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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3h

What reactionary authoritarian types get wrong about libs is that we love and respect others presumptively but *not* unconditionally.

Pee Margaret Cho
https://youtu.be/MIMxA_do3Xg?si=izmFQGya6bxeuunh&t=2m43s

Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 6h

@heidilifeldman Is kotek's stand down order in force because she issued it between the tro and the stay?

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28d

https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-governor-cook-trump-firing-fe44e39c696a0954a06eb62ca6104881

In normal⁰ times I'd never suggest this kind of linkage, but maybe Senate Dems demand dropping appeals like this as part of funding government.

⁰ normally the president wouldn't directly be […]

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@volts.wtf

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15h

@w7voa This is like an LLM was asked to come up with a horrible and weird headline

Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@jaredwhite swear to God until I saw the alt text I thought you meant sunny

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@w7voa regular old DC police you say? Not some crack federal unit of something or other?

Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@kenwhite.bsky.social send pit-masters. We only have like 3 or 4 acceptable BBQs

(My keyboard tried to write "only 3 or 4 BBWs" 😯)

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@volts.wtf The players have known for a long time

https://youtu.be/BrOH-KHxXg0?si=yA3--3ZTp-YROg0e

Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@futurebird This one always cracks me up. It's probably good

A bag of trader Joe's pumpkin spiced pumpkin seeds.

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@radleybalko.bsky.social
This would make a decent recurring SNL sketch

"What black people think about, with Steven Miller"

Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@volts.wtf it cost way more than the advertised price but Medicare part D was under Bush,R Senate, and R House.

Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

A German bakery called Gluten Tag

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Considering that Congress always polls much lower than the President no matter the party alignment, this is a very poor result for the administration.
The question is whether they've erected enough barriers to popular rule to no longer care

CBS News yougov poll
How they're handling the government shutdown?
Approve, disapprove, not sure
Trump: 32% 52% 16%
Congressional Republicans: 28% 52% 20%
Congressional Democrats: 27% 49% 24%

Cbs News yougov poll
Blame the most for government shutdown
39% Trump and republicans in Congress
30% Democrats in Congress
31% both equally

Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115325041262101469

California NG restrained as well

Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Judge Immergut announces she is GRANTING the plaintiffs’ motion. She is conferring with the states’ attorneys as to whether she should modify her first TRO or give a 2nd order. 15/

Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@heidilifeldman Did the memo federalizing California troops reference "war ravaged Portland"? No? Then how does it meet any of the three prongs for activation to this theater?

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Hearing has begun.

Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

"Obviously no Juans, Joses, Joaquins, Janes, or Joannes. Julio could go either way but we're gonna nix them too. Just some nice Johns, Joes, and Jameseseses. Can we just get some good ol American Joes to stop the lefties from burning things down? Just some Joes , you know? I almost bought Joe's […]

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Each of the soldiers names will start with the letter J. "No so-called order said anything about the J-soldiers, that's what I call'em 'the J's' I have an absolute 2nd article right to send them anywhere I want. I could send 'em to the moon but I'm sending them to somewhere much,much worse that […]

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Next week: The Preznit is sending 6¼ National Guardsmen from each of the remaining 48 states to #portland #oregon in an effort semantically defy restraining orders

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I'm worried because a lot of Californians that come to #oregon never leave.

Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-oregon-california-trump-newsom-3b8e12f8d2d39f195dda73dda31f1681

Because if calling up the #oregon guard wasn't necessary because it didn't meet the two criteria the DOJ claimed, then surely the criteria on the ground meets the criteria insofar as using […]

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Flaming Cheeto @pizzademon.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social All the political kids in the 80s threw out the term crypto-fascist. No one is claiming it's hidden now
(Though the term may come back itself with a slightly different modern meaning)