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Abby Normal

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about the @lindsayellis.bsky.social video where she noted how white nationalists co-opted American history X and all these other “strong” critiques but can’t handle “Springtime for Hitler” because of how ridiculous it makes them look

Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

Portland never stops being Portland.

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1h

It doesn’t help that one side is completely delulu about the optics of the shutdown, where they claim they holding three branches of government are just smol beans as they invade American cities

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1h

I gotta say, the fact that people are banking on the military pay issue to break this seems to be a fundamental misread

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 12h

Every day I want to text my mother and ask her why she voted to have her grandchildren grow up in a worse world

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: As Linda McMahon guts the Dept. of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how future kids will learn -- seeking to dismantle the public school system in favor of private and Christian schools or homeschooling.

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...

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 12h

The doctor also makes that because med school is $500-700k to attend

Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 21h

The doctor makes $200k a year because they charge thousands of dollars more for a procedure than they should. The health insurance CEO doesn’t want to pay it and tries to dump it on you. You fight with the health insurance over *who* pays the high cost and not *why* the cost is high.

Coonbaya My Lord @powdercuff.bsky.social · 22h

The doctor making 200k a year is not your enemy. The health insurance CEO making millions per year is. Let’s focus up.

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 19h

“Restoring trust” meaning “repeat federalist society talking points.”

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 19h

I realize now I grew up in a world in the 90s, 00’s, and early 10’s that will be fundamentally different than the world my children will know

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

the wave of weaponized nostalgia for 90s-style multiculturalism and political correctness is gonna hit different

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

I've been banging this drum for the past four months or so: DOGE and Russ Vought broke the appropriations process. What's the point of going through the arduous process of crafting 12 spending bills, clearing them through committee and getting them through two chambers if Trump does rescissions?

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 23h

"No no, I meant a government so small that all it does is drown women in bathtubs."

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23h

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

The military has always driven social change: see one Lt Robinson and his acquittal for the same offense 12 years before Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 1d

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

Chris Caldwell (right-wing hack) argues that with Heg's speech "the Trump administration would no longer use the military’s structures to drive social change," arguing that "Institutions like the military have only a limited capacity to take on responsibilities/

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

I have a sneaking suspicion that the government has not shut down actually or that there has been direction to “activate” certain things outside the public view to blunt the pressure.

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

People don’t seem to understand: we’ve already missed it. DFAS needed the government to reopen or the military pay bill to pass by the 7th. That isn’t happening.

Lindsay @alatriyana.bsky.social · 1d

I see *several* food banks and drives for military-related folks all the time. There are constant questions about how to get WIC and SNAP in spouse groups.

If we get to the 12th with no confirmation of military pay, it will not be good.

Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 1d

“Trump tells sailors not to ‘worry about’ paychecks as shutdown continues”

There isn’t a failsafe for military pay this time

1 in 3 “military families has less than $3,000 in savings,
[and]… nearly 1 in 4 service members has trouble putting food on the table.”

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

I’m stewing that none of them have had the guts to go public with this. Did we learn nothing from the torture memos.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d

"At the Pentagon, some military lawyers, including international law experts within DoD’s Office of General Counsel, have raised concerns about the legality of the lethal strikes on suspected drug traffickers....

Multiple current and former JAGs ... told CNN that the strikes do not appear lawful."

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking cowards

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 2d

John Roberts is very lucky that the bar for worst Supreme Court chief Justice is very high

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 2d

“Negative consequence follows” I mean I don’t know how else to take that but as a death threat

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 2d

jay posts this first thing, he quotes this with the second thing which has that alt text, his appeals

nice and tidy

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 2d

SCOTUS about to enter an administrative stay for four months and let the NG do whatever in the meantime

Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 2d

The Kilmar Abrego Garcia special where everything is now pretextual because they’re just that mad

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 2d

this is Article III-ese for "and the horse you rode in on"

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

DOJ: I would just reiterate request for stay pending appeal and admin stay and note request in order.

Judge: I am denying both requests for stays.

[HEARING ENDS]

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 2d

Here I can translate for the judge: “Get Fucked”

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d

Immergut is denying DOJ's motion for stay and for administrative stay.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 2d

DOJ lawyer rn

a scene from the movie the lego movie with the words business business business numbers written on the bottom

Alt: a scene from the movie the lego movie with the words business business business numbers written on the bottom

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Ordinary Rendition @renderjudgment.bsky.social · 2d

This is an exchange that would have me fearing for my license.

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2d

Immergut asks Hamilton if he believes that sending the California National Guard to Oregon is an appropriate way to respond to her order.

Hamilton: "I'm not a policy-maker."

Immergut: "You're a lawyer."

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 2d

Protip, when the judge says "you are missing the point" you done fucked up boy

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Abby Normal @rememberingmachine.bsky.social · 2d

As I said, y’all want to see a dead body?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Immergut almost immediately interjects: How is that not violation of my order...you are officer of court, how is that not circumventing? My order was based on conditions in Portland...