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stosh machek

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-believes everyone should have a manifesto, maybe even 2! -booted off every Meta platform! -uncomfortably squinting in the brite lite of your optimism! -thanx for likes, pls share

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stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · Feb 2

please READ THIS NOW

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 2

Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

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Wilhelmus Janus @wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social · 36m

Overton just called.

He wants his window back.

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stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 16m

in my Silenus era, telling humans that itd've been better for them had they never been born at all, but since they didnt get a choice, the next best thing is for them to die as soon as possible

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 4h

Miller expressed regret for his use of the term,
as now he would have to teach DJT how to say it & what it means

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stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 5h

Miller has expressed regret for his using the term,
as he will now have to teach POTUS how to say it & what it means

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Oh this is not great

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 5h

Miller regrets his use of the term,
as now he'll have to teach DJT how to say it & what it means

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 7h

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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stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 5h

& yet they remain the only suitable vessel to contain the soul

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 11h

well
so far

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 11h

pretty standard

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

& you gotta know that the 'own the libs' crowd watching her performance here & doing happy little tippy-taps, would absolutely shit bricks if any woman spoke to them in that manner in their day-to-day life

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, this post could be about anything

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

This is what happens when the entire government is run by influencers and LARPers who have no idea what they are doing

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

It’s always so obvious that Pam Bondi would rather be yelling at a waiter than doing whatever she’s doing

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stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

there will eventually do this to someone who will draw &/or shoot back, precipitating an exchange of gunfire,
& the next step will be martial law & suspended midterms
..i would so love to be wrong about this, but it really seems like its their plan

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

cant think of a reason that they won't eventually do this to someone who will draw &/or shoot back, precipitating an exchange of gunfire,
& the next step will be martial law & suspended midterms
..i would so love to be wrong about this, but it really seems like its their plan

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

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stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

the very idea that Harris was ever too far left in her whole career would be laughable
if our current situation was not so dire

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

"...as soon as she wants"
..so, like, last week?

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

broken clock something something

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

following her logic, if there's -anything- that happened before she took the job, she has zer0 obligation to know anything about it,
which just sounds so stupid
..her indignant reaction speaks volumes

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

Lackey: 'boss, Federal workers who have been furloughed are concerned about getting their back pay when the Gov't is up & running again'
DJT: 'that sounds like a problem the Dems are causing'

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Get it now?

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stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

did you ever stand on the edge of a building or cliff & get an inexplicable urge to jump?
..ppl do that w/ conclusions too
..facts above all else

stosh machek @stoshm.bsky.social · 1d

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