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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 13h

There's no such thing as a democracy Roomba. We're going to have to clean all this shit up ourselves. Find an event at the link, and come join millions of your neighbors on October 18 for No Kings Day. www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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USA TODAY Opinion @usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 14h

"Had an older president like Joe Biden babbled like this there would have been immediate calls to airlift him to a sanatorium," writes columnist @rexhuppke.bsky.social. bit.ly/4n7pB7X

A photo of of Donald Trump. Text added to the image reads: "Opinion by Rex Huppke: Anyone with courage has to acknowledge Trump isn’t well. And he’s getting worse."

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Trudeus @trudeus.gg · 13h

I'd leave work and go protest outside with White House the moment I heard about this.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 14h

a young Luke, disillusioned with his father's domineering and brutal government, seeks out the man who lead the first organized resistance against it, hoping to fan the flames of rebellion

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15h

I continue to just respect the hell out of this guy

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Trudeus @trudeus.gg · 14h

This game could have had THE MOST LOYAL AMERICAN out there gutting traitors and terrorists in the most brutal ways possible and it'd still be called "woke" by the right because it killed racists

I'm so goddamn dark-woke-pilled

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 14h

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

Trudeus @trudeus.gg · 14h

Woops, misread, didn't realize this was GOP saying Johnson would tank it, but most of my point stands

Trudeus @trudeus.gg · 14h

Credit where it's due, seems they're on the right path. Questioning whether a deal can be trusted, all on message, fighting the GOP - only issue I have is that it's still about healthcare and not troops on street but we take what we can get

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Trudeus @trudeus.gg · 14h

I'd still prefer topics be about troops on streets and all that, but I'm AT LEAST thankful that Democrats seem to actually want to fight and have the capacity to do it in an organized way. I hope this infrastructure translates to other topics.

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 14h

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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Trudeus @trudeus.gg · 14h

Keep it up mate!

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Trudeus @trudeus.gg · 14h

This is what we've been wanting! Keep it up!

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h

Credit where credit is due, schumer really kicked it up a notch.

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Trudeus @trudeus.gg · 15h

The "nothing ever happens" crowd would be in shambles if it was still alive after the last 7 months

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18h

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15h

Also, it’s such a sick joke that ICE is here to keep us safe. This was a video of a perfectly safe day in the city - couldn’t feel safer - until a bunch of armed thugs run out of nowhere to start a fight and kidnap random pedestrians, which is one of the most terrifying things I can imagine

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 15h

I think this is probably correct

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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