Pua Iki
@pua-iki.bsky.social
When a clown moves into the palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.
I live on a blue island in the middle of a blue ocean. Hoping to be safe from the current regime, but I'm sort of addicted to democracy.
I live on a blue island in the middle of a blue ocean. Hoping to be safe from the current regime, but I'm sort of addicted to democracy.
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Gobsmacking perfidy
December 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Gobsmacking perfidy
If you read nothing else today, read this.
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you read nothing else today, read this.
He's not wrong.
yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
He's not wrong.
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The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
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[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
December 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela?
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.
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I long ago quit admitting to anyone that I did my undergrad at Penn. What a cesspit. Except for Luigi.
I mean, the Penn student newspaper isn't wrong, but www.instagram.com/p/DSH1X4EDwP...
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I long ago quit admitting to anyone that I did my undergrad at Penn. What a cesspit. Except for Luigi.
This.
It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This.
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Stockholm Syndrome in real life. This is sad beyond sad.
Nancy Mace: "You can see in the Epstein emails that he's clearly targeting President Trump as retribution for him being a good man ... he's a good man who protects women. That's what real men do."
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Stockholm Syndrome in real life. This is sad beyond sad.
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/5 Ezra Kleinism would have me seek mutual values and agreement with the people who brought us to that, and who still support it. I would rather see them burn in Hell.
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
/5 Ezra Kleinism would have me seek mutual values and agreement with the people who brought us to that, and who still support it. I would rather see them burn in Hell.
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Kid3 is going to another city for a mock trial tournament with her college team this weekend. Just found out that the hotel they are using is housing an ICE team. She’s got her passport card, which establishes she’s a citizen (since adoption, by law). Hope that’s enough. Fuck ICE scum.
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Kid3 is going to another city for a mock trial tournament with her college team this weekend. Just found out that the hotel they are using is housing an ICE team. She’s got her passport card, which establishes she’s a citizen (since adoption, by law). Hope that’s enough. Fuck ICE scum.
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Press Briefing by Obama Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 2/01/2016
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October 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Press Briefing by Obama Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 2/01/2016
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-of...
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-of...
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Fort Myers Florida No Kings Protest.
World War II Vet.
Incredible!
World War II Vet.
Incredible!
October 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Fort Myers Florida No Kings Protest.
World War II Vet.
Incredible!
World War II Vet.
Incredible!
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October 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Standing room only on the Green Line in Washington, DC as protestors head to the “No Kings” protest.
Person behind me: “The trains weren’t even this packed for the Beyoncé concert”
The entire train is full as more people pack on. Follow this thread for updates!
Person behind me: “The trains weren’t even this packed for the Beyoncé concert”
The entire train is full as more people pack on. Follow this thread for updates!
October 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Standing room only on the Green Line in Washington, DC as protestors head to the “No Kings” protest.
Person behind me: “The trains weren’t even this packed for the Beyoncé concert”
The entire train is full as more people pack on. Follow this thread for updates!
Person behind me: “The trains weren’t even this packed for the Beyoncé concert”
The entire train is full as more people pack on. Follow this thread for updates!
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Here are the vitally important questions Congress must ask of Time magazine. (Full details in today's column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...)
October 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Here are the vitally important questions Congress must ask of Time magazine. (Full details in today's column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...)
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If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.
The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.
And that’s why we’re fighting back.
The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.
And that’s why we’re fighting back.
October 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.
The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.
And that’s why we’re fighting back.
The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.
And that’s why we’re fighting back.
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👇mood all day, every day.
October 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
👇mood all day, every day.
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Unbeknownst to most or long forgotten is that on October 8 and October 10, 2023; Hamas offered the same deal that’s being pitched as Trump’s “Gaza Peace Deal” which would have handed all hostages over to Israel in exchange for Israeli troops not entering the strip, Netanyahu refused the proposal.
October 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Unbeknownst to most or long forgotten is that on October 8 and October 10, 2023; Hamas offered the same deal that’s being pitched as Trump’s “Gaza Peace Deal” which would have handed all hostages over to Israel in exchange for Israeli troops not entering the strip, Netanyahu refused the proposal.
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Update: within hours of this post, the Daily Memphian printed Dan Conaway's article. They claimed he quit the newspaper (which he helped to found!) after they asked for "edits." Gimme a break. I spoke to Dan, and he's been cheered by your support. He's considering starting his own newsletter/blog.
Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.
Here’s the column they wouldn't run.
Please consider writing:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Stand with Dan.
Here’s the column they wouldn't run.
Please consider writing:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Stand with Dan.
October 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Update: within hours of this post, the Daily Memphian printed Dan Conaway's article. They claimed he quit the newspaper (which he helped to found!) after they asked for "edits." Gimme a break. I spoke to Dan, and he's been cheered by your support. He's considering starting his own newsletter/blog.
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Stop grading Republicans on a curve. There are no Republican heroes in the fight for democracy. Staying grounded in the truth is essential — our democracy depends on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDs3...
There Are No "Good" Republicans
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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October 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Stop grading Republicans on a curve. There are no Republican heroes in the fight for democracy. Staying grounded in the truth is essential — our democracy depends on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDs3...