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serenakyle.bsky.social
@serenakyle.bsky.social
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Retired teacher of humanities who is always searching for the “human”part. 💙 crew🧢. Mom of 🏳️‍🌈 hero, Mimi of an IVF miracle, Aunt of 🏳️‍⚧️ nieces! Proud of all and shall fight to the death for their rights.
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serenakyle.bsky.social @serenakyle.bsky.social · Jan 19
Pinned for predictive sake (and hoping my sleepless nights are for naught). Hoping but not believing.
Andrew Coyne, a highly respected Canadian columnist with the Globe and Mail, pulls no punches on the incoming US administration: "Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies. The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please. There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do - to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world - is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero. The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe - the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry - before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions. At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional - the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be ... atmospheric. At some point someone - a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin — will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest. It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there. The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect - that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful. Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fueled by his ill-judged tax policies - he won't replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes - and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation. Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants - finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so - will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late. We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change? Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing "tough things" to "restore order?" Some won't, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything. There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things. All of this will wash over Canada in various ways - some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it. And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11h
Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.
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serenakyle.bsky.social @serenakyle.bsky.social · 4h
My exact thought. You pardoned J6ers, Herr President, you know claim they were Antifa? Aren’t the J6ers ICE? I’m so confused. Which side ARE you on…no WAIT…YOUR own side!
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Rachel W 🏳️‍🌈✌🏼 @rachel-w11.bsky.social · 5h
And then he went and pardoned all the ANTIFA J6ers!
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d
It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d
One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy
www.nytimes.com
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17h
In the United States, states have sovereignty and the military is not meant to police civilians. The narrative Trump is pushing about “lawless Democratic cities” is pure political theater. He’s deliberately targeting top Democratic strongholds, not areas that actually face higher crime rates.
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Birdergal 💙💛 @kestrel61.bsky.social · 12h
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serenakyle.bsky.social @serenakyle.bsky.social · 11h
Tell me this isn’t true!
leesarenae.bsky.social @leesarenae.bsky.social · 11h
This is CNN on YouTube:
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d
Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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serenakyle.bsky.social @serenakyle.bsky.social · 12h
He said it OUT LOUD!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d
Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d
This strikes me as pretty bad
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bombaycrone.bsky.social @bombaycrone.bsky.social · 2d
I'm going to post this right here so that we don't forget what the BBB really means. Good night Bluesky 🦋
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SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 1d
ICE are fucking traitors to this country and are committing crimes indiscriminately!

To ICE: ‘When the rapist felon is out of office you will be hunted and you will pay for your crimes!’

#Pinks #ProudBlue #NoFascists #Guardrails

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d
Rep. Ted Lieu is so good at this.
The image is an X post by Rep. Ted Lieu (@RepTedLieu ) from 3 hours ago, with the caption "Hmmm... weird." The post includes a meme with three panels. The first panel, labeled "Republicans when they have to vote on the Epstein files," shows an empty hallway with an American flag. The second panel, labeled "Republicans when there's a government shutdown," shows an empty conference room. The third panel, labeled "Republicans when it's time to cut taxes for billionaires," shows a group of people clapping and cheering.
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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 2d
UPDATE 8: logical sequel to sloppy mobsters' #SignalGate fiasco in March is the sordid tale of sloppy mobsters allowing Signal chats to be photographed in public 6 months later

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taber @kvetch.gay · 5d
this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
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serenakyle.bsky.social @serenakyle.bsky.social · 2d
For George (Washington).
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d
Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
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Miller in Canada 🦋🇨🇦 @sueinkelowna.bsky.social · 4d
Happening right now in the good ol’ USA.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 3d
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Trump is sending California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. California will sue Trump over the move, which came hours after a judge blocked Trump's attempt to federalize Oregon Guard troops for deployment in Portland.
‘Breathtaking Abuse of Power’: Newsom Says Trump Is Sending California National Guard Troops to Portland
Read more here.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d
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serenakyle.bsky.social @serenakyle.bsky.social · 3d
It’s nice to know I am not alone, but absolutely terrible for the reason. There is “someone” who is not so stupid. Maybe, it takes a village and Heritage Foundation, I am looking right at you…
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: A federal judge in Portland, Oregon, Friday appeared skeptical of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) defense of President Donald Trump’s recent decision to send hundreds of troops to the City of Roses. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Federal Judge Sharply Questions DOJ Over Trump’s Portland Deployment
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d
BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 5d
Their Jethro mind tricks ain’t working.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 5d
Oop. Turns out that voters blame the GOP more for the shutdown by an average of 12 pts.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 5d
SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social

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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d
Casey Desantis’s charity that got $10 million redirected from a Medicaid fraud settlement the state entered into directly into its bank account rather than the FL treasury.
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