Chris Ladd
@chrisladd.bsky.social
Former Republican and political orphan
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
35 years ago this week I was a student in London. Saved up my food stipend to go to a show with some friends. It was fantastic. Still have the tshirt.
Thanks @10000maniacs.bsky.social @nataliemerchant.bsky.social
Thanks @10000maniacs.bsky.social @nataliemerchant.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
35 years ago this week I was a student in London. Saved up my food stipend to go to a show with some friends. It was fantastic. Still have the tshirt.
Thanks @10000maniacs.bsky.social @nataliemerchant.bsky.social
Thanks @10000maniacs.bsky.social @nataliemerchant.bsky.social
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In a future history of the US: the nation fell because @schumer.senate.gov and the rest of the Senate folded when Americans needed them most. Corporate capture destroyed democracy. Maybe we'll find out which CEOs called Schumer et al and told them it was time to fold, because they were losing $.
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
In a future history of the US: the nation fell because @schumer.senate.gov and the rest of the Senate folded when Americans needed them most. Corporate capture destroyed democracy. Maybe we'll find out which CEOs called Schumer et al and told them it was time to fold, because they were losing $.
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What the far right has figured out is that if they can construct an artificial social environment where they're seen as more numerous, strong, and popular, and their enemies seem few, timid, and dominated, many people will side with them, regardless of what the respective parties are actually saying
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
What the far right has figured out is that if they can construct an artificial social environment where they're seen as more numerous, strong, and popular, and their enemies seem few, timid, and dominated, many people will side with them, regardless of what the respective parties are actually saying
The US Congress doesn't show up anymore, or swear in new members who oppose the regime. Vote however you want, folks, there's no going back to the before times. We have to build something new and that's not gonna be pretty.
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There’s No Alternative to Regime Change
There is no electoral solution to this conflict.
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October 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The US Congress doesn't show up anymore, or swear in new members who oppose the regime. Vote however you want, folks, there's no going back to the before times. We have to build something new and that's not gonna be pretty.
www.politicalorphans.com/theres-no-al...
www.politicalorphans.com/theres-no-al...
Why hasn't Gov. Newsom stopped CHP from helping ICE invade Oakland? CHP is out there right now working against Oakland's residents @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Why hasn't Gov. Newsom stopped CHP from helping ICE invade Oakland? CHP is out there right now working against Oakland's residents @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
I was told that Charlie Kirk was a free speech hero
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The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I was told that Charlie Kirk was a free speech hero
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god grant me the confidence of a man with a nazi tattoo to run as a democrat for senate
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
god grant me the confidence of a man with a nazi tattoo to run as a democrat for senate
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You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.
I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!
October 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.
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I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said:
Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.
#NoKings
Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.
#NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said:
Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.
#NoKings
Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.
#NoKings
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
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NEW: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. We reviewed the data, which includes phone numbers and sometimes residential addresses.
“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million],” the hackers said.
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million],” the hackers said.
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...
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October 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
NEW: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. We reviewed the data, which includes phone numbers and sometimes residential addresses.
“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million],” the hackers said.
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million],” the hackers said.
www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...
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Maybe the real Antifa were the friends we made along the way.
October 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Maybe the real Antifa were the friends we made along the way.
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One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
October 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
Pretty sure no studio would have the courage to make Casablanca now
September 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Pretty sure no studio would have the courage to make Casablanca now
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One of the most interesting things about Jimmy Kimmel, and what I loved most about his conversation with Bill Burr a few months back, was that they’re both middle-aged white comedians who heard how culture has evolved, took notes, grew up, didn’t get defensive, and became *even more* successful.
September 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM
One of the most interesting things about Jimmy Kimmel, and what I loved most about his conversation with Bill Burr a few months back, was that they’re both middle-aged white comedians who heard how culture has evolved, took notes, grew up, didn’t get defensive, and became *even more* successful.
They're a bunch of cowards and idiots. Pressure them relentlessly. Fight them. Watch them crumple
September 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
They're a bunch of cowards and idiots. Pressure them relentlessly. Fight them. Watch them crumple
It's really important for everyone to understand that our "unalienable rights" do not depend on convincing a single Trumper of a single thing. Fight back
Saving America from Trump and preserving our democracy explicitly requires that people who voted for Trump change their mind. Which in turn requires that those who didn’t vote for Trump show grace and empathy to those whose change of heart came from being hurt by the guy they voted for…
September 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It's really important for everyone to understand that our "unalienable rights" do not depend on convincing a single Trumper of a single thing. Fight back
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Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/
September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
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RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
August 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
August 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.