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Ted Leo 🍉

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 26d

Had to do it (it’s got a sound track on Instagram)

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22h

What we’re seeing now is not people “[beginning] to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army”—the federal agents are becoming an occupying army, and the violence is theirs. The violence is already here.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 22h

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 2h

Oh yeah - that was Outdoor Miner, by Wire

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 19h

literally same

Clsn @clsn.bsky.social · 21h

If anybody wants to say "hi" at @tedleo.bsky.social tonight, I'm the middle-aged guy in all black.

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 4d

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others."

she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy."

when you're definitely the good guys

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 4d

props for the Teen Girl Squad ref

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 5d

This guy not wearing a mask makes him the bravest ICE agent and yet is still, like all of them, a pathetic bullying coward. Look at him grab Fuentes, who’s literally just standing there. Look at the hatred in his dumb face.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 5d

For a good walk, I love the canals. You can start up on Primrose Hill, go down to Camden, and walk the Regents’ Canal all the way back to Islington and beyond. There’s an odd but beautiful little Museum of the Home in Hoxton that sometimes has very specific and interesting exhibits.

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 6d

Canada Dry Dutch-Style Chocolate Soda (1972-1975): A chocolate soda that featured a richer, smoother, "Dutch-style cocoa" chocolate flavor

A silver pop can, adorned with tulips for a "Dutch" theme, under the words "Dutch Style Chocolate Soda"

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 7d

I have a NUMBER of great new jackets and I’m just like

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 8d

Wish I could get on the writing side of that line in my brain

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 9d

That was incredibly intense. So much respect for her.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10d

watch this.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 10d

I finally had a day on the road with time to stop at Cahokia in 2018, and it’s hard to describe the energy that still permeates it. Lingers with me to this day!

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 10d

This looks incredible (in both senses of “looks”)

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10d

I found Queequeg’s arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 11d

No such thing as an AI actress, writer, dancer, or any other word referring to people.

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 12d

Him physically forcing himself on Jennifer Aniston and me not wanting to list every single one of them

Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 12d

brb, changing my name

Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 12d

Anne Oldass

Ireland, Valuation Office Books, 1831-1856

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12d

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 12d

I keep wanting to add my own thoughts about Wounded Knee here, but it just seems ridiculous at this point.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Jose 💀"Mangler-ito"💀 Caldas @josemanolitocaldas.bsky.social · 12d

Even Gen. Nelson Miles said it was
"the most abominable criminal military blunder and a horrible massacre of women and children."
He was critical of the CO of the 7th Cavalry who led the massacre, and after retirement, fought for compensation for the survivors.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 12d

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 12d

That was, indeed, my intention! 🙏

Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 12d

Hahahahaha yeah, that was rough too 😂💀

Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 12d

Grown men crying? I’M one of them right now!

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