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Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 3h

Just to clarify… antifa doesn’t exist but the kkk does.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 3h

If we had better elected Democrats, more of them would be out getting arrested about now. People who won’t make real sacrifices to protect our rights don’t deserve our votes.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 4h

Impeach this fucker ffs

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."

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 6h

This is what every Democrat needs to do

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

Senator Ruben Gallego calls Speaker Mike Johnson a "Pedo Protector" to his face for not swearing in Adelita Grijalva.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

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

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 8h

Bari Weiss is like Robert Moses in that she has exactly zero connection to normal humans... like Moses who was chauffeured everywhere and thought public transportation was dumb... so too does Weiss mock the needs of everyday NYers / Americans because Weiss has zero idea of what normal people need.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 8h

department of Pete hegseth being a little bitch.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 11h

Trump isn’t play acting a fascist. He is a fascist. His administration is in the early stages of a dictatorship. Any other take is simply naive and ignoring the facts.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah Newsom deserves exactly zero positions in a new administration.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 11h

Every Republican in a red state voted for this stupidity. Good job fuckheads. You got what you wanted. Now rot.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 11h

Mike Johnson looks like someone who should have been stuffed in a locker more as a kid.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 11h

Whenever I read stuff like this about the situation under Modi, I find I get closer to acceptance that this is where we are 100% going under Trump unless we fight back.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 12h

1st amendment really is dead isn’t it - well it was nice having a democracy ish while it lasted

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 13h

Hey Chuck Schumer - do this

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.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 13h

“In this together” should be retired as a phrase.

Exactly zero people want a CEO email to end in “in this together” when the CEO’s paycheck is your paycheck just every single day they get your entirely yearly paycheck.

They’re not in this together with you so they can stop saying it — ty.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 15h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 14h

We can no longer pretend the Washpo is anything but propaganda at this point and trying to middle ground it undermines the strength of the important messages that we can’t have oligarchs owning the 4th estate and have a functional 4th estate.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 14h

Tbf the Washpo has zero credibility at this point - it is just the mouthpiece of the oligarchy and pretending otherwise is dishonest.

This is 100% in line with Washpo ownership and direction under Bezos and his stooges.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 15h

I am extremely frustrated how accurate this.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 15h

the US economy is definitely wile e coyote off the cliff - we have zero idea what the fall looks like, let alone the impact when we actually hit the bottom.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 15h

at least Europe got a social safety net for a while before austerity unlike us here in the US who just got fucked sideways forever.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 16h

It is less that the average pope is becoming more liberal (but they are)... rather the US is becoming more fascist.

Ben @vagabending.bsky.social · 16h

It's hard to imagine a world where dems can gain power without admitting that for the last 30 years they failed in meaningful ways to help the American people. The reason Republicans are ascendant now is because dems and repubs have been largely indistinguishable to many Americans for 30 yrs.