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onion person @junlper.beer · 18m

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 19m

you did???? ok.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26m

As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

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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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 29m

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 1h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 1h

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1h

WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THOSE PEOPLE I PARDONED, ACCUSE THEM OF BEING ANTIFA, AND PUTTHEM BACK IN JAIL

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

Trying to speedrun martial law before the economy collapses

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 2h

getting pretty sick of this guy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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tjcwrites @mizagium.bsky.social · 2h

On the one hand, this is cowardly behavior

However I have serious doubts Ubisoft would have actually made this a good game

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 9h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 3h

I'm pretty sure this is demonstrably untrue given that Democrats have shut down the government to stop Republicans from allowing the ACA premium tax credits to expire.

Charbles McBerkely @summerofmoops.bsky.social · 3h

back in late 24 early 25 a common refrain in the dem establishment camp was that voters should feel the pain of their decisions to teach them to vote for democrats and i think they still believe that and are acting accordingly

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 5h

this has got to be the stupidest and most blatantly "unamerican" group of rulers this country has ever had. if you can't win against "goons in the streets, rotting food in the fields, orang is 90 dollars now" then i dont know what to say

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3h

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 4h

The point is, don’t say you’re stopping them if you actually can’t! Pretty simple. And certainly don’t let your state troopers HELP them.

Joel Dilley @okiedharmabum.bsky.social · 4h

Trump has "federalized" 300 Illinois National Guard in addition to Texas arrivals. One of the managers at my local food co-op downstate was just called up this week. For all I know, he's as much of a vegan pacifist as the next guy. Pritzker could order up MORE National Guard and what then?

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 7h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 8h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 4h

GenAI is a scourge on humanity for a hundred reasons but this framing is really no different from "Suspect played Grand Theft Auto before shooting"

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say

Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ

The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

abcnews.go.com

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5h

Least environmentally destructive AI fan

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say

Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ

The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

abcnews.go.com

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 4h

"Oh dears" is a way to call attention to the tiresome fact that in some quarters any criticism of Newsom is seen as saying mocking is not a valid political tool. That's absurd. Of course it is. It's that his method talks to nobody but those who already want to hear it.

Aster Vérité @aster-verite.bsky.social · 4h

OH dears, is your way of calling for his tribalist followers to start the dog pile, because his views were challenged and his was lightly mocked.

sad clown.

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 4h

I don't understand how anyone can possibly call themselves a leftist if they don't have as one of the pillars of their worldview the belief that people can learn, grow, and change for the better.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

a fun experiment on here is to say something along the lines of "in the past i misread something and that was a mistake" and see how many people swoop in with "you fucking piece of shit you misread shit, fuck you"

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 4h

No, the alleged Palisades arsonist using chatgpt to generate pictures of cities on fire before starting the fire does not mean that his mind was warped by GenAI. There are hundreds of ways in which GenAI is a fucking scourge on humanity but this is not one of them.

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Ultimate Pullahoko @pullahoko.bsky.social · 4h

How I'm feeling after the Pikmin announcement.

Edited Calvin & Hobbes comic where Calvin is screaming for Mother 3 to be localized while his father (Nintendo) explains the various reasons why he doesn't want to. In the end, Hobbes and Calvin reflect on this new retelling of the story where everyone in Tazmily is murdered.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8h

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 19h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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SpiderHyphenMan @spiderhyphenman.bsky.social · 5h

I agree with the moral argument here but I simply don't think it's politically tenable to filibuster government funding without having an alternative bill of your own. You can't justify that without going to literal war with the party in power.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11h

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