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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1h

I am not going to do the whole "Look what you did..." thing again because then I just have to block a whole bunch of randos who just had to prove my point but...yeah.

We could have been a little off but recovering superpower. Nope.

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1h

Sure you can. It's the one thing Democrats seem to be good for lately.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 4h

you cannot lose elections to people that suggest lee greenwood for the super bowl halftime show over bad bunny

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1h

Trump just said, on air, that he and the GOP "took" a Constitutional right away because the Judicial Branch said something he disliked was allowed and he disagreed.

Ask every single Republican, sitting or running, from dogcatcher on up if they support that. Every day. Forever.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1h

Holy shit. He said it.

He said it. That's it. Run on that. Impeach on that. Remove from office on that.

That's it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1h

It's a bit different and later than what occured in England but pre-Revolutionary settler anxiety about Indigenous people, which led to open genocidal violence and rhetorical praise of it, was deeply intertwined with conspiracy theories about the Religious Society of Friends.

Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 8d

Many of the men and women in the first generations of the Religious Society of Friends spent time imprisoned for challenging the intertwined religious and political power structures of England.

When you take on the world’s ruling powers, persecution comes with the job.

quaker.org/2025/09/29/s...

A portrait of John Perrot, a 17th-century Friend who was held in an insane asylum by the Vatican for several years after he tried to convince the pope to abandon Catholicism. (Since he spoke no Italian, and the pope spoke no English, the meeting went poorly.)

Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1h

The energy between Trump and Pritzker indicates one thing: Republicans are not prepared for the fight they claim to want.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: Have you asked the DOJ to look at possible charges against Pritzker and Johnson?

TRUMP: I've seen the law ... I've understood that and I read it today in numerous journals that that's illegal ... that's a criminal offense

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

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

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1h

It would have literally put the game in conversation with Red Dead Redemption 2 which, considering the lazy open world slop Ubisoft has come to preduce, would have meant the highest of comparisons.

Instead, cowardice.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 3h

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 4h

Ghost.

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 4h

Which praise and worship band would Mike Johnson prefer to do the Super Bowl halftime show, wrong answers only

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 5h

I have lived with dogs my whole life and worked with them for a number of years. The worst single injury I received, not counting when I fought the entire kennel pack to save an elder husky, was from a Mini Pincher named Leonidas.

Mikey Alexander 𓅃 The Riot Dog of South Florida @mikeyalexander.bsky.social · 8h

I am a dog professional (>13 yrs experience in shelters & daycares, was a zookeeper prior to that; 32yrs total), though.

Pitts have a temperament test rating just second to Goldies, both of whom bite people far less than Huskies/Germans/Malinois. But they’re all outpaced by Chihuahuas & the like.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 5h

Dear Park Goers,

I make every effort to ensure my dogs and everyone else interact safely and positively.

If your unleashed dog comes up aggressively onto my two dogs, its not in a two-on-one. Its against three.

If I have to keep my cowardly husky-mix from popping off, you already messed up badly.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 9h

*runs through lyrics in head*

Oh yeah. Dope.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Never heard this cover before, but it’s brilliant.

Also, I listened to the original in high school, while “classic rock” radio was playing hits like “Lola” and “Walk on the Wild Side”

Some people in my generation somehow missed all that and were shocked to discover trans people at middle age.

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 10h

I guess this obligates you to rank the solo Joan version. I like this video where she's reading her children's book telling the song as her story, and her partner John Doe is standing by in support. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNgi...

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 10h

Good. Murder it. Please.

I'll get the sacred daggers from Pope Leo.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 18h

Fox News is mad a country star for...

*checks notes*

...believing in laws.

Never let MAGA call themselves conservative. They are an authoritarian personality cult.

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 19h

The American Coward.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h

Whichever way history turns, I have a feeling that this will be a historic photo

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 19h

Jesus...AI is immoral theft that American society has plugged into everything because trying to not be garbage is too hard.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Congrats on building the torment nexus.

www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Robin Williams’ daughter begs fans to stop sending her AI videos of late father

‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings,’ Zelda Williams says

www.the-independent.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 19h

A different kind of self-deporting. I love the caption under the header image here: "Curtis Yarvin fears American democracy will survive Donald Trump."

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 20h

These are government employees in the field. The person who fired the pepperball has a name, a number, and a record of what he was doing at that place, at that time.

Let's just hope the administration that comes after this remembers that, in actual America, no one is above the law. Abolish ICE.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s video of the incident

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21h

It is why it’s so funny that trump is so obsessed with scaling way up the use of polygraph and surprise polygraph testing across the federal government, it underscores how much he thinks fantasy and things he sees on tv are Real

Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 21h

You beat it by knowing that they are not real. Polygraphs are fake science more like a ouija or a magic amulet than a real test. They only "work" by tricking people into thinking they do so you confess.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22h

“Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown”

New, for @zeteo.com tonight, via @andrewperez.bsky.social and me:

zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1d

This is your reminder, for no reason whatsoever, that Jabba the Hutt has his own John Williams' theme song much like the Galactic Empire does.

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1d

This is, yet again, an impeachable offense.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump says he was talking to the President of Somalia and said,

"We have someone from Somalia telling us how to run our country, would you like her back?"

Trump is referring to Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

Just a bit of casual racism from The White House 🤷‍♂️

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1d

This is my one statement on this: I know the answer.

If you ask me this question, I am going punch you in the face and break your ribs with every stomp I can get off.

Thank you for your attention on this matter.

judybeegood.bsky.social @judybeegood.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why some on the right want to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War

www.theatlantic.com

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats need to start using a very specific term: Reconstruction.

Make MAGA Republicans openly run against Abraham Lincoln.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you identified programs to eliminate during the shutdown?

TRUMP: Oh sure. Sure. We have a lot of things that we're gonna eliminate and permanently eliminate.

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