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Shockratees

@thatshockratees.bsky.social

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Sometime-attorney, sometime-social-worker, tea-leaf reader, starer-at of maps, habit of creatures, tweedler, law-talkin’ wood elf. Any pronoun. Not a cat. Blue dot in Charleston, WV.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 15d

I think US fascists were so far up their own ass that they believed their own BS: “everybody really wants brutal undemocratic rule! They’re pretending to love democracy bc Soros is secretly paying them through USAid and universities!”

And now they’re shocked and scared of the truth.

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J6 Plaque @thejan6plaque.bsky.social · 3h

Almost another whole week has passed now

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

A week after her win in Arizona, @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social still has not been sworn in by Speaker Johnson

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 4h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h

BREAKING: Hamas will release all 20 living hostages this weekend, AP sources say, as Israelis will withdraw from majority of Gaza.

Israel, Hamas agree to 'first phase' of plan to end fighting, release hostages, Trump says

President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first Phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 5h

Christ, even the access crew at Axios are dumping on Johnson and GOP

Things have to be really bad for Republicans when their pals at DC gossip outlets are piling on

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 5h

At this point Democrats in Congress shouldn't concede an inch unless Johnson and Thune meet all their demands.

Republican rank and file members know it - majority of public are siding with Dems over healthcare and tired of giving Trump blank checks. www.axios.com/2025/10/08/m...

AXIOS HEADLINE with Mike Johnson reading a folder:

"Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown

Kate Santaliz,Andrew Solender "

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 3h

"Mr. President, the pee tape hit the second tower."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Motion to replace the "Andy Card whispering to W. on 9/11" meme with this photo.

The back of his hair, the makeup line, and the giant folds of his neck waddle make it perfect.

Rubio Wormtongue speaks to King Trumpdim

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3h

Sir, a second jam band of retirees has hit Portland and they’re playing kazoos

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3h

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 3h

My statement after Senate Republicans blocked my legislation with @heinrich.senate.gov to undo a key plank of Trump’s corrupt, cost-raising, job-killing energy agenda:

White background with the following statement: "For the second time, Senate Republicans blocked our legislation that would have repealed President Trump’s bogus energy emergency. Because Republicans refuse to stand up to Trump, Americans will continue to see energy prices go up, clean energy projects across the country canceled, and good-paying manufacturing jobs lost. When will my Republican colleagues choose the side of the American people and vote for policies that help working families, not just Trump’s donors and billionaires?"

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3h

“Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine said Wednesday that he and other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a classified briefing this week, were denied access to the Pentagon’s legal opinion about whether the boat strikes adhered to U.S. law.”

apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump has yet to provide Congress hard evidence that targeted boats carried drugs, officials say

The Trump administration hasn't provided evidence to lawmakers that recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats were justified.

apnews.com

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sobroquet @sobroquet.bsky.social · 4h

"We fought a Revolutionary War not to have kings, a Civil War not to have slavery, and a World War not to have fascism."
-Joel P. Friedman

ANTIFA

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 3h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 4h

Did they also arrest, uh, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness serpent?

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 4h

Maturity is to recognize the gulf between how you fantasize something will make you feel (like a god) and how it will actually make you feel (empty and naked). None of these MAGA maniacs have that. Its absence is why mass murderers nearly always suicide immediately.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4h

20 point flip. Wow.

www.newsweek.com/alaska-fairb...

Republican ousted by Democrat in shock election defeat

The mayoralty has been held by a Republican for years.

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Rep. Jennifer McClellan @mcclellan.house.gov · 4h

We’re entering week two of the federal government shutdown, as millions of Americans face health insurance premium increases as high as 114% because Republicans refuse to act.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16d

Likewise, even if you did intimidate all of the left-leaning Old Media, you'd just get new media. Try to co-opt that via platforms, you'll get new platforms.

Clamp down in obvious ways and the discontent will emerge as street protests; clamp down on them and it will become violence.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 6h

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

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"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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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 4h

Trump kicked CNN in the face like not even half a day after its obscene obeisance to him.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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