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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 3h

You know what, I'm brave enough to say it: I won't either!

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 3h

I will never vote for John Travolta.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 5h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

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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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 4h

who knew, the neo-Nazi thinks the anti-fascists who fought the original Nazis are the bad guys.

Gee, I wonder what that means about the people whining about anti-fascists today 🤔

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 4h

Completely delusional. His brain is soup, he's showing the same paranoid thinking that my grandparents showed when they went through neurodegenerative diseases.

We need to impeach him, yes, but we also just need to take him out of office for his own well-being, he's deeply unwell.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

Dems can just clip the "we took the freedom of speech away" and make an ad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8h

Oh: @clairegiangrave.bsky.social with an exclusive:

Pope Leo, in addition to urging U.S. bishops to speak out about mistreatment of immigrants, also told a group of U.S. Latino Catholics who work w/immigrants their job is important — "perhaps especially" in the U.S. religionnews.com/2025/10/08/i...

In private audience Pope Leo XIV encourages Latino Catholics serving fearful U.S. immigrants

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘He treated us like dignitaries. He sent a message by having us there. He lifted us,’ said Elizabeth Román, president of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

religionnews.com

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 8h

Yes, it's better to be fired than to participate in a fascist invasion.

"Just following orders" is bullshit

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10h

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 10h

and people look at me weird when I say I don't want to spend time around horses

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 10h

This is not only amazingly racist but deeply anti-Christian. Fuck this shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10h

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 10h

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 11h

yeah

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 11h

10/8 - The Guns of El Chupacabra (Rifftrax riff)

boxd.it/biWuB3

This movie is impressively incoherent. Like, I *dare* someone to explain how events connect to one another.

#letterboxd #filmsky #spookyseason

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 11h

10/8 - The Guns of El Chupacabra (Rifftrax riff)

boxd.it/biWuB3

This movie is impressively incoherent. Like, I *dare* someone to explain how events connect to one another.

#letterboxd #filmsky #spookyseason

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 12h

This is what I'll never understand: why would any of these people say "yes" when asked to invade another state?

They are complicit in this regime's attacks on us. They could say "no", and didn't.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 21h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 12h

Like, you can always say "no" and not go. There's no obligation to follow Trump

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 13h

and they chose to participate in an invasion of another state.

They need to be held accountable with the rest of this regime

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23h

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

My guess is upwards of 90% of these ICE goons identify as Christian. I keep saying: these people hate their own God.

But I do love seeing this kind of activism from faith leaders.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 1d

yet another reason to say

fuck the Yankees!

CB ⚾️ Baseball Highlights @badgerbaseball.bsky.social · 1d

#Yankees fans booing the Canadian national anthem in Game 3 vs. the Toronto #BlueJays

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 1d

If I were still in Maine, I'd be *campaigning* for Platner.

Alas, I am one of those millennials who moved away