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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 17h

Hologram Charlie Kirk

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 1d

This is perfection

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 2d

He’s talking about the afterlife again….you can’t convince me the man isn’t dying. This is the weirdest and somehow most self reflective train of thought he’s spouted in his decades in the public eye, and he’s said multiple things along these lines the past few months.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I want to be good because you want to prove to God so you go to that next step, right? So that's very important to me."

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 2d

As they state here, 99% of what this admin is doing could be negated or limited if Congress would assert its own authority. Even with GOP majorities, they should want to use their own power, and are clearly cowed, scared, or too lazy to do it.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 2d

Case in point - he is clearly going through *something* bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 2d

Goooood god

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is someone uniquely vulnerable to AI cyberpsychpsis because he’s already a machine made out of television equipment

Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 3d

the right accuses us of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" but the thing is that perceiving the Trump administration is like gazing into Yog-Sothoth's eldritch form. The only way not to be deranged by it is to actively refuse to perceive it, which is the right's preferred approach to anything inconvenient

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

There is a Mishima quote I like using -- "the special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail." It seems to be the only way of really conveying the psychic damage of perceiving the administration and the forces behind it

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 4d

It’s annoying that the trend in black and white thinking and lack of nuance extends all the way through to *academics* who should be the antithesis of that kind of thought.

Painting with a broad brush in either direction is a way to completely misread the past and present!

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4d

“You think you’re part of a proud tradition that can draw upon powerful unifying national symbols and myths? No, IDIOT, actually the white nationalists are right about what this country is”

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 4d

You see, this framing is absolutely foolish in my opinion because the people being sprayed by the firehoses were also America. AIM is also America, and I say that as the son of a member of AIM.
Agreeing with the oppressor that they are the only legitimate form of America is a bad take, man.

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 4d

Holy crap- this thread lays out how wild this story actually is.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 4d

my flight's been delayed for a while, so I've been spending the past short while trying to piece together all of the different twists & turns in this man's story, and DEAR LORD, how the fuck did all of this happen??

Fact check of former DMPS leader Ian Roberts’ education shows discrepancies

Discrepancies in Ian Roberts’ education background have surfaced after the former Des Moines superintendent was arrested by federal immigration agents last week. Here’s what we found out and what’s st...

www.iowapublicradio.org

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 5d

it’s so clear Ezra has not thought deeply about the experience of black people in this country, the fight for abolition and civil rights and the kinds of resilience and ‘strategy’ it takes to win a fight over decades (or centuries). For all his ‘deep thinking’ he doesn’t appear well read in history

Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 5d

I have been thinking about this for days.

I keep coming back to Ezra Klein's inability to understand Ta-Nehisi Coates' stance that it is worth fighting, even if you don't live to see victory, even if your children never see victory, even if your grandchildren never see victory, it's worth fighting

Travis @coloradotravis.bsky.social · 10d

Damn, this one was truly fantastic.

Part of why I continue to listen to Klein is that I’m wondering if anyone is gonna call him down on his bullshit and… Ta-Nehisi Coates absolutely does that here.

Without question the best political thought I have heard on the current moment.
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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 7d

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

an illustration that shows a caterpillar, then a moth, then The Mothman

text: GIVE YOURSELF TIMEA

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6d

"Veep" official gifts exchange with Finnish PM scene. Meyer is given an awkwardly large Angry Birds clock.

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twardell.bsky.social @twardell.bsky.social · 6d

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 6d

Ending Black History Month & banning books by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a dark echo of the ways the military has been used in the past to advance racial rights in America.

Frederick Douglass understood Black military service could help achieve citizenship. Truman saw integration as democratic necessity.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote about Tuesday’s Quantico fascism fest. Something I think it’s important to stress is that the military can be a place for advancing social policy, for good or ill.

Hegseth is using it to implement his white Christian nationalist views. www.liberalcurrents.com/war-fighters...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7d

great article. one thing i will add, i think, is how for many libs the election was a traumatic event. they deeply believed that it "should not be close", that democrats should *obviously* run away with it, and the fact we didn't must mean americans just LOVE trump's policies

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America

www.nytimes.com

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 8d

It’s wild because a small # of republicans could put a finger to the wind (ie just look at the old dude) and decide to take back some of their own power by exerting congresses appropriations authorities. But they’re all too chickenshit to move one bit against him.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 8d

Two senior Republican appropriators agree it doesn't make any sense for Democrats to agree to a government funding deal unless Trump actually adheres to the deal.

