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My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 4h

"I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of civil rights." That's how you sound, man. Being willing to torch an entire populace because you personally don't care about them makes you into the people you call an enemy.

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Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 5h

I want to again mention that The Troubles saw SEVENTEEN people forcibly disappeared. In March, 14x that number were sent to CECOT alone. That was one instance. ICE is likely doing many times the 17 number daily. The North of Ireland is STILL dealing with this. This is year 1 of Trump 2.0.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

(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.

Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 5h

This is what culture war brain does to a motherfucker. Dumbest shit in the god damned world to get pissy about.

Mark Lynas @marklynas.bsky.social · 9h

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane!
www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

www.euroveg.eu

Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 5h

Wendy Carlos supremacyyyyyyyyyyyy

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Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 5h

This is the plot of the next Metal Gear Solid game

onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

🚨 taylor swift announces she is starting a vassal state

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Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 6h

Nestled in a playlist between rockin' in the free world and born in the USA

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Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 6h

*tears streaming down my cheeks* "I'm proud to be an American where at least I know Gwar is free"

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Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 6h

I really think the only way out of this in any meaningful way is to entirely reconfigure the government. This entire crisis and hostile takeover by a sentient business fueled by racism showed that America only ran on norms, nothing more.

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Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 6h

This is the moment. This is the exact moment when we started on this path. Showing that a pardon will come from anyone feckless enough to "do it for the good of America" or that you just need to pay enough to whitewash the legacy of a war criminal to get a get out jail free card wrote the epitaph.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 6h

See I disagree on this point lol

During McCarthyism we held many powerful people 'accountable'

FDR threw millionaires in prison for hoarding gold.

The thing that broke the dam was Nixon, showing you can be too big to fail.

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Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 6h

I don't say this to undersell the evil and cruelty. Literal fascism is here. But so much of the response has been compliance in advance and capitulation. The seas parted for them instead of there being any opposition. Corporatism and kleptocracy will kill everyone.

Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 6h

THE ENTIRE MOMENT could just be Democrats saying "fuck you make me" and these shitbags would flounder. They project as much strength as they can and they still look like a toddler melting down over being told no.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

JB Pritzker's forceful, defiant response to Trump's threat to jail him confirms the points I tried to make in the piece and thread below about the role of conflict and attention in the public battle over Trump's authoritarian takeover:

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Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 6h

I understand 1 monthly listener, Lee isn't dead yet. But what the fuck are the other 446,999 doing with their lives that they need to listen to God Bless America at least once a month? I can't understand this.

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Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 6h

How can one not look at this photo of themselves and not realize how fucking stupid you look. Like the most juiceless dork imaginable.

Aric and The Man Who Shot Cane Skeeteburg @hatkidsays.bsky.social · 6h

I want to see it again so badly. I want to leave work and just go see it but there's no times early enough to get away with it

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