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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 10d

"Everyone can see what's going on
They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable
Not because what I said was wrong

Whatever it may bring
I will live by my own policies
I will sleep with a clear conscience
I will sleep in peace. " – S. O'Connor, THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

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WatchYourRepsSC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 23m

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Students and librarians take S.C. superintendent to court over school censorship rules

COLUMBIA – South Carolina public school librarians and students filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block enforcement of the state’s unconstitutional book banning regulation and a

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 28m

This is Reverend David Black, minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He was shot seven times in the head with chemical pellets by ICE agents as he was pleading and praying at a protest.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks

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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 25m

people who long for a Simpler Time Before- when things were better, when the women and the darkies knew their places and *everyone* was happier- are easy to exploit and manipulate.

Pinpointing that time in reality isn't necessary. Like heaven, it doesn't need to exist for people to believe in it.

Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 30m

The goose-stepping is attractive because it removes the need for personal responsibility, gives permission to do violence against your perceived enemies and reduces your world to a binary US (the perfect Elect) & THEM (the subhuman mud people).

Easy to swallow. No thinking required, critical or not

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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 41m

If you're an AMERICAN, you believe not in some innate superiority by dint of your birthplace, gender or skin color but by your unwavering belief that the Constitution got it mostly right and it's our job to keep sculpting it towards a more perfect union.

If you're MAGA, you're a goose-stepping thug

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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 45m

It doesn't mean we're safe from the plays being pulled from Hitler's playbook but we do have a thicker social buffer.

Ironically enough, once again, our diversity is our strength on this and most other points. Sadly, it's also where we have structural weak points for the scum to exploit.

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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 47m

Unlike Germany in the the early 1930s, WE have multiple independent cameras on nearly every citizen chronicling actual events and, for now, a means of instant distribution of actual facts.

The USA is not in the emotional social state as post WWI Germany and nowhere near as ethnically homogenous.

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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 49m

it's a page taken from Hitler's rise to political power, i.e., intentionally staging and chronicling events the PRESS will spread as fact, indicating massive social upheaval when no such upheaval or events actually took place.

it depends entirely on low-information citizens believing a grift.

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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 52m

this.

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1h

"For some, the Trump administration’s Chicago assault was a shock. But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered." interc.pt/4h2hBUd

A photo of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Black People Knew This Would Happen," and the DEK, "Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us."

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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 52m

should I self-publish or look for a publisher?

Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 59m

yep. Definitely going to make a solo journal rpg.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 3h

I got their letter, and I’m not mad — just disappointed.

Don’t send me a damn letter, come to Washington and let’s get this fixed.

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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 3h

lunch

Welcome to Noxus - Bite Marks (ft. TEYA) | 2025 Season 1 Cinematic - League of Legends

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Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 4h

zero. I use one screen at a time.

Thorne Identity @thorneidentity.bsky.social · 4h

Los Angeles didn't burn. Segments of our population were brutally attacked, kidnapped & shipped off to gulags but the city and the majority of its citizens neither saw nor felt it. The attacks were confined.

Zero. American cities are burning. There are ICE attacks and staged photo ops. That's it.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 9h

Jimmy Kimmel put together an amazing compilation of Donald Trump saying all the words from the birthday letter he wrote to his best friend Jeffrey Epstein

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 5h

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."