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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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grumpnet @grumpnet.bsky.social · 3h

Performative resistance, apparently 🙄

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4h

Someone reskeets my Blackademics starter pack with a "Welcome to the resistance!" gif. When I replied below, the same person blocked me. I guess "the resistance" isn't prepared for gentle pushback or constructive criticism. Anyway...

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 7h

Please don't do that. Reposting is most appreciated, but many of the scholars in the starter pack have extensive critiques of what you describe as "the resistance." We are all in agreement that 45/47 is terrible, but don't reduce our thinking to a slogan that obscures as much as it clarifies.

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sobroquet @sobroquet.bsky.social · 5h

"We fought a Revolutionary War not to have kings, a Civil War not to have slavery, and a World War not to have fascism."
-Joel P. Friedman

ANTIFA

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G @monkeyes2.bsky.social · 15h

Shooting at a Presbyterian minister is definitely how you show the strength and righteousness of your cause. Yep. Keep it up. You are definitely winning. 🙄🤬

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ACLU @aclu.org · 4h

President Trump has relentlessly come after media companies, journalists, and even entertainers for publicly opposing him.

Congress must defend the First Amendment and protect our free press.

Congress: Protect Our Free Press

The Broadcast Freedom and Independence Act is our chance to rein in the FCC's out-of-control attacks on our free press. Congress must act now to pass this bill.

action.aclu.org

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 4h

Thou shalt not make AI videos of dead people saying what you want. You wouldn’t dig them up and use their skull as a puppet, would you?

The people doing these things must be shamed into oblivion.

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grumpnet @grumpnet.bsky.social · 3h

Unfocused energy. Rookie mistake. Runs right into the trap. Watch and learn.

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Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.social · 14h

9/? FOR THE ONE-TRILLIONTH TIME: BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT IN THE STREETS BECAUSE THEY WANT US THERE TO INSTITUTE MARTIAL LAW AND CANCEL NEXT YEAR'S ELECTIONS. BLACK BODIES IN THE STREETS WILL GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEED. WE ARE DOING OTHER THINGS!!!

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Ebony Noor! I love garden season! ✊🏿 @darlingebony.bsky.social · 14h

4/? And this is why I don't want to be included in PoC. You jokers are dangerous to us because you are impulsive and not strategic. You do not have the same 400 year history on this land that we do. All of you have a closer proximity to whiteness than we do. And that makes you dangerous af to us.

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Amy Ayers @amyayers.bsky.social · 4h

Whew that's a relief 🥰

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 7h

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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grumpnet @grumpnet.bsky.social · 5h

👀

a black and white photo of a grandfather clock with the words tick-tock below it

ALT: a black and white photo of a grandfather clock with the words tick-tock below it

media.tenor.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h

If you wanna know why Miller and Vought and Vance are speedrunning the playbook it's because they know when he goes they no longer have the juice to finish the plan. No one is gonna listen to them and there will be a power vacuum.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

ICYMI — bumbling ICE stooges finally chased off by Chicago folks after a humiliating attempt to grab a man they racially profiled

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

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🎃🚨S.O.S.🚨SEE PINNED🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 7h

if I'm not mistaken ice is quietly appearing at schools here in detroit. i heard they were at marygrove hs today.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6h

This was never about deporting criminals. It’s about Stephen Miller’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Tweet from Alex Tabarrok reads:
“Sergio Garcia, celebrated Chef who came to the US before ICE even existed. Deported after 36 years.
The picture tells you a lot about the decline of the Republican party.”
Attached photo shows Sergio Garcia standing with Laura and George W. Bush outdoors. The photo is signed: “To Sergio Garcia, With best wishes – George & Laura Bush.”

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grumpnet @grumpnet.bsky.social · 7h

Don’t mess with Texas ✊🏽

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

"I'd love to do something about that" -- Trump floats the idea of stopping a planned protest in Austin

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

Yeah and it’s pretty revealing the sweet talk he broke out for the cops to great effect was essentially telling them they’d be able to beat the shit out of people.

Noreen Folan Essenberg @noreen900.bsky.social · 7h

Just like he did with the farmers. Sweet talked them and they fell for it. At least most of them did.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 9h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 10h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 8h

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 8h

CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out

Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread

Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

2025 (January estimate, adjusted to fix issues) 2025 CBO estimate (remove student loan one-time revaluation) 2025 (adjusted for student loans) vs. 2025 projection (adjusted to fix issues)
Spending 7061 7166 105
Program spending 6108 6205 97
Interest 953 961 9
Revenue 5163 5226 63
Primary deficit 945 979 34
Total deficit 1898 1940 42

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 10h

Americans are being far too complacent about masked government agents in unmarked vehicles grabbing people and taking them to unknown destinations.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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grumpnet @grumpnet.bsky.social · 7h

Downtown CRW #graffiti

Chalk graffiti on panel of exterior restaurant wall reads, “Trump has a diaper fetish.”

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 7h

Updated the Blackademics starter pack again (!) to include Vincent Brown, Imani Perry, the Harare Review of Books and others. Stay tuned for more developments coming soon....

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