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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 5h

If the question is 'what stops a state from using its cops to stop ICE?' the answer is that local/state cops will not arrest other cops. (ICE are cops as far as they'll be concerned.)

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
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So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 6h

I have no way to convey that non white people aren’t shocked at chaos being chosen over merit

We’re just kind of tired of waiting for folks to get to the next step of

Doing something about it

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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.

southsideweekly.com

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Gabriel S. Pumpkins 🎃 @gsjphd.bsky.social · 6h

Waiting for Guffman 2: The Guffening

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 6h

[Beckett's ghost smiles.]

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 10h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 10h

yeh I think they reckoned I was >30 by my gray beard.

Ce ✨ @cupofce.bsky.social · 15h

First hoop earrings now this???

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 12h

There is no left-wing violence in Chicago or Portland. It simply is not happening.

It's so not happening, in fact, that Republicans in Oregon took footage from two South American countries to create a hoax photo about Portland.

They have no actual violent footage to put forward.

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 11h

"Also we're gonna gas Chicago PD until their attitude improves."

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 16h

“ICE needs to go into Chicago because the Chicago police are incapable of protecting the city but ICE can’t protect themselves so the Chicago police must protect them”

God I hate fascism so much

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 11h

Quote posts are fascinating - largely-absent middle, vast majority are people who are either 'this was awesome you're a coward' or 'this had no purpose but bullying so this is obviously good', with no acceptance that any other view is valid.

Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 12h

Some of you are blaming @jay.bsky.team or @bsky.app in general, or claiming that this is being forced by @moderation.bsky.app. That could not be further from the truth. I'm shutting it down of my own volition because some of you can't be trusted to use this information reasonably and responsibly.

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 11h

Follow Tracker shutting down. Which is sad - it's useful, in that it can help one understand context of a statement.

That said, I'm not sure what the expectation was, here, given this phrasing. When you give people pliers some of them are gonna use them as a wrench. 🤷

Follow Tracker @for.shame.wtf · 12h

Some of you are blaming @jay.bsky.team or @bsky.app in general, or claiming that this is being forced by @moderation.bsky.app. That could not be further from the truth. I'm shutting it down of my own volition because some of you can't be trusted to use this information reasonably and responsibly.

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 12h

Yep. With very few, limited, & situational exceptions, cops are not gonna do shit to oppose brownshirts because brownshirts are cops, & cops back cops.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17h

People work and continue to work very hard to read the police into the movement to defend civic society from Trump. Generally, the police have firmly refused at most every step.

Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 12h

There are more-useful ways to talk about it: They're authoritarian in mindset; they hire the cruel; they force-feed them "warrior cop" indoctrination; etc. "They're dumb" doesn't do much to help us understand what's going on.

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 12h

Don't keep traditional cocktail ingredients around. But I do sometimes make in the heat of the summer a drink of about 2.5oz gin & .5oz brandy, with a dash of orange bitters. I don't have a name for it.
I also do an ersatz Manhattan-Old Fashioned mashup with Irish Whiskey, brandy, & orange peel.

Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 12h

I'm glad the trend's been curtailed before it spread to Gibsons.

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 12h

I have never had a gibson but I would like to try one.

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 12h

I'm sure it's fine!
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 12h

Old dude on the end looks like* a guy in my department whom I could absolutely picture getting himself busted & zip-tied by ICE. Folks 'round here like him. He got his picture up, 'busted by ICE'? Folks'd start asking questions.
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*(but is not)

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 20h

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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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 12h

I can't personally see Vance giving Miller a direct incentive to have him bumped off.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 13h

In this scenario, where I'm a pregnant woman having some kind of medical emergency, I'm supposed to care how much money the hospital makes from treating me? Why? The fuck is he talking about?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 13h

I was gonna crack that this should be easy to enforce but the thing is when a capability doesn't exist, people can claim any old thing is actually that tech.
So in practice, nonsense laws like this can be ways of doing random insane & otherwise legally unsupportable stuff.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13h

This is a real tweet by the Florida AG.

**Alt text:**
A social media post by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier states that, as of October 1st, all Florida airports are closed to any weather modification activities. The post urges people to report violations of the new law at reportfloridaskies.com. Below the message are two airport notices. The first shows Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB) closed to geoengineering and weather modification aircraft except with 48-hour prior permission. The second shows Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) closed to aircraft equipped with weather modification or geoengineering equipment except with 24-hour prior permission.

Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 13h

(I'm just gonna spectate this, I don't have Soma context.)

Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 13h

Yep.
(I get pretty tired of philaboos 'well akshuallying' "the Trolley Problem is a thought experiment, it's not meant to...." No, it's a bad tool that's fostered realpolitik faux-solutions like assigning quotas for categories of people to kill on each branch of track.)

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