocracy.bsky.social · Sep 5

Savoring $6 burnt tariff coffee at some dive, reading about this self-grandiose fool celebrating democracy's destruction. "This is what I voted for," she crows, clueless that she voted to torch America. Wait until she makes a typo, and Trump’s goons stomp on her polished toes.

[defy]

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