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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 1d

as ever, this man is the greatest warrior America has ever ever produced, we're always relearning that war is won by egg heads who can keep track of massive movements of men and arms over vast spaces.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 4h

Surpassing even Bernie Sanders’s own latent nativism, I do not believe there is a darker stain on 21st century progressive politics than this racist ogre or the people who supported him because he refused to dress appropriately for his station

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 4h

Someday when the country is done we’ll wish we’d told him “no”

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 7h

“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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Just Barely Barning On @hughdelendaest.bsky.social · 8h

There are people in this admin who should not make it to trial

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 10h

For a normal person, acts less than this would revoke their security clearance.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 9h

Dread it. Run from it. Destiny still arrives.

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 10h

i hope every single “free speech absolutist” who voted for trump in 2024 has their morning phone alarm permanently set to him saying “we took the freedom of speech away”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 11h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Aug 14

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

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National Atropian People’s Army Air Force @napaafofficial.bsky.social · 14h

Only consolation is that, being on twitter, there’s a good chance that a lot of them are bots

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 14h

Hate speech rules are dangerous precisely because the powerful will insist on classifying criticism of them as 'hate speech'.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 14h

I think it was a mistake to not clutch pearls about the rampaging mob on January 6. They all should have ended up floating down the Potomac.

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 16h

i expressly did not clutch my pearls about the rampaging mob on september 6, and thought it was mostly goofy. i did believe the people at fault were the officials riling these people up and putting them in legal and physical danger. i agree now they absolutely should have hammered trump

Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

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National Atropian People’s Army Air Force @napaafofficial.bsky.social · 14h

No matter how much you hate MAGA, you don’t hate it enough

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe it's because I'm a parent, but avoidable harm to kids really gets to me. My kids can be difficult when they don't get an afternoon snack at the usual time. I'm sure various parents and teachers can say the same. Watching a kid starve to death? And the US govt did it on purpose?
Unconscionable.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 16h

This is fundamentally the root of Jewish commitment to liberalism, and why the people who want to throw that out to protect an ethnostate are selling our birthright for a bowl of shitty porridge.

Fourth Crown War FPV Drone Operator 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 19h

It is not possible to guarantee safety for a minority group except through a multicultural society. This is a basic fact of hard reality. Wise up, Steve.

Stephen Daisley @stephendaisley.bsky.social · 1d

The Manchester synagogue attack is a story of mass immigration and multiculturalism. We must bring an end to both.

My latest for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/immi...

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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 15h

New ICE belt buckles

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 16h

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

How could any Hispanic American ever feel safe when there’s videos like this circulating? It’s immensely clear that if you appear in public, you might be snatched and zip-tied in a Kavanaugh abduction, no matter what your immigration status is, or even if you’re a citizen.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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National Atropian People’s Army Air Force @napaafofficial.bsky.social · 14h

COIN dorks will do anything other than promoting economic buy-in to their regime, for whatever reason

Miller’s domestic tyranny is just JSOCslop Operation Phoenix style bullshit that’s all stick no carrot

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National Atropian People’s Army Air Force @napaafofficial.bsky.social · 14h

You’ll stop feeling it eventually, need like a month off to lose the tolerance