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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 1h

Hot take this is ordinary comms work nothing super crazy

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 3h

Ross Douthat’s latest podcast is with a pastor who openly argues for a new theocracy and the end of women’s rights and I’d like to know exactly what the HELL the New York Times thinks it’s doing with this content

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 17h

In a basement far beneath the Fox News headquarters, a shadowy figure stands by a mysterious apparatus….

“Ok folks. Today we’re afraid of *spins wheel* ANTIFA doing *pulls lever* FLAG BURNING in *throws dart* PORTLAND.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 19h

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Lucius Tuck @luciust.bsky.social · 19h

In the long-view, this is an extreme whiplash moment. They’re racing backwards so fast, more and more of me believes that this can’t last long. They’re rushing towards oblivion, and the question is how much damage will be done and how many will die before this crumbles and we have to rebuild.

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 19h

Truly! Similarly I’m reading “Grapes of Wrath” for the first time and — holy hell. It’s beautiful and a breath of fresh air but for that exact reason could never be written today.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 1d

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 19h

Next: “In the new ‘Return to Castle Wolfenstein,’ players help clean up and redesign a German mountaintop villa wrecked by radical antifa activists.”

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 19h

“The Klan is bad and Reconstruction good” should not be a controversial historical premise for a video game

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 20h

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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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 1d

Shoot. There used to be a site that was good for this but it closed up. Try this place?

Also Fountain Pen Hospital in NYC used to sell sacs; but they’re under new ownership and I’m not sure if they still stock them.

www.pensacs.com

Pensacs

The Pen Sac Company

www.pensacs.com

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 1d

“Wow, the Chronos fight is super easy, I haven’t even run into the insta-kill move everyone talks ab— oh.”

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 2d

Patrick and Spencer Ackerman are prophets, unfortunately

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Matt Samberg @mattsamberg.bsky.social · 2d

patrickwyman.substack.com/p/imperial-w...

Imperial Wars Always Come Home

There’s a person I think about from time to time.

patrickwyman.substack.com

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 2d

Every tool being used to construct authoritarianism today — from ICE to Stephen Miller calling everyone he doesn’t like a terrorist — has its origin in the Bush Administration and War on Terror.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

There is an escalation ladder here and he understands how that is the absolute last step, one you don't touch until all else has failed and you've done a lot of laying the groundwork. Things are bad, heading that way, it's deadly serious. But we're not there yet and he is right to not say it now.

Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 2d

As Gov. Pritzker says in his opening statement, ICE and CPB are attempting to provoke a reaction by their actions in Chicago. And as he says -- more or less -- at the time stamp below, he won't order state police to physically confront them, b/c he can't.

Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2d

If you still know anyone who imagines that Pritzker or Johnson will order police under their command to arrest federal agents, you can send them this (1hr12min42sec timestamp). They are explicit that they will not and they view courts as only venue for enforcement.

www.youtube.com/live/vqP4YFV...

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 2d

I thought she was a columnist too! Incredible case of grifter inception

Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 3d

What did Moldbug think American Caesarism meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 3d

The administration continues to behave as if they want a crisis or don’t care if they spark one

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 3d

I knew he was bad but I didn’t know he’d gone full-on Dinesh D’Souza/“libs hate the west” bullshit. Is that recent?

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 4d

Wow someone should call Bari Weiss, this is the sort of thing she really hates

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 5d

Grab a kolache while you’re there, what’s not to love!

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 5d

For those unfamiliar, a “trunk or treat” is where parents gather in a parking lot and pop their car trunks; then kids go from trunk to trunk instead of door to door.

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Anonymous policy lawyer @theoderic.bsky.social · 5d

And even that’s being steadily co-opted by car culture with the rise of “trunk or treat” meetups

Ghhhhhhh @edgy.bsky.social · 5d

Halloween is the only US holiday where interaction and communion between strangers is the key ritual

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