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Elliot Blake

@elliotblake.bsky.social

880 followers 340 following 5.2K posts

Animation Producer; EP,The Sisters Grimm on Apple TV+; Director/Exec. Producer MORIARTY: The Devil's Game & MORIARTY: The Silent Order, on Audible. Opinions, dumb jokes are my own.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · Oct 18

This just seems like the right thing to keep pinned to my profile.

Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · Oct 18

I never workshop any of my dumb posts. That’s the Elliot Blake™️ social media guarantee.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Oct 18

i'm generally pretty live and let live about social media as long as no one is actively being harmed, but i am never gonna be able to take "collectively workshopped and artisanally-crafted shitposting for cloutmaxing purposes" seriously, i'm sorry

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 2h

Somebody please ask him what he’s doing to stop the war in Fredonia

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 4m

Clayton Kershaw’s postseason pitching woes continue. He’s retiring at the end of the season, but I imagine he is wishing he retired at the end of the regular season.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

If this sounds alarmist, it's because the facts are alarming. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 26m

That definitely makes it worse. He’s rapidly declining.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 3h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

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D’Janiel Sanchez @oriolesreview.bsky.social · 30m

legendary haters

Boo-cy 👻 📷 @ltotheucy.bsky.social · 31m

Instant classic in the genre

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 1h

Bye, Yankees, don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.

Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 4h

Gets people all the time.

Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 4h

Nope, wrong, didn’t happen

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 4h

Sepulveda

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 4h

Easily contradicted by anyone who actually lives in Portland, and, I don’t know, has eyes, I guess

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 4h

They put up less of a fight.

Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 4h

This room full of fascist jackasses is apparently unaware that our entire armed forces and our allies in World War II were antifa.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 5h

“You wouldn’t know her, she lives in Canada.”

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 7h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 8h

Ditto, but I’ve never seen that photo of Dan McDaid! Probably for the best.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 8h

This photograph alone should have disqualified him from being confirmed to run the FBI, never mind his commitment to Trumpian fascism.

P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 12h

I mean

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 12h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 9h

Seems like the Democratic Party should sue CNN for twenty billion dollars and then settle for $15m, it’s what the president would do.

Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 10h

One of the Trump Administration's most openly fascist moments and CNN edits it out.

Tells you everything you need to know about a news network that has a firm policy against telling you everything you need to know.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 12h

Man, I miss a 50/50 martini. Nothing comes close to it in the nonalcoholic world.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 12h

I can’t decide if dead-eyed fascist ghoul Miller actually believes the pretexts he’s inventing and gets so worked up about, or if he’s just cynically spreading lies to achieve his authoritarian goals. Either way, his bloodlust is evident. He’s a dangerous clown.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

This attracted oddly little notice, but Stephen Miller was recently asked directly if he has discussed invoking the Insurrection Act with Trump. He evaded the question.

Miller, a master manipulator of Trump, is clearly nudging him in that direction right now.

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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 12h

Out of control is right. A bunch of unarmed people on the ground are no threat to the thugs standing on the roof. Someone up the chain is telling them there will be no consequences for their brutality. They should all be prosecuted.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

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