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Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Jul 4

Send postcards to NY-17 voters and other districts repped by absolute pieces of shit:

www.activateamerica.vote/postcards

Postcard Sign Ups — Activate America

www.activateamerica.vote

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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 8d

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio.
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply

card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"

WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

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Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 12d

The government needs to release the full list of people who did not have a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

nypost.com/2025/09/26/u...

Elon Musk was scheduled to visit Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Pedo Island’ in 2014, documents show

The Tesla and SpaceX boss was slated to travel “to island” on Dec. 6, 2014, according to a copy of his daily agenda released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

nypost.com

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 15d

Loving sophistry doesn’t make you a philosopher

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 16d

Truman: “I hate corruption.”
FDR: “I hate war.”
Eisenhower: “I [too] hate war.”
Trump, at a funeral: “I HATE MY OPPONENTS.”

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 25d

I love the wooden Liberty Puzzles

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 26d

A good day to remember that on May 17 of last year, Nick Fuentes accidentally live streamed himself watching gay porn.

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 27d

Screenshot of Kash Patel’s phone sometime in the last 24 hours (probably)

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27d

I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk.

First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it.

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Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 27d

The manner of the assassination here requires a level of firearms skill quite a bit more prevalent on the political right than the left.

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 27d

If you’re shooting someone in the neck for expressing a point of view, you’re not antifascist.

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Joel Gever @joelyjoelyjoelyjoe.bsky.social · 28d

A physical attack on someone exercising their constitutional right to speak is an attack on all of us. The content of the speech is irrelevant. This is another sad day for America.

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Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you for getting out front with this. We have to hold the line on decency and basic humanity through this period.

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · 28d

Political violence should not be celebrated. I think he made our country a worse place but that does not begin to justify murder.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28d

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Aug 14

This is one ham-fisted act of protest. I’ll bet he was just about to chicken out when he finally mustard the nerve.

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Aug 13

First Lieutenant Beefheart

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Aug 13

Herman’s Gregarious People

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Aug 13

They Might Be Regular Sized People

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Aug 13

Lentement Mode

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Aug 13

Duran

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Aug 13

Moist Eyes for Mild Anxieties

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Aug 11

Looks like the Reichstag Liar is bringing his show to DC.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 4

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

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Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Susan Rice thing would be like if George HW Bush was threatening Brzezinski with imprisonment in 1990 over some anodyne comments he’d made to meet the press in 1977 as Carter’s National Security Advisor.

Silver Ballots @silverballots.bsky.social · Jul 19

Never before noticed the compositional similarity to the Gary Hart picture

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