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jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 2h

We now have a law enforcement agency that believes it is accountable to no one and can randomly use excessive force.

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jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 6h

There is no bigger gasbag in sports punditry than Cowherd. His little sidekick is even more annoying.

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jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 11h

A new study out of Stanford says that out of every $100 raised by the Democrat digital fundraising texts we have all been inundated with, only $2 goes to candidates. If you already suspected these were a grift, you were right.

jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 12h

@radiofreetom.bsky.social
The unqualified and incompetent nature of this administration from top to bottom is actually breathtaking

jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 13h

These people, all of them, Musk, Andreessen, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Altman, et al, are evil

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 13h

Yes

jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 13h

Milwaukee is an underrated city, sir.

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Clue Heywood @clueheywood.bsky.social · 1d

Been dooming and glooming about Trump and MAGA for 10+ years now but I genuinely feel like the next few weeks are shaping up to be the most dangerous and consequential of my lifetime, and I’m pretty fuckin old

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jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 22h

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 2d

Do you really think I’m only going to make one of these? Thanks in advance for the extra lbs.

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jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 2d

This would be a scandal at a real news outlet

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 2d

You’re such a scamp

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 2d

For all of the (manufactured) passion about the quality of labor statistics, Trump administration has left the BLS leaderless for months, is no closer to a replacement, and has left many of the leadership posts within the organization empty. And no-one is allowed to come to work right now, either.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Please note: protesters, clergy and a neighbor are also on this suit/also making claims here (it's a lot of reporters, but not only reporters!)

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 3d

Not one red state would even consider this

jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 3d

Yarvin is Ivy League Catturd

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 3d

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

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jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 3d

Not at all surprising, though. Enlisted men are by definition inclined to be hyper bought into jingoistic flag waving by manipulative politicians. And now we have a President willing to weaponize that tendency.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 3d

It’s pretty emblematic of today’s US Army, if you didn’t go to jump school, Ranger school, or some kind of SOF course, people question whether you were really “in” the Army at all, thus a whole bunch of officers who could be helpful self select out

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

usual rates of death and wounding, and so erode more quickly than the
general mass of the force.7
This selection-destruction cycle means that a force with too high a proportion of elites—an army with too many special forces units, a navy that
diverts too many of its most aggressive junior commanders into the submarine arm, or an air force (like that of imperial Japan) with aircrew standards
that prove unsustainable over a long war—can actually damage its adaptive potential. Such a force experiences a brain drain, where individuals
who would have been leaders in regular units (and would likely have
survived to spread their knowledge to others) are instead segregated into
subgroups where, even if they survive, their talents are lost to the wider
force. Meanwhile, major combat formations can cease to be much more
than feeders for specialized units, providing the recruiting base for elite
forces that increasingly usurp normal combat roles, exacerbating both the
brain drain and the selection-destruction cycle that Beaumont describes.

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