The Democratic alternative CR had language that would address this, but the White House came out strongly against.

“I don’t think the Democrats want to shut down either,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, told Bloomberg Government. “Their concern right now, and it’s a legitimate concern, is that, how can we agree to any deal when our OMB director will just impound the funds and say we’re not going to spend them there?”

“If you’re a Democrat — even just like a mainstream Democrat — your predisposition might be to help negotiate with Republicans on a funding mechanism,” said Rep. Steve Womack, a senior GOP appropriator. “Why would you do that if you know that whatever you negotiate is going to be subject to the knife pulled out by Russ Vought?”

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 8d

Reading this thread (or book if you really want to) should disabuse anyone thinking she should run again in ‘28.

She doesn’t appear to be setting herself up for another run gladly, but I hope that’s true and not just optics

Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 8d

I went into this book with higher opinions of Kamala as a politician and a leader than I currently possess

Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 8d

Shut it down, Dems. This is doing politics ‘the right way’

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8d

On average, Republicans get 15pp more blame for the shutdown than Democrats. Every separate poll has Republicans getting more blame

Government Shutdown Blame (September 2025 Publicly Released Polls)
Trump &

Field

Republicans Democrats in
Both
Neither/

Pollster
Dates
in Congress
Congress
Equally
Don't Know
Margin
Data for Progress (D)*
9/5 - 9/7
59%
34%

7%
R+25
Navigator (D)
9/4 - 9/8
45%
26%
21%
8%
R+19
Strength in Numbers/Verasight 9/15 - 9/19

34%
23%
34%
9%
R+11
Rasmussen (R)*
9/21 - 9/23
50%
38%

12%
R+12
YouGov*
9/25
37%
25%
26%
11%
R+12
Morning Consult
9/26 - 9/28
45%
32%

R+13
Average

45.0%
29.7%

R+15.3

*Asked separately as Congressional Republicans and President Trump

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 8d

They have all the juice of Jeb! 2016 here

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8d

President Trump was met by silence as he began his Quantico address, a contrast from the rousing applause he expects at his speeches.

“I’ve never walked into a room so silent before,” Trump said. “If you want to applaud, you applaud.” wapo.st/4gSqzmS

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 8d

Now THIS is why the disaffected everyman voted for him again- we need the big beautiful firm paper, they’re saying it more and more

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to generals: "We have beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper. I said, 'throw a little more gold on it, they deserve it. I want the A paper not the D paper.' We used to sign a piece of garbage ... I want to use the big beautiful firm paper."

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 9d

my sense of this term so far is that at any one time there 1-5 different people being president.

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 9d

Paging Jake Tapper and the rest of the Biden Senility league to run breathless, front page coverage analyzing if the president is out to lunch.

He’s reposting AI videos of himself that aren’t real!! He appears to be unaware of major, impending political crises!!

Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 9d

This is arguably the entire reason why the shutdown could happen and Trump is unaware of this. This speaks either to diminished mental capacity or utter isolation from reality. Seems like important news. Might even want to stick this above the fold!

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 9d

bro we are so cooked

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 9d

Like half convinced if a lackey framed it right you could get him to support universal healthcare etc “sir you could make America greater than ever before and support the beautiful farmers and workers with pristine MAHAcare and go down as the greatest of all time” or some shit

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 9d

This is coming through I a few places lately- like the Kotek call.

I am fascinated by the counterfactual of what if he didn’t have truly the worst people in the country in his ear? He’d still have his insane pet peeves and grievances and authoritarian instincts- but he dgaf abt 99% of policy!

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 9d

NYTimes: Schumer & Jeffries “laid out to the president some of the consequences of what’s happening in health care and by his face, he looked like he heard about them for the first time.”

This is why Trump’s handlers canceled the first meeting. They’re afraid Dems will convince him.

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Godzillionaire @godzillionaire.bsky.social · 9d

This is the TRUTH and they WON’T let you say it anymore!!!

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

resolved: sandwiches taste better when cut diagonally

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