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Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 1m

temps are down and knit cap season is here, so for the next 6 months I am going to look like the captain of a fishing trawler, a member of Team Zissou, or Ian MacKaye

Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 2m

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 42m

Koger, Masket, and Noel's 2009 article on extended party networks identified a few conservative media outlets as the key nodes in the Republican EPN. Trump and MAGA have amplified that and extended/shifted it to the new media ecosystem of podcasts and influencer sites.

Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 1h

even more than Trump I, Trump II is distinctive in the extent to which it represents a merger b/w the right-wing media and right-wing government; it is a government that lives within the propaganda bubble it sprang from but also makes policy decisions with an eye to content creation for said bubble

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1h

I appreciate this straightforward acknowledgement of who a grifter is: "Johnson, a former journalist who reinvented himself as a Christian nationalist influencer after he was fired from BuzzFeed for plagiarism..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Kristi Noem tours Portland Ice facility with Maga influencers in tow

Oregon governor, Tina Kotek, accuses Ice of antagonizing protesters with teargas and by inviting influencers to film

www.theguardian.com

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Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 1h

even more than Trump I, Trump II is distinctive in the extent to which it represents a merger b/w the right-wing media and right-wing government; it is a government that lives within the propaganda bubble it sprang from but also makes policy decisions with an eye to content creation for said bubble

James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 1h

Interesting rundown on how RW media influencers drove the administration's Portland actions. Strikes me that we need to remap the GOP extended party network--or more accurately the MAGA EPN. Ppl like Sortor on not really outside actors.

goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/sordid-sor...

Sordid Sortor

A dust-up in Portland reveals the dangerous degree of Trump administration overlap with the right-wing marketplace

goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 1h

"'Our Holy Father … is very personally concerned about these matters,' El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who took part in the meeting, told Reuters. 'He expressed his desire that the U.S. Bishops' Conference would speak strongly on this issue.'"

www.reuters.com

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Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 1h

as someone who has had kidney stones like 10 times, I do wish Dolly the best

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Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 1h

"...the Trump administration is betting its chips on public pressure. That is enormously risky, because it provides a big opportunity for the opposing coalition and encourages the public to get involved on the other side."

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

u.afp.com/SmAy

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Henry Clay Fuck @wisco-disco.bsky.social · 10h

Handshake meme. People who like the Smiths, people who dislike the Smiths, agreeing that Morrissey sucks

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 16h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 15h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

it just kind of goes unremarked upon that these two paragons of christianity are fucking, have been fucking for years, as both are married to other people

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 17h

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social · 14h

Cardboard Automatons

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

I know invoking Latin terms can be a bit esoteric, and "dementia" is fine and accurate, but I think there's real merit in zeroing in on the relevant legal concept: he is non compos mentis. Not just that he's a batty old man, he is debilitated in a concrete legal sense, fit for conservatorship.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

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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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 15h

I’m not body shaming but I’m also honest this Texas boy is gonna roll through Portillo’s once and switch allegiances

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 14h

Do you have any idea how bad shit has to be for Republicans for Politico to write this?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

(Politico) - One week into the government shutdown, top Republican leaders appear to have lost the plot.

#RepublicansInDisarray @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 14h

Power in the Blood, everybody let’s go

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 18h

"They shut down the government, and we are not going to pay you for it."

They are not serious people. They are not politicians. They aren't good at whatever they're trying to do. Once again, if they were smart they could've insulated themselves for 30 years.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21h

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 20h

he's going to need to hear from Loomer before making that call

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 21h

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 20h

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 21h

What will bring down Trump in the end is the fact he's obsessed with attacking his enemies and completely ignoring the country's actual problems. Inventing fake crises is no substitute for addressing real problems. This administration lives in a reality of its own making. That's dangerous 1/x

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Lee opposes funding Trump’s constitutional crime spree | ❌👑 @lkc2025.bsky.social · 23h

The truth is that our neighbors of both parties do NOT support political violence in growing numbers, despite recent faulty reports. It’s really important for people to hear that. It is hearing the false alternative that frightens people and makes them more open to violence.

Spread this widely.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Wireless Enthusiast @chrispps.bsky.social · 20h

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 21h

From Stephen L. Taylor: The Constitution Has Failed. outsidethebeltway.com/has-the-cons...

It is difficult to summarize how bad this administration is (it’s part of why I have the In Front of Our Nose series, because it is just so much). I suspect that if, for some reason, you are reading this but think Trump is a normal president, nothing I can say will disuade you, and if you agree with me that he is a clear threat to the constitutional order, I don’t need to make a list.

I will just note the following. He is usurping congressional authority on spending and staffing, and therefore literally ignoring the law. He has empowered ICE to violate due process. He has ordered the military to commit murder in the Caribbean (and they have complied). He has publicly directed the Attorney General to go after his enemies because he, Trump, declares them to be guilty. He has pardoned/commuted the sentences of ~1500 people who tried to disrupt a constitutional process. All the while, he and his family have been enriching themselves because he is president.

Oh, and the Supreme Court has said he is immune from prosecution for anything linked to his “official duties.”

The fact that the above is my short version of the situation is more than a bit disturbing.

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