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Clem A Kaos

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Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · Jan 20

"We need to proactively build community capacity and capabilities to benefit, protect, and
provide means for recovery for all Americans, including those who are most vulnerable, while
also creating solutions that comprehensively address shocks and stressors today and for future
generations."

Eggrolltime @eggrolltime.bsky.social · Jan 19

Uploading a video to my YouTube. White House just released the Democrat version of Project 2025. Giving Cold War vibes.

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

National Resilience Strategy | The White House

To read the National Resilience Strategy, please click this link here: National Resilience Strategy ###

www.whitehouse.gov

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elsievoteblue.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social · 14h

Listen up people 💙That lying witch Pam Bondi , can keep denying anything involved Trump and Epstein!!
Michael Wolff has receipts 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#DemVoice1
#ProudBlue
#DemsUnited

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Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 11h

#TrumpEpsteinMaxwell

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Tuning Fork @tuningfork.bsky.social · 16h

Pritzker and many others are right to point out Trump's unhinged behavior and likelihood of dementia. But we must go further -- and recognize that Trump's cognitive failures are opening huge doors for the most nefarious plundering of Project 2025, S. Miller's fascism, crony corporate graft.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 18h

Pritzker goes there on Trump: “This is a man who’s suffering dementia…It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.” Via Chicago Tribune

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

www.chicagotribune.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 18h

🚨🚨🚨 Trump has called for the ARREST of Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson. Listen for his “reasoning.” And share because this is weaponization of authority to control political dissidents. 1/2

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 18h

Donald Trump’s threats to jail Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson are what autocrats do — not American presidents.
In America, we uphold the rule of law. We don’t imprison our political opponents — we defend democracy. And I’ll keep fighting to make sure we always do.

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PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 18h

#DV1 #ProudBlue
Wake up people, trump must be removed from office. A president calling for Gov Pritzker and others political opponents to be jailed should frighten everyone regardless of party. That is fascism.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

BREAKING: Trump Demands Arrest of Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor

Trump calls for arrest of Illinois Governor and Chicago Mayor, Trump calls for investigation and silencing of Democratic Senator, Air Traffic slows as Government Shutdown lengthens

open.substack.com

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 17h

There it is...Trump calls for the arrest of the mayor of Chicago and Governor Pritzker.

So, for all the incrementalists in denial...are we there yet? 🤔
- Did we cross the line into authoritarianism yet?
- Is it fascism yet?
- Is he "joking"?

He & Stephen Miller want civil war.
🧾 trib.al/pXoPcwu

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115338509988551290

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@billspaced @billspaced.com · 17h

Illinois Governor Pritzker Says Trump’s Troop Deployments Are Fueled by ‘Dementia and Obsessions’ #MorningSixpack

Illinois Governor Pritzker Says Trump’s Troop Deployments Are Fueled by ‘Dementia and Obsessions’

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker torched Donald Trump on Tuesday, accusing the president of deploying National Guard troops to Chicago and Portland out of “dementia” and irrational fixations.

mydailygrindnews.substack.com

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Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 16h

True. Per Wolff, it's just splitting from Trump as he's no longer useful to the movement. Or, useful as an enemy. As MTG, Vance, etc. jockey for position.

Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 16h

all-cleansing event called The Event.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America

“Shadow Ticket,” Pynchon’s first book in a dozen years, unfolds its conspiracies in Depression-era Milwaukee and beyond, but it lands in a moment when reality seems to have caught up with his fictions...

www.newyorker.com

Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 17h

meme featuring the Comic Sans typeface and a Shiba Inu. Tens of millions of people, followers of a mysterious figure known only by the letter “Q,” believe that many of the nation’s leaders are involved in a global child-sex-trafficking ring that will one day be crushed in an all-encompassing,

Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 17h

upstart political entity whose official status is murky but whose powers are all but limitless: DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, which was started by a multibillionaire with a sideline in unusual forms of transportation—rocket ships, Cybertrucks, Hyperloops—and named for an internet

Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 17h

America, circa now. Things, most of which have been weird for a while, are getting distinctly weirder. The President of the United States is busy redecorating the White House and bent on buying Greenland. A new wonder drug is making people skinny. Domestic affairs are increasingly controlled by an

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Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 17h

Minute the Tube got hold of you folks that was it, that whole alternative America, el deado meato, just like th’ Indians, sold it all to your real enemies, and even in 1970 dollars — it was way too cheap….”

Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 17h

If a totalitarian regime was coming to power, whose books would be the first to be squeezed out of circulation as the boot came down?

#Pynchon

johncarvill @realjohncarvill.bsky.social · 2d

I love Pynchon btw it pains me to have to say anything negative. In fact, the very first piece I had published online was a celebration of the great man:

www.popmatters.com/thomas-pynch...

(Please ignore the crappy subeditor-imposed title, and the cringey construction "Think Henry Miller ...")

The Fuss About Thomas Pynchon » PopMatters

Cast aside synthetic substitutes, junk food for the soul, and take a bite of the pungent, organic mushroom offered up by the man from Oyster Bay, Thomas Pynchon.

www.popmatters.com

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Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 17h

Who voted for this?

#Coup
#ICEGestapo

LTE Phila. Inquirer 2025-10-07
This is America?

I watches ICE jump-out boys swarm in on a man going to work at a local bodega parked on Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia at 6:37 am Thursday morning as I was taking my daughter to school. Eight armed men in an unmarked black SUV with red and blue police lights pulled two men out of their truck to the ground and whisked them away with alarming speed. They were zip-tied and disappeared within seconds. All within the moments it takes for a street light to change. All I could think was "This can't be the America we live in 2025." It could have easily happened to me since I didn't have my wallet or cellphone on me at the time. My daughter and I were shaken by what we witnessed. Who voted for this?

Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/2EoY0LpSA6A?...

Why MAGA's Falling Apart in Front of Trump: Michael Wolff | Inside Trump's Head

YouTube video by The Daily Beast

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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 1d

People need to be aware of history such as Frank Schaefer explains here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Hr...

Duty to Warn: May I Tell You Who Mike Johnson Really Is?

YouTube video by Frank Schaeffer

www.youtube.com

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Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 1d

Politics through the lens of entertainment, WWE kayfabe

"orientations towards politics formed as audiences of entertainment, transposed to political communication"

#TrumpTV Metafake news, first kill all the intellectuals...but ultimately Mother Nature rules: #FAFO

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-tr...

Post-truth politics - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 2d

UNBELIEVABLE HEAT IN CANADA🇨🇦
Tropical nights in Quebec !
TMins 20.3 La Pocatiere,20 Ile Madaleine
TMAX
31.1 KOUCHIBOUGUAC
OCTOBER HOTTEST DAY EVER IN NEW BRUNSWICK
30.9 Bathurst,30.7 Frederictonetc
12 stations >30C in NB and NS

HUNDREDS OF RECORDS BRUTALIZED
(See Mins/Maxes)👇

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Clem A Kaos @clemakaos.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, down on the farm...that Trump is killing:

Solar panels are one of the most effective ways to reduce high energy costs on farmland.

#Farmageddon #Collapse

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Experts issue warning after new USDA policy ends major farming incentives: '[It] is going to hurt … efforts to keep their businesses surviving'

According to FarmAid, many family farms operate on a "razor-thin" profit margin.

www.yahoo.com

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Rainforest @pitbullmtkerr.bsky.social · 1d

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Concrete Botany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 1d

Morning Glory shot in Pennsport last month.
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #MorningGlory

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