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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 16m

Precedent is for the little people.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 26m

I just… jfc why don't these companies and politicians listen?

👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 42m

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 39m

Relatedly, this @brianbeutler.bsky.social idea of the "median experience of tyranny" is a good way to say that while majorities oppose the lawbreaking/abuses of power, Miller is banking on the middle lacking deep conviction about all of it (as I suggest)

www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 12h

“What if we let the cult of the operator run defense policy?”

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 13h

Pete is out here playing Operator. We do not have a SECDEF.

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine someone at a Pride festival hauled off and hit a crazy street preacher in the face with a sock full of quarters. They’d almost certainly be arrested and charged.

What you’re witnessing is literally aggravated assault. And not one of those “agents” will ever face consequences for it.

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 3h

Like, imagine if there were police standing in the street, doing perfectly legal activities, and you shot one of them in the face with a hard plastic ball full of pepper powder.

You and everyone around you would be instantly riddled with bullets.

But they’re allowed to do just… do that shit.

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 3h

This is the logical extension of the attitude we’ve had in this country for a long time, which is: “Cops are just allowed to do things that would get anyone else arrested for assault, and to do them without reason.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1h

The Plot to Enslave America

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1h

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

Pritzker/Newsom see it as a defining fact of the moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily and using it to subjugate Blue America like an enemy nation within. Other Dems should stop the Beltway-speak about Trump laying "traps" for them and engage.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 1h

1000% aping the Mamdani style thinking that's why people listen to him.

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Scare Blair @blairloudly.bsky.social · 10h

everything is a joke but nothing is funny anymore

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 2h

I used to believe that anything connecting Trump to Epstein was just embarrassing, not outright incriminating. But when the Attorney General refuses to answer the question "does the FBI have pictures of the President with naked girls" and the Speaker won't swear in a new member to avoid a vote...

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Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, we're well into "will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest" territory now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 2h

Trump & Musk deserve their rightful place among the greatest causes of human misery, suffering, and death. The word for this is evil, and it must be defeated.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 2h

This should have been the Democratic stance from day one. This president is an illegitimate treasonous insurrectionist constitutionally ineligible to serve and undeserving of any respect or assistance.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 2h

Called it.

Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 2h

Trump needs to be removed from office.

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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 2h

Trump needs to be removed from office.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14h

What we’re seeing now is not people “[beginning] to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army”—the federal agents are becoming an occupying army, and the violence is theirs. The violence is already here.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 14h

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 3h

There was a brief window where conservatives were happy that Leo replaced Francis because Leo wears more traditional Papal regalia and they thought that meant a return to more "traditional" conservatism, but LOL Francis was never 1% this directly engaged against schismatic American tradcaths.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 6h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 2h

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Are we going to talk about Trump’s dementia now? Or is Jake Tapper still going to pretend his text interview with Stephen Miller was really with Trump?

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

In a scathing critique of President Donald Trump, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based...

www.yahoo.com

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 2h

Fascinating to ponder how little effort US politicians need to put into actually persuading people to change their votes, if they can just routinely engineer situations where votes against them don't count.

David Sacerdote @davidsacerdote.bsky.social · 14h

A decade after it was written, I find myself pulling out the @cingraham.bsky.social's gerrymandering explanation to help people understand why California’s Prop. 50 is so important to pass.

wapo.st/3WfcjeB

This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see

By simplifying gerrymandering we see how problematic it really is.

wapo.st

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Mr. Bea Arthur, Dead Inside™️ @steamymac.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve yet to hear anyone say, “You know what would make things better? More billionaires.”

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