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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2h

The President of the United States doesn’t seem to know what habeas corpus is

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 2h

“We have captured the woman known as Aunty Fa…”

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 2h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 2h

It’s gonna turn out antifa’s girlfriend is Tilly goddamn Norwood, isn’t it?

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 2h

Antifa’s Girlfriend

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 2h

I nominated Jupiter Ascending for a Hugo and I stand by that.

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 4h

☝️Is there a sci-fi movie that you defend tooth and nail, but you feel a little alone in loving it?

When you're sad because you spent three hours defending a movie and clearly you're the only person in the world who likes it.

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 3h

dumb fascist fucks don't even know they've got the founder of antifa herself, the antifa queen, and she let herself be captured as part of The Plan

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 7h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 4h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 9h

Most people using AI to create art are running a con. The rest are being conned into thinking they’re creating art.

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 6h

Again, there are two possibilities here—Trump knows he’s lying or he believes this obvious lie—and either one should be enough to remove him from office.

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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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

It should be a slight comfort that Antifa is a made-up organization that doesn't actually exist, and yet I must admit I don't feel very reassured, maybe because some of the "cartel members" Trump had the military assassinate were reportedly just fishermen

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 7h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 7h

Did they add more hours to the day while I was traveling?

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 12h

“Dear editor,
I asked an algorithm designed to mimic patterns it had learned through the plagiarism of billionaires if it could spit out something that looked convincingly like the stories it had stolen, and it burned through an ocean to deliver whatever this is. Thank you for your consideration.”

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12h

Writing alt text is a useful, instructive exercise for all writers and if you’re not doing it regularly, I really recommend you try it. Here, we’ll do one together:

*cracks knuckles* …

P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 12h

I mean

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 12h

I think of this image a lot

Elon Musk wielding a chainsaw, celebrating the starvation of human beings due to DOGE's coup of the U.S. government

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · 12h

I think part of why the alarm bells aren't going off harder is that once again Donald John Trump is being treated as unserious and therefore not an actual threat.

"Clowning into fascism"

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine knowing that you personally had caused this, and for no reason but that you could, maybe just to own the libs, and still being able to live with yourself.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 20h

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 12h

The obvious follow-up that no reporter ever seems to ask Johnson is: do you think the country can afford a Speaker of the House who is this fucking uninformed?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 12h

“Meanwhile...” #nowplaying

The Miller's Son (Act Two)

YouTube video by Leighann Larkin - Topic

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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