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Poster of posts. Comparative politics, memes, and the occasional update about my ducks. Bluesky's premier advocate for Bushidoliberalism 🫡 🗡️⛩️ Designs (mostly) inspired by and derived from 19th century political Americana at 👁 wideawakes.army 👁

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · Feb 16

"what's bushidoliberalism?" basically this but instead of an emperor the object of reverence is the constitution and trans rights

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

its not just the election, but also that the status quo is barely holding together by collective elite agreement to pretend that the emperor is not mad

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

it does seem increasingly apparent that next year will be when things really unravel

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 1h

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

i love this fucking city, i have been here ten years and if i am lucky, i will get at least another ten or twenty, but, today, this city made a fucking fool of the entire department of homeland security.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 11h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

THEY BREAK UPON US

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 8h

Battle of Portland goes to the home team

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 14h

Here’s video of the incident

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 10h

On the one hand, civ-mil relations are gonna be nuts for the rest of my life

On the other hand, encouraging that the military isn’t cowed at every level

💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 19h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

Among the more obvious differences, this was about using the Alabama National Guard to enforce federal law *in Alabama*, where the state government was defying court orders.

Note that even in that much more extreme context, Kennedy used the Alabama National Guard, not some other state's.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963.

It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Trump: U.S. Code. Those provisions authorize the President, when faced with such unlawful obstructions against the authority of the United States as existed in Alabama, to "call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary" (10
U.S.C. § 332) and to use
"the militia or the armed forces,
or both, or
• other means" (10 U.S.C. $ 333). The
militia of the United States includes the national guard, meaning the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the several states. 10 U.S.C. § 311 and $ 101 (9), (10), (12) .
In furtherance of the President's order the Secretary of Defense immediately called into active military service all of the units and members of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard of the State of Alabama to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.
This call was transmitted by the Secretary of the Army, acting by direction of, and under delegation of authority from, the Secretary of Defense.
Copies of the Department
of the Army message (No. D.A. 340638, June 11, 1963) were furnished immediately to the Governor of Alabama and to the commanding officers of the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the State of Alabama.
It is apparent that the Alabama National Guard was properly called into federal service pursuant to 10 U.S.C.
§5 332-4, and in accordance with the procedure provided in those sections. Since the call to federal service did not invoke the authority of 10 U.S.C. $ 3500, referred to by Mr. Bowen, the procedure prescribed by that section was
not
used.
I trust that the foregoing information will be of
assistance to you.
Sincerely,
¡enera.
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 11h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 9h

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Painting of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg, as they begin to charge against an opposing line of Confederates. The text, in various 19th century wood type, with a pastel gradient overlay: "THEY DO NOT BREAK US / THEY BREAK UPON US"

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12h

ICE is literally shooting priests like it's 1905 or some shit

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 14h

Here’s video of the incident

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 20h

this guy borrowed a monty python dvd from me in college and refused to give it back. so now whenever he’s in the news doing something shady i’m like “yup, seems about right.”

Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 1d

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist. A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues.

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C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16h

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 15h

Okay, the short version begins with the Investiture Controversy

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 19h

how did we get here?

What 'n Tarnation 🤠🏛️
@watn_tarnation · Oct 3
LMAO Gavin Newsom has personal beef with Benjamin Netanyahu

Cen @DsmpUncensored · Oct 3
The gasp I guspéd at the end 😭
"Bibi" is Benjamin Netanyahu
Speaking are Gavin Newsom (Governor of California) and …

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Ryan Radia
@RyanRadia · Oct 3
Wait, is the Governor of California actually discussing his relationship with the Prime Minister of Israel on a livestream while playing Fortnite with a Twitch streamer who goes by ConnorEatsPants?

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Governor Newsom Press Office
@GovPressOffice
yes

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19h

the Great Filter is that only species with a long refractory period survive the invention of the video generation model

Policy_g @policyg.bsky.social · 21h

AGI might be a great filter. LLMs ain't it.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 19h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Krasnovian Commando @krasnoviancommando.bsky.social · 15h

Time to raise the classic banners:

Thanks @djinnandtonic.bsky.social

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 16h

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 17h

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

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16h

anything Platner faces from Mills is something he would face from Collins and if it's fatal he was never going to be her anyway bsky.app/profile/char...

Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t think this is a race with perfect options. One is a barely popular incumbent gov who‘s almost 80. The other is a novice nobody knows anything about. Really is the ultimate test of “what is a primary for”

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 16h

as a first-term freshman in the senate at 78, she would be older that three of my four dead grandparents when they died

Axios @axios.com · 17h

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

trib.al

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