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Gracie Flora @gracieflora.bsky.social · 17h

Saw that, and had to mute them. I just can't.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21h

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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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

Do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

buying land around his golf course so I can put up billboards that say “YOU ARE GOING TO HELL” with a lenticular grim reaper whose gaze follows him as he moves

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Gracie Flora @gracieflora.bsky.social · 2d

He thinks his lies will also work on God. 🫠

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Gracie Flora @gracieflora.bsky.social · 2d

The govt defunded you. And yet, your strategy is *not* to try and gain trust with an audience that is begging for actual news.

FFS. We'd *donate* if you did. What is wrong with you?

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 3d

I keep seeing people dooming with "they're not acting like people who ever think they'll be out of power" and I keep thinking maybe, but they're also acting like they're terrified of what will happen to them when they do lose power.

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Gracie Flora @gracieflora.bsky.social · 4d

Is it that lingering cough that (seemingly) everyone in SF had the spring of '24? Took me 2 months for it to pass. Misery.

www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

'Extremely annoying': The persistent cough taking over the Bay Area

It was the cough that wouldn't quit.

www.sfgate.com

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Gracie Flora @gracieflora.bsky.social · 5d

ceo of bsky

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 6d

Listen up bsky.app/profile/cole...

slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 17d

shit ain’t over til it’s over

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Gracie Flora @gracieflora.bsky.social · 6d

You've made me want President Newsom out of spite.

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Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · 7d

Great Read!

From the Jim Crow South to the 2023 Polish victory over autocratic rule, history teaches and inspires.

Authoritarians are not invincible. When countered by a sustained, unified, HOPEFUL opposition, autocratic movements CAN be defeated!

🎁 Article

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone else? Not at all. The long and short of this is that democrats should -always- pick shut down fights, because they'll always win them in the public opinion sphere.

Republicans are the party of anti-governance, democrats are the technocrats, they literally can't lose here.

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 7d

the republican party's secret weapon is that normal people don't believe you if you describe them accurately

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 8d

In general, if you're running for statewide office, voting is underway, and the election's in just a few weeks, this doesn't seem like the kind of headline you want to see. LOL bluevirginia.us/2025/09/2025... h/t @PollTracker2024

Politics & Poll Tracker referencing this story (https://americanjournalnews.com/tumblr-linked-to-republican-john-reid-engaged-with-nazi-porn-accounts/): "A pornographic blog linked to Virginia lieutenant governor candidate John Reid shared content from accounts that fetishized Nazism and sexual violence.”

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JRoth @jmroth.bsky.social · 7d

I think this manifests many different ways though, including doomerism*—people who want the war already lost, so that they don't have to take responsibility for fighting to win.

There's a reason freedom fighters have always been rare.

*whether about Trump or climate change or minority rights or

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9d

"Dems will get blamed for a shutdown" as opposed to what, all the friendly coverage and positive credit they'd get for caving yet again? This whole premise is built on a delusion about what the alternative is. There's no cowering in the corner and being so inoffensive they won't still attack you.

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · Jan 16

"Selling Out Is Bad" is a valuable concept and despite all the baggage and bullshit and elitism it could contain it's actually really good to reinforce the ideal that having integrity when it matters, especially when it hurts, is what good/cool people do. Should be adapted instead of jettisoned.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 8d

not for nothing but this is basically a complete rerun of the record-length shutdown in trump 1, where he threw a tantrum about funding for the wall and ate complete shit about it in the end

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 8d

look, the president taking responsibility personally for cutting popular universal entitlements in a very public way which will almost certainly get blocked in court is pretty much the optimal option for democrats right now? just let him do it

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 10d

People often note that the second Trump administration is pure chaos and infer that this is a deliberate strategy.

Some of it is, however, most of the chaos is directly caused by the fact that no one in power has any idea how to govern.

They are inexperienced, unqualified, and unintelligent.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 13d

The full might of Sinclair's *kulturkampf* couldn't withstand wine moms being angry for a single week. These people are weak and fragile and we can and will win.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 13d

i firmly CONTINUE TO BELIEVE we can fight this shit but we will only be able to fight this shit by NOT GIVING IN to dooming, because all dooming does is make you passive. it makes you give up.

that is what these fascists WANT. they want you scared and dooming cuz then you dont do anything.

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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 14d

"votied for the dick kicker and not gonna lie, just feels like i'm being kicked in the dick a lot these days"

-tim, 34 years old, independent from ohio

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ceej @ceej.online · 14d

everybody hates these guys, their ideas are stupid, and you do not have to fall into the trap of assuming trump’s win says anything meaningful about what americans actually want. for instance, americans actually don’t want to ban vaccines. they want this guy banished to a desert island

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14d

gotta remember that no one likes this shit

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Gracie Flora @gracieflora.bsky.social · 14d

I read that same article--and reacted in exactly the same way. I hadn't thought through exactly what disgusted me so much. Thanks for helping me clarify it.

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Gracie Flora @gracieflora.bsky.social · 15d

The day after the Kirk event, I overheard a conversation from my deeply religious neighbors.

They believe 10 million people saw that event, were "witnessed to," and that it proves we're seeing a sea change in this "Christian nation."

They said the Kimmel thing was overreach.