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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Meyrink1923 @meyrink1923.bsky.social · 4h

Lmao

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 6h

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio,

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

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

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Front Row Seat 🇺🇦 @frontrowseat.bsky.social · 8h

Had enough?

Join the movement

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Meyrink1923 @meyrink1923.bsky.social · 6h

Grifters like Paxton must deflect from their notorious criming. We know how this works: release the Epstein files now!

Meyrink1923 @meyrink1923.bsky.social · 6h

Kristi’s Kosplay konvinces nobody, certainly not her dog

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

Two prosecutors who are new to the case—Tyler Lemons and Gabriel Diaz—appeared in court alongside Lindsey Halligan.

Comey’s family attended the hearing—including his daughter, Maurene Comey, who was abruptly fired from her job as a federal prosecutor earlier this year.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 6h

These guys all fail the Stringer Bell Rule.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14h

Folks, the oath of enlisted people and officers are two different oaths. The officer's oath does not include the stuff about the president.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · 14h

Again, the oath has mentioned obeying orders of the President since 1789. Here it is as established by Congress in 1962, in Public Law 87-751 (codified then in 10 USC 501, codified after 1968 in 10 USC 502):

Public Law 87-751
October 5, 1962
AN ACT
(H. R. 218]
To provide that individuals enlisted into the Armed Forces of the United States shall take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Armed Forces.
Enlistment oath.
70A Stat. 17.
National Guard.
70A Stat. 602.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 501 of title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows:
"$ 501. Enlistment oath: who may administer
"Each person enlisting in an armed force shall take the following oath:
-→ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, accorang to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

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Meyrink1923 @meyrink1923.bsky.social · 6h

Sick fuck sadists. The hunger for justice is rising up.

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 7h

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

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Meyrink1923 @meyrink1923.bsky.social · 6h

Kosplay Kristi Kills

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Stefan 🥼 @stefank1117.bsky.social · 9h

Brief reminder:

Fascism
Far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology & movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, subordination of individual interests.

So how is that not Trump?
Why shouldn’t we use it?

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21h

Canklesaurus Rex Speaking To
The Generals About Being In Great
Shape,To Fight Other Americans....

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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 16h

The perfect Christmas gift…

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 7h

It should be universally recognized by every American-on all sides of the political spectrum-that no president can take away freedom of speech

After all, it’s the bedrock of our democratic system

But-sadly-with the corrupt MAGA Supreme Court

It sure feels like our rights are no longer guaranteed

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Meyrink1923 @meyrink1923.bsky.social · 6h

Rise up and put that smug pipsqueak in the hoosgow

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Inglourious Badgers Coalition @fh-mycolgy.bsky.social · 6h

Stephen Miller made the slip on CNN. He started bragging how they have plenary authority and then sharted on TV. What’s in our favor is we have complete morons executing a fascist takeover. Time to rise up folks, no more taking the back seat until midterms.

www.huffpost.com/entry/stephe...

Yes, Stephen Miller Said Trump Had 'Plenary Authority' In A CNN Interview

A bizarre moment during a cable news interview saw one of the president's closest advisers make a wild assertion.

www.huffpost.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 7h

Some cases take on outsized importance, with issues that transcend the decision the parties ask the courts to make. This is one of those cases. The stakes are high: the integrity of the Justice Department and the ability of a president to corrupt the rule of law. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution

This morning at 10 a.m., former FBI Director Jim Comey was arraigned in federal court.

open.substack.com

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 18h

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Tim Edwards @timzero4.bsky.social · 15h

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