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Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️

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Cynic watching the world burn with popcorn and whisky. Living sci-fi is always going to be worse than reading it.

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Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · Jan 19

To note very bluntly my view of the next span of years, I will quote Neville Chamberlain: "It is the evil things we fight against, brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression, and persecution and against them I am confident the right will prevail."

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13h

Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
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Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 10h

And of course to belabor the obvious, given MAGA wants to copyright its bastardized personality cult as Christianity, the pastor that got pepper sprayed is also Christian and is closer to what it should be than MAGA.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 1d

If your reaction to Chuck doing exactly what you said want him to do is to dunk on Chuck then just admit you're more interested in attacking Democrats than Fascists and become a Republican already.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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az @azery.bsky.social · 14h

syrian refugee crisis + eurocrisis broke everyone's brains and that was tiny relative to what's going to happen with climate change lol

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 14h

Whole fucking continent is all-in on native ethnostatic herrenvolkism at this point and has been for a decade (real ones remember the shrieking to send death squads door-to-door through Molenbeek) while Americans are fighting our immigration cops in the streets

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 14h

Listening to even liberal Europeans talk about immigration is enough to make even the most accommodationist Democrat go pale

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 18h

MAKE IT STOP

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10h

It is good that they name the relevant party explicitly; it would be better if they noted that it wasn’t just the GOP refusing to bar Trump from doing this, as though he has the presumed right to do so, it was the GOP senate refusing to assert/defend its own proper oversight role in the process.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 11h

Actually naming the relevant party rather than just saying “the Senate”? Is our Sulzbergers learning?

Trump's War Powers
Republican senators blocked an effort to bar President Trump from using military force against boats in the Caribbean Sea.

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Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 11h

Which is why they're both vastly dangerous on the one hand and why their 'accomplishments' are smoke and mirrors and built on a foundation of cotton candy.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 23h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly, good for Hakeem Jeffries.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

house republicans are getting extremely outplayed here, lmao

House Dems prep letter to Johnson urging vote on troop pay bill

Republicans are struggling with whether to move on a bill that would lessen the pain of the shutdown they think Democrats caused.

www.politico.com

Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 11h

Live footage of Stephen Miller:

a group of men are standing in a dark room with their faces painted white .

Alt: a group of men are standing in a dark room with their faces painted white .

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Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, he is evil, he is dangerous, he thirsts to bathe in the blood of his enemies, and he's a dumbfuck that looks like the Gentlemen from Buffy with human makeup and who screams 'insurrection' every time he stubs his toe.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 11h

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 23h

I will add: this is not a reason for nihilism. Trump is unpopular and weak. But we can literally see where he is unpopular and weak: it’s above all on issues like the economy, inflation, and healthcare. This is the territory Dems should fight on because it’s the territory they are going to *win* on

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry but if there is one single US political proposition that we have tested to destruction in recent years, it’s the idea that a critical mass of swing voters see democracy vs authoritarianism as a crucial and salient issue in judging Trump. They simply do not! I don’t like it either

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Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 11h

This is how Netanyahu became Jewish Idi Amin, if anyone's wondering.

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 15h

"two party system bad" is a brainworm that, if left untreated, will eventually metastasize into making you think a 37 party system, where 33 of them are some flavor of fascist, is still better because it's More Representation.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

If this sounds alarmist, it's because the facts are alarming. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11h

“Mr. Maduro has continued to accept deportation flights from the United States despite the rising hostility from the Trump administration.”

If U.S. directly attacks Venezuela, I expect cooperation on deportation halts.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Qatar Pushes U.S.-Venezuela Diplomacy as Trump Focuses on Military Action

www.nytimes.com

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Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 11h

a black background with the words flawless victory written on it

Alt: a black background with the words flawless victory written on it

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Wallet Inspector MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 11h

Fetterman would be at the top of my list for the Dems and Clay Higgins for the Republicans.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Nationwide protests against Trump and the rise of fascism are taking place on Saturday, Oct. 18.

You can find a local protest here:

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 15h

The clearest thing that democracy has going for it, per the political science literature, is that it's really good at preventing famines

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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