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Remi🇩🇴 @remi106.bsky.social · 26d

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.

The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

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MTfromCC @mtfromcc.bsky.social · 27d

Excellent post. Violent extremists on the left complaint endlessly on this site (and other social media) about how the left has no power in the Democratic Party. The right complains about the left and so-called “ wokeness” from government podiums.

Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.

The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

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Bob Hosmer @bobhosmer.bsky.social · 27d

And the post of the day goes to …

Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.

The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 27d

This. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.

The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

The reason Republicans need violence is their ideas are weak. Tariffs are stupid, vaccines saves millions of lives, people deserve basic rights, pedophiles belong the fuck in jail.

But since their ideas are utter nonsense, they have to lean on violence and fomenting division.

It’s all they’ve got.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

Yep

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

It was invented to protect the pursuit of power of one man: a dim-witted child rapist who became a violent extremist simply because selling his dark vision of America was the only way his corrupt, soulless ass could stay out of jail.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

And the most pathetic part of all is that none of it is necessary. Violent crime is down. Everywhere. This is all INVENTED.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

So it’s clear what they want and it’s not peace. They want a justification for more violence. They want a bloody shirt they can point to and say, “See? THIS is why there are thugs in the streets in masks. THIS is why we must end the American experiment in democracy.”

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

But they’ve already given him (and we all know it’s a him not a her) an identity: the faceless embodiment of everything they hate and fear with a clearly coordinated messaging campaign to call him a Democrat.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO THE SHOOTER IS, yet they are ignoring the obvious tell-tale signs of a professional killer who clearly had a highly-trained military background, and the fact that these guys tend to be right wing nut jobs with an obscure axe to grind.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

The most sickening part of this whole ordeal is the excitement you see in Republicans, how quickly they moved past any respect for the dead, any reflection on the environment they helped foster, straight into who should be murdered next.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

I’m genuinely sad the man died. Not because I agreed with a word he said but because he was a misguided person who was himself caught up in the culture of violence.

He deserved to be shouted down for his backward ideas, not murdered.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

There are masked thugs running through the streets dragging people out of cars at gunpoint.

There was an attempted violent coup at the Capitol building brought on by the President himself.

Hell he threatened to invade an American city just FOUR DAYS AGO.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

Every single major Democratic politician condemned the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Meanwhile, before EVEN KNOWING WHO THE SHOOTER WAS, the Republican president gave a speech calling for VIOLENCE against Democrats.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 27d

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.

The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Aug 1

A little like when Trump wanted to just stop testing for Covid because there was too much Covid and so he wanted to just suppress the numbers.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jul 31

Just got an email asking me if I'd like to platform Jake Tapper on my podcast to help him sell another book. It took everything in me to respond with a polite fuck no. But what's fun is that corporate media folk know they can get more engagement on an independent podcast than they can on CNN.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Jul 20

Josh Johnson is the new comedy superstar, and his incredible skill is somehow crafting perfect longform, topical routines in a matter of days

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 20

Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago.

I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.

Give it a watch and share it.

Trump VS MAGA? The Epstein Crashout Explained

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

www.youtube.com

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S D Delaney @luckychild.bsky.social · Jul 6

Very well explained and worth the read. The whole thread

Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · Jul 5

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.

I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Jul 6

There were a lot of folks here insisting yesterday that weather service cuts had no impact on Texas flood deaths. There’s zero way you can draw conclusions like hours later. Important follow up here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

www.nytimes.com

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Polly Sigh @dcpoll.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thanks for posting this, @mikeljollett.bsky.social.

Friends, please read and share.

Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · Jul 5

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.

I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.

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Donna Schwartz Mills @socalmom.bsky.social · Jul 5

Every. Word. Is. True.

Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · Jul 5

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.

I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · Jul 5

Really important @mikeljollett.bsky.social thread that tells the AWFUL truth.

Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · Jul 5

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.

I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.

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gabbyH @gabbyh609.bsky.social · Jul 5

Worth your time, an indispensable read.

Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · Jul 5

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.

I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.

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